Tethys: Haha! Woo! Looks like Elara's got her seat secured. Viva la matriarchy, suck it Dad and Phobos!
Edison: Ikr, fuck Mercury am I right, do you think my biceps are bigger yet?
Draco: Ahahaha...he's serious.
Solstice: I think so. All of you shush and let me feed my baby.
Elara: Ooh, delightful news. Bow before me now.
Deanna: Is it not bad enough I'm eating in here? What happened to these potties?
Elara: Mum, tend to your inferior sons. I can do this by my-
Solstice: Yes yes, you're Miss Independent, but you were also supposed to grow up hours ago, finish your skills - wait that's Thuban crying.
Elara: But I'm the most important!
She's a confused little child this one.
Elara: Why is there another one when I'm already perfection?!
Elara: Damn Grandma is your back supposed to crack like that?
Tethys: Uh, no. Too bad I'm the one doing this cos everyone else is lazy.
It's like 1am Teth. Your sleep schedule is just putting you in the right place at the right time.
Tethys: More like wrong place. Sigh, let's grow you up then child.
Elara: Right. Success starts with reading books or something, probably. If Draco wants to run and talk to everybody, I will read and...also talk to people. Mum used to lullaby about networking.
She's a Bookworm with the Social Butterfly aspiration. Bleghhh I have to do both at once because Draco's not done yet.
Anyway she got a makeover.
Tethys: Nice PJs. Have you -become so numbbbb-?
Elara: Oh you think you're funny, huh old lady?
Wh-
Mercury: Oh not again. Are you guys gonna use that one probe or-
OK see you in a couple hours.
Tina: What the hell kid, this is MY crying room!
Elara: I mean it's the only place here, or I'd say take it.
Tina: Not to your taste then you little emo brat-?
Wooooooow I fuckin wonder why. The creepy ass age gap or the fact that she has an existing child?
Everly: You're a good meal ticket.
Deimos: Eh she's still hot tho. Can you get your toddler out of my face please?
Tina: Hell's wrong with this kid?
Solstice: Think it's cos he was born unnecessary or somethin'.
Deanna: The fourth generation of this shit and nobody knows how to keep a clean house. It's times like this I want a butler again.
Mercury: AWFIEAOFHAWWGE! The darkness! It comes to consume us all!
Tethys: Jeez Dad do we need to start putting you on meds?
Solstice: Hey, we didn't even have to do any parenting this morning, so I've got the energy for-
Edison: Hell yeah. This robe is easy-access you know.
Solstice: Oh I do, why else pick it out?
Solstice: So, son. You'll look out for your sister at school, right -
Draco: I'll try. I'm scared of how Elara thinks friends work.
Solstice: Yeah being mostly watched by my grandfather might do that. Help me not get called in for a meeting with the principal at least.
Draco: I can do that...
Solstice: Y'know, I wanted to be the Mansion Baron who took care of cute little planter boxes, not these weird trees that - Grandpa did you glue money onto the branches?
Mercury: No dear that sprang forth from them itself. These trees are special. I gave my satisfaction for them.
Solstice: Ooook so is the regular bug spray ok for this or-
Mercury: Yeah, yeah, thanks for your help.
Clinton: Hi I'm Clinton, it's so good to meet-
Elara: Hm. So this is whom my distant vampire...'uncle' of sorts... has offered. Hello, friend. Do you like books?
Clinton: Yes? Anything that will get me that £10 Grandpa Pollux offered.
Every child is essentially slightly related to the family at this point.
Elara: Would you like to...climb?
Clinton: Sure, if you push me I get hazard pay.
They took a wonderful photo to commemorate their friendship.
Clinton: I'm pretty sure I'm only half in, El-
Elara: Yes that's the point.
Clinton: Let me go home! My five hours are up!
Elara: But I'm not done practicing yet. Stay a little longer...or should I say STAKE. For your grandfather.
Clinton: You're twisted!
Mercury: You fellas aren't afraid of death, are you? Cos it's coming for us all. Right around the corner.
Draco: Well now I am a little bit actually.
Edison: Should be pretty far off for me, and even further for my boy here-
Draco: But it could be anytime.
Mercury: See, he gets it.
Draco: So you're Elara's friend?
Sophia: I'd say loose acquaintance. Is she gonna really inherit this whole place?
Draco:...Yes, once like three generations of old people die off.
Sophia:...Huh. OK, I'm Elara's friend then.
Solstice: Dammit Edison I meant come out to the pool after dinner. It's gonna be hell to clean lamb joint out of the filter!
Edison: Oh, but how could I resist you?
Elara: Hahaha, your grades kinda suck didn't you know Draco?
Draco: You haven't even been to school yet you little-
Mercury: Children. Hush. Great-Grandpa has forgotten to read a ruler.
Draco: I worry about him.
Elara: Which is for suckers.
Solstice: I suppose I should at least attempt to enjoy my last baby.
Thuban:...Thanks?
Solstice: Don't be ungrateful. I think I touched Elara once during this stage and she's my heiress.
Ursa you quite honestly depress me.
This is her baby daddy also. Of the first kid. The second one that she's pregnant with is someone else's.
Terrell: The course of true love never did run smooth.
Vela: Ah...this house. I could have built it so much better than-
Tethys: That is my father you're talking about.
Vela: Do you actually care?
Tethys: Lol no.
Vela: God these things are still annoying. Can't believe I had two for no reason.
Tethys: If you were heiress you may have had to have many more. You can say a lot about Dad, but he didn't hate children.
Vela: You're saying Merc was a good parent?
Tethys: Oh GOD no.
We've joined Soli at work for today.
Cindy: Well hiii there lemme shake your hand. I'm pretty sure these are more than stretch marks.
Solstice: I think you'd be right and - why is my arm so hot? What have you done.
Solstice: Oh FUCK-
Cindy: Dammit you just dropped glass on my feet!
Solstice: Fine, me and my weird burning arm can call it even.
Solstice: OK let's not drop this one.
Peter: Let's not what now?
Solstice: ...Never mind. What sort of symptoms have you had?
Peter: Dammit, they already made me fill in a form!
Peter: Wait no I'm terribly claustrophobic!
Solstice: We already put it on your bill, don't waste it. C'mon, turn on you damn thing. Sometimes the locking mechanism is funky.
Peter: WHAT?
Solstice: Don't...don't cross your eyes, i can't see properly-
Blair: Haha I can almost see my nose.
Solstice: Sigh.
This picture of Soli is because she got a promotion. Edison got one too.
Solstice: And also because I look good today, you can hardly tell I worked ten hours.
Hi, Eirene.
Eirene: God, all these years of vampirism and I haven't gotten used to the smell of my own burning flesh.
Maybe you shouldn't.
Eirene: True, that's why Vela's dead and stuck here.
Deanna: It's nice to see you, my dear daughter. This is Elara, Solstice's daughter.
Elara: Yep. I'm the future. So what's this vampirism thing about then? That weird ghost is always going on about it.
Eirene: Wow Mum. You really haven't told her anything?
Deanna: I've been cured for a while now-
Eirene: Your great-great-grandma diminished herself. Don't be like her, little El.
Elara: Did I ask you to nickname me?
Elara: I wanna be like her I think.
Mercury: Haha good thing you had Elara this kid fully sucks.
Solstice: I mean I'm sure he's - well yeah, genetic failure.
Thuban: But I have a sister!
Solstice: Exactly!
I then didn't play this save (or anything for a while) after like three years. This is all 2022/3 images, that's why he wasn't an infant. But I got a new laptop so playing became fun again.
Except I genuinely really hate the new homepage.
Elara: Haha! She's already bored of you. Unfavourite child!
I got rid of Soli's doctor aspiration for a bit, and it gave her the knitting one. I then switched to Successful Lineage. Which will work out for her, but unfortunately it says she hasn't become a parent.
Thuban: ...
Well when Mercury dies-
Solstice: Don't even think about it. I've needed a nap for like three years.
Mercury wants to bond with his grandson in law. This came up as an option and I thought it was funny.
Edison: UNCLE! UNCLE!
Mercury: Too bad buddy you're fighting me! All of my siblings are scrawny.
Merc your siblings are dead.
Guys what the fuck I picked Discuss Fears.
Eirene's here, anyone remember her?
Eirene: People say we're alike, they say we've got the same hair-
Tethys: Nobody says that, Eirene.
Eirene: You won't be so superior when you're dead.
Elara: That's true, it's why I'm going to live forever.
Tethys: You do know that drove my grandmother mad, right?
Eirene: Anyway, a little gift for my future little vampire-in-training.
Elara, thinking: oh BROTHER I was gonna ask the ghost of your sister, she's way cooler-
Edison: FUCK I DIDN'T MEAN-
Ah, the classic walking-in-on.
Mercury: Don't worry bro it's Eirene's fault. Who comes over and starts having a spa bath in someone's tub? I don't care that she used to live here.
Edison: He's making SENSE it gets SCARIER-
Draco is the eldest. He and his sister both have the social aspiration, which is nice, but...
Elara: I think biting people should be taken as a compliment, actually.
Jeremy the vampire child: God, so true bestie.
Draco: I don't like this at all...
Elara: So are you down as a 'definitely' for my coven?
Lilly: Oh brother, don't get me wrapped up in this.
Draco: Chin up. You're extended family but your outfit isn't messed up. You must be blessed.
Tethys: Hey so why the fuck am I stuck doing this again? Hm? I raised FIVE children-
Thuban: 'Lara says mum was really involved with her-
Tethys: Heirs and non-heirs, right Dad?
Mercury: FUCK YOU BEARCULA, you're the reason my legacy has fallen to a vampiric plague!
Tethys: Don't know why I tried.
Draco: Here's to new friends. CHEESE!
Jeremy: DUDE look at my eyes in your phone screen, that's crazy.
Elara: God you guys are lame. Jeremy, you are out of my coven.
Draco: Don't hate us cos you ain't us, El.
Elara: Trust me I don't.
Deanna now sleeps in one of 2 outhouses. Honestly, I shouldn't ever build anything and this lot is a mess, but I'd rather just play with these guys than fix it.
Deanna: Whatever man, thank God. Peace and quiet!
Teth is still on nanny duty.
Tethys: You can say 'milk', right? How about I break it down for you-
Thuban: You're treating me like I'm stupid!
Tethys: You are like, brand new-
Thuban: *cries* I want Mum.
Tethys: I also want your mum to come get your ungrateful ass. Family values my ASS, Solstice
Teth's twin Rigel is getting a second grandkid. I feel like this guy is related to that kid Jeremy.
Elara: It spreads :)
This is such a wholesome thing for these two to do considering...them.
Blair: Yeah, he tried to bite me and then challenged Antares to a fight so we figured this was the one.
This is not wholesome.
What the fuck is wrong with you, Deimos? You're going to die in four days.
Deimos: Figured it was the best way to leave a genetic legacy without having to deal with the fallout.
You sad, sick old man.
Tethys: Later, losers. About to go murder some youngins at SimScuffle.
Lilly: I don't think that's part of the game.
Mercury: Just let her be, her mind's going.
Lilly: Sure, guy who my mum literally calls the crazy uncle.
Mercury: Well that's rude.
Eirene is Lilly's mother and part of Gen 2. Mercury's sister. So he is literally her uncle. Ah, vampires.
FELIX HI
Genuinely so happy to see him back. Even though when he was alive I mostly bullied him and made him have nine children.
Felix: Hiya son. Not dead yet?
Mercury: Ah, you know, they'll never take me.
Lilly: Welp, my mum said worse about this guy.
Felix: Which one is your mother again? Alsephina?
Mercury: Who?
Your sister, Merc.
Mercury: Meh, too many.
Merc then decided he liked his dad, which was kind of sweet.
Mercury: I guess I don't mind seeing more of you, old man. I think my husband might get sick of me, so it's good to have someone else to share my thoughts with.
Felix: I worry about that with Deanna. Then again, I am way too awesome, so what's the fuss?
Mercury: No I think she honestly did get sick of you.
Solstice: Hey, I'm back. Isn't this supposed to be my generation?
Sorry, Soli. I have a soft spot for the old timers.
She's doing this mainly because she has Seldom Sleepy and needs something to do outside of work.
Solstice: Why do we have this thing again?
Mercury: Hush, I've just got back from Selvedorada and we need to authenticate these artifacts. Expeditiously!
Solstice: You took that trip when my mother was a teenager I think.
Mercury: I only have one daughter and Teth is about 25, so no.
Mercury: You ain't seen nothing.
Stop trying to kill yourself and go get the mail.
Felix: Well if you're sick of me...goodbye forever love!
Bit dramatic really.
Deanna: Did someone say something?
Elara was the last of the employed/educated out of the door.
Elara: They'll start when I'm good and ready, thank you.
Which leaves Thuban with the two elders of the house, the poor little lad.
He's properly adorable though. Good job, me of 3 years ago, for giving him this little fishy onesie.
Mercury: Wanna go play with ancient knives?
Thuban: I feel like Mum would say no to that.
Mercury: Well, she ain't here!
Oh and here's Teth casually completing her FOURTH aspiration.
I love her honestly.
Tethys: It's just that easy.
I've given her Nerd Brain because she already has an 8 in Logic, but honestly, I don't really care if she finishes it or not.
Tethys: What if I do though?
Rigel: What am I, something on the bottom of my sister's shoe?
Ceja: You should try knocking. I've just done it.
I got someone to look after/skill Thuban cos Merc is tired and Teth is busy.
Aspiration, huh?
Tethys: This was your idea!
Channing: Who are you talking to?
Honestly, saw a Lothario descendant in her relationships list and decided to see if anything could happen.
Channing: Well, whatever. How's Willow Creek's former town bicycle?
Tethys:...Fucking excuse me? You come to my home-
Yeah, OK Teth, get rid of him.
Tethys: But I'm keeping that nanny! Gonna go work off my frustration by yelling at teenagers on Road Rival Alpha.
Ceja: You're a good little dancer, aren't you?
Thuban: Is this the 'positive attention' Lara told me about?
Deanna: Who are those kids coming up the path?
Elara: Potential future recruit, though I don't think she has any vampiric lineage-
Draco: Friends, Grandma.
Deanna: You two little freaks must be doing something right.
Draco: I feel like I'm being lumped in with my sister here-
Elara: Because I'm the heir, duh.
Deanna needs to write articles for her job. So I had her interview the nearest passer-by about his life.
The chemistry is immediate.
Bryce: Ooh, yeah, work it-
Deanna, trying to get her Notepad app working: Oh, sure, but I am past my best-
Bryce: Huh? I'm taking a selfie.
Annika: You mean it? You think this hat is fashionable?
Draco: Sure! If in doubt, be bold!
Annika: Because your sister was making fun of me for-
This girl is really cute. I think she has the legacy eye colour, which means she can't be the second parent of Elara's children - but she could be a good option for Draco.
Hey, Dad's home!
Edison: OH MY GOD I just heard thunder, everybody take cover!
Elara: Yeah, that's my dad. He's a huge pussy.
Edison: Ah. My child who looks like me.
Tethys: That's a bad thing in this family.
Thuban: Yeah I already know, Granny. Gosh.
Edison:...Anyway how was your day?
Thuban: Granny Teth called a lady and we danced together ALL afternoon-
Solstice: Why do people always take my fucking umbrellas? This jacket is designer!
Edison: Love, if you have a headache, it's OK to just go lie down, I know your work can be stressful-
Thuban: Is this stuff good to eat? Anyone?
Solstice: No no, I'm enjoying my time with my family-
Draco: But the Britechester Dragons aren't really all that, they're just flashy-
Elara: I want to suck your blood...that's menacing, isn't it?
Solstice: No, you're not doing it right, Draco, you need to show your working - Edison please tell my grandfather to put clothes on at the dining table. We have company.
Edison: What if he puts me in a headlock again?
Isla: Eh. I'm whatever. I've never seen a one-hundred year-old man before. It's like his wrinkles have wrinkles.
Thuban: You seem chill, we got the same hair. New sister?
Solstice: Don't let Elara hear you say that!
Edison: Can we be real? She won't care. She's a cold little creature, that one.
Solstice: So she called you a pussy, get over it!
Solstice: Uh...it didn't make all those sounds last time!
Solstice: MOTHERF-
Solstice: Maybe we're not so different, Thuban. I just got eaten by a machine and nobody came to help when I screamed.
Thuban: I mean, me and Ceja had the sick beats on, we couldn't hear you.
Solstice: No. I think it's personal.
Draco: C'mon grandma! Let's limber up, keep you young and fresh!
Tethys: I think it's too late for that, but my cold dead heart appreciates the sentiment, dear.
Edison:...No, I'm not still scared of thunderstorms, Dad, you really didn't have to call me. No, I appreciate it, really-
This is how it goes when you don't live in a great big multigenerational legacy household, huh?
Ceja:...You can sit a little closer, Elara, I don't bite.
Elara: I do. Well, I will. Either way, this is best. I need to practice staring imperiously from the head of the table. Ya know, coven stuff.
Elara: Mum says you're my spinster aunt. I think you're a bit old for admission to the coven, but it's good to meet.
Calypso:...You must be the latest legacy brat. Hope you enjoy popping out babies.
Elara: I will make new minions in any way possible.
Calypso: Jesus Christ.
Elara: Just you wait. I'm going to have unlimited power!
Tethys: Aw shit, Calypso, I've got some bad news, your mother's just died. Not me, obviously, the other one-
Calypso:...Mum, I have a father. He doesn't call but he's definitely still alive.
Tethys:...Fuck. I really must be getting on, huh?
Elara: Hahahaha should I be hearing this?
It was Ursa's mum.
Rigel: Well thank goodness for that.
Madelyn: I told you all I wasn't turning out like Auntie Teth.
Auntie Teth is kind of slaying.
Tethys: You're never too old for your first! Smashed that, didn't I?
Yes you did Teth, ilysm.
Mercury: LISTEN, Soli! You never know when they will come for you! I've seen it down in ol' Selvadorada! So push, push hard, you will have to run!
Solstice:...the ER is not that scary.
I forgot Ursa was having a baby. I then looked at her on the family tree and remembered she married Orion's son. So like, Tethys' cousin.
This family is too damn big and it's Felix's fault for taking nine kids to pass along his Perfect bloody Genetics.
Raven is Vela's younger daughter. She's having kids with someone she's not related to.
Mercury: It's another one of the masks of Khaas. Authentic, you can tell by the cracks in the-
Tethys: Jesus Christ I can see enough crack already. If you're going to 'shower' naked in the rain could you put pants on afterwards?
Mercury: Hey let me live. We both don't have much time left.
Tethys: After seeing this I might actually want to die though.
Deanna: For fuck's sake Mercury how many times do I have to tell you-
I do feel like I don't give Soli enough attention.
Solstice: Because I do actually useful things. Here I am grinding all the useless crap we get in our mailbox into bits and bobs to make more useless crap! I'm building a life cycle!
Tethys: Awww Grimmy you don't mind if I wait a little longer to join you, do you? It's just that I'm having fun here, and Elara needs an interesting woman in her life, my daughter is a loving mother but she's such a drip.
Grimm: I came out here for your fancy gourmet kibble I really don't care.
Tethys: In a way, you're the healthiest relationship I ever had.
Grimm: That's so very sad.
Solstice: See. I don't do stupid crap like almost killing myself on the workout machines even though I've been old for literal decades and know it could kill me.
Mercury: Someone say something?
Well, you'll get the focus now, Soli. We're going to the hospital (and I will desperately try to remember how to play the doctor career!)
Solstice: Well, this isn't hard.
Sophie: *starts choking*
Solstice: Don't suppose this will diagnose what YOU'VE got going on, huh Doctor Watanabe?
Allie: You're not funny, Sutherland.
Solstice:...OK, feedback taken. It was just-
Allie: Diagnose that patient so she doesn't end up like me, huh?
Solstice: I thought you died of old age.
Allie: It's gauche to ask people how they died.
I don't remember Soli's entire hospital being staffed by ghosts but that's what it's like now.
Sophie: You can't turn that thing down? What use is this if you're going to blind me?
Solstice: Well otherwise I can't, y'know...see.
Sophie: You just stabbed me.
Solstice: Well...it's a vaccination. There you go, all better.
Sophie: Aren't you supposed to get that before you get sick?
Solstice:...I don't know I'm following the pamphlets.
Delilah: Would you calm down here, you're hardly conducting an orchestra.
Solstice: Sorry, the spirits of my ancestors took me over. I will be less dramatic for the rest of the visit.
Delilah:...Not sure if I want a doctor who believes in all that woo-woo crap-
Solstice: No, they're all alive.
Delilah: Damn I really did not ask for your life story.
Solstice: Gah, imagine looking that good in a sports bra like that, pity I've had the three kids-
Soli you look great don't even.
Delilah: Oh, you've got three kids? Me also, if we're doing life stories.
Solstice:...Just keep running, OK?
Solstice: Damn, I could really use a snack.
Delilah: Could you fuckin' focus?
Solstice: Wait, I stayed late and did all that for nothing?
Yeah, not a successful day. The only diagnosis she got right was on the patient in between these two ladies. Where I didn't take any pictures.
Solstice: Fucking typical.
We still need to diagnose 2/3 people to progress. Hopefully Saturday will make that happen.
Thuban: Granny please I really don't ask for very much.
Tethys: With these old legs I'm not fucking dancing with you.
Elara: You seem happier, mother.
Solstice: Well, your father is coming downstairs in that gorgeous coat.
Elara: Gawd. Gross. Who has time for all that?
Deanna: Oh, dear, it's nice to see you again, Sloane, I always thought-
Tethys: Grandma. Ix-nay on that, we're just...putting grudges to rest in our old age. All amicable.
Edison: That's a first, isn't it?
Tethys: Boy we do not know each other well enough for you to say that-
Draco: I mean, Mum says it all the time. I was thinking it too.
Tethys: Ugh, never have kids.
Sloane: Too late.
Deanna: Yeah, way too late.
Deanna: You know, darling, I might not be a vampire anymore, but I do have a lot of experience in that game, and I'll be around a while longer to mentor you. Think of me as an athlete does their retired coach.
Elara:...Fine. Auntie Eirene is a drip and Auntie Vela is dead, so-
Deanna: I feel very appreciated, thank you dear. My first piece of advice is that you take a shower.
Elara:...You didn't have to say all that before. I know the coat doesn't smell great. I fell into a hole outside practicing my spooky walk.
Sloane: Well, I'm glad we could clear some stuff up, huh Teth? I wouldn't want us to die with that unresolved.
Tethys: Oh yeah. Those trousers are super ironic, by the way.
Sloane: My daughter bought them for me, actually.
Tethys: Did you tell her anything?
Tethys' brothers are having more grandchildren.
I thought this was the wife of Rigel's son. She is not. They simply have the same name. She's the daughter of Pollux, another one of Deanna's kids, who is actually still alive. I forgot he was a vampire.
This family is TOO DAMN BIG
Deanna: Good heavens it's filthy in here.
Tethys: Grandma. I'm in the middle of a tournament, and it's not even messy in here!
Sloane: Now I've heard that before.
Tethys: Yeah, some things you can't shake without actually moving out.
Hi Vela.
Vela: It smells like sweetness and light up here, it's disgusting.
Solstice sleeps up here.
Vela: Figures! Pah.
At least your children aren't committing incest.
Vela: And who cares about them?
Vela: I'm going to overwrite all of their work!
I don't think anybody has cared about that since Deanna finished being an Eco Innovator.
I'm actually getting a bit nostalgic. Started this blog ten years ago at the time of writing this. And I still have fun playing with these guys.
...Brought this up because Vela's exercise outfit has the top that used to have a CHOKEHOLD on me. All my female Sims had it.
Vela: You calling me outdated? I'm more alive than at least half my stupid siblings.
Elara: Ah, darkness, my true home.
You've just woken up.
Elara: Well one day I WILL stay up all night, how about that.
Solstice: *muttering* I swear to God, it ate me, and this time there will be witnesses-
Deanna: Look I can't help I have this crazy deadline-
Solstice: I said witness, not help-
Vela: Well I hope you fail.
Tethys: I'm actually going to go downstairs and - uh, generic excuse. I can't help.
Solstice: I don't WANT help!
Tina: This family doesn't communicate well, huh?
Vela: Oh up yours! She doesn't even go here.
Tina: Hey if I could have died anywhere else, I would have.
Solstice: Alright, let's hustle on a Friday, oh family of mine! What are our goals today and how are we going to achieve them?
Edison:...Survive the children? Teaching is hard work, you know.
Elara: This is not fair. Where are the boys? Maybe being heir isn't all that if I have to listen to this.
Deanna: GodDAMMIT Merc stop trying to kill yourself.
Mercury: Hey my joints got one more left in me.
...Why have I let this abomination be her winter outfit?
Deanna: Same reason Merc is wearing that ugly-arse rummage sale shirt. Your laziness.
Mercury: I've actually grown attached to it.
Rare sight: Solstice actually spending time with her youngest.
Thuban: It's good to meet you, mother.
Solstice: Ha-ha-
Thuban: Yeah. Funny. Do I have to wear the pink vest?
Solstice: Well, Elara wouldn't and you're my last chance, so...yes?
Mercury: *snicker* Got open mic night after work, mother?
Deanna: Good to see time and decay haven't completely reduced your brain to mush. Bitch.
Tethys wanted a new friend. Sandy here didn't get the message. Maybe she has changed.
Tethys: I mean I'm not opposed...but where is the romance? It smells like death out here.
Sandy: I'm...kind of close to it?
Tethys: I could kick your ass, don't even!
Sandy: Sorry, that's not what I meant! I'm just - well, I'm married, and out of practice.
Tethys: Oh brother I've heard this one.
Calypso called to chat with Mercury, which is sweet, because he's not close with most of his descendants. He currently has the Big Happy Family aspiration and has ZERO out of three for the 'be friends with your children' part. He has four children.
Mercury: It's OK you're not married. I'm not...right yes, Chase. No, I remembered that.
Sure you did.
Tethys: Need help finding a shirt?
Knox: It's good to feel this clean air on my skin. You know, your daughter really helped clean this neighbourhood up-
Tethys: Umbriel? It couldn't have been any of the others. They don't actually do things.
Knox: No, it began with a D-
Tethys: Oh. My grandmother. ...Don't ask.
Knox: I should have realised, you look far too young to have a daughter in her forties.
Tethys: Well. I'm not. And I have two of them.
Soli does actually love all of her kids.
Solstice: Aww Thuban it has been a lovely morning. Sorry Mum's so busy.
Thuban: Elara said it would never happen!
Solstice: Your sister is bolshie but she can't always be right.
Thuban: So she won't eventually bite me and make me part of her flock? I kinda got plans. Like being outside.
Mercury: Beat it, hippie. Get away from my granddaughter and great-grandson, they're trying to learn how to do important things instead of hugging trees all day!
Knox: Excuse you, you old sack of bones, I was invited.
Tethys: Guys, we're all old.
Mercury: Teth stop inviting strays into the house.
Solstice: I actually have to agree.
Tethys: You two are no fun.
Deanna: I got promoted. It truly is that easy.
Draco: Well I can't actually get a higher grade than A-
Elara: Oh really, I hadn't heard about this from either of you two-
Deanna: A vampiress strives to simply be better when outmatched, darling.
Tethys: Why are men.
Deanna: What now, darling?
Knox: No, I swear, you can get the biggest, juiciest bass if you stand right to the edge, really cast 'er out-
Mercury: I'm gonna have to try it today! Everybody keeps saying I'm gonna die soon!
Tethys: They yelled at each other for an hour and now I'm hearing about fucking fishing.
Draco: Yeah yeah yeah, totally come over...um, on the swings. Why do you ask?
Teth has a point.
Deanna: How are we getting on in upskilling?
Elara: Not well. I hate this goddamn music. I'm thinking about throwing the stereo through the glass door into the games room.
Raven: You remind me of my mother.
Edison: Which one is your mother again? Is this a good thing?
Lara: I wanna swing on those swings you were supposedly on.
Draco: I was on.
Lara: So there's a water feature?
Draco: You can kind of hear my great-grandma's shower, and-
Lara: Yeah OK weirdo let's go.
Draco: It's hard out here, OK. I have seven nosy family members constantly listening in on things I do!
Lara: You were right, these are fun.
Draco: Can we do something else? I feel sick.
Lara: Wimp.
Ursa called Mercury to invite him over. I didn't feel like having anybody leave the house, but I did decide to invite her over.
Ursa: Miss me?
Elara: Is that the one who-
Deanna: Sad fact is there's more than one. We all ignore that Soli-
Solstice: Ahem-
Deanna: Anyway, how's the affair baby, Ursa?
Elara: Do you have enough layers, or are you here to borrow one of ours? You can take that hideous thing off great-grandma, if you like.
Ursa: Immediately I come in here and y'all bully me.
Yup.
Solstice:...Can you enlighten on me on how your brother chooses his friends, Elara?
Elara: Beats me. But when I have my coven they'll be much better behaved than this, I assure you.
Solstice: Funny thing is, I actually believe you.
Raven: Oh, Ursa right, you married-
Ursa: This CANNOT be the defining thing about my life.
Elara: Too late. Grandmother, we must do research for when it comes to me.
Ursa: Jesus kid, aren't you like eight? It's a bit early to-
Elara: Well, you weren't close to being heir. You wouldn't know.
Raven: DAMN
Mercury: You're not doing it right.
Ursa: Never do, do I?
Mercury: Ugh, stop being such a middle child about it and just listen to me.
Elara: You've heard of plasma, haven't you mother? You know that the nutrients actually vary substantially from what a vampire can get in blood.
Solstice:...Very nice dear. I am curious where exactly this came from.
Elara: It's the most logical path to gain power from. Isn't that right, Dad? For example, you wouldn't have to practice power poses in the mirror to not be afraid of teenagers.
Solstice: Your dad isn't afraid of-
Edison: That's, um, well partly the case-
Elara: Definitely don't tell them you're doing this, that won't help. And don't let me tell 'em either!
Solstice: Elara, don't tell them that-
Elara: What will you give me?
Chase: You know when Mercury told me about that thing I thought he was crazy.
Solstice: Granddad is crazy.
Chase: Oh, you know what I mean. Where is he?
Solstice: Last I saw, trying to kill himself on the treadmill.
Chase: And you said nothing? Stone cold, Soli.
Mercury: No, and that's when I said - hang on, Plasma Jane! I see something a-rustling over there.
Burglar: What? No you can't. Black and white stripes are totally camouflaging.
Mercury: I genuinely haven't had this much of a purpose in years, let me at 'em.
Mercury: You thought you could try me you dumb bitch? Not on your life!
Mercury: I'll make you pay. Say uncle!
Jaqueline: Uh - uncle.
Mercury: You thought that would work?! You're even stupider than I thought.
Chase: *sigh* There's really so little to do in the underworld, I wish you would join me.
Mercury: My own spouse, wishing me dead? Well, you might get your wish. I won that fight and beat the hell out of some lady, but I think I damaged a nerve in my neck.
Mercury: That's it, Soli. It's just like archaeology. Whack it real hard and see what you can make out of the pieces.
Solstice:...I'm surprised they even allowed you into Selvadorada. This feels like a bad anger management technique.
Mercury: Why not both?
She's back on the doctor aspiration - unfortunately it reset a bit. And there's not a lot of skill stuff to it. So I'm having her do random skills for when we do get around to other aspirations.
Draco woke up and decided to go through a mean streak.
Draco: Anything Elara does I can do better.
Deanna: *whistles innocently* I didn't do nothing. And Teth saw it first! I mean-
Draco: Christ I actually get no peace around here.
Elara: If you hate it so much, go tell her to stop.
Draco:...Grandma, can you tell her to stop?
Elara: So much for the mean streak.
Deanna: It's not up to me to discourage my great-granddaughter in the taking up of a new hobby. I started from here after all.
Solstice: Very supportive, thanks kids. Fuck it, I'm going to work.
Troy: Should it be coming out the other side, Doc?
Solstice: Yeah, in addition to your fever you got scarecrow syndrome. No brain.
Troy: Well that explains a lot about my life.
Solstice: Wait...hang on...there's what. Sorry, gotta go.
Troy: What do you mean???
Solstice: Someone's dying in the lobby. Gotta go put my superhero hat on.
Troy: But - you can't just leave me here.
Solstice: Can and I'll have to.
Troy: There are other doctors!
Child: This lady seems mean. Can someone else do my vaccines.
Solstice: Dude, come on. Get up. Bit dramatic isn't it?
Solstice: Told you you'd be fine. All it took was some simple surgery to reinflate your lung.
Tory: I feel better but I resent your bedside manner.
Solstice: Machine-side, really. Off you go home now, the beds are full.
Solstice: Come on. You've got to open your mouth a bit. Why do I only ever treat the wimpiest of men?
Sawyer: Mmmmmph.
Solstice: -no, I didn't mean you were a little bitch, I was talking about someone else.
Lizette: And that doesn't make me feel better, Doc!
Why is this stupid career so hard. We STILL don't have three successful diagnoses.
Solstice: So, that knocked her out. On one hand, I might get sued. On the other, at least she stopped talking for a bit.
Draco finished his aspiration, finally, while we were at work. Due to using the skill up while gone option.
Draco: 2 days of sweet freedom, let's go.
Edison's dad died so he's bummed.
Edison: Is this sweat or tears from my eyes? Trick question. It's both. Oh God I'm picking up on Mercury's habits.
Thuban:...What are they doing?
Tethys: *drops controller* Fuck, I thought you were in bed. Sorry, bad time to try out a new Baldur's Gate mod.
Thuban: That landed on my foot.
Elara: H-
Calypso: Oh, absolutely kid, I'll be in your coven, that sounds like a lot of-
Tethys: Do you have nothing better to do.
Calypso: No!
Elara: You should sound sadder about that. And I wasn't inviting you. I just want to practice making friends. You're old. Lonely. An easy mark.
Tethys: Great, you're in bed. Gonna go check out that Baldur's Gate mod again. Probably on my PC this time.
Thuban: No story? If I were ELARA-
Tethys: Ugh, God, fine. Curse my soft heart.
Elara: What I would do is embrace the mark like this and - no, don't actually hug me, I'm practicing.
Calypso: Perhaps I should become a mother.
Elara: Lol. Not likely at this rate.
Calypso: But if I had a daughter as ambitious and talented as you.
Elara: Oh auntie, you shouldn't...seriously, my ego could become a weakness if not put in check.
Deanna: Plus you probably won't have that daughter, Calypso. I went about two and a half kids for nine, and that's being generous.
Felix: So you regret our children? Ah, Deanna. You're finally seeing things my way!
Rigel's second kid is having another out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
Rigel: And after I just finished worrying about Madelyn!
Felix and Mercury are in an unpleasant conversation. I don't even know who started it.
Felix: -and if it wasn't for all of my hard work, you and your ungrateful descendants would have never been able to accomplish all this, I laid the foundation-
Mercury: No let's be fucking for real, Mum did!
Next time, another week goes by, and all the kids are going to have birthdays. Also this chapter is so LONG it's making me reconsider my decision to separate this challenge out by week.
...Eh, gotta finish what we've started.
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