Em's Offspring

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They are so beautiful and distinctive in their own way.

They really are, and yet you can see some family resemblance as well.

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! Wow and love love love Alice's hair!

Thanks, everyone. I've really been enjoying the sims in this project. I really like Alice's hair too. She grew into it herself and it's nice to have a little variety in the sea of black-haired sims.

Next is Francesca (daughter of Toni's Franco and my Raymie) and Gabriel's (son of Toni's Enrique and Angelica) family. They have two children (so far. I don't expect them to have any more children at this point, but you never know.) Maximilian and Gabriella.



I think Max is the first to inherit Franco's eyes. Raymie's dominated with their children.

Yes, I think they did get Franco's eyes-so dreamy! They are stunning now-will look forward to seeing how they look as YA's/and or adults!

Yea for someone finally getting Franco's eyes! I think both Max and Gabriella will be attractive and distinctive looking adults; I look forward to seeing them.

Dante (son of Toni's Angelica and Enrique) started working in his father's music store when he was at University and continued working for his dad after graduation.  He's a knowledge sim who wants to max all the skills, so taking a easy 9-5 job makes it easy for him to focus his time and brainpower on studying whatever interests him.  His partner, Frances (daughter of Toni's Ming and Ari's Drake) is a dancer, likes to nurture her creative talents, and wants a large family like her parents have, despite the fact that her aspiration is wealth.  They have very busy lives, so I had trouble taking a picture of them together.  I caught them in their pajamas.  



They have five children so far.  Most of them inherited a really light skintone.  It's difficult to make that skintone look good in my game on most sims.  I may end up tweaking the girls' makeup more as they get older and see how I can work with it.

The oldest is Beatrice.



Their second daughter is Andi.



Then twins, Noah and Mina.



Then the baby (who I had to look up in SimPE to be sure he existed.  I thought they had another kid) is Damion.  (It took me awhile to find his picture as well.  I thought for a minute I didn't have one of him.)

Frances is certainly wasting no time in working on the large family she wants!

Dante's skintone doesn't look as light as the kids'. Did they get a recessive gene or is it just the way the pictures look to me?

Cute parents and adorable kids! Love your pictures!

I agree that the girls' skintone doesn't look quite like Dante's. I'm not sure if it's Angelica's skintone that they inherited, but just looks different on different ages or genders or if it's Ming or if it's just a random skintone that the game picked out. I know it's geneticized because I've had some sims in one of my other families get it, even though neither of their parents have it. It could be the lighting too . . . I'm going to try to figure it out though, because now I'm really curious. It's not an easy skintone to work with.

I was surprised by their family size. They just kept on having kids. Of course with the set of twins it's not as many pregnancies as it seems.



I think I want to do Alice's family (Frances' sister) next. I've got to sort through the pictures though and probably look up their names again.

As promised, here are Alice's daughters.  Alice is the middle daughter of Toni's Ming and Ari's Drake.  Her partner (and the girls' father) is my Sabien.


Alyssa is their first born daughter.


Abbie is the middle daughter.


And Annika is the baby of the family.

I really like your picture collages of your sims' offspring. Maybe I'm wrong, though, but it seems to me that, apart from skin color, the babies are more or less generic. The sims kids really start to look like themselves when they become children. In my 'hood, the kids don't stay teens long at all, just enough to get their grades up to A+, then I bundle 'em off to univ. (Probably a personal bias, my own teens are best forgotten, I was a swot, regarded as such, and was happy to get those years behind me. The pirate came much later!   )

I love the color of Ming's hair. In RL, I've noticed that the subtle colorings, rather than the bright greens, bright blues, and bright purples, are the most attractive.

And I made Toni's Ming, Ming Wuqing (Wuqing is Chinese for "Merciless" - "Ming the Merciless" is the villain from the old Flash Gordon serials ) I put her in the dentist career!  

Beautiful kids! When our Sim families have a lot of babies keeping them all straight can certainly be a daunting task!
Plus if you have been playing a hood for a while and all of the sisters and brothers have kids-oy vey!! I love your collages also!

I love Alice's hair. Is it just my monitor, or does Alyssa have freckles? The kids all look great, and they also all have a somewhat serious or studious look to them. I like it!

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I really like your picture collages of your sims' offspring.

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I love your collages also!

Thanks! I really like doing it that way since it saves me from having to post a dozen separate pictures and it's nice to see all of the ages at once.

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Maybe I'm wrong, though, but it seems to me that, apart from skin color, the babies are more or less generic.

I think babies all have the same face shape or mesh. Just their eye color, hair color (via eyebrows), and skin color are different.

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In my 'hood, the kids don't stay teens long at all, just enough to get their grades up to A+, then I bundle 'em off to univ.

I used to play teens for about 8 days (or maybe it was until they had 8 days left until adulthood) and then send them to uni when I was playing all households in an even rotation. This time I've been playing them longer though. I haven't wanted to rush them through too fast.

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I love the color of Ming's hair. In RL, I've noticed that the subtle colorings, rather than the bright greens, bright blues, and bright purples, are the most attractive.
And I made Toni's Ming, Ming Wuqing (Wuqing is Chinese for "Merciless" - "Ming the Merciless" is the villain from the old Flash Gordon serials Muahaha ) I put her in the dentist career!

The one with the purple hair is Ming's daughter Alice. She grew into the purple hair all on her own. It's not a color I would have thought to choose myself, but I do love it on her too. My Ming just has black hair. I wasn't able to download the hair she was packaged with, but I had something very similar in my game already that I used on her.

Ming in my game ended up being Ming King after she married Drake King. And she's a doctor, Chief of Staff, next closest thing to a dental career, I guess. So our Mings sound like they aren't too afar apart from each other. I haven't really mentioned last names much because I tend to use some really lame ones. Ming's last name before she was married was Besties, because I made her in the same family as her best friends, Tempest and Ciara. I've been borrowing a page from your book in this challenge and basing some of their last names on their creators, so that's helped with my lack of creativity in the last name department.

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Plus if you have been playing a hood for a while and all of the sisters and brothers have kids-oy vey!!

True! I often have to go back in the game or Simpe to check on names. I made an online family tree for this group of sims and I thought I'd left someone off, but I'd forgotten that someone's biological father wasn't who I thought it was and I'd completely forgotten about it. I only realized it when I saw that sim was already on the tree somewhere else.

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Is it just my monitor, or does Alyssa have freckles?

Yes! I was pretty stunned by that as well (pleasantly though). It's the main reason I bothered to include her baby picture. No one else in the family has that skin tone. I think the freckled skin tone came with Tempest, but she is unrelated (aside from being Alyssa's grandmother's long time friend.)

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This time I've been playing them longer though. I haven't wanted to rush them through too fast.

I'm trying to slow down, too, and enjoy the various stages of their lives. I still have to remind myself regularly not to rush.