Newbury Legacy: 6.3
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stillonmystringLast time: Miranda took for-freaking-ever to die which left the Grim Reaper very unhappy and the entire family wishing for her to just kick the bucket already so that the misery would end. Blake and Cara continued to suck hard at all things related to the work force. In an attempt on my part to get them a girl, Cara ended up giving birth one last time... which resulted in not a girl but a boy named Elijah. Meanwhile, their older boys, Jude and Simon, grew up into a junior lady's man and an annoying troublemaker, respectively. And, oh yes, Ella grew up as well, into a totally unrecognizable elder - seriously, she's got a completely new face, I swear!
Now I know at the end of the last update I promised that this one would be full of Jude's antics as a womanizing teen but as it turned out, I had taken far too many screen captures (unsurprisingly) and so decided that it would be better to place all of that into one update and everything not pertaining to it in a separate one. But the wait won't be too long; I've already got the pictures all ready, I just need to upload and post them. And it will be fun times, I promise. In the meantime, enjoy the most random update you'll ever witness!
Jude has clearly been taking lessons from his father in how to communicate with others. One tip, kid: you're never going to win over the girls with that kind of attitude! So unless you want to spend the rest of your life alone and unhappy, I think you'd better reconsider your ways.
Speaking of that father, Blake has finally figured out how to turn making friends for work into an enjoyable experience - by talking about how totally awesome he is! I always knew he loved himself more than anyone else in the world. (Because, the truth is, I didn't make a very good love match this time around; he and Cara only have one lightning bolt for each other. Oh well. They're getting along just fine anyway.)
Just a typical Sunday night with the headmaster. It's become a requirement now for me to get the headmaster drunk during his visit... and it's still hilarious every time.
Headmaster: "Maybe if I just ignore him, he won't notice I'm here..."
He is very afraid of Blake. And probably for a good reason. I'm afraid of him sometimes too.
The acting dream is still alive in the Newbury bloodline! One of them'll be the biggest celebrity in all of Simland yet! Cara clearly isn't a very big fan of the idea. Or just hates her own son and refuses to acknowledge his existence. Could be either, really.
Simon is a very big fan of the ladies, just like his older brother. Look how he struts his stuff just to go ask Amanda (the perennial child!) to play a game of catch with him.
Unfortunately, he lacks a decent set of social skills, also just like his brother. Throwing a ball at a lady is no way to win her love, young man! Anyway, if you're interested to know, Amanda has finally grown up so she will likely no longer be gracing us with her presence. I'm starting to think the town is absolutely extinct of townie children. What, is there some sort of impotence problem among the townie population or something? We must resolve this immediately!
He's at least mastered the art of the holding-on-for-slightly-too-long hug though. Okay, this is the last Amanda appearance, I swear.
Oh, hey! Elijah is suddenly an adorable tot! They grow up so fast.
The Newbury family clearly possess all sorts of MAGICKAL POWERZ!!11!!
...Or they're just all hopped up on Sasha's happy pills. That's a much more reasonable explanation for these impressive feats of flying.
Nico: "Are you my mother?"
Ella: "Sorry, kid, your mom is dead. But, hey, nice to see you and everything!"
So this random Nico appearance is due to someone calling up some random guy to make work friends and him asking if he could bring a friend. This friend was Nico even though I'm about 99.9% certain that the two of them have never actually met before in their entire lives.
Sasha: "So then I told this woman that I absolutely loved her shoes..."
Jude: "Yeah? Yeah? Describe them to me!"
Sigh. If he's not corrupting his impressionable young grandchildren by being extremely liberal with his secret drug stash, he's corrupting them by discussing totally unmanly topics that will leave them irreparably damaged. I give up. Do whatever you want. I don't even care anymore.
Sasha: "...Oh, and she had the most amazing color of lipstick on!"
Jude: "You don't say?"
Nico: "Please, someone just talk to me! My mother is dead. Who in the world will be my friend now?!?"
You know, I almost feel sorry for him. Almost. But the tiny fact that I have absolutely no emotional attachment to him whatsoever is keeping that from happening. So I'll just let him take a vacation in the college Sim bin for a little while longer.
Back to more pressing matters, it is finally time for Sasha to join his wife in the joys of elderhood! He doesn't look too excited about the transition himself. For once. I think this is the only time I haven't seen him look excited about something.
Sasha: "So... how do I look? How do I look?!?"
Ella: "Oh, stunning, darling! You look absolutely ravishing!"
"And don't you worry, being old doesn't change a thing! Look, I can still shake my ass like I did thirty years ago!"
"Hey, you're right... being old rules!"
I think Sasha might actually be even more adorable as an elder than he was as an adult, if that's even possible.
Over the next few days, he finds that the elderly life does in fact agree very well with him. In fact, it seems tailor-made for the theory he's developed that life is meant to be lived lounging in bed whenever possible.
He's also got a newfound fondness for the hot tub. He literally spent an entire day in this thing. I was afraid he would get overheated (and kinda wanted him to, just to see it) but alas, he did not.
I can't tell whether Blake is seriously stoked because Elijah just completed his potty train or whether he's seriously depressed because he just got demoted at work.
All I know is that Elijah is seriously stoned and couldn't care less about either matter. Sasha, I blame you, you lazy old drug addict!
Cara: "And then the pretty pretty princess lived happily ever after with her prince charming in their huge pink castle!"
I get the feeling this story is more for her benefit than her son's.
Simon: "Hey, dad, wanna be best friends?"
Blake: "HELL NO! HOW DARE YOU EVEN WASTE AIR SPEAKING TO ME, YOU LITTLE BRAT!"
Blake's mood swings are giving me whiplash. That phrase is from some TV show or movie or something. What is it? Damn it. Now I'm going to be thinking about this all night. Meanwhile, random townie dude is totally jealous of Blake and Cara's immense and very public love for each other. And needs to get off their lawn, like, right now.
*drumroll* I present to you... TEENAGE JUDE!
He decided to take a page from his father's book and go for the emo look. The ladies eat that kind of thing up. However, he's more of a cheerful emo whereas his father is more of a depressed emo with a black, black soul.
DAMN IT! The acting gene really does run in the Newbury blood! It's not that I'm opposed to it, it's just that I really wasn't planning on going through college this generation. But this career track requires it and I would feel too guilty cheating him into it. Damn the hack I have installed to make Uni careers available as lifetime wants! Damn!
Anyway, Jude really loves his baby brother. At least until he throws up all over him.
"Eww... you mean, this is what I'm going to have to put up with to be heir? Is there any way I can possibly get out of that?... No? Okay then."
Luckily, he doesn't have to put up with it any longer right now because Elijah is about to grow up!
And he is adorable. And also opposed to television. What is with these kids and their irrational hatred for TV?!?
Another night, another headmaster visit... This time, Avery thought he'd invite himself over for a dance party. How rude!
WHAT?!? Are you mocking my amazing skills as an interior decorator? You've never had a problem with the "environment" being "unsuitable" before!
He lets Eli in anyway. Maybe it has something to do with the heartwarming scene of mother tutoring son that I totally set up right at that moment before him? Or more likely, it has something to do with his terrible fear of Blake pounding his ass into tomorrow. Either way, yay, private school!
Aww, how are these two so unbearably adorable???
Speaking of adorable, so is this.
And this. And now we'll conclude this segment of "adorable but totally meaningless" pictures. Hope you enjoyed. (Also, if Eli's skintone is looking suddenly slightly lighter to you, it's because I deleted some skins I didn't like so much, including his old one, hence the defaulting to a lighter one.)
So to cultivate his asshole image, whenever a chance card pops up for Jude, I always pick the most douchebaggy option. Sometimes, the results are not so hot.
And sometimes they are totally awesome! Only pansies offer peace to their rival mimes! (I won't even get into how someone employed as a mime might not really have the right to call anyone else a pansy in the first place.)
Simon grew up. Unfortunately, his family doesn't really care much. And honestly, neither do I. He somehow manages to be both plain-looking and awkward-looking at the same time and I'm already totally in love with his older brother anyway. I care about him so little that I never even changed him out of the outfit he transitioned into, the poor kid.
Also, he's kind of an asshole. And not a lovable one like his older brother.
Jude: "WHAT THE FUCK, MAN?!? WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU???"
Sexy mime alert! (This uniform would be a million times more amazing if it actually included full face paint. That would be epic.)
Basically all you need to know about teenage Simon is that he doesn't get along with anyone and he's an underage alcoholic. And I'm thinking the two probably go hand in hand. He doesn't get along with anyone because he's an underage alcoholic or vice versa.
DAMN YOU, CARA! I don't even care about the money because God knows you guys have a shitload but do you know how frustrated I am with all of these demotions?!? How can you possibly suck so hard???
Blake: "Look, I don't care how long we've been married, damn it, never flush the toilet while I'm in the shower, woman!"
Cara: "Fuck you! I just got demoted for the twentieth time! I don't really want to hear your bitching and moaning right now, you bastard!"
Oooooh, marital dispute, the drama!
Blake just randomly walks around the house making this face all the time. I think it's his "I'm having a midlife crisis! Leave me the hell alone!" face.
Well, fucking finally. Someone in this family accomplishes something. This is actually the second LTW Blake's accomplished. The first was to make a hundred thousand simoleans which is actually very easy once you factor in all of the college grants and the painting/novel royalties.
Thank God he's finally reached the top of his career track because I don't think anyone else is ever going to. Jude got demoted, for crying out loud, and he's just got this easy-peasy three-hour after-school gig! How hard is to be a mime anyway? I guess it's pretty hard if you fucking fail at life. Jesus.
Now I know at the end of the last update I promised that this one would be full of Jude's antics as a womanizing teen but as it turned out, I had taken far too many screen captures (unsurprisingly) and so decided that it would be better to place all of that into one update and everything not pertaining to it in a separate one. But the wait won't be too long; I've already got the pictures all ready, I just need to upload and post them. And it will be fun times, I promise. In the meantime, enjoy the most random update you'll ever witness!
Jude has clearly been taking lessons from his father in how to communicate with others. One tip, kid: you're never going to win over the girls with that kind of attitude! So unless you want to spend the rest of your life alone and unhappy, I think you'd better reconsider your ways.
Speaking of that father, Blake has finally figured out how to turn making friends for work into an enjoyable experience - by talking about how totally awesome he is! I always knew he loved himself more than anyone else in the world. (Because, the truth is, I didn't make a very good love match this time around; he and Cara only have one lightning bolt for each other. Oh well. They're getting along just fine anyway.)
Just a typical Sunday night with the headmaster. It's become a requirement now for me to get the headmaster drunk during his visit... and it's still hilarious every time.
Headmaster: "Maybe if I just ignore him, he won't notice I'm here..."
He is very afraid of Blake. And probably for a good reason. I'm afraid of him sometimes too.
The acting dream is still alive in the Newbury bloodline! One of them'll be the biggest celebrity in all of Simland yet! Cara clearly isn't a very big fan of the idea. Or just hates her own son and refuses to acknowledge his existence. Could be either, really.
Simon is a very big fan of the ladies, just like his older brother. Look how he struts his stuff just to go ask Amanda (the perennial child!) to play a game of catch with him.
Unfortunately, he lacks a decent set of social skills, also just like his brother. Throwing a ball at a lady is no way to win her love, young man! Anyway, if you're interested to know, Amanda has finally grown up so she will likely no longer be gracing us with her presence. I'm starting to think the town is absolutely extinct of townie children. What, is there some sort of impotence problem among the townie population or something? We must resolve this immediately!
He's at least mastered the art of the holding-on-for-slightly-too-long hug though. Okay, this is the last Amanda appearance, I swear.
Oh, hey! Elijah is suddenly an adorable tot! They grow up so fast.
The Newbury family clearly possess all sorts of MAGICKAL POWERZ!!11!!
...Or they're just all hopped up on Sasha's happy pills. That's a much more reasonable explanation for these impressive feats of flying.
Nico: "Are you my mother?"
Ella: "Sorry, kid, your mom is dead. But, hey, nice to see you and everything!"
So this random Nico appearance is due to someone calling up some random guy to make work friends and him asking if he could bring a friend. This friend was Nico even though I'm about 99.9% certain that the two of them have never actually met before in their entire lives.
Sasha: "So then I told this woman that I absolutely loved her shoes..."
Jude: "Yeah? Yeah? Describe them to me!"
Sigh. If he's not corrupting his impressionable young grandchildren by being extremely liberal with his secret drug stash, he's corrupting them by discussing totally unmanly topics that will leave them irreparably damaged. I give up. Do whatever you want. I don't even care anymore.
Sasha: "...Oh, and she had the most amazing color of lipstick on!"
Jude: "You don't say?"
Nico: "Please, someone just talk to me! My mother is dead. Who in the world will be my friend now?!?"
You know, I almost feel sorry for him. Almost. But the tiny fact that I have absolutely no emotional attachment to him whatsoever is keeping that from happening. So I'll just let him take a vacation in the college Sim bin for a little while longer.
Back to more pressing matters, it is finally time for Sasha to join his wife in the joys of elderhood! He doesn't look too excited about the transition himself. For once. I think this is the only time I haven't seen him look excited about something.
Sasha: "So... how do I look? How do I look?!?"
Ella: "Oh, stunning, darling! You look absolutely ravishing!"
"And don't you worry, being old doesn't change a thing! Look, I can still shake my ass like I did thirty years ago!"
"Hey, you're right... being old rules!"
I think Sasha might actually be even more adorable as an elder than he was as an adult, if that's even possible.
Over the next few days, he finds that the elderly life does in fact agree very well with him. In fact, it seems tailor-made for the theory he's developed that life is meant to be lived lounging in bed whenever possible.
He's also got a newfound fondness for the hot tub. He literally spent an entire day in this thing. I was afraid he would get overheated (and kinda wanted him to, just to see it) but alas, he did not.
I can't tell whether Blake is seriously stoked because Elijah just completed his potty train or whether he's seriously depressed because he just got demoted at work.
All I know is that Elijah is seriously stoned and couldn't care less about either matter. Sasha, I blame you, you lazy old drug addict!
Cara: "And then the pretty pretty princess lived happily ever after with her prince charming in their huge pink castle!"
I get the feeling this story is more for her benefit than her son's.
Simon: "Hey, dad, wanna be best friends?"
Blake: "HELL NO! HOW DARE YOU EVEN WASTE AIR SPEAKING TO ME, YOU LITTLE BRAT!"
Blake's mood swings are giving me whiplash. That phrase is from some TV show or movie or something. What is it? Damn it. Now I'm going to be thinking about this all night. Meanwhile, random townie dude is totally jealous of Blake and Cara's immense and very public love for each other. And needs to get off their lawn, like, right now.
*drumroll* I present to you... TEENAGE JUDE!
He decided to take a page from his father's book and go for the emo look. The ladies eat that kind of thing up. However, he's more of a cheerful emo whereas his father is more of a depressed emo with a black, black soul.
DAMN IT! The acting gene really does run in the Newbury blood! It's not that I'm opposed to it, it's just that I really wasn't planning on going through college this generation. But this career track requires it and I would feel too guilty cheating him into it. Damn the hack I have installed to make Uni careers available as lifetime wants! Damn!
Anyway, Jude really loves his baby brother. At least until he throws up all over him.
"Eww... you mean, this is what I'm going to have to put up with to be heir? Is there any way I can possibly get out of that?... No? Okay then."
Luckily, he doesn't have to put up with it any longer right now because Elijah is about to grow up!
And he is adorable. And also opposed to television. What is with these kids and their irrational hatred for TV?!?
Another night, another headmaster visit... This time, Avery thought he'd invite himself over for a dance party. How rude!
WHAT?!? Are you mocking my amazing skills as an interior decorator? You've never had a problem with the "environment" being "unsuitable" before!
He lets Eli in anyway. Maybe it has something to do with the heartwarming scene of mother tutoring son that I totally set up right at that moment before him? Or more likely, it has something to do with his terrible fear of Blake pounding his ass into tomorrow. Either way, yay, private school!
Aww, how are these two so unbearably adorable???
Speaking of adorable, so is this.
And this. And now we'll conclude this segment of "adorable but totally meaningless" pictures. Hope you enjoyed. (Also, if Eli's skintone is looking suddenly slightly lighter to you, it's because I deleted some skins I didn't like so much, including his old one, hence the defaulting to a lighter one.)
So to cultivate his asshole image, whenever a chance card pops up for Jude, I always pick the most douchebaggy option. Sometimes, the results are not so hot.
And sometimes they are totally awesome! Only pansies offer peace to their rival mimes! (I won't even get into how someone employed as a mime might not really have the right to call anyone else a pansy in the first place.)
Simon grew up. Unfortunately, his family doesn't really care much. And honestly, neither do I. He somehow manages to be both plain-looking and awkward-looking at the same time and I'm already totally in love with his older brother anyway. I care about him so little that I never even changed him out of the outfit he transitioned into, the poor kid.
Also, he's kind of an asshole. And not a lovable one like his older brother.
Jude: "WHAT THE FUCK, MAN?!? WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU???"
Sexy mime alert! (This uniform would be a million times more amazing if it actually included full face paint. That would be epic.)
Basically all you need to know about teenage Simon is that he doesn't get along with anyone and he's an underage alcoholic. And I'm thinking the two probably go hand in hand. He doesn't get along with anyone because he's an underage alcoholic or vice versa.
DAMN YOU, CARA! I don't even care about the money because God knows you guys have a shitload but do you know how frustrated I am with all of these demotions?!? How can you possibly suck so hard???
Blake: "Look, I don't care how long we've been married, damn it, never flush the toilet while I'm in the shower, woman!"
Cara: "Fuck you! I just got demoted for the twentieth time! I don't really want to hear your bitching and moaning right now, you bastard!"
Oooooh, marital dispute, the drama!
Blake just randomly walks around the house making this face all the time. I think it's his "I'm having a midlife crisis! Leave me the hell alone!" face.
Well, fucking finally. Someone in this family accomplishes something. This is actually the second LTW Blake's accomplished. The first was to make a hundred thousand simoleans which is actually very easy once you factor in all of the college grants and the painting/novel royalties.
Thank God he's finally reached the top of his career track because I don't think anyone else is ever going to. Jude got demoted, for crying out loud, and he's just got this easy-peasy three-hour after-school gig! How hard is to be a mime anyway? I guess it's pretty hard if you fucking fail at life. Jesus.
