Hello everyone! Reading everyone's stories has inspired me to work on a project of my own while I wait for the Sims 4 to be released. This is not following any official rules, it's just a "for fun" project for me so I'm putting it here in the projects forum. I'm not so much going to post it in the form of a story, as I don't like taking loads of screenshots, but instead will create a biography for each character once their lifetime wish has been fulfilled so you can learn their life story and follow the lives of the family through the generations as they attempt to follow their dreams. I will try to include more pictures in future bios ... when I started I was only taking pictures of things I thought were funny and most of them weren't relevant to Violet's story.
I am attempting to fulfill as many lifetime wishes as I can, starting with the base game and then moving on through the expansions for as many as I have time to do. If there is a lifetime wish I really don't think will be fun, I will skip it, since this is for fun and not for a challenge. Some of the lifetime wish fulfillments will only be discussed as a side note, if they are spouses of the main family and not direct heirs.
My first sims had three children and I'd like for there to be three children in each generation that carry on the story, at least for the vanilla game, since there are so many LTWs, so from now on, each will have one child. The children will move into a separate house together once they reach young adulthood and their parents' wishes have been fulfilled.
Since I've now made it to the third generation, I can go ahead and start with my first Sim's story. The first two sims are based on myself and my husband, since that's how I traditionally start any Sims game:
Chapter 1: Violet Greythorn - Master Gardener
Lifetime Wish: Perfect Garden
Traits: Bookworm, Green Thumb, Good, Good Sense of Humor, Light Sleeper
Partner: Jason Greythorn
Children: Max Greythorn, Ruby Greythorn
Sign: Cancer
Career: Backyard Farmer
Favorite Music: Indie
Favorite Food: Grilled Cheese
Favorite Color: Blue
Best Friends: Boyd & Susan Wainwright, Molly French, Iqbal Alvi
BioViolet Greythorn grew up in a small seashore town, and as a teen she could not wait to get out of there. Although it was beautiful, she felt stifled and bored and longed to head off to the big city for fun and excitement. Her only joy in small town life was the little garden she kept in the backyard with her mom, who taught her how to grow a variety of fruits and vegetables. Still, the happiest day of her young life came when she got her acceptance letter to university in the big city. She headed off with barely a look back, ready for big adventures.
Shortly after school, she got a boring desk job and met her future husband when she was visiting a friend's apartment. She and her love, Jason, got married and enjoyed the beginning of their young adult years having fun and exploring the opportunities of the city. But as they began to think about having children, Violet suddenly started to remember the days of her childhood in a small town with fondness instead of disgust and she and Jason decided that it would be best for their children if they grew up in that small town environment. It wasn't long before they were settled in their small town environment and ready to decide their futures.
Violet quickly rediscovered her love of gardening and found that Sunset Valley restaurants were willing to buy produce from home gardeners. She started small with some tomato plants, a few grape vines and a little apple orchard. It wasn't much, but her garden was able to feed them and provide a tiny amount of spending money.
It wasn't long before their first child, Max, came along. Violet fell in love instantly. He was strong and handsome and full of life and energy. Though they had no room for a separate nursery, and so were constantly awakened in the night by their little nooboo's cries, Violet and Jason loved him with all of their hearts. It was easy to tell from the beginning that he was brave, as he climbed all over any furniture that he could find. And he laughed and shouted with joy whenever Violet took him outside to enjoy her garden. The next child was a bit of a surprise, but that's Jason's story to tell.
And finally there was little Ruby, their beautiful girl. From the start she was into music, pounding out rhythms on whatever she could find in the house, and hushing her cries when Violet would gently rock her to the soothing sounds of classical music on the radio. Maybe it was the time her neighbor, Jamie, came over and played guitar for the family all night, but something in her infancy ensured that Ruby would be a lifelong music lover.
It wasn't long before Violet was growing perfect produce and bringing in a tidy sum for the household. She joined the local gardening club and learned that one could find special seeds that grew unconventional fruits by going hunting around the outskirts of town. Spooky Cornelia Goth hinted that the graveyard was a choice location for finding special seeds, so one day Violet steeled herself and went on a terrifying expedition into the mausoleum. Alas, the only seed she found was a bell pepper, which, though rare, was not exactly special. She did come home with a mysterious garden gnome, which she set to watch over her garden. He seemed to think his duties were watching over the entire home, however, as he would appear anywhere on their lot. He seemed especially fond of Ruby, sometimes turning on the kids' station on the radio so she could listen to her beloved music. He also seemed to be quite a social gnome, as two other gnomes soon joined him in the garden, appearing mysteriously on their own and joining Mr Gnome on his journeys around the lot. It was frightening at first, but soon the family came to see them as a part of the household, even if the children would sometimes have a bad day and kick one of them. They always apologized afterwards!
After many years of hard work, Violet saw her children grow up into rambunctious teens who were always getting in some sort of trouble, but still managing to make As in school. She also saw her garden grow into the masterpiece she had always dreamed of owning. In her backyard, she had a small gated paradise filled with perfect plants, including not just regular produce but exotic species like flame fruits, life and death fruits and she had also gained the ability to grow unconventional "produce" like cheese, eggs, steaks and hamburgers, much to her husband's delight. Hamburgers were his favorite food!
Once she had reached the pinnacle of her gardening skill, she found that her garden practically maintained itself, and with her little orchard of money trees, the family never needed to worry about their finances again. Although she continued to tend her garden every day, she found herself with a lot of free time and her husband still had not achieved his dreams, nor had her children reached their own young adulthood. Determined to keep busy, she started a garden blog, which gathered followers quickly and soon led to a book deal. Her books were used as guides by home gardeners all over Sunset Valley at first, then all over the known Sim world. Being an excellent home cook, she also published a popular series of cookbooks that taught people how to cook using produce they grew themselves. She opened her garden to the public once a month and gave a tour and lecture on a different theme each time.
She made many dear friends throughout her life, including her neighbors, Susan and Boyd Wainwright, who became her best friends. Whenever she was feeling lonely, she would pop over and listen to them talk about computers, and they would teach her how to play video games. One of the worst days of Violet's life was the day she was visiting and Susan passed away before her very eyes. Despite the horror of seeing her best friend's ghost, she consoled herself with the fact that she got that chance to say goodbye before her longtime friend departed for good with the Grim Reaper.
The happiest day of her life came when her husband finally achieved his dreams and her children became adults and went off into the world to follow their own dreams. The next day after they moved out, however, she found that there was an empty space in her life. With her dreams fulfilled and her children out from under her wing, she was a little uncertain what to do with herself. As she delivered her usual crates of fruit, vegetables, eggs, cheese and meat to the bistro, she let herself confide a little in the chef. He told her that he was having the opposite problem. With a new family, he was having a hard time running the bistro all on his own, and he sure could use some help in the kitchen. He'd read Violet's recipe books and he offered, if she could still make the time to provide him with supplies, to let her work in the kitchen with him. She excitedly accepted and now Violet is on to the next step in her life's adventures ... working in the food service industry.
[I had to go back into my characters' files after switching households and I discovered they had gone and gotten themselves jobs on their own, so I've given Violet a little epilogue to her story
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