Welcome back to the Yax Uglacy, where I left you with a shocking cliffhanger!  What will the second generation look like?


 

First we have Buffy Yax.  Because she is a girl, she is an automatic spare.  I don’t plan on playing my spares past college; so when the kids all graduate, the spares will sit in either the Sim Bin with a cell phone, or in a huge empty house with a computer and telephone.  I haven’t decided which yet.

Anyway, Buffy looks almost cute.  This is most distressing, but as I said she’s a spare.  Buffy is a Cancer 5/5/5/3/7.  She got Ubert’s nose, eyes and ears and Malcom…er, Melissa’s cheekbones.





Next, we have Billy Yax.  I see a little bit of potential here.  He also has Ubert’s nose, eyes and ears combined with Melissa’s lips and cheekbones.

Billy is a Gemini 0/9/7/3/7.  I am not suffering from the “First Born” glitch, so that makes me happy.

Billy is a bed wetter.  He spent more time with a dirty diaper than on the potty seat.  No matter what I did, I could never catch it soon enough.  I would like to think of myself as an excellent Sim player; I’ve been doing this since 2000 with TS1, but the Yax family has been testing my limits with them not listening to me.

So henceforth, Billy will be called Billy Bedwetter.  Because I care.

Billy:  Uh, oh.  Diaper’s dirty again.

*grumble*  Indeed, it was, right after I took this picture.





Melissa:  Come on Billy, Mommy wants to potty train you.

Billy:  Uh oh, pasketti-o’s.  Wet my pants again.

Buffy:  Nomnomnom.  Cute blocks go into my cute mouth!  Nomnomnom.

This is one of the few pictures I took of these toddlers.  Neither parent was gold enough to make them Smart Milk, so they maybe learned one toddler skill.

For, you see, I had more important things for them to do, other than make Melissa grind away at the Flower Arranging badge…





Ubert:  JIBBLY BITS!  I shall save you my princess!

Melissa:  Oh Doomblade!  I want more babies!

Ubert:  I don’t think babies are in the treasure manual!

I have ACR turned back on, but set to “Always Try For Baby” which is one of the handicaps I’m going by here.  By the way, the toddlers thankfully crawled out of the living room, so they didn’t see their classy parents do any of this.  Scarred for life, they will not be.





One successful lullaby and a healthy helping of cheesecake later…





And Melissa’s head is resting in the toilet again with another set of twins on the way.

I had Ubert quit his job again so he could be at home and help out more.  They still had almost $10,000 in the bank and their bills were less than $100, so they were going to survive.





Over the next few days, while waiting for the next babies to be born, a few major happenings took place.

The first one was Ubert trying to make new friends.

Ubert:  AHH!  Nausea Gas Poison!  I don’t have the resists for that!





Melissa reenacted the scene from “My Girl”.

What?  Come on!  I can’t be the ONLY person who thinks of that scene when the Sims get chased by bees.  Am I?





And Ubert tried his mad ninja skills on the butterflies.

Ubert:  My face is covered, so I am invisible to them!  Yes, my precious butterflies, I wrote a poem for you.  It goes like this:

Oh butterflies, who flutter by.
Why do they call you butterflies?
You aren’t made of butter;
I checked!





But, probably the most important thing that happened was that Buffy and Billy grew up.

Buffy:  Look!  My fingers are adorable!  I’m cute!

Yes, they turned out cute…

Distressingly cute.

Billy:  Look!  My fingers aren’t deformed!

I mean, they probably wouldn’t win any contests, but they are unique looking in a “regular legacy,” breedable way.  I can’t make kids who look this good if I TRIED (unless I resort to having ONLY Face One)!  I want UGLY!  I want nauseating!  I want to out Gage, Gage Uglacy!  What do I need to do here?  I have MALCOM for God's sake!

This does not bode well. *breathe*  I know, it's only the second generation, but I thought I was getting a good head start with the Custom Townie.





Buffy:  So Billy Bedwetter, I was thinking that we could be in the movies because we’re pretty cute.  We’d be a hit!  Screw this “Uglacy” nonsense!

Billy:  Yeah, we could be like the Cusacks!

Buffy:  Tee hee!  We’re adorable!





I was so irritated that I had to absolutely depend on the other set of twins for Uglacy breeding, that I made these two sit and study for future scholarships.  This was my attempt at getting them used to being ignored after college.





I kid, I kid.  I didn’t immediately stop them from autonomously playing with their parents before the school bus came.  I mean, it’s not like they would have enough time to get skill points in the hour between waking up and going to school anyway; so I let them have a small bit of fun in their lives.





Eventually, it was the big day.  Melissa went into screaming labor with the twins.





She had twin boys!  I don’t know who is holding who, but their names are Gary G. Yax (named after Gary Gygax, the guy who invented D&D) and Bruce C. (named after Bruce Campbell.  If you aren’t a geek, you wouldn’t understand why we worship him).

As far as I could tell, they both had Ubert’s eyes and skin tone.

Because of the new twins in the house, I had to do some massive renovations on the kid's bedroom.



 

BAM!  Divider line!  Whew, that was a lot of hard work.  *wipes sweat off the brow*

Gah!  Looking at this picture made me realize that they are a little bit out of order time wise, because of the Sanpdragon in it, so let me show you that.





As you can see, Melissa is one classy lady.  She and Ubert are doing their daily ACR driven “Try For Baby Only” bit, but she hasn’t gotten pregnant again, yet.  Anyway, she’s taken to walking around in her underwear all of the time, just like her husband.

So, she managed to make her first bouquet of snapdragons that match her unmentionables.

I was praising her for finally being useful; I mean, she hadn’t given me an ugly child yet, so I was getting a bit irritated with her.





My gratefulness towards her lasted approximately thirty seconds when she went and did this.

Melissa:  Lalalala.  I’m walking away from the Mac and Cheese I’m cooking on the stove.

Billy Bedwetter:  Ahhh!  Mommy! The kitchen is on fire!





Melissa:  What?  OH DEAR!  FIRE!  Doomblade!  Where are you?

Billy Bedwetter:  Daddy!  Save us!

Dirty Diaper:  Oh!  I wonder if the fire is going to consume me!

Where is Ubert during all of this?





Ubert:  Yaar haar fiddle dee dee.  Bein’ a pirate is alright to be!  Do what you want ‘cause a pirate is free; you are a pirate!

He was useless, not to mention I didn’t want to lose my founder to a fire.  Melissa gave me four kids and Billy Bedwetter is too cute to be heir, so I just watched as the fire burned.  Eventually the fire department came and put it out.

Melissa and Billy Bedwetter then became very irritated that Ubert was occupying the bathtub because they wanted to take a shower.





The next day, and every day after until he moved to college, Billy Bedwetter had taken to doing this; he would wake up and go into his parents’ bedroom and wave to Ubert.

Billy looks awfully creepy here with that smile.

Billy:  Hello father.  I know all about your plan to let me burn in the fire.  I’m going to keep my eye on you until I move out.





Finally, it was time to age Gary G. and Bruce C.

As you can see in the background, I wasn’t kidding about making Buffy and Billy Bedwetter skill all of the time.





Here is Gary G.  Another.  Kinda.  Cute.  Kid.  *grumble*  He grew into what I refer to as the “Zane Hair” but he DIDN’T get Ubert’s elf ears.  He was the only one of the four who didn’t.

All I could hope for was some massive facial explosions when the kids hit their teen and young adult years.

But, hope was not lost!






GLEE TO THE TENTH DEGREE!

*angel chorus*

Bruce C. inherited most of Melissa’s genetics!

*happy dance*

If this were the Devereaux Family, and Bruce was the firstborn, I would be rather upset.  BUT, this is an Uglacy!  I finally have a DEFINITE ugly kid!





These two ended up becoming Best Friends with each other before anyone else.

Gary G. (left) is a Pices 0/5/9/3/10

Bruce C. (right) is a Cancer 9/0/3/10/9  Oh yeah!  Both have the Creepy Smile, but it will look so much more creepy on Bruce.





Funds were getting a little bit low, and I’m going to need to do a rebuild of the house soon, so I had both Ubert and Melissa constantly dig for treasure.  I still needed Ubert to stay at home with the kids and help them with their toddler skills.  Plus, the job I needed him to get wasn’t available yet.





I also had Ubert gaze with the telescope on the off chance that he would get abducted by aliens.  A green kid, possibly with no nose, would give Bruce C. a run for his money.

Alas, Ubert didn’t get abducted.  Apparently abductions ONLY happen when you DON’T want them to.

Eventually, Ubert became too close to elder to get pregnant, I stopped.





On the bright side, the Education career track opened up, so I made Ubert get that job for the bookcase.

Ubert:  This would be so much more AWESOME if I were going to teach at Hogwart’s!

Oh, it was also time for Buffy and Billy to age to Teen.  Let's look at the results.





Here is Buffy…*sigh*  I know I shouldn’t be disappointed because she’s not eligible for heirship, but still.  She’s unique looking, and dare I say, downright pretty?

Buffy:  I’m awesomely cute!

Buffy rolled the Pleasure Aspiration with the secondary aspiration of Family.  Her LTW is to Graduate Three Children from College.  Not gonna happen as she’s Sim Bin fodder.

A note on the LTW’s:  I have a hack that determines LTW’s by personality rather than Aspiration, or something like that.  It makes it where I get more variety than your typical “50 First Dates”.  Not like THAT was going to happen for her either.





YARG!  Billy Bedwetter is a massive disappointment!  There isn’t even a HINT of possible facial explosion.

Billy rolled Popularity and Grilled Cheese.  He fails at the Grilled Cheese aspiration, as he barely rolls wants for it!  You FAIL Billy Bedwetter.  You LOST!

Billy’s LTW is to “Become the Law.”

Also notice in the background that I’ve begun setting up for the graveyard.  I decided that every heir and spouse will go on two dream dates with each other, so they each will have a “You’re my Dream Date” bouquet on their grave.  I’m kinda sentimental like that.





Buffy:  *giggle*  Against all odds, I turned out cute.  I think I’m going to paint some pretty pictures that will match my cuteness!





Billy:  Hello random person I briefly chatted with on the internet!  My dad needs a family friend so he can get the awesome Education bookcase and I‘m a Popularity Sim.  Will you be my friend?  This is Billy Yax of the Yax Uglacy.  Yeah.  I’m one of the “disappointing” cute ones.  Are you my friend yet?  Awesome!  No!  I stopped wetting the bed ages ago!

 

Buffy:  Mom?  Do you think I’ll get to have children as pretty as I am when I grow up?

Melissa:  Probably not, dear.  You’re going to essentially be immortal while you sit ignored in some random place.

Buffy:  *sigh*  That’s okay!  That means I’ll be cute forever!





This became a common scene at the Yax household.

Billy:  No, I DO NOT wet the bed anymore!  Will you be my friend?

Melissa:  When I turn Bruce upside down, it looks like he has no nose at all!

Buffy:  I’m going to stand here and wait for my mom to finish playing with Bruce, so I can talk about how cute I am.

Finally, it was time for Bruce and Gary to grow up.  No birthday parties, and I've decided that, with the exception of Ubert, whatever clothes my Sims age into are going to be the clothes they wear (barring any glitchiness).





So yeah.  Here is Gary.  He kinda looks like Billy, except with the Zane hairstyle.  I am expecting absolutely no facial explosion.

But, on the plus side, the was potty trained, so Gary will go through is life without a mean nickname.





There he is.  Bruce is my pride and joy.  The eyebrows!  The nose!  The facial structure!

*pets the little Igor man*

I am going to wait until they all hit college age before I make any predictions; but the way things are looking, Bruce will probably be the heir.

By the way, see Billy Bedwetter in the background?  He’s standing at the end of the bed where Ubert is sleeping so he can wave at him.  Though I was lying, didn’t you?





And here is the high class bunkroom where all the kids sleep.

Billy:  zzzzzz I wish I was gold enough to use the energizer zzzzz

Gary:  zzzzz I’m too cute to be the Uglacy heir zzzzz

Buffy and Bruce’s thoughts are unknown.





Now that the kids are all school age, it was time to call the Headmaster.

Headmaster:  Billy is so cool!  I hope he can be my friend!  He’s so popular!

The Headmaster clearly hasn't heard about Billy's mad bedwetting skills.





Melissa:  As you can see Headmaster Guy Whose Name I Don’t Know, we aren’t Sumo Wrestlers here.  We also don’t wear diapers, though it was a close call with Billy.

Headmaster GWNIDK:  Billy?  Did she say Billy?  Is he watching?  Does he think I’m cool enough to be his friend?

Surprisingly though, they made it in 94/90.  Melissa didn’t burn the pork chops, so that helped.  But the house isn’t all that swanky; I had to show the Headmaster EVERY ROOM, including the bathroom, just to get the 40 points allotted for the tour.

And Billy, for all my joking (and I didn‘t mean it in an icky, going to appear on To Catch a Predator way), wasn’t that impressive in the Headmaster’s eyes.  He only got 7 points in Schmooze.





Buffy:  My uniform makes me look so cute!  And the makeup makes me look even cuter!

Seriously, when I couldn’t catch her in time, right off the school bus, to make her skill, she would walk right up to the mirror and check herself out.

I totally was not exaggerating about her self centeredness.





Billy:  We’re so good looking, we’re like art!

Buffy:  I know, right?





Gary:  I ALSO had the audacity to be kinda cute in an Uglacy.  Look at me in my little uniform!





Bruce:  Bruce awaits my master’s command.  Bruce is going to talk about himself in the third person.  Bruce is conflicted.  Bruce doesn’t know if he should be happy that he might be heir or sad that he’s ugly.





Ubert and Melissa are still constantly groping each other.  I have not tweaked their TO/TO at all, and they have 2 bolts.  Remember, Ubert likes Vampires and Zombies and dislikes Robots.  Melissa likes hats and Custom hair and dislikes facial hair.

Basically, the one thing she likes about him is negated by his scruffy pseudo-beard.

Anyway, I turned off ACR because I didn’t have room for anymore kids, yet they did all of this autonomously.






And for the record, they are both good and typical Family Sim parents.

Here is Ubert tucking in child age Billy.





And here is Melissa tucking in Gary.

Every freakin’ night.  If I cancelled out the action, but didn’t command them to do something else quick enough, they would just pick this back up and do it.





*sigh*  And now it’s time for Ubert to age to elder.  He isn’t Perma Plat, and wouldn’t be yet if I intended him to be, as his LTW is to have 6 grandchildren.

I did make sure he aged in a platinum mood though.  His outfit and hat still makes me giggle.  I actually know people like this, for real.




 

And thankfully most of his clothes had an elder version.  I’m keeping his original clothes because that’s what made him distinct as a founder.  The rest of them get stuck with whatever.

Ubert:  Sweet.  My lord will know that I am still loyal to his household even though I may have to retire from adventuring.





And I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before, but Ubert’s new outdoor wear is a suit of armor.

Ubert:  I hope my fair lady will still find me attractive even though I can’t slay any more dragons.





Sweetly enough, she does.

I almost like these two.

Almost.





Ubert:  Hello everyone!  I’m hope from my latest adventure!  Who wants to hear about it?

Billy:  Come on mom!  Let’s be friends while we punch each other!

Buffy:  I want to tell mom how awesomely cute I am Billy!  Stop hogging her!

Melissa:  I’m still young enough to have more babies!





Bruce:  Bruce will not hit you hard.  Bruce has 9 Nice points.

Gary:  I won’t hit you hard either, because I have 10 Nice points!  Why are we hitting each other with our fists?





Gary:  Let’s hit each other with pillows instead!

Bruce:  Bruce thinks that this is a good idea.  Bruce thinks pillows are soft and don’t hurt like fists.

The younger boys were pretty close to hitting teen, and they had both managed to either max out their skills, or at least get the 8 points needed for scholarships.





Just as I thought, Gary didn’t suffer from any facial explosion.

Gary rolled Popularity/Family and his LTW is to “Become the Law.”  Yeah, he not only looks a lot like Billy, but he almost wants the same things as Billy.





Bruce, however, managed to grow a little bit of a nose.  This is weird to say, but I was kind of disappointed.

Bruce rolled Family/Knowledge, like his father, and his LTW is to “Graduate 3 Children from College” like his sister.

Gladly, I can do this for him.  So I can rest easy if Melissa and Ubert fail to die platinum, because I can get the Family tombstone from Bruce here.

*pets Igor man*





As soon as all the birthdays were done, I had Bruce and Gary call for their scholarships and move directly to college.  I didn’t bother with the Teen Career one, because Bruce and Gary earned more money without it than Buffy and Billy did with it.

Plus, I wanted to see if faces would finally explode.





Here is Buffy.  She’s a girl, so she’s going to be a spare anyway.  She looks a tiny bit more manly, but not enough to make me shudder.  In fact, the only thing that’s ugly on her is her pants that she grew into.

What a disappointment.  NEXT!

 

Billy Bedwetter also didn’t explode facially.  He didn’t even manage to grown into gaudy looking clothes.

YOU FAIL BILLY!  NEXT!





Gary kinda looks albinoish here, but his face ALSO didn’t explode.  Not fashion model worthy, but unique and cute looking.

When I TRY to have cute kids in regular, non-legacy play, I can’t achieve this.

YOU ALSO LOSE GARY!  NEXT!





Yes.  Bruce wins.  Though his nose grew EVEN MORE when he hit college, the brows totally win this.

I was going to run an heir poll for this, and have my readers vote on the ugliest, but this was no contest.

Igor wins.  I mean, BRUCE wins the second generation heir title.  I can get over my disappointment over the sensible clothes he also grew into.

Again, I can’t get that if I TRIED.





Next chapter will be all about college and finding Bruce a wife. 

Stella:  Oh Billy is so cool!  I wish he would look at me!

Stella is not going to live with them.  She’s going to be what I refer to as a “professional placeholder.”  She moves in with the legacy kids and then moves out when the house becomes a Greek House.  She retains membership status and will be moved in when everyone else moves out every generation.  I realize I don’t really need to worry about the ages of the spares that will never be played, but it didn’t occur to me until now.  I did it in the Devereaux Legacy and it worked out nicely, so I automatically did it here.

Anyway, thanks again for reading my silliness and I’ll see you next time!  Until then, Happy Simming!