Engagements, cheating and death

Celestine Champignon met the man of her dreams while at university (she’s now a junior).  His name was Gunnar Larsson.

They got engaged.

Flatting with them in the flash house at Academie le Tour, was her brother, Jean-Pierre, and Sorrow deMarr.  They hit it off as well.

They also got engaged.

Here are the two couples eating.

(Jean-Pierre has an ugly mouth.)

Sorrow’s aunt Amphyra, meanwhile, had seduced Gerard Langerak and got him to move in with her.  He was quite pleased as he’d had enough of his daughter, Michelle, continually moaning and fighting with the twins.  His wife, Elizabeth, needless to say, was none too pleased.

Gerard and Elizabeth’s daughter, Michelle was anorexic.  She refused to eat.  (She moaned about being hungry but would not go to the fridge full of food.)  Eventually she starved herself to death.

Twin, Robert, has gone to university.  His twin sister, Brew, refuses to do her homework so with a grade of F, she ain’t goin’ nowhere.

A wedding

Christophe Champignon and Erike De Marr decided to get married at night so that Erike’s vampire father and grandfather could attend.  Christophe’s only relative was his father (apart from his aunt Antoinette who he barely knew).  So Erike’’s parents, Luka and Ginger, came along with Damien.

Is Luka trying to scare Antoine?

Erike introduced Christophe to her grandfather,

then the wedding went ahead.

When Luka started serenading his wife, Damien wasn’t too happy (remember he’d got quite close to Ginger in order to make her a vampire).

He took it out on Ginger.

The happy couple were oblivious, dancing with each other inside the house.

The happy couple are now parents. Erike got pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, Megane.

Danaher woes

Seamus’ family never seems to be without its dramas.

His wife, Framboise, wanted to adopt their two baby daughters that she gave up long ago when Seamus was trying to get a boy (after 8 girls).  Seamus reluctantly agreed, even though he was now 69.  Unfortunately for them both, a dark-skinned boy was delivered.  Seamus tried again but yet another dark-skinned boy was delivered.  Their daughters had long since disappeared.  Oh dear.  Seamus then promptly died, age 71, leaving Framboise to deal with two boys she didn’t want.  Their own twin boys were still school age.

Their elder sister, Ribena, callously left her mother to it and skipped off to university.

The boys grew to teenagers not long after but while Framboise was at work, the twins were starving and overtired as a result of hanging around waiting for the damned babies to turn into toddlers.

Framboise had had enough.  She stuck the toddlers into a room with no doors and waited for the social worker to come pick them up.  She did, so then they could all breathe a sigh of relief and get back to the lives they had before the turmoil.  [Incidentally, the boys were adopted by Gallagher and Gabrielle Newson, but sadly they drowned in a pool.]

Over at Seamus’ other daughters’ place where his remaining daughters, Ciara, Begorrah and Hellia lived, Ciara was still single and unloved, Begorrah would soon be going to university and Hellia would finally become a teenager.  Then tragedy struck.  Lightning struck a tree just as the rain stopped and Hellia, instead of going to school, ran out to look at the fire and panic.

Naturally she got too close.

Begorrah, who I’d already sent off to school, did not get on the bus at all, but ran back to look at the fire as well.

Sadly, Hellia died.

Out of originally ten kids, eight of them girls, Seamus’ surviving kids numbered five.  I tried to get Begorrah to ignore the fire and head to school but she kept running back to the spreading fire.  Eventually, slowly, I got her far enough away so she could walk to school (having by now missed the bus).

Then Ciara woke up and joined the frenzy.

Finally the fire went out and Ciara went about her boring life.  I wouldn’t have minded if she’d died as well.  As it is, she’s starving herself, always drinking instead of visiting the fridge.  Another drunk in Veronaville.  Anyway, Begorrah headed off to university that evening complete with some money from an orphan’s fund.

Brief update

Sometimes I can’t get out of the habit of taking pics especially where there’s not much of a story to tell so occasionally I might post a brief update such as this one and the next one.

A couple of pics below show Peyote Champignon rescuing his granddaughter, Cherie, from the snow outside.  Somehow she found her way out there and everyone forgot about her.

Luckily the social worker didn’t come to pick her up.  Peyote’s a pretty happy chappy after fulfilling his lifetime want (Game designer).  He’s now 78 – one of the oldest Sims I’ve had for a while.

Mikhail Lillard’s sister, Alexis Menon, died in the penitentiary.  She was about 63.  Her sons didn’t mourn her.  Wayne Menon, in fact, has just been done away with at university.  Lex Menon is married to Edwina Sharpe and they have a baby, Alicia.

Mikhail is now a grandfather.  His son John and wife have just had a baby boy – Michael.  That’s Framboise Danaher to the left.  More of her woes in the next post.

Remember if you can’t figure out who’s who, check out the family tree link in the blogroll.

End of an era

Just occasionally I have a favourite Sim.  Artois Heineken>Champagne was one of them.  He was grandson of another favourite, Jean-Philippe Champignon>Heineken and was a virtual clone of his granddad.  Both changed their birth names to the surnames of their wives.  JP was originally a Champignon when he (mistakenly) changed his name to his wife’s – Heineken.  Artois corrected this error by siring children with the surname of Champignon.  He changed his surname to the very similar Champagne when he met Isobel.  His life was obviously nearing the end at 74 so a couple of pics of his last day.

The final jam with his son, Akanami, and wife, Isobel.

His final touching kiss with Isobel before he went to work (he hadn’t bothered to retire).

Isobel went to bed early so she wasn’t awake when Artois returned from work, to find Death awaiting.

He had expected it but put up a token struggle.

He was 75.  His siblings had long since died and his best friend, Reefer, had been long dead.  He was basically the last of his generation in Veronaville.  The Icon is dead.

Family members, Celeste and Jean-Pierre (Artois’ grandson) discovered his body.

Akanami came out to find out what all the crying was about, and cried himself.

Isobel woke up to find herself a widow.

She needed psychiatric help.

She went out to Artois’ grave and mourned,

and went a bit loopy.

Akanami took to drinking for a while.  He would shortly become an elder himself.  He felt his mortality suddenly.

Artois is survived by six children – Akanami, Yves, Framboise, Cochonette, Ariane and Olivier; and thirteen grandchildren – Celestine, Jean-Pierre, Louis, Christine, Dominique (Yve’s twins), Ribena, Liam, Patric (Framboise’s kids), Lucy, Bob, Jack (Cochonette’s kids), and Hayden and Autumn (Ariane’s kids).  Of the grandchildren, Jean-Pierre, Christine, Dominique, Bob, Jack and Hayden have just headed off to university.  Bob is extremely ugly – he might be eliminated.

After a while time heals some things.  Akanami revealed to his stepmother (and sister-in-law) that he’d always been attracted to her.

They kissed.

Celeste wasn’t too pleased when she found out.

The sisterly fights began.  Isobel reminded Celeste that she had flirted with Artois so wasn’t innocent herself.  That was irrelevant according to Celeste and she always initiated the fights.  Oh dear.

Akanami was oblivious.

Young Jean-Pierre, in the meantime, had headed off to uni.  Akanami’s younger son, Louis, didn’t register anything of the events at all.

Spliff’s sister, and others

This is a bit of a mixed post.  I’ll start with Yves Champignon and his wife, Chrystal – or more specifically Chrystal.  She’s a bit of a dumb blonde.  She tried her best at the hair-dressing salon and wasn’t very successful at all.  [I just couldn't figure out how to get people to agree to have a haircut and actually get them to sit down.  It worked in only one third of my attempts, so I gave up.]  Yves was sick of her not opening the business after she lost interest so he had the whole building demolished.  She belatedly closed the business after it was an empty patch of land at the front of the house.

She’s an idiot because she doesn’t eat.  Instead she drinks – yes she’s a drunk. 

She’ll go to the bar at every opportunity.

She’ll complain about being hungry, even though there’s food in the fridge,

then go back to drinking (which of course doesn’t fill her up)

no matter what time of day it is.

The twins have just left for university so I’m basically fast-forwarding through their lives.  If she starves, so be it – the idiot.

Yves just looks on, bemused, at his crazy wife.

Idiot.  I could kill her off but I’ll let her kill herself.  I could take away the bar, but then she might actually eat, which would be a shame really.

To another branch, briefly, just sharing a photo of Mac Reiner (son of Hollandia) having fun while gardening.

And finally, Spliff’s sister, Mary Jane.  She and husband, Grant Sharpe, lived opposite Artois and family in her father’s house.  Unfortunately, she was deemed uninteresting by the Sim god and she starved to death.

Grant found her dead on his return from work.  His grief killed him two days later.

Actually he starved as well, lacking a fridge, funnily enough.

How cruel the Sim god can be.

Infidelity

Two brief stories of infidelity.

First – a new couple had moved into Veronaville – Matthew and Jessica Picaso.  They worked in the military, as did Spliff Champignon and his wife, Georgina.  Georgina got to know Matthew before he and his wife moved to Veronaville.  They hit it off immediately and Georgina was kissing and hugging Matthew when Spliff wasn’t around.  After the Picasos moved to Veronaville Spliff got to know Jessica and they had an immediate attraction too.  So the sensible thing to do seemed to be to swap partners.

Spliff had gone round to Matthew’s after work and was there when Georgina visited Matthew.  She was found out.

Jessica was likewise found out when Spliff went visiting her and Matthew turned up.

So both couples broke up and moved in with their lovers.  Georgina moved in with Matthew and Jessica moved to Spliff’s place and his two kids.  The kids were naturally upset that their mother had left.

Georges in his basement bedroom crying.

Jessica and Spliff married and Matthew and Georgina married.  Jessica happily found herself pregnant.  Georgina, on the other hand. wanted to focus on her career to become a general and wasn’t that interested in more kids.  However, she is now pregnant as well.  She was pregnant when she turned up to John Lillard’s wedding (she still had her wedding veil on, oops).

Infidelity 2 is a rather surprising one (and rather unsavoury).  It appeared that Ariane Newson (nee Champignon) had the hots for her stepfather, Peyote Champignon.  Ariane’s sister-in-law, Ginger DeMarr, discovered this to her horror.

Whether Ginger went home and told her brother or not, it seemed Garrett had something to lecture Ariane about when she got home.

Ariane took it all meekly.

Their eldest, Hayden, has just left for university.  Below are the toddlers, Autumn and Ciren (Garrett’s alien child).

John Lillard

John finished his degree and headed back home.  He got a job as a detective.  His fiancee, Caryl Monif, still had another couple of semesters to complete to finish her biology degree.

Once graduated, she moved in with John and Mikhail and immediately set about redecorating some rooms of the house and expanding the range of clothes in the wardrobe.  She was perplexed not to have found a white wedding dress among the gowns.

The wedding was set for the next summer day after John returned from his first day on the job.  Olivier and his new wife, Veronique, were invited, as well as Celestine (who’d recently moved in with Caryl at university when John moved out).  Other guests included the gardener and some fellow cop.

Guests below:

From left: gardener, Olivier, cop, Mikhail, Veronique

Below from left: Celestine, gardener, cop, Olivier, Georgina (more about her in the next post), Mikhail.

Below Celestine, Georgina, gardener.

It had got dark by the time the cake was cut and guests had disappeared inside to eat the turkey.

But they returned to have cake.  John and Olivier relived varsity days.

The new Mrs Lillard tried desperately to get a job in the police, but fell pregnant before she could.  Will the new Lillard be a boy or a girl?

The DeMarr family

It seems I haven’t updated the DeMarrs for some time.  Drako, for example, had grown to school age some time ago.

His sister, Sorrow, grew to a teenager and eventually headed off to uni.

In the meantime, Damien had been standing and staring, contemplating his ‘life’.

He’d come to a decision.  He wanted there to be a vampire in the family to carry on his mother’s heritage, but he wasn’t sure he could keep living as such without Serena.  He had to make his daughter-in-law, Ginger, a vampire, which meant getting to know her rather better than his son, Luka, would’ve liked.

And then he could bite her

to create..

another vampire.

Ginger then went about her daily life, including playing guitar which she was fond of.  She was now invisible in the mirror.

Luka got quite a surprise when he got up (he’d been sleeping) to find his wife had changed…

He figured out what must’ve happened without his knowledge or permission.  He was not too happy with his father.

Damien hid his shame but then went on to explain to Luka why he’d done it.

Luka was reluctant at first, but then agreed.  Ginger didn’t really want to be a vampire but she was a conduit.  Damien got her a vampricillin to take after she’d done the deed.  It was Ginger’s turn to bite Luka.

And it was Luka’s turn to become a vampire.

Ginger then took the vampricillin and changed back to human. 

But now she saw nothing of her husband during the day.

Luka also had to resign from his job as city planner, so Ginger got a job as a security guard (being a vampire had given her a sense of invulnerability).

After all that excitement, Drako grew to a nerdily-dressed teenager.

In other news, Damien’s daughter, Ebony, died age 63.  Luka’s eldest daughter, Erike, dropped out of university to move in with Christophe Champignon in his father’s house just next door.  They are engaged and I took a photo of their engagement but can’t find it!

Lillards

You may remember that Mikhail kicked out his wife because she’d had an affair which resulted in the birth of a boy she named Gerald.  Well she and her son lived in a small apartment in Veronaville.  Unfortunately she got locked in a room and starved to death.

The little boy, a toddler, was all alone.

The social worker soon came and picked him up.

Mikhail was happy.  This illegitimate kid would no longer have the Lillard surname.

Mikhail’s son, John, was at university with Olivier (as per the previous post).  John got his first kiss with girlfriend, Caryl, after he’d moved into the flash house on campus.

She moved in.

Caryl had, mysteriously, acquired the skill of hacking (which she tried unsuccessfully).

John fell in love and proposed.

She accepted.

John studied psychology and Caryl was studying biology.  John graduated before her and moved back home.  Caryl still has another year to complete.  Olivier’s cousin, Celestine, has just started at university and moved in.

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