I'm a serial restarter of saves and primarily a builder but I got a flash of gameplay inspiration and went for it recently.

I put my founder sim in a grotty, horrible halfway house using Residential Rentals, and based her in Evergreen Harbour. I tweaked the age span using MCCC to have a bit more time with her and proceeded to have her start saving for an escape.

I kept her in the barista career, doing some odd jobs and dumpster diving to supplement her income. We made frugal choices and bought a laptop. She discovered she liked programming so we leant into it - she got the scholarship for no funds and started taking Computer Science classes at Britechester (no distinguished degrees, we're poor please).

Now throughout the above process my sim managed to die 3 times. Once by electrocution, once from anger and once from choking (adeepindigo mod). Each time I reloaded and continued like groundhog day.

Eventually she meets a nice fisherman and together they scrape together enough to move into the larger Pinecrest Apartment with about 2 sticks of basic furniture and dated, grotty walls. It's ok though, her degree will eventually mean life as a computer scientist.

Then she got pregnant. Welp, maybe a Freelance Programmer will work out just as well whilst raising the child? Once she completes her degree.

Then a second son arrives just 3 game days from her final, final exams. We're nearly there! Nearly able to earn some proper money to do the apartment up and give these boys a decent life.

And....... then she dies. Again. Of mortification.

At this point I just gave up. She seems determined to remove herself from digital life, sobeit.

So now Warren is left heartbroken, raising his two boys, Marlin and Archer, from his dead girlfriend, Mirabel. And her two cats.

He's still a fisherman. The kids are newborn and infant. The cats are spoiled.

Carnage is incoming.