The Family Tapestry Legacy Challenge
I created this challenge to encourage realistic family gameplay, both for simmers that enjoy that and for simmers that don’t! To me, playing with my sims for generations is the most rewarding way to play… but as time passes, it’s easy to lose inspiration. Hopefully, this challenge can give you more ideas for storylines and drama that you can create while playing long legacies! I also love cozy gameplay, and I hope that this challenge inspires you to embrace the warmth and coziness in the sims.
Special thinks to @imjennx for reading through this challenge for me!
Overarching Rules
Feel free to add plot twists and drama as you see fit that works with the rules
Starting traits are allowed to change through your gameplay if they will still allow your sims to complete the goals
If you have a “traditional” career, try to complete all daily tasks
Take family pictures and have a wall of them in each generation’s house/apartment
Have at least one “close” dynamic in each generation
Unless otherwise specified, each generation can start with a small loan from the previous generation
Events:
Hold funerals/memorial events for sims that die (at least for the important ones)
Birthday parties for at least every heir
One family reunion event per generation!! Invite all the family sims you can and make it your own!
Generation One: The Seeds of a Legacy
Color: Green
World: Henford-on-Bagley
Starting Traits: Loves the outdoors, Good
Career: Combination
Must do: errands for town, farming, competitions (cottage living)
Can add any combination of: odd jobs, crafting, plopsy, canning, food stalls, competitions (horse ranch), any other non-career to make money from other packs you have
Do not add: writing, creating videos, streaming
Children: At least 3
Challenges:
Start with $0
Own a farm of any size (can use cheats to buy it) with at least one cow, one chicken shed, and one llama (can have more)
Use at least half of produce each week for your own cooking; sell the rest at least once a week
Enter each week’s competitions in Henford-on-Bagley
Meet your partner at one of the competitions - they have to be someone with either good or amazing compatibility
You don’t have to marry the first person with good/amazing compatibility you meet
If you have a few other partners before meeting “the one” thats okay
After partner moves in, have at least one child before getting married
Go on one picnic a week with the family
House can be max 3 bedrooms
“Retire” after having $100,000 in household income
You were dropped in Henford on Bagley as a young adult. You have no idea where you came from, but you pay no mind to that mystery! With 0$ to your name, you have no time to figure it out. You start on a sizeable plot of land and spend your days cultivating a garden - you grow food and own cows, chickens, and llamas that produce items, both to eat and to sell in the town. To supplement your income, you take up running errands for the townspeople, participating in competitions, and anything else that feels right.
Everyone in Henford on Bagely loves you, and you love them. Before long, you meet someone at one of the weekly competitions who you click with instantly - and they are the one. They have the same interests as you - they love nature and animals - and you have a whirlwind romance. They move in with you and before long, your family expands even more - with a child! If you/your partner can get pregnant, it is a surprise. If not, it is planned. The wedding is postponed for a few years, but nobody minds - both of you are excited to have a baby.
After a few years, once your child has grown into a toddler, you elope with your partner in a private ceremony with just a few of your closest friends. Over time, your farm and your family grow, but your house stays small - some may call it cramped, but you call it cozy. It takes years (over which time you have a few more children), but eventually you earn enough money to stop working so hard. You have grown old, and you retire happily with your partner.
Generation Two: The Heart of a City
Color: Pink
World: San Myshuno
Starting Traits: Bookworm, Loner
Career: Romance Consultant
Children: 1
Challenges:
Do not have any close friends as a child/teenager - only acquaintances and never attend prom
Get a job as a romance consultant and move to San Myshuno
Attend every festival in the city (all neighborhoods) and make at least one close friend at each festival
Don’t force it, you can have acquaintances too - make the close friends make sense for your sim’s personality
EITHER:
Meet your partner while going to karaoke for the first time
Meet your partner as the last time you go on a date with for the “7 Wild Dates” challenge (you can cheat to get this challenge if you want) - you don’t have to go on each date with the same sim, but you end up with the sim you go on the last date with
Get engaged at the romance festival the next time it is in town (optionally paint a reference picture of your partner)
Get pregnant the night of your wedding/adopt a child within 3 sim days
If you choose rotational gameplay/want to play with other family sims - make at least one of the heir’s siblings unmarried + a player
You grew up witnessing the immense love that your parents had for one another. It was beautiful… but unfortunately, you didn’t experience the same kind of love growing up. You were a bit anxious around people, which caused you to withdraw, and you didn’t make a lot of friends in school. You still believed in love, but you chose to read about it instead of experience it.
Your parents were never too big on college, having not been themselves, so when you decided to skip out on university and apply for jobs right away, they didn’t mind - and you were lucky enough to get a job as a romance consultant! The day you aged into a young adult, your parents gave you some money to set you up and you moved to San Myshuno to start your new career.
Moving to the big city as an introvert was hard for you, but you force yourself out of your shell more and more every single day. You attend festivals in each neighborhood in the city, and each time you do, you meet new people - and you end up having a small group of friends that you can rely on.
Choose your path…
One night, you and your friends head to the local karaoke bar. It’s another new experience for you, but you absolutely love it - and you catch someone’s eye. Another sim comes up to you after your performance, and the two of you spend the night talking, and end it in a kiss - your first kiss. Before the night ends, you exchange numbers. It only takes a few more dates for you to get close.
You receive a crazy phone call out of the blue one day asking you to be on a dating reality show called “7 Wild Dates.” Your gut instinct is to refuse… but this might be the closest you get to living out the plot of one of your romance books. Before you can think more of it, you say yes, and suddenly you are rushing to find a date. You end up going on all 7 dates and winning the challenge… and after the challenge is over, you look over at the sim you won with, and realize that you found love.
The next time the romance festival is in town, you and your new partner attend. You paint a picture of your partner there, testing out your skills, and buy a commemorative t-shirt. Before the night is over, your partner surprises you (or you surprise your partner) by getting down on one knee and proposing in the middle of the festival.
You and your partner have enough money to book a really nice venue in the city, and you invite all of your family to come. It is a lovely event, and afterwards, you and your partner head home - and you have your first woohoo. If you/your partner can get pregnant, you get pregnant that night. If not, you decide to adopt a child within the next 3 sim days.
You have a small family, but a happy one. You, your partner, and your child live in a sizeable apartment in San Myshuno for the rest of your sim lives.
Generation Three: The Scholar’s Path
Color: Yellow
World: Britechester
Starting Traits: Genius, Romantic
Career: Professor
Children: At least 2
Challenges:
Have lots of friends growing up
As a teenager, have your first kiss + woohoo and have multiple (at least 4) romantic relationships, but no committed relationships
Pursue a Psychology degree at one of the Universities, move into a dorm
Have multiple romances and hookups with dormmates and other classmates, get straight A’s (B’s if it’s too hard)
In your third/fourth term, get pregnant/get someone pregnant on accident and move out of the dorms - get a small apartment lot off campus but in Britechester
Don’t commit to partner but become best friends
Go to a bar 3 nights a week after starting your job
Use Cupid’s Corner and go on at least 3 dates before EITHER:
Realizing you are in love with the other parent of your child + get married to them
Meet someone unexpected while waiting for a Cupid’s Corner date and fall in love + get married to them
(For both of these options, you don’t have to rush it - take your time)
Help child(ren) with homework every weeknight once they start going to school
Your parents were big on love, just like your grandparents were. Your uncle/aunt, on the other hand, has a very different opinion on the matter. They’ve been unmarried their whole life, and chose to stay that way. You see how much freedom they have to travel, and how they show up at every family event with a new sim on their arm, and you decide that THAT’S what you want.
Unlike your parent, you are very charismatic - something that comes in handy in high school. You have your first kiss and woohoo early on, and have your fair share of romances before you are a young adult. Because of your personality, people underestimate your intelligence - but the truth is, you just don’t have to work hard to get good grades, and you get into the college of your choosing without breaking a sweat.
In University, you continue leaving your trail of broken hearts while acing every course. You’re living in the dorms, hooking up left and right… but one day it catches up to you. Either you get pregnant or your partner does. You/your partner have to leave the dorms before the next term starts, and you need support - so you move out together and pool your money into buying a tiny apartment in Britechester.
This is the last thing you ever wanted - to be tied down. Luckily, your partner doesn’t pressure you into starting a real relationship. You and your partner continue attending classes and work together to graduate while your child is growing up, and you grow close, becoming best friends - you can’t deny your compatibility, but you still refuse to commit to anything. Afterwards, you both land your dream jobs, and you take the excuse to be out of the house as much as possible.
You decide that it’s been long enough, and you decide to get back out there again. You download Cupid’s Corner and start going on dates - at least once a week, and always with your date sleeping over. This time, you’re a lot more careful about protection, and no more mishaps happen.
Choose your path…
After some time, your partner starts going on dates as well. You run into them one night as they are leaving, and you are shocked - all of a sudden (though it’s not really sudden, is it?) you see them as more than a friend. The jealousy you feel is a surprise to you, and you can’t make sense of it - without realizing it, you fell for your best friend. You delete Cupid’s Corner that night and when they come home, you confess your feelings.
Eventually, your child’s other parent starts dating as well. You are happy for them, and continue your dates. One night, as you are waiting at the bar for a Cupid’s Corner date, someone unexpected walks in and you are immediately hit with a wave of attraction. Forgetting about your scheduled date, you walk up to the sim and introduce yourself, then spend the night with them instead. You bring them home, as usual… but when you wake up, you find yourself wanting them to say. The feeling shocks you - you’ve never felt this way about any sim before. The other sim thought it was a one night stand, and are about to leave, but you stop them and confess how you are feeling.
Your chosen partner feels the same way about you. You finally realize why your parents - and grandparents - love to love each other so much. You and your partner get married after just a few years and live together in Britechester while you commute to your job as a Professor at your alma mater. After a lovely life, career, and having a few children to boot, you retire once you become an elder.
Generation Four: The Artist’s Canvas
Color: Blue
World: Brindleton Bay
Starting Traits: Art lover, Clumsy
Career: Painter (after trying a few others - see Challenges)
Children: At least 2
Challenges:
Get straight D’s all through elementary school and high school
Go to a museum at least once as a toddler, then once per sim week for your entire life (take your children on each trip when you are older)
Have a strict dynamic with at least one parent as a child/teen (this can change once your sim is older if you see fit)
Move to Brindleton Bay the day you age up into young adult
Ignore all family calls/visits for the next few years and:
Have multiple careers (at least 3) but quit right before you reach level 3 in each
Make friends in Brindleton Bay, go on dates, find the one and get engaged
Join the painter career, get promoted til level 5 and choose a branch
Take a vacation with partner in Britechester and reconnect with family, then get married there; have kids at any point throughout your sim’s life (before or after marriage)
Take at least 2 beach trips with family in your life
Furnish your home with at least 5 of your own paintings
You grew up in an academic household - one parent a genius professor, and other other equally well-educated and doing great in their career. You, on the other hand, are decidedly not interested in those pursuits. You don’t want to be a disappointment, but you just can’t seem to wrap your mind around school - what speaks to you is art. You love going to museums with your family and with school field trips; in fact, its the only time you enjoy going to school.
As a child, you can tell that your parents still have hope for your grades to improve. But when you are a teenager, things change - every week you get straight D’s on your report card, and you can’t bear to look at your parents’ disappointed face. You have a feeling you will get rejected from University if you apply, so you decide to just not do that. Instead, on your birthday to a young adult, you pack up in the middle of the night and move to Brindleton Bay without telling your parents where you are going.
For a few years, you are estranged from your family. During this time, you try a lot of different things, but nothing you try speaks to you… at least you earn enough money to keep you afloat, and you make a few friends in the process. Over this time, you also create a community in Brindleton Bay, and after going on a few dates, you get engaged to a long-term partner. So really, everything in your life is going swell… except for your career.
One night, after you’ve quit yet another job, your partner brings up the idea of meeting your parents. You refuse to introduce them until you have a stable career and, on a whim, apply for a job as an artist. Fully prepared to hate it, you go into work and - for the first time ever - feel at home in the studio.
It only takes a few months before you have risen in the ranks as a painter, and you finally feel ready to speak to your family again. You and your partner take a few days off from work and book a vacation home in Britechester - just in case your parents kick you out of the house, you’ll need somewhere to stay - and finally go reconnect.
To your relief, they accept you with welcoming arms - they regret ever making you feel pressured to pursue something you didn’t love - and they love your partner too. After hearing you are engaged, they invite the whole family over to Britechester, and you have your wedding in the backyard of your childhood home. You and your partner move back to Brindleton Bay and live a long, full life, and you furnish your home with your own pieces of art.
Generation Five: The Wanderer’s Lens
Color: White
World: Mt. Komorebi
Starting Traits: Adventurous, Loyal
Career: Take photographs with phone or camera and sell them for money
Children: At least 3
Challenges:
Be wild as a toddler and have the motor aspiration as a child
Go to the park at least 2x a week with parent as a child
Once you age into a young adult, move to a new world, then to another new world every season
Set seasons to whatever length you choose, but at least one new world each season
In each world, visit every festival possible
Take regular holidays to visit family (you can choose how often, but I suggest scheduling these on the calendar in advance)
Your partner must have the Adventurous trait; after meeting them, visit 2 more locations (one each for the next 2 seasons) before going back to make it official
Go to Mt. Komoreibi together and climb the mountain, propose on the summit
While in the world, learn to use chopsticks and visit every festival
Buy Kiyomatsu Point and build a home there
Go on a holiday for 3+ days at least once a year (every 4 seasons) for the rest of your life
You grew up on the beach and visiting your grandparents’ house in Britechester. As beautiful as these places are, you couldn’t let go of the nagging feeling that you were meant to be somewhere… else. You were always a wild child - as a toddler, running around the house, and as a child, always in the park and on the monkey bars. Your parents were always running after you, but luckily they didn’t mind - and they didn’t mind when you grew up and decided that instead of pursuing a “traditional” career, you would travel the world as a freelance photographer.
As soon as you are a young adult, you are off - every season, you pack up and move to a different world. It’s a lot of moving, so you learn to travel light - you never purchase a lot of furniture, choosing to purchase each now place furnished and sell everything when you are done, and only bringing your own essentials. At the same time, you make time for family. Every few weeks, you take a holiday, either visiting Britechester or your parents in Brindleton Bay.
Choose your path…
On one of these trips, you reconnect with a childhood friend. It starts off to be friendly and platonic as usual, but over the few days you are in town, it evolves into something more. You both have so many common interests - how had you never noticed before? They love traveling and adventure just as much as you, and they are the first sim who doesn’t get bored while you’re showing them your favorite pictures.
With all the moving, you never really make a strong connection anywhere - until one day you do. You’re taking a picture of an amazing landscape when they catch your eye. You’re only in the world for a few more days, so you figure what the hell - it can’t hurt to introduce yourself. You have a lot in common - they love traveling and adventure just as much as you, and they are the first sim who doesn’t get bored while you’re showing them your favorite pictures.
You move away as scheduled and try your best to forget about them, but for the first time in your life, it’s hard to refocus. Your thoughts are consumed by the sim you met - damn it, who knew that it only takes a few days to fall in love? You already signed leases for the next few weeks in 2 other locations, but after those weeks, you head back to find your sim. You rush to their house and knock on the door, and ask them to be your official partner right there on the porch.
You spend an extra week in the world your partner lives in, exploring and just getting to know them, but soon enough, the travel bug starts to itch again. Luckily, your partner is just as excited to travel the world with you. You have been to almost every place in the world that you can think of, but you have one last place to scratch off your list - Mt. Komorebi. It has been a dream of yours to visit and climb to the summit since you saw pictures in a travel brochure.
You and your partner move to Mt. Komorebi, this time with no intention of leaving quickly because, after all, training to climb a mountain takes time. You take your time, exploring the world and gaining skill together, until you finally feel ready to take on the challenge. You reach the top of the mountain and, at the summit, you/your partner propose.
The two of you decide to live in Mt. Komorebi for good. After visiting every place you can, you fell in love with Mt. Komorebi the most. You purchase a lot together, as high up the mountain as possible, and build a home there. It is a quiet life, removed from most of civilization, but you enjoy it a lot - after all, you deserve some quiet after spending most of your life bustling around. With that said, the travel bug never fully leaves, and you, your partner, and your children go on regular holidays to scratch that itch.
Generation Six: The Western Winds
Color: Brown
World: Chestnut Ridge
Starting Traits: Rancher
Career: Horse Competitions, Mixology, and Wine Making
Children: At least 2
Challenges:
Reach at least level 5 horse riding skill before young adult
Get a job as a salaryperson and get to level 4 while living with your parents before quitting
While working, visit the lounge 3+ times a week
End up dating a mixologist you meet there
Move to Chestnut Ridge after quitting
Host parents regularly (you decide intervals), host dinner parties with friends at least once a week for life
“Retire” after having $100,000 household funds
Your parents were travel junkies, and you are… less so. But you realize how lucky you are to be exposed to so much of the world at a young age. As a child, your parents take you to Chestnut Ridge, and you fall in love. As time goes on you can’t help but wish you were there for good - nothing in Mt. Komorebi compares, in your opinion.
As a young adult, you get a job as a salaryperson and live at home with your parents to save money. You try to get out of the house as much as possible, wanting some independence, and spend time at the lounge in town. Here, you start talking with the mixologist. Their non-traditional career inspires you, since you feel pretty stifled in your own, and you hit it off - first becoming best friends, then soon after, making it official and becoming partners.
Your parents are excited for you when you inform them that you are quitting your job and moving away. After all, your parent never had a “traditional” job, so they are fully supportive. You and your partner move to Chestnut Ridge and invest in a small ranch with a stable attached, and you immediately purchase a horse. Your partner goes to work at the local saloon and you start training up to enter some horse riding competitions.
Over time, your partner gets into winemaking as well, and your income becomes lucrative. Your parents visit often, still taking holidays in their older age, and you realize you love hosting - you invite friends over for parties at least once a week. Eventually, you and your partner get married, and your ranch gets a few more visitors - your own children. Though you never fully retire, you both start to take it easy after you reach household funds of about $100,000 (much like your great-great-great grandparents!!)
Generation Seven: The Gourmet’s Journey
Color: Purple
World: Windenburg
Starting Traits: Foodie, Dance Machine, Family Oriented
Career: Food Critic
Children: At least 3
Challenges:
Visit at least 3 other worlds throughout childhood and teenage years
Try new recipes in each world
Start developing cooking skill as a teen, cook dinner for family once a week
Get into distinguished culinary arts degree
University:
Have a morning barista shift and take maximum courseload
Go to at least one party every weekend, meet partner at one of the parties and get engaged the same night you meet
Elope with partner (can have other wedding ceremonies later if you choose)
Move to Windenburg - Olde Platz neighborhood
Go on a date with partner to a new restaurant or cafe each week
Once you can afford it, move to the Crumbling Isle and build a massive home
Have 3+ kids
Growing up on a ranch was an interesting experience, but you wouldn’t trade it for the world. It’s not like you only saw the desert in Chestnut Ridge either - your parents made sure that you and your siblings appreciated other culture through your holidays, and your grandparents always showed you pictures of their faraway travels. But your favorite part of all your travels was always the food. From a young age, you started to experiment with cooking different meals. It became a weekly tradition to have a family dinner with a new meal you learnt to cook - and your family was more than happy to be your taste testers.
When you grew up, you decided to go to cooking school. You work as a barista in the mornings and take a full course load during the day. Your weeks are hectic, but you spend your weekends partying - at nightclubs, bars, keg parties on campus, or anywhere in between. At one of these parties, you meet your partner. The very same night you meet, you woohoo for the first time and get engaged - blame it on the juice - but when you sober up the next day, you decide to follow through with the engagement. You elope in a private ceremony.
After graduating, you and your partner move to Windenburg and you immediately start working as a food critic. You spend your free time going on dates to new cafes and restaurants - you love trying out new places. You and your partner move to the Crumbling Isle with your children and happily retire.
Generation Eight: The Shadows of the Desert
Color: Black
World: Oasis Springs
Starting Traits: Gloomy, Slob, Socially Awkward
Career: Criminal
Children: At least 2
Challenges:
Have no friends as a child/teenager, be enemies with Paragons and Renegades
Have at least one distant relationship with family (can change later if you see fit)
Move to Oasis Springs as soon as you are a young adult, join the criminal career
Start a crime/mischief club with colleagues
Go to a different location each week and make a new enemy
Fall in love with one of your colleagues and have a huge wedding
You/your partner fall pregnant, quit criminal career and disband club, move to a different world
Once your youngest kid is a child, move back to Oasis Springs
Partner dies (can use cheats/mods)
Rejoin career and restart club, stay in it for the rest of your life (same rules as above apply)
You’ve always felt like the black sheep - both with your family, and with the people in Windenburg. Your family at least tried to understand you, but you were ostracized at school. The Paragons didn’t like you, and you thought you would at least fit in with the Renegades but that failed miserably too. You try to start your own club, but it never really got off the ground, so you left of Windenburg as soon as you could. You will miss your family, but you need a fresh start.
In Oasis Springs, you move into a small home and start applying for jobs. Unfortunately, you bomb all your interviews. One night, you’re drinking your sorrows away at a local bar when you run into some members of the local criminal organization - and they offer you a job.
You’re surprised by how well you take to criminal activity with your upbringing, but you rise through the ranks quickly. You’ve finally found your people, and you make good friends for the first time in your life. The club that you tried to start in your childhood finally takes shape - as a gang, which you didn’t expect, but you’re not mad about it. You spend your nights at work, and your free time with the gang wreaking havoc and making enemies all over the place.
Eventually, you and one of your colleagues fall in love. You have enough money to throw a huge wedding and your family comes to support you. After a few blissful weeks of marriage, you/your partner fall pregnant and for the first time, you second guess your career choice. You want your future child(ren) to be safe, and you know that they won’t if you stay where you are. Its hard to leave the world of crime, and you and your partner have to cut and run in the dead of night without telling anybody where you’ve gone.
You and your partner live off your savings in a different country until your children grow up. At that point, you both miss Oasis Springs a lot - it holds so many good memories - and you think it may finally be safe for you to return. You and your family move back to Oasis Springs.
Unfortunately, the minute you and your family sets foot back in Oasis Springs, your old associates take notice and put targets on your backs. The danger is ever present, but you attempt to live your lives as normal until your partner is killed. In response, you strike a deal with them - you will return to work with them if they leave the rest of your family alone. It seems that you are stuck with the group for the rest of your life… leaving is no longer an option.
Generation Nine: The Starlit Quest
Color: Red
World: Newcrest
Starting Traits: Geek, Ambitious, Loner
Career: Competitions (Video Games, GeekCon), programming apps, eventually Astronaut
Children: 1
Challenges:
Have very few (if any) friendships as a child/teen and no romantic relationships; have a distant relationship with parent
Get straight A’s in school
Start building programming, handiness, and rocket science skills as early as possible
Move to Newcrest and use competitions and programming to make money
Eventually join astronaut career and save up for rocket ship
Meet partner at GeekCon
Only get married after reaching Adulthood
Have only 1 child
Finish building rocketship and have your partner and child go to space as well
Your childhood memories of your family were great, but once one of your parents died, it feels like you lost both of them - your other parent started spending all their time at work and with their friends instead of with you and your siblings. You know that they love you, but you didn’t feel supported and preferred to spend time at school instead of at home. The positive thing is that you were really, really great at school - specifically, tech stuff - and those skills transferred to video games. Some people might call you a nerd, but you were fine with that title as long as they left you alone and let you do your thing.
Once it’s time for you to start considering college, you realize that you don’t feel comfortable asking your parent for money, so you decide to go without. It’s not a big deal - you decide to make money from competitions whenever you can and programming apps. Unfortunately, it doesn’t scratch your itch to do something bigger.
One day at GeekCon, you see a rocket ship being built and decide to try your hand at fixing it up. That’s when you are hit with an epiphany - you want to go to space. You run home and put in an application to be an astronaut and, as soon as you can afford to, you buy the materials to make a rocketship in your own backyard.
While you are no longer dependent on participating in the competitions for money, you still make regular trips to GeekCon and eventually meet your partner there while they are cosplaying one of your favorite characters. You don’t want to rush things - you’ve never had a relationship before, so you take it slow by going on a lot of dates before making things official. It takes even longer for you/your partner to propose - you are both adults by the time you get married, and you end up only having one child. But you love your small family with your whole heart, and eventually when you fuilfil your dream of reaching space, you take your whole family with you.
Generation Ten: The Return to Roots
Color: Orange
World: Henford on Bagley
Starting Traits: Lazy, Family Oriented, Self-Assured
Career: Social Media, Media Production
Children: As many as you want!!
Challenges:
Have close relationship with both parents
Move to dilapadated Gen One home in Henford-on-Bagley as a young adult - fix it up over your lifetime
Start by making SimTube videos and eventually join social media careers
Visit each world on 2+ day vacation at least one time; vlog in each location
Meet partner during one of your vacations and vlog wedding
Have as many children as you want
As a child, you already saw something that most sims could only dream of. Your parents’ ambition - and geekiness - allowed you to go to space, something that you would always value. But that doesn’t mean you had the same ambitions - either to go to space, or to do something equally impressive. You’ve seen pictures of your ancestors and you know that many of them didn’t have that so-called “ambition,” and you were happy to take after them.
You decided to pursue the life you really want, instead of what other people insist you should have, and move out to the countryside. You’ve heard of your old family home there - long abandoned and in serious need of a makeover, but still, a family home - and move in with your limited belongings.
Living by yourself on the massive farm allows you to do what you do best - nothing. You spend your days taking and posting selfies in the rundown home, and you decide to start a youtube channel to document your life in the country. Seemingly overnight, it takes off and you find yourself swept up in a whirlwind career as a social media influencer.
You make a lot of money through this unorthodox career and are able to spend your days either lounging around, fixing up the house, or traveling to beautiful locations to shoot videos for your dedicated followers. It’s a great way to reconnect with your family constantly, both close and distant relatives.
On one of your travels, you meet the one - someone who can put up with your lack of work ethic, who even finds it endearing. You have a fairytale wedding - vlogging it, of course - and live happily ever after with your family in your ancestral home.