The Vetinari Dualegacy: NEW Jan 24! Interlude 1

[DrSupremeNerd]

This is the Vetinari Dualegacy--a concurrent Uglacy and Prettacy begun with identical twin founders.

The pictures in the first couple of chapters are bad. You have been warned. If that's going to bug you, I suggest starting with Chapter 2, partway through which I found Cameraman Mode and the pictures started to get better, or Chapter 5, where I got tired of the pictures looking OK on my computer but not the exchange and turned the graphics up the rest of the way (and I am becoming at peace with the lag). So, much obliged if you wouldn't whinge about the pictures in the first couple of chapters.

Please leave feedback on the story! If you think I rock, let me know! If you think it sucks, let me know and I'll try to make it better!

On My SimPage:
SimNerd, Larch, Teen Spider Jerusalem, Adult Spider Jerusalem, Cassidy

On My LiveJournal:
CC versions of SimNerd, Larch, Cypress, Spider Jerusalem, Cassidy, Wren, Raven, Dora, Coco, Indy, Chad, Bee, Becca, Simon, Archie, Mal V (teen), Billy, Bucky, Marco, Fair, Tess, Connor, River, Brooke.

For all your "Who the heck is related to whom?" needs:The Vetinari Dualegacy Family Forest--like a Tree, only bigger and easier to get lost in!

Recap for the Prologue through Chapter 11
Recap for Chapter 12 through Chapter 20.5

ALL CHAPTERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AS SLIDESHOWS ON MY DREAMWIDTH ACCOUNT. THERE MAY BE MILD PROFANITY, AS CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS REQUIRE. IF YOU WANT TO READ THE SANITIZED VERSIONS, THE LINK TO MY SIMPAGE IS THE FIRST ONE IN THIS POST. OLD CHAPTERS MAY BE FOUND THERE AS THE EXCHANGE PERMITS, UP TO CHAPTER 19.

Generation 1: Isaac and Orson
Prologue: "Hi Isaac!" "Hi Orson!"

Chapter 1: "Enjoy your squalor."

Chapter 2: "Suckle at the rubbery teat of Eeevil!"

Chapter 3: "Feel my wrath!"

Chapter 3.5: "PseudoBruty in the kitchen with pancakes!"

Chapter 4: "And put a framming shirt on!"

Generation 2: Juniper and Larch
Chapter 5: "Who the heck are you? Death Spicoli?"

Chapter 5.5: "...so he savaged Goldilocks and turned her rib cage into a decorative pot rack."

Chapter 6: "You may be Eeevil, but you don't have to be a jerk!"

Chapter 7: "Mmmmm... Got Enemy Kevin?"

Chapter 7.5: "I hear there's quite the black market for young, healthy kidneys. I wonder if he'd miss one..."

Chapter 8: "Suck it, Cow Mascot!"

Generation 3: Jonquil and Delphinium
Chapter 9: "I am Eeevil! I am not adorable!"

Chapter 9.333: "Nobody gets a fairytale ending. Not really."

Chapter 9.667: "Call me 'brah' again and I'll kick your bony !@^, you smelly hippie."

Chapter 10: "Don't think of it as murder. Think of it as 'temporarily de-life-ing...'"

Chapter 10.5: "You're right, Cory. It IS cold stargazing in your jim-jams."

Chapter 11: "Pizza is not supposed to be green and buzzy!"

Generation 4: Raven and Cormorant
Chapter 12: "Maybe there's something you're willing to die for after all."

Chapter 12.25: "But whatever you might think, you don't own me. And I don't owe you a thing."

Chapter 12.5: "Do you really believe anyone will ever look at you and see the hero?"

Chapter 12.75: "But when you've got nothing left, what else is there?" "Hope."

Chapter 13: "What do you need me to do?"

Chapter 13.5: "We all have to make sacrifices, right?"

Chapter 14: "I hope I don't disappoint."

Chapter 14.5: "I suspect that didn't un-complicate matters."

Generation 5: Andorra and Monaco
Chapter 15: "Have you lost your framming mind?"

Chapter 15.333: "If it wasn't with you, it wasn't really living."

Chapter 15.667: "You're the most human of any of us."

Chapter 16: "I can't tell if you're kidding."

Chapter 16.5: "Look at the scowl and tell me I'm a cuddly fuzzy puppy dog."

Chapter 17: "Let me know if you see anything you like."

Chapter 17.5: "Speak of this to no one."

Generation 6: Eratosthenes and Anaximander
Chapter 18: "Give me back my mother!"

Chapter 18.25: "I think it's time we had a talk."

Chapter 18.5: "I promise I won't let anything bad happen to you."

Chapter 18.75: "I can't do this!"

Chapter 19: "I've been so stupid."

Chapter 19.5: "I'm sorry."

Chapter 20: "My knuckles are lonely."

Chapter 20.5: "Liar!"

Generation 7: Whitney and Tesla
Chapter 21: "Pregnant. Barfy. Tired."

Chapter 21.333: "Pandora's Box is empty."

Chapter 21.667: "The turkey's neck-hole is mocking me."

Interlude 1: Solon


Other stories featuring Vetinaris that have nothing whatsoever to do with the Dualegacy, but which are in some way amusing, or that didn't suit being worked into an update!
The Story of Gin, Spider Jerusalem, and Gilbert Jacquet
The Completely Hypothetical Spider Jerusalem Bachelor Challenge
DrSupremeNerd's Home for Unrepentant Sociopaths: An Asylum Challenge
The *Drool* Simon Vetinari Bachelor Challenge
From LiveJournal: Spider Jerusalem in The Great American Pasttime
From LiveJournal: Gilbert and Malcolm: Playboys Extraordinaire
From LiveJournal: Behind-the-Scenes and Deleted Scene from Chapter 14.5
From LiveJournal: Whedonari, now in Original and Redux Flavors!
For the Valentine's Showcase 2009: Rekindling the Flame, featuring SQUEEE CASS AND GIL!

[DrSupremeNerd]

Update with Chapter 4--Gen 2 at college. Fighting, romance, fighting, zombie making, and Eeevil.

[BramHenry]

Good job so far (I just finished Chapter 1). The pictures don't bother me because I haven't figured out cameraman mode myself yet. It'll be interesting to compare generation 10; I might follow your example and try it myself.

I love the red house vs. the blue house decorating. It'll make it a lot easier to keep the two families separated in my mind.

[puddinroy]

good job! Can't wait to see the update

[DrSupremeNerd]

Update with Chapter 5: Death Spicoli! The next chapter's coming along pretty quickly, and then I'm planning on catching up with the spares.

[DrSupremeNerd]

Updated October 28 with Chapter 5.5! Lots of birthdays, Death Spicoli comes for the Gen 1 spouses, it's beginning to look a lot like Uglacy, hauntings, and fairy tales a la Eeevil Larch!

[DrSupremeNerd]

Update with Chapter 6: the spares get married and have kids, plus the usual deceit, betrayal, death, and Eeevil that comes from having Sims with serious nice point deficiencies.

[animeangel1983]

I like it, it's funny!! And now I wonder if Cypress will succeed in his plans...

[DrSupremeNerd]

Thanks! I have barely begun to plumb the depths to which he is willing to sink, and he's got something like 6 1/2 more generations to work his Eeevil mojo.

[stacilee]

Hey, I finally got around to reading your legacy and I'm really enjoying it so far. Your choices for names bring me a great big happy. Cassidy was my favorite character in Preacher. Anyhoo, keep up the good work!!!

[AnnyuiDuck]

Wow, I can't believe you've got so few readers! I started reading a couple chapters ago and just got caught up today.

I love Cypress, by the way:P Not because he's evil, he's a horrible, horrible person, but because he's got such an interesting story.

And my version of Stephen is in love with my Romance sim! I call him Nervous Guy, because he walks around the dorm doing the "worry" interaction and for some reason my sim always has the option to cheer him up. Of course, last night she cheated on him with her professor and he found out... Which was a shame, because he was the only one of her lovers that I like.

[DrSupremeNerd]

Stacilee--I thought about calling him "Proinsias Cassidy" like I did with Spider Jerusalem, but with everything else I'm gonna do to him, I couldn't do THAT. Preacher was great--my favorite issue was the one with Cassidy and Eccarius in New Orleans. Still cracks me up every time.

AnnyuiDuck--I love that guy. He's old now, and he's still the romanciest Knowledge Sim I've ever had. I know he's shy, but he really doesn't act like it at all anymore.

Cy will be getting less and less nice over the next couple of chapters. Not that that takes much doing.

Thanks for comments, everybody!

[stacilee]

Yay!! I've definitely gotta go back and read Preacher. It was my ex's favorite, so I haven't read it since 2001!! Cass was my favorite from Preacher, though, and not just because I have a thing for vamps, the occult, and all things Buffy. I really look forward to what you have in store for your Cass, though. My heart goes out to him.

[DrSupremeNerd]

Update with Chapter 7! More birthdays, dates, spare-spawn antics, and Eeevil!

Stacilee, read Transmetropolitan if you haven't already. I like it better than Preacher. And I'm loving Buffy Season 8 in comic form!

[stacilee]

Great new chapter!! I've been wanting to read Transmetropolitan for years, but life and fundage has prevented it so far. I've also heard great things about the Buffy comic. I think that I'll try to get them in trade paperbacks when I can.

Onto the story:

Spoiler:

Poor Cass, he's my favorite character and his life sucks. Little Spider isn't getting the most love either. Grrr, I want to smack Cy right in his pretty mouth. He's a jerk. I hate bad fathers.

[DrSupremeNerd]

Stacilee, I saw the first arc of Buffy out in the collected edition when I was at the shop picking up the last issue. And apparently the guys who did Spike:Asylum are doing Angel Season 6, the first issue of which is coming out next week or maybe tomorrow, I've already forgotten.

Spoiler:

In a way, I think Spider's better off than Cassidy, because despite his flaws, Cass isn't a bad parental stand-in. I definitely see the relationship between Cass, Spider, and Cypress informing how Cass and Spider end up.

I actually have some demented kind of fun writing Cypress. I sort of think to myself, "What is the absolute worst thing someone could say or do in this situation? Aha!" and then that's what I type. He's such a little crapweasel, and I think it's not because of his personality, which is the same as Larch's (who's decent overall), but because of how he treats his family.

[GintasticNecat]

Whee, I'm up to date!

Spoiler:

I laughed my head off at childrinions -it's fantastic And why wouldn't you want to have 3 pleasure sims in the house, even if they're serious-ish?! I love them But then I guess I feel the same way about fortune and the medical career, groan.. Larch is frickin AWESOME! Your characterisations are so funny though.. And from everything you've been saying, I kinda liked Yvette, ok? Big love for mental loking dogs, huzzah. And and and.. BUFFY FTW!!

Cassidy better take down Cypress. S'all I'm saying.

Oh, and where did you get Spider's hair from? Tis 'awesome'

[DrSupremeNerd]

Gin--

Spoiler:

"Childrinions" is just so Larch, I swear! And the fact that BOTH his kids are nice point-deficient makes me giggle.

Save me from serious Pleasure Sims! Isaac actually constantly rolled Wants to skill. Juniper STILL does! Their Want Panels tend(ed) to look like: Gain A Skill Point, Ask Sim On Date, Flirt With Sim, Go Fishing, Influence Someone to Clean, Look Through Telescope. I was SO glad when Gerry rolled Pleasure and had maxed Playful.

OMG, Yvette drove me nuts when she was alive and is still driving me nuts now that she's not. She still hasn't scared Larch or Christy, but wouldn't leave Finn or Zee alone. Orson's haunted a couple of times, but hasn't scared anyone. Isaac's usually pretty good, except for houseguests and Stephan (who doesn't care anyway), and I was hoping Calista would scare Jon because he kept rolling that Want, but she refused. Jane's haunted once, traumatized Cassidy (for once, Cassidy trauma was in no way my doing), and refused to scare Spider.

Spider's hair is from MTS2. It's the Ken mesh by mimix5 (or something like that, anyway,there's a mimi and an x5 in it). I like it; it suits him. I'm just glad he's too mean to be emo, because I do NOT want to spend the next forever writing emo dialogue.

[DrSupremeNerd]

New Chapter is up! The rest of Gen 2 ages up, and Gen 3 heads off to college! Plus more about your favorite spare-spawns!


Stacilee: Um... Peace offering?:

Spoiler:

Come on, how great is this?

Cass did grow up in platinum, thanks to a locked Go To College Want. Shiny pretty plumbbob, greeny-blue hourglass... I guess he just really, really hates tie-dye.

[GintasticNecat]

More more more! That's how I like it, that's how I like it..

Spoiler:

Noooo, Spider's face when Cassidy left! Nooo, oh Spider, I do love you so.. I was being a moron and thinking "Wow, that's nice of Larch to let Spider into his family, hasn't he changed!" Blah, me = moron, yet again. I hope Spider doesn't end up being a barganing tool between the brothers, I want him to be all protected and safe I was rooting for Jon as Prettacy heir, but would have enjoyed either as the Uglacy heir, so go Finn. Cypress is still an arse, and I still want Cass to take him down! Do it for Spider, Cass