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    My two light skinned sims just had a dark skinned son

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    LovelyMelodyLovelyMelody Posts: 896 Member
    edited September 2014 in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    I'm seriously confused as to how this happened?

    Just witnessed my sim's girlfriend give birth and aged the baby up straight away (cause babies = boring) and uhm, yeah he is dark. I checked the boy's friends list to see if my light skinned sim was the father and yep sure enough he was.

    I didn't edit him in cas either.

    Would it be "wrong" of me to change his skin colour to that of his parents? Should I leave him the way he is?
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      KayeStarKayeStar Posts: 6,715 Member
      It's your family. If you think it's too weird, change him. Those are some strange genetics, though, but not impossible.
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      pguidapguida Posts: 7,481 Member
      SweetieKaye wrote: »
      It's your family. If you think it's too weird, change him. Those are some strange genetics, though, but not impossible.

      What about the grandparents?
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      MsPhyMsPhy Posts: 5,055 Member
      Hmm. Were the parents your own creations? If not, perhaps they are carrying some genes that weren't automatically noticeable.

      He's your Sim, in your game; if you feel more comfortable editing him, no one has any business telling you not to do so. In TS1 the kids didn't always match the parents, and it really made me crazy when there was a non-matching kid.
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      claritysfclaritysf Posts: 384 Member
      haha! That's funny. My friend had that happen in real life. It turns out her husbands great grandfather was Samoan and They both didn't know that until they did some digging into the family tree.

      Besides the skin tone, Does your Sim son have the same features as the Sim parents?
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      SimMommy05SimMommy05 Posts: 2,574 Member
      I've had this happen a lot with skin color and hair color. It makes me wonder what the game decides to give the children when they have no grandparents. If you make a sim as a YA in CAS and then they produce children, they technically have no parents. So how does the game just produce random genetics?
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      pguidapguida Posts: 7,481 Member
      If any grandparent had darker skin, I actually appreciate the game having ancestors matter genetically.
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      LovelyMelodyLovelyMelody Posts: 896 Member
      The father has grandparents, who were both white and created in CAS (I randomized two elders and threw them in with Nikolai - someone else's creation). The mother's mother is white too. The child does not have their eye colour.
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      pguidapguida Posts: 7,481 Member
      LovelyMelody wrote: »
      The father has grandparents, who were both white and created in CAS (I randomized two elders and threw them in with Nikolai - someone else's creation). The mother's mother is white too. The child does not have their eye colour.

      This seems like a glitch, then.
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      LovelyMelodyLovelyMelody Posts: 896 Member
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      proof I didn't mess with the child just incase anyone was thinking it. He is the darker one in the blue crib his sister is in the pink crib.
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      LovelyMelodyLovelyMelody Posts: 896 Member
      pguida wrote: »
      LovelyMelody wrote: »
      The father has grandparents, who were both white and created in CAS (I randomized two elders and threw them in with Nikolai - someone else's creation). The mother's mother is white too. The child does not have their eye colour.

      This seems like a glitch, then.
      Must be
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      beaniesweeniesbeaniesweenies Posts: 4 New Member
      I've had this happen but they tend to look more similar in skin tone when they age up. If you don't edit him you could wait and see if he resembles his parents more when he becomes a teen.
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      RockoutDarciRockoutDarci Posts: 3,092 Member
      LEAVE IT! OMG! That's so cool! I'd be super excited to get a unique baby like that in a family! This kind of stuff happens in real life sometimes too. I mean, play it how you want to, it's just a game, but I love that he's so unique within the family and that's probably a rare occurrence.

      Also, does anyone know how genetics work in this game? Most of my babies are ending up looking nothing like their parents.
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      pguidapguida Posts: 7,481 Member
      RockoutDarci wrote: »
      LEAVE IT! OMG! That's so cool! I'd be super excited to get a unique baby like that in a family! This kind of stuff happens in real life sometimes too. I mean, play it how you want to, it's just a game, but I love that he's so unique within the family and that's probably a rare occurrence.

      Also, does anyone know how genetics work in this game? Most of my babies are ending up looking nothing like their parents.

      All babies look the same in game, but from child on you should start seeing the resemblance.
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      MsPhyMsPhy Posts: 5,055 Member
      RockoutDarci wrote: »
      Also, does anyone know how genetics work in this game? Most of my babies are ending up looking nothing like their parents.

      Don't know exactly. All I can say is that my two boys born in-game definitely have their mother's eyes. I keep looking for some feature of their father's -- he has a very prominent nose, which I was hoping someone would inherit -- but maybe when they become adults I will see some trace of him in them.
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      GruffmanGruffman Posts: 4,831 Member
      I would say for right now leave it. When he ages up, the skintone might change, it might not ... if he gets to adulthood and you want a same color as mom/dad, go in and change it then.

      I like it when stuff like that happens myself.
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      SimChic1SimChic1 Posts: 3,449 Member
      Someone has some explaining to dooooo

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      LovelyMelodyLovelyMelody Posts: 896 Member
      I'm keeping my special baby the way he is X)
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      seVenpeaceloVeseVenpeaceloVe Posts: 501 Member
      so in real life would you be as concerned if your son came out darker than your other kids? would you still love him?
      if the answer is yes, accepting him unconditionally in a game shouldnt be a choice to make.
      if the answer is no.......
      free the sims!
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      Nik24X7Nik24X7 Posts: 7,865 Member
      If it were me, I'd keep him the way he is. I like to just roll with whatever the game gives me. More fun for me that way. But it's your game so do what pleases you.
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      jessathemessajessathemessa Posts: 2,342 Member
      I hope it is some kind of genetics thing and not a glitch. That would be really cool. Nice sims by the way!
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      LovelyMelodyLovelyMelody Posts: 896 Member
      Is it just me or is my first pic missing? Anyway yeah I decided not to change him and let him live as he was meant to :P I looked at my sim's entire family and they are all blonde ish with hazel or green eyes and he has neither of those. I also suspect that he will have some interesting babies of his own when he grows up thinking of the genes that may get passed on :D
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      sarahzsmylsarahzsmyl Posts: 1,307 Member
      edited September 2014
      It does happen. Genetics are freaking cool the way they work.

      This is a set of real-life, natural (meaning no donor eggs, swimmers or ivf) twins we studied in my bio-anthropology class:
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      LovelyMelodyLovelyMelody Posts: 896 Member
      sarahzsmyl wrote: »
      It does happen. Genetics are freaking cool the way they work.

      This is a set of real-life, natural (meaning no donor eggs, swimmers or ivf) twins we studied in my bio-anthropology class:
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      that is amazing!
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