Today we'll meet Kirby Bruty, whose family is a little complicated, but so very interesting. Kirby is the plant sim son of Charles Bruty (grandson of Sandy Bruty). He has two plant brothers and five children (3 plant, 2 not). All his plant sim children are grown, but the youngest still lives with him in addition to his other two children, his long-term girlfriend Gladys, and his cousin Joshua. His oldest non-plant sim son, Ray, is from a prior relationship with Polly Picaso (also a plant sim). I really like Ray because even though he's not a plant sim, he still has some of the features, like angled brows and pointy ears. He kind of looks like Mr. Spock. Kirby has raised Ray on his own because Polly joined the commune not long after he was born. Kirby's youngest son, Kieran, is with Gladys. I should mention that Gladys has no family because she was made in CAS to run one of the "colleges" that I used before I had the Uni EP. Though they've been together a long time, they've never married, which Gladys is definitely not happy about, especially since she became an elder this round. Not to mention, she's the family's primary source of income (she's in Law Enforcement), though Dale (Kirby's plant son) also has a job as a Slacker. She's probably also not that thrilled about having to help raise Kirby's cousin, who is the son of Rosemary Bruty (Kirby's aunt), who is currently incarcerated. Joshua was the product of an affair Rosemary had with Landon Ottomas (son of Sharla). Landon is in a long-term committed relationship and was not keen on taking in his illegitimate son when Rosemary was sent to prison. Since she's not close with any of her siblings, she asked her nephew to take care of her son until she got out. She did get out briefly, during which time she lived with Kirby as well, but was sent back in for a second term after only a few days. Wow, that's a lot of backstory, lol. This round, in addition to Gladys aging up, Ray left for college (he'll be attending LFT), Joshua aged up to teen, and Kieran aged up to child.
Next up we have Erik and Tina Swain. Erik is a premade Uni sim and Tina is the daughter of Lacey Burb (daughter of Jennifer and John Burb) and Sayid Ramaswami (son of Priya and Sanjay Ramaswami). Since Tina was the result of a short-lived fling, she was raised by her mother alone and has never met her two half-brothers on her father's side. She met Erik at college and they moved back in with her mother just before she passed away. Erik is an Athlete and Tina works in Medicine. They have a toddler daughter, Katrina, and are planning to expand their family soon. They'll need to expand their house as well, since it's only a two bedroom and there's just no room for another child. Most of the yard is taken up with animal pens, because Tina's mother ran an animal shelter of sorts, in which she would adopt strays and then try to find homes for them. Tina has been too busy with her job and family to keep up with the shelter project, but maybe when she retires she'll want to pick it up again. Luckily Lacey left Tina enough money to build a nice second floor onto the house, so I'll probably work on that next round.
Finally, we have Amar and Melanie Kim. Amar is the son of Robert and Jan Kim (Jan was Robert's second wife). His brother is Justin Kim. Melanie is the daughter of Bethany Alpha (second gen spare from the Alpha Legacy) and Drake Dreamer (son of Darren and Brandi Dreamer). She has a twin sister, plus four other siblings. We met her youngest brother Jake at Briarwood Prep. Amar works in Culinary and Melanie aspires to be a Game Designer. They don't plan on having any children (they're happy being pet parents to their two cats), but that doesn't mean they won't have some at some point. There's always the possibility of abduction for Amar and Melanie might accidentally get pregnant while entertaining one of her many extramarital paramours. To be fair, Melanie didn't exactly have the best role models for fidelity growing up. Her parents were on again/off again throughout her childhood, and both continued to have multiple partners even when they were together. She probably thinks that's just how relationships work. Melanie had the day off this round, but spent most of it dealing with faulty robots (left over from when Robert was alive) that kept breaking and spewing filth or water everywhere.
That's it for now. Happy Simming!
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