Fong Russo

* Elder
* Adult

● Lazy

Rose Russo (daughter)

Jasmine Russo (daughter)

Zoe Lawan (fling)

Mary Olsson (fling)

Sade Angeni (fling)

Fong Russo was one of the first 28 sims to live in the newly named Revale.

## **Before Revale**

Fong Russo was a kid of many talents, including cuisine, fashion, style, organization and cleaning, and most important of all; he had an innate ability to smooth talk other people and make friends quickly, which also helped him get his way whenever he wanted, and more importantly for him, get the girls he wanted.

Fong grew up with his family and some of his relatives, so there was always a big variety of people to learn from and to study, a big pool of choices for hobbies and interests he wanted to try, and an enormous support system for whenever he failed or got hurt. Fong always appreciated this, and he always felt very blessed to have the family that he had.

While growing up, Fong found his passion in fashion trends and style, and sometimes he wondered if he was too obsessed with it because of al the girls he dated, maybe a part of his brain had been taught to notice people's hairstyles and clothing choices. Either way, he decided he wanted to open his own hair salon. However, although his parents were very supportive of his decision, his father convinced it would be a good idea to still go to college and study something so he could have a degree, or as he liked to call it, a back-up plan, and Fong agreed.

Fong went to a private university, which he paid nothing for because his uncle got him in by pulling some strings in his job, and majored in political science, which he enjoyed because he had always loved learning new things and he was a very curious teen, but he had no intention in dedicating his life to this career path.

After Fong graduated college, he started working in beauty and hair salons around the town, learning the ropes of the business and perfecting his techniques over time so he could eventually open the best business that anybody had ever seen.

## **Moving to Revale**

Unfortunately for Fong, opening his own hair salon wasn't as easy as he hoped it would be; especially because he had been in the industry for a while, and he had witnessed the lack of opportunities in the business. There were too many salons and boutiques around the city, that it would be really hard, and mostly luck, to have his own business pick up quickly and get the results that he wanted. He considered maybe using that political science degree, after all.

One day, as he was picking up some materials from the post office, he met a girl that was pretty much like him; a pretty young woman with a passion for life, romance, and pleasure, and no desire for settling down or establishing any kind of roots anywhere at all. This was the perfect opportunity for Fong to have a short fling with someone he liked and enjoyed the company of, without thinking about the perfect escape, because there wasn't any. This woman was Steffi Hiatt.

During his short encounter with Steffi, he learnt that she came from a town called Revale, and according to Steffi, it had just gotten revamped, renamed, and kind of repopulated, and business was not good for her the moment, although she was getting by. Hearing this sparked the idea of asking Steffi how the beauty industry was in such town, and her answer sparked an even crazier idea. Steffi said that it was pretty much inexistent; beauty had not been a big priority for the people in Revale for a while because of the events that had happened in the past years, but now that things were going back to normal, maybe whoever started working in that area, would start doing really good.

And that's how Fong moved to Revale. Fong wasn't sure if he would be able to afford to buy or to rent a house or an apartment in Revale, but when he arrived, he came to the surprise that the Mayor of the town was actually giving houses for free to whomever wanted to live in Revale. Apparently, the town was struggling to stay alive, and they would almost pay people to come and live there.

Fong settled in his new home, and started his business right away. It wasn't as successful at first, but with time, it picked up and started doing well.

Fong made many friends very quickly, and he also found some interesting women he hoped he could have special encounters with. The first lady he brought home was Kimi Specter, who he had a very casual and fun connection with. They would go on a few dates together, she would go to his house, and he would go to hers. Even then, sometimes he would call Steffi and invite her over, or the other way around.

After that, he met another interesting woman named Zoe Lawan, who was also a single sim who liked romance and avoided commitment, just like Kimi and Steffi.

For a while, Fong enjoyed his life, working in his business and making good money, rotationally seeing Steffi, Kimi, and Zoe, relaxing in his house and walking around the neighbourhood.

Things started to change for Fong when he met Mary Olsson, a woman who also enjoyed being single. However, things for Mary changed quickly, and Fong got to witness it. Mary quickly called things off with Fong because she had found a man whom she wanted to be with, and whom she actually wanted to get married with. This wasn't painful nor shocking for Fong, as their fling only lasted for a few days. However, things after that only continued to change.

A while later, Fong received the news that Kimi Specter was getting married and she wanted to try to be faithful to her husband, so they had to stop seeing each other for a while, which didn't last forever because Kimi would still call him from time to time, even inside her marriage. However, the real story, that Fong didn't know, was that Kimi had actually gotten pregnant after one of their flings, but because she was getting married to Stefan Wu, and she felt guilty about her decisions, she made a hard choice and never told anyone. Kimi gave birth to two babies; Octavia and Trevor Specter, but before she could even hold them for the first time, she gave them up for adoption, and they started their lives in the children's home of Revale. Kimi never told neither Fong nor Stephan, hoping it would remain a secret she could take to her grave. Either way, all Fong knew about this was that Kimi had changed her mind and didn't want to see him anymore.

Not too long after, Zoe Lawan met up with Fong to give her the news that she was pregnant. Fong felt a hint of fear, but he hadn't seen it coming when Zoe got him off the hook before he could even speak. Zoe told Fong that she didn't trust him as a parent, and that she would take care of their baby on her own. She allowed Fong to be in the kid's life, but she didn't want Fong to share the responsibility, when she wasn't sure he'd be able to. To their surprise, Zoe gave birth to twins, Vivian and Jack Lawan.

This event changed Fong's mindset a little bit, as the feeling of being a father and not having been trusted with the responsibility of caring for them struck him with feelings he had never experienced. Still, he had no desire to marry Zoe nor move in with them so they could become a family. A part of him still wanted to be free, like he had always been. Therefore, that's how things were for a while.

However, things changed once again, when he took a look around town and saw all his friends pairing up, getting married and having children, settling down and rejecting the single life. That was when he came to an agreement with a special someone; Steffi Hiatt, the woman he had met long ago, the girl who had introduced him to Revale in the first place, and the only woman who understood and accepted him, and agreed with his lifestyle choices and decisions, and the only woman he continued seeing from time to time, and had never had problems with.

Fong and Steffi, both being romance sims without the desire of getting married and starting a family, but with now a pressure of doing something with their lives, decided to move in together, and live as a couple, with an open relationship to see other people, without questions, jealousy or explanations needed, and it worked.

In the beginning of their time together, Fong had a few affairs with Kimi Specter, who was trying hard to remain faithful to her husband and change her ways so she could have a simpler life, but still failed in multiple occasions. He also had a one-time-encounter with Sade Angeni, who was having a hard time after her divorce.

Soon after than, Steffi's unexpected pregnancy occurred, but with both of them getting older and having lived together for a long time, it was only logical to wait for that baby with joy. This time, Fong didn't feel the fear he had felt with Zoe's pregnancy, because he knew he had Steffi by his side, and he trusted her like he had never trusted anyone before. It was surprising when Steffi gave birth, and realized they were having twins, again. Steffi delivered Rose and Jasmine Russo, and they prepared to give them the best of the best so they could all grow up in a family.

Unexpectedly for Fong, his business took a turn, and it stopped doing as well as it had once, but he continued pushing through and hoping he would still earn enough to maintain his family.

However, Fong and Steffi still lived a chill, happy life with their two daughters, Rose and Jasmine, thanks to Steffi's stable job and income.

Fong and Steffi soon realized both their daughters were becoming two wild, opinionated and genuine girls, and Fong loved seeing them as they grew up, which sometimes made him guilty for not being as close with his other two children, Vivian and and Jack. Still, Fong never felt the need to get married to Steffi, which was an agreement they still had. They had a good life, they lived together, they shared income, and they were getting older, and neither of them saw the point.

When Rose and Jasmine left for college, Fong and Steffi decided to sell their house and apply to live in the newly built Revale's Retirement Home. Fong took the money he had in his bank account and what he had earned by selling his old home, and divided it between his four children; Rose, Jasmine, Vivian, and Jack.

Fong and Steffi died not too long after, at the same time, both at 72 days old of age. They were both buried together in the Revale's Town Memorial.

Fong and Steffi's couple photoFong greeting SadeFong and Steffi in the retirement homeJasmine and Rose visiting their parentsFong dyingFong and Steffi's graves in the graveyard