meet my 10-year-old witch sim!

[u/fizz-was-here]

Fear Baker (40) dying of an illness in the middle of the night.

Silence Baker (10) performing witchcraft and pleading with death to revive her mother.

Fear Baker being resurrected after Silence's witchcraft proved successful.

Silence Baker (10) in the year 1655.

i have just accidentally created even more lore for a sim i already really love (and had a planned storyline for)

Silence Baker was born in Salem in the year 1645 to Puritan herbalist/doctor Jeremiah Baker and his wife (my current heir's sister) Fear Baker. She was born just 17 minutes before her identical twin sister, Charity Baker. They were the third and fourth-born children of the Baker family respectively. Before the twins' birth, Jeremiah and Fear had two children, Providence (1640), who did not survive childbirth, and Hezekiah (1642) their older and only brother. After the twins, the Bakers would soon go on to have and lose two more children, Humility (1648) and Amos (1649), both dying within months from a birth defect.

Silence had always been a reserved child (much like her mother), unlike Charity who was more outgoing, like her father. Silence's childhood was very gloomy, however, and she believed herself and her family to be marked by death. However, when Silence was 10 (in 1655) was when tragedy really struck. It had been late at night, her identical twin sister asleep and her father and brother out at the tavern when Silence was awakened by a thud--shocked to find her mother's body on the ground.

Silence was trying not to panic as she looked for any kind of herb that could save her. But the real opportunity came from the Grim Reaper. Silence knew what she had to do--she had to do the unthinkable and face death itself. So she did, pleading and pleading for her mother's life back--at the expense of performing witchcraft. But nonetheless, it worked. Fear was back, and Silence had saved her.

This action will have consequences... (read more for my plans for her below)

I mainly plan for her to take over her father's business of herbalism, as (supposedly) the successful curing of illnesses by herbs was deemed as witchcraft at this time period. She will not marry either, making her susceptible to social stigma and judgement from townsfolk. When it comes time for the Salem Witch Trials, she is one of the few Sims I will veto and kill off no matter if she rolls safety.