Hello again, and welcome back! I have a new Coopers update for you, featuring the gen. 4 children (and their relatives) as they journey on through life, lol. Enjoy!

Last time: Britta and Morgan conceived and had a third child, Ella. Josh became a child, Arnold became a nerd, Morgan became the world’s saddest protester. And now, we continue!

Britta has cracked the secret of getting 10,000 followers so she can finally get a promotion!! She “shouts out” to social media from that llama pub…

…then from that Von Haunt mansion…

…then from the Bluffs.

10,000 followers, hooray!

Josh was really, really angry when he got home from school that day. idk why

Both the boys have school projects to complete! Claire helps Arnold with his while Josh has some dinner.

Morgan: Did you just swear at your brother?!

Josh: maybe

Morgan: Why??

Josh: idk

Once he’d calmed down a bit, Josh also got help with his school project.

Julian: Why, Ella, why??? I oughta have you hauled off in a police car

Ella: :|

In punishment, I made her eat PEAS!!! Only unfortunately, Ella didn’t seem too distressed about having to eat this vile vegetable. Let me tell you, if it had been me you’d have seen me begging for mercy.

Morgan was a bit slow on the uptake, but she did tell Ella off for her naughtiness eventually.

r u srs

So, uh… how long is this bear thing going to last for…?

Why are elders’ lifespans so short by default in this game?? Good thing those Potions of Youth are completely and totally overpowered.

Morgan tried to read Ella to sleep, but Ella decided a better plan was to “wander”. Maybe it would’ve been a better plan if she hadn’t genuinely been extremely tired anyway.

Maybe no one wants to play with you because you’re the weird loser in a bear costume, Josh.

It’s Claire’s birthday!

ok… why does the elder skin have to look so decrepit? no me gusta para nada

Morgan convinces Tory Claire to back her cause.

Uhhh Morgan… who is this Evil Sim you’ve supposedly interacted with? Is it Tory Claire? No one in this household has that trait.

Finally a promotion for Britta!

Ella enjoys story time with Grandma!

AND THEN, three days early it’s Ella’s birthday because all her skills were at least at level three and Arnold’s due to become a teen tomorrow and this age gap is TOO LARGE !

She rolled the Artistic Prodigy aspiration and the trait Geek.

You have GOT to be kidding me…

Luckily, my game was kidding me. It crashed.

Instead, Arnold got this.

Morgan and Britta travelled to San Myshuno again, the former to protest and the latter to try to get social media followers.

Then Britta felt bad for Morgan’s failure to attract any supporters, and joined the protest.

Uhhhh… yeah, sure thing Morgan.

It’s Arnold’s birthday!

Um, yeah. That outfit needs a-changin’.

He got the Bodybuilder aspiration (like his grandma Claire) and the Mean trait.

Here he is in CAS.

His first order of business as a teen? Why, trollin’ teh intarwebs, of course.

Closely followed by trying to terrify Ella with tales of deadly cowplants, but Ella just smiles.

So as we all know, Claire was one of the fittest adults EVER, but according to this game she can no longer go for a peaceful jog without endangering her health because she’s OLD. wtf is this ageist bullshit

Apparently this distance between Ella’s bed and the nightlight is TOO FAR because a fucking monster woke the kids up in the middle of the night. It was invisible though, even when the children were the active Sims. ???

Arnold got the responsibility of spraying the bed. I don’t know why he’s cheering about it. Or why Josh looks so sad.

One of Britta’s work-from-home tasks the next day was to be mischievous to five different Sims. This didn’t actually count, I just thought it was funny.

Arnold was too much of a dumbass to take a shower before going to school, and when he came home again, he was ANGRY.

I mean, Angry +50 is quite a lot of angry.

Yes Arnold. Your life is ruined because you ate a salad. Really.

Promotion for Morgan! She enters the Charity Organiser branch, because it seemed far better-suited for a Good Sim than the seedy world of electoral politics. Just don’t tell Morgan how your average charity structures their budget.

Apparently Claire can’t use her treadmill any more either. This is like all of Claire’s reasons for living being taken away from her here!

At least she has one reason still left to her.

Ummmmmm what. You might need a willing parner first. And probably to be older than 13 years old?

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Britta: Could you seriously stop making messes every spare moment? It is actually the worst. No one wants or enjoys this. why did you make this action so fucking frequent EA, why

Out of nowhere, Arnold decided to “insult” his mother. Well, one of his mothers.

Then he decided to convince his little brother to believe in giant chickens. “I’m not just talking about giant fish, little bro… chickens.”

(You can see Morgan thinking, “Should I be intervening here? …nah.”)

Arnold: You see, bro, when the Simgod was creating our planet she decided she should put in secret things, scary things, to leap out suddenly and terrify naughty little boys…

Arnold: Like GHOSTS!

Josh: bye

Morgan: That story was really lacking in narrative cohesion. What happened to the chickens?

Maaaaan do I regret putting this radio in a hallway.

Arnold: Hey mama! You got crabs!

Britta: excuse me

She takes no shit.

Siobhan Fyres drops in for a visit… and she is ANGRY.

Possibly because she got ripped off for §25 by Morgan. Just some unconfirmed speculation tho

Siobhan: Don’t ever fall in love, kiddo! It’ll only end in tears!

Ella: YOU’RE A LIAR

Ella: and lol why you so angry anyway lololol

Britta still does not appreciate Morgan’s efforts to prank her.

This townie’s dress sense looks like something out of TS2.

This is Britta’s “I created a meme” face.

fuckin’ Bob Pancakes, who no one in this household has ever met before, texts Arnold to congratulate him for being friends with his own mum.

Arnold: Hey nan, how does it feel to be so old that you come from a time that PRE-DATES COMPUTERS?!

Claire: We had computers…

Because Arnold is Mean, he loooooooves trollin’ people on teh intarweb forums.

Arnold had a whim to be mean to Claire.

Claire took it real well, as you can see.

He followed that up with a bit of meanness to his little brother, because why not.

Then after school, he tried to tell Ella that monsters are real. I don’t think he succeeded.

Yay!

Yay again!

They all got a school project…

And because Arnold likes to be really helpful, he has this Sad +50 moodlet.

Apparently this school project required Britta to learn about Rocket Science. Which I did not know was a skill. You can see how comfortable she looks with the material.

You can see that Arnold looks even MORE thrilled with Claire’s knowledge of robotics.

It wasn’t until 5pm that Morgan got home from work, but she was there to help Josh with his project EVENTUALLY.

Arnold just outright lets his grandma finish his project for him because that’s how he rolls.

Josh started bullying Ella for some reason.

AND THEN IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY!!

Josh: Egads! My hairdo is horrible!

Here he is, all cleaned up! He seems to have inherited a more evenly split set of genes, in contrast to Arnold who seems more of a dark-haired male Morgan. Josh rolled the Serial Romantic aspiration and the Dance Machine trait.