Traits

[Cassie]

This situation is kind of boring and requires a lot of features that we may or may not being seeing in TS3, but to an extent it is do-able.

Main Characters: Tom and Bethany.

Tom: Athletic, Brave, Family-Orientated, Friendly, Playful.

Bethany: Originaly - Good, Family-Orientated, Friendly, Neat, Shy. After in-game influences - Easily bored, Flirty, Grumpy, Partier, Slob.

Tom Rosefield was worried for his outgoing, loud and partying wife. Together they raised three children, Cariss, 6, Harry, 10, and Amelie, 17. Amelie was Bethany’s daughter from a past relationship with a wife-beating, nasty man, who Tom (a plumber at the time) had saved Bethany from when he came to fix the taps and stumbled around to the open back-door to find Jake (Bethany’s Ex) slapping her repeatedly. Amelie, just 5 at the time, only had vague memories of Jake (she never referred to him as ‘Father’, Tom took that place in her mind) and sometimes in her head she could hear her mother screaming and sobbing. And it made Amelie cry, even to this day, when she was alone in her bedroom, and thoughts of the past attacked her head vigorously.

Tom had beaten Jake to a pulp and called the police immediately, and Jake now resides in the town Jail, exactly where he belongs. From then on, Bethany had fallen in love with her rescuer and they got married and started their own family, in which time along came Harry and Cariss, and all was well for many years.

Until Bethany’s best friend Layla invites her to a party one weekend to celebrate Layla’s 40th birthday. Bethany never came back the same.

Gone was the friendly, shy, caring and family-orientated mother that Tom and her children once knew. It seemed that party must have been something good - Bethany had never been to a party before. She was normally much too shy, but Tom had pressed her to go out and have some fun for once, of which of course he deeply regretted doing. Of course, the change in her personality modified over a period of time, but a short one at that. After Layla’s party, Bethany held many of her own at home while the kids were still in the house, inviting all sorts of crazy and creepy people into the house. And Bethany danced and drunk a lot, and even flirted with strange men, to Tom’s dismay. And it became all she ever thought about. She lived and breathed partying and drinking, and she became gloomy around the family whenever she wasn’t, always suffering from hangovers and biting at anyone who dared talk to her, so the kids became frightened of their own mother. And she became a slob around the house, never tidying up after parties, leaving old pizza boxes and smashed wine glasses around the house, so once, little Cariss stood on it and ended up being sent to the hospital to remove glass from her foot.

So now Tom needs to make a hasty decision before it is too late. Does he take the children and move away from Bethany before Harry ad Cariss become influenced by her partying ways? Or does he take a chance and help her get her on track before she ends up in jail with Jake?