The Life and Times of Sandi French - part 1
I've recently been curious about townie babies and who they grow up to be. Someone on one of my Facebook groups posted an elimination game where members of the group "voted out" a different Sunset Valley townie each week. The toddlers stuck around for quite a long time which surprised the OP because they were "boring" and they felt those voting felt sorry for them or were afraid to vote them out because they were just babies. I decided to follow Sandi French, the toddler in the Single Moms household, trying to keep my influence off of the other members of the household as much as possible in Sandi's toddler and child years to see what kind of personality emerged from Sandi. Of course if mother Molly had a wish to teach Sandi something or buy Sandi something, I made it happen.
There's a bit of a twist as I'm not playing in the original Sunset Valley but Plumbob95's updated version. She added builds and renovated houses and moved things around a little. She also gave all the townies makeovers and "fixed the genetics" of the toddlers and kids, meaning she aged them up gave them makeover, then aged them back down. I guess their faces looked a little weird when they age up from the original form as the Sims team didn't create them that way. So the town and characters may look slightly different, but they are still recognizable.
The Single Moms house had some toys already in it when I started the game. Sandi quickly gravitated to the block sorter and made it her favorite toy. I don't think she ever played with the xylophone. This obsession with the block sorter gave her a leg up on her logic skills so that when opening a logic book as a child, she automatically gained a logic skill point.
Molly French is autonomously rather attentive to Sandi. She wanted to teach her to walk and to potty train her.
Toddler Sandi is a slob like her mother, and excitable.
Her favorite color is red; she likes pop music, and French toast. Her mother Molly works at the restaurant and is a bit of a wild child (party animal, hopeless romantic, etc.) which explains how she ended up a single mother. Molly has some wishes to have romantic relationships and a steady relationship, so I sent her out to find a man. I figured while Sandi is still little her mother's choices will also shape who she becomes, so I switched between the two. Fiona McIrish is the one I'm playing the least. I have tried to help poor River some because I started without mods and the poor girl was up until 2 am doing homework and going to school hungry. I have since put the mods back in and Nraas Relativity is giving her more time to get things done now.
River is the brunette in the picture above. The redhead teen is Candy Ashleydale, Sandi's babysitter.
Back to Molly and her quest for love. In the park she met Xander Clavell, who is an immature young adult still living with his parents. He's a party animal like her, so I figured they'd suit each other.
Their relationship got off to a good start at the park, and when Molly went out to the lounge for the evening, she ran into him again.
Gunther Goth was scowling into the camera. I don't know what his problem was.
They started flirting and Xander seemed to be into it,
Then Xander yelled at her about something and spurned her advances.
So she decided to leave him alone for the night and went and danced with Boyd Wainwright.
Boyd is married and a little old for her, but maybe they can be friends.
On another evening, Molly went to a party at the Roomies household and Xander was there too. They spoke for a bit and things seemed to be on the mend, so Molly tried to get romantic again.
What's your problem, Xander? Later that evening, Blair Wainwright started mocking him.
I think he was trying to mooch some money from her. She refused and he got mad.
Molly and Emma Hatch decided to stay out of it. Maybe Molly needs to look around a bit more for a man.
Meanwhile, a few days later, Sandi aged up to a child.
Time to go to school and start making friends. She's already wanting a chess table and telescope, so I think she'll end up in a logic/science related field. She made friends with Darlene Bunch, whose mother must have forgotten to do laundry as poor Darlene was wearing her brother's underpants to school.
After school, and after I got Darlene's wardrobe sorted out, the girls went to the park and played chess.
Sandi figuratively beat the pants off Darlene. Bella was there too, doing her homework. Bella's dad came up and they were conspiring about something. Bella looks devious.
In other news, Molly had been wanting to get a tattoo, so I made that happen for her.
(She got it on her ankle, not her arm as this picture indicates.) She spent some time at the park with Sandi as well.
And she visited a coffee shop where she tried to get to know the barista to see if he might make a good boyfriend, but he kept running off. His loss, Molly; Mr. Right will be along soon I think.
Sandi checked out the library, but Justine Keaton brought her squalling baby, making it hard for the patrons to focus.
To be continued. . . .
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