Monkey gone to heaven

Round 22: Autumn 2015

Cordy and Luc's last update/Linnea's last update

Luc's next update/Cordy's next update

Linnea Lane is 55, Cordy and Luc are both 22.
(Betsy is 44, Eliot is 29 and Asha is 18)

Now that Asha is 18, Luc is finally able to take her to more exciting places than the mall and the music hobby club. Blue Velvet is a favourite club for them, as well as The Old Brick.

Asha has found it more difficult than she thought it would be to see Luc getting attention from other girls. They never really talked about being exclusive but it's what Asha would like. She's definitely not talking marriage or anything - the very thought of marriage at 18 petrifies her - but she wouldn't mind some kind of commitment.


When they're alone, Luc tells her she's his favourite but it's not enough for Asha.

Luc's mother Linnea is totally cramping their style too. She seems to have no boundaries at all and barges into his bedroom whenever she pleases.

The hot tub is nice but there's not much more privacy out there. Maybe they could get a place together. Asha is dying to get away from her parents.

Luc doesn't want to live with his mother forever but he's not so sure he's ready to be a one-woman man either. He really does like Asha the best - he's not lying when he says that - but he just hasn't seen everything that's out there yet.

But man, when he gets stuck listening to a conversation between his mother and aunt about rising crime in Exeter or whatever crap old people talk about, moving out with Asha starts to look really good.

Luc's twin sister Cordy will be moving out soon - really soon.

Her fiancé Eliot is a trust fund baby and even after flunking out of college and being unemployed for a few months, he's got about $100,000 to play with. He's bought a house in Sullivan and is already living in it, getting it all ready for when he and Cordy get married.

For Cordy, her wedding day can't come soon enough! The only thing she really likes about living back at home is the pool - it's always been her sanctuary.

In the months since her college graduation, most of Linnea and Cordy's time has been spent arguing. Arguing over everything - the wedding, the twins' other mother Debbie, Linnea's recent affair with a married woman.

Linnea hasn't exactly been discreet with Betsy, at least at home.

Both Luc and Cordy have heard noises from Linnea's bedroom that no one ever wants to hear from their parents.

Then there was that "business trip" Linnea took, on the same weekend Betsy was conveniently also out of town. Luc doesn't really care, apart from wishing he could pretend his mother never, ever had sex (and Luc and Cordy were test tube babies, so theoretically, this could be something he could make himself believe), but Cordy thinks it's wrong, wrong, wrong!

Cordy thinks much of what her mother does is wrong. Was she for real with that dress she picked out to wear to her daughter's wedding? That was so not happening!

For her wedding day at least, Cordy would make sure her mother was all covered up.

Cordy's wedding day, thankfully, sneaks up faster than she expected. She's surprised but she's actually nervous! Nervous about remembering her vows, nervous about whether Debbie and Linnea claw each other's throats out inside the church, nervous about starting married life with Eliot and having to be an adult. She's only been excited up until now but her stomach is doing flip flops and she can barely eat a bite of her breakfast.

But of course, everything goes off without a hitch. Neither of them forget their vows...

...and everything about the ceremony was perfect.

Now they had the honeymoon to look forward to!

In addition to the house Eliot bought in Sullivan, he also owns a vacation home on Cape Elizabeth. He didn't buy it - he was just lucky enough to inherit it when his grandmother died. He'd never been before but his sister had taken her husband there before they got married, so it came highly recommended.

Having always been a water baby, the first thing Cordy does is take a swim in the ocean on their private beach. Neither of them can believe they actually own this place!

They love not having to brave the crowds when they want to enjoy the beach. Eliot decides to see if he can find anything useful and/or valuable in the sand (nope!) while Cordy sunbathes for a while (and gets a nice tan too).

Yup, they would stay here forever if they could.

Being newlyweds, there's plenty of action going on inside the house too.

They have to come back home eventually though and after a long flight back to Sullivan, Eliot and Cordy want nothing more than a good night's sleep - it's back to the real world tomorrow!

Random pics:
I didn't do any reception pics but I did take some pics for me to frame and hang in their house (most are already done).

Boring pose is boring. Most of my pose hacks aren't enabled for community lots.

So they got back in their wedding clothes after their honeymoon and had some extra pictures taken in their backyard.

With Eliot's parents.

And with Cordy's parents. Turning free will off is a necessity if you want Debbie and Linnea to pose nicely - I'm amazed that they didn't start a fight in the church.

I'll probably frame this one too, just to have a few sort of candid ones in the mix.

And look, another townie romance!

Their names are Vanessa and Jairus - I'll probably move them in together and let them have a baby, like I did with Corbin Gray and his wife Pamela (they just had their second baby tonight!).

Notes:

• We'll visit Cordy and Eliot in their new married life in Winter 2016. I haven't finished decorating their house yet so I need to do that. The downstairs is mostly done but I have to do the bathrooms and the entire upstairs except for their bedroom. Also, I love the inaccessible beds hack and I can't believe I've never used it until now! Cordy and Eliot's bed would have looked a bit odd anywhere but up against the wall.
• I'm rethinking what I want to do in regards to adult kids and their parents. I'm usually happy to have parents live with their kids but in a case like this, it's not working for me. There's no way Cordy would live with Linnea again and it's not really Luc's style to have his mum hanging around constantly either. It's rather boring for me to write an update focused on one empty nester though, so if I move Luc out, I'll probably have Linnea's update tag along with another update that she's tangentially related to. Ditto for any other Sims I decide are better off as empty nesters.
• The reason for no reception photos this time is because for some reason, all the guests kept leaving. :\ This was my first wedding since I bought Celebrations (I also bought Kitchen and Bath and Glamour Life - they're so cheap now!) so I hope it's not something to do with that. Squinge's Community Lot Parties hack usually works great for me but not in this case. Maybe it's the lot. I've got Abigail and Jesse's wedding coming up in the winter, so I might have that on a community lot I've used before and see if I have any better luck.
• This gets an ROS tag because it's continuing Betsy's ROS for this round. And I didn't send Betsy and Linnea on holiday, by the way. Linnea is a bright spark and decided to take her lover on vacation to the same place her daughter was honeymooning. So those pics were taken during Cordy and Eliot's honeymoon.
• It rained so much during their honeymoon. Not just rain but huge thunderstorms! They hit the beach when it was fine and holed up in their house together when it wasn't. It rained at their wedding too (rain's good luck on your wedding day, thunder and lightning isn't) but the good witch came and sent it away.