2. Welcome back to the often silly, usually blue, all SiMania
admod musical legacy! I, Taube/Roxanne, have the family
again after Katie’s wonderful turn with them. They are a very
amusing family and a lot of fun to play, although their college
years were fairly tame. Anyway, thank you for reading and
let’s get going!
Last scene, the last of the six kids –
Sandy, Marty, Danny, Viola, Betty, and Tom – aged into
teenagers while their parents Marsha and heir Rolfe enjoyed
their golden years. The family also includes three dogs:
Doody, Putzie, and Frenchy. It looked like the blue skin might
have died out, as none of the kids got it, but we checked their
genetics, and amongst the ones carrying the blue
recessively, Marty came out as the clear favorite and thus
heiress. With everyone caught up, let’s see what’s going on .
..

3. First things first: sending everyone off to college. Sandy had
only one day left, so she took all five of her younger
siblings, including heiress Marty, with her to Academie Le
Tour.

4. With their pooled money, the Encore kids build a nice classical house and
christen it as Annya Oresha, their new Greek house.

5. Let’s catch up with all the children. Viola,
top left, is a popularity/knowledge sim.
Danny is family/grilled cheese. Betty is
romance/grilled cheese.

6. Sandy, top left, is pleasure/fortune .
Tom is family/romance . Marty, our
heiress, is romance/knowledge.

7. Danny and Tom aren’t sticking around though. Annya Oresha
will be a sorority. Anyway, since both the boys are family-
oriented, they’re probably eager to get on with their lives.
Amusingly (to me at least) is that Tom was fat when I got him. I
know fat sims drive Katie nuts, so I figured he might have been
the grilled cheese secondary brother, but nope, that’s Danny.
When I looked back at the chapter, the last slide depicts him
skinny. I don’t know if it was a glitch or a case of one too many
pieces of cake at his birthday party, but Tom’s carrying a bit of
extra weight one way or another. That shouldn’t be a problem
for the taxi, though, so let’s stick with the plan.

8. With their brothers gone, the girls get started on their schoolwork.
However, Marty has some more pressing business to attend to . . .

9. Namely, finding a husband! Remember, she gets three dates with a
randomly-chosen amount of money and has to pick from those. I rolled
$426. The matchmaker was thrilled.

10. And here’s what she gave us for four hundred odd dollars. Lovely.

11. “Let’s go downtown on our date, Marty! I can’t wait to be seen
with such a pretty girl!”
“Um, no downtown. In fact, let’s go inside. Away from prying
eyes. Maybe away from the windows too.”

12. They fell in love, but they did NOT woohoo. Marty may be a romance
sim, but she has standards still. After this date I decided not to have
Marty fall in love with everyone and anyone like usual, so this guy
ended up being the single other heart in her relationship panel besides
her eventual husband. He should feel proud.

13. “Listen, I know I can’t pay you much money because some sim controllers
really suck at rolling appropriate numbers, but surely you’ve got
something better for me. Maybe try a little harder?”

14. Technically he is better. She’s got us there, Marty. Marty didn’t even
complete a full date with this guy but just got him as a contact in case
number three was ‘special’ too.

15. “Come on now, I’m serious. I need some good husband
material. Four hundred twenty-six or not, you better conjure
up someone worth my time. Or else.”
I’d do what she says. That’s one ticked-off looking heiress.

16. Oh, yes, he will do nicely. Another male maid, but a cute one this
time. But why are you still scowling, Marty?
“I’m still mad at her wasting my time with those other two.”
That’s behind you now. Because now, your future is: Steven. He’s
even a redhead! We scored big time!

17. With that behind us, college life can
continue apace. The girls have a bubble
blower prominently placed in the
middle of the great room/kitchen/study
room/everything downstairs, thanks to
Sandy the pleasure sim. They make
good use of it. The stereo also sees a lot
of action and some of the girls, like Viola
there, have obviously never danced
before. Betty just wants to make grilled
cheese or make out. Either one, really.

18. When she’s not dancing spastically, Viola is definitely the house mother.
She cleans everything autonomously and brings home pizza even when
no one’s hungry. You know, just in case. She’s also the only one who
bothers to dress for classes, again autonomously. I wonder if that’s
because she’s so neat.

19. Betty can’t eat grilled cheese all the time, so she needs something else to
keep her happy. This guy will do for now.

20. Sandy spends nearly all of her non-school time on the bubble
blower or the game system. I love her cheering while playing the
Sims 3. The Sims isn’t really a cheering type of game, is it?
Yeah, you socialize with that grandmotherly-looking lady, you wild
simmer, you! Yay!

21. All of the girls have aspirations that make them difficult to keep happy
with just regular college stuff. The other three want relationships of
one sort or another and Sandy just wants to be a pleasure sim. You
know how that is. But she also needs a prospective mate, and based
on her predilection for blond hair, I picked this guy, Byron, out of the
college directory pretty much at random. Amazingly, they have three
bolts. Sandy has found her one true match, I guess.

22. Viola has too, but her guy is her professor, Charles. Doesn’t hurt her
grades to have a little one-on-one study session out front either. Unlike
Sandy, they only have two bolts, but that’s more than good enough for
me.

23. Meanwhile Marty continues seeing Steven. He’s a family sim so maybe
not the best match for a romance girl, but he was definitely the cutest
and he and Marty actually have two bolts, probably mostly due to her
“Massive Attraction” lifetime reward.

24. On a date while he desires it and she doesn’t fear it, Steven and Marty
get engaged. I love Steven’s coat. He just looks like some gentleman
millionaire in it. It even has gloves! Classy, right?

25. “Hey, Mom. Yeah, so I got engaged. You know how that is, since you’re
romance yourself. Yeah, he is cute. You’ll like him, but hopefully not too
much. We don’t want any of that Vermachtnis cross-generational
nastiness in OUR home!”

26. You know who loves pictures? Sandy does. Sandy loooooooves
pictures. Of herself, with Byron, whatever.
Pictures, pictures, pictures. She ended up with like ten of them in
her inventory by the end of college. I’m keeping the girls happy by
letting them go on dates, two of the girls per day because that’s all I
can handle, so she has a lot of opportunities to get pictures taken.

27. When that’s done, Sandy proposes to Byron. They have 3 bolts and are
crazy head-over-heels in love with each other, so it’s no surprise that he
accepts. Now two of the girls are officially paired off.

28. Thank you for uncovering your bust, Steven. Er, what I mean to
say is, that’s a very shapely bust you’ve bared for us.
Actually, maybe I better revise that. Your bust is very nice to look
at.
You know what? Nice statue. Done.

29. After countless hours, Viola is finally a great dancer. Everyone in
the house is. Also, they finally got tile for the kitchen instead of
the carpet I lazily laid down in the whole room at first. Whoops.

30. Betty’s date with the previous guy went well, as did this one, but neither
one of them were anything to write home about, and Betty didn’t feel
much of a spark for either of them. One of her turn-ons was black
hair, which is why she was dating these particular gentlemen, so I
changed it to brown to see if we could find someone better.

31. Woohoo! Literally! Betty’s next date, Isaiah, is a real cutie and all too
willing to engage in public woohoo with Betty. This may be the one.

32. Looks like Betty agrees. Those shorts and socks will definitely have
to go as soon as I get my hands on him.
Yep, that’s what you get for this slide instead of a sweetly-written
romantic proposal dialogue.

33. Oh my, Byron, your bust looks so big from this angle!

34. Cell phone madness. The girls befriended their professors over
two semesters instead of doing any schoolwork. I feel less
guilty about this than I do professor woohoo, but it still seems
slightly unethical.
Also, notice Sandy there. “Yeah, and I got a look at his bust!”

35. Marty already befriended her professors so while her sisters all chat in the
same corner, Marty has to actually write a paper.

36. You know what you get a lot of in a
house full of mean girls? Gossip.
About poor Bernice, professor
Charles, Tom, whoever.

37. Viola finally proposes to her professor and Charles accepts. Now all
the girls are engaged and all they have to do is graduate college. Not
like that’s a big deal, right?

38. Steven is very cute. When he eventually came home with Marty, he
rolled knowledge for his secondary, which makes this look even more
appropriate, in my opinion. I have visions of good-
looking, redheaded, hopefully blue little babies in my head at this
point.

39. Looks like Marty approves of Steven’s new look. And I just noticed
that he wears gloves in his normal outfit too. Maybe he’s ashamed
of his hands? I’m sure they’re just fine, Steven! Don’t be shy on our
account!

40. Just another day at Annya Oresha. While the girls all return from
a final at the same time, Viola somehow had time to run for
pizza. Did Charles let you out of your final early, Viola?
Shame, shame.
They celebrate by blowing bubbles, of course. Not even the
cheerleader can get their attention when they’re floating.

41. Yup, more pictures. Sandy must have more pictures!

42. All three of Marty’s sisters eventually
get in the zone for gaming due to
playing Sims 3 incessantly during their
waking hours. I was really getting sick of
the music from it. Play a little SSX for a
change, won’t you?
Marty’s interest is primarily in Arts and
Crafts because I had her making
snapdragons. I like a lot of snapdragons.

43. There are always dates going on at the house. It kept the
girls in a pretty good mood most of the time, and since
they all have a fiancé they’re in love with, the dates go
smoothly and mostly quickly.

44. Besides games, Betty has
developed an interest in music
and dance, mostly on her own.
I just helped her get to the
zone when she wanted it.
Otherwise, it was all her
dancing. She wanted the
violin, too. Looks like someone
has a musical streak.
That’s no excuse for impaling
your sister with your own arm
while dancing, though.

45. All four girls are in the zone in this picture. Betty is smustling, Viola
and Sandy are playing games and ignoring the mascot, and Marty is
blogging about art. I just loved that all four happened at the same
time.

46. Here’s Sandy’s other hobby. This is what happens when she’s
left to her own devices outside.

47. “Good job on becoming Big on campus, Marty!”
“Thanks! We probably should have mentioned that back when it
happened in sophomore year.”
“Eh.”

48. And that’s the final final . . . that Betty couldn’t even bother to dress
for. To tell the truth, probably the only reason Marty is dressed is
because she had a date that day and I made her get dressed for
that.
The girls all graduated with 4.0s.

49. The three spare girls take turns
calling for a cab. Time to get
home to a new house and a
fiancé!

50. Finally, Marty leaves Annya
Oresha for the last time and
grows up out on the sidewalk.
Let’s check in with the spares
now.

51. Shortly after dropping out of college, Danny got his own place back in
Veronaville.

52. Using the crystal ball, he met and made friends with
Daisy, eventually good enough for her to move in and off the
island.

53. After Daisy had a makeover, they soon fell in love and had their
first kiss.

54. Over grilled cheese (Danny’s favorite), he proposed to Daisy. He looks so
nervous! But she said yes.

55. They had a quiet and dignified wedding in front of their fireplace.

56. Both Danny and Daisy are family sims, so while they were very happy
together, their family just didn’t feel complete yet.

57. That changed when they had their son, Gaston.
This is a good time to mention that the names I’ll be using this round
come from The Phantom of the Opera. It doesn’t actually have a lot of
named characters (especially girls) so the spares are going to be limited to
one pregnancy each, and I got a little creative with some of the names.
Gaston Leroux is the author of the original novel, Le Fantôme de
l'Opéra, that the musical is based on.

58. Gaston grew up doted on by both of his family-oriented parents.
Daisy hangs around wanting to play peek-a-boo with him even
though he is clearly busy.

59. Gaston grew into a very handsome little guy. He’s definitely got a
lot of Daisy’s coloring.

60. However, Gaston is a daddy’s boy. He loves his dad and loves to
cuddle with him on the couch. Although they would have loved to
have more if I let them, Danny and Daisy feel that their family is finally
whole.

61. Poor, fat Tom moved in next door to his brother.

62. With the aid of the crystal ball, he met and wooed Lilly, who loved
him whole-heartedly, paunch or no.

63. After Lilly moved in and got made over, they too had their first kiss.

64. Tom wanted to be in shape for his wedding, so while knowledge sim
Lilly studied, Tom worked out.

65. Finally Tom was in fighting shape and ready to make Lilly his
bride.

66. They had a beautiful wedding amidst a cloud of butterflies . . .

67. . . . that was photobombed by Patrizio Monty.

68. Lilly was soon expecting and Tom couldn’t be more excited.

69. Lilly finally gave birth to a daughter, Daaé (pronounced Die-a).
Daaé is the last name of the main character, Christine. I thought
it could work for a little girl’s name. If the last two generations
are any guide, I figured it may take six sims to get blue and with
my luck, if I used up the girls’ names too soon, they’d be six girls.

70. Daaé has the Encore eyes. She grew into a lovely little toddler
who Tom and Lilly loved very much.

71. And eventually into a pretty little girl. She’s very active and playful so
I gave her a “Little Miss Trouble” t-shirt. Daaé is a handful!

72. And that’s the end for Tom’s story.

73. Betty moved in down the street from her brothers once she
graduated.

74. She invited Isaiah over and they wasted no time christening
the new house.

75. Time for a wedding, but it looks like Isaiah’s got cold feet. He’s a
popularity sim, so what’s wrong?
“Well, Betty doesn’t fear it so I thought I would for her.”
How . . . thoughtful.

76. Isaiah and his lady in red had a lovely little wedding right in
their front yard.

77. Betty carried her love of music home from college, and she
loved to break out her formal wear and serenade Isaiah while
he studied for promotions. The couple was very happy just the
way things were, but these things have a way of changing.

78. You’re looking a little thick around the middle, Betty. Maybe you
shouldn’t drink in your condition.
“What condition?”

79. Pop!
“Oh, that one. Guess I’ll just leave these here for later then.”

80. With a very pregnant belly, Betty still loves to play her violin.

81. Finally the time comes for Betty to give birth, which Isaiah
decides is a fine time to try out those drinks Betty made a few
days ago. Pay attention, Isaiah! You have a new child!

82. “Yay baby! I was paying attention the whole time!”
Betty and Isaiah’s daughter is named Debienne, for one of the
former managers of the theater where The Phantom of the Opera
takes place. Debienne is the last name of one of the owners
who, with his partner, sells their share in the possibly haunted
opera house. Again, I thought it could serve as a girl’s name in a
pinch.

83. Debienne grew into a very cute little toddler that loved to
gnaw on her toys.

84. And eventually a beautiful little girl. Debienne, like her cousin, also
got the family eyes. That’s a good sign that they’ll turn up in the
main family, but it sure would be nice to see some blue somewhere.

85. Debienne enjoys Betty’s grilled cheese every evening. Although Betty
never planned on being a wife and mother as a romance sim, she’s
quite content feeding her family grilled cheese for the rest of sim
eternity.

86. Owing to the lack of affordable real estate and also because they were
roommates in college, Viola and Sandy moved into the same house
together.

87. They invited their significant others over and greeted them appropriately.

88. Double wedding! These two girls were the only ones of the
spares to have witnesses to their wedding. First up is professor
Charles and Viola.

89. Sandy’s ready to fight for her family’s right to get married.
Not that that’s necessary, but she’s ready nonetheless.

90. When she’s done idling, Sandy and Byron tie the knot.

91. The two couples retired to their respective bedrooms to
celebrate their weddings, but only Sandy and Byron conceived
right away.

92. Still in the early stages of pregnancy, Sandy got to fulfill a want
she’d had locked since long ago in college: to get a toy dog! Her
sandy-colored little pup is named Doris. That has nothing to do
with Phantom of the Opera. I just felt like naming her Doris.

93. The boys do some male-bonding out in the driveway. Turns out
these two get along really well and they’re best friends before long.

94. Byron is a romance sim but he’s still excited and wants the arrival of his
baby. The outfit Sandy is in looks like it has a pregnancy mesh, but it’s
just the way she’s standing. It’s an H&M outfit that she grew up in and I
thought was cute enough to keep.

95. He must have patted a little hard, because right after Byron is done touching
Sandy’s belly, she gives birth. To twins. One of whom is a girl. Argh.
The twins are named Gilles and Giry. Gilles is the boy and Giry the girl. Gilles
is one of the new managers of the opera house. Giry is the last name of
Madame Giry, a suspicious caretaker, and her daughter Meg, a ballet dancer
and friend of Christine’s.

96. The twins grew up adorably. It’s funny that their parents’
skin and hair tones got swapped on the kids, especially since
you’d expect to see blonde on Giry more so than on
Gilles, but it’s actually from dark-skinned Byron.

97. Soon after the twins grew up, Viola finally came home
pregnant. She had a really rough pregnancy and spent a lot
of time relaxing. Gee, I wonder why she’s having so much
trouble?

98. While Byron and Sandy hang out in the bathroom (totally
normal, by the way), Viola runs in to announce her impending
labor.

99. After giving birth in the
bathroom (so sanitary!), Viola
rushes out to hand off their
baby to Charles. Uh oh. We all
know what that means.
Yep, Viola also had twins. These
two were boys named Andrew
and Lloyd.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the
composer of The Phantom of
the Opera. According to
Wikipedia, “It is considered by
many to be the most successful
musical of all time and is also
the longest running show in
Broadway history.” So good for
Mr. Webber.

100. Time passed and both sets of
twins grew up. Giry and Gilles
loved to play with each other and
also with Doris. Poor Doris
doesn’t get much time to actually
stand on the ground.
Andrew and Lloyd are
absolutely adorable with the
same haircuts as their father.
They’re actually my favorites
out of all the spares’ kids.

101. Finally Andrew and Lloyd grow up. That means . . .

102. Time to play! I love that both sets of twins are playing the
same game, and that the boys have the same speech
bubble. Yay for synchronicity.

103. And that concludes Viola and Sandy’s stories.
Both families are very happy, and their little
house is full to the brim of noise and love.

104. Meanwhile . . .
“I’m home!”
Thanks for reading and check back next time to see what happens
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