I like this thread! It's fun to hear about other people's families.
I am playing the game with some self imposed rules which I describe
here in more detail if anyone is curious.
Anyway, it came time to move on from the D children. I roll a die to determine who inherits. Unfortunately, my least favorite of the children ended up winning, Dennis. He has messy brownish hair and glasses. He also ended up being a wood carver but "wood" was one of his dislikes which cracked me up.
For his generation we're transferring from the D to E, so per my rules I needed to come up with a theme. I wanted to do something related to Dennis the Menace, but I couldn't locate other comic strip characters whose names begin with E that weren't very obscure characters. So I ended up settling with the theme that would require the name of his wife and child to be six letters long and contain double N's just like Dennis's name.
So he ended up marrying a woman named Evonne, a variation of the name Yvonne. I don't normally like using unconventional name spellings, but
Evonne Goolagong Cawley is a rather inspirational real life story about a girl from a poor family who becomes a tennis star, so I decided to go with that.
After Dennis married Evonne, who had black hair and piercing blue eyes, they had daughter named Erinna who was named after the ancient female
Greek poet. She unfortunately inherited her father's wild brown hair, but it at least managed to look cute on her. I went out of my way to make sure her job ended up being a poet like her namesake. When it came time to pick her as the new generation, I just kept reloading the game until it gave her the poet profession, and fortunately that didn't take too long.
Erinna was an only child who grows up and inherited the house and began the "E" generation. She married a cute young man named Ethan who had bright orange hair. Shortly after the birth of their first child, Edric, they adopted a poor abandoned girl named Eleanor. Edric had curly dark blond hair, and Eleanor had black hair and blue earrings. They then had twin boys named Eugene and Ezra, and another son after that named Eamon and finally a daughter named Emily, all of which had dark blond hair.
Die roll made Emily the inheritor. Emily is the distinctly English spelling derived from the Latin name Aemilius, so the theme I chose for her generation was English names that ended in the letter y. Just choosing English names made it too easy for me I felt, so I added the y condition to make it more of a challenge.
Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of English names that end in y and start with an F for boys. I ended up settling on the name Farley which comes from Old English and meant "fern clearing". It's usually a surname, but there is a Canadian author that has it as a first name, so I went with it. They had a cute orange haired, green eyed daughter named Felicity which is an English word that means "happiness".
Felicity now has inherited and married a cute blond haired blue eyed man named Francis. They have a bunch of blond haired kids which are named Finn, Felix, Fiona, Freya, and Frederick. Their last child was a surprise! The youngest was born a little girl with dark black hair. They named her Florence.
I'm hoping that Florence won't win the die roll. I want to marry one of her blond siblings to a man or woman farther down on the head list so I can try and get some members with more of the unusual colors like the blue haired girl and rainbow haired girl and the guy with the mohawk. If she does win though, oh well. Still plenty of generations to go.
I'm still missing the Perfect Match trophy and no triplets so far, alas. Here's hoping the upcoming G generation will finally give me at least one of those elusive trophies.
The triplets went to college and moum and dad are going grey!
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