Midnights Legacy Challenge

Do you like Taylor Swift? Do you love Taylor’s album Midnights? Do you want to follow along in the sims with the lyrics of Taylor’s songs, while still enjoying the gameplay? Then do I have the legacy challenge for you!

Welcome to the Midnights Legacy Challenge, a thirteen (because of course) generation legacy that focuses on the lyrics and songs from Taylor Swift's newest album.

I have been playing the sims since the original sims and have been a fan of Taylor Swift since Tim McGraw, so this was the perfect way to blend two of my favorite things into one!

Just some quick housekeeping:

  • I will be starting this legacy at the start of 2023 on my YouTube channel if you want to follow along while I play test this through!
  • Comments and feedback is always welcome!
  • All of this is fan created, none of this is sponsored or approved by Taylor Swift or Taylor’s team
  • This is my first ever legacy challenge I have created, so please please please go check out all my amazing friends that proofread this and gave me pointers along the way!
  • These are not literal interpretations of each song, just a way I thought tied together nicely in a story from one gen to the next and to pull plot points out from the lyrics of each song and create an entirely new story
  •  I tried my best to limit the number of packs in this and to not repeat anything so if there is a trait or aspiration that makes more sense, it’s probably been used for another gen
  • I color coded based on packs and added Brackets to serve as replacements for Base Game options if you don’t have the specific pack being called for
  • *I have made the descriptions/lyrics gender neutral because I want you to play this however you want, gender and sexuality should not limit your Let’s Play!!*

Basic Rules:

  • Required Packs [Alternatives to make it just base game will be in these brackets]:
  •   Base Game, Get to Work, Get Together, City Living, Cats & Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Island Living, Eco Lifestyle, Snowy Escape, Cottage Living, Discover University, Jungle Adventure, Nifty Knitting
  • Each generation is color coded as above so you can modify for the packs you don’t have
  • Have fun, and do whatever you want
  •  If you have ideas or comments, you can always reach out to me and let me know!

Generation One: Lavender Haze (Base Game)

Meet me at Midnight…. Has been your go-to phrase ever since you moved out on your own and were a young adult. Throughout your young adult life, you’ve always been a heartbreaker, and career oriented. You’ve had a rough exterior shell, and that’s caused issues in your previous relationships. You’ve always wanted more, but were too afraid to show it until now…

Traits: Gloomy (melancholia), Romantic (love spiral), non-Committal (under scrutiny)

Aspiration: Serial Romantic

Career: Entertainer

 

  •  Finish the Serial Romantic Aspiration before meeting your life partner
  • Never get married (the only kind of *person* they see, is a one-night or a *spouse*)
  • You can’t find your partner till you are an adult, and your partner must be a young adult
  •  Master Piano and Comedy Skills (Get it off your chest)
  • Master the Entertainer career

 

 Generation Two: Maroon (Base Game)

A real *freaking* legacy to leave…. Watching your parents fall in love, despite all the odds, has made you a bit of a hopeless romantic and a bit naïve. You always grew up listening to your parents love songs, so you want nothing more than to find it sooner than they did. You meet your “one true love” as a teen, so when it ultimately doesn’t work out… you're crushed. Even when you meet your forever partner, if only you could go back to that time when you were so in love and were so sure of everything in this world…

 Traits: Snob (your roommates cheap ass screw top rose), Jealous (memory over me), Music Lover (vinyl shelf)

Aspiration: Soulmate

Career: Culinary

  • Date someone from your youth till your Young Adult Life
  • Marry someone you meet from your career
  • Master the Culinary Career and Complete Soulmate Aspiration
  • Stay with your partner, but have a one-time affair with your first love and conceive the next gen that way (you may cheat to do this)

 

 

Generation Three: Anti-Hero (Base Game, City Living, Discover University, Island Living)

It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it's me…. You’ve always felt like there has been something off with your parents, and you can’t help but feel like you are to blame. To avoid addressing the problems, you’ve been pranking people for as long as you can remember. Your parents stayed together your whole life, but one somber winterfest your non-biological parent broke down and told you, you weren’t theirs.. You have no interest in meeting your other biological parent because your parents are your parents, and you have all the logic to know it’s not your fault, but you can’t stop yourself from feeling like it is. You never want to make your parent’s mistakes…

Traits: Loner (At tea time, everybody agrees), Hot-Headed (I wake up screaming) Hates Children (sexy baby)

Aspiration: Master Mischief

Career: Politician (Like some kind of congressman?) — [Business]

 

  • Master the Politician [Business] career And complete Master Mischief AspirationMaster 
  • debate [charisma] and logic skill
  •  Marry someone you meet from your career
  •  Move to Sulani  [Oasis Springs] when you start having kids
  •  Finish the MySims Trophies Collection
  • Take at least one family vacation per child [You can just travel to another town for a day or two]

Generation Four: Snow on the Beach (Base Game, Island Living, Snowy Escape, Eco Lifestyle)

Weird but f-ing beautiful…. Your parents gave you everything that you ever wanted, the perks of being a politician’s [successful business person] kid, I guess. Private boarding school, excursions to wherever you wanted, and an unlimited budget. Unfortunately for you, that lifestyle was taken from you the time you turned 18. You thought you had your whole life set, but they want you to appreciate working for a simoleon and understand what it's like to work hard. (Thinks I left them in the will) Too bad working hard has never really been your “thing”.  One vacation in particular stuck out to you, and you want to get the hell away from the beach [sand] and move up to the Mountains [water]….

Traits: Adventurous [Active] (I searched aurora borealis green), Freegan [Bro], Loyal (And to hide that would be so dishonest)

Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast — [Bodybuilder]

Career: Athlete

 

  •  Move out of the household with 0 simoleons (you can use free real-estate to get a starter home)
  • Move away from the beach [sand], to find the snow, in Mt. Komorebi [the water, in Willow Creek] once you become a Young Adult
  • Master the Athlete career and complete Extreme Sports Enthusiast [Bodybuilder] Aspiration
  •  Master Snowboarding and Rock-Climbing [Fishing and Handiness] Skill
  •  Marry a sim with at least one of the same traits as you (they just get you, ya know)

 

Generation Five: You’re On Your Own Kid (Base Game, Get Together, City Living)

You’re on your own kid, you always have been…. Your parents, as much as they loved you, always seemed to love the outdoors just a little bit more. Your parents were always with each other, doing outdoorsy, adventurous stuff, but you aren’t like them at all. They were nice and always asked if you wanted to go with them, but they always dug around for their food in local garbage bins [grabbed junk food], and you developed a close-knit group of friends, and did your best to fit in with them, rather than your free-spirited parents.

 Traits: Insider [Glutton] (so make the friendship bracelets), Materialistic (I took the money), Bookworm (pages turn)

Aspiration: Party Animal (I hosted parties)

Career: Food Critic — [Secret Agent]

 

  •  Master the Food Critic [Secret Agent] career and complete Party Animal
  • Earn at least 5 gold from hosting parties
  • Master Gourmet Cooking and Dancing [Programming] skill
  • Answer every phone call and accept every invitation your sim receives once they become a young adult
  •  Marry your BFF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generation Six: Midnight Rain (Base Game, Get Famous)

*They were* sunshine, I was midnight rain…. Being midnight rain, you feel a comfort in being alone, not always alone, but looking for more. Your parents were always around, but you looked up to the free spirit, fun that your grandparents had more. They were having so much fun just living their life, and you just want to take it to the next level! You had a chance at a love like your parents had, but you were too focused on your goals to take it too seriously at the time.

 Traits: Self Assured (chasing that fame), Neat (*they* wanted it comfortable), Foodie

Aspiration: Master Actor/Master Actress (Except when I’m on tv) — [Fabulously Wealthy]

Career: Actor (Pageant queens and big pretenders) — [Astronaut]

 

  •  Master the Master Actor [Astronaut] career and complete Actor [Fabulously Wealthy] aspiration
  •  Date someone that is ‘Good’ as a trait and break-up with them when it comes time to propose (broke *their* heart cause *they were* nice)
  • Master acting [fitness] and rocket science skill
  • Complete the Postcard collection (it came like a postcard)
  • Achieve Global Superstar level fame [Complete the Aliens collection]
  • Go to space at least once

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generation Seven: Question…? (Base Game, City Living, Get to Work)

Can I ask you a question…. You watched your parent rise to fame and let one of the good ones go, in contrast, your grandparents were best friends and ended up so happy. Why can’t that happen for you too? You’ve always been an inquisitive one, and wanting to leave no stone unturned and no question unanswered. So, tell me why it always seems so hard for you to find the One? There was a cute coworker at one point, but last you heard they were off looking through telescopes…

Traits: Unflirty [Geek] (wrong choices), Childish (It's just a question), Slob

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim (When *they* said it was too much?)

Career: Scientist — [Tech Guru]

 

  • Master the Scientist [Tech Guru] career and complete Renaissance Sim aspiration (requires two additional careers to level 3, best if done as part time jobs in high school)
  • Master Fitness and Robotics skill
  • Own a telescope and look through it every night (Meteor strike)
  • Kiss a coworker on the job [somewhere] and then never interact with them again (Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room)
  • Go to a bar after kissing a coworker and order a lot of juice (It was one drink after another)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generation Eight: Vigilante Shit (Base Game)

Lately I’ve been dressing for revenge…. While your parent was busy occupying themselves doing literally the most all the time, you’ve always wanted to be like your grandparents. Not happily married, no. Not just filthy rich, but wearing that wealth. Your parent was a slob, but you want nothing more than to wear the best designer clothes, the most lavish jewels, and always dress to the nines, no matter the cost….

 Traits: Kleptomaniac (Someone told *their* white-collar crimes to the FBI), Creative (*They* needed cold hard proof so I gave *them* some), Mean (Don’t get sad, get even)

Aspiration: Villainous Valentine

Career: Style Influencer (Lately I’ve been dressing for revenge)

 

  •  Master the Style Influencer career and complete Villainous Valentine aspiration
  •  Master Mixology and Photography skill
  • Complete Villainous Valentine before having the next gen
  • Have the next gen with an already married sim
  • Convince the partner of your next gens parent to leave their partner (Picture me thick as thieves with your ex-*partner*) and marry them (And *they look* so pretty)
  • Every time you leave the house you must steal something

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generation Nine: Bejeweled (Base Game, Get Together, Seasons, Jungle Adventure)

I can still make the whole place shimmer…. Ever since you inherited a diamond necklace from your great-grandparents, which you are pretty sure your parent stole and replaced with a fake, you have been obsessed with all things shiny. Diamonds, Emeralds, Pearls, Rubies, you name it, if you can polish it and it can shine, you want it. You never cared about showing them off, you don’t want to be flashy like your parents and don’t mind getting your hands a little dirty to dig-up what you can… but you just have always wanted to have at least one of each jewel, they just polish up real, they polish up real nice…

 Traits: Outgoing (I’m going out tonight), Dance Machine [Goofball] (And when I meet the band), Ambitious (Familiarity breeds contempt)

Aspiration: The Curator

Career: Gardner — [Painter]

 

  • Master the Gardner [Painter] career and complete The Curator aspiration
  • You can only arrange flowers that you have grown (You may build a ‘greenhouse’ to grow flowers of all seasons at once)
  • Master Gardening and Flower Arranging skill
  • Collect all Crystals and send them to a Jeweler for Refinement [you can add another collection like frogs if you feel like it to complete or leave it alone]
  • Complete the Crystals Collection and another of your choice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generation Ten: Labyrinth (Base Game, Cottage Living, City Living, Eco Lifestyle, Cats & Dogs)

Oh no, you’re falling in love again…. Just when you thought you were in your Reputation era; you realize you’ve been in your folklore era this whole time. Betty might have switched *their* homeroom because of you, but *they* will kiss you on the porch in front of all *their* stupid friends. Don’t ask me to explain it, but Labyrinth is an adult Betty. Your parents always grew their own food, so you got used to only eating fresh produce. You have found your one. The one for you, but also the one that is going to put you through the heartbreak. Just when you think it is over, and the plane was going down, they somehow turn it right around…

 Traits: Art Lover (Lost in the labyrinth of my mind), Vegetarian, Lazy (Uh oh, I'm falling in love)

Aspiration: Big Happy Family

Career: Freelancer

 

  • Complete The Big Happy Family aspiration (requires the next gen to have children)
  • Master Singing and Fabrication [Violin and Painting] skill
  • Must live on a lot with the Simple Living Challenge enabled [Try your best to make meals with only ingredients you have]
  • You can only have official relationship your entire sim life, and must end up with them
  • Must get married and divorced to the same sim at least two times (I thought the plane was going down, how’d you turn it back around)
  • Every time you get married you must have a kid
  • You must half your money each time you get divorced
  • You must adopt a cat for your kids [half your money again and gift each child 10 seed packets] each time you get divorced (If you get divorced 3 times, might I suggest the cat names, Olivia, Meridith and Benjamin?)
  • You may only work on your freelance career while divorced
  • You can never live in San Myshuno [Oasis Spring & Willow Creek] (You know how scared I am of elevators)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generation Eleven: Karma (Base Game, Cats & Dogs)

Is a cat purring in my lap because it loves me… Your parents have had this weird on again, off again kinda relationship that has plagued your whole childhood. Every time they had issues, they would buy you a cat [seed packets to grow your own plants] for some reason like that would save you from seeing their problems… Well, it didn’t but it did develop your love for cats [plants]! So much so, that you decided to throw the whole job idea out the window and just open your own veterinary clinic [and take some part time jobs whenever you feel like it]! Who needs kids when you can have all the fur [plant] babies in the world, so imagine your surprise when….

 Traits: Cat Lover [Erratic] (Karma is a cat), Clumsy (flexing like an acrobat), Good (Karma’s a relaxing thought)

Aspiration: Friend of Animals —- [Freelance Botanist]

Career: N/A

 

  • Complete The Friend of Animals [Freelance Botanist] aspiration
  • Take all the remaining money from your parents and open a veterinary clinic [greenhouse]
  • Master the Pet Training and Veterinarian [Guitar and Video Game] Skill
  • When you move out of your parent’s house, you must take your favorite cat [plants] and the Labyrinth gen with you (You can take both parents if they are still together at that time, but this is mainly to help complete their Aspiration when you have kids)
  • Surprise you will only have kids once but they will be Quadruplets (You can cheat to make this happen)
  •  All of your toddlers must max every skill before aging up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generation Twelve: Sweet Nothings (Base Game, Cats & Dogs, Discover University, Cottage Living, Island Living, Nifty Knitting)

They said the end is coming… Growing up in a very very full household, you learned a lot about how to entertain yourself and how to drown out the outside noise when you just want time to focus and do what you want to do. You found yourself dreaming of this fairytale farm life, where everything is quiet, and calming and relaxing. You even wrote a story once as a kid about how great it would be to grow up on a Christmas Tree farm, and hope you can live on a farm one day. Your parents asked a lot of you and your siblings growing up, be it taking care of all the pets [plants] that overflowed from the vet practice [greenhouse], or to get good grades, you always felt like they wanted great things from you, but they always let you be whomever you wanted to be. To you I can admit that I’m just too soft for all of it…

Traits: Cheerful, Loves the Outdoors, Animal Enthusiast [Family Oriented] 

Aspiration: Best Selling Author (On the way home, I wrote a poem)

Career: Educator — [Writer]

 

  • Complete The Best-Selling Author aspiration
  • Master Knitting [Writing], Cooking and Baking [random skill of your choice] skill (You’re in the kitchen humming)
  • Live your entire Young Adult life on a farm in Henford-on-Bagley [In Willow Creek Dreaming of Farm Life]
  • Own at least 3 Cows/Llamas at once [Have 12 Excellent Quality Plants at once]
  • Complete the Shell [Mineral] Collection (A pebble that we picked up last July)
  •  Have a full chicken coop [Successfully have a plant from each season at Excellent at the same time]
  • You must read your kids to sleep every night (Even if on vacation)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generation Thirteen: Mastermind (Base Game, Get Famous)

I’ve been scheming like a criminal ever since… Your parents were always running around busy either writing, taking care of the farm, or collecting sea shells [minerals] so you rarely got to spend a lot of time with them. But no matter what was happening, they would also find time to read you a bedtime story at night, and it was your favorite part of the day. The adventures in the story of looking for hidden treasure, or fantasy lands and heists filled your mind before dreaming every night. You were always book smart, but you were also street smart, learning how you could sneak a cookie or two while Agnus Crumplebottom wasn’t looking. Checkmate, I couldn’t lose…

Traits: Genius (I laid the groundwork), Perfectionist (If you fail to plan, you plan to fail), Self-Absorbed [Evil] (it was all by design)

Aspiration: Public Enemy (Mastermind)

Career: Criminal (like a criminal)

 

  • Complete the Criminal career and Public Enemy Aspiration
  • Mater Programing and Mischief skill
  • Move every time you go up two ranks in your career
  • Meet your partner at a bar who is in the secret agent career
  • You may only see your partner at the bar you met at until you are married, they can’t know who you are or what you do for a living (The dominoes cascaded in a line)
  • Your partner switches jobs to criminal after y’all get together (You knew the entire time, you knew I was a mastermind)
  • Have a weekly date night with your partner
  • Become Partners in Crime

Thank you’s - Please go check out all of my amazing friends that looked this over/gave me advice!:

  • Thank you to Max for planting this idea in my head!
  • Thank you to Em for proof-reading and helping tweak the Mastermind Generation!
  • Thank you to Ireen for proof-reading and being one of the best hype persons I could ask for
  • Thank you to Britney for helping me figure out if this is even a fun, playable challenge!!
  • Thank you to IllusoryThrall for proof-reading!
  • Thank you to Love Whims for proof-reading and being an amazing friend!
  • Thank you to OddlySims for reading and helping with some Taylor Lore!
  • Thank you to FoodForTheSims for being amazing and taking a peak before this goes live!