Maci Redmond

### Grandchildren

Khlalil Redmond, Katelynn Redmond, Stephen Redmond, Willa Seagraves, Artemis Tellez, Hudson Tanielu, Ashley Tanielu, Tobias Tanielu

## Stats

### Career

Detective

Maci 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 Lancelot Royal, moved out during the fifth rotation and formed the Redmond Household. Maci is a thoughtful sim who looks out for and takes care of the people around her and always looks a little worried. Her signature color is blue.

## Original Save

Maci Redmond is from my Redmond Legacy. She was one of the children of the a member of generation four. I really liked her and her twin brother, Brock, and when I was planning the BACC I quickly decided they were the two sims from the Redmond family I would have as founders. During the sixth rotation I imported their cousin, Charles Seagraves, and his wife and son as well. They are the only other sims from that save in the BACC.

## Rotations 1-4: Starting the Challenge

Maci was added to the save at the beginning of the Challenge. She carried out one of the most important early lifts when she unlocked electricity at the beginning of the third week. Maci also spent her time befriending her fellow residents and of course attended all of the parties that Naomi Royal threw to unlock townies.

While Maci got along well with Jude Morgan, and they even hooked up during rotation four, Jude ultimately ended up with Naomi. However, Lancelot joined the household during the fourth rotation, and he and Maci immediately hit it off. They became boyfriend and girlfriend near the end of their week, and moved out together and formed their own household at the beginning of rotation 5.

## Rotation 5-9: Maci's First Marriage

Maci spent time visiting the Original Household during their fifth rotation turn, including celebrating the save's first Harvestfest there. She and Lancelot later hosted the save's Winterfest and New Year's Eve gatherings at their new home. Maci also maxed out her Fitness skill during the fifth rotation, completing the final step needed to add a Pool to the save.

During another fifth rotation visit to the Original Household Maci hooked up with Jaxson Hill, just like most of the other female sims, and as a result gave birth to Elliott Redmond. Unfazed, Lancelot proposed to Maci during the beginning of their fifth rotation week, and they got married at the beginning of their sixth rotation week. Maci gave birth to their first child together, Ginny Redmond later that rotation.

Unfortunately, the sixth rotation is also when Lancelot's Jealous trait began making itself known. He would have angry outbursts for seemingly no reason, particularly directed at Maci. Since they otherwise got along well as usual, I overlooked it for the time being.

Maci and Lancelot again hosted Winterfest and New Year's Eve gatherings at their home during the seventh rotation. Maci ended said rotation by giving birth to their second child together, Isaac Redmond.

Maci put in several appearances at the other households during the eighth rotation, including bringing Elliott to Brock and Natalie Morgan's house so that Elliott could meet his cousins. Despite already having three children and having one of the smallest houses in the save, Maci became pregnant yet again at the start of her household's eighth week, and gave birth to her final child, Nina Redmond. Maci and Lancelot also hosted yet another holiday gathering, this one being Spookyfest.

Maci didn't show any interest in having more kids, but she did autonomously congratulate Naomi after Naomi gave birth to her third child in rotation 9. Maci is also the first person (after Brock) Natalie told about her fourth pregnancy in rotation 9, a testament to how strong their friendship was becoming. Maci celebrated Winterfest at Brock and Natalie's house that rotation, which became extra meaningful since Brock passed away the next day.

Maci's friendship with Siobhan Fyres seemed to become stronger in the ninth rotation as well, including Siobhan inviting Maci to dinner at the Genesis Diner. Otherwise Maci spent a lot of her ninth rotation week taking care of her four Toddler children. She and Lancelot also hosted a family gathering and then birthday parties for Elliott and Ginny. This was mostly all well and good, except that Lancelot's Jealousy was becoming notably worse (thanks in part to the Have Some Personality Please! mod)--he reacted angrily to Maci just talking to Siobhan during one visit, and to Maci officially becoming Best Friends with Natalie during another. This had been bothering me ever since it started, but really intensified during this rotation. (Especially since Maci became the first sim to reject a romantic overture in the whole save when Ricardo Tellez tried to hit on her!) At this point I was still determined to ride things out and maybe find a mod that would tone down the Jealousy, since Lancelot and Maci were otherwise working well together. Their family got one last nice day at the end of their ninth rotation, when they all went to Pirate Wedding Park for the day.

## Rotation 10: Divorce & A New Love

Rotation 10 was when I decided that Lancelot's behavior was so bad that I didn't want Maci to be stuck with him anymore. Not only did he spend the Original Household's rotation yelling at Maci from another room for interacting with someone else, they went out for lunch with a group of other sims and he spent the entire meal yelling at her every time she would interact with someone, to the point where he didn't consume his food or drink. This culminated in him slapping her when Ricardo flirted with her in front of him. (Slapping when witnessing cheating is truly one of my least favorite features in the game.)

At the time I was using ophelia-nygmos's Random Occurrences Gameplay Wheels, and during rotation 10 Jude and Naomi got a divorce roll. I didn't want to divorce them, though, so ultimately I decided to have them roll something else and use that divorce roll for Lancelot and Maci.

While thinking about Maci's romantic options, it occurred to me that she might be a good match for Sofia Bjergsen, who at that point was living in the Original Household with her two daughters. I thought their personalities would be compatible and that Sofia's easygoing vibe would be an especially welcome change for Maci to deal with. At first I invited Sofia over to spend time with Maci, but since Lancelot was still freaking out every time she talked to other people (including their *children* at this point) I then sent Maci and Sofia to the Original Household to build their relationship there. They were also able to spend time at Maci's house when Lancelot was at work. During one such visit they not only shared their first kiss but also their first woohoo.

My plan was to keep Maci and Lancelot married until the end of the week, then divorce them and move Lancelot out and Sofia in at the end of the rotation. That way I could play Lancelot for the entire week and keep his aging in line with everyone else, rather than moving him out partway through the week and playing a few days with him separately, and I could also avoid having them divorce partway through the week but keeping them in the same house and having things be awkward. The plan changed, however, when Lancelot flirted with Natalie on Harvestfest, right in front of Maci. I couldn't deal with it anymore, so I had Maci divorce Lancelot right then and there. Unfortunately, several of their kids and Natalie's kids were witness to all of this.

I ended up just keeping Lancelot in the house for the rest of the week, so while he was sad and it was kind of awkward I decided that he deserved it and just focused on continuing Maci and Sofia's relationship. Sofia and Maci were able to be open with their romance now (including a hilarious moment when they had to climb out of the shower and through Mabel Seagraves and Cameon Fletcher, who struck up a conversation in the bathroom while Maci and Sofia were woohooing in the shower.) Maci proposed to Sofia near the end of the week (while Nina danced nearby) and she accepted. Later in the rotation Maci, Sofia, and Sofia's daughter Diane were seen having lunch twice at the Genesis Diner. She and Sofia were also seen having a seemingly tense conversation with Natalie at the Fyres' house on Winterfest. And she had a conversation with Jaxson while standing right between Siobhan and Ricardo at the altar as they tried to get married.

## Rotations 11-: New Job, New House, New Household

In Rotation 11 I built a new house for Maci, Sofia, and all six of their children and moved them in. Sofia won the lottery a few days into their week, at which point I was able to finish off decorating their house, among other things. I also started Maci on her first job in the save--a slot in the Detective career opened in rotation 10, and I decided to have Maci take it. (It felt extra fitting since Lancelot had taken the open slot in the Criminal track. In fact, he was one of the witnesses at Maci's first ever crime scene.)

Sofia and Maci got married at the end of their eleventh rotation. It was a rainy day but I was so determined to get them married that I built an ugly roof over the wedding area in the park just so that I wouldn't have to play through another stormy wedding. Not that Maci and Sofia let a little rain stand between them and having a perfect day, anyway! Seeing Maci so happy on her wedding day after everything she had been through was one of the most heartwarming moments in the BACC for me, for sure. Maci aged up to an Adult at the end of the day.

Maci was also seen out and about at the other households during rotation 11, perhaps most memorably during the Fyres' week, when she was crying at the Romance Festival and then showed up at their doorstep in the middle of the night, crying again. (I still had Slice of Life in my game and she was on her period.)

Rotation 13 was a fun and busy one in the Redmond-Bjergsen house as most of the kids aged up to Teens (Maci's oldest children, Elliott and Ginny, had aged up in Rotation 12, but those photos are lost.) Maci spent the week spending time with her kids and wife and friends, and also got an active day of work, featuring one of the save's most memorable moments--the teenage suspect she was interrogating took a selfie while being questioned. Maci also joined her kids for Harvestfest with Lancelot and his second wife, Kiersten Hill, at their home. She was also seen talking with Lancelot and Emilia Fitzhugh at the Karaoke Restaurant.