Chapter 14: Week 3 Saturday - Week 4 Friday There's a lot happening in the Vandersim household these days. Saturday a fifth orphan joins the household. His name is Jeremy, he is adopted by Sebastian, and he (Jeremy, not Seb) is Family Oriented, Frugal and Artistic. Jeremy's first wish is to learn to paint and take an art class. As Jeremy is already child age and has no happiness points at all, the household springs for an art class for him. Here's Jeremy:
Meantime, the younger girls also become children. Cynthia:
and Reagan:
Graeme is a teenager now and seems to have started acting out. I catch him skipping school one morning:
I don't usually check on the kids after they go off in the bus, so I have no idea how long Graeme has been up to this kind of behaviour. I send him off to school and resolve to keep a closer eye on him in future.
But the big news this week is Debbie. She has been on the honour roll for 3 days now, so she's ready to age up any time. She's also found a special friend:
Debbie's first kiss! Recognize the boy? It's Mortimer Goth.
Debbie becomes a young adult and with the help of a magic birthday cake, Mortimer just happens to age up at the same time. Things progress from there, and soon ...
Debbie and Mortimer are married! They spend a couple of days with the Vandersims while Mortimer applies for work in the military (his LTW) and gets his athletic skill up. The household purchases a double bed they can ill afford - not the very best, but pretty good - and Mr Grumpy complains about having a bad night's sleep, ungrateful character. Debbie gets her painting skill up to level 10. Her first painting after getting married, and the one that gets her up to level 10, is one I've never seen before but very apt:
Is that or is it not a painting done by someone in love? It's even done in Mortimer's favourite palette; I remember those moody blues and purples he was always using in the Clan Douglas Dynasty.
Debbie loves to paint, but at this point I'm thinking I should have had her pursue a different skill, one that would be more job-related. I don't think autonomous sims do very well as self-employed artists. Anyway, Debbie has 3 or 4 logic skill points so she gets a job in law enforcement, and it's time for her and Mortimer to move out. She has a new going-away outfit for the occasion:
That's Debbie's old teddy bear sitting on the grass. She left it behind so it could be passed along to another orphan. By the way, Debbie had 57,800 happiness points when she moved out, which was more than either Pippa or Sebastian had at that point. The dysfunctional duo may not be particularly happy with their circumstances, but I think they've given Debbie a good start in life.
