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hi, i'm em, and this is the sims. and some other nerdy game things, too.

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copeland legacy

Our heir, Yuma.

"My son, at last!" Roger had exclaimed as Yuma was born. His mother may have named him, but Yuma was unquestioningly Roger's heir and the end of her surname's line. 

Illari loved her son, but his arrival made her more concerned about Roger's behavior toward his firstborn daughter. Where with Nituna he was quick to anger and dismissive of her, he was attentive and engaged with Yuma. Because of this Illari spent more of her attention on Nituna so the little girl didn't notice. Yuma did notice and it had an effect on their relationship as he grew, suspecting his mother favored his eldest sibling.

This created some animosity between the two, as Yuma always felt he was competing with his sister for attention. Ironically, she felt the same and more, intimidated by his place as he was the heir and the firstborn son.

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some housekeeping

hey what's up hello, i'm em. i've been playing this legacy household for a few months, and realized kind of early on i was getting into letting them do whatever but making lore along with it.

i've been using the plum tree app to keep track, but quickly realized i was in need of somewhere for storytelling. et voila, welcome to my tumblr. lol

that being said, some things to know is that idk where this is going. right now, i'm playing yuma and his dang kids keep dying. and poor theodosia, oh my god. /spoilers teehee

additionally, i'm mixing the decades challenge rules with my own quality of life rules so i don't get bored and it's not miserable to play for me over time. i also play on a macbook, so my quality is like, nothing. which is also why most of my images are from cas, bc you'd laugh if you could see the quality i play at. girl has dreams, and other bills.

anyway. thanks for being here and reading along. i'll have more to come for sure, but it's been a weird run so far.

lemme know if y'all have any questions. :]

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copeland legacy

"I'll marry you when you give me an heir", her father had said. So when Nituna was born, she was given her mother's name. To her mother's great horror, Roger was detached to Nituna, mourning the boy she should be. This made Illari double down on making sure Nituna was well educated to the level she could manage, and that she knew her manners and maxed every skill she could. Roger was so excited to have a child and Illari was not, so to have the relationship between father and daughter be so contentious, Illari wanted Nituna to know that she was proud of her daughter and thrilled to share life with her. 

Nituna was always a clever child - she'd clearly inherited a trait or two from her father in that respect. There was something else there, though, that impacted her ability to stay focused and in her lane as was expected of a young girl in this decade. Her mother noticed very early, but what was there to be done? 

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copeland legacy

Founding matriarch, Illari.

When Roger came to her community, she had never met anyone like him before. In fact, she'd never met anyone outside of the community and the other tribes that came to trade or convene with the leaders. It wasn't necessarily love at first sight, but she found herself not able to stop thinking about him. 

She was already betrothed however. Uriah was chosen to be her destined mate when they were children. It was law. Furthermore, it was how things were done in her culture, who was she to question it? There was an undeniable connection between them, absolutely. But they were both young and rebellious toward tradition. 

When Roger stumbled into her family home in the middle of the night one winter and asked her to run away with him, she didn't even hesitate or grab any of her things. The first night she couldn't stop thinking about Uriah, though. And every night since then, he hasn't left her mind.

One day, when Yuma was almost a year old, she answered the door and there he was. It was like no time had passed, she could feel her body react the same way it did when they were young. But they weren't young anymore. And her husband, the father of her children, was at work. What was he doing here? 

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copeland legacy

introduction to the founders: roger

Roger Copeland is the second son of an average family. He is generally unremarkable. His older brother was the gem of his mother's eye, and when asked about their children Roger's name rarely was a conversation topic. And therefore it was to none of his family's surprise that he'd finished his studies with no prospects of marriage and with unremarkable marks, excluding his worth for the cost of higher education. Two years earlier, his brother went to college and it was all the family could do to afford his tuition. Roger wasn't remarkable enough for the investment.

Roger didn't know what he wanted to do in life. It was clear he wouldn't have help from his family, whatever he chose. After lengthy discussions with his parents, it was clear that his brother's budding political career couldn't be tarnished with a mediocre sibling, what would the neighbors think? His mother suggested the mines, but to his father wouldn't hear of it. He had not spent his youth climbing out of poverty for one of his children to work in the mines. Even Roger was better than that.

"It's decided, then." He'd announced one Saturday at dinner. Roger was perplexed, the table was silent prior to this outburst. What was decided?

"Roger will be joining the next caravan west, to learn to be a teacher."

Ah, so this solved the riddle and two of their family's problems: One less mouth to feed, and Roger would be far enough away to likely never see his family again. It was about 2000 miles to the place his father was envisioning, and a teacher doesn't make enough money to travel that far for a visit. As it was, his parents would be decimating their life's savings for Roger's ticket with the caravan.

His father continued with his dinner as if he didn't just drop the floor out from Roger. His mother just stared at him.