Delve Into Lunacy

I had read somewhere that it was possible to get gender specific features, such as facial hair, to show up on the other gender if you simply switched the gender after adding the feature in the Create A Sim window. So that gave me the idea to create the Freak family where I could have a bearded woman, Bat Boy with the pointy ears like off the cover of Weekly World News, etc. I tried it and it didn’t work so I decided to just create a trailer trash kind of family.

That’s how the Biggins came about. This was the first time I created more than just one guy to start the family with but I basically wanted to start having kids right off the bat. So Clancy is the guy and Gerta is the girl. Both are large body types and I’m going to work on keeping them fat even though Clancy needs the body skill since he went into law enforcement. I set both of them to the family aspiration and luckily when it was randomly picking lifetime wants they both ended up with “Golden Anniversary”. So they should be able to hit that want pretty easily.

Like I mentioned before, Clancy went into law enforcement since I figured that went well with his helmet that he wanted to wear so badly (I argued with him about that helmet for hours before finally giving in). Gerta I don’t plan on ever getting a job since her primary reason to be added to the family right off was to be a womb and live in nanny. Once a kid gets within a day or so of being a child so I can control them manually I’ll have Clancy get her pregnant again. I’m curious to see just how many kids I can get them to crank out this way.

The money situation kind of sucks with these two, but since I went with the trailer trash theme I guess that is more fitting. I’ve gone ahead and dropped a bunch of money trees in their living room so that should be enough to get them by when added to Clancy’s paycheck. My only concern now is beds for all the kids they’ll eventually have. I guess I could chuck them out into the back yard.

Anyway, at this point the Biggins have had one baby girl, named Puddin, that just switched to being a toddler. Surprisingly, it’s the first baby I’ve had in the game that looked somewhat normal. Pretty sad considering each of the other kids had at least one attractive parent whereas both Clancy and Gerta are pretty homely. Maybe she has just successfully avoided the ugly stick so far and things will change once she becomes a child or teenager. I’m hoping their next kid is a boy for two reasons. The first one is that none of the families have created a boy yet and I’d like to hook some of these kids up once they become adults. Secondly I really want them to have a kid named Herbie.

You can find the family album for the Biggins in the “The Sims 2 - Family Album Collection” post.