The Sims 2 - The Pinkerton Family

Tom and Mandy Pinkerton started out with a little bit of money and a lot of hope on a scrap of desert land in Strangetown. Together they created a loving household of six children - Joseph, Aaron, the twins Mary and Debbie, Joshua, and Ruthie - who grew up and went forth to create their own fortunes, moving on up into Bluewater Village. There have been many hardships thus far and a lot of hard work, but even when the family falls apart it still sticks together.

(You can click on the images or the links to look at the story of each household in their respective albums.)

Joseph	Aaron	Mary	Debbie	Joshua	Ruthie

Joseph met Jessica Ebadi and knew she would be his wife and the mother of his children.	Aaron enjoyed Amara Rents enough to have children with her, but not enough to tie himself down.	Mary knew that the man she married would be for keeps. And so it is that she married Jonathan, but remained a Pinkerton	Debbie couldn't resist the lure of Malcolm Landgraab's fine house, piles of money, and successful businesses.	Joshua played the field until things got too serious, and then he threw himself into a marriage with Michelle Goss.	The baby of the family, Ruthie ended her short run as mayor of Bluewater to focus on her family.
Children: Julie, Janey	Children: Alan, Alexis	Children: Michael, the twins Matthew and Melisssa, Marjorie, Mark	Children: David and Dennis (twins)	Children: Shyla	Children: Rachel and Randall (twins), Russell

After Jessica left, Amara helped pull Joseph through, and he discovered she was strong in all the ways he admired.	Why Aaron married his maid no one knows, but everyone agrees he could have done far worse.		All the riches in the world could not make up for John Carpenter, the one man Debbie loved since the her days as a teenager.	The day came, however, when Joshua could not deny the woman he loved, and she stopped denying him as well.
Children: Oliver	Children: Alison		Children: Denise	Children: Jacqueline

	Aaron was mysteriously abducted not long after marrying Aiyana.
	Children: Adam and Adamma (twins)

All About the Pinkertons

Inspiration: I started the Pinkertons over Christmas break 2005 because I wanted to know what it would be like to play a large family: having the maximum of eight Sims in the house, all of the children born in-game and raised while the parents did their best to work. I had never played so many Sims at once and I wanted to tend different goals for all of them. I also had it in the back of my mind to see just how large of a family I could make; how many generations could I reach, how many Sims could I play? So I made Tom and Mandy Pinkerton, two very generic Sims, and I got them to the work of having babies. Their family has become my most challenging to date. I have come to enjoy my Pinkertons more than I could have imagined when I started and I continue to learn a great deal about the Sims 2 through them.

Albums: I had not bothered much with taking pictures before playing this family, but for some reason I was seized by the desire to tell the stories of the Pinkertons through pictures. Thus, all of the Pinkerton families have albums - but several of those albums start out with fuzzier pictures. Since I hadn't done much picture-taking and I hadn't cared to show them to anyone but myself, for a time I didn't think about how crisp the pictures were. I raised the settings a decent ways back and I am still learning how to frame my shots better, so the albums get better as they go along.

Disclaimer: In case anyone forgets, The Sims 2 is a game for adults as well as children and everyone plays their games in a different fashion. I don't use nudity patches, anatomically correct skins, or sexualized downloads in my game, but that is mostly because I try not to download anything I don't feel necessary or sanity-saving. I also don't usually cuss in my storytelling, which is actually quite a surprise to me given my propensity for cursing naturally outside of work and school. But my storylines do involve many different elements of the Sims: aliens, pregnancies, adultery, death, sex, and so on. Please read at your discretion.