Sims 3: Zodiac Challenge - Chapter 4, The Rabbit

Following their engagement, Bunny and Sequoyah moved into a new house.  It's to make a new start, to have more room for horse training and because, tbh, I really prefer living in houses I built myself.  The pre-built houses always feel a bit like a rental - I never want to change too much.  I completely forgot to bring the graves, so I need to go grab them and move them to the Locklear family graveyard.  It's a good sign, for Bunny's mental health, that I forgot them.  She's moving forward with her life.

Also, we have cows now!  It was one of the store downloads, all of which are available here, since the store doesn't seem to be supported any more.  They work like the chickens - did I mention that we have chickens? - in that you just need to feed them and collect milk/eggs every day.

Sequoyah's lifetime wish is to adopt 6 stray pets.  This stray dog randomly showed up at our door, and Sequoyah was in the middle of making friends with it when it just disappeared into the ether.

Bunny threw a party to announce her pregnancy and her engagement to a ghost.

She's a little unsure of how her friends - Honey and Johnny Darnell, and Alice and Antoine Crews - will take it.

Alice is not a massive fan of ghosts - which is the case with most sims - but she eventually came round.

 

Bunny has also adopted a new horse and a new foal, so now we have three horses!  There's room for four in the barn.  Sequoyah is also planning to adopt two cats, and since they need to have five children for the legacy challenge, I might need to get a mod that allows for a larger household.

Bunny invited the same group - Alice, Antoine, Honey, and Johnny - for the wedding.  Here she is, telling Alice how happy she is that Alice can attend her wedding.  It's very casual, apart from the paparazzi.  I'm considering building a bigger wall with a gate to keep them out, but the gate is one square larger than the path I draw - amd the porch stairs - so that's putting me off.  It has just occurred to me that I could just make the stairs a little bigger, so that's an option. 

I suggest that you start playing this song for the next part.  I did.

The day after the wedding, Bunny gave birth!  This is Hialeah Locklear.  Since Sequoyah proposed, my family name is now Locklear, which Bunny likes because it's another barrier between her and her mother.

I randomised her traits, so she's an athletic genius.  My dream is still for her to become an architect - and to paint the legacy portraits of Bunny and the dragon heir - so she'll probably work on that in childhood, get into horse riding in her teen years, and then become an architect as a young adult.  Neither Bunny nor Sequoyah have had fertility treatment, so they're unlikely to have twins and will, instead, go through five pregnancies.  This will extend Bunny's life, and Sequoyah is already immortal, so I should be able to play with them for a good long time.

They're doing some pretty good co-parenting.  Bunny's had time to write a book!

Of course, she's Scarlett "Bunny" Locklear now, but Bunny Ursine is still the name she became famous with.   Hialeah didn't inherit the celebrity status of her parents, but I hope the heir will.

Sims 3: Zodiac Challenge - Chapter 4, The Rabbit

It's hard for Bunny, as a family-oriented sim, to deal with the fact that the only family she has with her are all dead.

She likes the fact that Sequoyah understands.  All his family are dead too.  She never has to pretend with him.  She doesn't have to be happier or friendlier than she really feels, she can just...be.

So what happens next is pretty inevitable.

Sequoyah becomes a ghost hunter because, tbh, I found it funny.  He's pretty good at it.  It helps that he can walk through walls, and, I like to think, he can empathise with the ghosts and help them understand that they need to move on.

Sequoyah doesn't have the family-oriented trait, but he likes the idea of having a baby.  Neither Bunny or Sequoyah believe that that's possible, which is one of the things that's causing Bunny to hold back on their relationship.

A few days after Bunny and Sequoyah have begun interacting romantically, Bunny has a riding accident.  Kismet stumble on the pyrotechnique jump, then throws her to the ground, which is lucky, because she's on fire. 

Bunny has no lasting injuries, but remember that Sequoyah burned to death.  Seeing Bunny run past him on fire makes him realise how strong his feelings for her are.

Later that day, Bunny realises that she's pregnant, so it's really lucky that this game doesn't allow for harm to come to foetuses.  Since she's a celebrity, she's constantly followed by paparazzi.  I'm pretty sure having a child with a ghost counts as a scandal, so we'll see how that works out.  Sequoyah is also a celebrity, due to his relationship with Bunny, but he's only had one photo taken of him so far.

At home, Bunny tells Sequoyah about the baby.   He's pretty happy about it.

Bunny said yes!  She's still not sure about being in love with a ghost - what happens when she grows old?  What will people say? - but one of her biggest fears was not being able to have children, so that's no longer an issue.

At some point in this session, I realised that Bunny only had four character traits, so I gave her 'loner' as well.  I think it suits her.  She's good and friendly, but still tends to keep people at arm's length.

Here's an update on the Legacy Challenge.  According to the two sources, I'm using, these are the Rabbit's goals;

Now, Bunny isn't particularly artistic.  She does like to be surrounded by family - hence the ghosts - and her new friends - hence the dinner parties.  This trait is holding her back - she can't move on with her life when she holds on to her family's past too tightly.  She's a good friend, kind, and amiable, but she's also reserved and cautious - she has lots of friends, but very few that she's really close to.  She has the good and family orientated traits, and Sequoyah is her first romantic relationship.  That only leaves the five kids to achieve.

The next generation will be the Dragon, my own sign.  These are the traits he will need to have.  (I never formally decided on alternating genders in each generation, but it does seem to be going that way).

I plan to (mostly) randomise the traits of Sequoyah and Bunny's children, so I don't know yet which one will be the dragon.  I really want to try out the architect career, and I need a portrait of Bunny, so their eldest child will be artistic.  Although, that said, she doesn't have to be - she can just like art and get good at through only working hard, and not having natural talent.  She will be the grandchild of two artists though.