Generation Basque, Chapter One

Hello, and welcome to the new Around the World Legacy. Or, in Basque, Biraka Eta Mundu.
In this legacy, each generation will be named a word starting with their letter from a language starting with that letter so a sim from generation B could be named Beso, the Basque word for Arm.

Last time on the Around the World Legacy, Asseblief was declared the heiress, married Reddy, and got pregnant with the next generation. As you can tell from the new title and banner, they have arrived!

Asseblief opens the new chapter by modeling her new maternity wear, and pregnant belly. She also shows us the constantly being remodeled living room.

Ever forgettable Afdeling shows off the new office. Look, corner desk!

And Asseblief shows us the new flower boxes in the painting corner. I'm not sure whether I'm happy with them or not. I was thinking of taking the mirrors off the side walls and putting in windows, looking into the bedroom and the kitchen. I'll think about it.

Reddy, meanwhile, tries to make like Leighton and skill in his undies. Err, not exactly the same, man.

Leslie invited over her boss, then ran off to skill, leaving Asseblief to meet him and befriend him. Ah, matchmaking. His name's not really important, and I don't remember it anyway. Hell, I don't remember Reddy's real name either.

Finally! Asseblief goes into labor and takes herself to the hospital, just like her mother.

And I just realized I never gave you her full stats. Asseblief is unlucky (family trait), brave, a vegetarian, family oriented, and excitable. She shares two traits with her mother. Her LTW is to reach the top of the science career, and Reddy's LTW is to reach the top of the medical career.

It's a boy! Now, some of you have made comments to this being a matriarchy. It's not. I'm playing two other legacies where the heiresses must be girls (one getting a point for it, one not). I'm playing this one that any gender can inherit, it's just that last generation there were only girls, so it had to be an heiress.

Oh, I bed you want to know what I named him. This little boy's name is Baratxuri, which is the Basque word for garlic.
Basque is the last remaining pre-Indo-European language still spoken in Europe, and is spoken in northern Spain and Southern France, specifically in Basque Country and Navarre.

"You know, it's kind of stupid to name your kid Garlic."
I wasted no time in trying for another kid. I want Asseblief to have all her kids really quickly so she can get off maternity leave and move on to her career.

I love Aap's face in this picture.
"Yay, Afdeling's moving out and Daddy's getting old!"

That's right, my friend, Leighton's old and wrinkly now. And let me tell you, it was hard to find a hair that looked half decent on his saggy face.

It was the same problem with Afdeling. She's a beautiful girl, but her face can look real ugly with some of the hair.
Afdeling added the workaholic trait and decided she wanted to go into business.

After finding a job in the newspaper, Afdeling called over her intended. She asked him if he was single... and he's married!

She settled for being good friends with him, and moved out of the house to make way for Asseblief's next baby.

Good thing, too, because Asseblief just popped!

And Leslie was promoted to executive chef! She's at level eight of her career, thank God, because it's almost her birthday.

Scratch that, it is her birthday, and Aap's too!

Aap added childish as her final trait. She joined the journalism career and promptly moved out.

So promptly that I almost didn't get a picture of her for her portrait! Oops!

But don't worry, all four girls got their portraits painted. And nicely, too.

And don't think I've forgotten Leslie. Her blue eyes stand out even more with that white hair.

That night, Asseblief went into labor!

Find out next time whether it's a boy or girl, one baby or multiples, and what strange thing will I name this one after? Find out next time, on the Around The World Alphabet Legacy!