The results of the Gen 5 heir poll are in! It was a close call and for awhile I thought I was going to end up with a second dual heirship, but one candidate pulled ahead by a single vote!
In last place with zero votes is….
Enceladus!
Tied for third place with one vote each are…
Titan and
Callisto!
The runner up with two votes who was almost a dual heir is…
Io!
Which means that the Gen 5 heir with three votes to her name is…
Europa!!
I’ve already written some plotty plans for this generation that I’m excited to start, though it’ll be a least a week before I’m able to play. Europa actually was one of my favourites for heir (along with Io), so I’m glad she won!
It’s now time for the Generation 5 Heir Poll! Let’s meet the contenders.
First up we have Titan. He’s Grumpy, Good, Clumsy, Frugal, and Loves to Swim. His Lifetime Wish is Distinguished Director. If he wins I’m not sure who will end up being his spouse, it could be Janelle, or Toya, or someone else entirely. The first chunk of the generation, should he win, will probably focus on dealing with the mess that is his love life.
Next we have Io. He’s Artistic, Excitable, Neat, and Evil. His lifetime wish is Visionary. Should he be heir, he’ll probably end up marrying Ingrid, though he won’t remain faithful. There will probably be some affair babies and he’ll get up to some more evil shenanigans (he’ll most definitely kill some more people and he might keep someone prisoner in a secret dungeon he builds).
The middle child is Europa. She Loves the Heat, is a Loner, Artistic, and Proper. Her lifetime wish is Star News Anchor. Should she be heir, she’ll probably end up marrying Bobby, though they may end up with relationship problems later on cause they have conflicting traits (she’s Proper, he’s Inappropriate). Since she wants to be a journalist, should she be heir, she’ll probably end up involved in the big supernatural mystery that’s going on.
Callisto is next. She’s Easily Impressed and a Couch Potato. She’s still a toddler, so who knows where I’ll take things if she’s heir. I might have some plot surrounding Imaginary Friends or something.
Enceladus is Brave and Disciplined. He’s also still a toddler and in a similar situation to Callisto. If he’s heir there will probably be something surrounding Imaginary Friends as well.
And those are your five options! The heir poll will be open for 1 week, you can vote here, on Boolprop, or both!
I don’t normally celebrate legacy anniversaries/birthdays but I was checking when the first post of the Holt Legacy went live and discovered that this blog is turning 5! That’s half a decade and I thought it deserved some kind of celebration. I’ve decided to do what I call some Behind the Scenes information. I’m going to focus on the heirs and go over some stuff about personalities, relationships, and anything else that I couldn’t really work into the story or I wasn’t sure came across very well.
As the founder of this legacy, we’re going to start off with Faith! Faith kind of got the short end of the stick in terms of screen time and insight into her personality. I was still figuring out the direction I was going with this legacy, not to mention I took a break for a few years near the end of her generation.
The traits Faith has in game are Artistic, Daredevil, Great Kisser, Hot-Headed, and Virtuoso, with a lifetime wish of Rock Star.
Faith is the type of person who doesn’t really want to be tied down by anything or anyone. She’d rather do her own thing regardless of societal expectations. She left her parents house as soon as she could, they never really got on well and wanted her to get married and be somebodies perfect housewife. As you can imagine Faith didn’t like that idea, so when she was left a plot of land by her Great Aunt Gertrude she leaped at the chance to be on her own.
Faith likes to play by her own rules and refuses to be tied down by anyone, yet, despite how much she complained about him, she did allow Bernard to continue living with her. She could have easily gotten help from the local police to evict him, Sunset Valley is very clear on their discrimination towards supernaturals, so why did she let him stay?
Initially Faith expected that Bernard would eventually leave on his own and that her putting up with him was only temporary, afterall Sunset Valley isn’t exactly the best place for a vampire to live. However, once it came clear that Bernard wasn’t going to leave on his own, Faith let him stay because she’d grown used to having him around (and though she would never admit it, she grew quite fond of him). He didn’t try to control her or make any other demands of her, they were more like roommates than anything.
Then Faith got pregnant. Initially she thought she could do motherhood like she did everything else, on her own and by her own rules. She didn’t think twice about the father (Gunther Goth), he was married and she expected he would want nothing to do with the children anyway.
It wasn’t until after Texas and Arizona were born did Gunther express any interest in the kids. Gunther’s focus was solely on Arizona, he barely even acknowledged Texas’ existence.
The reason for this was that Arizona was a girl. A daughter Gunther could use as a tool to build alliances and connections with other rich and powerful families. While Texas was a son (an illegitimate one at that), who could be a threat that could upset his standing in the community (and potentially make a claim on the Goth fortune, especially if something happened to Mortimer).
Faith basically used Bernard as a nanny, she does love her kids, but she didn’t want to put her dreams on hold just to take care of them. Bernard could stay home and take care of them (keeping them out of public view), while she could pursue her career. She knew she couldn’t go to the police because of how powerful and connected Gunther was.
As a result of this Faith wasn’t actually all that close to her children. She didn’t see anything wrong with this, especially since she would have liked her own parents to have been more distant with her.
Faith never told her children about their father or the threat he posed simply because she thought that they would be safer if they didn’t know. She thought she could handle it on her own, and Faith never actually believed Gunther would kidnap or kill one of her kids.
Faith believed Arizona to be dead by the time she had Ohio. Ohio’s father has no idea he exists and even if he did he wouldn’t have posed a threat. However, after losing Arizona, Faith refused to let herself to bond with her new son, and instead foisted him off on Bernard.
Let’s move on to Texas and Arizona. These two did not always get along, but as twins who were kept isolated by their mother and often didn’t have any other kids to talk or play with, the two of them were quite close.
So when Texas though Arizona was dead, he was devastated by her loss. When he found out that the secrets around his father (Gunther), that Faith was keeping from him and Arizona were partially to blame for what happened to her, he was furious with her. At the time he had no one else to blame for what happened to Arizona, so Faith got the full brunt of Texas’ anger.
Aside from everything that happened with Arizona, another reason that Texas and Faith never really got along is that is many ways the two of them were too much alike. Both of them don’t like to play by the rules set by other people, and both of them have issues with authority.
Texas has always liked cause trouble for other people, seeing people so upset was something he found funny.
Getting involved with a criminal syndicate and trying to figure out who is responsible for Arizona’s death gave Texas a bit of direction for his anger.
I may not have shown a lot of what Texas got up too with his criminal enterprise, but basically what happened was that Texas hunted down anyone who was even remotely involved with what happened with Arizona. He killed some of them, while others he simply blackmailed. He then rose to the top of the criminal career and basically made it clear that anyone who went near the Holt family (with the intent to harm) would be punished terribly.
Basically Texas thought that if he could make enough people scared of him that no one would ever mess with a Holt again, and that what happened to Arizona would never happened to someone he cared about again. However, all this did was make everyone in Sunset Valley hate and resent the Holt’s (though they did fear them as well).
Initially Texas only started dating Aria as a cover to try and seem more normal and not draw attention to himself.
However, he quickly fell head over heels for her. Texas genuinely adored Aria a lot (and seemed to have a thing for seeing her pregnant), he’s the reason the two of them had so many kids, he kept rolling wishes for more.
Did Aria have any idea of what Texas got up too?
She may have not known the details (nor did she want to know), but she was aware that Texas was a criminal and doing a lot of bad and illegal things. Aria loved Texas and she knew Texas loved her, so she chose to turn a blind eye to everything he got up too.
Texas and Ontario had a complicated relationship… I mean, being kidnapped by aliens, forcibly impregnated against your will, and forced to raise the child, would lead to a complicated relationship for any parent and child.
Texas sort of dumped Ontario onto Aria to raise, he barely ever paid any attention to his son. Part of this is Texas trying to avoid his problems/trauma, if he doesn’t interact with Ontario much, then he doesn’t have to deal with the implications of his existence (and the forced impregnation that he can’t remember). Despite all of this, Texas did love his son.
Texas didn’t pay much attention to his first few children in general (Ontario got the short end of the stick in that regard), but with his younger children he paid them more attention. Part of this is that by that point he had pretty much succeeded in killing/black mailing/punishing all of the people involved in Arizona’s disappearance and anyone that might prove a threat to the Holt family. As such he could afford to spend some more time on his kids.
As a result of this, Yukon actually had a pretty good relationship with Texas.
Let’s moved on to Ontario. As I mentioned earlier, Texas kept his distance from Ontario, and as a result the two of them had a very distant relationship. Ontario has no idea why his father is so distant from him, but as Texas was distant with the rest of his older children, Ontario didn’t take it too personally. Ontario is well aware of his alien status and that Texas was the one that gave birth to him. However, that the whole experience would have been extremally traumatizing and violating to Texas had never crossed his mind.
Yukon was one of the first of Texas’ kids that actually got Texas’ full attention and care. As a result there was some resentment felt by a lot of his older siblings (including Ontario), built largely on jealously that Yukon got Texas’ attention when they didn’t.
Ontario did let go of this resentment fairly quickly. He mainly saw Yukon as his annoying kid brother he has to look after sometimes.
Ontario was largely unaware of the issues Texas and Faith had with each other and the reasons behind them. All he knew was that Texas had some grudge against Faith and blamed her for something that happened before he was born. Ontario was never aware that Arizona was never actually murdered, but was kidnapped and then went into hiding. To Ontario, Arizona was just the aunt he never got to know. Ontario may have grown up around Faith, but the two of them never interacted much, Faith knew her son resented her and tried to avoid getting too close to his kids out of fear it might make him even angrier with her.
Ontario and Liliana had a pretty standard and boring relationship. Ontario was an alien and the eldest child of Texas Holt, this meant a lot of the town hated him. Liliana was one of the few people who didn’t. Liliana did receive some backlash from the rest of the town, but for the most part, they simply thought she was a giant weirdo for marrying him.
Ontario spent a lot of his life standing out for things he couldn’t control, his father and his status as an alien being the main things. With Sunset Valley being very prejudiced and against anything that isn’t normal, Ontario spent a lot of time trying to blend in and seem as normal as possible.
As a result he never really explored a lot with his alien abilities (beyond his initial teenaged experimentation) and never really taught anything to his daughters either. He often encouraged them not to explore their alien abilities and do their best to blend in like he has spent his life doing.
However, neither Radon or Sulphur were very interested in hiding who they were just to blend in. Sulphur loves her father, but she thinks of him as kind of a coward for spending all his life hiding who he is from everyone. Sulphur is completely unaware of the decision Ontario struggled with when he first became a young adult and that he almost left to go to Sixam and be with others of his species.
This conflict, and the negative impression the other alien left on Ontario also played a part in him trying to distance himself from his alien abilities and seem as normal as possible.
Let’s now move onto Yukon. As a child, Yukon was very close with his younger sister Nova Scotia, who was definitely a little possessive of him. He had trouble making friends and connecting with other kids (partially due to everyone hating his father) so he always valued his relationship with Nova Scotia.
However, once Nova Scotia was sent off to boarding school the two of them became more distant and their relationship never really recovered.
Yukon and Cecilia quickly bonded over both of them being social outcasts at school and it didn’t take them too long to fall in love with each other.
Much like Faith, Cecilia was a free spirit who didn’t like to play by the rules or be confined. Initially Yukon fully supported this and her choices.
Yukon had always been close to both of his parents, but when Aria expressed doubts about his relationship with Cecilia, he felt as if she didn’t trust him anymore and their relationship never quite recovered (eloping didn’t help matters either).
Aria did not like Cecilia, she thought she was irresponsible and feared that she was only using Yukon for their money. Cecilia did genuinely love Yukon and never really cared about the money aside from it being able to pay all of the fines she incurred.
Texas never really made any opinions on Cecilia, and Yukon’s decision to marry her known. This was mostly because he didn’t really care, he naturally did research into her the moment Yukon got close with her and didn’t find anything he thought was too be worried about. Texas didn’t really care about Cecilia because he knew Yukon liked her, and Texas knew that if Cecilia ever broke Yukon’s heart that he (Texas) would make her pay.
When they first got married, Yukon had no problems with Cecilia’s lifestyle and her choices. This didn’t change until they had kids.
Children are a lot of responsibility and require a lot of attention, however, much like Faith, Cecilia refused to put her desires and what she wanted to do on hold just to take care of her children. In her mind, the kids had plenty of family that could take care of them so why should she have to bother with it.
Yukon never saw how distant Texas was with his first few children or how distant Faith was with her kids. All he knew was that Texas and Aria had both been very involved in his care when he was a child and he couldn’t understand why Cecilia was so uninterested in their kids.
Before marrying Yukon, Cecilia never really thought much about kids and other than deciding to have kids, her and Yukon never really talked about it. It wasn’t until after she had Tungsten did Cecilia realize that while she was fine with having kids, she wasn’t too interested in taking care of them.
Yukon usually has a pretty good hold on his temper, but he does have one and while he initially tried to keep his head when talking to Cecilia about how she was treating their son, it didn’t take much for him to lose his temper.
Cecilia had begun to feel tied down by her marriage and her children, and she struggled trying to regain her sense of freedom.
Had she not died, Cecilia probably would have left Yukon. What he wanted from life and their marriage was no longer than same as what she wanted. It was only after having kids did Cecilia figure out that she didn’t really want to be a mother.
Yukon on the other hand loved being a father and couldn’t understand why Cecilia wasn’t interested.
Yukon never talked about the problems he and Cecilia were having before she died with his kids. As a result Tungsten and Selenium are both completely unaware of the problems that were plaguing their parents relationship or that their mother wasn’t all that interested in being their mother.
I’m going to talk a bit about Sulphur next, but I’m going to try and remain vague to avoid a lot of spoilers. There will be some minor spoilers, so if you want to avoid them then just don’t read the rest of this post.
As I mentioned earlier, Sulphur thinks Ontario is a bit of a coward for always hiding his alien abilities and trying to blend in. Sulphur loves her father, but she also wants to be different from him. She wants to never have to hide who she is or what she can do, and she never wants her children to ever feel like they should be ashamed of their abilities or alien heritage.
I can’t really say much right now, but Sulphur really loves her spouse, who suffers a bit from the same problem as Ontario (hiding who they are and struggling to accept themselves). She puts a lot of effort in trying to make them feel comfortable and making sure they know that they don’t need to hide who they are. Sulphur’s spouse is really grateful for this effort and becomes more confident in themselves over time as a result. The two of them have a strong relationship.
I’ve actually almost finished playing Sulphur’s generation, so here’s a little peak at one of her future kids. Isn’t he adorable?
I’m hoping to post all of Sulphur’s generation during SimNaNo in July, so you all should have a lot of Holt posts to read in July (and Lecter posts… I have almost 2 generations of Lecter posts to get through).
If anyone has any questions about these characters, the plot, the Holt’s in general, or anything else along those lines I’d be happy to answer (and do my best to avoid too many spoilers). And that’s all for now! Happy 5th Anniversary Holt Legacy!!
The results of the Gen 4 heir poll are in! It was a close call with the winner having only one more vote than the runner up, but the heir for Gen 4 is….
SULPHUR!!!
I’m excited to be playing this file again, it’s been awhile. I’ll probably won’t have an update out for awhile (it will probably be at least a month or two), but I’m hoping I will be able to play, write, and post this generation by the end of July!
It’s that time again, time for you to choose the Gen 4 heir! Whoever ends up as heir will be one of the main ones (along side Mercury and Will) who will search for and find the missing Bernard. The spouse for the next gen has also already been decided, so the basic plot will remain the same, and just be modified to suit whoever ends up being heir.
First up, we have the eldest of Ontario’s twins, Radon! She’s Good, Neurotic, Loves the Outdoors, and Family-Oriented. Her lifetime wish is Master Acrobat. Should she end up as heir, she’ll probably have a bunch of kids due to her traits.
Next is her twin Sulphur! She’s Neurotic, Brave, Hates the Outdoors, and Perfectionist. Her lifetime wish is Master Magician and should she be heir, I can only hope she doesn’t end up dying on me like Max Frankenstein.
Tungsten is the eldest of Yukon’s children, he’s Brave, Hates the Outdoors, Unstable, and Photographer’s Eye. He’s the only one of the batch that does not yet have a lifetime wish, so I guess it will be a surprise should he be heir.
Selenium is the youngest of all of these kids. She’s Friendly, Loser, Loves the Outdoors, and Excitable. Her lifetime wish is the Zoologist and she’s already started her collection of small animals. She seems to have inherited her father’s friend making skills (i.e. none at all), and should she be heir there will probably be a menagerie of small animals scattered throughout the house.
Oh also, as the town is starting to get a little glitchy on me the Holt’s will be moving at the beginning of Generation 4, which means a new house! Anyways, the poll will be up for 1 week, you can vote here or on boolprop or both if you’d like. I definitely have a favourite this time around, but we’ll see if they get voted as heir!
The Holt Legacy just one Best Legacy on Boolprop!!!! Thank you to everyone who voted! This is my first time getting something like this and I’m so happy people are enjoying this legacy! I’m actually working on writing the next update for this which I will hopefully get out sometime this weekend (or maybe Monday).
I may come to regret this later, but I’ve decided to do a dual heirship with these boys!
Honorable mention to the runner ups Nunavut and Nova Scotia, who each got a vote.
This means that the next Holt update will be officially Generation 3! However, it will probably be a bit before any kids are born, Yukon still has quite a bit of growing up to do. (Not to mention I want to empty the household a bit before I start adding to it.)
I’m currently playing Gen 2 of the Lecter’s (even though I still have to post most of Gen 1), but as soon as I’m done with that I’ll be back to the Holt’s. I’m really excited to start Gen 3 and see where it takes me!
Alright everyone, it’s time for the Gen 3 heir poll! Which of these 9 kids will be taking over for generation 3?
First up we have the eldest who is an alien, Ontario. He’s Clumsy, Loves the Heat, Grumpy, Childish, and an Angler. He has a lifetime wish of Creature-Robot Cross-Breeder, and should he be heir, he’ll probably marry is RI Liliana Sw0rd. As for plot, there will be a focus on his alien heritage.
Next we have Quebec, who’s Virtuoso, Loves the Outdoors, Grumpy, Adventurous, and Socially Awkward. Her lifetime wish is Vocal Legend, she has no prospective spouses yet. Should she be heir, the plot will focus on her issues with her dad and her family in general, and her career.
Alberta is next, she’s Grumpy, Easily Impressed, Kleptomaniac, and Disciplined. She currently has no lifetime wish, and has a face-one RI whose face I’ll probably end up randomizing. Should she be heir, there will be a focus on her struggle with kleptomania.
Nunavut has the traits Hates the Outdoors, Excitable, Neat, and Absent-Minded. Her lifetime wish is Forensic Specialist: Dynamic DNA Profiler, and has an RI Kian she’ll probably end up with. Should she be heir the plot will focus on the fact she’s a cop with an Emperor of Evil for a father. Her RI Kian is also a vampire, so there’ll also be some plot centered around that.
Newfoundland is Easily Impressed, Loves the Outdoors, Loves the Cold, and Brooding. His lifetime wish is Presenting the Perfect Private Aquarium, and he has an RI Ellen. Should he be heir the focus will probably be on his obsession with fishing.
Next we have Yukon, who’s a Light Sleeper, Eccentric, and a Night Owl. Should he be heir, the focus will probably be on how he’s considered odd by other people, it may change as he gets more traits.
Here’s what he looks like as a young adult.
Nova Scotia is Evil, Athletic, and Neat. Should she be heir, there will probably be a focus on her Evil trait and various evil plots she comes up with.
This is what she looks like as a young adult.
Saskatchewan is next, he’s a Slob, and Artistic. As for plot, it’ll depend on what traits he gets, maybe I’ll go for some kind of artist drama or something.
This is what he looks like as a young adult.
The last heir option is New Brunswick, he’s Absent-Minded and Eccentric. Like his twin, the plot will depend on what traits he develops as he gets older. He might end up an inventor and churn out plumbots or something.
This is what he looks like as a young adult.
And those are your 9 options for heir, you can vote here, on boolprop, or both. You have 7 days to vote!
Hello and welcome to the Gen 2 Heir Poll, where you will decided which Holt will lead the family into Generation 2. Her are your options
Texas is a Hydrophobic, Frugal, Evil, and a Diva who loves the colour Hot Pink and wants to be the Emperor of Evil. He wants to climb to the top in order to get revenge on the men he believes killed his sister. Spouse, Texas will probably end up with his current girlfriend Aria. If you guys are choosing based on my plot lines, Texas and Arizona have plot lines which end up intersecting with each other. The one who’s heir will just have more focus on their plot.
Next we have Arizona, who likes the colour Pink, is Insane, Workaholic, Brave, and Hydrophobic. She wants to be Super popular, and has already managed to have one child. She’s been kidnaped and forced into marriage.
And lastly we have Ohio. Ohio is currently a baby in game, but unlike his siblings he’s not a face clone of Faith! He also happens to be a witch, so if he ends up being heir, his plot will likely deal with him figuring the witch stuff out. I’ll probably end up giving him one of the witch lifetime wishes. If Ohio ends up as heir, there’ll be plenty of time for me to resolve Texas and Arizona’s arcs while we wait for him to grow up.
Vote now! This poll will be open for 1 week. You can vote here or on Boolprop, or both if you want to.
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