Round 8 - Gladiators

As usual, our gladiator household is the last one of the round, right before their big moment in the Colosseum.
Row 1: Septimius Zima (father of Zimius children), Tacitus Nixeira, Glaucia Zima

Sweet little Glaucia is a huge favourite among the Emperor's family, being best friends with more than one of the members.

And this round, she becomes a teenager. Please excuse Septimius, lol... How inappropriate.

Here she is. I bet she'd be very pretty with some make-up, haha...

Glaucia is not the only one who has a birthday this round. Her uncle Septimius does too.

Here's the old man! Still didn't lose a fight in his life - we'll see if his age changes that.

Tacitus has very recently lost his wife and two of his three children, but he doesn't show any emotion about it. I think his rough life has made his heart into stone.

Yeah, he definitely seems to be over Martina, as he seduces young Glaucia at the Baths...

Septimius dealing with his fame, haha.

Once they started, they continued at home. In total, they WooHoo'd four times the last day of the round only. That's one way to mourn your dead family...

Round 7 - Gladiators

The gladiator "family" looks a little different since last round, when one of the three spots opened up and little Glaucia Zima became the one to take it.
Row 1: Septimius Zima (father of Zimius children), Tacitus Nixeira (father of Nixitus children), Glaucia Zima

She starts working on her physics at once. Isn't she just too cute? I just want to rescue her from this fate...

Septimius is her uncle, and he makes an effort to make her feel at home.

Her father Tatianus visits too.

They throw a party, where Martina once again proves to be fragile and crazy...

At the Baths, I notices a scandal in the making, when Manlius Callarai and Caelina Jaxius started a relationship even though they're both married!

Sweet Glaucia took a swim.

And she actually managed to get from zero to ten points in her physics skill in one round! Good job little girl.

Round 6 - Gladiators

Time for another round with the enemy gladiator brothers constantly trying to kill each other.
Row 1: Marianus Nixeira (father of Nixianus children), Tacitus Nixeira (father of Nixitus children), Septimius Zima (father of Zimius children)

Yeah, they still poke and slap and threaten each other whenever they get the opportunity.

Let's go right away I guess... Sigh. If Marianus loses one more fight, he's dead. Tacitus has to lose two.

Good job Marianus. Now we know for sure that their next fight will be the last one.

Marianus has his little wife Drusa over. I hope he's the one to survive this rivalry, since these two still can have lots of kids, while Tacitus' wife is too old for any more.

Septimius throws a nice little party with his wife and one of his daughters as guests.

One evening, Septimius siblings Tatianus (with his wife) and Luciana come over too.

Why have a nice time at the Baths when you can hit each other?

Or even try to kill each other...

Of course. Tacitus wins, Marianus dies.

Poor Drusa.

And then the Emperor stole their newspaper, lol.

Tacitus wife Martina comes by and has a breakdown when she hears that he killed his brother. As you can see, he patienty waits so that they can WooHoo. What a loving man...

Round 5 - Gladiators

The situation in the Gladiator's household is pretty much exactly as we left it - brothers Tacitus and Marianus hate each other and Septimius somehow manages to be friends with both.
Row 1: Marianus Nixeira, Tacitus Nixeira (father of Nixitus children), Septimius Zima (father of Zimius children)

Since none of them managed to maximize their physics skill last round, working out is still their top priority.

The first one to get to the top is Tacitus.

Graceful Septimius soon follows.

Marianus was a little preoccupied with having his birthday to work out.

His brother welcomes him to adulthood by attacking him the moment he's done growing up.

And he kicks his little brother's ass in his fancy modern clothes. This means Marianus can only lose one more fight before dying...

This is what he looks like after a makeover.

Finally, all three maximized! They should be pretty much unstoppable now until they grow old, no?

At the Baths, the brother's ended up in the same tub and were talking until they were friends and enemies at the same time. Never saw this one before.

They had a nice little guy time where the topic seemed to be, not surprisingly, fights.

I guess they're more keen on being enemies than friends...

And it's time again. Is this where Marianus dies?

Nope! He survived the round, but can still only lose one more fight. Tacitus can lose two more before dying, and Septimius three.

Round 4 - Gladiators

As usual, the gladiators are the last household of the round, right before the normally dreaded Colosseum event, where one of them participate. However, this round's event is a little different, as Head of the Callarai family, Caecilius, will be fighting one of these gladiators as a punishment for the murder he committed of Abeni Callandile, wife of her family's Head. Felix Jax will also be having a trial at the Colosseum for the murder of Tarquinus Callandile, son of the previous mentioned victim.
Row 1: Marianus Nixeira (unmarried), Tacitus Nixeira (father of Nixitus children), Septimius Zima (father of Zimius children).
Since last round, Tacitus moved in to take the spot as the third and final gladiator.

You might have noticed that Tacitus was an adult already on the group picture, but honestly as I entered the household I saw he was ripe for aging and did it straight away.

He wasn't too pleased when he grew up, and had a breakdown in his way too modern outfit.

Once back up on his feet and made over, this is how he turned out. Not the most flattering haircut, but otherwise a bit handsome.

Who's surpised? No one? It isn't really strange that they hate each other after fighting each other in the pit last round. They managed to become enemies now...

Tacitus is so strong he can put his hand through the wall. For real! By the way, this is still how all of them spend their days, working on their physics skill. Still no one managed to max it.

They had this cute (and surprisingly smart) little visitor.

I believe Caecilius must have paid someone off to go break in at the gladiators house - the thief only stole the three barres, making it impossible for them to gain more skill for fighting! A masterplan only Caecilius can be the brain behind.

And what did the mighty gladiators do as the thief ran off with their precious barres? ...

They recovered from the terribly traumatic break-in and headed to the Baths, where Drusa thought it was a good idea to tease her gladiator uncle...

The brother's of course kept fighting. Princess Marcellina doesn't seem to like the smell of Tacitus too much.

While the others fought, Septimius took his stink and flies to the tub and relaxed some.

One might think that only teasing her gladiator uncle was stupid enough, but no, Drusa decides to attack him as well. Roman version of suicide?

Big surprise, he kills her, as Marcellina still complains about the stink. My firstborn generation 4... Luckily her twin sister is the same age but still...

Tacitus is such a loner he'd rather sit alone in a tub than join the one with other people in it.