Can of Worms

I finally had generation 13, Eloisa Bates, grown and ready to be married. She had met this guy, Gerard Bion, back when she visited France, and had really hit it off with him, so she invited him over to visit.  Since relationships progress at a headlong pace in the Sims, it wasn't but a few hours before they were engaged.

After scouring the town for a nice location to get married, I finally decided that there was a really pretty garden back at Champs Le Sims, in France, and that it would be great to fly them back over there to be married and have a short little honeymoon.

No sooner had they arrived in Gerard's quaint little hometown than I realized I hadn't yet taken any sort of peek into his family history, which was odd since I'm so fond of tracking that sort of thing for my legacy game.

Little did I know that clicking that tiny little button would open up the biggest can of worms I'd ever seen in a Sim's backhistory.

I am used to Sims having parents listed, if they aren't townies, or maybe sometimes grandparents or even a cousin listed. Maybe. Rarely. Not anything to be used to on a regular basis; it's more like something to be pleasantly surprised by whenever you do find it.

This guy, though, he had a monstrous horde of people, all vaguely related to him.

Now when you look at a Sim's family tree in-game, it doesn't show you everything at once. You get maybe two or three generations at a time, and if you want to see further up or down (or left or right), you need to click on other faces to reveal two or three more generations at a time and hide the ones you just were looking at. All that to say that figuring out who all these people were, and how on earth they were related to poor Gerard, was a horrible exercise in patience.

I mapped the whole thing out on paper, and then took screenshots of everyone's faces, and updated the family tree, which you can see here. Come to find out Gerard and Eloisa are ... step-cousins? Once removed? I'm not sure what the relationship is there.

I guess the tree's finally looped back on itself.