Fun with genetics

And bring other characters to life.

I have to admit that it's taken a LONG time to get used to the way TS3 sims look. They still look weird sometimes, but I am greatly enjoying making sims now and playing around with genetics. For Ruin, TS3 fits it perfectly with the style and mood I'm generally trying to create.

So I spent some time this afternoon (wasted some I should probably say) making sims and having sims have babies just to see.

The very first was Henri Smith, aka The Original Experiment, the First Experiment. He's the one credited with starting the revolution. (I don't know how true that is yet because I've only heard it from the mouths of other characters I was writing about never his.)



Henri is meant to look his age. He's about in his 50's or so (haven't sat down with pen and paper but that's about right). That's much older than most, but he's always been rather clever, and he's revered by Experiments-- a reverence that's been passed down to their children. He's the one who holds the south together and keeps the really bad ones from the Lost Territory out.


Next up-- Vivian Bennet.

Ah Vivian... she's probably in her 30's-- almost 40's now, but this is meant to be an old picture of her. I don't think she was an experiment. Most likely, she was another Edy, living in the labs her parents worked in. After the revolution, a lot of those people had to scrabble to live, and Vivian was no exception.

Mostly, I needed her because she and Henri had a son.


Brandon Smith. This one was interesting. I just wanted to see what would happen when mixing two sims since I'm not playing the game really at all.

Brandon had to have a little work done to be presentable. When I made Henri, I made him to look his age. Brandon-- a teen-- looked a little rough. Looked like he had a 30 year old's head on a teen's body. I took out the crease around his mouth, and tada-- he looks his age. I also had to adjust his eyes. He got Vivian's eyes-- large and innocent. But they were a little too large. I also changed his eye color. Originally he had Vivian's.


Woman #2

Cheryl Roberts (that name may change). She's a Neutral Politician. Haven't done much writing about her yet, but the sense I get is a strong woman out to change things which makes a few people uneasy/unhappy.

She has one daughter.


Paula Roberts (who has yet to find out her last name is technically Smith) is also a teen-- somewhere around 16 I think. This sim had a crazy jaw. Like she'd been taking steroids in the womb or something. I definitely had to slim the jaws a little. I love that she has her father's eye color. That was definitely a small detail I remember about the character. She shares the same color with a brother of hers who obviously isn't Brandon. It's the only thing I think she shares with her father or that other brother.


All I can say is thank goodness for Awesome Mod and the "edit sim" cheat. Among others.

Oh and let me insert my frustration with the edit relations stuff in CAS. Ok, you know how complicated it can get when you're trying to link up different age groups? like in TS2, you can't make elders and adults be spouses even though they can get married in game?

Yeah, try linking up this family! I had three kids (one I didn't include here because he's not related to Henri), two mothers, one father, with multiple age groups. Because, for those that don't know, YA is now a standard category and different from plain ol' adult. I found that I could not link one child to two different parents unless those parents were spouses. And I couldn't make Brandon his brother's brother because his brother is YA and Brandon is teen.

So in the end, I just linked all the kids to Henri-- even the one who isn't technically his. Story-wise, when I get to it, it'll just be easier that way.


Afternoon well spent I think!