A Touch of Randomness: Difference between revisions

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Played straight with the female family cat, Manchas, a true evil mastermind. Subverted with the male cat, Cookie, who is quite sweet and harmless. Most of Error and Rodiek's cats are also subversions of this trope, not being evil at all.

* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: This trope ends up affecting most of the family heirs/heiresses.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|David}} after the death of his crush {{spoiler|Clarice}}. This might have also been the case with {{spoiler|Dio}} due to the intense family drama going on at the time of her death. It was never confirmed, though.

* [[Everyone Is Related]]: Every character who isn't a simself spouse or a townie that by any chance has a role in the plot is descended from Calvin Random. (And even most of those who ''aren't'' Calvin's descendants become relatives by marriage.)

* [[Gene Hunting]]: This happens with Finbar and Annabeth's adopted daughter, Morgause, who goes searching for her biological family during her late teen years. {{spoiler|It ends very, very badly for her - she is drugged into a trance-like state by her psychotic biological grandmother, Lillian, and then falls from a third floor balcony to her death}}.

* [[Give Him a Normal Life]]: Most likely what happened with {{spoiler|Kyril}}, since everyone believes his biological parents are {{spoiler|Jaenelle and Fernando}}, even though it was never 100% confirmed. Generations later, there was the case of {{spoiler|Helled and her daughter}}. Being deeply ashamed of her one-night-stand with her ex-boyfriend, not knowing who the baby's actual father was and fearing her psychotic mother Lillian and equally psychotic distant relative Felicia would get hold of the child were more than enough reasons to give her up for adoption. Shortly after, the baby, {{spoiler|later named Morgause}} was adopted by {{spoiler|Finbar and his wife Annabeth}} (who had been rendered unable to have any more children after their firstborn's birth). However, this backfired tremendously when {{spoiler|the teenaged and very, very naïve Morgause}} went to search for her biological relatives. She ended up finding {{spoiler|the evil ones first, which resulted in her death}}.

* [[Happily Adopted]]: {{spoiler|Morgause, adopted daughter of Finbar and Anna}} who is actually the biological daughter of {{spoiler|Helled and either Lawrence or Landon}}.

* [[Happily Married]]: Quite a few of the legacy couples. Aisha and Mil, Baruch and Mer, Fish and KR, Kennard and Shannon, Landon and Lala, and also some couples involving spares and descendants of spares, like Joey and Fermina, Finbar and Annabeth, Rodiek and Error.

* [[Homosexual Reproduction]]: Since this is The Sims 2, pregnancy is possible for same-sex couples such as Aisha and Mil, Grizabella and Lisa and Johanna and Ashley. The use of this trope also enables {{spoiler|Clarice to get pregnant with Grizabella's child as the main point of a plan to try to get the heiress to marry her}}.

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: The best example would be how young Emil and Emily acted in regards to {{spoiler|Chad's mistreatment of Electra after their mother's death}}. Miguel was also quite nasty towards his impressionable younger brother Moville.

* [[Kill the Cutie]]: This happens in a recent chapter, where {{spoiler|Lillian Tale essencially manipulates her naïve granddaughter Morgause}} just to mess with {{spoiler|Morgause's biological mother, her much hated daughter Helled}}. Lillian then eventually causes {{spoiler|Morgause's death by tricking her into falling from a balcony, while she's drugged and in a sort of trance}}.

** There is also Lillian from the House of Fallen Trees heirline, who loves her son Howl so much she ended up {{spoiler|killing her own husband Gabriel and her daughter-in-law Rosa (Howl's own wife)}} so that no harm would come to Howl.

* [[Only the Leads Get A Happy Ending]]: Subverted in pretty much all cases. Many of the main characters have been murdered during particularly plotty story arcs. Some of most uninteresting spares, who eventually fade into the background, have quite dull, but safe and mostly happy lives.

* [[Parental Favoritism]]: Very present in every single generation. The most extreme example is perhaps {{spoiler|Jo's favoritism towards Electra}}. A second important example would be {{spoiler|Grizabella favouring her youngest child, Haley}}. The most recent one would be the one of {{spoiler|Lillian}} from the House of Fallen Trees heirline - the only one out of her family members she cares about is {{spoiler|her son Howl}}. Just so that he would be safe, she {{spoiler|killed her own husband Gabriel (Howl's father), Howl's own wife Rosa, and was very willing to do the same to her daughter Helled. Thankfully, Helled was saved at just the right time}}.

* [[Put On a Bus]]: Most spares from the earlier generations. Since spares are immortal in this story, they just end up fading away and are (mostly) never heard from again.