Merrick Legacy, 5.2
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napoleonherselfIf I can't get around to posting a Merrick update during a four-day weekend, then when *can* I?
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Adrian returned home to start generation five of the Merrick family. He married his college flame Kaylynn, they ran off to their honeymoon, and three days later she popped out three kids. Then I went quietly mad trying to keep people moving up their career tracks without the babies starving. But they didn't starve! Kaylynn had strong opinions about ghosts, and I had strong opinions about two of the kids -- Arlene and Doc Boy -- both having the exact same faces. (The third baby, Lyman, inherited the opposite version of almost every facial feature from his sibs.) Arlene made friends with grandpa Michael, who then died; Adrian got fired from his job the very next day, because apparently bereavement leave doesn't exist in this world. Then the kids hit teen and all turned gay!
This time:
Welcome back to the Merrick household, where this happens about 17 times per night!
ghost!Michael: HOW COULD YOU SLEEP THROUGH YOUR POOR WIFE'S TERROR BOO!!!
Adrian: I'msorrydadpleasedon'teatme!
ghost!Michael: HEY I THINK YOUR HUSBAND WANDERED OFF AND LEFT YOU TO FACE ME ALONE BOO!!!
Kaylynn: My bowels :(
Adrian: Um, lady outside the screen, I'm very hungry? I want food please :(
I know, sweetie. Your dad's an asshole. Now eat those nice omelettes I had you cook, hmm?
Adrian: Eggies :3
ghost!Michael: YOU YOUNG PUNKS GET OFF MY LAWN BOO!!!
Lyman: I am filled with equal parts terror and joy! [+5,000]
Knowledge sims.
ghost!Michael: IT'S BEEN FIVE MINUTES WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE BOO!!!
Lyman: Ohmygod, wait till I post about this on my blog!
ghost!Michael: YOU'RE A NERD AND YOU'LL NEVER GET LAID BOO!!!
Lyman: Wait, really? D:
Well, you HAVE not rolled one single romantical want yet, unlike your sibs...
The next afternoon, someone breaks the shower, so I make Doc Boy fix it.
Doc Boy: Yep, time to fix this happy little shower :)
Doc Boy: I WILL KILL YOUR FUCKING FAMILY, SHOWER.
Doc Boy: La la, in my happy place :)
Doc Boy: MY HAPPY PLACE IS FULL OF SCREAMING AND DEATH
At least he got it fixed I guess?
Then I remember that the matchmaker exists, and since the Merricks are like super-rich right now, I call her over post haste.
WHAT
Okay, lady, first of all, Knute is straight. Second of all, HE IS A RELATIVE OH MY GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
I'd hide too.
Doc Boy gets a pixel_trade townie who actually isn't straight! Heir spouse ineligible, but a good choice aside from that. You're off your game, gypsy.
A straight girl for Arlene. I stand corrected.
And you can tell it's a boring date, because Arlene spends the whole thing wanting to go steady with aged-up Maxis child Carmen.
All three kids get a second date, too. Doc Boy gets some straight guy I don't bother screenshotting...
...Lyman gets this rather interestingly-chinned young lady, and they hit it off pretty well...
...and Arlene gets a college student named Phineaus which blah blah whatever she still wants to go steady with Carmen.
Phin's a creeper, btw. He literally spent four sim-hours standing in the same place next to Doc Boy's bed, alternating between viewing the painting and viewing the teenager.
And this is AFTER he walked in on (and took a while to walk away from) Adrian and Kaylynn having sex.
Yyyyyep. Real winner there, gypsy.
Although Monica wins the long-distance peeing award for the night!
ghost!Titania: It's okay, sweetie, you'll win next time!
Adrian: GYAAAAH
Oh, and I should probably show the kids with their teenager makeovers, huh.
Arlene somehow came out looking really pretty...
...while Doc Boy came out kind of awkward. Despite the fact that they both have the exact same face.
Lyman, meanwhile, is super-shiny, even after an application of "Enayla makes her skins too shiny so here's some matte powders that exist SOLELY TO CORRECT HER MISTAKES" makeup. And he doesn't have any chance of having inherited the purple eyes which founder Titania had. But I still kind of like him.
I like them all. I have no idea how to pick an heir.
lol red pause line
Kaylynn: Yeah, nice teen makeovers there. Maybe you should show my ADULT makeover which I've had since those kids were BORN, lady-on-the-other-side-of-the-screen-who-I'm-betting-is-not-immortal.
I, um. Er. Please don't hurt me? Look, now everyone can see your everyday clothes instead of the nightgown that I've already posted like twenty pictures of you in.
Kaylynn: YOU WHAT?
Running away now!
YOU JUST WANT TO WATCH THE UNDERAGE BOY SLEEP AND WE ALL KNOW IT.
One evening, every Merrick except one rolls the want to study! Can you guess which one was forced to against his will?
Nice death glare, Doc Boy. :D
Oh, good, underage drinking. And what's got Lyman hitting the bottle...?
Oh. Maybe it's the fact that when I brought the matchmaker over for another round of dates, she hooked Doc Boy up with Pedostalker Phineaus.
...
I think I need a drink now too.
Meanwhile, Adrian and Kaylynn are each just three days away from elder, and since they need the aspiration boost, I send them on a date. In... er... the hallway outside the bathroom.
LOOK THE WALLPAPER MEANS THAT IT IS KIND OF LIKE A TROPICAL VACATION OKAY.
Despite having been married to, and having regular sex with, this woman for over a decade, Adrian is still as much the derpy lovestruck loser as he was back when he was an idiot college boy.
Adrian: Derr I'm dancing with a girrrrl O_O
I'm going to be sad when he dies.
Senility's apparently setting in early, though, as he wants to simultaneously quit and max out his job. And since his LTW is to reach the top, I'm sure as hell not letting him quit now.
It's time for old-people sparkles! Man I really hope Adrian came home with a promotion so he's in platinum when he ages up.
yesssss
Try not to look too excited, there, Aides.
Adrian: Look, Kaylynn! Look! I'm about to spin too! Look! Are you looking?
Kaylynn: Yes dear.
Adrian: Pretty sprinkles 8D
Kaylynn: Yes dear.
They both aged up in platinum, so I have a little while longer before they join the Merrick ghost army.
Fun fact: some players of this game kill their sims as soon as they hit elder.
Because elder sims are "gross".
Some players of this game are assholes.
ghost!jerkface Derek: WON'T BE LONG NOW YOU LITTLE BASTARD
Adrian: MY LEGS
Hah, I was going to have Adrian protest the term "bastard", and then I remembered that he actually is.
Kaylynn gets a chance card her first day of work as an elder, and I'm convinced that I'll pick wrong, she'll get fired, and that will be it for her LTW -- she probably won't make it anyway, she wants $100,000 and she's only at like $40,000, but it's still theoretically possible on a non-elder career track if I have her do a LOT of paintings. So I read the card...
I... I kind of want to play the bunny game. It sounds like something on Adult Swim's website.
On the one hand, yay! She didn't lose her job. On the other hand... how is this a fail? That sounds like the most awesome game ever. I REALLY want to play it now. :( :( :(
Even as Adrian and Kaylynn hit elder, the kids are edging toward young adult. I bring the matchmaker over to airdrop a bunch of people on them for dates; as each date ends, I don't ask them to leave, so I wind up with a bunch of NPCs and playables from other families running around the property. I pay them little mind.
And then, looking for the woman I'd influenced to clean (she cleaned up everything EXCEPT the dirty dishes which were what I actually WANTED cleaned), I found this:
O___O
No! Not, uh, whatever his name was! Phil, right? Yeah, Phil.
Save him, Doc Boy! We already have enough ghosts around here!
Plus his corpse is already stinking and it's not even cold yet.
Death: LET'S SEE HERE... 'PARTY OF THE FIRST PART'...
Death: ...'INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS'... BE WITH YOU IN A MINUTE...
Doc Boy: Sure.
Doc Boy: Oh, please don't take Phil! Having had one date with him, during which absolutely nothing romantic happened because he's straight and the gypsy just likes to screw around with everyone, I've realized that I cannot live in a world without him!
Death: NOT THIS AGAIN.
Death: PICK A HAND.
Doc Boy: Uhh...
Doc Boy: YES! In your skeletal FACE! See that, invisible great-great grandpa? I WON!
Death: DAMMIT.
Death: FINE, LET'S DO THIS.
Doc Boy: Er. Um. Wait. He's all floating and...
Doc Boy: I am now questioning my decision.
Phil: UM YEAH YOU JUST SAVED ME FROM DEATH AND ALSO WE ARE FRIENDS BUT NO HUGS KTHX
...
Next time just let him die, Doc Boy.
Is it wrong that I find this little father-son outing completely adorable?
...this view from the doorway of the master bedroom is somewhat less adorable.
ghost!jerkface Derek: WHY DOES MY PORTRAIT HAVE SUCH AN UNPLEASANT FACE. I AM A VERY PLEASANT PERSON.
Thanks, gypsy. You have now dumped this pedo creeper on all three Merrick kids this generation. >:|
Doc Boy: [leaving for college]
Phineaus: [creeping]
Man, this generation is going by fast. College!
WHERE FORREST STILL HAS HOMEWORK LEFT ON THE DESK FROM LAST GENERATION WHAT THE HELL.
LYMAN
Knowledge (LTW: top the medical career)
6 Neat
2 Outgoing
7 Active
10 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: swimsuits and glasses/full-face makeup
Bi.
DOC BOY
Fortune (LTW: top the criminal career)
10 Neat
10 Outgoing
1 Active
3 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: formalwear and black hair/vampires
Gay.
ARLENE
Family (LTW: marry off six kids)
10 Neat
7 Outgoing
8 Active
3 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fitness and blonds/perfume
Bi.
Now that the kids are young adults, I can see what kind of chemistry they have with other adults, and... and... oh dear.
No, Merricks! Resist the apparent allure of the pedo creeper! You're probably too old for him now anyway!
Given a choice between her three three-bolt matches, Arlene likes the pedo creeper best...
...although at least she seems to realize that there's something wrong with that.
Sadly, my attempts to nudge her toward other, less creepy relationships are not altogether successful.
Matthew: Um, yeah, no, why would I want to go out with you?
GEE I DON'T KNOW MATTHEW.
Lyman fares a lot better, landing a kind of awkward, derpy first kiss on his kind of awkward, derpy date. Well, I mean, she's the sorority girl in a business suit, bunned hair and glasses; you tell me what Maxis was going for there.
Naturally, as soon as their first date together is over, Ly is already eager to pop the question.
Doc Boy, why :(
And yet, because I love these kids, I'm letting them make their share of stupid decisions if that's what they want... even going out with Phineaus again. Arlene gets him first.
Creeper Phineaus: HEY BABY THAT WAS FUN BUT I BET IT'D BE EVEN MORE FUN IF YOU WERE DRUNK
You goddamn pretentious beatnik-looking perv.
I let the kids throw a party, and while Doc Boy rolls this want...
...turns out Lyman is the one who gets his first woohoo.
It's not bad.
Oh, and for like half the party there are parents smustling in the courtyard, fulfilling their duty to embarrass their children. It's probably even MORE embarrassing that both Adrian and Kaylynn dance the smustle really well -- it's, like, omigod, your parents PRACTICE dancing like idiots? And then the derisive laughter.
Cafeteria guy: HOLY MOTHER OF GOD HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING
Good question. We're running about one fire every two days here. All caused by this food service "professional".
I'm going to leave off with a picture that should help sum up how hard I'm finding it to pick an heir here.
These are the kids' relationship panels, sorted by chemistry, and THEY ALL WANT THE SAME PEOPLE OH MY GOD. Well, I mean, the overlap isn't perfect, especially considering that Doc Boy is gay so he doesn't want any of the women that his brother and sister want. But argh. The boys are both attracted to Andrzej, Arlene and Doc Boy are both attracted to Kennedy and Frances, EVERYONE's into Matthew, Anthony, and Phineaus... and I can't even just let everyone have whoever's first in their list, because Arlene's highest chemistry match reacts negatively to flirting even though they're best friends!
And I love all three kids, and was hoping that interesting potential spouse options would help me make a decision, but it's just not turning out that way at all.
STOP BEING SO LOVEABLE YOU DAMN MERRICKS.
I mean, seriously. The house doesn't even have ROOM to triple-heir.
Next time: romance! Drama! Unprotected sex! I pick an heir finally!
Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4
5.1
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4
5.1
General warning: sometimes I swear.
Last time: Adrian returned home to start generation five of the Merrick family. He married his college flame Kaylynn, they ran off to their honeymoon, and three days later she popped out three kids. Then I went quietly mad trying to keep people moving up their career tracks without the babies starving. But they didn't starve! Kaylynn had strong opinions about ghosts, and I had strong opinions about two of the kids -- Arlene and Doc Boy -- both having the exact same faces. (The third baby, Lyman, inherited the opposite version of almost every facial feature from his sibs.) Arlene made friends with grandpa Michael, who then died; Adrian got fired from his job the very next day, because apparently bereavement leave doesn't exist in this world. Then the kids hit teen and all turned gay!
This time:
Welcome back to the Merrick household, where this happens about 17 times per night!
ghost!Michael: HOW COULD YOU SLEEP THROUGH YOUR POOR WIFE'S TERROR BOO!!!
Adrian: I'msorrydadpleasedon'teatme!
ghost!Michael: HEY I THINK YOUR HUSBAND WANDERED OFF AND LEFT YOU TO FACE ME ALONE BOO!!!
Kaylynn: My bowels :(
Adrian: Um, lady outside the screen, I'm very hungry? I want food please :(
I know, sweetie. Your dad's an asshole. Now eat those nice omelettes I had you cook, hmm?
Adrian: Eggies :3
ghost!Michael: YOU YOUNG PUNKS GET OFF MY LAWN BOO!!!
Lyman: I am filled with equal parts terror and joy! [+5,000]
Knowledge sims.
ghost!Michael: IT'S BEEN FIVE MINUTES WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE BOO!!!
Lyman: Ohmygod, wait till I post about this on my blog!
ghost!Michael: YOU'RE A NERD AND YOU'LL NEVER GET LAID BOO!!!
Lyman: Wait, really? D:
Well, you HAVE not rolled one single romantical want yet, unlike your sibs...
The next afternoon, someone breaks the shower, so I make Doc Boy fix it.
Doc Boy: Yep, time to fix this happy little shower :)
Doc Boy: I WILL KILL YOUR FUCKING FAMILY, SHOWER.
Doc Boy: La la, in my happy place :)
Doc Boy: MY HAPPY PLACE IS FULL OF SCREAMING AND DEATH
At least he got it fixed I guess?
Then I remember that the matchmaker exists, and since the Merricks are like super-rich right now, I call her over post haste.
WHAT
Okay, lady, first of all, Knute is straight. Second of all, HE IS A RELATIVE OH MY GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
I'd hide too.
Doc Boy gets a pixel_trade townie who actually isn't straight! Heir spouse ineligible, but a good choice aside from that. You're off your game, gypsy.
A straight girl for Arlene. I stand corrected.
And you can tell it's a boring date, because Arlene spends the whole thing wanting to go steady with aged-up Maxis child Carmen.
All three kids get a second date, too. Doc Boy gets some straight guy I don't bother screenshotting...
...Lyman gets this rather interestingly-chinned young lady, and they hit it off pretty well...
...and Arlene gets a college student named Phineaus which blah blah whatever she still wants to go steady with Carmen.
Phin's a creeper, btw. He literally spent four sim-hours standing in the same place next to Doc Boy's bed, alternating between viewing the painting and viewing the teenager.
And this is AFTER he walked in on (and took a while to walk away from) Adrian and Kaylynn having sex.
Yyyyyep. Real winner there, gypsy.
Although Monica wins the long-distance peeing award for the night!
ghost!Titania: It's okay, sweetie, you'll win next time!
Adrian: GYAAAAH
Oh, and I should probably show the kids with their teenager makeovers, huh.
Arlene somehow came out looking really pretty...
...while Doc Boy came out kind of awkward. Despite the fact that they both have the exact same face.
Lyman, meanwhile, is super-shiny, even after an application of "Enayla makes her skins too shiny so here's some matte powders that exist SOLELY TO CORRECT HER MISTAKES" makeup. And he doesn't have any chance of having inherited the purple eyes which founder Titania had. But I still kind of like him.
I like them all. I have no idea how to pick an heir.
lol red pause line
Kaylynn: Yeah, nice teen makeovers there. Maybe you should show my ADULT makeover which I've had since those kids were BORN, lady-on-the-other-side-of-the-screen-who-I'm-betting-is-not-immortal.
I, um. Er. Please don't hurt me? Look, now everyone can see your everyday clothes instead of the nightgown that I've already posted like twenty pictures of you in.
Kaylynn: YOU WHAT?
Running away now!
YOU JUST WANT TO WATCH THE UNDERAGE BOY SLEEP AND WE ALL KNOW IT.
One evening, every Merrick except one rolls the want to study! Can you guess which one was forced to against his will?
Nice death glare, Doc Boy. :D
Oh, good, underage drinking. And what's got Lyman hitting the bottle...?
Oh. Maybe it's the fact that when I brought the matchmaker over for another round of dates, she hooked Doc Boy up with Pedostalker Phineaus.
...
I think I need a drink now too.
Meanwhile, Adrian and Kaylynn are each just three days away from elder, and since they need the aspiration boost, I send them on a date. In... er... the hallway outside the bathroom.
LOOK THE WALLPAPER MEANS THAT IT IS KIND OF LIKE A TROPICAL VACATION OKAY.
Despite having been married to, and having regular sex with, this woman for over a decade, Adrian is still as much the derpy lovestruck loser as he was back when he was an idiot college boy.
Adrian: Derr I'm dancing with a girrrrl O_O
I'm going to be sad when he dies.
Senility's apparently setting in early, though, as he wants to simultaneously quit and max out his job. And since his LTW is to reach the top, I'm sure as hell not letting him quit now.
It's time for old-people sparkles! Man I really hope Adrian came home with a promotion so he's in platinum when he ages up.
yesssss
Try not to look too excited, there, Aides.
Adrian: Look, Kaylynn! Look! I'm about to spin too! Look! Are you looking?
Kaylynn: Yes dear.
Adrian: Pretty sprinkles 8D
Kaylynn: Yes dear.
They both aged up in platinum, so I have a little while longer before they join the Merrick ghost army.
Fun fact: some players of this game kill their sims as soon as they hit elder.
Because elder sims are "gross".
Some players of this game are assholes.
ghost!jerkface Derek: WON'T BE LONG NOW YOU LITTLE BASTARD
Adrian: MY LEGS
Hah, I was going to have Adrian protest the term "bastard", and then I remembered that he actually is.
Kaylynn gets a chance card her first day of work as an elder, and I'm convinced that I'll pick wrong, she'll get fired, and that will be it for her LTW -- she probably won't make it anyway, she wants $100,000 and she's only at like $40,000, but it's still theoretically possible on a non-elder career track if I have her do a LOT of paintings. So I read the card...
I... I kind of want to play the bunny game. It sounds like something on Adult Swim's website.
On the one hand, yay! She didn't lose her job. On the other hand... how is this a fail? That sounds like the most awesome game ever. I REALLY want to play it now. :( :( :(
Even as Adrian and Kaylynn hit elder, the kids are edging toward young adult. I bring the matchmaker over to airdrop a bunch of people on them for dates; as each date ends, I don't ask them to leave, so I wind up with a bunch of NPCs and playables from other families running around the property. I pay them little mind.
And then, looking for the woman I'd influenced to clean (she cleaned up everything EXCEPT the dirty dishes which were what I actually WANTED cleaned), I found this:
O___O
No! Not, uh, whatever his name was! Phil, right? Yeah, Phil.
Save him, Doc Boy! We already have enough ghosts around here!
Plus his corpse is already stinking and it's not even cold yet.
Death: LET'S SEE HERE... 'PARTY OF THE FIRST PART'...
Death: ...'INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS'... BE WITH YOU IN A MINUTE...
Doc Boy: Sure.
Doc Boy: Oh, please don't take Phil! Having had one date with him, during which absolutely nothing romantic happened because he's straight and the gypsy just likes to screw around with everyone, I've realized that I cannot live in a world without him!
Death: NOT THIS AGAIN.
Death: PICK A HAND.
Doc Boy: Uhh...
Doc Boy: YES! In your skeletal FACE! See that, invisible great-great grandpa? I WON!
Death: DAMMIT.
Death: FINE, LET'S DO THIS.
Doc Boy: Er. Um. Wait. He's all floating and...
Doc Boy: I am now questioning my decision.
Phil: UM YEAH YOU JUST SAVED ME FROM DEATH AND ALSO WE ARE FRIENDS BUT NO HUGS KTHX
...
Next time just let him die, Doc Boy.
Is it wrong that I find this little father-son outing completely adorable?
...this view from the doorway of the master bedroom is somewhat less adorable.
ghost!jerkface Derek: WHY DOES MY PORTRAIT HAVE SUCH AN UNPLEASANT FACE. I AM A VERY PLEASANT PERSON.
Thanks, gypsy. You have now dumped this pedo creeper on all three Merrick kids this generation. >:|
Doc Boy: [leaving for college]
Phineaus: [creeping]
Man, this generation is going by fast. College!
WHERE FORREST STILL HAS HOMEWORK LEFT ON THE DESK FROM LAST GENERATION WHAT THE HELL.
LYMAN
Knowledge (LTW: top the medical career)
6 Neat
2 Outgoing
7 Active
10 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: swimsuits and glasses/full-face makeup
Bi.
DOC BOY
Fortune (LTW: top the criminal career)
10 Neat
10 Outgoing
1 Active
3 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: formalwear and black hair/vampires
Gay.
ARLENE
Family (LTW: marry off six kids)
10 Neat
7 Outgoing
8 Active
3 Playful
3 Nice
Turn-ons/off: fitness and blonds/perfume
Bi.
Now that the kids are young adults, I can see what kind of chemistry they have with other adults, and... and... oh dear.
No, Merricks! Resist the apparent allure of the pedo creeper! You're probably too old for him now anyway!
Given a choice between her three three-bolt matches, Arlene likes the pedo creeper best...
...although at least she seems to realize that there's something wrong with that.
Sadly, my attempts to nudge her toward other, less creepy relationships are not altogether successful.
Matthew: Um, yeah, no, why would I want to go out with you?
GEE I DON'T KNOW MATTHEW.
Lyman fares a lot better, landing a kind of awkward, derpy first kiss on his kind of awkward, derpy date. Well, I mean, she's the sorority girl in a business suit, bunned hair and glasses; you tell me what Maxis was going for there.
Naturally, as soon as their first date together is over, Ly is already eager to pop the question.
Doc Boy, why :(
And yet, because I love these kids, I'm letting them make their share of stupid decisions if that's what they want... even going out with Phineaus again. Arlene gets him first.
Creeper Phineaus: HEY BABY THAT WAS FUN BUT I BET IT'D BE EVEN MORE FUN IF YOU WERE DRUNK
You goddamn pretentious beatnik-looking perv.
I let the kids throw a party, and while Doc Boy rolls this want...
...turns out Lyman is the one who gets his first woohoo.
It's not bad.
Oh, and for like half the party there are parents smustling in the courtyard, fulfilling their duty to embarrass their children. It's probably even MORE embarrassing that both Adrian and Kaylynn dance the smustle really well -- it's, like, omigod, your parents PRACTICE dancing like idiots? And then the derisive laughter.
Cafeteria guy: HOLY MOTHER OF GOD HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING
Good question. We're running about one fire every two days here. All caused by this food service "professional".
I'm going to leave off with a picture that should help sum up how hard I'm finding it to pick an heir here.
These are the kids' relationship panels, sorted by chemistry, and THEY ALL WANT THE SAME PEOPLE OH MY GOD. Well, I mean, the overlap isn't perfect, especially considering that Doc Boy is gay so he doesn't want any of the women that his brother and sister want. But argh. The boys are both attracted to Andrzej, Arlene and Doc Boy are both attracted to Kennedy and Frances, EVERYONE's into Matthew, Anthony, and Phineaus... and I can't even just let everyone have whoever's first in their list, because Arlene's highest chemistry match reacts negatively to flirting even though they're best friends!
And I love all three kids, and was hoping that interesting potential spouse options would help me make a decision, but it's just not turning out that way at all.
STOP BEING SO LOVEABLE YOU DAMN MERRICKS.
I mean, seriously. The house doesn't even have ROOM to triple-heir.
Next time: romance! Drama! Unprotected sex! I pick an heir finally!
