#traumacychallenge

Set Up:

Create your founder sim in CAS. Must be a teen but can be dressed however you like. Any gender, sexuality, etc. is allowed!

Move into an empty lot, or a small/affordable apartment/house.

General Rules:

No cheats that would give you an advantage. (Unless otherwise stated)

You must max out the career, skills, and aspirations listed, unless otherwise stated. If you have to take different careers, you do not have to max them out.

Seeing as this legacy challenge is very story-driven, you can obviously change the requirements to suit your sim better! Creative freedom! But of course, you can follow the original rules and stories too!

Have fun with this challenge! If you'd like to share your progress, use #traumacychallenge

*this has not yet been play tested*

GEN ONE

"Humble Beginnings"

Growing up, you moved around and around, never sticking to one place and always arguing with your parents. Eventually, you run away as a teen and never look back. As a teen, you struggle to make it by, but once you become a YA, you meet someone who can provide a little extra something for you to live the life of dreams.

Aspiration: Mansion Baron (Optional)

Traits: Materialistic, Self-Assured, Good

Skills: Parenting, Cooking, 1 of choice

Career: None

REQUIREMENTS:

Only go to school twice a week or drop out if you'd like.

You can only have a part-time job as a teen, but once you get married you cannot have a job. Besides, why would you? You’re rich!

As a teen, you cannot make any close friends that are older than you. Only exception to this is a future spouse.

Once you are a young adult, marry a rich sim (At least 50k) and move into their home.

Have one child and spend all your time raising them.

After having a kid, lose all romantic feelings with your spouse, but don't divorce them.

Live the rest of your life in a loveless marriage, never truly living. (You can also live it however you wish if something happens to your spouse, like they die or something. As long as you don't divorce them!)

GEN TWO

"Commitment Issues"

You were practically raised exclusively by one parent while the other went and did whatever. But you always had a super close relationship with one parent and never really needed more. It was rough watching them suffer through a marriage they clearly didn't want to be in. As an adult, you're torn between trying to find true love and staying away from it entirely, oftentimes finding yourself right in between the two.

Aspiration: Serial Romantic

Traits: Noncommittal, Romantic, and Gloomy

Skills: writing, charisma, 1 of choice

Career: Writer - Author Branch

REQUIREMENTS:

Keep a close relationship with the parent that raised you but be practically strangers with your other parent.

Go on at least 5 dates with 5 different sims.

Have at least 3 different romantic partners; cheat on all 3 of them.

Write romance novels for each date/relationship you have.

Finally get married and have at least one child.

Get a dramatic divorce once the eldest reaches teen. Never remarry.

GEN THREE

"Single Parent"

Growing up with constant arguments and the eventual divorce broke you. You decide that you never want to fall in love, or even try. In your mind, it'll just end in heartbreak. So instead, you focus on your career and yourself. But one night while out partying, you meet a special individual. Going against everything you stand for, you decide to give them a chance. But when an accidental child comes along, they leave you alone to raise a baby all by yourself.

Traits: Unflirty, Ambitious, Loner

Aspiration: Successful Lineage

Skills: Handiness, Parenting, 1 of choice

Career: Business - either branch

REQUIREMENTS:

Spend all of your young adulthood maxing out your career and skills.

With 3 days left before you age up, meet a Sim and get married within the same day.

Have an accidental baby and have your spouse leave.

Have your child complete their aspiration and 3 skills.

As a toddler, have your child receive the 'Happy Toddler' trait. (Achieve at least level 3 in all skills as a toddler.)

Never marry or have another child.

GEN FOUR

"Daddy/Mommy Issues"

Having one parent your entire life eventually took a toll on you. You always wondered why your other parent never stuck around. It's not that you didn't have everything you needed - your parent always gave you everything. But you wanted to have something you never had. Your adulthood was definitely affected by this, especially in your love life.

Traits: Genius, Childish, Paranoid

Aspiration: Soulmate

Skills: Robotics, Logic, Gardening

Career: Scientist

REQUIREMENTS:

Go on 3 dates with sims at least one age older than you.

Meet a married sim, who is also older than you.

Convince them to leave their spouse.

Marry that sim.

Have 2 children.

Focus more on your marriage than your children.

Have negative relationships with your kids.

Live happily with your spouse.

GEN FIVE

"Fifteen Minutes of Fame"

You hate both of your parents. There's no other way to put it. The only other person that you ever had was your sibling. As a teen, you and your sibling run away from home. But you have a dream. You want to get famous, using any way possible. You push practically everything and everyone away to focus only on yourself and your fame.

Traits: Self-Absorbed, Mean, Snob

Aspiration: World-Famous Celebrity

Skills: Any related to your fame

Career: Any related to fame

REQUIREMENTS:

As a teen run away with your younger sibling with nothing but 100 simoleons.

Have a close relationship with them until you become a B-Lister.

Push them away until they move out or something tragic happens to them

Secretly live in regret about that relationship for the rest of your life.

Marry someone whose fame level is higher than yours. (Marry before you reach superstardom)

Have at least 3 affairs.

Reach superstardom with a bad reputation.

Have no more than 2 children.

GEN SIX

"Falling for Shadows"

Growing up, you were always in the spotlight. The press always went to you for news of your parents' messy relationship. You just wanted an escape from the life you were forced into. You quit the spotlight and move to a small town where no one knows your name. Little do you know, there is an occult in this new world, and it seems you've fallen for one of the residences.

Traits: Loner, Bookworm, Perfectionist

Aspiration: Master Vampire OR Spellcraft & Sorcery (Depends on where you move) (Don't complete.)

Skills: Vampiric lore, herbalism, pipe organ

Career: Any

REQUIREMENTS:

Move to either Forgotten Hollow or Glimmerbrook upon aging up to a young adult. (You can also do mermaids and Sulani.)

Have an 'incident' with one of the residents, revealing that vampires or spellcasters exist.

Have a forbidden love with one of these occult members.

Have one child with them.

When other members of the occult find out, you must break up.

Because your child is a member of the occult, they must live with their occult parent.

Die shortly after you give away your child, because of heart break.

GEN SEVEN

"Being the Shadow"

You're different. That's what your parent always told you. You never knew who your other parent was, but from your understanding they were too normal for the world you lived in. A half magical being. Others of your kind didn't like you, so you and your parent moved to a place with normal people. There, you met a sim who was kind of like you. They were also half magic and half human. However, they didn't know you existed. So, you strive to make sure they know.

Traits: Clumsy, Outgoing, Romantic

Aspiration: Soulmate (Never complete)

Skills: Mischief, Wellness, Knitting

Career: 3 different

REQUIREMENTS:

You're a Stalker. Your goal is to stalk this person that you've become infatuated with.

Move at least 3 times to follow your infatuation. Each time you move, get a new job.

If you see this person anywhere, you are not allowed to interact normally with them. However, you can use your powers on them.

Use your powers on this person at least 5 times.

After meeting the above requirements, finally interact with them.

Have a one-night stand where they don't want to continue anything.

Move one final time and try to forget about your infatuation.

After the rejection, you can switch your sim's Romantic trait for Gloomy.

Max a career.

Adopt a child.

Never get married, you don't die happy and are filled with regret.

*Next generation can be triggering for some.*

GEN EIGHT

"Lamb to the Slaughter"

You had one parent, who was always sad. They told you stories about a Sim who fell in love and tried to win their soulmate but failed. So you decided that the last you would do would be to fail in winning over your soulmate. As a teen you meet one of the most eye-catching sims ever, and set your heart on them. You decide that you will have them no matter what.

Traits: Erratic, Kleptomaniac, Jealous

Aspiration: Soulmate

Skills: Photography, Fitness, Charisma

Career: Criminal

REQUIREMENTS:

As a teen, meet someone who your sim is absolutely obsessed with. (If you use wonderful/wicked whims you can use the attraction system to make them the object of your sim's desires.)

Once you both age up, this Sim should get into another relationship.

"Kidnap" this sim. (Add to household and lock in basement, etc. Get creative.)

Force them to love you.

This generation is very much up to you. Get creative with it. I chose not to make many requirements so that your story will be *very* unique to your sims. (I may later replace this gen or give an alternative to those who do not like this.)

GEN NINE

"An Arrangement"

Something was off about your parents' relationship. One seemed to be overly cheery while the other always seemed to be controlling and suspicious of everything. This suspicion eventually passed on down to you. And because of this, your parents decided to arrange a marriage. The only thing to describe this new relationship is absolute resentment. But luckily, you find an escape through music.

Traits: Music lover, Creative, Squeamish

Aspiration: Musical Genius

Skills: Violin, Guitar, Piano, and (Optional) Singing

Career: None

REQUIREMENTS:

When you become a young adult, you are forced into a marriage with someone you have never met. (Cheat a marriage and make sure there is no romance.)

Never have a good relationship with the past heir, but you can have a good relationship with your parent that was kidnapped.

Try your best to ignore your partner and focus on your musical career.

Meet another sim and have a secret affair with them.

Become pregnant/get them pregnant.

Your spouse inevitably finds out.

You have to try and salvage the relationship with your spouse, because a divorce isn't an option.

Although you don’t want to, you must cut all ties with the sim you cheated with.

GEN TEN

"True Love"

You've come from nine generations of trauma and drama but you are determined to live your own life and break the cycle. You came from a messy relationship with two parents who absolutely hated each other. You leave as soon as you can and never look back. Cutting ties from your background was one of the best decisions you ever made and now you're happier than ever.

Traits: Cheerful, Self-Assured, Ambitious

Aspiration: 2 different

Skills: 3 of choice

Career: Any

REQUIREMENTS:

Settle down in life with your career and max it.

Have at least 3 close friends.

Marry the love of your life with no regrets.

Have the house of your dreams.

Have as many children as you wish.

Die happy! 

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