Newbury Legacy: 6.4

Last time: Sasha joined his wife in elderhood, unenthusiastically at first, while also being the most inappropriate grandfather in the world. Jude and Simon became teens. Everyone failed at work. And some other random happenings occured. Yeah.

( 6.4: Boy, don't try to front, I-I know just-just what you a-a-are... )

So I finally gathered the patience last night to export the entire Newbury clan thus far in SimPE (that program runs hella slow on my computer); it's something I've been wanting to do for awhile since I've become so attached to most of them that I want the ability to keep them around forever and ever in new reincarnations if I so choose to. As I was in Body Shop, aging them all up or down to adult and getting their appearance just right and all, aside from making me terribly nostalgic for past generations, I also got the opportunity to see a few Sims as adults that I haven't been able to see in game as of this moment.

Xander, the only Newbury I've ever purposely killed prematurely (and I kind of regret it now; I could've just shipped him off to the college bin but I didn't think of that at the time), unfortunately retains his awkward looks into adulthood - and you don't even want to see how he looks as an elder, it's not pretty.



I guess he's not too bad (though the elder stage is, I swear!) but he's by far the most awkward-looking member of the family so far. Nico comes in second place; he's not exactly ugly, he's just... there's nothing interesting about him. And his face is kind of fat. He and Ophelia didn't look all that different as adults than they do as teens so I don't need to post them.

Then there's the two youngest of the most recent generation, Simon and Elijah, who were greatly overshadowed by their older (and blonder) brother. Since I don't really feel like playing them through college at the moment, I decided to take a sneak peak at what they look like all grown up. They are both actually a lot better-looking than I thought they would be.



Simon is kinda hot, shockingly; he wasn't really weird-looking as a teen but he still creeped me out for some reason. But I'm still sticking with Jude. Because blond, hello! I am blinded by the rays of sunlight surrounding his beautiful head of hair like a halo. Can you tell I really want some light-haired children to take over the bloodline?

When I'm feeling ambitious and patient again, and after I've sorted through all of my clothing downloads to decide what I want to delete (I always download clothes I think I want but then never end up using because I change my mind or they look different in-game or whatever), my next SimPE project is to remove inappropriate clothing from each category. Because outerwear does not belong in my everyday wear bin, okay? And it doesn't belong in the athletic bin either! And little girls' clothes don't belong in the little boys' wardrobes! (I don't know if I can actually fix this one as easily but it's also uber-annoying. I have all these girly raincoats in my toddler boys' section because people are idiots like that. And a dress in my child boys' section... which is even more freaky.)

Helloooooo, gorgeous.

So I was messing around in Create-a-Sim earlier just to experiment with some new custom content I had procured (sometimes I think I spend more time looking for new stuff for the game than actually playing it). I downloaded some new default face templates that I hadn't really seen in action yet and while generating random Sims, this beaut popped up (can you tell I have a thing for pale, freckly redheads?).



All I did was change her hair, eyebrows and clothes and give her some very subtle make-up (mostly lips since I have so much variety in that category that I feel like I must put it to use) because she already looked almost perfect without any of that which was pretty amazing. So, yes, these, they are brilliant. I think her awesomeness might also have to do with these freckle-covered skintones (which are even more awesome because they are named after a Los Campesinos! song). You'll notice they're both made by the same person. I have nearly every piece of custom content she has created and shared. Because it is amazing. All of my skintones and eyes are hers along with a bunch of other stuff. It is glorious.

So anyway, this Sim was so amazing that I had to save her. I named her Elise and ended up turning her into a townie. Now I feel I must get her breeding with a Newbury right away because, gah, the beauty, it is too much. I hope Jude happens across her randomly and decides she's totally hot. I might've sorta tried to match her as closely as possible to his turn-ons and offs to make this happen. *fingers crossed*

Now I have to go and get that boy through college before any breeding can happen. Ugh.