Déja-Lu Legacy Challenge (EN)
Déja-Lu Legacy
Welcome to the Déjà-Lu Legacy, a challenge of 10 generations, which is based on popular literature. Perhaps playing this challenge will make you want to (re)discover these novels?
This challenge was created by @justmooresims and myself!
Basic rules :
Try to avoid cheats, unless it's freerealestate for the first generation.
There are no color codes for the heirs and spouses. You can make them as you please. Moreover, they don't have to be named after the heroes of each novel, let you imagination run wild!
The goal is to complete each rule for every generation. What isn't mentioned is completely up to you.
Keep the lifespan on normal.
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Generation One : Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Eternal dreamer stuck in a reality that bores you, you're in love with love itself and have always hoped to someday experience true love. The real one, the big one, the one that transcends you with passion and desire. Unfortunately, no matter how much you love your partner, they don't thrill you as much as you'd like...
Traits : Romantic, Snob, Hates children
Aspiration : Serial romantic
Career : Writer
Rules :
Complete the serial romantic aspiration.
Get to level 10 in the Writing career.
Get to level 10 in 3 skills.
Have a boyfriend as a teenager and marry them as soon as you become a young adult.
Cheat on your spouse for the rest of your life with different partners but never get divorced.
Spend unnecessarily and expensively every Sunday.
Have 5 children and be enemies with all of them.
Generation Two : Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Although your relationship with your parents is somewhat conflictual, you've always been very close to your siblings . Eager to learn, you cultivate your knowledge to the point of developing a bit of a superiority complex that causes you problems to deal with other sims... Perhaps you'll find love more easily if you start getting to know people without judging so quickly.
Traits : Genius, Family oriented, Self-assured
Aspiration : Soulmate
Career : Critic
Rules :
Complete the soulmate aspiration.
Get to level 10 in the Critic career.
Get to level 10 in the piano and education skills.
Be good friends with all your siblings.
Don't have any romantic relationships before reaching young adulthood.
Have your first love stolen by one of your siblings.
Marry your enemy.
Have 3 cowplants (can be replaced by any other farm animals)
Generation Three : Percival, the story of the Grail - Chrétien de Troyes
As the child of overprotective parents, you've never tested or experimented for fear of hurting yourself. And yet, dreaming of crazy adventures, you always wanted to explore the world. Therefore, when you reached the age of majority, you decided to leave. Was it really a good idea to leave the comfort and kindness of Mummy and Daddy, though ? You can't depend on then for the rest of your life! Be brave! Your friends will be a good substitute.
Traits : Clumsy, Bro, Goofball
Aspiration : Curator
Career : Military/Law
Rules :
Complete the curator aspiration.
Get to level 10 in the Military or Law career.
Get to level 10 in the fishing skill.
Be good friends with your parents.
Complete the Metal or Crystal collection (up to you)
Join a group/club in your teens and meet at least twice a week.
Get married and have children but end up as a single parent.
Generation Four : The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
You've always been fascinated by arts and have been since you were a child. As you grow up, you become aware of your own beauty and develop a deep-seated fear of ageing. So you decided to do everything to stay young and beautiful, to the detriment of the goodness of your soul, throwing yourself headlong into the pleasures of life without worrying about what the people around you might say. "Carpe Diem" is your motto.
Traits : Self-absorbed, Arts lover, Non-committal
Aspiration : Party animal
Career : Mixologist
Rules :
Complete the party animal aspiration.
Get to level 10 in the Mixologist career.
Get to level 10 in the painting skill.
Go at least twice a week on a community lot.
Get engaged, but break up the day before the wedding.
Drink a youth potion in mid-adulthood to regain your former beauty.
Have a painted portrait of yourself in every room of your house.
Generation Five : The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Seeing your parents regularly trying to defy time from an early age, you quickly became interested in the methods they used and the people they hired to achieve their goals. That's how you discovered the wonderful world of Science! If almost everything in the Simsworld can be scientifically explained, then everything should potentially be experimented, shouldn't it?
Traits : Perfectionnist, Evil, Erratic
Aspiration : Chief of Mischief
Career : Scientist
Rules :
Complete the Chief of Mischief aspiration.
Get to level 10 in the Scientist career.
Get to level 7 in 5 skills.
Create an evil clone of yourself with the cloning machine.
Fight 3 times with your clone. The loser dies, and the winner continues the legacy with their own bloodline.
Get married and have 3 children.
Generation Six : Candide - Voltaire
"Unable to say no" and "weak" are what people say about you. Very different from the competitive world in which you grew up, you like to delude yourself, remaining blind to the reality of the world. If your optimism is your strength, your naivety is your greatest weakness, and people understood that quite well, not hesitating to take advantage of you at the slightest opportunity.
Traits : Loyal, Cheerful, Good
Aspiration : Friend of the world
Career : Odd jobs
Rules :
Complete the Friend of the world aspiration.
Be kicked out of your parents home as a teenager having only $50 in your pockets.
Be good friends with your parents and siblings even if they kicked you out of the house.
Have two failed relationships who both leave you taking half the household funds each time.
Live in 3 different worlds (the world you grew up in doesn't count).
Complete the postcard collection.
Adopt at least one child.
Generation Seven : Scarlet and Black - Henry Stendhal
In this cruel Simworld, you think the naivety and silliness of your family, although very sympathetic, is useless and won't save you from misery either. Unlike them, your ambition drives you to always seek further and higher. Professionally as well as personally, you're a passionate sim and can't be satisfied with the minimum required. Be careful not to let the two mix, or you'd risk to destroy everything you've worked so hard to build...
Traits : Romantic, Ambitious, Bookworm
Aspiration : Leader of the pack
Career : Politician or Education
Rules :
Complete all Leader of the pack aspiration objectives EXCEPT ONE.
Get to level 9 in the Politician or Education career but NEVER reach level 10.
Get to level 9 in Charisma and Research and debate skills but NEVER reach level 10.
Have a job as a teenager.
Date two members of the same family at the same time.
Get married and have children, at least one must be an illegitimate child.
Generation Eight : The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
After watching your parents' hopes go up in smoke and their work trampled underfoot as a child, you promised yourself that it would never happen again. You've seen the flaws in the system, now you know how it works, and you, who were too young to do anything about it back then, can do something about it as an adult! You'll probably have to start all over again, but one day you'll be back to make your name shine like never before. Those who dared to mock you should be careful, you're ready to show them what you're capable of.
Traits : Active, Unflirty, Hot-headed
Aspiration : Public Enemy
Career : Business
Rules :
Complete the Public enemy aspiration.
Get to level 10 in the Business career.
Use the voodoo doll on 4 different sims
Move to another world, away from you family and friends as a young adult.
Have an elderly person as your only friend and don't make any other friends until they die.
Radically change your clothing style at every birthday.
Get married as an adult.
Generation Nine : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No matter where you used to go or where you were, you always felt apart and different. Too different. You'd rather be alone than with other people who you often think are too stupid to deserve your company. Fortunately, your Simmer has blessed you with the existence of a walking weirdo : your best friend to help you cope more easily with living in this mediocre Simworld with its most... astonishing bugs and imperfections.
Traits : Loner, Music Lover, Mean
Aspiration : Nerd Brain
Career : Detective (or Secret agent if you do not own the Get to Work pack)
Rules :
Complete the Nerd brain aspiration.
Get to level 10 in the Detective or Secret agent career.
Get to level 10 in the Logic skill.
Play an instrument (preferably the violin).
Make a sworn enemy as a child and maintain this relationship for the rest of your life.
Live in a shared flat with your best friend throughout your entire young adulthood.*
*Can live on a 20x20 if you do not own any packs that gives the possibility of living in a flat.
Generation Ten : The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Having grown up in a family that didn't have much time for you, you managed on your own and learned everything on your own. You think there is more to life than finding your soul mate. You want to find them, of course, but you also want to become the richest man in the Simworld, even if it means going against the law. Can you make these two dreams compatible?
Traits : Outgoing, Materialist, Childish
Aspiration : Mansion Baron
Career : Criminal
Rules :
Complete the Mansion Baron aspiration.
Get to level 10 in the Criminal career.
Get to level 10 in the Charisma skill.
Have a boyfriend of girlfriend as a teenager but breakup.
Organise a party every week.
Reconnect with your ex as an adult and get your young love to divorce their partner for you.
Never get married.
