Since my last update, I finished teaching Rosemary and Jasper to drive. Then, Rosemary decided to prank the school by releasing all the frogs from the science lab, and Jasper decided to make out with his cousin's girlfriend in front of his mother and aunt, so I decided it made sense to send them both to boarding school. Plus, I felt like sending his kids to boarding school made sense for the Rat, which Jake is embodying. That seems like something someone who cares about status would do. All of that happened shortly after Haven and Libby aged up into teenagers. So, after some hair and make-up editing, here is Haven! She's still ambitious, clumsy, and artistic, but now she's also charismatic, since I figured that would be helpful for her character arc. As the Ox, her life goals are to not get along with her siblings, marry her high school sweetheart, and go into politics. Because both she and I are ambitious, she will become Leader of the Free World. Anyway, with all of that in mind, Haven's first goal is to find a high school sweetheart...and, done!
This is Silas, a sim who I did make intending him to be Haven's soul mate. She's on a strict timescale for meeting a partner, so I felt justified in creating him, but it did take some of the fun out of it so I won't do that again. I did create another teenager in the household that I thought Rosie might like, but she did not. However, the adult I had to put in the household did cause some drama. She broke up Squall and Selphie, who have had three kids together, somewhere in the background of my legacy family town. However, Squall and Selphie's daughter is dating one of Rinoa and Zell's sons. It's almost like the sims are mirroring the themes of Final Fantasy 8, so that's nice.
A little after Jasper and Rosie left, Serena and Jake won another surprise holiday, so they went away for two days, leaving Liberty and Haven unsupervised. So, Haven and Libby through a teen party, with only a couple of guests, and their two love interests ending up staying the night (in Rosie and Jasper's abandoned beds). Haven asked Silas to prom, which was the next night. Libby tried to ask her crush, but she got rejected. Later, that guy would grow up to date their cousin, Leo's daughter Barbara. The family's grown a lot - here are a few family trees.
During prom, Haven and Silas had their first kiss and started going steady. Haven was also crowned prom queen! This doesn't quite fit with the idea I had of her as the underdog, but then, she's only actually supposed to feel left out in her own family, therefore seeking approval elsewhere. So it kind of works. Libby got rejected by her crush and didn't win anything. :( She started snubbing Haven after that. After the prom, Haven ran outside to investigate a strange light and got abducted by aliens. Luckily, the police showed up because it's illegal for teenagers to be abducted after curfew, and she was returned. She didn't even get into trouble because Jake and Serena were still away.
Shortly after this, Jake and Serena got back from their holiday and Rosie and Jasper aged up into young adults and came home from boarding school! I played around a bit with Rosie's hair, but went back to her ponytail shortly after this. Jasper had had long hair when he aged up into a child, but I cut it for him. He'd grown it back while at boarding school, apparently, so I left it.
Rosie and Jasper had some business to take care of before moving out. Firstly, they registered for the musician and science careers respectively and Rosie changed her last name to Masemame, so no one would attribute her success as a musician to her mother. Speaking of Serena, she's not quite top of the Rock career yet. She's on level 9 and I think I can make it in one more shift, which is lucky because she's four days away from ageing up and the life fruits aren't growing because it's winter. Jasper's last bit of business was to check in on online dating (and going on a couple of dates when he ran into those women around town) and then calling his high school girlfriend (who is now also a young adult) to woohoo with her before dumping her. Jasper is a clumsy, flirtatious, commitment-phobic, loner - he's kind of a dick.
Rosie and Jasper moved out together, and I followed the car to their new house (mostly because I wasn't sure how the 'kick out' option worked, and I wasn't sure if they actually got a home or disappeared into the ether). They ended up in a house nicer than ours, and I sent Jake over to visit. Also, Jasper has been wearing his graduation robes for about a week now - he really likes them.
Haven has about a week before aging up, and I had a few goals. Firstly, to learn to drive. Serena finished teaching Libby while Jake taught Haven, and then they all went over to Jasper and Rosie's new place to visit, along with Leo and Marie (you remember, Jake's younger siblings), who happened to be nearby.
I'd had a pop-up that both Jasper and Rosie had girlfriends. Jasper was making out with his outside the house when we showed up, so his two younger sisters decided to introduce themselves.
Another of Haven's goals was to make 20 friends, since this is a challenge for the charisma skill and will stop her friendships decaying (I get bored of maintaining them). However, in the process, she learned that Jasper's girlfriend was a mooch. She became best friends with her, took her out for lunch, and gently suggested that she (the girlfriend, who's name I've forgotten) and Jasper were better off apart, and the girlfriend agreed. This made Jasper Haven's enemy. I knew that would happen, because that's how Rosie and Bianca became enemies, when Rosie persuaded Daryl to break up with her. It worked though, because Haven's not supposed to get on with her siblings. Plus, check out the description below (from here).
Haven is hard-working, honest, and prejudiced - she wouldn't approve of a mooch. She's also bad at communication and stubborn. In short, exactly the sort of person to make an enemy of her big brother while trying to protect him and the family name. Sadly, just before I finished playing yesterday a notification popped up that they'd gotten back together. I might have Jake ask Jasper to break up with her this time, and the same for Rosie's girlfriend, since I've not had the chance to vet her properly. They've just gotten engaged, and I'm not sure she can live up to the family name either.After achieving her charisma goal, Haven started physical training because, tbh, I wanted to see if I could actually change a sim's weight. Jake trained her following his own 6am workout - having mastered the athletic skill a while ago - and she got 5 skill points in one go.
Speaking of Jake, I'm quite pleased with how well his story fits with this description. He's a genius, he's mastered charisma, he's ambitious, and he used all of that to become a successful businessman. He's definitely wordy - he's a successful author. He's also pretty stubborn - he followed his heart and not the story-arc I originally decided for him.
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