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🖤 The Bloodline Between Us: A Dark Romance Legacy Challenge (10 Generations)

🌑 Theme:

A family shaped by obsession, secrets, and inheritance—trying to outrun their pasts while being pulled back into the estate that started it all.

Each heir must deal with control, redemption, legacy, and temptation.

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📜 Basic Rules:

• Start with two Sims: your founder siblings (step or adopted if you want to keep it legal-safe).

• Move them into a run-down mansion/estate or a large empty lot you must build up over time.

• No money cheats unless earned through inheritance, blackmail, or mysterious means.

• Each generation must have a central “taboo” or dark emotional flaw they struggle with.

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🧬 Generation 1 – The Forbidden Ones

Inspired by: Iris & Sebastian

• Two siblings (step or adopted) inherit a crumbling estate.

• Must live together in the same house until one dies or marries—but cannot share a bedroom.

• One becomes a lawyer (Business > Management) and the other a restoration artist (Painter or Freelance Crafter).

• They must both reach the top of their career tracks before the estate can be fully renovated.

• One sibling must have the “Loner” and “Perfectionist” traits. The other must have “Gloomy” and “Jealous.”

• At least one forbidden romance must happen (with a household member or inappropriate Sim). It must end in heartbreak.

🔮 Optional drama challenge: Keep a secret room on the lot. Only one Sim knows what’s inside.

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🩸 Generation 2 – The Keeper of Secrets

• Raised in a house full of whispers.

• Must choose either Family or Knowledge aspiration—but must fail it.

• Develops the Paranoid and Snob traits.

• Must befriend a ghost or have a relationship with a supernatural Sim (spellcaster, vampire, etc.).

• Can only marry someone with the Evil, Hot-Headed, or Unflirty trait.

• Must write in a journal daily or publish “novels” (that are really confessionals).

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🥀 Generation 3 – The One Who Burns It Down

• Hates the family legacy. Wants out.

• Must start off rebellious: Criminal or Politician career.

• Must sell a family heirloom (delete one high-value object).

• Must have the “Noncommittal”, “Erratic”, or “Mean” trait.

• Has a whirlwind, doomed relationship that ends with the partner moving out (or dying 👀).

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💀 Generation 4 – The Ghost in the Mirror

• Has a strong connection to ancestors (medium, paranormal, or spiritual sim).

• Must live in a haunted house or always use the “Spooky” or “Vampire” packs if you have them.

• Must reach max level in Medium skill or complete Paranormal Investigator career.

• Traits: Gloomy, Loyal, Bookworm

• Must have an imaginary friend (or use the “talking to self” feature from Erratic trait).

• Must name their child after a dead relative.

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💼 Generation 5 – The Legacy Builder

• Finally tries to restore the estate to glory.

• Must be an Architect, Interior Designer, or Business Tycoon.

• Completes mansion baron aspiration.

• Has a public-facing marriage but a secret lover.

• Must hold a weekly formal event at the estate (Dinner Party, Black & White Bash, etc.).

• Traits: Ambitious, Proper, Materialistic

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💋 Generation 6 – The Obsessive Lover

• Traits: Romantic, Jealous, Erratic

• Must write love letters, publish romance novels, and start at least 3 major affairs.

• Can’t marry until elderhood.

• Must have a garden that represents each failed relationship (1 plant = 1 lover).

• Ends with a full-on breakdown or moving back into the ancestral house.

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🧷 Generation 7 – The One Who Escapes

• Moves out early. Lives in the city or small apartment.

• Must do minimum-wage jobs until halfway through adulthood.

• Rejects all family traditions.

• Has the Unflirty or Loner trait.

• Learns the truth about a past family secret—and it changes everything.

• Must return to the family home and confront their roots.

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🗝️ Generation 8 – The Archivist

• Wants to document the family history.

• Must complete Journalist or Historian path.

• Builds a library or archive on the estate.

• Must interview family ghosts (via seances or talking to urns).

• Finds an old letter/entry revealing a long-lost sibling or family crime. Must act on it.

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🌒 Generation 9 – The Devoted Twin Flames

• Born as twins (or create them).

• One is light, one is dark. But they are inseparable.

• Traits: One twin has Good, Outgoing, Cheerful. The other has Gloomy, Creative, Jealous.

• Must fall in love with the same Sim.

• Must fight, split paths, and only reunite if both max a shared skill (like Painting or Piano).

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🔥 Generation 10 – The Final Inheritor

• Only one heir remains.

• Must burn, sell, or give away the estate.

• Must break all family curses (complete aspiration, have a functional marriage, raise a happy child).

• But they must keep one item from the past. Something dark. Something that whispers.

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🕯️ Legacy Complete When:

• The estate is fully restored or fully destroyed.

• Every generation has written at least one journal entry or book.

• A final heir tells the entire family story—and buries it.

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