THE FLETCHER LEGACY

Machinima Highlight “The Fletcher Legacy

BY OBIGEM

ABOUT THE FLETCHER LEGACY:

When the Fletcher Legacy began, it was not a legacy save at all! The original save was actually a spin off from the very first Sims 4 save I created when I began playing the game on PC. It centered around Andrea Nichols, her best friend, Melody Pike, and Melody ’ s daughter, Mimi. Andrea was a university student with the big dream of graduating with her degree in biology and entering the medical field as a doctor; meanwhile, Melody was a single mother with a deadbeat baby ’ s father. Melody was trying to get her life back on track after her mother kicked her out with nowhere to go. Andrea was Melody ’ s shoulder to lean on; she offered her a place in her apartment so she could raise her daughter and get her life back on track. But the two leaned on each other quite a bit as they both figured their lives out. The Fletcher Legacy sprouted from this story ’ s culmination. Where do we go from here now that Andrea is engaged, graduated and Melody has effectively gotten a degree of her own and has learned to sustain herself through her paintings? They ’ ve made it, right? Well…

STORY SYNOPSIS:

Andrea and Cameron Fletcher are now married and starting their lives together in Oasis Springs. Everything seems grand and golden at first, but it quickly becomes apparent that both have a lot of learning and growing to do when it comes to how to balance married life with career advancement, parenthood, and learning to be each other ’ s number one confidantes. On the other side of the legacy is Andrea ’ s best friend Melody, who also has some learning and growing to do as she figures out how to love and let others in. Now that she doesn ’t have her best friend for constant emotional support, how can Melody learn to let herself love?

CHARACTER SPOTLIGHT — ANDREA FLETCHER

Our heroine and principle protagonist, Andrea is an ambitious perfectionist who is always racking her brain for creative solutions to all of her life ’ s problems. In a perfect world, she ’d always know the right thing to say and do and every moment would be ideal and perfectly executed. But part of Andrea ’ s plight is learning that her penchant for striving for perfection is her biggest flaw holding her back.

CHARACTER SPOTLIGHT — MELODY PIKE

In many ways, Melody is the secondary lead of this story with an arc just as important as Andrea ’ s. Melody didn ’t have the best of upbringings, and you ’d never know it because she makes it a point to not talk about it if she can help it. Melody ’ s go-to-move is to cover up her less than ideal and chaotic childhood with jokes. She shields herself with a smile because underneath the snarkiness is a person who ’ s been wounded in both life and love; she is still very much afraid to let anyone in.