4.3 The Do's and Don'ts of Goth-Parenting

Here we are again, back for another installment of Goth-Sanity! We open up today with our current Torch-Holder Honour arriving at Moonlight Falls' Summer Festival. 

HONOUR - My tum-tum screams for nourishing-ness! Ooo, an eating contest table! Hot Dogs sound good--.

NO! I just recently discovered that sims can DIE from that. O_o And to think I risked my two heirs and a spouse-hopeful at that cursed thing in my Pollinations Legacy . . . .

No-no, if you're hungry, head on over here to this nice, tasty, SAFE snow-cone machine.

HONOUR - My tum-tum will remember this.

She gets the blue raspberry flavor, of course. In honor of her blue-haired hubby--who should be wandering around here somewhere. The grandparents got left back at the lot with the babies while Honour and Chimaera get some couples time together.

. . . aaaand now this picture looks SO wrong. Honour got a brain freeze from this too, of course. XD

See! Proof that Chimaera is there. Honour invited him into the greeting-card-picture booth. It took FOREVER to finish, though. Not sure why. D:

Same thing with the face painting booth, but I still wanted to try it out. Honour got some purty blue stars.

HONOUR - My face. It has been violated.

I sent Honour to the skating rink next, and asked Chimaera to join her. Chi proceeded to use his genie powers to totally cheat and zoomed around the rink. I'm fairly sure this is a glitch . . . . In the meantime, this random teenage townie interrupted Honour's skating . . . .

Well then . . . this is a little inappropriate and slightly uncomfortable . . . .

Then, since neither of them have any skating skill, they both took a header. 

HONOUR - Owie. D:

TEEN - I have touched the hands of a legacy heiress! I can die peacefully now!  8D

... um ...

Honour quickly moved away from that weirdness, and decided to try and win something for Chimaera out of the claw machine.

She was not successful.

HONOUR - Curse you, glass box!! I am wise to your cheat-y ways!

As night fell, I finally got to test out one of the interactions I was most excited to see with Seasons. The SLOW DANCE!!

UNFFFFF!!! Just lookit!! Chimaera looks so totally dapper and bad@ss, even if he's taking the 'no-touching-down-south' rule a little too far. She's your wife, Chi, I'm pretty sure you're allowed to touch her waist.

And then he stepped on her foot. LAWL! That face! Poor guy. Luckily Honour didn't mind, and they went right back to dancing and being adorbs.

But who is that Firewoman photobombing my shot, you ask?

Why, it's Honour's twin Henrietta! And Gwendolyn also put in an appearance. She and her husband Zack are now in a competition with Felix and Raven to see which spares can produce the most babies this generation. They're 3/3 as of press time. In this shot she's in-between babies.

It was getting late and the babies needed more directed care, so Honour and Chimaera ended their Summer Festival date with a bang--literally, as she successfully set off some fireworks. I didn't get an overhead shot of them because I fail. D:

This was their greeting card picture. Very adorable.

That night, Honour gets abducted by aliens. Again. *sigh*

After the probing it was back to being a mommy. Little Ichabod was awake and ready for a day of skilling. After getting some clothes on first, of course.

Honour got right to work on his walking skill. For an insane sim, she makes a very adorable mommy.

You know, when she's not trying to choke herself out.

BONEHILDA - Why does the crazy one get to play with the baby?

Because she gave birth to him. -_-

Full moons bring zombies to the Goth lot. 

ZOMBIE - Uuuuuuuuuuuuurgh  . . . I have no idea what I'm doing.

Yes, we can see that.

True love is sexytimez even though your wife is covered in green stink fumes.

Beau and Cait weren't the only ones getting their mack on that night. Our Torch-Holder was also putting the moves on her freshly showered husband. She was very rudely interrupted from it, however. By what, you ask?

ASFGHDOJCE!! Really game?!

There are no space rocks on the lot. There's a telescope, but NOBODY uses it. This is the 3rd time Honour has been abducted in as many days. -_-!!!!

They don't even have the decency to kidnap Chimaera instead, so I at least have the chance of alien/genie hybrid babies!! *sulk*

While Honour was away being forcefully engaged in interracial diplomacy, Chimaera suddenly discovered he was a father.

CHIMAERA - Baby! :3

Um, Chi? You DO know you have a son too, right? Right? Chimaera?

CORNELIA - Hmm. The family seems to be doing well so far. We're almost to the mid-way point, once this current crop of children are grown. Household net worth is nearing the 400k mark as well, quite impressive.

CASSANDRA - Yeah, grandma. That's awesome. Now can you stop distracting me, I've accidentally jumped off this same cliff five times already.

All too soon, it was time for Chimaera's Favorite Jocelyn to have her first birthday.

Ridiculously Photogenic Honour brings her to the cake.

BAM! Toddler Jocelyn! It's apparent now why Chimaera wants to play favorites, I suppose, as she inherited his pretty blue hair and pale skin as well as grandpa Beau's green eyes. Master Controller lists her as a genie/witch hybrid, with the hidden Spellcasting and Genie traits. Her motive bars are normal, however, not the dark-purple of a genie. D: I'm hoping she gets genie powers, but we'll have to wait til her child years to test it.

Beau continues to be awesome, immediately heading over to Joce and giving her some tickles. He's getting up there in age, now. I'm dreading the day he finally kicks off. :(

While Beau entertains the youngest, Honour is back with the eldest of the brood. Walking and the potty have been mastered, it's on to the wonders of the spoken word next.

HONOUR - Nachoooooooos. Can you say nachooooooooos, Icky?

ICHABOD - ....

Well, it's a work in progress.

In the meantime, though, Jocelyn gets her first visit to the potty.

JOCELYN - I am ridiculously kyooot. :>

Stop it! Stop with the cute faces, I'm not picking favorites!

HONOUR - Chi. Chimaera. Chi.

HONOUR - Chi. Chi. Chimaera. Chi.

HONOUR - Baby-making-time nao plz?

CHIMAERA - I approve this decision!

And baby-making-timez were had, complete with satisfying jingle. A romantic and heart-warming interlude . . . .

If not for senile, inappropriately-creeping fathers. -_-

BEAU - *whistles* Just witnessed my daughter woohooing, dumdeedumdumdum.

FML.

See? Chimaera is totally playing favorites. He constantly picks up and plays with Jocelyn, but he has yet to even acknowledge poor Ichabod. I'm fairly certain he's never even touched him. :(

And if that's not enough, Ichabod has to deal with permenant mental scarring from the parent who does pay attention to him.

ICHABOD - WTH, mommy?

I'm right there with ya, little man. WTH.

Jocelyn continues her super-crafty plot to take over this challenge by continuing to throw utterly precious and cute faces.

JOCELYN - Well, I am eebol after all. Teehee.   :3

See? Even Starlight isn't immune to her adorable blue-haired charms.

JOCELYN - Kitty! *grabby-hands*

Okay missy, enough of that. Since your brother is finished with his skilling (woot woot!), it's your turn to get started. Honour gets her going on the walking.

CHIMAERA - What? A date?! I'm happily married to the Redheaded Princess of my dreams, thank-you very much! Plus, I don't even know you! GTFO.

Poor Chimaera gets 2 or 3 phone-calls a day from the lonely ladies (and some menz) of Moonlight Falls, asking for dates. He gets WAY more than anyone else in the house. Seems like everyone wants themselves a ride on the Genie-Train.

Meanwhile in another room, baby pop! I was beginning to worry that my game had glitched and the pregnancy didn't take, since she never once got morning sickness beforehand. 

Also, her hair switches back to her teen style for the remainder of the pregnancy. For some reason she switched into the beekeeper hat, and I couldn't remember which hair she'd had before. -_- It changes back after she has the baby, so no worries.

JOCELYN - I hungwy!!! *wibble*

Aww, bb.

Sorry, but mama can only move so fast and Ichabod was closer. I was experimenting with leaving Bonehilda in her coffin to see if the other family members would help out more . . . they did not. -_-*

The save file is actually starting to lag pretty bad. I installed Errortrap to see if that would help, but not by much. I think the family will be moving to a fresh Moonlight Falls file after this generation is grown. Sooner, if it gets any worse.

Cornelia came to visit again, and hogged up Honour and Chimaera's bed. Luckily a thrown Invigoration elixir kept the latter from a fail.

Jarrod also decided to make an appearance! Though he was not appreciating the computer's sass and backtalk while he was there, apparently.

Bonehilda was back, reminding me why I put her up in the first place. She's about to pick up Jocelyn even though Honour JUST put her to bed. UGH.

Starlight raises my hopes that she'll inherit daddy's genie powers when she gets older, though. So yay for that.

While Honour was attempting to rescue Jocelyn from Bonehilda's clingy clutches, poor Ichabod was hungry and tired and all alone. D:

Caitlyn came and got him eventually . . . and then pulled a page out of Bella's book by just standing there, holding him hostage. 

ICHABOD - Gramma, either put me down or I will pee ALL over you. Not even kidding.

Poor Icky-boo.

She did eventually, and he successfully managed to get to the potty before an accident. After they're potty trained, would it count as a fail if they mess their diaper? Hmm, something to ponder . . .

Honour continues with Jocelyn's skilling, having moved on to talking now that her walking was mastered.

HONOUR - Can you say mommy for mom--HOLY FRACK what is that bar thingy over your head?!?!

That's a skill bar, Honour, and stop breaking the fourth-wall. -_-

Also, you'll notice the sudden appearance of a 'wedding ring' on her finger. I've been meaning to give my THs and spouses wedding rings since the beginning. Is it sad that I've only just now FINALLLLYYYY remembered it while I was in-game?    Y/Y?

Honour had to stop staring at Joce's skill bar teaching her daughter to talk due to a pressing need for pancakes. THAT got derailed by sudden labor, though.

While she calmly put the pancakes on the counter and prepared to walk next door to the hospital, poor Chimaera lost his sh*t.

CHIMAERA - What is HAPPENING?!?!?!

Chilll out sir, your wife's just about to have your baby, that's all. This has happened twice before, surely you're used to it by now-- . . . oh, wait. That's right, the other two times you were in the hot tub and missed the pre-game show. Lawl.

I took this for a couple of reasons. 

One, outerwear and frost on the ground means it's Fall in Moonlight Falls! Unfortunately we probably won't get a chance to visit the Festival grounds with 3 small children in the house, but we'll see. 

Two, Chimaera is already home by the maibox--having used his speedy genie-hovering skills--while leaving his poor wife and baby waaaaaaaaaaay back there in the distance. Nice one, Chi. -_- You better be glad you're so ridiculously cute.

PONGO GNOME - Trash can! TRASH CAN! I found it! *point pose*

And now, to introduce you to our newest and final member of the fifth generation! This cutie is--as his blue blankie indicates--a boy we've named Kensington Goth! He will hereby be commonly referred to as Kensi ( KEN-zi ) 

Kensi is a Genie (with proper purple motive bars) sim with the Genius trait locked in (probably because his mama was starving when she went into labor) and rolling the Artistic trait to go with it. He enjoys Latin music, Hot Dogs and the color Red.

+5

After getting Kensi settled, the sun rose and it was thankfully time for Ichabod to leave toddlerhood behind him, so we don't have to deal with three babies in the house all at once.

The rest of the family joins in celebrating his transition. As only the Goth family can. 

CAITLYN - So. Sleepy. 

BEAU - OMG I lurv birthdays! Eeeee!

CHIMAERA - IKR!! *clap clap*

HONOUR - Aaaaaaany minute now . . . any minute . . . . .

Ichabod does his birthday sparkle-dance!

ICHABOD - HERP, birfday!

Oh, the cross-eyes. Ruining birthday shots since World Adventures . . .

But once that sorted itself . . . why hallooooo there pretty, pretty child.  Your simmer approves. ;D

Ichabod's next trait is rolled, coming up Virtuoso. A Friendly Virtuoso who Loves the Heat . . . interesting.

Before we go, some quick spares updates ;

Felix and Raven's eldest daughter Sparrow is now a teen. She takes a lot after mommy in the face, I think.

Deirdre's very-late-in-life-baby Cedrick is now a child with some chubby cheeks and a face that says Evil. At the very least Mean-Spirited. If not, that's a total waste.

And speaking of chubby cheeks! This little guy is the son of Henrietta and her fiance, Derek Timbley--a boy named Harold Goth.

Welp, that's it for this installment! Join us next time as our half-way gen continues to grow up Goth, complete with some triumphs and a whole lot of fails to counter-act them. Until then, happy simming!
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:: SCORECARD ::

Self Wetting : (23) -115
Passing Out : (21) - 105
Failing School : (0)
Game-Forced visit from Police, Firefighters or Babysitters : (0)
Accidental Deaths : (0)
Social Worker Visit : (0)
Cheat Penalty : (1) -10



Every Birth : (8) +45
Twins : (2) +20
Triplets : (0)
Fulfilling LTWs : (5) +50 
NTH Spouse Reaching Top of Career : (1) +5
Every Honor Roll : (1) +5
Randomizing every LTW and trait for an entire generation : (2) +20
Not Using Spares Lifetime Happiness points for an entire generation : (3) +30
Every 100,000 simoleons earned : (3) +60
Painting of Torch Holder (1) : +5



TOTAL = 0 



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