Fanon:Vandermorgan family

The Vandermorgans are a Sims 4. The family lives in Oasis Springs. The Vandermorgans are a continuation of the Grunt family from The Sims 2, as Lyla Vandermorgan is Lyla Grunt. They have connections to the Grunt, Specter, Lothario, LaFleur, Ru, and Massey families.

The Beginning
It all started when Lyla Vandermorgan faked her death and moved to Oasis Springs to escape General Buzz Grunt, her ex-husband, and she also left behind her three sons, Tank, Ripp, Buck. Lyla enjoyed a brief romance with Don Lothario, which left her pregnant, but after Olive Specter warned her that Buzz had discovered Lyla's lie, she breaks up with Don to protect him. Lyla gives birth to her fourth child, and first daughter Ariana. Olive raises Ariana, as Nervous Subject (Olive's son) looks after Lyla. Once Buzz stopped searching, Lyla moved in with Olive and Ariana and married Olive. Olive died shortly after the wedding, devastating Ariana as Olive was her first mother figure. Lyla disappointed Ariana so much, that Lyla's marriage to Vivienne LaFleur was the last straw, and Ariana stopped speaking to her mother and put all her anger into art. Ariana planned to disown her mother once she grew up, but Lyla died before Ariana became a teen. Vivienne raised Ariana from a child to teen as Ariana's father had left. When Vivienne died too, Ariana grew up without her mother for most of her life, and it inspired her to adopt a baby, she adopted a baby girl that was abandoned by her parents, naming her Danielle. Ariana now raises her daughter as a single mother, and plans to be an artist and run a children's home.

The Children's Home and Danielle's Son
Ariana adopted a second child, Maxwell, sometime after Danielle's adoption. She quit her artist dream and opened a children's home, "Ari's Home for Children", with 2 girls (Annabella Mixon, Clara Hiatt) and 2 boys (Andrew Blackmon, and Carter Fritz) in her care, 3 girls until Kacie Adamson got adopted by the Pancakes family. Danielle met an older man, James Ru, who she fell in love with and began dating, Danielle invited James over to her house, where they WooHooed in Ariana's room. Sometime later Danielle takes a pregnancy test, which confirmes her pregnancy. Excited to tell James the news of her pregnancy, she rushes over to his home, but then she meets Loretta Hodges-Ru and Finn Ru, James's wife and son. Not wanting to be the other woman, Danielle reveals the affair to the family, and waits for James to return home so she can break up with him and tell him the news. Danielle gives birth to a son, whom she names Jedd.

From Rags to Riches and Alien Hybrids
Danielle realises her future is bleak, so she decides to find a way to get money to secure a future for her and Jedd, Danielle later becomes rich and buys the Yuma Heights home, renaming it Vandermorgan Villa. Danielle then legally changes her name to Lady Danielle Vandermorgan. Danielle buys a retail shop naming it Vandermorgan's Secret, and becomes engaged to a detective, Ezra Massey. Danielle became pregnant, with Ezra as the father. Ezra and Danielle marry, and Ezra takes her last name. Danielle later has a daughter named Lisa and is pregnant again. Maxwell marries and alien woman named Xirkzajita and has a daughter with her, named Maxzajita. Danielle has another daughter, Kim. Vandermorgan's Secret is sold for a cafe called Delicious Danielle's, both Danielle and Ariana worked in it until Ariana's death. Clara Hiatt, one of the original girls in Ariana's care became police chief. Maxwell and Xirkzajita have a healthy happy son for a second child, naming him Xirkwell. Each of Danielle's children have different personalities, Jedd is a stereotypical bro type of guy, Lisa is athletic, and Kim is the brainy one.

​Tragedy Strikes and A New Heir
Sadly Jedd dies suddenly in a fire, leaving the fortune to Lisa, the second oldest child. Danielle teaches Lisa all of the family secrets, and lets her work in the shop as practice for her new responsibility, Danielle buys back "Vandermorgan's Secret" but renames it "Lisa's Little Lovely Shop". But Jedd's tragic death isn't all bad, as he later joins the family as a ghost, but lives in Willow Creek with the girl he had been dating before he died. When Danielle and Ezra move into an elderly care home, Lisa finally becomes Lady Lisa and becomes the owner of the Vandermorgan fortune.

Family Added Before the Fortune

 * Lyla Vandermorgan (deceased)
 * Don Lothario (possibly deceased)
 * Ariana Vandermorgan (deceased)
 * Danielle Vandermorgan
 * Maxwell Vandermorgan
 * James Ru (deceased)
 * Finn Ru
 * Jedd Vandermorgan (deceased)

Family Added After the Fortune

 * Ezra Vandermorgan
 * Lisa Vandermorgan
 * Xirkzajita Vandermorgan
 * Maxzajita Vandermorgan
 * Kim Vandermorgan
 * Xirkwell Vandermorgan
 * Micheal Vandermorgan
 * Miley Vandermorgan

Onomatology
​Lyla - Persian for "dark princess", Hebrew for night

Don Lothario - Don is derived from Donald, it means "ruler of the world", while "lothario" basically means womanizer, very fitting for Don considering his personality.

Ariana - Persian name meaning "the land of Aryans", also the name of the popular singer Ariana Grande, whom Ariana Vandermorgan was named after.

Danielle - Is the French female variant of the male name Daniel, meaning "God is my judge" in Hebrew.

Maxwell - Scottish name, meaning "great stream"

Jedd - Hebrew for "beloved of Jehovah"

James Ru - James is an English form of the Latin name Iacomus, while Ru is Chinese for "scholar"

Finn - Irish name, short for Finlay

Ezra - Hebrew name meaning "Help"

Lisa - German for "devoted to God"

​Maxzajita - A mixture of her parent's names Maxwell and Xirkzajita

​Kim - short for Kimberly, meaning noble and brave.

Xirxwell - A mixture of his parents names, ​Xirk​zajita and Maxwell

Trivia

 * Ariana is the half-sister of the Grunt brothers, but they don't appear in the Sims 4, so in-game they have no connection and have never met.