Pancakes

Yeah. The Pancakes. The iconic default sims with built-in dysfunction - incompatibility and a rocky marriage. Eliza is neat, prim, and usually protrayed as nagging her husband Bob, a messy, lazy, boring oaf.

So I always get them divorced instantly.

But not without getting Eliza pregnant first!

She's got no job, she's a single parent, she's got expensive taste. But I like a challenge.

Brandi Pancakes had a good childhood, despite gnomes sometimes appearing during the night to eat her feet.

To stay afloat, Eliza became a freelance digital artist and worked her way up the ladder to hefty payouts and maxed painting skill.

Having a single parent can be coddling, so Brandi grew up a Loner, overprotected against getting out and meeting people. But as a teen, she got on really well with the most handsome guy in school.

The two got on well, although Eliza's dream of magnificent wealth and a mansion inched further away as she picked up odd gigs to pay the bills.

Brandi's full traits became Loner, Romantic and Loyal, since she dreamed of spending adulthood with her soulmate and avoiding the romantic failures of her mother.

Or other failures, like getting swarmed by bees.

With Brandi getting engaged to her boyfriend, Eliza wanted to focus on her lifelong dream - finally leaving the house she bought with Bob, and moving into a real mansion ready for eventual grandchildren. But they needed more money. So Eliza got to work and just painted.

Brandi and her fiancé relaxed on splash day, and Eliza kept painting.

She took a break for the actual wedding.

Brandi scored the former teen heartthrob Tamati - whose traits are Good and Genius to boot. He was also already at the near end of the astronaut career.

Boomer got spooked by a floating plate.

A solid week of selling off her art and the family moved into Eliza's Dream House.

They settled in, and Brandi's tech startup continued to go well... and she got pregnant.

Chasing Eliza's aspiration of having the neighbourhood's most expensive house, she continued painting...

And, after hanging several masterpieces and with constant use of the wishing well, Eliza got her wish at last. They did not get to keep the suits of armour.

Things relaxed a little after that.

And Brandi and Tamati welcomed their daughter, Galette.

And after all that, grabbing her dreams of wealth and meeting her granddaughter, Eliza's birthday arrived.

Well done, Eliza Pancakes!

Brandi and Tamati were able to spend lots of time out of the house together thanks to Eliza's grandparenting.

And Eliza herself chilled out in her twilight years, no longer the nag she was when married to Bob.

The two professional parents.

Eliza took Galette for her first paddle in their fishing pond.

Then, as a toddler, Galette started to meet other kids.