Welcome one final time to Chapter 6 of I Hart Space!, where my personal motto is, "Why tell a story in three acts when you can tell it in six?" And so we proceed to the sixth installment of this generation . . .
Heiress Hadley Hart has nearly finished her Master Vampire aspiration after doing a few others, became wildly proficient in a variety of skills, married and then eventually turned her teen sweetheart, adopted a wonderful dog, and provided us with three intriguing potential heiresses. We just have to get them all to teenhood. We're going to marathon this ish to prevent a Part VII, so let's dive in!
Hadley can be found bathing our perpetually dirty dog.
Or sharing a polar dip in chilly early spring with her equally climate-challenged daughter.
Or taking the most hilariously impractical walks with Laika. Hadley has super speed, so she just tears off for a block or so, then Laika trots along behind until she catches up, at which point Hadley zooms off again. I gotta say, we're certainly using that retractable leash to its full potential.
Meanwhile Suisei is holding court in the living room while she works on finishing Social Butterfly.
Although she's good friends with Rosetta (her designated cousin-friend), she made best friends with Liliana because she was there.
Kepler has completed Artistic Prodigy and earned a new scouting badge along with it. Her next aspiration is Whiz Kid, and I don't think I ever documented it, but she completed it pretty quickly.
Jordon is trying to bathe away his uncomfortable moodlet from the vampire transition he's undergoing.
Then, in the most fitting scene I have seen in this family, Jordon transforms in a pile of garbage.
Hadley: "Wait for me, honey! I want to see." *zoom*
Hadley: "Ah, yes, I have done well, my child of the night. You look like a fashion challenged bigfoot wearing eyeliner. Yes, yes, very good."
Uh, that look is not staying.
Here's Jordon's dark form. While Hadley is a sleek, sexy vampire, Jordon would be more comfortable on
What We Do in the Shadows.
In fact, I basically just dressed him as ridiculously as I could, while keeping in character. I like to think he doesn't really quite "get" being a vampire, but he's trying, bless his heart.
And in keeping with my self-imposed rule, he gets his goofy teeth in his normal form too.
As a reminder, this is the goddess he is married too. Jordon did pretty well for himself considering, huh?
While I was in CAS, I gave Laika this spacesuit for her walking outfit.
This may have been the greatest decision I have ever made.
Eva: "I suddenly really feel like I shouldn't be here."
Whoops, too late. Time for dinner.
Hadley observes Jordon politely asking for plasma from his friend, then leaves him on his own.
This turned out to be a mistake. While Hadley is a guilty drinker and always asks permission, Jordon has no such compunction. In fact, he's a sloppy drinker so he often needs multiple victims. Somehow this often loses Hadley reputation. She had a good rep, but people keep calling to tell her she's drinking without permission, which is quite the annoying bug.
Anyway . . .
Jordon: "Wheeeee!"
Jordon: "This is great!"
Meanwhile, Hadley displays her domestic pet mom side by cooking Laika dinner (a frequent whim), and then cleaning up after the mess. She never makes human food anymore since she doesn't eat, but she cooks pet food regularly.
The kitchen had to be spotless because it is time for the first teen birthday of this generation: Cassini is becoming a teenager! Although most of the guests didn't make it to the kitchen, Uncle Bradley and Aunt Elisa join the fam in wishing Cassini a happy birthday. But Suisei?
Suisei celebrates in her own way.
Cassini: "I haven't even spun yet and already I'm hard of hearing."
Cassini is a twig like her mom, but she's adorable. Her aspiration is now Bodybuilder, and she adds Creative to Art Lover for her personality.
Aww, look at all the cousins sitting around, enjoying cake together. Except we're missing Rosetta. She's a bit of a snob, I guess, because she doesn't like coming to the parties she's invited to.
The party was in full swing when suddenly Caleb wandered up to the door, triggering enough vampires from Hadley's Vamp Buds club in one place to cause a gathering. Vlad was the first to change into his dark form.
Then it started getting a little carnage-y for my tastes, so we called the party short. Altogether a success, except for the several guests that were left passed out and drained in the living room for a few hours.
Anyway, here's our lovely Cassini! She's still got a bit of a silly streak but she's a pretty down-to-earth girl who doesn't put too much effort in to her looks, yet radiates beauty anyway. She's a pretty good mix of her parents. Definitely got the round face from Jordon.
She got a bunch of fun green and yellow outfits.
A lot of her outfits, like her period cosplay-lite formal wear and festive cold weather gear, are definitely reflective of that carefree spirit Cassini's had since toddlerhood.
However, as an aspiring bodybuilder, her athletic wear is the one outfit she takes 100% seriously.
Back out of CAS, Hadley is using all that time she has on her hands waiting for the counter to get to 20 days (to complete her aspiration) to train Laika. Right now they're working on fetch. In the hallway. By all the glass-framed, priceless photographs. Because Hadley makes good decisions.
Love Day dawned with a battle. There may have been no love lost between Suisei and Kepler's Voidcritters, but the sisters are working on improving their relationship.
To complete the one Love Day tradition that kids can participate in, they gave each other bluebells from the garden. Both of them hated the gift and they lost relationship points. Ah, love is in the air!
Down in the basement, the parents of this family are celebrating Love Day a little more R-rated.
And then Jordon regains his strength by feeding on one of Hadley's also-rans in her original date club, Naoki. Poor Naoki.
For Cassini, I wanted to send her on a date, and the only teen guy that I wasn't totally tired of (somehow all the rest are premades in this neighborhood - there's no townie teens!) is Duane, the teen from Sulani. They go on a date on his home turf.
I think Cassini wins hands-down for most picturesque Love Day celebration.
By the end of the evening, she had a gold medal date and her first kiss under her belt. Congrats, Cassini!
Back home, Cassini gets some help with homework while Jordon works on his Vampire Lore skill.
Then it's on to the treadmill to work on her aspiration.
Dinner finds the sisters out at the patio having burgers. It's interesting: they're all very busy, and they're not as close as siblings I've had in the past in this family. Cassini and Suisei are pretty tight but Kepler is a little standoffish with her sisters, though ultimately they seem to get along fine. They just don't socialize that much usually.
I heard a splash, paused, and found this delightful sight. Now that spring is finally warming up, Laika decided to go for a swim.
Turns out she loves the pool and frequently dives in throughout the summer. Cruise on, you crazy submarine.
Jordon managed to get himself stuck getting out of the coffin. He gets so hungry and is so hard to keep full that I have him hibernate fairly often just to keep him out of my hair. So now here he is in the corner, unable to leave. Hadley has been in and out of this coffin with no problems. At first I thought it was the clay and I was about to be really unimpressed with him, but it turns out the table has a big footprint and I placed it with moveobjects on, so he can't get past it.
Jordon: "Ah, it's good to be free!"
I really liked that table there, Jordon. I'm not happy about having to replace it. Try not to get stuck in any more stupid corners.
Then I checked on Laika and she alerted me that someone somehow had broken the shower in Eris's hideout, so Hadley took care of that.
Suisei finished Social Butterfly by befriending Hugh, his son Malakai, and Suisei's cousin Rosetta.
Rosetta: "I can tell the real branch of the family got all the fashion sense."
No need to be rude, Rosetta. They're already pseudo-cousins. You don't need to run him down further.
Jordon: "You know Hadley chose me. Now I have to teach you a lesson. Why do you keep coming over, man?"
Hugh: "Oh, I don't know, because your weirdly social children keep inviting me?"
Jordon: "Well, that's no excuse. Prepare to be fed upon."
Then we have . . . kind of? . . . a family dinner. Patchy is honorary family considering he does more housekeeping than the rest of them put together. After dinner, Hadley had been wanting to take the family volunteering for a while, and Cassini needed to make up some empathy she lost on a school chance card, so all five headed out to walk for a cure for some disease.
This left just Laika and me at home. I followed her around on fast speed for the most part. It's not like I don't check up on her all the time anyway, but it was kind of fun to see what she gets up to when left to her own devices.
Except for this! Down, girl. We've trained you better than that.
And then our suddenly-filthy dog, who was supposedly spayed when we got her, goes into heat yet again. Yeah, it's time to do something about this.
Home from successful volunteering, Hadley takes Laika to the vet and gives her some comfort in the lobby while they wait. Laika is a good dog.
First up is a spay and the cone of shame.
Then Dr. Too-Much-Eyeshadow gives Laika a checkup and a wellness booster while Hadley watches approvingly.
Laika: "I don't like."
Sorry, baby, but now you'll be healthy and we won't have any puppies. You're a good girl. Now we can go home!
To this! Definitely something you want to come home to!
It is now summer and we're having a heat wave. The girls have discovered the toddler pool. They were all toddlers in fall and winter, so they never got to use it until now.
It sees a lot of use.
The girls also take a break from all of their respective skilling and goal-chasing to have a water balloon fight. This consists of Kepler and Suisei repeatedly pelting a stationary Cassini while Laika lays in the middle. Animations: C. Amusement: A+.
Honestly, though, if anyone deserved to be picked on, it was Kepler. She's a bit of a poor sport, I think.
Now it's New Skill Day, and Hadley shows off our redone inspiration room while she works on singing for no good reason. She's got maxed skills coming out of her ears, so I had to choose something for her to work on.
With her OP vampire energy conservation and trait-boosted skilling, Hadley is soon a level 10 master crooner. Now I need to take her out for karaoke.
And it's another bath for Laika. She seriously gets bathed more often than the sims.
Hugh playing with a random toy in our driveway in his party clothes can only mean one thing: it's time for Suisei to become a teen! Party!
Only the immediate family was present for Suisei's caking.
Rook: "Hey man, uh, what are you doing?"
Hugh: "You know, hanging out."
Rook: "Don't you think it's a little weird you're up here talking to the stuffed animal while clutching a toddler toy?"
Hugh: "No?"
Rook: "But you're missing the birthday!"
Hugh: "Well, so are you while you make fun of me."
Rook: "Hmm, point."
And Jordon tracked down the mixologist and prevented her from making any drinks. Spectacular.
Anyway, this is what the game thinks Suisei's dark form, which she can finally assume now as a teen, looks like. Lol, no. It is cool she got the pale skin and yellow eyes from Hadley. I assume if Jordon had been a vampire at the time of Suisei's conception, she might have inherited some of his dark form traits possibly too.
Anyway, here's regular Suisei. She is very beautiful! She looks a lot like Cassini, though.
I love her outfit. She's got a wardrobe full of sunny clothes.
Her dark form, however, is anything but sunny. I decided to give her Jordon's glazed eyes along with Hadley's pale skin, to pretend she inherited from both of them.
If Hadley is Sexy Vampire and Jordon is Goofy Vampire, Suisei is Creepy Vampire. I was going for a haunted Victorian doll aesthetic and I think I hit it.
Poor lighting in the bathroom, but here you can also see a bit that she got some vampire teeth in her regular form too. She's now a Music Lover and Foodie and wants to be an Angling Ace. She's a pretty easygoing person, and she's just really enthusiastic and positive about pretty much everything.
Cassini: "I'm the pretty one."
Suisei: "No, I am."
Girls, you have the exact same face except for your nose bridge. Knock it off.
The teens decide to do their homework in the bathroom. Hadley is flexible enough to go with it.
Kepler: "They said it couldn't be done, my young patient. 'These Sims 4 babies are the creepiest, most soulless creations to ever assume baby form,' they said. But lo, they have done it. With you, my little one, they have surpassed the Uncanny Valley and dove straight into the Miles-Deep Oceanic Trench of Creepiness. Truly a landmark moment in creepy babies."
Doctor Kit Baby: "I hunger for the flesh of innocents."
Just showing off that Suisei got almost entirely Hadley's whole genetic package. They're very similar.
It's time for one more fling for Hadley's Vamp Buds. At first they meet at a park, but it's too late and there's no one here, and that's just no fun.
So we take the party to Planet Honey Pop, where Hadley proceeds to blow the roof off with her karaoke talent.
Meanwhile, devastating vampire attacks are happening to anyone unlucky enough to wander into the bar.
Jordon in particular was in fine form. He drained Salim.
Then he got Dr. Eyeshadow.
Then he beat up his brother-in-law (Bradley) in a vampire spar. Good times.
While working out at a gym, Cassini has passed a milestone! She's getting a good head start on her aspiration, but I'm not pushing any of the girls too hard since I don't know who the heiress will be.
Suisei has been fishing all night, but day is coming and she has no sun resistance because I'm trying not to spend any of her power points so Kristina can shape at least one of the vampires how she likes. To keep her safe while she fishes on this day off from school, Jordon whips up a sun resistance cocktail, which she promptly tucks in her inventory.
However, the day turns out to be overcast and dreary, and the cocktail is completely unneeded. She caught quite a few fish with the great produce from the garden as bait. That is, before the rain chased her indoors.
Jordon imparts some wisdom to his skeptical daughters.
And Cassini works out. We're just in a holding pattern for Kepler to grow up.
While she waits, she befriends cousin Zond. So Kepler is friends with Zond, Suisei with Rosetta, and Cassini with Gaia.
Hadley has some very strange quirks, like always wanting to cook pet food, but perhaps the strangest is that she REALLY loves to shower in the rain. It took some ingenuity to get a PG-13 pic of this. I can only imagine what the neighbors think since she does it on the stoop.
Jogging for aspiration.
Fishing for aspiration.
Kepler had finished her second aspiration long before now, so she's living an easy life for the moment and gets tucked in by her dad. He still wants to be a Super Parent, but I keep forgetting about it so his parenting skill isn't quite as high as I would like.
The sun returns, so Suisei drinks her sun resistance cocktail, and I notice only a moment too late that it's spoiled. I don't know why, but I kind of assumed it would keep in her inventory. She got sick from drinking it, but she also was protected from the sun.
Of course, now she was too uncomfortable from the nausea to fish, but not too uncomfortable to take a selfie of her glow. I think we've had just about enough skilling. Time to get on with things. But first, a brief break for cousins and pseudo-cousins.
With Kepler about to be a teen, I wanted all the related kids to be teens too. This is Rook's son, Zond. He ended up as a Renaissance Sim who is Lazy and a Perfectionist. That sounds terrible. So glad he's not in the main household.
His striking sister, Gaia, Loves the Outdoors and is a Music Lover, and she wants to be Chief of Mischief. She's a good blend of Rook and Kyra.
And Bradley's vampire daughter Rosetta comes into her own and takes after her mother quite a bit. She's Erratic and Lazy (what's with all the laziness? Shape up your household, Hart boys!) and wants to be a City Native.
Now on to Hugh's kids. Malakai got the better deal with the genetics. In keeping with their dad's philosophy, I let them dress and style themselves and just added freckles and eyelashes. Malakai wants to be a Bodybuilder and is Unflirty and a Glutton. Another combination I'm glad I don't have to play!
Liliana wants to be a Mansion Baron, and she is Materialistic (fitting) and Unflirty (again with the repeat trait). I guess after seeing their dad pine away for a lost love all his life, neither of them want anything to do with romance.
With all the guests squared away, it's time for Kepler's birthday. Only Gaia made it into the kitchen with the family.
Still, Kepler had a rousing cheering section for her twirl.
The guests, such as they were, could mostly be found downstairs messing around.
However, Laika's vigilant barking alerted me to the fact that Hugh was making himself at home in the master bath. A little creepy, even for you, Hugh.
Hugh: "This mud mask will give me that fresh look, and then Hadley will love me!"
Keep dreaming, I guess.
Eventually Elisa and Rosetta stagger in. Like mother, like daughter. I actually had Hadley insta-upgrade the weather machine and use it to make it a cloudy day so all the vampires in the family could attend. But they still have the audacity to not look thrilled about it.
Kepler's aspiration is Master Chef, and she is currently a Neat Loner. I had her get started on making a grand meal to feed all her guests, and Zond, Suisei, and Gaia kept her company while she stumbled her way through her first cooking experience.
Eventually most of the teens congregated in the basement to socialize. It does take forever to cook grand meals!
Suisei took a moment to admire the vamp lair and wonder what her future holds for her.
Just a brief moment of Rook with his charming children. The super-model kid grew up into a FINE dad with striking kids.
Finally, after gaining like four or five skill points in the process, Kepler completes the grand meal and calls everyone to eat, then I immediately cancel all my vampires' queues to eat and hope the rest of the vampires in attendance won't be sick all over. Yeah, this was definitely a good idea.
The meal turned out to be pretty fun. About half of the people ate in here.
And the other half out here including -- sigh -- Jordon, who is feeding in his own way on the mixologist again.
Hadley: "Ugh, I think I'm going to be sick. Human food, blech!"
I know I canceled your interactions to eat at least three times, so this one is on you, Hadley. Anyway, the party wound down and it was time to makeover Kepler and tie up a few loose ends before the conclusion of my turn.
According to the randomizer, Kepler is an extremely basic goth. This will not stand!
Instead she gets a super cute and quirky shy-but-interesting-girl makeover to match her personality, all bedecked in purple, of course. She also has her trademark glasses. She got a shoulder tattoo too, but I didn't take any pictures of it. I thinks she's secretly a rebel and her parents don't know she got it yet.
Here's everyday for Kepler.
And here's her party, which I think is just the coolest outfit. These are actually separates and I found out they match by accident. She looks so swank in this.
And with that, the play time of my turn is officially over. It's time to corral the girls for portraits, clean up the house, and package everything for Kristina. Portraits first.
Cassini struck a nice confident pose.
Suisei was definitely feeling her look.
Kepler, uh, could you face the camera and pose?
Just, like, a cute pose, please? Does this really have to be so hard?
Okay, that is super cute. Well done.
And here's the portraits. One of these will be hanging on the wall in the portrait hallway next chapter as the heiress. Who will it be?
We've got three fantastic candidates for heiress. They're all different, but there's a lot of similarities in looks and they're all wonderful in personality. Let's take a look at the girls one last time.
Cassini
Suisei
Suisei's dark form
Kepler
And with that, I can say my turn is done, as is Hadley's reign as heiress. What will the future hold for our immortal vampires? Who will the heiress be? What's next for the Hart family? You'll have to wait for Kristina's turn, because after the longest time and way too many packs passing by, I am finally done with this generation. Thanks for reading!
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