#historicalsave

[anothersimlishtragedy]

the hyperfixation continues...

[candiecsims]

Let's talk about social diversity in historical simming ...

Sooo I have been looking around on the historical simblr for quite some time now and looking at content I noticed how every single decade challenge started quite in the same way : a cute family, quite rich, often farmers, overwhelmingly english/americans and/or christians. But the 19th Century, and especially the beginning of the Decade Challenge, which is set in 1890s, is far from being all about farming and a simple rural life. Lots of people had an entirely different reality : immigrants, workers, travellers, merchants, etc.. That's why I came up with the idea of sharing some alternative historical storylines I created for my WIP savefile. Everything is not super historically accurate, especially because finding working class CC outfits for this time period was quite a challenge in itself, but I tried my best. Let's begin for today with the Rossi family.

Carlo Rossi (in the middle) arrived in Northern France in the early 1890s with his late wife Maria. They migrated with their five children Martha, Giuseppe, Luigia, Guglielma and Regina from their alpine valley in northern Italy. Hoping to find better jobs prospects, they settled down in the small industrial town of Windenburg and live in this tenement, where their children grew up.

But Maria died of tuberculosis a few years ago and Carlo has never been the same man again. He loses his temper quite easily and stopped working, thus forcing his children to make even longer shifts in the factory to pay the bills. But Guglielma's mental and physical health is getting worse every day from working herself to death in the factory, and her family is getting really concerned.

The family really broke in pieces when Martha came home and announced to her father that she was pregnant outside the bonds of marriage. For the very catholic Carlo, this was unacceptable, and would bring shame and despair to the family. Martha got a smaller appartment next door and her relationship with her father deteriorated a lot. However, Carlo could not resist the adorable little Jacques, who won his grandpa's affection in a heartbit. But Carlo is way too fierce to make amends and reconcile with Martha. Will this family ever find peace again, and overcome its struggles ?