The Goth-Vatore Family
There's been some curiosity around the Goth-Vatore family in this save, so I figured I'd post the throuple and their kids (no grandkids/great-grandkids because I'd run out of post).
The Goth-Vatores are largely concentrated in Willow Creek with a few of the kids living in Copperdale, Forgotten Hollow, Ravenwood, and Del Sol Valley.
How the trio of Mortimer [he/him], Bella [she/her], and Caleb [he/him] ended up as a throuple could be its own post, but I'll try to not go overboard while still making sure to not leave out the important stuff.
Whenever I first loaded up the Goth household in this save I noticed three major things had happened (thanks to Neighborhood Stories):
Bella and Mortimer adopted a girl named Hope who was Alexander's age.
They had a newborn named Marco.
Bella was dead. Seems that iconic red dress was no match for a blizzard.
I had Mortimer move Hope and Alexander into the main bedroom and converted it into a kid's room. The dining set was temporarily put in storage so Mortimer could set up a cot with the bassinet. He threw himself into taking care of the kids and work.
Once Bella was back [don't worry, we'll get to how that happened], there some adjusting as well as some fears... Mortimer had another partner, but he also accidentally caught a glimpse of a parallel world where he saw himself die and an elderly Bella left alone and heartbroken. He swore that no matter what happened to him, he didn't want her to be left alone.
And that's where Caleb came into the picture.
Initially he was simply Bella's approved side partner, and whenever Morti's side partner didn't work out, Caleb was more than happy to soothe those wounds as well. Bella was turned by Caleb with Mortimer's blessing, and while Mortimer's not a vampire himself he has employed multiple methods of slowing his own aging to the point he's near immortal.
But I promised I would cover how Bella came back, and I can't do that without talking about her. Cassandra.
The one whose actions not only forever changed her family, but rippled throughout the world itself.
Cassandra [she/her] didn't want her father to move on even if her parents had already discussed such things and had encouraged each other to do so in the event something happened to one of them. In Cassie's mind, there was no one else for her father than her mother.
So she set about learning magic. She spent hours and days in the Realm reading tomes, practicing, and searching. She ignored most of her classmates, didn't go to prom, and basically sacrificed her teenage years for a single-minded pursuit.
She managed to bring her back as a ghost and then finally as a whole living sim. Emboldened by this, she started selling her services on the black market. Multiple sims were brought back from the dead... though not all came back right, and a few had extra bits of magic tossed in which tore apart families. The Munches, Villareals, and Landgraabs felt the brunt of this in various ways.
Cassandra's downfall would be both her perception of how her parents should live as well as her own inflated sense of self - finding out that her parents throupled up with Caleb Vatore... the same Caleb she had tried pushing to join HER polycule and was refused by, sent her into a rage which led to her untimely demise as a young adult. She was survived by two children.
Alexander's [he/him] life, by contrast, has been one of relative peace, quiet, and domestic harmony. The bookish boy became a bit more of a jock as a teen, fell for fellow football team member Jeb Harris, and married him once out of high school. The couple have two adopted daughters and have been happily growing old together in their little house. Genuinely, the saddest part of Alex's life was the loss of Cassandra and Hope.
There aren't a lot of pictures of Hope [she/her] as she tried to stay out of the spotlight. Despite the best efforts of her parents, she never quite felt she fit in. She clashed often with Bella and the only person she was really close to was Alexander. After having her heart broken by Gemma Charm, she met and married a sim named Kayde. They had a daughter [Sofia] together before an accident took them both.
Marco [he/him] is no stranger to simblr as he's one of Giovanna Goth's dads. That's him on the right in the first picture talking to sibling Kerry. He is especially close to Mortimer because of the time spent with him before his mom was brought back. He used to dress like him as a child before finding his own style. Marco is a freelance programmer, is married to Blair, and has five children.
It's hard to talk about Kerry [they/them] and not talk about Donovan [he/him] at the same time. The two are younger than Marco, but very close in age to each other. They are also the last of the pre-Caleb/pre-turned Bella children and often regard themselves as the forgotten ones. Even if others in the family lose track of them, they have remained close despite their lives diverging in very different ways.
Kerry is a musician married to the Copperdale High School class room 2 teacher, Tatum. They chose to accept their parents' offer of assistance getting a home, and live across the street from Alexander and Jeb. They have no kids nor any plans on having any as they are happy simply enjoying their time with their partner.
Donovan, however, refused the family's funds and moved into the Price family home with partner Jayden and his older sister Savannah. He has one child, Julio. Donovan joined the military, and his own frustration with much of his family has caused him to be particularly hot-headed and even mean. His relationship with Jayden runs hot and cold with the two fighting frequently - things are even rough with Julio. He wants to do better... but can he?
Olive [she/her] is the first child between Caleb and Bella. She's been obsessed with the Grim Reaper and death since a young age and often (much to Caleb's sighs and exasperation) fancied herself a swamp witch. She abides by the same vampiric morals that her parents do, and she is besties with Grim. When she's not working as a funeral director, she is a cat mom with her partner Grey.
Alisa [she/her] is the second child for Caleb and Bella. While her big sister embraced being a vampire, Alisa hated it. She hated that she couldn't eat regular food, hated that the sun hurt, and ultimately hated that she had no say in being a vampire to begin with.
She would sneak out and feed on unwilling sims feeling justified in doing so. After all, why abide by a set of morals if she never had a choice in what she was? It was one of her nights out when she found herself in a club and was entranced by the music. She became a DJ and quickly rose in fame. Fame which brought people closer to her and made feeding easier.
Alisa moved to Del Sol Valley with her partner once she graduated. With his help, she was able to make and drink the cure which allowed her to regain her humanity. She is a Global Superstar who produces her own music and streams DJing sessions as well.
Beau Vatore [he/him] is the son of Caleb and Mortimer. He recently was featured in his own post. He's currently debating on if he should continue to push through the Tech Guru career path or do freelance programming like his dad [Caleb]. He's currently engaged to Imran Watson [they/them] and is on the other side of a rough patch with them. He's not sure if he wants to have children as he has mixed feelings about his own vampirism.
Azure Goth [she/her] is the last child of Bella and Mortimer. She originally manifested as a vampire as a newborn and infant, but things changed whenever the feather of a Sixam owl was discovered in her room as a toddler. Magic, long dormant in the family line since Cassandra's days, burst through removing the vampirism and leaving her eyes with their distinctive glow. Azure is a spell caster who is rarely without her owl familiar, Eruza. She and Beau are close in age and also close in general. He is one of the few people in the family who approves of her partner [Valentino Villareal (they/them) - a Duplicato clone of Max Villareal that never disappeared]. Azure and Valentino just had a baby (I haven't had a chance to see the name yet!).
With all of their kids grown and moved out, it seemed fitting to allow them to be gifted a child from a burning soul rebirth.
Dakota Vatore was originally born as Dakota Harris - one of Jeb's younger brothers. Dakota was how the Watcher learned that aging up teens in the middle of a mood swing is a bad idea. He was enraged and immediately died from it. His teen and young adult life was never particularly fun, so he did what he could to leave it behind.
And thus Dakota found herself much smaller, drifting down from the sky to the floor in front of a very perplexed Caleb. Despite his initial confusion (as well as hers since she was now a girl and a baby), he has raised her and has gotten close. She's not a vampire - she was that pale in her previous life and retained it in this one.
Her memories are still pretty fuzzy... she recently met two of her Harris!brothers, and she didn't recognize them. She has met and gotten closer to two of her Goth!siblings - Alexander and Kerry.
And that is everyone! If you made it this far, then wow! Thank you for reading!
