Growing Sims

Danielle, daughter of Jasmine Gregory (adopted daughter of Gerd Stein but adopted kids don't take the adoptive parents surname, it seems), was annoying - the most annoying character I've had to deal with in the Sims.  When she was a child she complained about not having fun but didn't actually do anything about it.  Even worse, as a teen, she complained about being hungry but didn't go to the perfectly full fridge to feed herself.

She did a lot of arm-waving. (She had a makeover, getting rid of her long curly hair and making it red.)

I was so intent on seeing what stupid thing she was up to (mostly worrying about cockroaches) that I didn't see the death of Jagd.

With the only member of that family that I liked gone, there wasn't much point carrying on with the rest.  (Jasmine had no boyfriend or anything exciting happening.)  I didn't have to do anything though.  Danielle starved herself through her own stupidity.

I suppose I could have actually directed her to go to the fridge but I wanted to see how dumb she was.

Sure enough, she died.

Jasmine turned into an elder shortly after that.

She was pretty tired that day.

I hastened Jasmine's demise with a devilish machine.

She was definitely in the red zone after that little electrocution.

The Grim Reaper helped himself to a drink after that.

So that's the end of the "Stein" legacy.

I knew his death was near which is why I got Jasmine back home from uni.  She found a job as a senior manager straight away but her first day of work was a day off.  She took the dog, Jagd for a walk, chatted online and had meals with Gerd who also had the day off.  Gerd was still working as a state assembly man.  One evening he invited Dan and his wife around (unaware that Jasmine knows Dan very well).  Dan and Jasmine kissed in the upstairs bathroom but didn't stop soon enough and Dan's wife, Veronica, caught them at it.  Little does she know that Dan has 2 other affairs going on as well, one of whom has just given birth to his son.

So the next evening came and Gerd had had a good day and even worked out a bit.  He gave Jagd a wash in the bath but just after that the Grim Reaper arrived.  Jagd started howling immediately.

Gerd was still in the bath!  He died at 67.

So now it was just Jasmine and Jagd.  Gerd had so few friends and family that the inheritence was split among just 3 people with Jasmine getting most of it.  She missed her adoptive father who'd never married or had a girlfriend.  Sad.

Gerd's getting older, now in his mid-60s, and since Jasmine was at university, he was alone again.  But with the addition of Sims Pets (yay!) he could now have a companion!

Gerd's new companion is a lovely, but naughty, German Shepherd (naturally!) called Jagd.

Here's Jagd chewing his squeaky bone, while old Gerd plays guitar.  The unfortunate thing is that Gerd will probably die before Jagd does.  So Jasmine will have to take care of it.

Jasmine was at Academie le Tour and she moved into Dan's dorm just after Sonique left and before Dan left so she got to know Dan a little.

Here's Jasmine (her real surname is Gregory apparently).  She's the blonde.

She was hoping to get to know Dan better, but it was apparent that he had a girlfriend already - she spotted him hugging and kissing redhead, Veronica Go (sister of Katelyn??). 

Dan has actually now asked Veronica to marry him.  She said yes, so Dan's moved back to Veronaville and will soon ask Veronica to join him. 

(Now I've got pets, some of my other characters want one, the demanding buggers - Darlene wants a puppy, for example.  Well she ain't gettin' one!)

Well, Caryn grew into a teen and promptly left for college (where I dumped her, sad to say).  That left Gerd with blonde Jasmine wearing her pretty blue nightie.  Before I knew it the social worker came round to take her away because her grades fell to F - on the day Jasmine was due to be a teen!  I thought Jasmine had done all her homework (because I couldn't see it).  Well I'm not having that!  Reset and made sure she did her homework, in between beating the teddy up and cooking muffins in her toy oven.  (I think Caryn was the nicer, more intelligent child - oh well.)

Jasmine's successfully grown into a teen.

Meanwhile over at Mellon Collie's place - the rift seems to have healed between her and Remington.  They're not quite ready to 'woohoo' again but they can now share a bed and cuddle.  Remington is still afraid that Chris will refuse his engagement proposal though - oh dear - will have to keep him away from her.

Sharlene has walked past in a couple of places and she's huge - she must be going to have twins!

[Pics later.]

Gerd has put on weight and is having trouble losing it.  This may be the reason Mariane is not interested in him, much to his disappointment.

He's realised that he will soon be an elder and he hasn't found a wife.  A blind date, arranged through the gypsy, didn't go as planned and time was running short.  He then thought about it and realised that the reason he wanted a wife was so he could have children to carry on his name.  The obvious answer was to cut out the wooing completely and adopt.

So Gerd rang the adoption agency and a child was delivered - a black girl with red hair.  This wasn't quite what he envisaged.  He'd hoped for a child who could pass for his own.  But as a blond-haired white guy, he couldn't really pass for a dark-skinned child's father.  So, the day after she arrived, he rang the adoption agency again and a lighter-skinned child with red hair turned up.  A quick change in the mirror resulted in a lighter-skinned blonde who could pass for his child.  So he has two girls - Caryn and Jasmine.  He's hoping Caryn will bugger off to university and disappear from his life so he can leave everything to Jasmine.  He becomes an elder in just three days.  It's a rather sad and lonely life for Gerd...

Old pic of Gerd:

Jasmine breakfasting with Gerd.