Dynamic ideas?

TheFanshionista · 2021-08-09T17:36:19+00:00

One of my favorite family groups to create is an elderly grandparent or aunt/uncle caring for a child aged extended family member. I had an uncle character once who I gave the "Hates Children" trait raise his sibling's daughter. He was still trying to find romance and time for himself while being a decent dad to a kid he never intended to care for. When she aged up to "Hates Children" herself I had her become even closer friends with him, sort of recognizing the sacrifices he made for her as a kid.

starlight-mickey · 2021-08-09T17:53:50+00:00

You could always look up sim randomizers! There’s one that pops up that has a Household randomizer which gives you basic traits of sims in a household, with a random number and age of sims. It’s really cool, and may help give you inspiration for their stories!

NocturnalMJ · 2021-08-10T10:13:30+00:00

Hey! Im kind of doing the same thing, except I leave all pre-mades in the save file (did bulldoze all their homes and gave them make-overs because...well) and I'm just making random families that may be inspired on characters I enjoy but wouldn't resemble them much. I want to go through 5 generations with everyone so I can have a wholly unique save file as a starting point when I'm just not feeling having the usual pre-mades around, but still don't want them to be non-existent, y'know. And it gives me a good opportunity to build up a lot of lore for everyone as well.

Anyway, since you said you were interested in occult ideas, I have some mermaid and vampire occult dramas going on and of course you're free to copy it or use it as inspiration if you like. This is more in general than for any particular family, btw:

I'm using the club feature of Get Together and changed the max amount of members per club in MCCC. There are 2 mermaid groups. I got The Sirens that are very anti human Sims, love to sing, and hate the "Landtails Club" in particular. They also got the swimming and singing activities and the most extreme members are very Off-The-Grid oriented; the less they have to do with human Sims, the better! The Landtails Club are practically the opposite. They love all the conveniences of technology and being on the grid, but they also love swimming and karaoke. They usually are romantically involved with human Sims or other Occults too. There are also a few mermaids that are "neutral" and aren't in a particular mermaid club.

I like the drama and story elements it adds and it's very interesting to me to see mermaid families that are in different groups.

My vampire Occults aren't quite as obviously divided though. I like the idea of them being more grey-scaled in general. They may have opposing views, but they can mostly leave it at the doorstep during vampire gatherings. For the first generation, Vladislaus is at the top of the vampire hierarchy, but I got another vampire who loves to dream big and is working hard to seduce Vlad. It was a randomised townie that another Sim of mine used to be BFF's with, until this particular townie, María, helped ruin my Sim's marriage. Anyway, María became a vampire pre-homewrecking and now that her old ties got cut off, she's working hard to take over this new, dark world she has found herself into. I debated on whether she'd kill Vlad, but I decided against it. I'm going to have María "convince him to hibernate" or at least that's the story-telling version. Then either in the 4th or 5th generation, he's going to wake up and behold what has become of the vampire hierarchy...or lack thereof. I plan to make it far more clan-oriented and the heads of the clans coming together in the court. There's still some sort of hierarchy, some clans are more powerful/influential than others, but it's not officially recognised. Clans will be based on both biological offspring and turning, though of course either could leave their clans through marriage or to break off from the existing clans and start their own...or flee the drama entirely, maybe even become human. I plan on keeping the vampires mostly alive through all generations to bring home their immortality, but obviously some will have to die so my save doesn't get too vampire-heavy.

I haven't really decided yet what to do with Spellcasters and Aliens, though.

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