After a slightly lengthy break, we’re back at last with an update. Last we left Alma, she was to choose which man or woman she was to keep forever.
It was a tough decision. She had many lovers, who all had appealing characteristics. However, out of all of them, two stood out. Stiles McGraw, the man who loved her for her ambition, not just her looks, and Christopher Steel, the father of her first child.
Here’s a picture of Edmund practicing his painting skill to stop you from seeing the answer right away =P
Now, another succubus, one that had grown up among humans, might have chosen differently. However, Alma is still quite shallow and, in the end, could not look past Stiles’ plain face into his good heart. Her answer, then, was to go with Christopher Steel.
She scours the town to find him and locates him in the park bathroom.
Father and son barely recognize each other when they see each other again.
However – oops! – Alma is not allowed to have him here as a lover yet, because she still has some outstanding lovers that she needs to end things with first. However, this doesn’t stop her from asking him to move in with her. He gladly accepts.
He gets to work at once being Mr. Mom.
This time, however, he feels uncomfortable sleeping in the same bed with Alma, so opts to take his son’s bed instead, leaving Edmund to come sleep with Alma. I took this picture because they just looked so cute together.
Christopher is very much concerned about the state of food in this house. Canned soup for breakfast! Outrageous!
While Christopher babysits the little ones, Alma goes off to break up with her two remaining lovers.
She arrives at Thorton Wolff’s house just in time to see him leave his wife for her!! I kid you not! She gets a -60 mood as a result…
… and it makes breaking things off with him that much more uncomfortable. However he, like her first boyfriend, has commitment issues, so he’s cool with it.
Mortimer is much less cool with it. He has heard through the grape vine that she has been cheating on him.
Mortimer is devastated. Alma is above this human emotional nonsense and answers her phone instead.
Alma tries to patch things up with him, but it just doesn’t work. Guess it’s time to go home. It was fun while it lasted, though.
Meanwhile we see where Edmund got his studious nature.
Alma returns home, exhausted, but ready to declare Christopher her official lover.
… Maybe not tonight. Alma is too tired and just goes to bed. Christopher hushes Anya to keep her from disturbing Mommy.
Edmund is out back working on his painting skill. Yeesh. Maybe Edmund should try a different hobby.
The next day, Alma achieves her LTW! +1 point! While she may be impassive on the outside, inwardly, she is elated.
Alma reveals her intentions for Christopher. “Look, Christopher, I know we have history, and I shut you out of Edmund’s life, but… I was really hoping that we could get back together. I want us to be a family.”
Christopher has been in love with Alma from the moment he saw her. He says yes in a heartbeat.
Wow those kids cry at inopportune moments.
And good god these are awful.
It’s the girls’ birthday! Azalea ages up first.
Ta-dah! Not sure about that haircut, and she might want to put on some pants, but she’s turning out to be quite pretty.
Anya has her turn next, but I don’t want to post the pictures because they both have their eyes crossed. (There will be a gag reel, don’t worry) Anya has inherited her father’s hair colour and her mother’s green eyes. She gains the technophobic trait, which I detest, but blame Alma’s parenting.
Azalea has her father’s blue eyes and dark complexion, but her mother’s hair. She has gained the trait of Couch Potato. Neither one of them is shaping up to be the clear succubus, but that’s what makes things interesting.
Even though they’re older now, the sisters are still the best of friends.
Now that they’ve had a bit of time to save up, I build them a new family home! This is nothing compared to the mansion that I’ll build them someday, but it will certainly do for now.
Alma and Christopher slumber in their new home…
… while Azalea flatly refuses to go to bed.
The first thing that Edmund sees these days are his hideous paintings on the wall. God help the poor boy… but he’s pretty proud of them, so as long as he is happy.
Now that the girls are old enough, Christopher can focus on his hobbies…
…while Alma sits around…
…. and Edmund paints more..
… leaving Anya to clean up after everyone.
EVERYONE.
You know, I think he’s actually getting worse.
Now that she’s fulfilled all her major ambitions, Alma is left with a vague sense of impending doom. Namely, she knows that she will soon grow old and die. The elderly seem to be everywhere she looks, these days.
It helps her fears not at all when her boss dies in front of her at work the next day. RIP Iliana.
Christopher blissfully fishes away…
…. Until Alma comes home and jumps him, just to feel alive.
The girls ignore it. They’re used to it by now.
Nervous as I am about Edmund’s painting skills, he only has one more day until his mother becomes an elder, and she has told him in no uncertain terms that he must paint her while she is still young and beautiful, so he starts in on her portrait right away.
Alma looks on with approval at the boy that the twins brought home. Perhaps he will be their first love… maybe even their first lover. But she reminds herself not to get ahead of herself, for she does not know which one of them will be heir yet.
It’s Edmund’s birthday!
Oh dear god, he grew the ponytail back.
That’s better. With that, Edmund finally graduates to being a young man. He gains the trait of virtuoso, and his LTW is to be a master of 3 skills. Perhaps at last he can start his life now, away from this constant parade of lovers and broken hearts. He loves his mother, but he craves his freedom. On the other hand, maybe he will be chained to this family until the day he dies.
Alma has instructed him to finish her portrait as soon as possible, so Edmund does not go out to get a job the next morning. Instead he joins his father on the couch as everyone else dashes out the door. Adventures in unemployment.
Christopher goes fishing…
… while the repo man visits their lot. However, for the life of me, I could not tell what she took!
Oh well. At least the portrait is done. +1 point
Just in time, too! It’s time for Alma’s birthday. Doesn’t she look terrified?
Alma is less than pleased with the results.
She opts to call it an early night, ashamed of her appearance.
Christopher joins her shortly and snuggles up close. No matter how she looks, she captured his heart long ago, and he will always be hers.
Uh-oh! Instead of going to sleep, Edmund autonomously decides to paint, and creates a picture that looks distinctly familiar. Why, it’s Stephenie Ursine, the girl he took on one date in high school! Crushes on the babysitter may be one thing, but she’s gotten into his brain somehow, and he can’t seem to get her out of it.
Alma has officially reached the top of her career path. She glows with pride.
Meanwhile, Edmund gets a job as a scientist, then goes off to see Stephenie. She’s… different. It’s like seeing her for the first time. “I… I know we haven’t talked for awhile, but I can’t seem to get you out of my head…”
“I think I…”
The sparks are certainly flying. Edmund asks Stephenie to be his girlfriend. She accepts gladly.
Speaking of sparks, Alma is worried that the spark has gone out of her relationship with Christopher, now that she has gotten old.
It seems her fears were groundless.
The twins’ childhoods have just flown by! It seems like it was only yesterday they became children, and now they are on the cusp of becoming teenagers! Anya enjoys her last few minutes of childhood.
It’s Azalea’s birthday!
Wow. Azalea has grown into a fierce young thing. (Though I think I will change that lioness hair.) She’s not stick thin, but beautiful in curves.
It’s Anya’s turn now!
Alma and Christopher have gotten too caught up in each other to notice, but her sister is not about to let her down. She celebrates loud enough for all of them.
Anya has also grown up into a beautiful woman. She is thinner, and dresses more conscientiously, but each girl is gorgeous in her own right. Both of them gain the flirty trait. Which one will grow into a succubus? The teenage years will show which of them inherited their mother’s bloodline…