Back in the present, Richard and his perfect aptitude test go back to university.
He meets a fellow werewolf - who recognises that he's the dragon heir - so that's cool. He did dewolf, but the moons of the future, the present, and university are not synced up, so he immediately got hit with another full moon on arrival.
However Richard and Chelsea are getting letters to one another, it's working. So, he sits down to write her another one.
He also works on his bot building and builds a bot! Richard did not inherit his grandmother's evil trait, but considering he has a secret lair where he builds robots and will soon earn a doctorate, I can see how he might come across like a mad scientist. He is not though. At most, he is a mad engineer.
He gives his robot - RJ-73 - the Competent Cleaner and Afraid of Humans trait. The latter doesn't bother Richard - because werewolves are not considered humans - and it will keep the robot hidden. Unfortunately, since the secret underground lair has an outside entrance and no door, the paparazzi wander downstairs and upset the robot, so Richard chases them out. The paparazzi may be his lifelong enemy - having an enemy is a requirement of the Dragon heir - but hopefully something better will turn up. I'm still annoyed I'm missed my chance to have him rescue a descendant from non-existence. She could then be his enemy via never forgiving him for sentencing the rest of her family to never existing while she - and Richard - are the only ones who even remember them.
Richard has finished his degree, and, weirdly, RJ-73 opens a copy of the grades as well. RJ-73 doesn't even go here. I just realised, RJ-73 can stand for "Richard jr". The name was randomised, but that's a nice coincidence.
Richard hoverboards to his graduation, which is more than I got to do this year. It had me invite his family - Remy and Hialeah specifically - but neither turned up.
Richard gets an offer no other university graduate has had. Maybe it came with one of the packs I got at Christmas rather than the original university pack? I can't remember exactly when Hialeah, Remy, and Dan graduated. Anyway, Richard doesn't accept any of those and instead begins a career as an athlete. I am choosing to believe he is a lacrosse player and refusing all evidence to the contrary.
I left RJ-73 alone for a bit and he did this. I don't know what that is or how he got it, or how to get it back.
Now he has his first degree, Richard takes Remy and Hialeah to the future! Hialeah's descendants have disappeared. Remy and Richard don't tell her.
We arrange a wedding...
Remy now has a descendent, Tory Locklear, who we invite to the wedding. Tory seems starstruck by Hialeah. He almost seems more interested in her - and more knowledgeable about her - than he does Remy, his actual ancestor, despite Remy being the most famous sibling, having recently hit 5 stars. This is a future plot point.
I made a cute af park for Richard and Chelsea to wed in. I like to think that when Richard donated his lottery winnings to the future fund, he insisted that part of the fund be used to create Gateway Park. I didn't get a big overview picture, but there's a little wedding island where the stage and wedding arch are, and a bandstand with a dancefloor and a buffet.
Hialeah was wedding photographer, because that's a fun skill.
My game looks prettier because, when I first started playing and it kept crashing, I turned all the settings way down, which seemed to help. For this session, I turned them all way up, which seemed to make the game freeze a bit more and saving took ages. Next time, I'm going to turn down some stuff but not everything, and we'll see where we end up.
Remy is really, really happy to have a descendant. He was really shook to have no descendants and also to himself not exist in the future, and has been having an existential crisis over it (in my head, the game doesn't do that). I've been thinking about why Remy is so upset while Hialeah isn't bothered, and I've had a few ideas.
Firstly, Hialeah is just more self-assured than Remy. She's the eldest and she's always been very confident. She's an athletic genius, she has yet to find anything she can't do. If she's not in the future it's probably because her future self is travelling the world or has left the planet as an astronaut or something.
Secondly, Hialeah is a vampire while Remy is a ghost. Neither have yet seen a vampire die, but they both saw a ghost - their father - return to the netherworld. Plus, Hialeah can make anyone she likes immortal but Remy can't do that. He can just watch them die and hope they come back, but he knows most people don't.
Thirdly, Hialeah came to the city for her own ambition, because she wanted to live in a vibrant city, be a celebrity, and succeed in her career. Remy did come for those reasons, but he also came because he was running away from Dan. He loved his brother, and that's why he couldn't watch him grow old and die, like their father had done for their mother. As well as their emotional closeness, Remy and Dan are also close in age, so it would also remind him of how old he, Remy, was, and how close he would be to death if he hadn't been born dead.
Chelsea takes a moment to be happy at being married before sharing her first dance with her new husband. The game didn't add her to my family, despite acknowledging that she is now Richard's wife. I considered leaving her in the future and drawing out their long distance relationship a little longer, but that didn't make sense. Richard has seen his and Hialeah's descendants disappear, why would he take the risk that his wife would disappear as well?
Hialeah also takes some pictures here.
Before they leave, Remy vows to Tory that he won't let anything happy to him. He will protect him. He isn't clear on what from, because he doesn't want to alarm Tory (who look a bit like Robert Pattinson, am I right?). Tory is happy to have such a good friend and "uncle". Yes, for storyline purposes, while Remy knows that Tory is his descendant, Tory doesn't know that. Tory believes he's descended from Hialeah.
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