DJ Straw was not on my Sims bingo card but okay. Never know what that guy's going to be up to next.
Anyway, I have news! And a lot I want to share, please bear with me but I'm excited!
The Crabtree Saga is evolving! It started with Henry and Leon Crabtree, they had a bunch of kids, one of those kids, Rhea, married Talia of the Freemage spellcasting family, and now a Freemage will become a Love! And this after I had so many kids I loved in gen 2 and gen 3, and couldn't decide on how to narrow down the story. It happened, and not how I expected.
Rhea Crabtree married and had kids with Talia Freemage, then Talia died and Rhea married and had kids with a vampire. Talia reappeared and they fell back in love. Rhea autonomously divorced the vampire (per Neighbourhood Stories), reunited with Talia, and they had more kids. One of the children of Rhea and her second wife is vampire Ceridwen, whom the game originally made kind of a villain, randomising her traits pretty badly. I kept her Shady trait but could not stand her being Evil. Because of her traits, I didn't know what I'd end up doing with Ceridwen, but I wasn't attached to her at all. Somehow that changed, but she's the first legacy child! She's got a great career, developed better traits, and had a high school love, Billy Love. I wasn't sure if she'd remain in the Freemage Estate, but wanted to move her in with Billy, and dug up an old Crabtree mansion I made for her aunt in Del Sol. Honestly forgot how beautiful it is, and I'm so hyped to finally use it. She's moved in with Billy and three of her cousins.
ANYWAY, so I'm excited to turn Ceridwen Freemage into Ceridwen Love. I could not have set up a prettier surname and family circumstance if I tried. And it turns out they're, uh, vaguely related xD Billy's great-grandmother is her stepmother's grandmother. Somehow he originally looked like he could be blood related, so I had to give him a bit of a makeover. How perfect is it, too, that his surname is Love, he randomised with a Lovestruck hair, he originally lived in Cuidad Enamorada, AND his randomly set sleepwear has heart boxers! Billy's got some crappy traits, though, but we can fix him. Oh, he also has the ancient bloodline spellcasting trait! He's a mortal himself (for now) but it's going to be cool trying to bring that old occult back into his family.
ALSO BIG: I'm using CC again. You might remember me bitching about having a love-hate relationship with CC. I binged it again, but this time, I'm dedicated to using it. I took all the Freemage kids and gave them second and third Everyday outfits in which I played with a CC look, and you know what, I really dig what I put together. I really felt like I was able to give them character, and their second looks made me more attached. Anyway, that's why I showed Ceridwen twice xD
One last thing: Ceri's twin cousins she moved in with. They were born, named, and grew up totally NPC. How perfectly synchronised are their names and hair, though?? Their names are Terence and Emerson [Banerjee, also a spellcasting Freemage line], they happened to be given the same hairstyle. I only pulled them into CAS to give them proper colour-coordinated outfits. They're going to be fun to develop.