Round 1 - The Colosseum

Round 1 has ended, but there is one thing left to be done. It's time for the very first Colosseum slave death! The Emperor's family has gathered and Januarius is excitedly talking about the magic that's about to happen.

The Callani's has chosen two slave children, who are siblings, to fight to the death. The reason for this is because one of their slaves, Nona Nixeira, attacked and killed another one of their slaves, Vibianus Zimayo, in their very own kitchen! As punishment, they decided that Nona's two youngest siblings are going to do the same, and here they are.

Their names are Marianus and Fabiola Nixeira. They don't seem too scared at first. Marianus is the older one of them, but Fabiola isn't as weak and innocent as she looks. She's done something similar to this before - this round, she killed her own twin brother.

The children start playing cops and robbers, and Fabiola acts as if she's been killed by her brother - maybe they think they can trick the Emperor's family and get out of there alive, both of them.

They also try hitting each other with pillows - maybe we could call it a warm up - but no trick they have up their little sleeves are working. The Emperor still wants one of them dead by the other ones hands.

Marianus gets finally gets frustrated and starts poking his sister. According to him, he shouldn't even have to be there, but she deserves it, after what she did to their brother Aemilius.

And then, the fight breaks out, to the Callani's delight.

Big brother Marianus is the one victorious in the end, and Fabiola dies. However, the Emperor's family decides that Marianus will not be returning to his brother's apartment - instead, they see a potential to turn this into a famous sports event. They imagine having Marianus as a gladiator; fighting other slaves like this while the rich families bet their money on who's going to win. And if he is victorious, the money go to the Callani's, who own him. Maybe the Patricians even will make their own gladiators! Wouldn't that be great fun and absolutely perfect?

Just some facts about Round 1 now when it's finished:
Births: 5
Weddings: 1
Deaths: 5

(I drew the names of these two, personally I wish they weren't children, but yeah that happened...)

Round 1 - Nixsana

Before the Romans came, the Nixsana family was Temitope with her three boys, after her husband died. However, a Patrician family took her to work in their household, leaving the boys alone. The oldest one of the three is Rufinus Nixsana, an active and grouchy popularity sim.

The middle boy is Cassian. He's been in constant aspiration failure since his father died and keeps having outbreaks of anger.

The youngest one is Otho, who's pretty much a normal boy.

The first night, it's already time for Cassian to join his brother as a teenager. Of course, his wishes are impossible to fulfill this quickly and he grows up badly.

Here we have him. Although he has the most common face in the neighborhood (typical Nixeira), he's the only one who has it with grey eyes and this pale skin, making him stand out anyway. He's a playful knowledge sim (but also incredibly sloppy and lazy).

One of his fits of anger...

And he attacks his brother Rufinus. Of course I'm not surprised. Had he just resisted his anger a few more hours he would have had that best friend he so badly wanted, but no. Rufinus looks to be winning.

... But the tables turn and Cassian wins, killing his older brother.

As the Grim Reaper comes and he sees how devastated he made their younger brother, he regrets his actions.

Bye Rufinus, who was going to father a bastard next round. At least his blood flows in the veins of his and Iuliana's unborn child...

Cassian tries to become a better role model for his brother Otho now when he's the only one left to care for the boy.

He goes to take out the trash and meets his mother, who breaks down when she hears that her firstborn is dead. I swear, no one in the neighborhood has had as many aspiration failures as Temitope.

However, she seems to get in a better mood as the introduces Cassian to his future wife, Prisca. At least they'll marry if both of them survive, in this neighborhood, you never know... Especially since both of them are sick.

The Nixsana boys head to the Baths and Cassian, who's had his comfort in red all season due to a food poisoning, seems to be enjoying himself a lot.

And Otho found a cousin to play with in the mean time.

Round 1 - Nixeira

The Nixeira family used to be a big, sprawling family, but in the last round, things changed. The father died, and when they became slaves, the mother Akinyi was taken to work at the Palace along with the oldest daughter Nona. One of the young boys, Tacitus, was taken to work for a Patrician. The only teenager left is Quintus, the family's oldest child, who is now responsible for his five young siblings. Quintus Nixeira is a neat and nice popularity sim, and in the picture he's holding his brother Marianus.

The family has two sets of twins. The younger pair are only babies - a boy named Aemilius and a girl named Fabiola - and the older ones are children. This is Caelina.

And this is Prisca.

This is Fulvia Zima, who is going to become Quintus wife this round.

We go straight for the wedding, where Fulvia Zima becomes Fulvia Nixeira.

The only audience was the twin girls and a skunk. Lovely.

That night, we already have a bunch of birthdays. Let's begin with the oldest one, Marianus, who becomes a child.

Here he is afterwards. When I say someone has the "typical Nixeira face", this is what I'm talking about. I think most families in the neighborhood has a mother with this face, so it's really spread out because the actual Nixeira's always had a lot of kids.

The younger set of twins also grow up. Here's Aemilius.

And here's Fabiola. As you may see, I wouldn't say any of them has the typical Nixeira face.

This is how the older kids spend their days, playing outside of their one-room apartment.

Bump! Seems like the wedding night was fruitful.

And this is how the younger ones entertain themselves.

The little belly quickly becomes a big one. The newly-become couple still don't know each other enough to be friends, but they don't seem to hate one another.

And then I suddenly spot Grimmie making a visit! Turns out Prisca has died from the cold everyone (in the whole goddamned neighborhood no one ever gets healthy) has...

Luckily, the family has access to a Genie Lamp. I decided to bring Prisca back since there's already a lack of girls in the third generation and we don't need to lose one of the ones we have. Even the Genie thinks this place stinks, haha...

And she comes back in a cloud of green smoke! Yay!

Then, it's suddenly time for Fulvia to deliver our first generation 4 baby. Her mother Uduak even came as support.

And it's a girl! Little Drusa Nixeira. She has black hair and brown eyes.

Wait a second...

... And it's another pair of twins. My face was similar to the loving father Quintus when I realized that this household now holds three of them. Seriously. Both of them are girls and they have the same hair- and eye-color. The second one's name is Antonia.

Coincidentally, the third pair of twins are born on the birthday of both the other pairs, which means that Caelina and Prisca are becoming teenagers...

And that Aemilius and Fabiola are growing up to children. (Fabiola looks really strange, lol)

Here's my dear Caelina (no favouritism going on here at all... or maybe yes) as a teenager. She's a pleasure sim and her nice-meter is full.

And her sister Prisca, who's an active and outgoing popularity sim.

The child Aemilius.

And the child Fabiola.

No need to get used to those two... They both grow up badly and start fighting.

Fabiola wins, which means that Aemilius won't live to see the next sunrise.

Everybody's crying and Fabiola just stands there like "Huh, ok, no brother for me"...

Bye bye little boy. Let's try to see it positively, one less mouth to feed, one less boy to marry... Now I feel evil.

The remaining members of the family visit the Baths. Quintus and Fulvia use this time to go on a date, and finally get feelings for each other.

Marianus wasn't creepy at all when he decided to stand and stare at the bathing ladies for hours.

When they come home, Quintus grows up into an adult. I didn't manage to get a picture of him in the rainbow light so you'll have to settle for this.

Here he is, looking more Era-appropriate.

The little twins had their birthday too. Here's Antonia in a stink-cloud with her aunt Prisca.

And here's Drusa with her mother. Both of them look like Quintus, which I'm pleased to see. I never liked Fulvia's face much, although she does have a lovely eye color. She's the only one in the neighborhood with it, hopefully someone inherits it...