Natalie Morgan

### Children

Caleb Morgan, Finn Morgan, Fiona Morgan, Hank Morgan, Harrison Morgan, Phoebe Morgan, Stella Morgan

### Grandchildren

Abbey Morgan, Brady Morgan, Hikaru Morgan-Behr, Kaoru Morgan-Behr, Haruhi Morgan-Behr, Reid Bloom, Ali Bloom, Teddy Bloom, Zachary Morgan, Devon Morgan, Tory Tilo, Pearl Morgan

## Stats

### Career

Gardening career track

Natalie is one of the six sims who founded the Build A City Challenge. She started out living in the Original Household until she, along with Brock Redmond, moved out and established the first additional household in the save. Natalie is a ray of sunshine, always dancing and creating and doting on her horde of kids. Her signature color, fittingly enough, is yellow.

## Original Save

Natalie was originally from my 100 Baby Challenge. She was the fifth child of my fourth matriarch, Genesis Morgan. Genesis's next four children were all boys, and it was looking like Natalie would be the next matriarch, but then Genesis's final child was a girl. Natalie seemed to take the BACC as her opportunity to make up for missing out on the chance to be the matriarch, though! Natalie's oldest sibling, Jude, is another BACC founder, and I imported two of their sisters, Lara and Marie, during rotation 12.

## Rotations 1-3: Starting the Challenge

Natalie was added to the save at the beginning of the Challenge. I decided to have her start off by maxing out her Wellness skill to get us started on unlocking a Pool lot--not a priority, but something relatively easy to do, and I thought having a maxed Wellness skill would suit my headcanon for her.

Natalie also attended all five of the parties Naomi Royal threw to unlock townies, as did everyone else in the house. One of the parties' goals included romantic interactions, so I had Brock and Natalie do those--none of the residents had initiated any romantic interactions, but I was really shipping Brock and Natalie and used this as an excuse to push them together. They quickly took things from there!

## Rotations 4-6: A Household of One's Own

Brock and Natalie moved out of the original household and into their own small house at the beginning of rotation 4. Natalie still visited the original household to do things like clean the toilet and hook up with newcomer Lancelot Royal. The latter was because I briefly installed Wicked Whims, and the sims took the opportunity to go wild. This continued when I was playing Brock and Natalie's household: she autonomously walked out of the house, approached a random guy walking by, and tried for a baby with him! She got pregnant and gave birth to her first child, Caleb, in rotation five. Amidst all the chaos of the round she managed to get actual sensible things done, too, like maximizing her Charisma skill and having bake sales for the foods Brock baked.

In rotation 5 Natalie spent Harvestfest celebrating at the original household and was able to witness Naomi proposing to Jude, Natalie's brother. (She also hooked up with Jaxson Hill, like almost every other female sim that rotation.) Once it was time to play their household, Brock and Natalie also got engaged! They were the first sims in the save to get married, holding the ceremony at the newly added Pirate Wedding Park. The weather turned to a storm partway through and they each had the co-parent of their extramarital children in the audience but the chaos didn't stop them from happily feeding each other cake and relishing in the day. She got pregnant again after the wedding, and showed up to Maci and Lancelot's wedding heavily pregnant and wearing a sheet mask.

## Rotations 7-9: Expanding the Family

Natalie started the seventh rotation by attending both the neighborhood's Spookyfest party and then her brother Jude's wedding to Naomi. These nice little gatherings didn't hint at the chaos to come! Natalie had given birth to twins, Finn and Fiona, between rotations, and at the beginning of their household's seventh round she was soon pregnant again. She then gave birth to *another* set of twins, Hank and Harrison, bringing the household to two adults, one toddler, and four babies. Thankfully at that point she was employed on the Gardening career track and they had enough money to add a second story to the house: clearly they were going to need the space sooner rather than later!

Finn and Fiona aged up at the beginning of rotation 8, followed by Hank and Harrison, and I spent the next couple of rotations micromanaging for my life. I had a few Toddler gatherings for good measure, including play dates with Brock's other children--his daughter with Naomi, Brielle, and his son with Siobhan Fyres, Roger, were both also Toddlers! Phoebe and Brock both rolled up the want for another baby in the midst of the chaos, resulting in the birth of their youngest child, Phoebe, in rotation 9.

Natalie put in several appearances while I was playing her brother Jude's household during rotation 9, but the results were mixed: once while she was on the Diner lot Jude tracked her down to yell at her for no reason, but then later in the week she and Brock had a cute little mealtime date to the Diner. Later on Natalie went to his house for a gathering, only to promptly get yelled at by Jude's oldest child, Avery, once she got there, and *then* Natalie witnessed Brock propositioning Siobhan and got upset.

When it was time to actually play her household, though, everything started out smoothly--she spent a lot of time happily bonding with her kids, and as mentioned she gave birth to her sixth child, Phoebe. Natalie's oldest, Caleb, aged up to a Child, and the household got to have Winterfest, which of course meant a day full of family and friends. Unfortunately, the day after Phoebe's birth Brock died of Laughter, and Grim rejected Natalie's pleas for Brock. Natalie grieved hard--she mostly held it together while taking care of the kids, but had some tearful baths and of course spent time crying over Brock's grave in the backyard and staring at Brock's beloved easel. But life had to go on, and the rotation included a few more birthdays (Finn & Fiona becoming Children and Phoebe becoming a Toddler) and they ended it on New Year's Eve, when Brock's ghost literally put in his first appearance during the New Year's Countdown in a moment that almost brought me to tears.

Natalie was invited over to Maci and Lancelot's house for several parties, and in the process she and Maci officially became Best Friends. She also got in plenty more bonding time with her kids and also with her nieces and nephews, including helping Maci's son, Elliott, with his homework. (She also hooked up with Lancelot during a gathering at Mabel and Charles Seagraves' house, but we don't need to talk about that.)

## Rotations 10-13: Mother of Many Morgans

In rotation 10 Natalie put in several appearances at the first two households, which gave her the chance to do all sorts of things, including wowing a few of the kids with her soccer skills one day at the original household and showing up to a gathering in her underwear courtesy deleted cc on another. She also got to autonomously help her fellow gardener, Leia, with the original household's garden and was on hand to witness Leia propose to Jaxson.

Natalie also got in plenty of bonding time with Discover University playable Cameron Fletcher. I was keeping an eye on them to see if their friendship would turn romantic at any point. It did, though not because of them--the Random Occurrences Wheel gave Natalie the "Woohoo RIGHT NOW" roll, and since Natalie and Cameron had such a high friendship they were able to hook up pretty quickly. Even though they just did a regular woohoo, Natalie still got pregnant from it (which, fittingly, she discovered on Spookyfest--trick or treat indeed!) and she gave birth to her final child, Stella. Natalie and Cameron never rolled any romantic wants for each other or hooked up again, so I didn't push the matter. (I was relieved, actually, given that there wasn't any room!)

Natalie also started autonomously painting during rotation 10, which touched me since that was Brock's favorite thing to do. (In fact, his ghost painted several more pieces for us during his appearances!) Natalie and Brock also got to spend a lot of sweet time together during his visits, and I got to spend that time being sentimental about them. And of course there were more birthdays--this time it was the second set of twins, Hank and Harrison, joining their older siblings in Childhood.

In less wholesome news, Natalie was at Lancelot and Maci's house on Harvestfest, and it was Lancelot flirting with Natalie right in front of Maci that made me scrap my original plan for them to divorce at the end of the rotation and have Maci divorce him ON THE SPOT. In front of their kids and nieces and nephews. Oops? (But Natalie was also on hand to clap about Maci and Sofia kissing and being qt a few days later, so that's good!) (She was also on hand to witness Lancelot, an organized crime member, handing Naomi, the mayor, a huge briefcase full of cash, which???) Other rotation 10 anecdotes include Natalie inviting Ricardo Tellez to lunch at the Genesis Diner and then daring him to go streaking in the snow. She and the kids also spent some time at Siobhan and Ricardo's house on Winterfest, which culminated in Natalie getting slap pranked by Father Winter. And of course she was in attendance for Siobhan and Ricardo's wedding later in the week.

Rotation 11 had some nice moments, including Natalie attending the usual round of family gatherings and parties, and absolute chaos, including Natalie witnessing Naomi Royal's temporary death at Jude & Avery's birthday party and also Natalie possibly flirting with Charles in front of Mabel and thus being the reason Mabel died from rage. I tried to have Natalie plead with Grim on Mabel's behalf, but again Grim told her to kick rocks. Speaking of deceased sims, Natalie asked Brock to be her boyfriend and she also wanted to get engaged to him but couldn't since he wasn't a member of the household. Her household's week also included the usual round of birthdays and family bonding moments. Natalie also spent time at Maci and Sofia's house (where she watched them woohoo in the closet???) and kept popping by the police precinct while Maci was at work. She and her kids were also invited to Maci and Sofia's wedding, of course.

Rotation 12's photos were lost, but Natalie started rotation 13 by putting in a few appearances at Jude and Naomi's house, showing off her Adult look, short new hairstyle included, while she was at it. Sadly, she was also there when one of Jude's cats passed away. Rotation 13 at the Morgan household was pretty typical, though they did get to host Summerfest, which was cute to see. Natalie also hosted her final Toddler party--Stella aged up to a Child during rotation 13! Hank and Harrison aged up to Teens soon after. Later the family all went to the Genesis Diner, along with Hank's love interest, who Natalie seemed to approve of judging by how she cheered on their first kiss. Natalie also tended her flowers, made flower arrangements, and hooked up with Charles in the closet because a rotation just isn't complete without an ill-advised closet woohoo. (Later in the rotation she decided one wasn't enough and hooked up with Ricardo in *his* closet, too.) She rang in the New Year at the Fitzhugh house and visited her sisters, Lara and Marie, several times, including once when Marie's love interest Arjun hit on her.

In rotation 14 Natalie and her kids were able to take a trip to Granite Falls.