Rose Legacy, 2.1
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Generation two has arrived! This chapter features a lot of ubercute picspam and what my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blcksunaphelion has dubbed "nanicular failure." I'm sorry to say it also features some failure on my part, to cap the end event (AGAIN), but I was sort of shocked by what happened and it wasn't until after it was all cleaned up that I thought "You idiot, you should have capped it!" (As it is, this post has 51 images and is definitely not dialup friendly.)
When last we left the Rose family, legacy founder Alexia was about to give birth to the heir. The post ended with the question, Did she have a boy or a girl?
And the answer is....no. ;)
After a few nanoseconds of banshee screeching, this little bundle of joy appeared! Say hello to Briar. (Yes, she was given that name because the last name is Rose. So her name is Briar Rose, like Sleeping Beauty. I love princess stories, lemme alone.) She has blue eyes, like both of her parents, and clearly has her mother's complexion.
Jonathan turns to the phone to call people and announce the birth.
Uh, honey, could you hold her a minute? I have something else I need to do.
Namely, him! Christian looks exactly like his sister, except his skin tone is more like Jonathan's.
See, Alexia didn't have a boy or a girl...she had a boy AND a girl. Haha, I'm a pedantic old English major and...well, anyway. *ahem*
Hello iddle boy!
Alexia took to the task of mommyhood right away, I was pleased to see. Jon had to put Briar on the floor and rush off to work in the family car, since the ambulance left without him. I was kind of worried he might get fired, since he forgot to go in at all that other day, but apparently his boss felt that the birth of his twins was an acceptable reason for Jon to be late -- he actually came home with a promotion that gave him the same days off as his wife!
For the next couple days, I mostly just followed them around basking in the adorability -- and, of course, adding an extra crib to the nursery. Lex and Jon are, especially compared with some legacy characters I've seen, very competent parents. Infancy picspam!
I could watch this for hours, srsly.
Alexia really wants to be a stay-at-home mother, but with twice the original number of mouths to feed, they decide they just can't afford it. So they call in a nanny for the times when their work shifts overlap. Nanny Heidi becomes a valuable asset in the Rose household, allowing the new mother to get some much-needed rest before going out on patrol.
She is also helpful about keeping the house neat -- scrubbing the shower, taking out the trash, generally lending a hand all over.
Alexia and Jonathan feel like the children were completely safe with Nanny Heidi. Jon even confides in a friend about plans to surprise Alexia with a weekend getaway for their anniversary. With Nanny Heidi on hand to keep order at home, they could enjoy a few days by themselves, remember those earlynanoseconds hours days of their romance.
But first, BIRTHDAY TIEMS!
You want to age yours first or shall I?
Moment of truth! Will they be cute?
Briar's darling! I thought she'd be blonde, like Mommy, but she is so. damn. cute.
And Christian is going to look just like Daddy, by the look of things. Hey, nothing wrong with that!
To celebrate the twins' graduation to toddlerhood, the second empty room is carpeted and converted to a playroom stocked with all the educational toys I had available. Briar's quite fond of Mr. Bear; his ears taste yummy too.
Ever the forward-thinking parent, Alexia spends part of the twins' birthday getting them started on that walking phenomenon.
Briar keeps thinking about podiums, or at least that's what I think that's supposed to be. Maybe she wants to be President.
Jonathan continues to be daddy par excellence. He comes home from work and immediately runs to the nursery to change diapers and hold his babies. Without my telling him to!
There is something not quite right at work here, however, as they (and I) gradually start to realize. Briar is our first vague clue. As an infant, she seemed to like having Nanny Heidi around, but now that she's older, she seems...afraid. There are other signs as well.
The babies, and Christian in particular, are often found asleep in random parts of the house, like behind the stairs.
Large, unexplained messes start appearing in the children's rooms. Nanny Heidi explains this by saying that the toilet clogs and overflows. The fact that the toilet is on the far side of the house from the twins' playroom apparently makes no difference.
Nanny Heidi herself begins to act stranger and stranger. Frequently she stands and stares off into nothingness, or very intently at one of the babies. It's unsettling. But neither Jon nor Alexia ever manage to catch sight of it, so they miss the warnings.
Briar develops an unyielding fascination with the toilet. Mommy and Daddy decide this means it's time to teach the twins how to use the potty. Lessons go slowly, but really rather well; however, Nanny Heidi refuses to aid in the teachings, and insists that the twins continue to wear diapers. Both frazzled from work and lack of sleep, the parents don't argue.
Briar makes a potty like a big girl! Daddy does a dance like he's in the end zone!
Briar's a bit of a snuggle bug, actually, and clings to Mommy and Daddy whenever they pick her up.
Chris is trying to tell his parents that despite their instructions, Nanny Heidi has stopped bathing him and his sister.
Mommy doesn't understand baby talk, but she does understand stinky, so she makes sure the babies are clean when she puts them to bed.
The twins are reluctant to let Mommy go to sleep, and she is perplexed. I sense a disturbance in the Force.
I also sense this disturbance, and have that whole omniscience thing going for me, so I start keeping tabs. I'm troubled deeply when I observe Christian's pallor, and start getting messages from the game that he's starving to death. I see Jon and Lex give him bottles when they're around, so I know it's not them...
It's worse than I thought. Not only does she not feed Chris when his hunger level is approaching critical, but she does feed Briar...and watches with eerie satisfaction as the girl belches a steaming cloud of green substance.
But they're still such well-behaved, intelligent children that Jon and Lex aren't quite sure where the problem lies.
Briar is on the left, playing with the talking rabbit head that increases the charisma stat. Chris is playing with the toy xylophone and beefing up his creativity stat. I'm just watching and admiring how adorable, smart, and entertaining they are. After a few minutes -- or in their world, hours -- it dawns on me: Why are these children ALONE? So I go searching for the nanny. She's not in the bathroom, and to my surprise she's not watching television either, which is where she can usually be found if the kids are asleep. Where the hell did she go?
WTF. FAIL.
I can't force Nanny Heidi to bathe the kids, or do much of anything else for that matter, including STOP STARING INTO SPACE. I have now reached the conclusion that she's possessed by a demon, and that when she stares at nothing anyone else can see, she's receiving instructions from her dark master on how to corrupt the innocent children. Or possibly she's a robot, receiving radio transmission through those knobs on her head that claim to be buns.
But Alexia and Jonathan are surprisingly unable to hear me when I yell at the screen, so I do the only thing that lies within my power to help those poor babies. I install a bathtub in their playroom (since there's no room for it in the actual bathroom, and I foresee a home renovation in the next chapter) and, sure enough, Jon manages to take that hint.
Now comes the part that I am really sorry I failed to screencap, because it would be so much better with the visuals. But I was so totally dazed by what happened that I couldn't think.
Chris is crying from hunger again, and idiot Nanny Heidi is trying to make him go to sleep. I can't even watch anymore. It's close to Alexia's time to get home from work, about an hour to go, so I pan outside and fast-foward at top speed until her arrival.
Here I come to save the day! Thank God.
The scene that meets her, and my, eyes when she enters the house is almost not to be believed. Briar is in her high chair, screaming her head off. Chris is on the floor, screaming his head off. He is surrounded by a puddle roughly the size of the state of Delaware, which was the result of his unchanged diaper reaching critical mass. There is a pile of rotting garbage on the floor beside the kitchen table. (I never did figure out how that got there.) And Nanny Heidi?
IS STANDING NEXT TO CHRIS, STARING AT THE FRONT DOOR. She is deaf to the cries of the children and blind to the rage of their mother.
Alexia's LTW, you recall, is to be Captain Super Hero. She promptly becomes exactly that as far as her children are concerned by handing Nanny Heidi both a pink slip and her own ass. "GTFO NOW." Nanny Heidi, interestingly, starts weeping, which I think further proves my theory that she's possessed by a demon and Alexia may have just broken the creature's hold. The whimpering twit slinks off to die in a fire (I hope), and Alexia starts whipping the situation into shape. She puts Chris in his high chair, gives both kids a bottle, takes out the trash, mops up the floor, changes their diapers, and puts them to bed. She is made of win.
Sadly, I am made of fail because I didn't cap any of it. But it happened. Tune in next time to see if they can hire some halfway decent help before the kids start school.
Generation two has arrived! This chapter features a lot of ubercute picspam and what my friend
blcksunaphelion has dubbed "nanicular failure." I'm sorry to say it also features some failure on my part, to cap the end event (AGAIN), but I was sort of shocked by what happened and it wasn't until after it was all cleaned up that I thought "You idiot, you should have capped it!" (As it is, this post has 51 images and is definitely not dialup friendly.)When last we left the Rose family, legacy founder Alexia was about to give birth to the heir. The post ended with the question, Did she have a boy or a girl?
And the answer is....no. ;)
After a few nanoseconds of banshee screeching, this little bundle of joy appeared! Say hello to Briar. (Yes, she was given that name because the last name is Rose. So her name is Briar Rose, like Sleeping Beauty. I love princess stories, lemme alone.) She has blue eyes, like both of her parents, and clearly has her mother's complexion.
Jonathan turns to the phone to call people and announce the birth.
Uh, honey, could you hold her a minute? I have something else I need to do.
Namely, him! Christian looks exactly like his sister, except his skin tone is more like Jonathan's.
See, Alexia didn't have a boy or a girl...she had a boy AND a girl. Haha, I'm a pedantic old English major and...well, anyway. *ahem*
Hello iddle boy!
Alexia took to the task of mommyhood right away, I was pleased to see. Jon had to put Briar on the floor and rush off to work in the family car, since the ambulance left without him. I was kind of worried he might get fired, since he forgot to go in at all that other day, but apparently his boss felt that the birth of his twins was an acceptable reason for Jon to be late -- he actually came home with a promotion that gave him the same days off as his wife!
For the next couple days, I mostly just followed them around basking in the adorability -- and, of course, adding an extra crib to the nursery. Lex and Jon are, especially compared with some legacy characters I've seen, very competent parents. Infancy picspam!
I could watch this for hours, srsly.
Alexia really wants to be a stay-at-home mother, but with twice the original number of mouths to feed, they decide they just can't afford it. So they call in a nanny for the times when their work shifts overlap. Nanny Heidi becomes a valuable asset in the Rose household, allowing the new mother to get some much-needed rest before going out on patrol.
She is also helpful about keeping the house neat -- scrubbing the shower, taking out the trash, generally lending a hand all over.
Alexia and Jonathan feel like the children were completely safe with Nanny Heidi. Jon even confides in a friend about plans to surprise Alexia with a weekend getaway for their anniversary. With Nanny Heidi on hand to keep order at home, they could enjoy a few days by themselves, remember those early
But first, BIRTHDAY TIEMS!
You want to age yours first or shall I?
Moment of truth! Will they be cute?
Briar's darling! I thought she'd be blonde, like Mommy, but she is so. damn. cute.
And Christian is going to look just like Daddy, by the look of things. Hey, nothing wrong with that!
To celebrate the twins' graduation to toddlerhood, the second empty room is carpeted and converted to a playroom stocked with all the educational toys I had available. Briar's quite fond of Mr. Bear; his ears taste yummy too.
Ever the forward-thinking parent, Alexia spends part of the twins' birthday getting them started on that walking phenomenon.
Briar keeps thinking about podiums, or at least that's what I think that's supposed to be. Maybe she wants to be President.
Jonathan continues to be daddy par excellence. He comes home from work and immediately runs to the nursery to change diapers and hold his babies. Without my telling him to!
There is something not quite right at work here, however, as they (and I) gradually start to realize. Briar is our first vague clue. As an infant, she seemed to like having Nanny Heidi around, but now that she's older, she seems...afraid. There are other signs as well.
The babies, and Christian in particular, are often found asleep in random parts of the house, like behind the stairs.
Large, unexplained messes start appearing in the children's rooms. Nanny Heidi explains this by saying that the toilet clogs and overflows. The fact that the toilet is on the far side of the house from the twins' playroom apparently makes no difference.
Nanny Heidi herself begins to act stranger and stranger. Frequently she stands and stares off into nothingness, or very intently at one of the babies. It's unsettling. But neither Jon nor Alexia ever manage to catch sight of it, so they miss the warnings.
Briar develops an unyielding fascination with the toilet. Mommy and Daddy decide this means it's time to teach the twins how to use the potty. Lessons go slowly, but really rather well; however, Nanny Heidi refuses to aid in the teachings, and insists that the twins continue to wear diapers. Both frazzled from work and lack of sleep, the parents don't argue.
Briar makes a potty like a big girl! Daddy does a dance like he's in the end zone!
Briar's a bit of a snuggle bug, actually, and clings to Mommy and Daddy whenever they pick her up.
Chris is trying to tell his parents that despite their instructions, Nanny Heidi has stopped bathing him and his sister.
Mommy doesn't understand baby talk, but she does understand stinky, so she makes sure the babies are clean when she puts them to bed.
The twins are reluctant to let Mommy go to sleep, and she is perplexed. I sense a disturbance in the Force.
I also sense this disturbance, and have that whole omniscience thing going for me, so I start keeping tabs. I'm troubled deeply when I observe Christian's pallor, and start getting messages from the game that he's starving to death. I see Jon and Lex give him bottles when they're around, so I know it's not them...
It's worse than I thought. Not only does she not feed Chris when his hunger level is approaching critical, but she does feed Briar...and watches with eerie satisfaction as the girl belches a steaming cloud of green substance.
But they're still such well-behaved, intelligent children that Jon and Lex aren't quite sure where the problem lies.
Briar is on the left, playing with the talking rabbit head that increases the charisma stat. Chris is playing with the toy xylophone and beefing up his creativity stat. I'm just watching and admiring how adorable, smart, and entertaining they are. After a few minutes -- or in their world, hours -- it dawns on me: Why are these children ALONE? So I go searching for the nanny. She's not in the bathroom, and to my surprise she's not watching television either, which is where she can usually be found if the kids are asleep. Where the hell did she go?
WTF. FAIL.
I can't force Nanny Heidi to bathe the kids, or do much of anything else for that matter, including STOP STARING INTO SPACE. I have now reached the conclusion that she's possessed by a demon, and that when she stares at nothing anyone else can see, she's receiving instructions from her dark master on how to corrupt the innocent children. Or possibly she's a robot, receiving radio transmission through those knobs on her head that claim to be buns.
But Alexia and Jonathan are surprisingly unable to hear me when I yell at the screen, so I do the only thing that lies within my power to help those poor babies. I install a bathtub in their playroom (since there's no room for it in the actual bathroom, and I foresee a home renovation in the next chapter) and, sure enough, Jon manages to take that hint.
Now comes the part that I am really sorry I failed to screencap, because it would be so much better with the visuals. But I was so totally dazed by what happened that I couldn't think.
Chris is crying from hunger again, and idiot Nanny Heidi is trying to make him go to sleep. I can't even watch anymore. It's close to Alexia's time to get home from work, about an hour to go, so I pan outside and fast-foward at top speed until her arrival.
Here I come to save the day! Thank God.
The scene that meets her, and my, eyes when she enters the house is almost not to be believed. Briar is in her high chair, screaming her head off. Chris is on the floor, screaming his head off. He is surrounded by a puddle roughly the size of the state of Delaware, which was the result of his unchanged diaper reaching critical mass. There is a pile of rotting garbage on the floor beside the kitchen table. (I never did figure out how that got there.) And Nanny Heidi?
IS STANDING NEXT TO CHRIS, STARING AT THE FRONT DOOR. She is deaf to the cries of the children and blind to the rage of their mother.
Alexia's LTW, you recall, is to be Captain Super Hero. She promptly becomes exactly that as far as her children are concerned by handing Nanny Heidi both a pink slip and her own ass. "GTFO NOW." Nanny Heidi, interestingly, starts weeping, which I think further proves my theory that she's possessed by a demon and Alexia may have just broken the creature's hold. The whimpering twit slinks off to die in a fire (I hope), and Alexia starts whipping the situation into shape. She puts Chris in his high chair, gives both kids a bottle, takes out the trash, mops up the floor, changes their diapers, and puts them to bed. She is made of win.
Sadly, I am made of fail because I didn't cap any of it. But it happened. Tune in next time to see if they can hire some halfway decent help before the kids start school.
