Beaker


Gundrun was happy. She had given birth to an adorable baby boy named Loki and spent most of her time playing with him.



Little Loki looked just like his daddy and was Gundrun’s little sunshine.



Canute had recently died and Gertrude was grieving, but her little grandson helped her through it. It was good that she looked after Loki, because Gundrun was pregnant again.



She soon gave birth to a little daughter named Erin.



But shortly after, Gertrude died. Bjorn was devastated. So was Gundrun. Her parents had already died a while back, and Gertrude had comforted her during that time. She had always acted as a mediator between her son and daughter-in-law. Both missed her a lot.



Bjorn spent more and more time at work. When he wasn’t working, he kept himself busy in his hobby room.



Meanwhile, Gundrun watched her children grow up.


Grunt


General Chip loved coming home to his happy family life. Every evening, Molly would chat through dinner, telling her daddy all she had seen that day. Buzz was more of a quiet person and had to be prodded to tell his stories.



He always enjoyed listening to Chip talk about the military though. That was the only time when he’d ask questions and he had lots of them. Chip found himself teaching his son all about the military and by the age of six, Buzz could identify every military rank like other children could do with dinosaurs.



Buzz loved the fact that his grandfather had started a military tradition in the family and was determined to keep it up. He would be a general like his father and all of his sons would be generals too!



Not the daughters though. One look at his sister convinced Buzz that she would make a terrible soldier. She could stay at home and cuddle their mother or something.



Yep. Buzz had it all figured out. Dad wouldn’t have to worry about anything, his son was there to carry on the family legacy.

Chip thought it was the most adorable thing.


Curious


The Curious family kept growing. Jenny and Pascal were children by now and looked just like Kitty and Glarn when they were younger.



The newest arrival was little Vidcund, also known as “Daddy, what were you thinking with that name?” He currently seemed to enjoy himself.



With Kitty pregnant once again with her fourth child, Jenny took over the household. She explained Pascal’s homework to him and kept him entertained, and she warmed the meals Kitty had left for them.



Caring for her youngest child and the pregnancy left Kitty exhausted, so she gladly left some of her duties to her eldest daughter.



Jenny had tried to take over raising Vidcund as well, but unlike Pascal he didn’t follow her instructions at all.

“Stand on your legs. No, stand on your legs! No, don’t put your hand in your mouth, stand on your legs!”

After an afternoon of this, Jenny had complained to her mother that Vidcund wasn’t trying hard enough and given up on him.



Coming home from work, Glarn found a rested wife, a smiling toddler and two children with finished homework. Jenny really did a great job as Mommy 2.0.



And she still found time to play videogames with Pascal.



The adorable Loki Beaker. Look at how adorable this guy is! You're supposed to be Evil Incarnate, Loki, how is anybody supposed to take you seriously with that chin?

...Yeah, Loki was one of the three genetically impossible sims for Strangetown. I knew that from the beginning, but still, he turned out even more adorable than it should be possible. Maybe the beard will help?

Poor Gundrun, her marriage really didn't turn out as wonderful as she'd hoped.


The Grunt house is pretty close to the original, just a few of the paths where everybody gets stuck fixed.


Children can't really raise their siblings ingame, but I always thought that Jenny started out mommying her three brothers and enjoyed it so much that she became a family sim. Also, I wish it was possible for children to try and fail to teach toddlers. I tried to teach my little sister to read and to play the recorder and it was really funny.


What WAS Glarn thinking with that name? I mean, why would you name a child Vidcund? What kind of name is that?

Quote:

Vidcund Curious: a Norwegian first name, which fell out of fashion as Vidkun Quisling became leader of the Nazi puppet government of Norway during World War II.

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I rest my case.


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