The Coopers 3.5

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Last time: Troy and Stacey went to GeekCon, before Stacey died of old age. Julian was pretty torn up about it. Abed and Britta became teens, with the latter becoming an aspiring master prankster. Stacey was a mean ghost, Christina and Amir had an argument at the park, Rachel became pregnant, and three of the gen. 2 sisters (but not Zoe) hit up a bar where a vampire was serving them.

It’s Claire’s birthday! She’s entering middle age!

Rachel visited, but she seemed more interested in crying about her parents’ deaths than in actually interacting with any of her living family members.

I mean, given that Julian Duff is BRITTA’S DAD, I think they’ve been friends for a while…

The teens went to the city for a fun night of karaoke… but then my game crashed so it didn’t happen :)

Britta just suddenly turned and glared into the distance like this, with her hand on her hip. One problem: no one and nothing is there?!

Oh come on, I am NOT going to fall for this! You’re another vampire, aren’t you?!

BUSTED!

Look, YOU can think about how you’re a poor lost lonely traveller all you like, but your last name is Vatore and you’re here at 3am and I’m pretty sure you’re another vampire.

tbh this vampire pack is getting annoying. I thought they’d be more like TS2 vampires and stay in their own area unless you deliberately go out to bring them into your life.

omg, another baby Cooper has entered into the world!

Julian elected to work from home today, which means he has to paint a mural… on the grass behind the house. Not sure how this is relevant to being a critic but w/e I guess.

Cooper cousin Shirley has come to visit!

Britta: Yes I, your humble cousin, am secretly a villainous criminal MASTERMIND! Muahahahaha!
Shirley: lol… don’t embarrass yourself cuz

Shirley: Hey auntie. I heard you’re real good at licking, if you know what I mean ;)
Claire: EXCUSE ME WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY

Claire: By the way, WooHoo is a totally wholesome and satisfying activity to partake in with a consenting partner! And none of it is anything to be ashamed of!
Abed: Hmm… but what is it though o___________O

At least Shirley isn’t immune from the siren call that is these gravestones…

Then, Britta went to San Myshuno for some kind of jokesters vs pranksters festival! I didn’t read the description very closely so she joined the jokesters, even though the pranksters would probably have been more suited to her mischievous self.

So there Britta was, sharing some hilarious repartee with this guy, when suddenly he slapped her. r00d. Or not, because Britta was all *PLUS PLUS!* about it.

This was Britta impersonating a prankster… the blond guy actually thought it was pretty funny.

He didn’t appreciate being impishly pestered, though. Whatever, dude. I mean you DID slap her.

So, the Jokesters won and there was a big fireworks display to celebrate. Britta enjoyed them more than anyone!

Ummm… this chick is cuddling her voodoo doll as if it were a kitten.

Stacey’s ghost is sad, for some unfathomable reason. MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN HORRIBLE TO EVERYONE LAST TIME YOU EMERGED FROM YOUR ETERNAL SLUMBER, STACE.

Luckily Abed is a forgiving soul, and he cheers her right up with a hug. (And the “Try to Cheer Up” interaction.)

Claire accepted the invitation, but I’m not sure why they invited her and not her aspiring Chief of Mischief daughter.

Yaaaay! She only needs one more promotion to be at the top of the career track!

MCCC lets me know that the younger twins from gen. 2 have got hitched.

Abed: Muuuuuum. I hate the food I ate. It was gross. Do something!
Claire: Are you seriously trying to tell me you lack the problem-solving skills to fix this yourself?!

Meanwhile, outside: Caleb Vatore and this fairy chick have a little stand-off. Not sure what’s going on here, really.

Uhhhh. Little strange to get the promotion before he goes to work, I guess, but I’ll take it.

Abed decided to wag school and go to some nightclub in Windenburg with his cousin Jeff.

Abed: Football is the worsttttttt, it sucks, I hate it!
Jeff: This day is going well.

Jeff: Dude, you gotta be careful. We’re underage! If you shoot your mouth off too much the cops’ll be AFTER US.
Bartender: I’ll just pretend I didn’t hear that.

Yeah Abed, I reckon I’d be a bit more concerned if the Grim Reaper were sailing towards me at speed, thinking about me.

I guess maybe he was a little concerned because that was the last picture I took before Abed came home.

Britta: Hey guys, did you know I’m an infamous jewel thief?!

Her cousins, Pierce and Shirley, seem to be getting a bit wise to her antics.

Pierce: Hey Britta, I heard that there might be some wedding bells in your future soon ;)
Britta: WHAT :(

Looks like the prankster has been out-pranked.

It’s somebody’s birthday! Troy rolls the Bro trait, to go with the Neat and Hot-Headed traits.

He entered the Tech Guru career because he has the aspiration that lines up with that career really well.

Melvin’s ghost put in another appearance. This time he was really into pranking Claire.

Melvin: I just loooooooove vampires, don’t you?! They’re such cutie patooties!
Claire: D8

(ye I know she has a different outfit in this one, shhh)

Ignoring each other as dawn breaks! tbh this picture is mostly here because Britta looks cute in it.

I hope this keeps that money-craving NERD happy.

Britta sent some spam emails to the “king” of the Renegades club and the ghost of her paternal grandmother. The latter doesn’t seem to realise that her life has actually ended and she doesn’t need to worry about avoiding spam any more. Or, honestly, replying to emails. You could’ve let that one go, Tab.

Claire quit the Renegades club because pranking people isn’t really her. Instead, she organised a club gathering with the fitness club! They look suspicious but THEY LIKE HER REALLY

Claire: You can do it, sis! HIT that treadmill!

Yeah, her twin Christina happened to also be at the gym. Otherwise this gathering was very boring because everyone just worked out, so I’m going to skip ahead to when Claire went home.

Britta: So you know how ghosts come from another world and visit ours only briefly, right?

Britta: D’you think that means astronauts can find their world?! Does AUNT CHRISTINA KNOW WHERE ALL THE GHOSTS LIVE???
Claire, for some reason: *plus plus*

ok, so. Britta was invited to join the Renegades club! She went to a club gathering, and decided to playfully “Scare” her mate Wolfgang! He thought it was a great light-hearted prank and was all *PLUS PLUS!*

BUT THEN.

THIS MOTHERFLIPPING SHITFACE LITTLE KID chewed Britta right out!! He claimed it was against “club rules” to prank your club mates or some bullshit! Why is he the club king?! He sucks!

Oh yeah, and then my game crashed, so this didn’t “really” happen.

So then I reverted to my most recent save, but this time the utter bastards that are the Renegades club decided not to invite Britta. She had to apply to join manually.

Unfortunately that snot-nosed kid hasn’t forgotten the time Britta sent him a chain letter and he hates her already and LITERALLY EVERY INTERACTION SHE HAS WITH HIM RESULTS IN A *MINUS MINUS*. Wolfgang here is yawning exaggeratedly at everything she says too. Fuck you guys.

Britta: NESSIE is more approachable than you lot and she’s NOT EVEN REAL!
Wolfgang: Some people just have no class! *sniffle*

Luckily Ulrike is a lot nicer than those dickhead males, and lets her into the club.

This club member whose name I forgot named Morgan was nice too. Unfortunately they both think very highly of Max Villareal (aka snot-nosed kid)’s leadership and that just will not do.

After several hours breaking toilets that she then desperately needed to use, Britta came to realise that this whole stupid club sucks.

Britta: That club was awful :(

Thus, Britta got the idea to enact some improvements on the unsuspecting Renegades.

In case you were curious, this is a CAS shot of Rachel’s toddler. She was originally named Norma but her name is now Annie to fit the Community naming theme.

Zoe, meanwhile, packed her bags and moved to Oasis Springs, where she lives the good life with three husbands. Sweet.

Stacey’s ghost makes a return, and she is ANGRY AGAIN!!

Stacey’s ghost: I didn’t want to break the showertub… I just had no choice :(

I think you did, Stace.

Stacey: THIS BATHROOM HAS BEEN TRASHED!!! WHOSE FAULT IS THIS?!?

hmmm, I wonder.

Why does Abed’s relationship panel need to specify that he’s just good friends with his dead grandmother’s ghost? Like, obviously??

I had Claire get up and fix aaaaaall of the shit Stacey had broken, and then Stacey went and broke all of it again. Fuck you!!

She gets happy when she catches up with all her internet buddies though. smh, you should’ve done that BEFORE breaking all our appliances!

Britta started to tell Troy all about the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful presence in their universe, controlling them all like a bunch of marionettes.

But nah, she was only Sharing a Conspiracy Theory.

I mean, yay, but this isn’t exactly helping him reach level 8 in 6 separate skills… *hysterical sobbing*

Britta gets asked to hang out with her club friend, Morgan!

Morgan is cute, and tolerates Britta’s whinging.

They danced for a while (Morgan was there too I promise) but it is blatantly TOO DARK HERE (although it’s not so obvious with the power of Screen) so I sent them out for some fresh air and superior lighting conditions.

Unfortunately Morgan was intent on crushing all my hopes and dreams.

I got them to flirt a little, but then the hangout ended and Morgan went home. So then Britta also went home, because like, why not.

However, stay tuned for next time! Will Britta and Morgan act on their attraction? Will Britta do anything about that no-good stupid Renegades club? (Hint: yes and yes.) SEE YOU THEN!