The story behind your current household

You'll find most of the details of one of my favorite families in my siggie, below.

My newest favorite family, is that of my ancestors. I am currently in the process of applying to the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution). My sixth great-grandfather (or six times great) was born in the Great Colony of Virginia, in 1745. He was educated, from a well-to-do family, but forewent the chance to go to William and Mary (college), because he wanted, at the tender age of sixteen, to get started with his life. He fell in love with a young woman who at age fifteen was already three years over the Age of Consent at that time. She, too, had what was considered an unusual education. (Girls at that time were seldom taught how to write, and yet all of her sisters and herself could sign their names.) Despite his youth, the parents agreed these two could marry. They married in the Fall of 1761 in Frederick County, VA. He built their log cabin, on his own, and they lived there on the section of land called the Long Meadows, until after their second child was born. Then he purchased another plot of land from his father, about 378 acres, mortgaged it, platted it off, and commence with the town of New Market, where they would live, run their Trading Post, a tavern and for the first time, an Ordinary (Inn). They had their third child, another son, and their first daughter in New Market before this young man got itchy feet and moved them further north to Millerstown (near Woodstock) in Dunmore County.

His next two younger brothers removed to the southwest in the early 1770s, about 1771, my ancestor went down to explore the area at their bidding. Those who removed there initially thought it was part of Virginia, when it was actually the western part of North Carolina. My ancestor made a second trip there in 1772, signed the Watauga Association pack and returned to Virginia in early 1773. He convinced his parents and his wife to remove to this 'new country' and then oddly purchased 20 additional acres of land for twenty pounds, English, in April 1773. He sold it again, for the same amount come July of that same year. He was also commissioned a Captain in Lord Dunmore's (governor of VA) militia. Come early December of 1773, he and his family, plus his now widowed father and his remaining siblings, removed to the Settlements, 300 miles southwest of the Shenandoah Valley. My ancestor had seven children ten and under, including my newborn fifth great-grandfather. There were no real roads, and it was a harrowing, long, difficult trek in wagons. They made it to the cabin he'd built while away the second time, on 25 December, 1773.

After my sixth great-grandmother lost her life in 1780, after the birth of their tenth child, my sixth great-grandfather threw himself into the service of his community. He fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain and became a hero. Eventually, North Carolina ceded the land containing these Settlements to the new United States government. Three counties broke away and set up their own government, as they had in the beginning. This is now called the failed State of Franklin. (My ancestor was made the Governor.) Eventually, NC stood by their word and gave this territory their freedom. The U.S. government made it the Southwest Territory of the Ohio Valley. They had steps to complete, which they did, and finally this 'new country' became the State of Tennessee. My ancestor became the very first Governor of Tennessee.

Trying to play this out in the game has been interesting. He was, at first, on the Safety Commission. He eventually became the County Clerk, then a Magistrate, all while chasing after the Cherokee to secure the community. He was a busy man. I have him in the Detective career, for now. He was also a scout for the militia before he actually joined, so I may have him move into the spy career for a bit. We'll see.

"Nita90;c-16317239" wrote:
Currently I have two Sims 4 families. One in San Myshuno, here lives John, a young adult who raises his little sister, the child Lucy alone. John is becoming a successful writer, but he is a shy bookworm-type and it is difficult for him to find a girlfriend/wife. Lucy is his perfect opposite character, she is very friendly and outgoing. She is constantly haunted by the monster under her bed but she is determined to befriend it. :) Lucy would also like to have a dog in the family, we'll see if she can convince her brother to adopt a puppy.
My other family is in Brindleton Bay, and it is a young adult animal-lover woman, Sally, who works as a vet, and lives with her adorable ragdoll cat Fluffy. Sally cannot have children on her own (I made her infertile in CAS), and for that reason she channels all her love towards animals, especially cats. She is planning to adopt a few more pets into her home, and she also runs the local vet clinic to cure all the sick animals. She secretly hopes to find the man of her dreams with whom she can adopt a baby/child in the future, but currently, animals are her primary concern.

John and Sally MUST date!!! :smile:

I am playing an orphanage inspired by the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children movie.
My Miss Peregrine is actually a normal person, writes children's books, and runs a orphanage that happens to have some peculiar children.
She used her own life as inspiration for The Miss Peregrine book and movie.

I have been introducing the children to the home in stages so everyone isn't the same age.
I have a girl who sees dead people.
3 human/cat sims created by illegal genetic experiments.
A vampire child.
An alien child.
And a child genius.

These sims are just a few of my favorite Young Adults sims that I have aged down into toddlers to play out their backstories.
My other sims have normal families scattered around the various worlds. I spend most of my time with Miss Peregrine because her home is the most interesting and fun.

I am documenting it here:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/918301/ck213s-ts4-favorite-simming-moments-diamond-eyes-pg-04/p1

I give sims a little of backstory, then I go with the flow of the game. I have a few households, but I will write about some of them.

Willow Creek Legacy: I'm now on fourth generation. The first generation was starcrossed lovers with really sad end where one died some time before another and was sent to netherworld, while other became ghost and wandered awhile before being culled. So, that generation is lost from family tree. >:( Second was not so happy marriage, but twin girls (one of them is on avatar bellow right) and boy were fun. Third is highschool love with two kids and triplets. In fourth, I plan for my heir to be single parent.

Landgraabs: Son of third generation above (some relatives to Landgraabs?) got happily married and moved to Windenburg with his now pregnant wife. He will be better parent than his mother was, since she didn't care about him. He's leader of club Collectors, that visits museums to view masterpieces. And swipe some of them. There he met his wife, who's snob and likes to critique work, and they became another starcrossed lovers.

Alexander/Champagne: Two kids from these households Tristan and Arya Pia despised each other, mainly because the girl is mean. Now they're teens and Tristan is in Partyhouse (genius, childish?!), so one evening at party they got along and became sweethearts?! Now they're together and really act like soulmates. But, Arya Pia has twin brother, Axel Han (boy on avatar above left) that is in Partyhouse too and is interested in Tristan as well?!

Derek Kahn, born in the Sims 3 Uni and carried over to the Sims 4. In the Sims 3 Derek graduated from college, didn't get the job on the police force in Bridgeport and took a job back in his home town of Roaring Heights. He really didn't want to go there. His mother died when he was young, his younger brother was a mere infant and raised by a father who was lukewarm at his best. His father remarried a much younger woman who already had a daughter by a different man but gave birth to his half sister, Holly and was pregnant again.

The Kahn family was up to their knees in supernatural history and Derek was a witch hunter. He hated witches. He hated anything Supernatural. He hated children. Ok, Derek hates everybody. His step mom was an idiot who couldn't remember to feed her children or change a diaper, his father was absent, his brother was rebelling and in the midst of it all he is supposed to keep a job and hunt witches. That's him in a nutshell.

So I recreated this charming fellow in TS4 and moved him to Forgotten Hollow. Because it's Forgotten and people are supposed to leave him alone. He has left his witch hunting days behind him, quit the police force, and is living a rather low key life. He rolled the want to be mean to a child. I almost laughed out loud. He really does not like children. He's met a girl who seemed completely normal at first but when they met for coffee all she talked about was vampires, aliens, and ghosts.

He got invited to a party at the ruins and was actually starting to enjoy himself when he picked up on that smell. Ya know, the one vampires leave behind? The earthy smell of death. Not wanting to get involved he leaves the party. And that is where I stopped playing him today.

I was working on the Decades Challenge loosely based on my own family’s immigration story. But I’ve put a complete stop on it waiting for this new adventures pack since my family comes from Central America and we are of Mayan descent. So I’m anxiously awaiting that to put my sims family the Carmona in a similar jungle/Mayan-esque setting to tell the story better!

But basically the Carmona start with Juan Pedro and Pilar Carmona a loving family trying to raise their three kids, Pedro Miguel, Juan Luis, and Susanna. Juan Pedro works on a banana plantation as a fruit picker and when he gets the opportunity to go to “Simerica” he promises his wife he’ll be send for them once he “makes it”. But ten years pass and no one has heard from Juan Pedro. Pedro Miguel the oldest son has taken over responsibilities as the man of the house taking a job in a mine while his mother Pilar works out of the home preparing meals for the local miners. Juan Luis “Juanito” the middle child, and Susanna, the baby of the three, are both in school but money is tight with two educations to pay for so Juanito and Susanna both work on the banana plantation that their father used to work for.

I’m hoping to share this story with everyone here once I get the adventures pack so I won’t give too much away :)