Round 4 - Callaraius

Welcome to a new household! The Callaraius family is the one of Hortensius and Marcellina, who you might recognize as Caecilius Callarai's younger brother and Emperor Varius younger sister.
Row 1: Quintus Nixeira (slave, standing), Hortensius Callarai (Head of the family, sitting), Marcellina Callaraius (wife, sitting)
Quintus was chosen to be their slave, leaving his wife Fulvia with their two little boys.

Naturally, we begin with their wedding, where Marcellina Callani becomes Marcellina Callaraius. I'm not sure why Tarquinius is looking the wrong way, but umm, whatever he feels like I guess.

The newlyweds waste no time in trying for a heir (although I would prefer some daughters first, hehe). For some reason they decide that their first time is better done in the bed of their slave.

Oh my god! It seems like our future Empress is a seductress already. I didn't manage to catch it on picture but she gave her first kiss to Gordianus Callarai, son of the man who murdered her mother. I'm not sure how to feel about this, she is a romance sim, but she's supposed to marry the Emperor...!

Slaves don't own kitchens so cooking is always new for them. Quintus first attempt at dinner leads to this...

Putting out his own fire was too much to ask for, and Marcellina has to step in as hero of the evening.

Or maybe not? The poor girl catches fire, and Quintus is still too useless to even try and save her. Luckily, Hortensius isn't about to let his young wife die on him already.

Marcellina survives, but she's completely exhausted. This gave me some flashbacks to the "good old Stone Age days" where fires easily got out of control and one nearly killed all the Jax's... *shudders*

The couple are at it like teenagers... Which might not be that strange.

So when this happens, it's not the least surprising.

Not much seems to have happened in between the two bumps.

The snow comes falling down and even Hortensius gets a bump! He gets rid of his some hours later though, haha.

Kitchen birth is most hygienic birth!

Of course, it's a boy. Well, they do need one, so I'm not complaining, yet. Hehe. He has brown hair and dark blue eyes - the most common combination among the Patricians - and his name is Iuvenalis.

Marcellina puts all her energy on the boy, and turns out to be quite a loving mother.

She gets pregnant with their second child, but less than twelve hours later she miscarries because of going to bed with her hygiene and hunger in the red after taking care of Iuvenalis.

The last day of the round is the boy's birthday.

Here we have the little heir! As you can see, he inherited his mother's nose, but since it's the nose of the Emperor, maybe we can see it as some kind of status thing in this neighborhood.