Sims 4 Legacy Challenge, Part 4: Mission: Get My Daughter Laid

(For those who missed it, read Part 3 here: https://corinnejet.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/sims-4-legacy-challenge-part-3-now-i-need-therapy-kinda/)

(Read from the beginning here)

This is Part 4 of my Sims 4 Legacy Challenge. I highly recommend going back and reading earlier parts, linked above, if you are new here, but the basics of this challenge are that I play a single family in the Sims, and create a matriarch. This matriarch starts with no money and an empty lot and has to build a house that will support ten whole generations of Sims, and then make a legacy that will last after her death.

Now that Magnolia is an adult and has the desired Bookworm trait, she is the official heir to her mother’s Legacy and can start popping out babies!

After Magnolia aged up, I had to decide what sort of people she would be attracted to. Well, in the WIP that Rose is based on, the Rose in that story has a daughter named Magnolia who turns out to be a lesbian. In The Sims 4, you can specify things like what gender your Sim is attracted to, whether or not they’re able to become pregnant, etc. So I headed straight into Create a Sim (CAS) to set up Magnolia’s sexuality.

For context, at this point in the game, Magnolia has not had a single romantic interaction. She barely even has any friends. And yet when I went into CAS to edit Magnolia’s romantic preferences, this is what I found:

Again, I have not even touched Magnolia in CAS at this point. Not even to edit her outfits. I mean, maybe I sleepwalked one night to my computer, started up the game, and changed her romantic preferences, all without waking up? But I don’t sleepwalk, so this is kinda scary how the game knew what her sexuality was before I did. xD

So now we knew who Magnolia would be attracted to. And now she’s a young adult, meaning she no longer has to worry about school. We have two main priorities: find her a girlfriend, and find her a job.

As for her sister, Ryll is now a child. When Ryll aged up from a toddler, this is what the game decided to dress her in:

Honestly, I love this outfit on Ryll and never ended up changing it. I figured this was the kind of dress her mother used to wewar before she became a Sim, and that’s where Ryll got her fashion sense.

Whenever she had a free moment, Magnolia went traveling around to various places looking for her Princess Charming. But none of the female Sims we met were attractive to her. In the Legacy challenge, you are allowed to download new Sims from the gallery using the #LegacyLoves tag, but even on that tag, I wasn’t really finding anyone who was Magnolia’s type. I was starting to think that she just needed to have a one-night stand to have a baby and would never find her soulmate like her parents had, until we had a chance meeting at the library!

In almost an exact reenactment of her parents’ meeting, Magnolia meets her new crush Leah at the library and bonds over a shared interest in books!

Magnolia started crushing HARD on Leah. They exchanged phone numbers, and Magnolia went home to find a job. Her adult aspiration turned out to be “Computer Whiz,” and since her mom was a programmer, Magnolia ended up going into programming as well, since that would complement her aspiration nicely. I wanted Magnolia to rise to the very top of her career, because both Rose and Thom had the “successful lineage” aspiration and they’d completed all but two requirements: “Have a child get married” and “have a child rise to the top level of a career.” I was determined to have Magnolia be the one to help them finish that aspiration.

In between Magnolia’s work shifts, she didn’t really have time to invite Leah on a date. But they called and texted each other almost every day, and Magnolia was DETERMINED to invite Leah on a date that coming Sunday. She was eating lunch when a surprise visitor showed up at the door…

Magnolia wastes no time in chatting Leah up, and shoos her nosy parents and nosy sister away from the computer room so she and Leah can have some privacy.

She and Leah got to know each other very well during this visit. She learned more about Leah (Leah is a neat freak, gloomy, and has that desired bookworm trait!) and they had lots of deep conversations and got up their friendship meter to a nice high value. By the end of the visit, Leah and Magnolia had declared each other BFFs, and as Leah was heading out to go back home, Magnolia snuck her very first kiss!

That expression of pleasant surprise on Leah’s face is just so adorable!

As it turns out, Leah was crushing bad on Magnolia, too. Maybe getting Magnolia laid isn’t going to be so difficult after all. xD

After that, Magnolia felt like Leah could be “the one” and wanted a storybook romance like the ones she’d always read about. They bade each other farewell, and kept in correspondence through the next week. When Leah came to Magnolia for advice about feeling burnt out in her career, she went away inspired to change jobs and soon found a new passion for working in the fast food industry and customer service. And then the following weekend rolled around, and Leah came over to hang out again!

Leah had learned how to play chess from working as a librarian, and taught Magnolia a few new moves.

During this visit, Magnolia realized that in fifty years, what she wanted was to be doing this exact same thing, playing chess and reading books together. They spent more quality time with each other, but during this visit, they also got to talking about the large age gap between them: Magnolia was in the prime of her youth, while Leah was almost an elder. They wouldn’t have much time together, and Magnolia would spend the better part of her life caring for Leah in her old age. But Magnolia had a plan.

Magnolia proposed to Leah on the spot!

Magnolia knew that Leah was her soulmate, and nothing was going to stop them from being together. Originally, she’d thought she’d do a storybook proposal: reenact their meet-cute at the library, go for a walk along the river, then propose under a cherry tree as the sun was setting. But what really mattered was Leah, and Magnolia had no time to waste. They got engaged, and set a wedding date for the following weekend.

Magnolia tells Mom that she’s engaged to Leah. She’s never really told her mom before about being a lesbian, but her mom is totally supportive of her. And most importantly, her mom is happy that Magnolia has found a Spouse of her own!As part of her career in game design, Magnolia became interested in video games, and she found a passion for livestreaming.

With her daughter getting married, Rose realized how far she had come from where she used to be.

Rose and Thom ended up having a quiet moment together, talking about Magnolia’s engagement and reflecting on their lives together.

The next part of Magnolia’s master plan to be with Leah as long as possible was simple: get married to Leah. They had a beautiful wedding at the same location where her parents tied the knot.

The two newlyweds kiss to seal their vowsThe wedding was very small, just the newlyweds and Magnolia’s family, but that’s how they wanted it to be.The newlyweds get a picture-perfect kiss in front of this wall that seems custom-built for that express purpose

After the wedding, I had a bit of housekeeping to do. Leah and Magnolia moved in together (according to challenge rules, Magnolia is not allowed to move out of her parents’ house, so Leah moved in with Magnolia) and in the Sims, when two Sims move in together, the one being added to the house brings 20,000 Simoleons, in addition to whatever furniture they had in their house. But the challenge rules also state that Spouses cannot bring any money with them when they move in. What I did was I had Leah sell all her furniture, then used a cheat code to restore my family’s balance back down to what it was, as best as I could remember (which was 32,000 Simoleons at the time)

However, there is one more feature that affects our family’s coffers. When you have a wedding event, you can choose to set it as a “goaled” event. Meaning that during the event, you perform certain tasks, such as “get married,” “eat a slice of cake,” etc. and the more of these tasks you finish, the higher your reward. During the wedding, I focused solely on completing as many of these goals as I could. I ended up finishing all the goals, and then when it ended, I got a notification “The guests were so impressed with your wedding and what a great party it was that they’ve given you a few housewarming gifts.” So in my inventory, I had dozens of pieces of furniture, decorating items, etc. that were meant to do various things throughout the house. New fridge, new couch, even new lamp sconces. Someone also had the foresight to gift them some baby items, knowing that they were going to have children. I figured since these came from the game giving me a reward for completing a task, they were not fruit of the forbidden tree and I could use them as I saw fit. After I sold everything, I ended up with a nice little 115,000 Simoleons in my stash. So it was time for a complete remodel of the house!

Now, Challenge rules state I can’t demolish the house entirely (or at least, that’s the impression I got) The rules state that I can only “add on” to the house. So I kept the original structure, but just added more rooms here and there, made it two floors, added a pool, etc.

In the next post, I’ll give you a full tour of the house, so look forward to it! House tour coming July 11th at this same time, make sure to follow, blah-dee-blah, the usual.