Brock Redmond

### Children

Brielle Royal, Roger Fyres, Finn Morgan, Fiona Morgan, Hank Morgan, Harrison Morgan, Phoebe Morgan

### Grandchildren

Astrid Royal, Nova Royal, Ernest Royal, Brooke Fyres, Hikaru Morgan-Behr, Kaoru Morgan-Behr, Haruhi Morgan-Behr, Reid Bloom, Ali Bloom, Teddy Bloom, Zachary Morgan, Devon Morgan, Tory Tilo

## Stats

### Career

None

Brock is one of the six sims who founded the Build A City Challenge. He started out living in the Original Household until he, along with Natalie Morgan, moved out and established the first additional household in the save. Brock is an easygoing and caring character and a great dad--as he should be, given how many children he (mostly autonomously) had! His two favorite hobbies were fishing and painting.

## Original Save

Brock Redmond was from my Redmond Legacy. He was one of the children of the a member of generation four. I really liked him and his twin sister, Maci, 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 1-3: Starting the Challenge

Brock was added to the save at the beginning of the Challenge. He initially worked on his Fishing and Painting skills, maxing the Painting skill during week three, and completed the five Masterpiece paintings needed to start unlocking a Museum for the save during the second week.

Brock 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 4-7: Moving Out and (Autonomously) Procreating

Brock and Natalie moved out of the original household and into their own small house at the beginning of rotation 4. Things were somewhat cute and functional--Brock kept working on his Angling Ace aspiration and also started working on maxing out the Baking skill. He would bake items and Natalie would stock a yard sale table and sell the resulting pastries for some extra money.

But this was when I (briefly) had Wicked Whims in the game, and the sims were never the same again. During one visit, Naomi and Brock autonomously hooked up and Naomi became pregnant. Later on Jude paid an autonomous visit and raged at Brock! As if that wasn't enough, Natalie autonomously walked out of the house, approached a random guy walking by, and tried for a baby with him! Naomi gave birth to her and Brock's daughter, Brielle, and Natalie gave birth to the result of her one-afternoon stand, Caleb, in rotation five. Brielle lived with Naomi but she and Brock frequently visited each other, and Brock was a devoted stepfather to Caleb. Through all the chaos Natalie and Brock's relationship never wavered, and Brock proposed to her at the start of their fifth round.
Their fifth round had a few more notable developments--Brock maxed his baking skill, he formed a bromance with Lancelot Royal and... oh yeah... he autonomously hooked up with Siobhan Fyres and got her pregnant. She gave birth to their son, Roger Fyres, that week. As with Brielle, Roger lived with his mother but he and Brock frequently visited each other.

Brock and Natalie were the first sims in the save to get married, holding the ceremony at the newly added Pirate Wedding Park during the sixth rotation. The weather turned to a storm partway through and they each had the co-parent of their outside the relationship children in the audience, but the chaos didn't stop them from happily feeding each other cake and relishing in the day. Natalie got pregnant after the wedding and gave birth to their first set of twins, Fiona and Finn, later in the rotation. When I loaded the household for their seventh rotation Natalie wanted another baby, so I had her get pregnant again, and she gave birth to their *second* set of twins, Hank and Harrison near the end of their week. Due to my age ranges at the time all four of the twins were briefly babies at the same time!

## Rotations 8-9: Too Much of a Good Thing

Perhaps daunted by how many children he had, Brock's out of wedlock hookup in rotation 8 was with an Elder this time (Mila Munch, to be precise).

We made it through Brock and Natalie's eighth week with incredible amounts of micromanaging--by the end of it they had five Toddlers in residence, plus Brock's other two Toddler children as frequent visitors, and Natalie *still* wanted another baby. (AND Brock still managed to max out Charisma!) Brock was an attentive and affectionate parent to all the kids. While I was playing the other households he got to spend some time with his friends, Lancelot Royal and Charles Seagraves, and he also got to bond with his sister Maci's children.

At the start of rotation 9 Brock and Natalie were seen at the Genesis Diner, where they shared a mistletoe kiss. Later Brock visited Brielle at her house and bonded with her as well as her sister Avery. During another visit at the Royals' house Brock propositioned Siobhan right in front of Natalie (and in front of Siobhan's significant other, Ricardo Tellez, who was somehow oblivious), and later they hooked up in the shower, though fortunately she didn't get pregnant this time. (They had another encounter at the Morgans' house, where Siobhan propositioned Brock and then immediately left the house.)

Natalie must not have been too upset, though, because by the time I went back to their household they were as in love as ever. I let them try for another baby at the beginning of the rotation, and she gave birth to their final child together, Phoebe, in the middle of the week. Brielle and Roger kept visiting, and now that they were both Children it was extra sweet to watch them interact with Brock and with their flock of Toddler siblings. Brock and Natalie were also able to celebrate Winterfest at their house and were the only household members to receive gifts from Father Winter.

Unfortunately, within hours of Phoebe's birth everything changed--Brock's mood flipped to Hysterical, but I got too distracted by everything else going on in the house to remember to have him calm himself down in the mirror. He died from laughter early that afternoon, with Ricardo, Natalie, and Harrison witnessing (and Fiona arriving at the last minute). Natalie tried to plead with the Grim Reaper to spare him, but Grim rejected her. The save didn't have a graveyard yet, I set up a gravesite for him in the backyard. Brock made his first ghostly appearance during the New Year's Eve countdown, which made me very emotional.

## Rotations 10 and 11: The Ghost Era

Brock put in more appearances as a ghost as the game went on. On his first night in rotation 10 he made several paintings and bonded with Fiona, who was the only one of the kids awake at the time. During his second ghostly appearance in rotation 10, Natalie shared her pregnancy news with him and he was supportive. They had some romantic and playful interactions. He also painted the fisherman painting, which was all too fitting given his Angling Ace aspiration and continues to have a prized place in the house.

In rotation 11 Brock spent his first ghostly visit bonding with most of his kids, including playing dolls with Fiona and Hank, hugging Finn, and watching Phoebe sleep. During his second visit Natalie asked him to be her boyfriend and he accepted, but she wasn't able to propose since he wasn't a member of the household. He and Natalie ended the week with a slow dance.

Unfortunately I've lost his household's photos from rotation 12, and he doesn't appear in their rotation 13 photos, so his ghost must have faded somewhere along the way.