SatelliteJuno Kyoti was starting to feel the pain that comes with age – and no pain was more acute than the loss of her husband. But she was also seeing the rewards. She was much in demand as a surgeon, and managed to command a very handsome salary because of this. SJ was enjoying seeing her children growing up, and being a grandmother.
She’d never predicted her life would turn out to be, well, so conventional – but it had been very fulfilling.
Her granddaughter Karis was the cutest thing – although somewhat mischevious – and SJ was thrilled that her son Abel and his wife Marcie were expecting baby number two.
Her daughters seemed to be progressing well at school, and Ariel had recently decided she wanted to be a rock star. The love of music had given her a new lease of life, and even though she hated the outdoors, she would put up with it in order to play gigs and build up a reputation.
SJ was a little concerned about Cinderella. The girl was clearly talented at athletics, and like most of the family, she loved playing chess and gazing at the stars, but she seemed a little too interested in SJ’s late father, Joseph. Although Joseph had been a great dad, she hoped his life as a master thief hadn’t proved too interesting for Cinderella.
Cinderella hadn’t told her family about her lifetime desire to be the Emperor of Evil. She suspected it wouldn’t go down too well. When they asked about what she wanted to do when she grew up, she fudged the issue by saying ‘something to do with sports probably’ and hoped no-one would ask too many questions, not least her sister-in-law Marcie, who was in the police force.
Of course, it wasn’t long before the twins had to think more seriously about their career paths. Ariel aged up to become friendly and quickly enrolled at music school.
She decided to step out of the shadows of her late grandmother Daniela. She wasn’t her grandma’s clone, she was her own person, and so started to cultivate an image to match.
Cinderella, on the other hand, really was a chip off the old block. She hoped that on her birthday, the influence of sleeping in Rain’s old bedroom would rub off and she would finally become evil, something that would no doubt help her fulfil her lifetime dream.
Unfortunately, she was just too much like her grandfather, and she rolled one of his traits, a trait that had been passed on to her mother SJ. Cinderella Kyoti, the woman hoping to become Emperor of Evil was also…
…a coward.
Karis Kyoti managed to learn to walk, use the potty and talk – just in time for her parents to have a conversation with her about having a baby brother or sister. Karis was slightly nervous – she was the special girl round these parts, wasn’t she?
After another ridiculously calm labour, Marcie gave birth to her second daughter, Daisy. And with a birthday soon after, Karis was beginning to learn what it meant to really be a big sister.
She soon found it wasn’t too bad to grow up, though. Her family gave the baby lots of cuddles, but they had plenty of time to help her learn chess and to give her homework advice.
The girls of the family weren’t the only ones whose lives were progressing. Abel Kyoti was proving to be a bit of a hot-shot in the science career, being promoted at a fast rate of knots. SJ hated to admit it, but getting the fishing out of his system early on had actually been very good for her son, who was now incredibly focussed on family and career in the way she used to fear he wouldn’t be.
He’d also become the first male member of the Kyoti family to ever pick up a screwdriver, making sure as many of the electronic items in the house were as unbreakable as possible.
Daniel Kyoti was also coming close to fulfilling his ambition to be a Renaissance Sim. He mastered the painting skill, and with the amount of time he and Ariel spent jamming, it wouldn’t be long before he mastered music as well.
The third skill he was hoping to perfect was logic. It made sense in a family of police, criminals, chess legends, doctors and scientists – after all, he was never short of someone to play with.
His mother, SkyBlueGinger, had now returned to Sunset Valley after completing a very successful space mission and was staying in NASA-sponsored retirement accommodation. Daniel and SJ were both very pleased to have her back. They invited her and their old friend Miranda over for tea and a few games of chess one evening.
SkyBee and Daniel chatted over chess. She told him all about her space exploration, and he told her all about the money he was making from tips and painting. As they were talking, they heard Cinderella screaming from the bathroom next door.
They rushed to see what was happening.
Miranda Chamberlain was the oldest Sim in Sunset Valley and the only one old enough to have known all seven generations of Kyotis. SkyBee and SJ had thoroughly expected she would be telling their great-great grandchildren all about them. But it wasn’t to be. After centuries of avoiding its grip, death had finally caught up with Miranda.
The family rushed in to see their oldest friend depart. As Miranda had no family that they knew of, they agreed to bury her remains in the family graveyard. But the grief was too much for SkyBee…
…and death took her too.
It was too overwhelming for cowardly Cinderella.
Marcie was as stoical as ever, though.
Daniel Kyoti reached out to try and touch his mother. Minutes ago they’d been playing chess – how could she suddenly be gone like this? It wasn’t fair, she was too young, too full of life… she was his mum.
SatelliteJuno wept and wept. Her oldest friend, her parents, her husband and now her sister, all gone. Her life had changed irrevocably and she knew it was only a matter of time before she would join them. What she couldn’t quite work out was if she was looking forward to that time, or wanted it to stay away as long as possible.
Her mother-in-law and husband followed her to the maternity ward, both anxious and shaking about whether the delivery would go well – but nothing fazed Marcie. A smooth labour and delivery ensued…
… and baby Karis arrived in the world.
SatelliteJuno Kyoti was thrilled to welcome her first grandchild into the world, and was delighted to see her son and daughters growing up and becoming their own people. But since Rain and SkyBee had moved, she was missing the company of people her own age. She realised there was someone she needed more than she’d cared to admit before.
She invited Tobias over… and proposed to him.
Tobias was thrilled. He’d longed to marry SJ for years and to live like a proper family, but she’d always been too independent to consider marriage. He never expected she would propose. They wed there and then. Tobias was ecstatic that he would get to live out his days with the woman he loved and with his daughters growing up around him.
Speaking of their daughters, they were both concentrating very hard on their futures. Cinderella spent lots of time working out, and when she wasn’t working out herself, she was pushing Marcie to get into shape after giving birth.
She moved into Rain’s old bedroom and often lay there at night under the red glowing lights, hoping something would rub off on her and make her the best Emperor of Evil there ever was.
Ariel was still keen on fulfilling the dream her grandmother Daniela died before completing. Her music skills were developing fast, though charisma was harder to muster up. Daniel suggested gently that perhaps someone who fantasised about licking his dirty plate clean was not going to be the most charismatic person in the world. After all the dream was ‘golden tongue’, not tongue-splattered-with-bits-of-old-cheesesteak.
Soon, Karis became a toddler. The influence of Jared’s genes in both parents’ DNA was clearly still strong as she inherited the red hair of a true Frio descendant. SJ and Tobias loved playing with their granddaughter and helping her learn to read.
Marcie took to motherhood like a natural, enforcing in Karis from an early age how important it was to work hard and get those promotions.
When they weren’t working or looking after Karis, Tobias and SJ would make out in one of the bathrooms like they were young once more. Their marriage had given them both such great happiness in this late stage of life and they were happy to be sharing parenting and grandparenting together, even if it had taken them several years to get round to it.
Abel Kyoti was enjoying life as a husband and father, and his work at the science lab was going very well. He decided it was now his duty to tend the garden. One night, whilst doing so, he felt himself change – he was no longer a young adult, he was a man.
However, it was something even more distressing than a leaky faucet. After a peaceful and happy last few years, Tobias Kyoti passed away…
Abel Kyoti marvelled at his aquarium. How did fish that were so huge when he caught them shrink into such tiny forms they could fit in those bowls? As he was ready to embark on a science career, he hoped he’d find out. Now he’d sorted out his aquarium and found himself a job at the lab, there was one thing he had left to attend to.
He invited her over, and in a very short space of time, she agreed not only to be his girlfriend, but to be his wife. They’d been best friends for so long now that they knew each other well, and now Abel had sorted out his aquarium (and sold the rest of his fish for 12,000 Simoleans), he was ready to be a family man.
SJ had a freak-out when she heard the bride-to-be’s surname. Ursine? But that meant they had the same great-great-great grandfather, Jared Frio, didn’t it? What if they had babies? Having a mini freak-out cleared the way for her maximum logic skill to kick in and remind her that a) they were genetically pretty distant now and it was unlikely to have any significant effect and b) she was the one who was desperate for Abel to marry, so she should be pleased for them.
And so it was that Marcie entered the Kyoti family… and brought with it the first unlucky trait ever seen in the house, running counter to the family ‘lucky’ trait. Perhaps there was something in SJ’s neurotic worries about genetics after all.
SatelliteJuno was promoted to World-Renowned Surgeon…
…her sister SkyBlueGinger departed for space after being promoted to Astronaut…
…and the newly promoted CEO of a Mega-Corporation, Rain Kyoti…
…packed her things up in her new limo and moved to her own place.
The house wasn’t going to stay empty for long, though. Marcie felt that wave of nausea hitting her…
…the seventh generation was on the way.
She exercised fervently…
She particularly enjoyed spending time with her sister-in-law, Cinderella. They had a lot of interests in common so were able to encourage each other.
What neither of them realised, though, was that Marcie’s ambition was to be a Super-Spy…
SatelliteJuno and SkyBlueGinger couldn’t stay young for ever, and one day, inevitably, they became elders. They celebrated with a little boogie in the art room.
As is often the case, age caused the sisters to reflect on their lives and those of their children. Over a game of chess they discussed their relationships – how their dalliance with Laurence Heywood in their teens had affected both of them longer term, with SkyBee never really forging a close relationship, and SJ keeping her partner Tobias at arm’s length, never choosing to commit to marry him or live together.
Meanwhile, Jet Kyoti finally learned every recipe he could to become a Culinary Librarian. His mum Kiley said her publishing company would be interested in working on a cookbook with him, and so he bid his farewell to the family and went off to try and live out his celebrity chef dream. He’d never had a job, lived for free off his relatives and now had a potential publishing contract set up by his mum. Jet might not have ‘officially’ had the mooch trait, but everyone suspected it lay latent in his genes somewhere…
Rain Kyoti was jealous of her brother achieving his heart’s desire before she achieved hers. She was also hungry – he was the family cook. She wondered if she could zap him home with the freaky device she had hidden in her big bag of evil.
Inspired by Jet’s achievements, the rest of the family started working to improve their futures. Rain read every business book she could get her hands on.
Daniel graduated from school, and instead of getting a job, spent his time reading in the library…
…or playing his guitar for tips.
SatelliteJuno and SkyBlueGinger were promoted to the ninth level of their careers.
Ariel practiced her best rock star behaviour…
…and Abel kept on fishing.
The fifth generation Kyoti twins brought the sixth generation twins to the cakes to age up. It seemed that the slobbish Abel and Ariel possessed had infected the whole family, as none of them bothered with actual clothes.
Ariel was rather unimpressed to age up wearing something other than pants.
Cinderella didn’t disappoint though. She also grew to inherit her grandfather’s hair – again a colour he’d chosen to dye it as a teenager. SatelliteJuno’s colleagues in genetics were going to have a field day with her children’s follicles.
Unlike the men in the family, the girls were eager to get on with their life plans. Ariel was desperate to get into music.
Cinderella, meanwhile, was keen on working out.
When the girls weren’t working hard on schoolwork or developing new skills, they liked nothing better than to play with their dolls and act out family stories. The girls didn’t know much about their family history, and they were particularly interested in hearing about their grandparents. Their mum and auntie were forever telling them about how much Ariel looked like Daniela and Cinderella looked like Joseph. They heard the stories of how their grandma died trying to better herself and how she was a great guitar player, and of how their grandad was super-strong and even beat up their brother’s daddy in a fight once. The girls idolised the grandparents they’d never met.
SkyBlueGinger and SatelliteJuno Kyoti were about as excited as they could be. Both recently promoted and heading to the top of their careers, today was also the day they saw their sons grow up. There weren’t any elders or pregnant women coming to the party so they were confident it would be a success.
SJ was dismayed to see her son fall victim to the same premature baldness as his father. She was, however, intrigued that his hair had turned the colour hers was – colours she’d chosen to dye her hair as a teen. She had no idea that hair dye could affect genetics. She promised Abel her friends from the lab would be over as soon as possible to give him a hair transplant (and take a sample to test what was going on with his hair colour chromosomes).
Of course, going fishing in his pants wasn’t the best way to win his mother round to his cause…
Being a teenager, Daniel Kyoti still didn’t know what he wanted to do with the rest of his life, but he did know he wanted to experience everything and learn as much as he could. As soon as he could get away from the party, he was looking through the telescope and trying to build up his logic.
He asked his Aunt SJ to tutor him in chess. He’d heard the stories of his great-grandma Amanda, his grandad Joseph and his great-uncle Lucas and how logically brilliant they were. He wanted to be just like them… only not a scientist, or a robber, or a chess grandmaster… SJ tried to tell her nephew that learning skills was all well and good, but he shouldn’t forget about having a family. Or looking after his baby cousins, for that matter.
Daniel’s decisions about the future were even more clouded when Rain said she’d noticed how good he was at painting and she thought he should maybe think about a career that used that skill. But Daniel loved painting AND logic, and he wanted to learn lots of other skills. Why was there so much pressure in Sunset Valley to decide on a career at a young age and stick to it?
One person Abel knew wouldn’t nag him about getting a job was Jet. The two young men spent many days on the sofa together, Jet watching Cookin’ Cable as usual, and Abel reading books about fishing. The women of the household were always nagging them to work, but just because they weren’t as career minded as those three didn’t mean they had no ambition. They figured watching TV and reading books was very educational. Rain, SkyBee and SJ were unconvinced.
Daniel started to get the hang of painting, and wondered if he should focus on art for his career – he loved logic, but there was more money in painting, wasn’t there? Then, something in the corner of the room caught his eye, and Daniel found yet another love…
Abel wasn’t too impressed when he caught his first clownfish. Those things were UGLY. He wondered if his mother was right. Maybe he should spend less time pursuing a hobby and more time looking for a job and a girlfriend… but the truth was, he was getting obsessive about this perfect aquarium now. He wouldn’t be able to think about anything else until he was sure he could do this…
SatelliteJuno Kyoti was fed up of her son walking around the house in his pants, so to teach him a lesson, she took to walking around in hers. Abel Kyoti was so embarrassed he just stared straight at the wall until it was all over.
Getting one over on her boy put SJ in a good mood for the rest of the day and she started to use her maternity leave to knuckle down and get even better at chess.
Having two new babies in the house gave Jet Kyoti a chance to practice being evil. So he took some candy from Ariel… but then felt so guilty he never did it again. He was a friendly sim, after all, nastiness wasn’t really something he wanted to exploit too often.
All those hours of Cookin’ Cable were paying off and he heoped it wouldn’t be long before he achieved his lifetime wish to be a culinary librarian.
Daniel had a go at using the playset in the garden, which was gathering cobwebs, it had been used so little. But he wasn’t that excited by it. There was something much more fun he wanted to do… paint!
SkyBee relented but as he didn’t have any ‘dirty clothes’ he would have to do it in his pants. Seeing as though half the family wandered around in their underwear, he didn’t have too many qualms about this.
Rain had decided to confine her evil streak to the workplace, trolling on forums and insulting random townies. She was so family-oriented she didn’t have the heart to do anything mean at home. She was so excited by the twins’ birthday that SJ let her carry the girls to the cake.
Cinderella grew up bald, and her first thought was hoping she would get a teddy for her birthday.
Ariel grew up to be a blonde cutie.
Rain and SkyBee were both so eager to get time with the girls that sometimes they fed them simultaneously.
Daniel was very excited to have little cousins to play with. He couldn’t really teach them to walk or talk, but he made sure their block skills were second to none.
Whilst the girls were generally thriving, Ariel’s behaviour was giving SJ cause for concern in one area. She took Tobias out to chat over chess and discuss it. The girl was licking her bowl clean when she’d finished… and if she saw anyone else’s plates or bowls around, she’d try to lick those. SJ thought it was disgusting and asked Tobias to try and train their daughter afterwards. Letting out a huge burp, Tobias said he couldn’t see what the problem was.
Jet had also noticed Ariel’s behaviour and suggested to Abel she might be picking up his slovenly habits… and maybe he ought to put some clothes on. Abel pointed out that Jet could hardly talk, seeing as he was sitting around in his pyjamas watching the telly.
Slob or not, SJ was determined her daughter would at least potty train hygienically. She was a doctor after all, it was her job on the line if there were problems. Unfortunately, she could already see in Ariel’s face that as soon as she was old enough to take care of herself, Ariel was going to pay no attention to her mother’s advice about checking faucets and cleaning her teeth three times.
SatelliteJuno Kyoti was glad to have a boyfriend as understanding as Tobias. Since her father’s death, he’d been her shoulder to cry on. They weren’t planning to marry any time soon, but they were enjoying each other’s company a lot. However, her father Joseph’s death had given SJ a lot to think about. She was now the heir of the Kyoti legacy, the one responsible for raising the next generation and she had only one child to her name. She hadn’t felt cut out for motherhood when Abel was born, but she didn’t want to die leaving him alone. Having her sister and cousins in the house had helped her to come to terms with Joseph’s grief, and she wanted the same for her son. So she discussed having more children with Tobias and together they decided to try for a baby.
Abel Kyoti grew into a confident teen – he carried none of his mother’s neuroses and found it somewhat amusing that she’d forever be telling him off for not bothering to get dressed, or leaving plates of half-eaten food around the house – after all, who really cared about that stuff?
Abel did feel a bit guilty when he heard his mother puking though. He’d forgotten to clear out the fridge again so she’d probably eaten some of that dodgy fruit parfait he’d left in there.
The other members of the Kyoti family were keeping themselves busy. Rain Kyoti was struggling to climb the slippery corporate ladder as quickly as she would have liked, and her evil streak was coming to the fore. Being family-oriented, she didn’t want to take it out on the people at home, so she spent her free time being mean to townies instead. It gave her more pleasure than she’d care to admit.
SkyBlueGinger, in her pursuit of military and athletic excellence, started to get into yoga.
Jet Kyoti reached his coming-of-age and wished for one thing as he blew out his candles…
…he got his wish. He rolled ‘natural cook’ and the wish to be a Culinary Librarian. His hours of devotion to ‘Cookin’ Cable’ were paying off. He already knew about 85% of the recipes they made on there, and it was his dream to one day be a telly chef himself. With his father a famous chess legend, his mother a well known artist and author and his sister aiming for corporate domination, ambition and self-confidence was clearly strong in this wing of the family.
Daniel Kyoti’s birthday was less dignified than Jet’s. He grew up moments after a little potty ‘incident’ that hadn’t even been cleaned up yet, and his mum forgot to buy him some new clothes, so all he had to wear were some pants.
SJ started to panic. Would this birth go well? Would her new baby like her? Was she ready to do this again? She made Tobias drive her to the hospital… where she wasn’t too surprised to discover she was mum to another set of Kyoti twin girls.
…Cinderella
… and Ariel.
And for once, SatelliteJuno’s worries weren’t just part of her neurosis – her family really WERE laughing behind her back at those baby names.
Pregnancy agreed with SkyBlueGinger Kyoti. She was so excited about the new life growing inside her that she just wanted to tell everyone. She was a little afraid about how maternity leave might affect her career development, but those fears paled into comparison to her love for the little child she was about to have.
She decided to use her maternity leave to build up her skills and learn to be so good at painting that she could start taking some responsibility for family portraits.
…but as she blew out her candles, her aunt SkyBee went into labour…
So for her birthday present, Rain stole some candy from newborn baby Daniel.
She also found time to perfect her evil dance.
There was always plenty of celebration in the Kyoti household with so many youngsters – but Kiley didn’t tell anyone when it was her elder birthday. Instead, she was working hard on a painting when age got the better of her.
Age obviously agreed with her, because a couple of days afterwards, she finally achieved her lifetime wish to become an Illustrious Author. She decided to join Lucas on tour – he’d play chess tournaments; she’d sign her books and paintings. She asked Jet whether he wanted to join them, but he was so close to finishing school that he didn’t want his education disrupting – as long as his parents made sure they were there when he graduated, he was happy for them to travel. Kiley was a little sad at leaving the house and her source of writerly inspiration… but she suspected the twins’ love lives weren’t going to be as dramatic from now on…
…and it hadn’t taken long before they became a couple. Of course, SJ still had her little quirks, like washing her hands three times in a row, but finding love, being a parent and growing in confidence in her career had started to temper those neurotic quirks a little.
It wasn’t long before little Daniel (shown here winking!) turned into a toddler, and his grandad Joseph was thrilled to help teach the little boy to walk.
He wasn’t sure how much longer he’d have with his family, but was ecstatic that the girls appeared to be doing well. He was worried, however, that SJ might be in over her head with this new relationship. He loved his daughter, but could she handle the highs and lows of love, especially considering the trouble she’d had with Laurence?
He took Tobias to one side to discuss the man’s intentions. Tobias assured Joseph that he loved SJ and had no desire to hurt her. He thought she was fantastic – a great doctor, fabulous mum and wonderful girlfriend. He wasn’t planning to do wrong by her.
Joseph must have been satisfied with this answer, because moments later, he relaxed enough to let go… At 93, the fourth generation heir passed on the Kyoti legacy to his descendant.
Jet Kyoti was very excited. It was his birthday, his daddy Lucas was back to visit for his party, and there was going to be cake!!
He found it strange that his mum kept asking him odd questions though. No, he didn’t want to poison old lady Miranda. No, he didn’t want to see the fish in the bathroom float. No, he didn’t want to take candy from baby Abel.
What Jet Kyoti really wanted to do was learn how to bake.
His proud granddad Joseph gave him a big hug and promised to look after him as much as he could while he was still alive.
He told her firmly that he wasn’t pushing her away because he didn’t like her, but because he was her boss and it wasn’t appropriate. He didn’t get into romantic situations with his employees – but that wouldn’t stop them being friends. He reassured her he wouldn’t tell anybody about this and there was nothing to be ashamed of – but trying to sleep with the boss wasn’t the way to get ahead, whatever she’d heard. She was doing well at work, under her own merits.
Sure enough, later that week, SJ’s constant handwashing and careful attention to medical textbooks paid off, as she was promoted to paramedic.
SkyBlueGinger’s military career was also blooming, but she was feeling a little lost. Since the Laurence incident, she’d been too terrified to even consider a relationship, but having Rain, Jet and Abel in the house had made her realise how much she wanted to be a mum herself.
She shared her concerns with best friend Miranda. Miranda was the oldest sim in Sunset Valley (it was rumoured she was over 200!) and since Amanda and Carmel died, SkyBee had really valued having someone older to share her concerns with. Miranda pointed out that many people in Sunset Valley had children but weren’t in relationships. There were options, if SkyBee wanted to take them.
Joseph Kyoti, meanwhile, reached the top of his career and became a Master Thief. It didn’t stop him fainting at the merest sight of a ghost, though.
Fortunately, he did get some perks to the job, like wearning a snazzy new outfit, and getting free books.
Abel grew up well after skilling up successfully – although neurotic clean freak SJ was soon to discover her little boy had a latent ‘slob’ trait…
…his avoidance of clothes was a pretty big hint.
She’d been thinking long and hard about having a baby. She still wasn’t ready for a relationship after Laurence’s deception. But Miranda and her friends at the army base encouraged her to think about other ways – perhaps she could find someone to help her conceive, no strings attached. Her colleagues suggested their boss, JP. He and SkyBee were very good friends, and he was elderly – he didn’t have the problem of having a young family to complicate matters.
…She was overjoyed when he agreed to help – as was Kiley, whose new book ‘Twins Love Bosses’, was sure to fly off the shelves.
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