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Titled "Your Parents Still Make You Take Family Photos"

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Jasper, Munroe & Gemma Graves

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Gem, Bell & Rhi

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The Masseys

(left to right) Posie, Rhianne & William Posie and Rhi are siblings and Billy is their uncle... Complicated family dynamic.... More posts about them to come!

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Cairo Matthew Castles

24, Hockey Player & Casino Regular

Cai grew up in the shadow of his older brother. Although he had a very priveleged upbringing (and even still now,) he never really got the attention and approval from his parents that he wanted. Unless he was playing hockey or doing well in school, which even still he paled in comparison to his brother, he was invisible. Growing up rich, however, allowed him the freedom to do whatever he wanted in the eyes of everyone else. He grew up a bully, putting down anyone with less than him and he really only cared about 2 things: Looks and Money. After high school, his parents paid for him to get into college, where he continued to slack off, barely graduating with a boring Business degree.After college he was offered a chance to join the NHL. Of course he took it, he only lasted a handful of seasons before he learned he couldn't handle more years being compared to his brother and completely dropped from the face of the earth.

He now works at a startup but spends most of his time at sports betting or losing all of his money at casinos. Much to Rhianne's dismay...

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Bellamy Sainte Leons 23, pro surfer, physical therapist

Bell was never the academic kind. She would rather be at the beach soaking in the sun or ripping through waves than at home. But when she was rejected by the U.S Surf league for the second time, she decided it was time to settle down and go back to school. Having no idea what to do, she decided to focus on a business degree. Although overall her experience in college was boring, it was there that Rhianne and Bella met eachother in an economics class. But fate would tear them apart for a while. During her second semester, Bellamy had finally received what she had been waiting for: An invitation from the National Surf League to compete in Australia. She took a hiatus from college to pursue her dreams and flew to Australia the next week. Unfortunately during the last week of the event Bell was in an accident and completely shattered her left ankle. She was expedited back to the states and spent the next year in recovery but while she couldn't surf she became very interested in Health and Physical therapy, she changed her major and graduated with a bachelors in PT.

Bellamie still loves surfing but has yet to get as good as she once was, its now just become a lifetime hobby that she does whenever she and Rhianne go to the beach (Which is almost every month.) She enjoys travelling and is in the process of getting a work visa to go back to Australia.

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⌖ William Dean Massey ⌖ 35, boxer & mechanic, soon to be father (unfortunate) Billy had a rocky start in life, born to an alcoholic mother (Olyvia) and a mean old grump (Sean), he was often isolated. What didn't help as well is his two older sisters are 15+ years his senior. Being left alone with his parents was hard; he was often defiant and abused, which created a vicious cycle. During high school he was on the wrestling team and became pretty popular amongst his peers, although he was still incredibly socially awkward. But because of his growing popularity he started to gain more interest in what kids deamed popular: He started smoking, drinking, stealing his parents alcohol and money to fuel he and his friend's binges. When he was just 16, after sneaking in heavily intoxicated, he got caught up in a fight with his Sean. The next morning he woke up to screaming from his parents room, his father had died of a stroke during the night. Olyvia, ever the bitter woman, blamed Billy for his fathers untimely death kicked him out of the family house immediately, not even letting him grab his own clothes. He learned early on to fend for himself using whatever means necessary but he became reclused himself. He found a job helping an old family friend at a auto garage and dropped out of high school to work full time. He became fully reliant on drugs for his happiness and boredom and barely talked to anyone outside of his coworkers.

He has never been the type to show much emotion or even empathy for others and kind of has a victim complex that keeps him from growing. It wasn't until Posie, his niece, move in with him after she was released from Juvie that he would let his guard down around someone. Posie and Billy were just alike, extremely head strong and lead astray by the adults who put them on the earth. They formed an unbreakable bond, almost like siblings. (A trauma bond, if you will.) He and Gemma's relationship is hard to describe, but I will attempt to shorten it: Gemma has an idealized version of a brute man, a blue collar man, a man that's good with his hands. A man that is not Billy, and although he wants to be that man, he just doesn't see himself doing it for Gemma. The pregnancy announcement has only caused worser issues because Billy has been sleeping with and is in love with his nieces' best friend, Phineas.

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Step Brothers™️

My new two faves! Munroe K. Graves & Jasper X. Dupre. They are step siblings along with another sim I have coming if I could get her face right, the oldest sister Gemma (28) Munroe (25) is the baby and Jasper (27) is the middle child (previously only child, her attention was taken away by Munroe.) Their parents have been together for 13 years and met on a Cruise for Singles. Jasper & Munroe got along pretty well but the relationship between Jas & Gemma is a little strained (because they were so close in age they clashed often.) I like to imagine these two's relationship is like Malcom & Reese (Guess which one is which)

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★ Gem ★ 28, seamstress, mama to be <3 Gemma is a seamstress, works mostly for her local childrens' theatre company, and makes custom garments for her best friend Laney. She is currently 2 months pregnant with Billy's child, but they aren't in love. She knows that Billy is in love with Phineas, but can't help that she has imagined a white picket fence life with him since 3rd grade. She even had his initials tattooed on her right ankle in High School to prove her love to him. Although she has mixed feelings about becoming a mother (she's always dreamed of being married and in a nice house first,) She's determined to be a great mom even though for half of her life she didn't have any motherly figure in her life. Gem is best friends & soon-to-not-be-roommates with Helena (Laney.) They met eachother when they were about 23 when Laney commissioned a costume for a burlesque show. They had great chemistry and just started hanging out and eventually moved in together, they have been roommates for 3 years so far. Although hesitant to move out of the cute apartment the two share, Gemma doesn't want the upcoming baby to get in the way of Helena's lifestyle even though Laney insists for her to stay instead of moving in with Billy, (They are both heavily involved with the Massey family and constantly tell each other to leave those crazy fuckers alone but they are hard to get out of your head.)