Cosmic Legacy Challenge for TS3
Oh wow, its my third challenge. Anyway, I was looking for new challenges and wondered why no one has made a planet themed challenge for TS3 (there's a lot for TS4). So I decided to make one.
Cosmic Legacy Challenge is a 11 gen challenge that includes the sun, planets, the moon,and Pluto because I wanted Pluto so therefore, its spaced theme. Each generation is based off a mix of astronomy, astrology,and greek/roman mythology. Some of the goals in certain generations require your sim crying/drama and if that’s your playstyle that’s cool but heads up if it isn’t. So if you enjoy space, space themed adventures, or a bit of drama from time to time in your legacies, this might be for you.
Tag: “cosmic legacy challenge” or “@” me
Credit:
Like to thank NASA, astrology sites, and greek/roman mythological sites for supporting the research of this challenge as well as the sims wikia.
Rules:
You don’t have to use all of the traits, just 2-3 required
You can move onto the next generation when all of the goals are met or when the next heir ages to a YA
If you don’t have a certain expansion pack that is related to a goal, skip it or do an alternative goal that fits.
Have fun
1. ☼Sun:
Aah! A star is born! Where would we be without the center of our universe! Everything revolves around you and people are dependent on you to perform or else we would all die. Not trying to be dramatic here but you’re hitting your prime and before you know it, you’ll blow out and fade away into existence, destroying everything you worked so hard to gain. After all, where would you be without yourself?
Traits: Natural Born Performer, Star Quality, Dramatic, Charismatic, Loves the Heat
Goals:
Master the Charisma skill
Work in an Entertainment career (ie - Actor, Director, Singer, Acrobat, Magician)
Become a 5 star celebrity
Don’t spend time with your family, spend more time with your rich celebrity friends
Fall from grace - get into 3 scandals that ruin your reputation.
2 . ☿ Mercury:
The fastest yet tiniest, you’ve always had a front row seat to your parent’s stardom. But being in your parent’s shadow is never a fun place to be and it’s causing you to be as cold as you are hot. You tend to think rationally when making decisions and focus on communicating ideas to others so they can see the bigger picture in life. But while they’re distracted, your hand might find itself in their wallet. Ideas need funding too you know.
Traits: Kleptomaniac, Schmoozer, Natural Businessman, Genius, Perceptive
Goals:
Master the Logic and Social Networking skills
Steal 3 items a day
Work in the Journalism career
Own 3 cars that are worth over 25,000
Visit your friends/neighbors at least once a week
3. ♀Venus:
With a taste of your lips, I'm on a ride You're toxic. That’s right Venus, you’re the hottest and most toxic planet of the bunch. You tend to shine the brightest as well as go a different direction than those around you. You have an idealized version of love that will come with the most expensive vacations, a big house, and someone who is going to spoil and love you with no complaints. But are you willing to go through the jumps and hurdles to find your happily ever after?
Traits: Snob, Savvy Sculptor, Hot-headed, Hopeless Romantic, Inappropriate
Goals:
Master the Sculpting skill and one musical instrument (drums, bass, guitar, violin, piano)
Live in a big house worth over 250,000
Work in the Stylist, Architect, or Sculptor career
Date 5 different sims before marrying your “Happily Ever After”.
Have a mirror in every room of your house
4. ♁Earth:
While your parents may have their head in the clouds, you don’t mind being bit a more down to Earth. You care for the environment and all living things and want to ensure that you take the actions to maintain it. You’re curious and wonder about what’s out there as you’ve always had to examine life through a lens. But it’s time to get back out there and explore the depths and wonders the world has to offer you. For you were responsible with its care, it’s time to honor that stewardship.
Traits: Loves the Outdoors, Eco-friendly, Animal Lover, Gatherer, Vegetarian.
Goals:
Master the Science and Handiness skill
Marry an alien
Create a plantsim
Live an eco-friendly lifestyle (No bathtubs, no dryers, no cars (bikes/motorcycles only), garden your food)
Work in the Science or Astronomy field
5. ☾Moon:
You’re someone who is always close to those you care about. Like a small beacon, you are always there to light up the night and uplift those around you. But your light comes in stages and sometimes your dark side shows up more than you want it too. But just because you can get a little emotional sometimes or plan a bank robbery every once in a while, does not mean you are unfit to take care of your family. Sometimes, being bad does pay the bills.
Traits: Family Oriented, Nurturing, Over Emotional, Natural Cook, Evil
Goals:
Master the Cooking skill
Have 5 children
Get to the top of the Criminal career as a thief or evil leader.
Be best friends with all of your children and teach them all of their skills.
Physically fight someone once a week
6 ♂Mars:
For someone who used to be so full of life, you’re now just bitter and cold. It doesn’t stop you from being a person of action and it also doesn’t stop people from wanting to be your friend (since they won’t stop coming over to your house). While your anger can hurt those close to you, it also provides a way for you to keep your boundaries respected and your inner world at peace. So for some much needed self care, please go to the spa or eat a Snickers.
Traits:Mean-spirited, Athletic, Ambitious, Brave, Grumpy
Goals:
Master the Athletic skill
Woohoo with 10 different sims in 10 different places
Reach the top of the military or athletic career
Have a set of twins (can have more children than that)
Have more enemies than friends
Learn how to cook your favorite meal
7. ♃ Jupiter:
Dang you’re massive but that’s what makes you a great leader. Your presence is intensely large and it allows others to see your greatness as well as draw them into you. But while you are a storm to be feared, you don’t exactly have the best foundation within yourself. That’s why you have taken upon yourself to expand your inner world and focus on becoming the best version of yourself. But while you’ve always believed you are a good person, don’t forget that you are also flawed and susceptible to making mistakes just like the rest of us.
Traits: Commitment Issues, Adventurous, Lucky, Flirty, Good
Goals:
Obtain 2 degrees from university
Be best friends with your sibling(s)
Have 3 affairs when you’re married
Donate to charity once a week
Travel to all of the WA destinations and learn something new to take back home with you. (i.e - skill, song, book)
Work in a job where you’ll become a leader in the field (i.e- politician, business, law enforcement)
8. ♄ Saturn:
When you want something, you go get it. To you, money can solve all of your problems and those who complain, well they just don’t have enough. That’s how you got those 7 rings correct? Whether that’s biding your time to see the fruits of your labor grow into fruition or focusing on building your abundant wealth, you work hard for what you wish to earn. It’s the discipline and precision of your routine that keeps you going.
Traits: workaholic, green thumb, frugal, neurotic, disciplined
Goals:
Master gardening and advanced technology skills
Get married twice in your life
Reach the top of 3 careers in your lifetime
Have 35,000 in household funds (without cheating)
Become enemies with all your children
9. ♅ Uranus:
Baby you’re cold as ice. No seriously. You believe you can reach the heavens and the sky is merely just the stepping stool for your hopes and dreams as a writer. Trying to go the traditional route in life is not for you and you hate when others try to put you in that box. You believe in creating change for others as well as getting rid of systems that bring down your fellow sim. If you have to do some questionable things in order to achieve those goals, well the end justifies the means.
Traits:Party animal, bookworm, eccentric, rebellious, loves the cold
Goals:
Master the writing and inventing skill
Join the Writing career and write 15 books
Create all the inventions including the simbot
Host 10 different parties:(Slumber,Teen, Birthday, Gift Giving.Costume. Feast. House party, Juice Kegger, Pool party, Destination)
Host protests twice a week
Pull pranks on your school and neighbors as a teen.
10. ♆Neptune:
Deep as the sea and with winds stronger than a hurricane,You keep yourself at a distance from others. It’s why the ocean has always called you home and it’s vastness makes you question your role in the universe. As you search for your answers, you find some in the supernatural and the expression of art. But don’t let your journeys become obsessions. You can only go so far down the rabbithole before it’s too late to pull you out.
Traits: brooding, sailor, artistic, loner, unstable,
Goals:
Master the scuba diving, fishing and painting skills
Your spouse has to be a mermaid
Put 10 of your best works in the town's art gallery and invite your friends and family to see your “show” (destination party)
Work as a fortune teller as your day job until you reach adulthood, then become a self-employed artist.
Have a midlife crisis and complete all of your crisis wishes
11. ♇ Pluto:
You were always seen as small and felt uninvited in your family’s gatherings because of your differences. So you found yourself interested in discovering who you are and finding strength in your power. It took a while, like a long while, but you did find something to build a foundation and now you can move your best foot forward in life’s journey for you. Quite the transformation.
Traits: supernatural fan, dog lover, irresistible, loser, avant garde
Goals:
Master the alchemy and street art skill
Your spouse has to have the Green Thumb trait.
As a teenager, you worked in the cemetery part time
You have an indifference relationship with your family (not enemies but just barely acquaintances)
During your YA years, get fired from 3 different jobs and move to a different town away from your family.
Have 3 dogs and become best friends with all of them
Thank you for trying this challenge. Feedback is always welcomed
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Legacies in Camp Jupiter/Just Pjo?
Wow I am on a roll! Anyway I’ve been wanting to do this and the power post just really dragged up this issue in my head back to the forefront, and it is someone that really continuously confuses me on a basic level of how Rick chose to let this category function.
Legacies are a type of Demigod introduced in HoO that are directly related to Gods but aren’t first generation. They are not children of gods but like grandkids, great-grandkids, so on and so on. This is not a new concept, it is as old as myths themselves, the first thing that pops up in my mind was Troy’s royal family was said in myths to be descended from Zeus. That makes someone like Hector (in Pjo-verse vocabulary) a legacy in the Pjo canon.
But.. Legacies aren’t really different to demigods? Like- not different enough that they would get classified as differently-? For several reasons I believe, but the main three points I want to make (because apparently all my thoughts come in packs of 3), is that 1) Legacies and Demigods are shown to have the same godly-ability level as one another/ it’s inconsistent, 2) somewhat through the books themselves they just sort of stop using the word Legacy/Legacies never have anything that set them apart from demigods, 3) this is a new concept to distinguish them (this is the weakest but it feels weird that Rick decided to differentiate Legacies and Demigods when myths never really did too much, but when did Rick care about the source material- okay, that was rude I’m just still annoyed over Ares-)
Anyway,
Legacies and Demigods powers. Legacies are shown to have similar power levels to Demigods, or those powers are inconsistent. I bring this up because it feels odd? That legacies would have a similar broad level of abilities while still being more mortal than god (this depends and I’ll talk about what I think for like hc on New Rome and their legacy population) but we have characters like Bryce Lawerence; who has powers like, shadow travel (the shadow travel is implied but I’ll get into why it’s likely he has some form of enhanced ability to travel), enhanced tracking (also implied but this will fit into the travel thing), summoning the damned souls of those who broke oaths, along with being implied to have visited the underworld at some point because he mentions hearing the screams of the fields of punishment. But let’s also remember that BoO takes place somewhere in 8-9 days (starts July 20, ends Aug 3) the Bryce attack scene is on chapter XXX while Bryce being brought back to the legion is in chapter VI. No less than if I remember correctly like 2-3 days could’ve past. There are a couple things, he’s stealthy enough that Nico doesn’t notice him. We don’t get any confirmation that he’d been following them for a while (from all I know of Bryce’s character I have to assume he wasn’t or he would’ve 100 percent taken the first chance to attack them) but he is able to get from Long Island to South Carolina on foot, and seemingly appear out of nowhere. There is probably a logical explanation but also considering the fact he knows what’s happening to Nico (that shadow traveling fading that doesn’t seem to matter?) makes me consider and lean more to the idea that he can shadow travel (honestly would love to make another post on Bryce Lawerence because no one cares about him but I really find him interesting). But if he can do the (implied shadow travel) and the very apparent necromancy he has the same skill set of Nico! Never mind the tiny little difference in the necromancy, they have the same power and the same level of that power. The difference is that one is a legacy, and one is a Demigod- but there doesn’t seem to be a power difference. Secondly Frank’s shapeshifting thing, I’ll be real and say I just think that’s a thing because like Poseidon gifted it? I think of it as the same way that like the Red panda gift from turning Red is going strong because it was a blessing or whatever. And Octavian, who is (said, for some reason Rick wanted to put in that maybe Octavian never had powers at all but that’s stupid and takes away what little things Octavian has) but he also, doesn’t seem to have a dip in powers? I don’t care much for seeing the Apollo kids but it seems that they all can have varied powers (fitting seeing as Apollo was a god of so many things) and Octavian’s skill doesn’t seem limited in any way (would’ve been great if we got more information on it because we have no idea how it works compared to say, the way we know how the Oracle stuff works) but all of this puts a clear image that from the legacies we know, there doesn’t seem to be a big difference in power. Which is odd, seeing as they don’t feel like they should.
Through HoO Rick really just like- stopped talking about legacies? I’m laughing as I’m writing this but know it’s a saddened laugh because like. Rachel refers to Octavian as Son of Apollo (Which could be argued she doesn’t know what a Legacy is but I feel like since her Oracle powers told her everything else it would’ve informed her of his proper title- or I guess not because the writing didn’t care at all about Octavian-) and I think Reyna mentions Bryce is a legacy though it’s not referenced any more. Bryce just brings up Orcus in some dialogue and that’s about it. If you’re going to bring up a new type of Demigod then why not explore them more? HoO doesn’t explore like anything but still, Frank never has thoughts about his Legacy stuff. We don’t even get any notes about Greek demigods not considering most of the Roman Legacies Demigods because they aren’t the direct Children of the Gods? It just like- Legacies kind of do nothing, there is nothing different about a legacy.
Mythology doesn’t even really distinguish the two? Like- again because I’ve read the Iliad and Odyssey it’s what I always think first. Hector mentions he is also related to Zeus- that there is a distinct thing about demigods like Sarpedon, Achilles, and Aeneas. But there never is something where it calls out, “Oh Hectors great-great-great grandpa is Zeus and that’s super different and crazy” but it’s just “Hectors related to Zeus y’know and he’s gonna kick your butt man >:[“ obviously this is a random point because those are ancient texts. But we have to remember that Pjo is founded off of these myths and the fact that Legacies are a part of these myths but distinctly different (literally everyone who is descended from Zeus which is literally everyone- not literally but like-) operate differently, they are essentially no different than their fully mortal companions other than they can sport a God ancestor and the most convoluted family tree.
Okay. Those are the points that I’ve made. All of those boil down into like “Rick did nothing to differentiate Legacies from Demigods other than slap a different name on them” and that’s a missed opportunity. It’d be like if something like Harry Potter went, “Here are wizards that are said to be different than other magic users but all that’s different are their titles!” That might be a thing I don’t know I don’t consume Harry Potter. But there was a ball and it was slammed into the ground (huh, almost like Rick did that with a lot of things related to Camp Jupiter and the Romans- also the Romans canonically have cars and I don’t like that). But I have some Head-canons about legacies for my re-imagining to hopefully make them, make more sense?
The longer a legacy line is, the more ‘diluted’ the power becomes. Like in the myths, after you hit a certain point most legacies will have incredibly weak powers. This adds to the powers post I made (shameless plug that you should read that one too because I’m proud of it.) and how the legacies affect the Romans view on powers. But this means that the farther you get down a family line the less and less powerful the power is. Say a child of Zeus has children and then like ten generations down the line the descendants could be more resistant to lightning, conduct it easier and attract it a little more, maybe jump a big higher but that’s about it. Example, Michael Kahale In my re-imagining comes from a super duper long line and his powers pretty much are, I look pretty, I’m a little more persuasive from remnants of charm-speak (and I want to buff up the Aphrodite cabin more because Rick really just didn’t care when it came to them)
This doesn’t include ‘gifts’ like Frank’s. I think by the will of the God that blessed the ancestor with it they keep the power strong. This goes the same way for curses, maybe. If the curse is not revered than it probably is passed onto your kid.
In common sense, the fresher the legacy the more potent the power. And sometimes there can be mutations that a child can end up with more potent powers, whether that be the wishes of the Godly ancestor or they just get miracle genes it could act as a soft re-boot to strengthen the powers. For examples; Bryce is a very new legacy, his dad is the direct child of Orcus and Bryce gets passed down all of the cool powers (also need a hc for his mother because she comes from a legacy line) or Octavian was just.. born with the more potent powers, I like to think Apollo noted him and took interest to strengthen his powers for some reason. (Note he also is a legacy of Venus but I haven’t worked out if that affects him and how, but the Venus part is much more downplayed)
Legacies who have mixed godly blood/ several different lines that have merged have a little from everything, their powers are weaker but if like for example a Child of Athena with a Hermes legacy might have a easier time stealing things, or be a little faster than their peers. But these end up very minimal because the direct child aspect overpowers it a lot (idk I don’t know hypothetical demigod genes and how they work so let’s just go with it) this is similar with legacies+legacies though the family will usually stick to one legacy title (sort of how last names are passed on, but a partner wouldn’t take up the legacy title of the family. But a child would) while the powers honestly could be all over the place
Okay that’s all I think right now, if I have anything else I’ll probably make a separate post but for me right now it is very nighttime and I need my sleep so I can crush my siblings in various unserious competition.
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HELLO!! Is me again.
How about a Brandon x reader where he had a long day and the reader smothers him in kisses and hugs and cuddles to cheer him up, maybe they Cook something togheter? Just fluff :D
Your writing s l a p s !!! Keep it up
Long Day
Pairing: Brandon Sampson x Reader
Notes: This was so nice and fun to write! Thanks for the request (and the compliment)💕.
Gif By @jupiterlegacy
The loudly shut door was (Y/N)‘s clue that today hadn’t been a great day for their partner.
Brandon entered the living room, looking slightly exhausted, as he spotted (Y/N) on the couch. “Hey.” He said, his voice tired as he watched (Y/N) flicked through Netflix trying to find something to watch.
“Hey,” they replied, sounding lightly concerned. “You okay?”
He walked over - still in his suit - and lowered himself on the couch beside them. They moved over slightly to give him room, reaching up to run their fingers through his hair.
He let out a quiet, relaxed sigh as he felt his partner’s nails against his scalp. “Yeah, just had a long day.”
(Y/N) made a noise of understanding, getting off the couch and moving themself so that they were in his lap. Their arms wrapped around his shoulders as he rested his hands on their waist. “You wanna tell me about it?” They asked him, leaning closer and kissing him softly.
Brandon shook his head, returning the kiss. He knew he would never get tired of this, of them. “No, I’m fine. It doesn’t matter.”
“True.” They said with a barely hidden grin. “This is a lot more important.” They pressed kisses all over his face as he half-heartedly tried to avoid them. But he was beginning to grin as well, looking up at (Y/N) with a playful look in his eye.
“You know I’m a superhero right?” He asked, lifting them up with his super-strength. “I’m trained to fight villains.”
“Oh, I’m a villain now?” They laughed, wrapping their arms around his torso.
“Oh, definitely.” Brandon teased them, leaning down to kiss their grin away. “The worst I’ve ever faced.”
Pursing their lips, they considered it. “True, very true.” They let go of Brandon, who opened his mouth to complain about the separation.
“I’m hungry” was their only explanation.
“So order something.”
“We did that yesterday. And I just went shopping. We’re cooking, come on.”
“Ok, ok.” He replied, letting them pull him into the kitchen. “Only cause I’m a better cook.”
“You are not.” (Y/N)’s voice was indignant. “Take that back!”
He laughed, feeling better now that he was with (Y/N). “Fine.”
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