Naruta Sims: Genesis Edition

[Darastrix]

Building Naruta from the ground up in this one, starting with the four original elements/canon couples. The last names aren't canon-compliant because who the hell needed family names back then? So I just took the nationality from each land that their elements dominate.

I tried to keep a sort of colour theme with each. Greys, white, and blues for Wind, blues, greens, and teal for Water, black, reds, and yellows for Fire, and browns and greens for Earth. Of course, when they start having kids, that kind of goes out of my control unless the family can afford to buy extra clothing.

Here's what I started with:

I wish I'd chosen a darker skin tone for the Waters. I wanted to give them more Asian features, but the skins are still too pale. And the mods that let you change after the fact don't affect genetics, so their kids would still come out with one of the original tones regardless. The rest, I'm relatively pleased with.

[Darastrix]

About the Earths

Earth is my Soil/Stone Path guy. So, pale from spending time underground, with brown hair and eyes because dirt. >_>

He got the Romance aspiration. I didn't want to bother picking out his traits, so I made him a Taurus (earth sign) and let the game pick for me. He ended up with:

Sloppy |||||||||| Neat
Shy |||||||||| Outgoing
Lazy |||||||||| Active
Serious |||||||||| Playful
Grouchy |||||||||| Nice

Not too bad. Not obsessively clean, but neat enough that he'll still pick up without prompting (and really, how bothered are Soil and Stone Earths about dirt?). Not grouchy enough to constantly pick on everyone. And with his laziness and playfulness, he's well-suited for his lifelong dream of being a professional party guest (translation: socialite). Right now, he's a Freeland Photographer and just needs two more friends to be promoted. Probably Soahcian.

Makeup and Plantsimism are his turn-ons (man, I wish I had Seasons), and he doesn't find unemployment attractive. So, pretty much all of the Elementals are passably attractive to him. Oh dear.

Thrae is the Plant path Earth. A bit tan from working outdoors, with greenish eyes and copper hair (because I needed more than one redhead and plants are lots of different colours anyway).

She is Knowledge aspiration (*cough*Thuothan*cough*). I ended up making her a Taurus, too, and she has the exact same personality. Oops. At least they get along. She wants to be a criminal mastermind, but since she's on the science track, her dream will go unfulfilled. But hey, she's a Project Leader and is going to be promoted soon. She can deal.

She likes guys with beards and custom hair, so Earth is fucking sexy to her. Her turn-off is witches, but since I don't have Apartment Life, that's one I don't have to worry about.

Together, they started out strong. She got her science job, he got his slacker 'job' and a promotion, and then she got pregnant. Had a son, named him Soil.

Before Soil was even potty trained, Earth got two promotions and Thrae was promoted once and had another son, this one named Tree. Both parents continue climbing the career ladder and the kids are growing up fine.

Aaand Earth gets bored with it and has an affair with a co-worker right after Tree goes from toddler to child, leaving me to wonder which is supposed to be the 'evil' one. One parent wants to be a crimelord but sticks with the job they're doing well in, and the other wants to party and cheats on his wife. And later cheats on his lover with Ira, and...himself? How the hell do you end up with "Kissed -self- for the first time" in your memories?

Soil hits teens and they have another son, Shale. Earth hasn't been caught cheating yet, but Thrae has a feeling. So she and Air have their own affair, but they keep it non-physical until Shale grows into a child.

Now there's a fourth son in the house, but it isn't Earth's. You can kind of tell, too. The other three boys have Thrae's skintone and Earth's eyes. Bromel is pale like Air and has blue eyes. Oops.

[Darastrix]

Welp, I've played through a lot since I last posted, so I'll just do a general recap, starting with the Winds, since that's the group I'm playing with right now.

In the original Sulan household....

Air Sulan - Wind Elemental

Age: 72 days (elder)
Spouse/Lover(s): Ira Sulan (wife; Wind), Thrae Montis (lover; Plant Earth; deceased)
Children: Cloud (m), Breeze (f), Skye (f), Wind (f) & Ariel (m) (fraternal twins), Dove (f), Bromel (m, bastard with Thrae)
Aspiration: Family
Secondary Aspiration: Knowledge
Lifetime Want: Have 6 grandkids (He's got 4 and is going to die soon, but that's okay. He's already got maximum aspiration.)
Hobby: Arts and Crafts, but has most enthusiasm points in Culinary
Turn-ons: Blonde hair & makeup
Turn-off: Facial hair

Air hit the top of the Science career and is now a Mad Scientist. So...religion-wise, I guess he's a Soahcian/Thuothan. Abducted by aliens the Forces twice, but the house was too full for them to knock him up. Had an affair with Thrae after his and Ira's last kid was born (Dove), and sired Bromel, who is pretty obviously a Wind. He has NONE of Thrae's colouring. Earth was apparently pretty chill about the whole thing. Even with having this blatantly Wind-signed kid in his house, he still left money to Air when he died. That, or he was into Ira enough that he didn't care what his own wife was doing, or with whom.

Ira Sulan - Wind Elemental

Age: 72 days (elder)
Spouse/Lover(s): Air Sulan (Husband; Wind), Earth Montis (lover; Soil Earth; deceased), Makoto (lover; Fire; townie)
Children: Breeze (f) & Cloud (m) (twins), Skye (f), Wind (f) & Ariel (m) (twins), Dove (f)
Aspiration: Romance
Secondary Aspiration: Fortune
Lifetime Want: Woo-hoo with 20 different Sims (with the amount of time she's got left, not happening. But she's got max aspiration anyway, so who cares?)
Hobby: Sports, but has most points in Fitness
Turn-ons: Custom Hair & Charisma
Turn-off: Plant Sims

Ira was apparently bored as hell being a SAHM. As soon as her first two hit childhood and Skye was born, she had an affair with Earth. After Dove was born, she finally decided to get out of the house and joined the Criminal career. Even with that extra excitement, she had another affair with a townie named Makoto before the twins hit the Child age. Later fell in love with Earth and got some cash when he died. She kept her job for a while as an elder, then one day looked at all her stuff, the massive house, and her kids earning their own paychecks and retired as a Catburglar because who the hell needs to work now? She'd have been a Greedy/Lustful in Soahc's church.

She and Air will more than likely die together. They seem to have the same amount of time left.

Breeze Sulan - Wind Elemental

Age: Adult, becomes elder in 11 days
Spouse/Lover(s): Soil Montis (lover; Soil Earth; former?)
Aspiration: Romance
Secondary Aspiration: Pleasure
Lifetime Want: Become a Professional Party Guest
Hobby: Games
Turn-ons: Underwear & Creativity
Turn-off: Black Hair (So...most Fires and Waters)

Breeze has had a rocky life. Cloud grew up first, despite her being born first (he was abducted by one of the Forces and got aged up 3 days), and she moved out with him. She worked at the Slacker Career part-time until adulthood, met Soil Montis, the oldest of the Earth elemental kids, and fell in love. He's an ~artist~. She moved in with him and had a son, Dusty. She and Soil worked their jobs, raised Dusty to childhood, got a second dog (who had 3 puppies; they put 2 up for adoption), but as a Romance Sex sim, she feared getting engaged or married, which upset Soil, who is a Family sim. He left her for Ember, the Fire Heir, and took Dusty (and his dog, plus the last puppy) with him. Despite Cloud being technically older, Breeze is the firstborn, so she's the heir. She and her dog have moved back home, and when Air and Ira die, Breeze will be the Lady of Winds. If she ever falls in love again, it's going to be with a Water or a Townie Wind. She's had it with the other Elements.

Wind Sulan - Wind Elemental

Age: Adult, becomes elder in 22 days
Spouse/Lover(s): Linnod Naurite (fiancee; Fire)
Aspiration: Romance
Secondary Aspiration: Family
Lifetime Want: Become a Professional Party Guest
Hobby: Cuisine; equally enthused with Arts and Crafts
Turn-ons: Makeup & Creativity
Turn-off: Vampires (Efilian, I guess)

Wind has been pretty low-key. Did well in school, grew up and got a job in the Architecture career (currently Architectural Partner). Fell in love with Linnod, the founding elder of Clan Linnod, and is engaged to him. She'll probably move in with him soon.

Ariel Sulan - Wind Elemental

Age: Adult, becomes elder in 22 days
Spouse/Lover(s): Shale Montis (lover; Soil path Earth)
Aspiration: Family
Secondary Aspiration: Knowledge
Lifetime Want: Marry off six kids
Hobby: Fitness
Turn-ons: Perfume & Blond Hair
Turn-off: Mechanical Skill (greasemonkeys need not apply, I guess)

Pretty much the same as his sister. Grew up well, did well in school, got a job as a dancer (currently Ballroom Dancer). He met Shale through work, and fell in love. The question is, if they stay together, will Ariel move to the Earth mansion, will Shale move to the Wind mansion, or will they get a place together? They're both spare heirs, so they're not needed in either place. Moving to the Earth place might be kind of awkward, though. His older sister, Skye, got engaged to the second son of the Earths, and moved in with him since he's the House Head and she was a spare. Hmm.

[Darastrix]

And then Air was the first to die. I guess the game doesn't allow Sims to die of old age on the same day, 'cause Ira's still alive. Air got the fun zombie hula dancer send-off from Taed. Since Winds cremate their dead and scatter the ashes, I'll keep the Wind graves inside as urns. I just have to figure out where to PUT them. For now, Air's ashes are hanging out on the bar.

Other notable events: Breeze was promoted to the next tier on the Slacker Career.

Wind was abducted by Soahc, which means she gets a custom hair colour and a random effect. Dice say he was in an extremely slothful mood, so the only changes she gets are superficial. Oh, and the pregnancy. There's that, too.

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Second Wind house now.

Cloud Sulan - Wind Elemental

Age: Adult, becomes elder in 12 days
Spouse/Lover(s): Sophie Miguel (live-in lover; Fire)
Aspiration: Knowledge
Secondary Aspiration: Family
Lifetime Want: Become a Mad Scientist (totally doable, though he's already going to get the hula dancers when he dies)
Hobby: Arts & Crafts
Turn-ons: Jewelry & Logic
Turn-off: Blonde hair (Guess it remind him too much of his sisters)

Pretty good life so far. Grew up with only one bad memory (someone set the stove on fire). Moved out with Breeze, got a cat, got a job in the Science career. After Breeze moved out to live with her then-boyfriend, he started flirting with Sophie, a townie. They fell in love, he asked her to move in, and all is good. He was abducted by Efil and now has a green-skinned Force child named Nua. He and Sophie even got to be pregnant at the same time. How's that for weird? Now he's a Top-Secret Researcher and still has plenty of time to have more kids, either with Sophie or by divine intervention.

Sophie Miguel - Fire Elemental

Age: Adult, becomes elder in 18 days
Spouse/Lover(s): Cloud Sulan
Aspiration: Fortune
Secondary Aspiration: Pleasure
Lifetime Want: Become a Business Tycoon (plenty of time for that one)
Hobby: Sports
Turn-ons: Grey hair & Charisma
Turn-off: Underwear

She's a Sims Townie, so not much to say here. She and Cloud hit it off, became lovers, and he asked her to move in. They're not married or even engaged yet, but if the want ever pops up for either of them, it'll happen. She was not as excited about the whole abduction thing, but hey, now their daughter has a playmate. Found a magic lamp, and in keeping with her aspiration, she got money, money, aaaaand peace of mind. Nothing in the house broke, so I guess the wish worked.

Nua Sulan - Wind Elemental/Efil kid

Age: Child, becomes teen in 7 days
Hobby: Nature

Still a kid. Green skin, black eyes, black hair. Force kids are always the element of their mortal parent, so she's a Wind. But since she did come from the Forces, she's one of the ones that the second group of Elementals can descend from. I will lay out percentages if anyone's interested. Also, since she's Efil's daughter, starting in her teens, she'll get +3 days to her lifespan at every age after that and have a 100% chance for getting pregnant.

Strata Miguel - Wind Elemental

Age: Child, becomes teen in 8 days
Hobby: Sports

Still a kid. Pale like daddy, with his blue eyes. Has brown hair like mom, but much lighter and looks to have Cloud's texture. All together, this = Wind instead of Fire. If she were to have children with a Fire, I'd give it...40% chance of Wind, 45% chance of Fire, 15% chance of both, and then I'd have to figure out how to indicate mixed signs since the tattoos I'm using for Elemental signs all go in the same spot, so you can only use one of them. I may have to start getting tricky with eyeshadow or something.

[Darastrix]

Cloud got promoted to Theorist, and Sophie jumped up 2 rungs on the career ladder: first to Senior Manager and then to Vice President. Not bad for three days' work, lol. Nothing else exciting happened on their run. Next!

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Dove Sulan - Wind Elemental

Age: Adult, becomes elder in 22 days
Spouse/Lover(s): None
Aspiration: Knowledge
Secondary Aspiration: Romance
Lifetime Want: Become a Criminal Mastermind (She's young yet, so it could happen)
Hobby: Sports, but has most points in Cuisine and Arts & Crafts
Turn-ons: Red and Black Hair
Turn-off: Hats (It covers the hair, man)

Dove is the youngest of the 2nd gen Winds. Baby of the family, but not quite the little darling where her siblings are concerned. Her relationship to Cloud, Breeze, and Wind is best summed up as "we're related." It makes sense with Cloud and Breeze since they weren't even living at home while she was growing up. Wind? IDEFK. She is friendly with Wind's twin, Ariel, though. After that, BFFs with both parents, Skye, and her nephew Dusty. Skye's fiancee was also Dove's first kiss, but he hit adulthood first and didn't want to wait on a childhood fling.

After Skye's daughter was born, Dove decided she didn't want to get stuck being a live-in babysitter for the rest of her life and moved in with Linnod for a while. They were friends and she used to have a thing for him. But Wind got to him first. She was planning to stay even if Wind moved in, but Worg abducted her first. She got +4 body skill points and a pregnancy out of it, and decided to move again to build her own home. Thanks to the money she inherited from Air, she got a good sized piece of land and built a decent-sized house with room for the coming baby. Zephyr Heights has been founded, bitches.

She had twins, a boy (Falcon) and a girl (Kestrel). Both have kind of violet-pink skin, thanks to Worg. Kestrel has her mortal mother's blue eyes and looks like she may be a redhead. Falcon has solid eyes that appear to be dark purple. If he (or his descendants) mix this line with any of Thuoth's kids, Minds may pop up.

[Darastrix]

In the original Rondian household....

Water Rondian - Water Elemental

Age: He's dead, Jim (old age)
Spouse/Lover(s): Retwa Rondian (wife)
Aspiration: Family
Secondary Aspiration: Um...I don't remember
Lifetime Want: Become Chief of Staff. Never made it, but got platinum lifetime anyway. Hula dancer sendoff and everything.
Hobbby:
Turn-ons:
Turn-off:

He's dead, so I can't look up his stats. Never got abducted, never had any affairs. His family was pretty low on drama (except for the frequent abductions of other people).

Retwa Rondian - Water Elemental

Age: Elder, 72 days (will die in this session)
Spouse/Lover(s): Water Rondian (husband)
Aspiration: Family
Secondary Aspiration: Knowledge
Lifetime Want: Have 6 grandchildren (has 5, but she's got her platinum lifetime achievement already)
Hobby: Tinkering, with equal points in Science
Turn-ons: Fit & Athletic sims
Turn-off: Zombies (yep, she's Efilian)

Retwa is one of the Force-bothered Elementals. She's been abducted twice, and this before I got Free Time, which lets Knowledge sims summon aliens pray to the Forces. After she had her first daughter, River, she was taken by Worg. I don't remember what boon she got, but she had a daughter afterward, named Avalon*. After that, she and Water had twin boys: Stream and Rain (who, for some reason, is blond). Taed took her up next, and she had another pair of twins: Styx and Tadeus**.

water, like her husband, followed the Medicine career. She retired at the level of Medical Researcher.

*Worg takes kind of a hands-off approach, wanting to see if her children can make it on their own abilities. That said, Avalon and others like her will be a little stronger than usual, getting a free +1 body at every age-up.

**As Taed's children, they will never be allowed to beg the grim reaper their dad to spare someone's life, UNLESS they're willing to die in their stead. They also can't use the Elixir of Life or anything else to extend their own lifespans. However, they can use their connection to him to rez someone as a zombie. Undead are cool in Taed's book.


Rain Rondian - Water Elemental

Age: Adult, elder in 16 days
Spouse/Lover(s): None
Aspiration: Pleasure
Secondary Aspiration: Romance
Lifetime Want: Become a Hall of Famer (currently Superstar)
Hobby: Fitness
Turn-ons: Perfume and Unemployment (he must want someone who stays home to take care of the house)
Turn-off: Underwear (might as well be naked, so why aren't you?)

Rain is the only kid so far to grow up poorly. He wants to do what he wants, when he wants, and doing the stuff he HAS to really cuts in on his satisfaction with life. This is probably the main reason he's still living at home. He's got decent chemistry with one townie, but for a Romance sim, that's pretty bad.

Stream Rondian - Water Elemental

Age: Adult, elder in 16 days
Spouse/Lover(s): None
Aspiration: Fortune
Secondary Aspiration: Family
Lifetime Want: Become a Criminal Mastermind (currently Counterfeiter)
Turn-ons: Red & Custom Hair
Turn-off: Grey Hair (wants someone younger, I guess)
Hobby: Fitness

Not much to say about this guy. Grew up fine, got a job in the crime world, now makes fake money. No romance here, either, but he's got a bit of time left. And there's always adoption.

Styx Rondian - Water Elemental/Taed kid

Age: Adult, elder in 20 days
Spouse/Lover(s): None
Aspiration: Knowledge
Secondary Aspiration: Popularity
Lifetime Want: Become Head of SCIA (currently Private Investigator)
Turn-ons: Red & Custom Hair (he and Stream can go out together to flirt)
Turn-off: Fatness (Also, dear EA, if you're going to have this available as a turn-off, why not thinness as well?)
Hobby: Cuisine (So...he doesn't want people to actually EAT the food he makes?)

Child of Taed...and Chosen of Etaf. After he grew up and started on his career, she took him up and he ended up having twins: Fate (boy), and Taffy (girl). He's got a really good relationship with his family...except for Fate, which I don't get. How do you end up FURIOUS at a TODDLER? I have no idea what sparked that, since whatever pissed him off didn't warrant a memory.

Etaf's kids will have the chance to change their fate. Once in their lifetimes, they can undo a negative consequence...for a price. Meanwhile, Styx was granted what he needs to get a promotion after returning from maternity leave.

Tadeus Rondian - Water Elemental/Taed kid

Age: Adult, elder in 20 days
Spouse/Lover(s): None
Aspiration: Popularity
Secondary Aspiration: Family
Lifetime Want: Marry off 6 kids (dude, you need to HAVE some kids first)
Turn-ons: Creativity & Unemployment (he wants a freelancing artist)
Turn-off: Zombies (He...may not be as likely to ask Dad to rez someone)
Hobby: Science

Another Water in a 'typical' profession for their element. Tadeus is in the Oceanography career and embracing Force-dad's destroyer aspect as an Underwater Demolitionist. No romance potentials here, either. I swear, after River and Avalon moved out, the guys just decided they weren't going to help grow the family. (Etaf showed what she thought about that, dude. Kids. Have some.)


Fate Rondian - Water Elemental/Etaf kid

Age: Toddler, child in 3 days
Hobby: Science

He's a green-skinned, black-haired, black-eyed Force bby. And somehow he pissed his dad off to the point of being Furious. I didn't even know sim toddlers could DO that.


Taffy Rondian - Water Elemental/Etaf kid

Age: Toddler, child in 3 days
Hobby: Arts & Crafts

Same as her brother, minus making Dad mad.