The choice between heiresses: true love and duty conflict.

1. The Squeaky Clean Legacy
By Professor Butters
Chapter 7.1: Romance, Rebels, Romans
(From The Lavender Leotard, by Edward Gorey)

2. Marcellus, Scribonia, Minora and Flavia, unison: Congratulations on getting into Sim State!
Welcome to an all-new University edition of the Squeaky Clean Legacy, the Legacy that's been
bringing you girls, kittycats, pink, and practically no WooHoo since. . . well, a while now. This
chapter is being hosted by my simself's two daughters, Minora (in the white) and Flavia (in the
black) and their second cousins, Marcellus and Scribonia Caesar. Marcellus and Scribs are
from Blite27's *Ten Caesars* Legacy, but Minora and Flavia--*this* Flavia--were born here.

3. Flavius, what are you doing?
"Trying to find out if I'm dead yet. Sigh."
Flavius Marius, my simself's husband, is originally from *Ten Caesars*, where he married my
simself a generation ago. He's now an elder there, and things are not looking especially good
for him, but then, they're not looking very good for anyone. Flavius, I thought I told you not to go
online if reading about that bugs you.

4. Flavius: Yeah, but it's scary! I'm not a Knowledge Sim, like you. Ghosts creep me out! I don't
want to be a ghost and scare myself!
I'm almost certain that's not how it works. Besides, I don't think you ought to complain. You've
been awfully lucky. You started out as a spare's kid who couldn't get a date. And now you've got
a regular job as Mayor of Pleasantview here. Plus you've been a cover boy in Purple Bunny's
Piratical Legacy, Fireflower's Morgan Legacy and smoothiequeen87's Fitzhugh Legacy, and
now you're showing up in avidreader's brand new Puritanical Green Thumb Legacy, plus which,
she says you're cute.
Flavius: Wow. . .really?
Yes. Considering that you have negative charisma and you're not a zombie, a vampire, an alien,
or a Romance Sim, I'd say you're doing pretty well.

5. Somebody else, however, is not so easily calmed down--my third generation spare, Delightful
Goodytwoshoes, a Romance Sim who likes cute blond chicks and who is the only Sim in my
game with the license to do whatever she wants. What, wait--Delightful, you just WooHooed
one of your college girlfriends and you aren't happy?
Delightful: No! Ben just married me to a man! Do I look like the sort of woman who wants to
marry a man?
Well, I married you to a man.
Delightful: Yeah, but at least it was over soon! And he was blond! I don't like Cassius!

6. I see. You really, really, *really* don't like Cassius. That doesn't seem fair, considering he runs
your favorite dive, the Herculaneum Hotel. You know you can't WooHoo at home because of
your grandmother's Not Under My Roof rule. You're lucky to have a place to do it.
Delightful: Yeah, but that doesn't mean I want to WooHoo Cassius! Blargggh!

7. Cassius: Hey, I resent that!
I probably should too, considering you're my simself's eldest son, but I don't. Lighten up. You're
a lucky guy. You're married to Fireflower314/De, you're nuts about her, and you run the
sleaziest business in town. I shouldn't permit any of this.
Cassius: Ah, Ma, you do it because of my sunny disposition.
Anyway, Delightful, you don't like Cassius. You see anyone you *do* like?

8. Delightful: Toasty is *hot*!
Yes, you said that before, and I said you weren't getting Toast. Who do you think you are,
Johnny Depp?
___
Ephemeral Toast wrote the Apocalypso A Go Go and is in the middle of an, ahem, controversial
Bachelor Challenge with her own evil alien Romance Sim, Uranium.

9. Delighful: I can talk to her, can't I?
ET: Chattity chattity chat!
I don't care how encouraging Toast is being, you still can't have her.
Delightful: Well, now I'm back to being mad! I'll make Ben pay for marrying me to Cassius!
Oh, *man*. That's all it is these days between Legacy authors--I'll see your unwanted ugly baby
and raise you a nasty death and a zombification. Don't do it, Delightful, no!. . . too late.

10. Delightful: Would you like to buy Lollipop?

11. Blite: Aw, sure! Here's 6,000 Simoleans! Who's a cute girl kitty?
Cha-ching!

12. Delightful: While we're at it, would you like to buy Silver? We haven't trained him to stay off the
furniture, though.
Blite: Sure!
Cha-ching!
I'm sorry folks, that's the worst thing that happens to simselves in my Legacy, pretty much--they
get to buy our Petacy cats before they get too old. I wonder what happens if we marry Ben's
simself in later--does he bring the cats with him, or what?

13. And it was time to sell Lollipop and Silver, as their kittens are now old enough to be trained for
their pet careers. This one is Cuddles. . .isn't he cute?

14. And this one is Candy. Ironic, since Candi was the last simself to buy thousands of Simoleans
worth of cat, hee hee hee--oh, sorry.
Maybe it's a bit extreme, but with two real life elderly kitties with chronic renal failure, the last
thing I want is to watch my pixelated kitties get old and die. So thanks, Ben! I hope your
simself's not allergic!

15. The real stars of this chapter are my two potential fourth generation heiresses. As you can see,
they're keeping up the pink tradition pretty well. While they're both very mean Sims on paper--
Geminis with one nice point--it's almost always Aurora who's mean to Giselle. Here they are,
and as usual, Aurora is cheating her younger sister at chess.

16. But once in a great while, Giselle gets her own back. Go, Giselle!
Either could be heiress, and it's a tough job. A quick family recap seems called for here:

17. The founder of the Squeaky Clean Legacy was Rosie Goodytwoshoes, a Family Sim. She was
a very old fashioned girl and wanted to pass that along to her children. The rules she laid out, to
be followed by every Squeaky Clean heir forevermore, were that the heir must be a girl, and that
there would be absolutely no pre or extramarital WooHoo. The heiress would have to Try For
Baby only, and Try and Try and Try for Baby until she got two girls. In addition, married couples
had to stay married. No divorce, no changing your mind. Non Heirs aren't bound by the Try For
Baby rules, but they must not ever WooHoo on the family property at the risk of incurring
Rosie's ghostly wrath--and she's been known to spook heiress' husbands who might even have
an idea of making trouble!
The unwritten rule was that everything must stay as cute and as pink as possible, and every
generation has tried to top the last. There were seven children in the first generation, but only
two girls.

18. Rosie's husband, Shane Hiatt-Goodytwoshoes, added a further requirement. He came in with
a gold Toymaking badge and started the family toy shop. Ever since, the heiress' husband has
had to run the family toy business and earn the badge.

19. The only important male spare from generation two is Mortimer Goodytwoshoes, the eldest.
He's a Knowledge Sim who is still working on being a Mad Scientist, but he also opened a robot
shop. Thank goodness, because with Romance Sims like Delightful around, we count on him to
make sentry bots.
Mortimer: I've never really learned how to run the register, though.

20. The generation two sparess was Pleasure Sim Hopeful Goodytwoshoes, now Hopeful Young.
She had an exciting time of it, dating, becoming a Professional Party Guest, and then marrying
a Grand Vamp who burned to death on the morning after the wedding night, but ultimately she
left the house, resurrected Count Jihoon, remarried him, had a baby--Countess Elizabeth--and
hasn't been heard from since.

21. Generation Two's heiress was Daisie Mae Goodytwoshoes, here shown holding her daughter
Moonbeam. She was a Knowledge Sim who became a Mad Scientist, and probably didn't enjoy
spending so much time barefoot and pregnant.
The family got started with four boys in a row, Tiny, Joe, Earthquake, and Ralph. Tiny had an
"accident" with the science reward object and haunts the legacy lot occasionally; Ralph
graduated from college and married the maid Kaylynn Langerak; and the other two are still
hanging around college.

22. Her husband was the former maid, Remington Harris-Goodytwoshoes, a Family Sim if there
ever was one. He achieved his LTW of Captain Hero, fearlessly cleaned cat boxes and made
toys, and had ten children with Daisie Mae. The boys have been accounted for--now for the six
girls:

23. Moonbeam Goodytwoshoes, a Libra Pleasure Sim. A runner-up to be heiress, she didn't mind
losing, and married Kent the Generic Blond Romance Sim. They have twin girls, Stacie and
Kimberleigh, who will be going to University with Aurora and Giselle.

24. You've already met Delightful. She married her art professor, the obnoxious Professor
Popularity--but in a repeat of family history, he too suffered a fatal accident before she could
even WooHoo him. She doesn't care: she generally prefers girls. She lives in the Legacy House
and is the only one with a permit from the author to do whatever she likes. Professor Popularity
occasionally haunts the place but, ineffectual as he was in life, has yet to spook anyone.

25. The other girl in the heir poll was Wolf Gal Goodytwoshoes, now livin' her dream as a
werewolf, married to Derek the Paperboy and the proud owner of two Irish Wolfhounds. She
shows up occasionally at the family businesses and at parties, where her spectacular transitions
at 8 PM bring everything to a screeching halt.

26. The landslide winner of the heir poll was Libra Popularity Sim, Sunny Goodytwoshoes. My
simself's husband Flavius was once a very close friend and helped her to become heiress,
which she deserved--she was clearly Squeaky Clean. But after he had already announced his
candidacy for Mayor of Pleasantview, she announced as well and made some speeches saying
some scathing things about anti-pink bias and keeping Pleasantview Squeaky Clean. Flavius,
who is very proud of being Roman, took this as a personal insult.
However, her tenure as heiress has been a true Golden Age for the Squeaky Cleans. The family
fortune has more than doubled, partly because she married the right man.

27. Publius Numantius Scipio-Goodytwoshoes, a Fortune Sim, *also* originally from *Ten
Caesars* and Flavius' first cousin, married Sunny and proceeded to pull out an heiress and a
sparess in two tries, thus officially becoming one of my favorite Sims. As a reward, he was
encouraged to go for his LTW to have five top level businesses, which he also achieved.
Publius: The girls are doing really well in school. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

28. Publius: I'm thinking you're only four days away from elder, that's what *I'm* thinking.
Go for it, Publius. You don't have to Try For Baby anymore when Sunny's too old to do it. The
Strict Family Values handicap says you can WooHoo all you like with her now, and she's still
blond and cute! I'll give you guys some privacy.

29. Aurora: So, Giselle, now one of us is going to marry and reign over the Legacy family. I wonder
who gets to be my Prince Consort? They're probably lining up around the block right now.
Yeah, right, Aurora. Aurora is named after the Princess in the Sleeping Beauty ballet and it's
obviously gone to her head--she has a terrible princess complex.
Aurora: Oh, yes--and I suppose we'll have to find someone to marry you.

30. Giselle isn't going to tell her sister this, but she's already in love with my simself's son, Quintus
Marius. This is a big problem, as Flavius is still furious with Sunny. Sunny and he don't speak to
each other anymore and have tried to impose the restriction on their families, too. Flavius has
even put up a wall between our houses. . .but it seems to have backfired.
Giselle is also named after a ballet, in which the title character dies of a broken heart and
dances herself to death. She's been talking about running mad for love literally since she was a
toddler. Now it appears that she might.

31. Maybe she'll forget all about him in college. Let's hope so. There will be plenty to do with Aunt
Grace, a Romance Sim (here shown in the hot tub with her professor, Professor Skanque) and
Aunt Charity, a Knowledge Sim, the youngest girls of Generation Three.
The Greek House, the Goodygirls Sorority, founded by Delightful and Moonbeam, has fallen
from a level six to a level four. So there will be a lot of work to pull it up again, parties and phone
calls--oh, yes, and maybe a few classes.

32. Both girls worked hard to prepare for college. Giselle, who is Popularity, reached the top of her
teen career. She wants to be a Captain Hero like her grandfather, Remington, so she went into
law enforcement.

33. And Aurora, who is a Pleasure Sim and wants to be a Celebrity Chef, went into Culinary. Hee
hee hee!
Aurora: Get me out of this uniform and destroy the photographic evidence or else!

34. There was other work to do, too. Aside from regular skilling, the heiress has always had a Gold
Flowermaking Badge by the time she graduated, a tradition that goes back to the girl's
grandmother, Daisie Mae. So it made sense to have them start at home.

35. Publius: Now, honey, one of you is going to come back home and your husband will have to
pick up all the family businesses, including the family toy store. So I'm going to start passing
along my business perks to both of you--that way you'll both be ready.
Giselle: But, Daddy, I thought the heiress' husband also had to earn a Gold Toymaking Badge.
Have you done that?

36. Publius: Uh--working on it.
He will. Publius may have brought the toy store up to Level Ten, but he still has to earn the
badge--just because. And because we're both exhausted and because he now wants to be a
business tycoon, he hasn't gone in to the businesses for a while now. They'll still be there when
the new heiress comes back, though. It can wait.

37. The girl's cousins, Stacie and Kimberley--sorry, Kimberleigh--Goodytwoshoes, are also going to
college. That's Stacie in the braids and Kimberleigh in the silly little buns. What are you up to,
girls?

38. Stacie: Studying for college! Whoop, whoop!
Stacie got the Tsang Footwork award and Kimberleigh got the Philips-Wilsonoff Billiards
scholarship. Seemed appropriate for the twin daughters of a Pleasure Sim and a Romance Sim.
Are those your only scholarships?
Kimberleigh and Stacie, unison: No, but those were the important ones!
And what aspirations did you roll?
Kimberleigh and Stacie, unison: Pleasure!
Dare I ask what LTWs?
Kimberleigh and Stacie: Fifty first dates!

39. Flavia: Scribs, I don't know why those Squeaky Clean girls are getting so much face time. We're
*Romans.* We're much better than they are and we're more interesting. They want fifty first
dates--well, we're both Romance and we want to WooHoo twenty different Sims. Let's get
started now and compare notes.
I don't think so, Flavia. You know what I named your house? The Vestals.
Flavia: As in?
Yep. As in Vestal Virgins.
Flavia: You are my mother and I hate you for that.

40. Scribonia is much nicer than Flavia and much prettier. She has the same custom hairstyle as
*Orikes' simself because somehow I can't find the correct one. Incidentally, you have something
to explain to the readers. There are at least two sets of second cousins in love here. Would you
care to tell us why?
Scribonia: Well. . .when you sent me to college, you looked at my relationship panel, and I'm
Romance, and one of my best friends was my Uncle Drusus, only. . .
Only what?
Scribonia: Only I didn't know he was my uncle. Sorry. It was a bit squicky.
He wasn't her uncle originally. I had to go back and do a lot of clumsy editing to fix this. So
Scribonia and Marcellus, while here they are the kids of Tiberius Caesar, not Julia, are the niece
and nephew of Drusus. Drusus and Tiberius are brothers: they are also Publius and Flavius' first

41. Instead, I gave Scribonia her first kiss with Wyatt Midlock. Wyatt was one of Moonbeam's many
dates last generation, and I remember him as a bit cold and hard to get around. Not for Scribs--
he fell for her like a box of rocks, probably because she is exceptionally sweet.
She also cheers when she's asked to clean the bathtub, which endears her to me.

42. Flavia: So, Professor Gullible, I'm gonna trash talk Sunny Goodytwoshoes and I'm wearing a
bikini! Don't you think that's hot?
Sadly, he does. I feel sorry for Professor Gullible. He is new around here, a replacement for one
of the professors who have had, um, "accidents." There seem to be a lot of those. I don't think
he's really a professor at all. I think he's a Family Sim teaching assistant who got in over his
head with one of his students and is going to be in a heck of a lot of trouble if the adminstration
ever finds out. Didn't you go to the training sessions on that?

43. Flavia: Congratulations on making the Dean's List, Marcellus!
Somehow I managed to get two Romance Sims and a Pleasure Sim to Junior Year with 4.0
averages and nobody WooHooing anybody.

44. Minora also got a 4.0, less surprising because she is Fortune. I let both Caesar kids re-roll their
aspirations and Marcellus moved out and got some new housemates, while Minora and Flavia's
younger sister Tertia, a Family Sim, moved in.

45. Quintus: So, Marcellus, want some hot gossip on my sister Tertia?
Marcellus: Yeah!

46. Quintus: Um, come to think of it, I don't have anything on Tertia. Sorry.
It drives me nuts when Sims do this--gossip about somebody, but they have nothing to say.
Quin and his twin brother, Flavius Minor--Min, for short--moved in with Marcellus. So now there
is a Legacy girls Greek House, the Goodygirls; a Legacy boys/spares house, Where the Boys
Are; a Roman girls house, the Vestals; and a Roman boys house, the Patricians (once again,
as in *Ten Caesars.*) The culture wars of Pleasantview have gone collegiate.
And finally--FINALLY--the stage is set for Aurora and Giselle to make their big entrances.
Giselle got into the Goodygirls right away. It was tricky, because since the house had fallen to
level four, nobody wanted to join. Then it was the other girls' turn, Aurora first. Naturally.

47. Kimberleigh: So Mom told me we're all into cute pink stuff, but I don't think I was really ready for
this.
Thought we couldn't get any more pathologically cute? Thought the estrogen levels were maxed
already? Guess again. When Aurora decided to be a ballet princess, she *really* decided to be
a ballet princess.
This mesh deserves its own mention. It's by SussiIsSoGood on ModTheSims2, and as you'll
see, it isn't just a fluffy tutu. It has toe shoes, so Aurora walks around on pointe. All the time.

48. Giselle and Charity: Whoo-hoo! Go Aurora! You're an official Goodygirl!

49. Aurora: I'm keeping up the family cute pink tradition here. What's wrong with you? Why are you
dressed like a Roman? Mom says Romans are ikky, especially that dork, Flavius Marius.
Giselle: Oh, no reason.
Still, Giselle, I think she has a point. You'd better go and change.

50. Stacie: Aw, Giselle, I'd love to write your term paper for you!
It doesn't take long for Stacie and Kimberleigh to pledge after this, and they'll be moving in
probably after Charity and Grace graduate. Stacie seems to have stolen Persephone Legancia's
wardrobe.
Stacie: No, we just shop at the same places.

51. The ballet just never ends around here, not even during workouts.

52. Kimberleigh: So, like, I'm confused. What's all this stuff about Romans vs. Squeaky Cleans?
Mom's a Goodytwoshoes and she says Flavius Marius is ok--she's one of his eighteen billion
best friends. What's the deal?
Giselle: Uh--would you like to sing karaoke?
Kimberleigh and Stacie aren't involved in the family battles because their mom Moonbeam isn't.
She's a Pleasure Sim and she's too busy blowing bubble to bother with politics.

53. Purple Bunny: So I don't get it. You're supposed to be all about pink, Aurora, and your family is
in some kind of battle with the main Roman family around here, so why are you dressed like a
Roman?
Aurora: Because it's a toga party, Purple Bunny, like, DUH.

54. Llama Guy: Oh, Charity, let's sneak away from all the family weirdness and snatch a few
moments alone!
Away from the weirdness--right. Dominic the Llama Guy has been trying to marry in to this
Legacy for three generations and finally found a girl who would share his Llamatarian lifestyle.
Dominic: And I hope that's tofurkey on that buffet table.
If Charity's older sister Wolf Gal were still here, Dominic would probably be on the menu. She's
totally carnivorous.

55. Heather Huffington: Me me me me.
Aurora: I don't understand this. I thought it was all about *me.*
You want it to be all about you? OK. Here's a photo of you.

56. The Sugar Plum Fairy on a Dance Sphere, something you don't see every day. Happy now?

57. Aurora: Yes, so I'm amazing. I was an overachiever. I'm a princess. Me me me me.
Who's she talking to? Who wants to listen to this?

58. Giselle, Aurora's already got her silver badge. You'll have to work hard to catch up.
Giselle: I don't mind. I love flowers. They're so romantic! They make me think of somebody.

59. Quintus: Um, Mom? Don't kill me, all right? I'm just a Fortune Sim who wants to be a sports
star. I can't help it that Giselle is still thinking about me.
I'm staying out of this. I'm just snapping this photo so that everyone knows that every kid Flavius
and I produce doesn't necessarily have a face that would stop a clock. Besides, everyone
knows that in the Sims, you get a no-fault breakup from your high school sweetheart when you
go to college. So I'm sure you'll both find other people now.

60. Quintus: So Min, I was thinking, pink isn't *that* bad, right? I mean, Dad can't be right all the
time. What am I saying? Dad's almost never right.

61. Marcellus re-rolled Fortune, but you'd never know it. He still acts like a Pleasure Sim.
Marcellus: Can you have Min whip something up? I've got the munchies.

62. Min is a Pleasure Sim, and he also seems to be the Marian boy most like his Dad, whether
that's good or not. For one thing, he's a Mama's boy.

63. For another, he strikes out with girls as badly as his dad did. And he has the one Maxis haircut
that is, if possible, even dorkier than his Dad's.

64. Min: How am I supposed to get married if I can't even get a girl to go out with me?
I thought you were a Pleasure Sim. I thought you wanted to be a Celebrity Chef.
Min: Yeah, but my thought bubbles are all about marriage and babies.

65. Min: Dad, I've been in college for a whole day and a half now and my social life is already in the
potty. Nobody will date me, and I mean nobody.
Flavius: Yeah, that sounds familiar.
Min: Well, it was all right for you. But I'm a Pleasure Sim! I have to go on dates!

66. Flavius: Hey, I'm Popularity. You think it was a picnic for me?

67. Min: So Dad, what do I do?
Flavius: Well, whatever you do, don't call the matchmaker. She threw me two old ladies and a
bowling nut.
I'm not sure asking Flavius was the greatest idea in the world, considering his title as Sim
Strikeout Champion, but he must have passed along some tips anyway and all three guys went
out to buy cell phones and have some drinks.

68. Min: So Heather, my Dad is Mayor. He's Mayor. As in, Mayor. Isn't that cool?
Heather Huffington: Wow, Mayor, like really?
But his chatup conversation was interrupted.

69. Min: Hey, Mom, can I date Stacie? She's my best friend! She's the only girl I know who will date
me.
No.
Min: Aw. What have you got against Goodytwoshoes girls?
Nothing. You can't date and marry Stacie because she farts on plates and laughs afterwards.
It's the grossest thing I've ever seen.
Quin: Yeah, I don't get the attraction at all.
You wouldn't. You're a Scorpio and you're maxed neat. Min here is a Sag and he likes 'em
sloppy. Min, I'm vetoing this one; you might be the first first date, but she would want forty-nine
more.

70. Min: Matchmaker lady, Dad said not to call you because it would be a disaster but I'm all out of
options. Can you get me somebody awesome?
Matchmaker: I can tell you two are nearly perfect for each other!

71. Min: Hey, that's great! I like her already!

72. Ephemeral Toast: You did this on purpose, didn't you? Why does everybody have it in for me?
I did not do it on purpose. Min's a Sag Pleasure Sim and he likes blondes. Who do you think
he's gonna get? Shirley Temple? And now we're stuck with going on with the date because I
can't have your simself leaving us flaming bags of poo. Not my fault.

73. See? Not so bad. Three bolts, right? I don't have Johnny Depp in my game, ok? This is fine,
right? Um--oh, never mind.
No, ET, there was no smootchy-face, ok, although I am positive Min wanted to.

74. See, this is why you cannot have Toast, Min. See that thought bubble right there? She does not
do babies. At all.
Min: I heard she does.
You heard wrong.

75. ET: I'll even do your art history assignment for you, kid. Just promise to leave me alone.
Well, he would, if you ever bleepin' *left* instead of cheering him on while he was freestyling for
tips.

76. Min: If I stand here long enough with actions popping up in my queue, you think she'll get off the
Dance Sphere and pay attention to me?
No, I don't. He stood there for two hours before he gave up.

77. Giselle's been busy in college the way a Popularity Sim always is busy--she's been working the
phone in addition to the flower arranging and getting other people to write her papers. So there's
been no time to go out and meet more boys.
Aurora has also been busy on the phone, although the same person always calls.

78. Aurora: You are in luck. I'm going to let you take me to dinner.
Spencer Fitzhugh? Are you sure, Spence? Aurora here is the Ice Princess. You think you can
thaw her out?
___
Spencer Fitzhugh is from smoothiequeen's Fitzhugh Legacy and recently starred in his own
fairly gentle and decent Bachelor Challenge. Marina uploaded him specially for me. Thanks!

79. Spencer: Well, I can certainly try.

80. Spencer, are you holding hands with Aurora, or are you trying to put your hands up her skirt?
Spencer: I'm innocent! It's just a glitch!

81. Aurora: So my big scene in *Nutcracker* goes like this--I pirouette and do a grand jete, and then
you catch me. Do you think you can do that?
Spencer: Absolutely.

82. Aurora: Spencer, I want you to meet Professor Butters-Marius, the legacy author.
Pleased to meet you, Spencer. Say, look at that, Marina, they're best friends.
Marina: I hope you know what you're doing. Spencer's a nice Romance Sim as they go, but he's
still Romance.
I know, but Aurora is Pleasure. She won't like a Family Sim. I can't promise to get Spencer
Permaplat and I've had trouble keeping Publius alive, but I'll do my best.

83. Aurora: I like him!
The Ice Princess actually thaws a bit with three bolts of chemistry! Better than I was hoping for!

84. Aurora: Ooo! Gilbert's dreamy!
Oh, great--NOW she realizes she's a Pleasure Sim. She rolls the want for a date with Spencer,
but also a date with Gilbert Jacquet, some guy named Andy, and. . .

85. Aaroc. Now what's all this stuff about a Bachelor Challenge? You know my simself doesn't do
those, and I mean at all. And I read Zombie of Love--no way.
Aaroc: Hey, you can do it! You're not married!
___
Aaroc writes the Elfin Legacy and turned out a Zombie of Love Bachelor challenge. His simself
is a Romance Sim, the only male Sim ever to have gotten lucky with Delightful--sorry, Cassius.

86. No, but I am.
Just a little brain-bender there. There is a townie me, who is still single and pleasantly plump;
and playable me, who has been married to Flavius for about 25 plus Sim Years and has lost a
lot of weight because of her training to be a Criminal Mastermind. Usually I avoid shots of them
together.

87. Spencer must have liked the date, because he snuck over at 1 am and Aurora decided to say
hello in her PJs. Now all we have to do is get Giselle fixed up with somebody before. . .

88. . . .Quintus asks her on a date.
Shoot. Quin, why couldn't you just let it drop?

89. Giselle: Of course I said yes! Quintus is my best friend!
You keep it like that, ok?

90. Too late. This wasn't a flirt, just a random heart-fart. He likes her and he is stubborn and he is
not letting go.

91. If you've never seen a Roman and a ballerina boogying down before, you have now.

92. Quintus, I thought your biggest want was to make the Dean's List.
Quintus: Not anymore. It's to get engaged to Giselle. I'm sure it's what she wants, too.
But Flavius will have a fit!

93. And just what do you think you're doing?
Quintus: We're taking a photo. What does it look like we're doing? I know where you're going
with this, Mom. I'm not doing anything she's not supposed to.

94. Quintus: But believe me, it isn't because I don't want to.
Good heavens, the two of you look fused. That can't be comfortable. Besides, don't kid me.
You're a Scorpio and she's a Gemini. You can't be *that* crazy about each other.
Quintus: Uh-huh. I'm a Scorpio, like you. She's a Gemini, like Dad. What's your point?
Nothing.

95. Quin: Mom? You are going to let me get engaged to Giselle, right?
I don't know, Quin. We're going to have to talk about that. That depends on the results of the. . .
DOUBLE HEIR POLL!
That's right. There will now be one Marian heir and one Legacy heiress from here on out or until
my game explodes. Naturally, the Marian line won't be a real Legacy. We're Romans, darling,
and we cheat. You, readers, now have to select the heiress and also the Marian boy who gets
to carry on the family line, and those decisions will affect the story line for at least a full
generation.
First, the real heirs, or rather heiresses:

96. Aurora Goodytwoshoes
Gemini, 5/8/9/3/1
Pleasure, Celebrity Chef
Most likely husband: Spencer Fitzhugh, though it's not set in stone.
Pros: She's a princess.
Cons: She's a princess.

97. Giselle Goodytwoshoes
Gemini, 5/8/9/3/1. The same as her sister, but she acts much, much nicer.
Popularity like her Mom; wants to be a Captain Hero like Grandpa.
Pros: Sweet, kind, gentle and emotionally vulnerable, she is in many ways what being a
Goodytwoshoes ought to be all about. Very responsible and proud of her Legacy heritage.
Cons: May be a bit *too* emotionally vulnerable. Deeply in love with Quin, she cannot marry him
and may have a nervous breakdown as a result.

98. Now for the Marian boys.
Cassius Marius
Scorpio, 10/5/7/3/1. He's mean, but he's tidy.
Romance, Twenty Simultaneous Lovers; married to De, aka Fireflower 314, author of the
Morgan Legacy.
Pros: Despite her aspiration and LTW--Pleasure, Fifty Dream Dates--wife De has been known
to engage in genetic experimentation and might be a good sport. Would be interesting to see if
she can cancel out his hideousness.
Cassius: Hey!
Cons: Mean as a rattlesnake. Do we need more of this?

99. Flavius Marius Minor, "Min":
Sagittarius, 2/7/8/10/3, the only juggler in the family.
Pleasure, Celebrity Chef.
Pros: Family dorkiness gene seems strongest in this kid.
Cons: Because family dorkiness gene so dominant, may have trouble finding someone to breed
with. I suppose we could always go with Stacie, though with all the maxed neat people in the
family, she's unlikely to survive the first family dinner.

100. Quintus Marius:
Scorpio, 10/5/7/3/1; same stats as brother Cassius. On paper at least, as mean as he is.
Fortune, LTW Hall of Famer.
Pros: Easily the most attractive of the Marian boys and also very smart.
Cons: Has fallen in love with a girl he obviously can never marry.
That's it for now. You can leave your votes in my guestbook or on Boolprop.com in the legacy
thread, as there's no official way to do a double poll.
Quin: Forget it, Mom. I'm not marrying anybody but Giselle.
Hold it. I need to explain something to Quin. I'll have to call him to come back to Chez Marius
for a visit.

101. First, we'll need to get Flavius out of the way.
Flavius: Why does she worship cats? Why?

102. Quintus, I'm trying to be your friend here. And I know you're, um, best friends with Giselle, but
you cannot marry her, especially if she's the heiress.

103. Quintus: Why not? Is this part of Dad's stupid Romans vs. Squeaky Cleans thing? That's so
dumb.
No, honey, it has nothing to do with that. It's because--I don't know how to break it to you--
you're a playable.

104. Quintus: But you're the Legacy author! You can make things go whatever way you want to! Dad
says you're practically a goddess!
A very minor goddess, and that is the one immutable Legacy rule: heirs cannot marry playables.
And like many minor goddesses, I have to answer to one above me.
Quintus: Who's that? Jupiter?
No. Master Pinstar.

105. So you see, Quintus, there's only a certain amount I can do to affect your future. If Giselle is
elected heiress, you can't marry her. And your father wants a Marian male heir very much,
because he doesn't have one in *Ten Caesars.* I hope you understand.
Quintus: Oh, I understand all right.

106. I understand that I'll have to take matters into my own hands.
You took Giselle to the Herculaneum Hotel? Cassius, you see all this. Why don't you stop it?
Cassius: Stop it? Stop my own brother getting a little? I've been waiting for this. Those people
really went after Dad, and now it's payback time. One slipup, just one, and those Squeaky
Clean values go out the window and their Legacy's shot!
You can't have discussed this with Flavius!
Cassius: Are you kidding? Dad's a big softie. But I'm not.

107. Quintus: Giselle, I'd like you to meet my brother Cassius--he runs this place. Cassius, this is
Giselle. Isn't she perfect?
Cassius: Pleased to meet you. . . you stupid, stupid little girl.

108. Quintus: Giselle, I love and respect you more than anyone in the world. You know I would never
do anything to hurt you. But we're going to have to take control and there's only one way to do
that.
Giselle: I love you, too, Quintus--what way is that?

109. Quintus: We're going to have to get you disqualified.
Yipes! Hold it, what's his cell number? Quintus!
Is Giselle even going to be eligible to be heiress? Has Cassius really been plotting that long for
such a low-down aim? Better put your votes up fast before things get totally out of hand!

110. Credits:
First of all, to Blite27 for graciously loaning me his characters and for buying several thousand
Simoleans worth of cats.
To smoothiequeen, for specially uploading Spencer Fitzhugh and for making a guest
appearance.
To Purple Bunny for her guest appearance at the sorority toga party, and to Ephemeral Toast,
for her totally unscheduled date with my simself's kid, and to Fireflower314/De, for allowing your
simself to be married to someone as totally unworthy as Cassius.
Clothes from ModTheSims2 and all-about-style; some makeup by Helaene; Roman CC by
Alexasrosa and RMSchoon. Flavius, you have a comment?
Flavius: Yeah! Meet somebody new!