#muenda family

[unanimouslalablah]

Muenda/Specter/Nigmos Family Ancestry Results Part 2

Willow Nigmos

Willow was definitely the favorite daughter of her parents, as all three of them shared the family Aspiration, and it definitely caused for an unspoken tension between herself and her sister Olive throughout their lives. Willow definitely lived up to her parent's expectations marrying Creon Nigmos (a family sim), and a goal of theirs was to build up the black community in Strangetown. Things seemingly went smoothly for the most part, though she struggled to have children through most of her adulthood, but Ophelia was a rainbow baby. Unfortunately, she did not get to spend much time raising her daughter before tragedy hit.

Nervous Subject

People were....... confused when he was born, and...... he looked nothing like his mother. The nurses and family saw him come out of Olive, so they knew he was hers, but there was no resemblance, and some questioned if he was her child. It also did not help that no one knew who the father was..... including Olive herself. Anyways, he was taken by Child Services, and spent some time in the foster system, before he was..... given to the Beakers (in a maybe not so legal way), where he was tortured for their horrid experiments, and...... the psychological issues are endless.

Ophelia Nigmos

Ophelia was born in a seemingly normal family, to the point where she did not know much about the dark practices within her lineage, and she of course aspired family like her parents and grandparents. Unfortunately for her, she became an orphan early in her life, and she had to move in with her aunt, whom she was distant with up until this point. For better or worst, Ophelia learned the darkness within her aunt, and was forced to deal with all of the secret she was numb from, especially with her having to live in the graveyard of her house. Luckily for Ophelia, she managed to find an escape from all of the weirdness from her friends, and the Smith family.

[hellodahliah]

One of the premades in Nordhaven is named Lerato Sarpong.... and ts2 lore brain me immediately went to check Lerato Muenda's Simwiki page in case her maiden name before marrying Peponi could have been Sarpong😭 maybe i'll go to sims 2 and check their family tree next.

Yes, I know most likely sims team just happened to use the same name for a new premade and that doesn't have to be linked to sims 2 lore. Like people in real life too, there are premades who share the same name and surnames and yet they are not related in anyway. But if you're so invested in ts2 lore (like me) you try to find easter eggs everywhere.

[lime1991]

Sims 2 lore that nobody really thinks about that I find interesting: Olive’s maiden name is Muenda, which translates from Swahili means to “go to” or “you go to” (and I’m getting this from google translate forgive me) her father’s name is Peponi Muenda, which according to google translates to “go to heaven/paradise”

Olive’s mother, Lerato Muenda, has a first name that according to google translate is a word in the Southern Sotho language for “love”, accompanied with her last name meaning “go to”, we can assume her name would translate to “go towards love” or something similar to that, but her first and last name are two different African languages.

What I find interesting about this isn’t even necessarily the names themselves, but the fact that the sims 2 team decided to make Olive Specter non-debatably African, with a Swahili maiden name and everything.

And all of this is really to bring up Nervous Subject.

The Grim Reaper is his father, however Grim isn’t human and therefore has no genes to pass down (ignoring game logic where he needs to have genes) which should essentially make Nervous a clone of Olive, which ig would also make him trans so do with that what you will.

But anyway, I never see anybody talk about the fact that Nervous and Olive are canonically African. The sims fandom feels very White and even if not white, erases the canon cultures of the characters without thinking (i.e “it’s my dollhouse game they can be whatever I want them to be!!!”) and even though I’m not African (I’m a black American) this feels like really interesting character lore that people ignore.

I saw someone on twitter imply that Olive Specter wasn’t black, because I guess her maiden name made them assume she was latina? (Which you can be both lol) but upon looking into it myself I noticed not only is she black, she’s AFRICAN. People see the maiden name Muenda and go “oh that looks like Spanish, she’s latino!” When in reality it’s Swahili! In the lore of Olive’s family, her parents are both African though likely from different areas seeing as her mom’s name implies she’s from South Africa.

But all of this makes it even more confusing why the sims team chose to keep Nervous white for like 20 years? You know he’s not white, even if the Grim Reaper had genes to pass down, Nervous would still be half black. So why did it take until Sims 4 Life & Death for them to actually make him black, when from the start they knew his mother was African? It’s honestly weird and annoying and do NOT let EA brainwash you into thinking it didn’t happen, they absolutely love whitewashing.

[evignonita]

Strangetown (Las Rarezas) if the inhabitants were Latin Americans Hispanic

Latin Americans is crossed out because I initially included Brazil here, but decided this post would be for Hispanic Heritage Month. Spain is not included for the same reason LOL. I included Brazil anyway but it will be in italics. I know that Brazil is not a Hispanic country, I'm just lazy to change it

EDIT: I DID NOT INCLUDE AJAY, I FORGOT ABOUT HIM LMFAAOOOO now yes sorry Ajay

OKAY here we go

The Curious Brothers and Jenny Smith: Argentine-Bolivians, they would specifically come from the province of Salta lmfoej, I only maintain this because I saw an illustration of a guy similar to Pascal drinking mate. Kitty would be Argentine and Glarn would be Bolivian 🧉

Johnny and Jill Smith: Argentinian, yas queen

Pol. Smith: Pol was not born on earth, but during his years of adaptation on earth he lived in Mexico, that is why he would say that he is Mexican, only that he was born in Veracruz JEODHEOEKR

(*) The Muenda family (Olive and Ophelia's family): I like to think that they are of Brazilian origin or from some Lusitano speaking country. Olive and Willow come from Porto Alegre, but Ophelia was born in São Paulo

Ichabod Specter: Puerto Rican, Afro-Latino king ❤️‍🩹 he comes from San Juan... He loves mofongo

Nervous Subject: Chilean-Brazilian, was born in Arica, Chile, while Olive was fleeing justice... accused of murder AH... 😔

Circe Beaker: Circe would be from Bolivia, specifically from the department of Beni... Although she would hate caporales omg she's so fake booooo, love her anyway

Loki and Erin Beaker: Swedish-Uruguayan, their parents are Swedish but they were born in Río Negro. Loki and Pascal hate each other 😝 /j

The Grunts: Chileans, Buzz was born in Santiago and that's why I hate him... His children were born in Calama... Tank reminds me of my cousin 🧠

Kristen Loste: Costa Rican, IDK WHYY She just gives me the vibe that she was born in some small town on the outskirts of San José (too specific idc)

Lola and Chloe Singles: Bolivians, they were born in Bolivia when Glarn still lived in his native country and as a good Hispanic father he abandoned them. Glabe is Paraguayan 🫶

Ajay Loner: Since I forgot to include Ajay, he would be Paraguayan because he would be like his country, he doesn't exist (BROMA, LOS AMO MUCHO PARAGUAYOS USTEDES Y NOSOTROS NOS ENTENDEMOS BIEN PQ NINGUNO DE NOSOTROS HABLA BIEN ESPAÑOL OK 🇨🇱🤝🇵🇾)

[tank-grunt]

my, uh, strangetown sim ethnicity headcanons (using real world location names and not the sims world equivalents)

the beakers and halfdanarsons are white. specifically the beakers were swedish, while leif was danish and ingibjorg was icelandic. the salamis were greek with arabic ancestry. the mcgorks were irish, moira was white while gwrtheyrn was black.

the muendas were meru kenyans who immigrated to simerica and the specter family is moroccan. since i prefer the name "ophelia specter" i like to reinterpret the nigmos family as specters and ichabod's family, making them also moroccan.

the grunts are latine - rock and wanda were mestizo colombians. family name was originally guerra, changed to grunt when they immigrated to america. mary melons was white and descended from french immigrants, but had no personal ties to france.

mike steel was a white latino mexican american. he had a white dad and a mexican mom. that ones based on me thinking donnovan steel and marisol loera were his parents until i realized they were contemporary with darren dreamer, lol! oopsies!

the curious & wheloff families are black americans - they don't really have any known ties to any other location besides the simericas - and hamm hogleg was a moapa native american, while his wife annie was white (hence 2 of their 4 grandkids being white passing in a vanilla game)

glarn's ex-wife glabe, on the other hand, was filipina.

the loners and frehndlys being indian is just canon. i dont have headcanons that elaborate on this further, though.

the loste family were originally from seychelles, or the sims equivalent, thus creole with largely east african and indian heritage. the simnitch family were slavic diaspora americans.

crystal vu is vietnamese american. bleaches her hair blonde but naturally has black hair. and dr. vu is her dad and also vietnamese.

blair mace is mixed race japanese american. dad (larry mace) is white american, and his mom (mystery) was japanese american.

[cityof2morrow]

Bella Brand: Blackfyre 002

Published: 11-7-2023 | Updated: N/A SUMMARY “Inspired by the wealth of Bella Goth lore from the Sims/SimCity franchises (aka the “simsverse”), the Bella Brand Series includes more than a dozen sets and 230+ new business-themed items. Lore suggests that the wealth/influence of the Gilman, Crumplebottom, Bachelor, and Goth families increases considerably under Mortimer and Bella Goth, especially the latter. So, this series imagines what a prestigious Bella-based brand might look like…” Blackyre 002 takes inspiration from bold, infamous beauties who turned nightmares into new opportunities, from Lady Ravendancer to Olive Muenda-Thanasia-Mortis-Specter, to Bella Goth. The set includes functional apparel and cosmetics – enjoy! DETAILS Requires ALL EPs/SPs. You need Mesh Set 001 (Simmons, 2023) and the Display Counter (BellasSecret_Counter_Somedaythesun)from the TS2 Maxis Match Lingerie Store Set (SomedayTheSun, 2023) – these items are required for all textures to display in-game. The counter uses recolors from the Bosenklavier Model B grand piano (Bon Voyage EP). Find recolors for the counter interior in the Bella Brand: Retail Floor Set (Simmons, 2023).

Recolors may include swatches for items in other Bella Brand sets such as signs, packages, cosmetics, etc. Objects in Sims 2 are limited to two recolorable parts, so not all items are recolorable in the same way. Find additional recolors for Bella Brand sets on this site under #ts2recolors, #co2recolors, and #co2bellabrand.

ITEMS Blackfyre Bone n’ Body Lotion (498 poly) Blackfyre Moonlight Moisturizer Potion (345 poly) Blackfyre Magic Skin Masque (710 poly) Blackfyre Midnight Mist (462 poly) Blackfyre Quickshower Potion (584 poly) Blackfyre: The Ravendancer (932 poly) Hanging Ravendancer (980 poly) DOWNLOAD (choose one) from SFS | from MEGA

Functional Apparel Objects Apparel objects are debug items and show up as “clothing pile” in the catalog (Misc > Dressers). They must be placed on one of the DEBUG displays/shelves or they’ll float. Once purchased, take them out of the sim’s inventory and choose from one of the following: Purchase Clothing. Select an outfit (or several) of any type. Each apparel object is worth §100 towards the TOTAL cost. Sims save more money (and your businesses make more money) if they use one apparel object per new outfit. Sell. Recycle the object for §100 simoleons.  If you exit the Buy Clothing window without adding anything to your shopping cart, §100 will be added to the sim’s household funds instead. Apparel objects are worth §100 regardless of how much sims pay for them on OFB/community lots. Pricing an item below this amount can function like a discount sale (i.e., pay $75 in-store and §100 towards the purchase or a 25% “discount/rebate.” You can decide whether this counts as cheating). Pricing it above this amount is not recommended since sims will end up losing extra money. Debug objects have slots which “catch” fellow clones if you place them too close. To prevent this when trying to clutter them close together, turn “snap objects to grid” OFF and “move objects” OFF. Functional Cosmetic/Hygiene Products Items can be used from any surface or a sim’s inventory and will boost hygiene/comfort. After several uses (12 by default), the product will need to be replaced. When using cosmetics from a sim’s inventory, wait until the sims finishes using the first item BEFORE selecting the second one. Otherwise, the second object will be removed from the inventory. Both the object and plug-in files are needed for each item to work properly in-game. Number of uses and motive gain are tuneable in simPE (BCONS: 0x00 = number of uses, 0x002 = hygiene, 0x03 = comfort).

IMAGES (left to right): Blackfyre 002 cosmetics tag, Blood of the Raven, Friend of the Raven. CREDITS No copyright infringement intended. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. CCA = Creative Commons Attribution. Thanks: @catherinetcjd, @gayars, @gummilutt, @haziewhims, @kashmiresims (Rach’), @somedaythesun, whoward, Easy Shine Removal Kit (PF Forest, 2023), Reducing GUIDs/OBJs Tutorial (HugeLunatic, 2022), Sketchfab and Blender Communities. Sources: SEE CREDITS (ALT).

[xx-j4nu5-c4t5-xx]

current concepts for the cursed swap au (VERY bare bones and badly explained bear with me)

basically, the curious brothers switch with nervous + the beakers and then the smiths, grunts and specters all kinda cycle

(are there really only five families in this town?? holy shit)

Here are some simple outlines of their new dynamics (all of these are still wips)(also the idea of a swap au is being stretched to its limit, the only things the stories have in common at this point is vibes 💀)

The Curious Brothers: After Tycho was taken by the government, Pascal kinda went insane. Whether it's the aliens or the military, he's always convinced that something is coming to get him. His brothers have been trying to figure out a way to fix everything, but because they're math science nerds and not brain science nerds, they don't really know what they're doing.

Neville (Nervous) and the Beakers: After a long, rough childhood of being fucked up and strange, Neville Muenda has settled down in Strangetown, in the hopes of finding people just as weird as he is. He's been studying magic for years, in an attempt to Velveteen Rabbit/Pinocchio his way into creating a son from a sack of flour (as well adjusted and healthy individuals do). His relationship with his housemates (the Beakers) is distant but cooperative, a sort of mutual gain. The gadgets and taxidermied animals all over the place ensure that Neville isn't disturbed by any visitors while working, and the Beakers get to microdose being involved in necromancy. Y'know, as a little treat.

The Smiths: Jenny's disappearance marked the end of PT9's entire world. Everything on the planet reminds him of her, and everything seems hollow without her. The landscapes and stars he once yearned to call home are now nothing more than backdrops without a subject. As soon as he gets the chance, he's taking the kids back to Sixam, in the hopes that they can escape her crushing, overwhelming absence. Who knows, maybe they'll even blend in better there than in Strangetown. But I don't think he's taking into account how all of this affects the kids. I mean, after all, why make connections when it's only a matter of time before you're whisked away into space?

Ophelia and Olive: The resident weirdos of Strangetown, there are dozens of different rumors going around about these two. While Olive has somewhat made peace with her odd lifestyle, Ophelia finds herself torn between the worlds of the living and the dead. Part of her wants nothing more than to be a normal girl, but she can't ignore the call of the darkness in her bones forever. Who really was her mysterious uncle, anyway? And what is that "family business" Aunt Olive keeps talking about?

The Grunts: The perfect nuclear family that's been portrayed time and time again by sitcoms and movies alike. A General, serving his country; a wife, who tends the house and takes care of the kids; and three boys who have somehow gotten tangled up as the main suspects in a string of disappearances. Will the ghosts of their pasts haunt the Grunts forever, or will they find a way to convince the world of their innocence?

If y'all have any ideas/thoughts please please lemme hear em 👂👂

[edamerkatze]

Strangetown 30 Years in the past CC free

Hello and Sul Sul

I made a version of Strangetown set 30 Years in the Past! So you can Play Characters like Vidcun Curious or Olive Specter in they Child and Teenhood. All the important Families, even the once you can't play in the originals like the Vandermorgans and the Nigmos are here.

Get PreStrangeown on MediaFire ore SFS

How was it made?

Characters like the Curious Siblings have been extracted from the original game, imported into Body Shop and aged down there, so they all should grow up to look like they Strangetown Counterparts.  Characters you can only find in the Family tree have been build in Body shop to look as close as possible, since many of them have broken Templates in the original.

All Child and Teen Characters have dominant and recessive Genes matching they parent. So Vidcund could get a Child with black hair ore Pascal could get one with blond hair

The Families included are:

The Nigmos

The Muenda

The Curious

The Grunts

The Beakers

The Salamis

The Vandermorgans

The Lostes

There are also a pool of Original Townies, wich include all of Olives later Victims, so you can play out how they ended in her Backyard

Strangetown has 4 Community Lots. One Library with all the Hobby Items, a Swimming Pool, the local Waterhole and a big Mall that has everything from a Fashion Store, a Pet Store, a Restaurant and much more.

All Sims have a Family bio and a personal one, giving you possible Gameplay Ideas!

This World is CC free, checked by the Hood Checker and (almost) unplayed. The only thing I did was move everybody in. Everything else was done in SimPe. All Universal NPCs are untouched and unchanged. So there should be no hood corruption, or absolutely no danger for other Hoods. There is a Grim Reaper Townie, but it's just a normal Human Townie in a costume! Nothing that affects the true Grim Reaper

Beside the Townies I created there are no other ones, no Pleasentview defaults and no strays! If you want to keep it that way, you will possibly need a mod like notownieregen.

The Sims in the Screenshots have this Skin default, it's not needed, I just find it adds a nice Variety

I also apologize for any spelling mistakes, since English isn't my first language.

If you play my neighborhood, I would love to see screenshots ore hear stories about what happened in your game!

[sims2003sblog]

Specter-Muenda- Nigmos- Hogleg Family Tree-Family Connections:

reblog a The Sims Wiki:)

Thanks^^

[equinoxts2]

OK, household two! If you remember me saying something about "familiar faces" in a previous post from ages ago - here are two of them: Lazlo Curious and Erin Beaker, who are the two elders in the back.

In my game, when I was testing my mod cut and new genetics system in Strangetown not too long ago (and this is why I decided NOT to use Triplets & Quads in the end) Pascal's voidling baby turned out to be quads: the four black-haired sims in the grey gowns. From left to right, they are Kite, Alice, Varris and Tallia. The two blond guys are Vidcund's twins, Aaron and Hastain.

Both Pascal and Vidcund died in childbirth (another mod I then decided I was going to stick to my original plan of not using) and I wanted to take that storyline and run with it, writing it into the family's backstory as a lab accident. Lazlo - along with his pathmate Erin and close family friend Nicodemus Muenda - had to step up to raise the six kids.

Thirty-seven starbands (three full seasonal years) later, they're here in the Lake Lulla region. No, I haven't figured out why yet, and the voidlings haven't developed individual backstories/traits at the moment. I will be letting that develop through play. Either way, the younger generation are working as acquisitions, as indicated by the grey outfits; elders who arrived after the Starband of Fate have been granted honorary citizenship, so Erin and Lazlo get brighter outfits.

They're not the only premades who've found homes in my game, and there will also be a number of sims from other people's games appearing in later posts. For now, though, I'm sick of CAS and it's bedtime, so night night. :)

[unanimouslalablah]

Muenda/Specter/Nigmos Family Ancestry Results Part 1

Peponi Muenda

Peponi came from a mixture of the Meru and Swahili people in Kenya, before moving to modern day Strangetown, where he and his wife Lerato migrated to Strangetown to start a family together, and to have more opportunities in a presumably safer environment.... Emphasis in presumably. He and Lerato would pass away sometime in the late 1960s-early 1970s, soon after Strangetown became an official neighborhood.

Lerato Muenda

Lerato was born in South Africa from the Sotho people, and she met her husband who was visiting South Africa. Knowing that the tension was getting thick in her country, where he moved to after they got married, they fled to Strangetown to start their family. Unfortunately for her, she left one dangerous area for another.

Olive Specter

The infamous Olive Muenda was one of the first people to be a born citizen of current day Strangetown, and she was always the oddball in her family. She was into a lot of the darker lore of her heritage that her parents hid from her, and the more obscene elements of Strangetown. It was clear to everyone, including her, that she was the outcast, and the black sheep in her family.

Kids were not of interest to her, and just when she did settle into the idea of being a wife, things went wrong for her.... each..... and.... every.... time... As these.... obscene circumstances kept on happening, and Olive embraced the..... darker forces in her, the reputation of her being the "evil old lady" in Strangetown just grew.

[harmonyckrs]

Some Specter Family Headcanons (mainly Olive bc she's one of my faves)

The Muenda family was an upper class household, and Olive was supposed to be the heir to the family due to being the older one. Her parents considered giving the title of heir to Willow instead due to Willow being more sociable, but Olive found out and got them killed for it

Everyone in the family is really tall. Ophelia is the shortest out of them all, but is still tall compared to other people in Strangetown

Willow was never aware that Olive was behind their parents' murder until Olive was trying to kill her and Creon. Due to Willow not updating her will in time, Olive got custody of Ophelia

Olive sets up her house in a way that makes almost everything a hazard that could lead to death. This is how she was able to get away with murder, as most people viewed her as a scatterbrained woman who's accident-prone and lucky

Olive has attempted to kill Ophelia a couple of times but Ophelia is usually smart/observant enough to notice the traps Olive sets up and is able to avoid them. Once she turned eighteen she immediately moved in with Johnny and never looked back

Olive's motives for killing people involves wanting to see the Grim Reaper as well as having a very twisted sense of justice. Each person in the garden has "wronged her" in some way, with the exception of Ichabod who died normally

The service workers usually made some kind of quip that Olive interpreted as an insult or were slightly rude towards her due other circumstances, like them being tired

Olive met all of her previous lovers through the parties she attended. She became jaded after Earl E. DeMise but started getting over it once she got to Ichabod

Olive never cared for Hugh Thanasia or Rigger Mortis and mainly just married them for the sake of having a husband and so she could eventually sacrifice them to see the Grim Reaper

On Halloween, Olive turns off all of her lights and leaves a bowl of candy in front of her gate. Nervous also does this during the period of time when he lived alone

There's various trinkets buried in the garden that is associated with different victims. Olive also makes everyone's tombstones herself and has a special talent in making sculptures

Nervous has a random assortment of skills/knowledge and secretly has dark powers as a result of being the son of the Grim

Olive and Nervous aren't really close as Olive doesn't approve of anyone that Nervous chooses to date and usually makes passive aggressive remarks towards them, which is noticeable by both Nervous and whoever his partner is

Didn't feel like making a Mii for Ophelia lol sorry. I don't have any particuarly strong headcanons for her at all. I think she's either straight or bi

[beikonsims]

The boys threw a little house party and invited a few people over. Despite her advanced pregnancy, Kaylynn also showed up to see Blake's new place and make sure he's alright in the city. He was just intrigued by the concept of life.

Blake: How do I grow my own like that?

Olive: Are you two the ones occupying the Espiritu Estate? I will have you know this was once one of the plots owned by the Muenda family and I don't appreciate stragglers around the premises.

Faith: Woman, that house was empty and dusty when I bought it fair and square for like a 1,000§ and a pack of gums.

Lazlo: Wasn't the place like haunted, too? I remember seeing the Dame in Red in the window a few times back in the day.

Faith: Yeah, we're cleansing the place from bad spirits or whatever.

[evignonita]

The Beakers and Buzz in my current save:

The Curious-Muenda family:

☠️💧💧😢

[ladylauviah-blog]

25th round...

...has finally ended. I have too many of everything, so recap:

Families: 71 Asylum: 1 Sims in college: 8 Sims in general (with townies and pets): 602 - round has ended with a few pregnancies...

Pleasantview: All sims that should be born - were born. Beginning of Pleasantview oficially has ended - now sims like Alexander Goth are starting their own families.

Strangetown: 2nd generation is slowly starting to start their own families, some well known sims were born, for example: Buzz Grunt or Beaker siblings. Also, Olive Muenda-someday-to-be-Specter grew up to be a teen ;)

Veronaville: 2nd generation - greatgrandparents of Juliette and Romeo are teens now. Random gender preference also trolled me hard in this hood, so there will be something else haha.

[edmunderson]

i've been redoing the specter family manor as the muenda family manor. here's olive and willow's side of the home