Bunny's childhood is so miserable - hiding from a murderous mother, everyone dying, not being able to ride horses which is the only thing she wants to do - that I aged her up a week early, and then added a week to the teenage life span in options. I think of it as her having a growth spurt and lying about her age so she can enter horse competitions.
When I say "everyone dying", Piper has also passed away. Her ghost sometimes appears, mostly to take naps on Bunny's old bed. She might as well, no one else is using it. Bunny is now sleeping in the guest room exclusively, with the door locked, sometimes watched over by ghosts.
This is Scarlett "Bunny" Ursine, and her horse, Spring, majestically riding along a cliffside to work out their feelings of grief, while Bunny realises that her lifetime's ambition is to be a Jockey. That involves earning $40,000 simoleons through horses, and reaching rider level 10.
Bunny missed the entire next day of school trying to befriend a wild horse, which tanked her grade. She followed that up with a few days of hard work and an opportunity to catch a fish to raise her grade, which got her up to an A. Now she's there, she'll stay there, as long as she doesn't miss another day, even if she has to do her homework at school. She's not allowed to go on field trips - or rather, she's not asking her mother to sign the permission slips - so that's not going to mess it up either.
Bunny and Spring have been winning competitions. So many that Bunny has been able to afford a second horse (she was going for less than $500 simoleons because she's untrained and ornery), a barn expansion to keep the second horse in, and a secret bunker, since the horse-riding competition rabbithole was right across town, and it was wearing them both out, competing on a school night, especially when they had to ride there and back.
Jenna's been ignoring Bunny because she heard through the grapevine that Robin Banks - the "party dancer" that Libby woohooed with at Haven's bachelorette party - is getting pretty old and single. I'm hoping if she marries him and he dies of natural causes, that will get her lifetime wish to tick off. If not, I can also go back to the save right before it happens and pop a ghost potion on him, see if that works. Bunny still has two from Great Uncle Jasper.
It amused me that Libby called right after Robin Banks married her niece-in-law. I also noticed that both Libby and Jenna are at the top of the journalist career right now - they're both Star News Anchors. I like to think they're at rival stations.
They had a secret marriage in the hallway, but I've decided that they got married on one of Jenna's "adults only" vacations that the game keeps offering to get Bunny to throw a teen party. She spends the time horse-riding and not worrying about being murdered in her bed.
This is Bunny's new horse, Autumn. I got her because she's pretty. And cheap, as mentioned above. Bunny's now mastered riding, and Autumn got her first two riding points just getting home. I've got Spring specialising in riding while Autumn specialises in jumping, though I'm hoping she'll eventually master both. Spring has 3 more days before he becomes an elder, so I don't think I'll get every achievement for the riding skill with him - there's not enough time to win 15 advanced or international competitions.
I feel like it's when she's riding down these long hard roads or through the town that Bunny starts to dream of moving out into the countryside. She's about 15-16 at the moment, so she still has a while to go before she can realise that dream. It was also around this time that I used a mod to stop the police coming after her everytime she was riding home after 11pm. Both of her paternal grandparents were in the police force - her grandfather Silas was the chief of police - and her father's cousin, Skye, is still a member. I like to think they know her and trust her, and don't like her mother, so they won't be carting Bunny back to Jenna any time soon.
The ghosts are still around - here is Haven's, gazing across at the barn, while Spring practices racing by himself. I cut down the tree between the lots - by going into the landscape editor on the world map - because it was massive and annoying me.
This is Bunny's secret bunker. It's on a teeny-tiny 10x10 lot right outside one of the massive mansions on the hill. I like to think that one of their ancestors build it, decades ago, and they sold it to Bunny for $200 (the price of the land) because the world is peaceful and safe now. She's fitted it out with her horse-earnings. I gave myself a bit of leeway there, because they are very rich, and I don't think Jenna's very good at maths, or very interested in budgeting. Bunny went to pick up the earnings from the properties they own in town and spent the money without it ever going through the family bank account. I got the bunker so she can head straight there after school, have a nap and a snack - as can one of the horses, because there's a feeding trough thing above this - and they can be properly refreshed when they go to the horse competitions. It's worked well, I feel like we're winning more. One night, I even had time to enter two competitions in a row. Spring has also more than paid for his keep by being put out to stud twice.
Robin Banks isn't a bad stepfather, for the few days or weeks that we've got him. He taught Bunny how to drive. She prefers to ride her horses, but she does have her grandfather's police car, just in case she's trapped without a horse.
Oh, in another news, Jenna's given up on her plan to annoy Tracy by seducing Wyatt when she learned that Tracy had left her husband for Bruce, another one of Avery's sons. That's him, on the left of the picture above. I actually took the picture to show that Avery now has a grandson! His name is Dedrick. I am unsure why.
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