Strange Family Ties
Ancient Sim:
Jonathan Burb (son of John & Jennifer) is married in my game to Melinda Dreamer, daughter of Lilith & Dirk. This means (I think) that Jonathan is married to the daughter of his first cousin. These two met as children and were great friends from the start. When they became teens, they had all romantic interactions available as the game didn't see them as family. Technically this is understandable insofar as legally there would be nothing against them getting together.
Another character, Desdemona Goth-Dreamer, is the daughter of Cassandra & Darren, which makes her Melinda Burb's auntie and therefore Jonathan's 'auntie-in-law', although clearly there is no blood relationship between her and Jonathan. I noticed that they have exactly the same personality profile, the same aspiration and similar interests, and expected to see a strong attraction between them. Desdemona has no flashes at the moment as her sexual preference isn't set, but it's obvious that she and Jonathan have 'something' as they are drawn to each other. However, Jonathan has no option to give Desdemona anything more than a 'friendly hug' or 'family kiss', both of which he seems to thoroughly enjoying doing. This means he views her as family. Desdemona, on the other hand, has all the romantic interactions available (first kiss, romantic hug, etc.) and no family ones.
In SimPE, there is no family relationship shown. From experience, I know there are other places that these can be set, but I am puzzled as to why Jonathan is seeing Desdemona as family when she isn't seeing him the same way. He does have the option to check her out under 'Flirt', but no other flirt option, whereas Desdemona has the normal ones. I rather think that Melinda senses something because whenever Jonathan interacted with Desdemona, she insisted on interacting with him herself. There are no flashes at all between Jonathan & Melinda, incidentally.
As Desdemona has romantic interactions towards Jonathan available to her, I can't help wondering what would happen if she were to try one. Presumably, as he sees her as family he would reject them, but it still makes no sense that he would see her as family and her not see him that way. I don't really want to get them together anyway, especially as there are children involved, but I am curious as to why this family relationship is one-sided, not to mention keen to find out whether I would be right about them having a strong attraction.
nectere:
I would assume this is because he has genetic ties by proxy to her, but not her to him. Although that really doesnt make sense.
J. M. Pescado:
In-laws occasionally receive a partial family status and are able to encourage. It is not known what triggers this: Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't. Wild theories suggest that it may be related to attendance at the wedding party, previous knowledge (more specifically, lack thereof) of the sims involved, etc., or some possible combination of other factors.
skandelouslala:
I've had this happen at times as well...with in laws for example.
The daughter-in-law sees her father-in-law as nothing more than family..only has family options available...good old daddy dearest however can feel free to romance his son's wife all he wants though..situations like that.
To be honest I have never tried it yet to find out what happens. My sims haven't quite gone that twisted yet.
Dark Trepie:
Speaking of strange family ties, I never quite understood what was up with the Singles/Curious family trees in Strange town. Lola and Chloe *should* be half sisters to the Curious brothers and Jill Smith, but there's no family ties between them what so ever.
Heck, I'm not even sure how Johnny and Jenny Smith are related to them. They're the kids of their father and half sister...so that makes them their siblings *and* Niece/Nephue... o_O
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