Who is your first family? What is their story?
Be prepared, this is a pretty long post spanning the better part of a decade and multiple Sims titles.
By first I mean longest running/most important/headline family. So officially, the Goths are arguably the most important Sims family (and, if you watch him, Sim Supply's is the Bigwallet family), but I'm asking about ones you have created. My first family dates back to pre-Sims 3 days. I made them back in Sims Freeplay before 2013 (probably back in 2012). It initially was a mum, Fliss, a dad, Kyle and two twin daughters, Emily (kleptomaniac) and Francesca (active foodie) and I messed up with the last names so Kyle took his wife's name.
I later remade them in Sims 3 when I got the game and that's when the story really kicked off (if you can find my posts from the Sims 3 forums you'll see how). The twins, Emily and Francesca grew up without a bed to call their own so they were taking turns sleeping on the couch because their parents could barely make ends meet let alone afford a bigger house (they were living in that one floor, one bedroom house in Sunset Valley) which was a huge change from what they were used to as children (the Freeplay days) where they had a pretty big two-bedroom house with a large double bedroom to themselves (thinking I'll make their official story be they moved to a new town which meant they downsized). It also had a small, but reasonable swimming pool. It also had space for their dog to dig for money (realised the move meant their dog mysteriously disappeared, maybe it died or maybe it'll be the reason I buy Sims 4 pets). Their parents started new careers, with mum going in to business and dad in to sports (IIRC).
Along the way they had 4 more children, Melody who has a pretty gothic style and is musically gifted, Ginette who very much prefers to be alone, hot-headed Ethan and Tia (whose traits I can't remember off the top of my head), while working their way up their careers and upgrading/expanding the house to have an even bigger pool and a jungle gym where the children would often hang out. They even had a butler at one point.
Emily and Francesca went on to enrol at university, but I don't know if they finished (I split the save into two) since they both wound up crashing at home and Francesca was dating Grady Elfman. With Fliss and Kyle having worked to the top of their careers they moved to a mansion in Sunset (read: I used free real estate as they still didn't have enough. I needed a family to play test/live in the house I built) before later moving to Oasis Springs where the children are home educated (I just used MC Command Centre to get all of my created children and teens to leave school)
Now, to Sims 4. Fliss' sister (she was supposed to be her cousin, but Sims 4 doesn't let me make cousins without going the long way) moved to Oasis Springs with her husband Jerome Flint-Jackson (they were actually the first sims I made in the Sims 4 CAS demo) and started a family. Later Fliss moved there with hers and quickly set up new roots. The oldest two, Emily and Francesca moved out to live with friends (and this is where my suddenly gay thread happened) and Francesca developed romantic feelings for one of her housemates called Charlotte (Tia, Emily and Francesca's younger sister, is now Charlotte's brother's friend's girlfriend). None of the housemates work conventional jobs. Francesca is straight up unemployed and obsessed with working out, Emily works as a gardener, Charlotte is an Esports Athlete/video content creator/live streamer and the sim whose house it actually is, Hana, is a work from home style influencer.
This is where the story stands now. Dropping my first family into my Sims 4 save has made it more interesting. I do have screenshots which I might add later. I've created a lot of families that now occupy my Sims 4 worlds and they all sort of know each other in some way and many have their own story, just this one predates all of them.
Who are your first family and what's their story? Feel free to add screenshots if you want.
By first I mean longest running/most important/headline family. So officially, the Goths are arguably the most important Sims family (and, if you watch him, Sim Supply's is the Bigwallet family), but I'm asking about ones you have created. My first family dates back to pre-Sims 3 days. I made them back in Sims Freeplay before 2013 (probably back in 2012). It initially was a mum, Fliss, a dad, Kyle and two twin daughters, Emily (kleptomaniac) and Francesca (active foodie) and I messed up with the last names so Kyle took his wife's name.
I later remade them in Sims 3 when I got the game and that's when the story really kicked off (if you can find my posts from the Sims 3 forums you'll see how). The twins, Emily and Francesca grew up without a bed to call their own so they were taking turns sleeping on the couch because their parents could barely make ends meet let alone afford a bigger house (they were living in that one floor, one bedroom house in Sunset Valley) which was a huge change from what they were used to as children (the Freeplay days) where they had a pretty big two-bedroom house with a large double bedroom to themselves (thinking I'll make their official story be they moved to a new town which meant they downsized). It also had a small, but reasonable swimming pool. It also had space for their dog to dig for money (realised the move meant their dog mysteriously disappeared, maybe it died or maybe it'll be the reason I buy Sims 4 pets). Their parents started new careers, with mum going in to business and dad in to sports (IIRC).
Along the way they had 4 more children, Melody who has a pretty gothic style and is musically gifted, Ginette who very much prefers to be alone, hot-headed Ethan and Tia (whose traits I can't remember off the top of my head), while working their way up their careers and upgrading/expanding the house to have an even bigger pool and a jungle gym where the children would often hang out. They even had a butler at one point.
Emily and Francesca went on to enrol at university, but I don't know if they finished (I split the save into two) since they both wound up crashing at home and Francesca was dating Grady Elfman. With Fliss and Kyle having worked to the top of their careers they moved to a mansion in Sunset (read: I used free real estate as they still didn't have enough. I needed a family to play test/live in the house I built) before later moving to Oasis Springs where the children are home educated (I just used MC Command Centre to get all of my created children and teens to leave school)
Now, to Sims 4. Fliss' sister (she was supposed to be her cousin, but Sims 4 doesn't let me make cousins without going the long way) moved to Oasis Springs with her husband Jerome Flint-Jackson (they were actually the first sims I made in the Sims 4 CAS demo) and started a family. Later Fliss moved there with hers and quickly set up new roots. The oldest two, Emily and Francesca moved out to live with friends (and this is where my suddenly gay thread happened) and Francesca developed romantic feelings for one of her housemates called Charlotte (Tia, Emily and Francesca's younger sister, is now Charlotte's brother's friend's girlfriend). None of the housemates work conventional jobs. Francesca is straight up unemployed and obsessed with working out, Emily works as a gardener, Charlotte is an Esports Athlete/video content creator/live streamer and the sim whose house it actually is, Hana, is a work from home style influencer.
This is where the story stands now. Dropping my first family into my Sims 4 save has made it more interesting. I do have screenshots which I might add later. I've created a lot of families that now occupy my Sims 4 worlds and they all sort of know each other in some way and many have their own story, just this one predates all of them.
Who are your first family and what's their story? Feel free to add screenshots if you want.
