#sims 4 legacy

[neishroom]

first day of school!

[aheathen-conceivably]

“When I was young, I would spend hours and hours alone in my room, watching this figurine in a music box my aunt gave me. Maybe it was the heat, or maybe it was the hunger, but if I watched her long enough, I could swear she’d come to life…”

[abbysimsfun]

Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 92 (Conrad's First Love)

cw: Conrad getting pretty spicy 🌶️🌶️🌶️ and not with Heather; references to human and drug trafficking (not depicted).

Follows the events of this post.

As she passed him to put away her gloves, a stunning redhead at Pappy Murphy's Boxing Gym caught Conrad's eye. Though he'd been deep in another bout of anger and self-pity over the death of his mother years earlier, he stopped his workout. Every inch of his being compelled him to talk to her.

She turned with a smile before he could stammer a single word. "Hi, handsome. Did you want a better look?"

He nervously introduced himself and she told him her name. "Ximena." The word floated from her lips like a song. He was instantly smitten.

"Ximena, could I buy you a drink?"

They spent the day in a local pub. He told her everything about his mother's death and his distance from his father in the years since. She listened, but she had a lot less to say about herself. "I live here with my brother. I'm a student, and I'm the only caretaker he has. Our parents aren't around anymore, and it's been just Rafa and me for years."

He could hear an accent when she spoke, and most people in Britechester weren't locals, so he made an assumption. "How long since you moved from Selvadorada?"

Surprised by his guess, she turned defensive. "I don't talk about Selva."

He liked her too much to press and push her away, so they spent the rest of the day flirting and discussing their interests until Ximena invited him back to her place. "You make me laugh, Conrad Gordon. My brother's still at school and I want to get to know you better without all this noise. I hate the music they play in here."

Once Conrad followed her out of the bar and back to the small home she shared with her kid brother, Rafa, he started following her everywhere.

He lost his virginity to her a week after they met. That night, she told him why she left Selvadorada.

"I was going to die or they were going to kill me. I wouldn't let them sell me to anyone anymore, so I made a plan and left with my brother in the middle of the night to come here."

She showed him the scars left by the cartel, and a resolve to keep her safe coloured his already steadfast affection. He let her cut his hair when she said she wanted to show him how freeing it felt to change his look. "It's nice not to recognize the person in the mirror, sometimes," she said.

She told him she was a student, often meeting him at Larry's Lagoon to study but usually distracting him into other activities. One afternoon, she introduced him to an old friend, Jimmy Stefano. "Can you help him out around campus? You're in the same major."

Something about Jimmy Stefano rubbed Conrad the wrong way, but he assumed it was jealousy. Despite this, he would already do anything for Ximena and agreed to take Jimmy under his wing.

He called his father to say he planned to stay at school for Spring Break. "Sorry, I know I said I'd come home to see you."

Stephen Gordon laughed him off, but masked slight disappointment. He had no idea whether his son was flourishing or floundering at college, unsure how he'd been coping so far from home. "Don't worry, son. I'm just glad you sound happy. You're making me and your mother proud."

He skipped classes to spend time with Ximena, but made no mention of this to his father, of course. He spent time with Rafa when Ximena said she had late-night classes, taking him to the park to play pirate captain versus sea monster, and talking endlessly with him about video games.

Rafa wanted to become a pirate captain in Sulani or a game tester in San Myshuno. He had almost no memory of life in Selva before his sister left, but he knew it was "the bad place." He liked spending time with Conrad because he said his sister was too strict. "She just loves you," Conrad assured him. "Parents have to set rules, and she can't just be your sister. She has to care for you like a parent, too."

He realized then how important it was to be a model for Rafa, who needed guidance as much as anyone his age. Conrad had always had his father, but who did Rafa have besides Ximena?

Conrad discovered how she paid for an entire house for her and her brother by accident, stumbling on an argument between her and Jimmy Stefano near the campus fountain. "The deal was thirty pounds for three grand."

"They said if I didn't have five grand they'd only give me fifteen. They had guns, Ximena."

"They all have guns! Knives, too. Get your own and figure out how to use it. Watcher, please, don't screw this deal up for me, Jimmy."

"Who has guns?"

"The cartel," said Jimmy, so nonchalant, yet it still hit Conrad like a missile. His stomach turned as he read Ximena's expression. Every lie she'd told him unravelled with a look.

"Are you really a student here, Ximena?"

"No. They're my customers."

He'd had his suspicions, but he'd always told himself he was wrong. Ximena was supposed to be perfect. Hoping against hope, he still tried to play the fool. "What do you mean?"

She dragged him back home to tell him the truth - how she'd bargained with the cartel to escape a life of servitude to the men who ran product all over Simlandia. She refused to serve them, but her way out was to join them instead.

Conrad was angry, but he couldn't stay mad at her for long. As they lay in bed that night, she asked, "Are you going to break up with me because of what I do?"

"Not a chance. I love you."

"I love you, too." She smiled, resting her head on his chest as he ran a hand through her newly blonde hair. "You look nice without glasses, Conrad."

"You already gave me a haircut, Xime. You don't like glasses?"

"Conrad, you're very sexy. But you hide it and it's silly."

"If you're going to give me a makeover, what should I get you?"

"Are you asking me?"

"Ximena, I want to give you everything you could ever want."

She blushed. "I want you, Conrad. But since I already have you, maybe...jewelry? Like a ring."

"You don't wear any rings."

"Because none are special enough, Conrad."

He smiled. "Alright, that's one idea. But say I wanted to surprise you, what else did you want?"

"You could join me running product for the cartel. Our lives would be made, and we'd always be together."

"I don't want to run product for the cartel, Ximena. But I'm not going anywhere. I'll always be there for you. Rafa, too."

"Right, but what if I go? Rafa loves you, Conrad, almost as much as me. But what if the cartel moved me somewhere else? Would you come with me? Maybe you could be, like, my security. No running, just keeping me safe. Always with me and Rafa."

He'd do anything to protect her, but he didn't answer her that day, refocusing on his studies until he returned to San Myshuno at the end of the semester.

He'd missed his father more than he expected, and they went for walks in warm sunshine by the Spice Market. They talked about school, and Conrad talked about Ximena - leaving out details of her career and focusing instead on her relationship with her brother. Conrad rarely asked his father about work, but Stephen hinted he was inching closer to retirement. "Chester's daughter Nancy is ready to take over the company, but Chester's not quite ready to retire. I think she's plotting a coup, but you didn't hear that from me."

"What happens to you if she pushes out her own father?"

"Hopefully, a retirement package. Chester may not be ready, but I think I am."

On one of their walks, they passed a jewelry store, and Conrad made a beeline for the ring counter. A confident salesman smiled as the Gordon men walked inside. "Welcome. What are we shopping for today?"

"I'm just looking," Conrad said. "What rings do you have?"

The salesman beamed. "Are we thinking of an engagement?"

Stephen eyed his son carefully, but Conrad shook his head. "Not right now. Just like, for an accessory."

"I don't know, son. A ring says you're ready for forever."

Conrad took his father's words to heart, considering what forever with Ximena might look like. He wanted to be with her, but he wasn't ready for a ring. He left that day with a nice bracelet for her, instead.

"Even leaving with a bracelet as nice as that one...she must mean something. I'd love to meet her."

Conrad nodded. "She might be able to visit this summer, if she's not too busy with work," he said.

Stephen smiled and the Gordon men continued their walk, strengthening the bond nearly severed by grief before Conrad returned to Britechester for another semester. ->

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NOT FUN FACT: Conrad got crab lice from Ximena when they slept together for the first time, which is gross but also fitting I guess. And yet I didn't make it canon because it didn't quite fit the vibe. Plus, he wasn't supposed to find out that early on that Ximena was problematic.

WCIF Poses Used? Various from packs Old Souls Love Differently by @simmireen (when Ximena is blonde), Our First Time by @eclypt0sims (redhead), The Kiss by @simmerberlin (black hair) and Nights Like These by @sakurasims-world (also redhead).

WCIF Jewelry Store? Jewelry Store by Guinifere on the Sims 4 Gallery. Very elegant interior and comes with crafting tables, a vault, charging stations - very nice lot! Needs dressing up with completed jewelry on the counters and in displays to look really spectacular (and I of course went the lazy route), but I wouldn't if I was playing a retail career, and this is a great lot for someone who wants to be a jeweler!

[bakersimmer]

G20: Clover Sutherland-Miller

Aspirations:

Ghost Historian

Crystal Crafter

Bestselling Author

Soulmate

Skills:

Medium

Gemology

Thanatology

Writing

Career:

Reaper

Other:

Collect all tarot cards

Complete Alice's sorrow quest

Lose your spouse and bring him back to life - To resurrect Valentin, Clover needs to reach level 10 in the Reaper career, max out her medium, thanatology, and writing skills, and complete both the Ghost Historian and Bestselling Author aspirations. Bringing someone back from the dead is hard work 🙃

[inspiredsimmerx]

[simvanie]

7 Sins Legacy - generation 5 (gluttony)

Gulshan: 'Morning!... ...

Gulshan: What? ... Oh god, please don't tell me that I forgot to put on pants this morning-

Lord Hamlet: OINKOINKOINKOINKOINK!!! 😃🏃‍♂️

Gulshan: Hamlet! Buddy! What are you doing here?! I missed you so much! Britney: Guess what?! The rules for pets in restaurants have changed! We personally submitted a request for Lord Hamlet, and it got approved!

Gulshan: Really? That's amazing! Why did the rules suddenly change? Britney: We got some help from someone who had the connections we needed... Someone you know very well.

Gulshan: ...Don't tell me you asked my mother for help- Britney: Listen, she wanted to help us and-

Gulshan: The only reason she would ever help me is because she can feel good about herself! It feeds her narcissistic ego, not because she actually wants to help me. I should've handled this myself-

Temperance: Hey, but you have Hamlet back, right? And now other restaurants have the opportunity to have pets as well! ...Let's just focus on that.

Gulshan: ...You're right. I'm sorry- I really appreciate you guys. Thank you.

[dreamyyesenia]

Always Keep Simming - Love Day Shenanigans

Aileen and Colin had a wonderful date at the Blue Velvet, their favorite bar. Unfortunately no ghosts showed up so the watcher missed the last reapers reward event 😂🙇🏻‍♀️

[kysworldgames]

𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐲 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝. >>>

[sims4littlebird]

*в Комореби действует комендантский час

[jessicastinks]

the dragon Josie is adapting well to life with the Cartwrights ✨

[snapsimplex]

babygirl

[bakersimmer]

Once a storyteller, always a storyteller.

Miller Legacy G20 beginning

[peachwatersims]

♡₊˚ 💍・₊✧

an eventful day

[hashimasims]

Kanaloa: What time is it?

Elucea: It's almost midnight

Kanaloa: Shit . . . I must've passed right out. I put the babies in the playpen at nine-thirty. Are they OK?

Elucea: Yeah, they're fine, asleep at the moment.

Kanaloa: El, I'm sorry I -

Elucea: Kan stop

Kanaloa: No, Elucea, please I need to get this out. I'm sorry for today, I'm sorry that I upset you with my thoughts and I should have had a better handle on them. I'm sorry that I feel this way and I guess I don't really have the right to, Abs set me straight on that. I know things won't actually ever be the same as a year ago between us but . . . like I told Abs I feel like we're just hired hands, that you only . . . you only have us around because you think you have to. I know I shouldn't have hoped for what we had almost a millennium ago between us, it was too easy a thought once you accepted what you are but the life you've been living obviously didn't just go away, I don't know why I thought you would go back to being the El from then, the El I stole. Back then you already went through the worst thing that could have happened to you, we had all the time in the world with no real responsibilities . . . but here . . . . . . Everything is different here, in the living world . . . you're different, and now we have the school to look after and you have the farm you wanted, I hate to admit I thought I could wear you down eventually to live in the Underworld with me but now I know that's never going to happen.

Elucea: Do you want me to -

Kanaloa: No, that's not why I'm saying it, I think the light you have would die if we went there . . . and I already can't stomach how . . . dim it has become. I also never thought that kids were in our future either, I know we wanted them and the only way was for you to be alive so we went about having you reborn, but after . . . After I lost . . . Milu . . . I don't think I truly wanted another, afraid that something similar was going to happen, and now I have four and . . .

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[dreamyyesenia]

Always Keep Simming - A very normal, totally professional day as a (mad) scientist

A day at work as a mad scientist (and head of the FutureLabs Research Institute) 🧬 Wouldn’t be Aileen if she didn’t wreck havoc on the place every now and then. Tourists were her favorite victims but she didn’t hesitate to target her co-workers as well. Nothing serious, just a few bladder fails. And knocked out sims. She was a fighter at heart 🤺

Coming home to spend time with family (Aileen’s parents stayed over for 4 days) This was when her soft side came out 🫶🏻

Falling asleep cuddling her hubby every night was a must. She worked hard to get her happily ever after ❤️

~

Note:

Don’t have more screenies of time with her parents honestly I just enjoyed playing and spending time with them 🫶🏻 But still wanted to mention they make sure to spend time with their family, of course!