#gabe o'mackey

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Setting Up the Save File

I haven't put everyone from Riverblossom Hills into Brindleton Bay, but I did include another iconic family: the Greenman/O'Mackey/Teatherton clan. I downloaded these Sims off the Gallery (so no lookbooks of someone else's work), but setting them up ... took some doing.

Like, for instance, setting up Alexandra and Gabe's divorce.

Maybe it's because I set their romance dynamic to Strained, but Alexandra was able to instantly initiate a divorce - depressing, but exactly what I wanted!

Gabe was less than pleased. He couldn't believe she was doing this while they were visiting his brother and his family in their new (tree) house.

Alexandra was less than impressed by that reasoning.

Meanwhile, Jason, Rose, and little Daisy tried desperately to ignore the marriage crumbling on their own front lawn.

And yes. I did download a treehouse for the Greenman family.

If anyone wants to know whose Sims and build I downloaded, just let me know, and I'll do my best to find out!

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Gabe O'Mackey: The school trip this year will be to Champs Les Sims. Gabe O'Mackey: Sadly, I will not be able to come, as I despise the French.

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VeronaHills, Round Twenty: O'Mackey

It was Gabe's final dream. He was glad to have had it.

The vignettes were collaged together by a brain on the verge of retirement and relaxing its nightshift duties a little. Gabe O'Mackey was cast in the role of himself, naturally, but he was wearing his old tracksuit from that time he tried to go hiking with Alex. The dream director had the tact to leave out the layer of mud that accumulated when Gabe tripped and fell into a bush in the carpark, and Alex frowning down at him. No, she wasn't there at all - faerie queen Titania Summerdream knelt down beside him instead. She leaned forward to whisper in his ear: "Come home."

Smash cut to the newly remodelled bathroom on the second floor of the home where Gabe raised Jules, who was now raising her own babies there too. Titania stood shoulder-to-shoulder with him, more phasing through him in the abstract dream overlay. Faerie king Oberon Summerdream joined the scene too, though it mattered more to Gabe that Jules was there, all rosey and pink like she was when she was a wee girl. He was home, and the dream cut to black.

Jules delivered wonderful words at the celebration of life, then took up Leod McGreggor's unexpected and kind offer to stand in his biggest empty field and scream at the heavens. She came home and hugged her children and told them she loved them with a hoarse voice.

Supermum. Stars burned in her eyes and there was only one person to thank for supporting her performance.

She hoped he knew how grateful she was.

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Despite just having 1 bolt together, Jules O'Mackey and Ripp Grunt are doing quite well. Gabe seems happy for them even though they're making out in the living room.

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VeronaHills, Round Nineteen: O'Mackey

Family was a blessing, especially a big one.

Gabe did well to remember this when he felt overwhelmed with faeries and babies and faerie babies, which wee Hazel turned out to be along with her big brother and sister. There was a time when he wasn't sure if the house would ever feel so full ever again, especially when Jules went to university, but things were better now. He wasn't alone by a long shot, and every room of his old home bounced many voices between its walls.

One such voice was Puck, who spoke to Gabe and asked for his blessing to marry Jules. It seemed a bit of a moot point as they'd been in a de-facto partnership for so long but Gabe appreciated the thoughtfulness of being looped into his pretty-much son-in-law's intentions for his daughter. It was somewhat old fashioned and Puck must've read it in an old human courtship book, but no matter - it was successful, as Jules thought it was very sweet. They donned green garb and married by lamplight in the backyard, with all the family in attendance. Robyn, Iver and Hazel were lovely little flower bearers; the twins even cast spores of happiness for the first time.

Life could be terribly painful in parts, Gabe thought, but wonderfully magical in others. On reflection as he walked Jules through the petalled path to the hastily hired archway and watched her marry the love of her life, he was grateful to be there for all of it.

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Cassandra and Gabe, they just makes sense!

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VeronaHills, Round Seventeen: Land

Mary looked in the mirror and finally saw the weathering of the life she'd lived so far.

Frown lines could be traced from the times she'd been the only one up by lamplight, squinting at mum and dad's budget book, darning holes in sweaters, wrapping birthday presents as silently as possible for little siblings. These nights used to crease her brain and weave through her gut; now they danced around her ghostly brows that matched the loss of brunette from her locs, the same locs silver men themselves had thought beautiful.

"Mum, you're still pretty!" - the only opinion that mattered now. Eartha, who knew little of numbers and holes and nothing of siblings, apparently saw etched lines in one's face as just getting older rather than being hard-won trophies. This filled Mary with relief - she'd succeeded in ensuring a normal teen experience for her daughter. A minor caveat: boys came along with it, like Sunny Roseland.

Mary didn't have to miss out, though. She'd felt the chef callouses of Antonio's fingers. Gabe still called in every so often and said nice things about her. At a stretch, she was visiting Valentine's grave to tell him how their daughter was doing. Then, Sunny's dad came by to pick him up, and she wondered - would Eartha mind if she connected a bit more with Dr Roseland..?

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VeronaHills, Round Sixteen: O'Mackey

The Summerdreams landed to lavish the twins with love.

Gabe was quietly relieved when Nico bid farewell for some time in the city, leaving him with just the extra company of Puck's parents. He knew how faerie clans liked to gather together - his brother Jason had hosted the Summerdreams for some time in his home, too, easily convinced by his wife Rose. An appreciation for faerie culture helped with such a decision of course! As the days stretched on, though, Gabe felt his good cheer also stretching into a grin. Oberon and Titania were no hazy hedonists when it came to their grandchildren (they would resume partying post-school age); Iver and Robyn were watered, sun-warmed, and overall very well enriched.

A trio of live-in grandparents gave both Jules and Puck priceless opportunities to rest and recharge. The former even had time to step in and rescue the marriage of her good friends Mitch and Max! Well, it wasn't a complete superhero moment, but she was able to check in and remind them of everything they'd been through over the years. Was it worth a shot to become a true blue couple once again? They both looked at each other, shoulders dropping, taking deep breaths, and answered yes.

Then, when Petruchio passed away curled up in a blissful ball in his favourite bed, the family truly appreciated being under the same roof, tending to the same garden.

Gabe let tears fall onto many shoulders, and was a shoulder for others. Grief was well navigated as a tribe.