#I also need to remember who made the genetic version of one of the sims I used

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Okay, so... my queue is about to run out. The reasons for this are: #1, I've been working on my novel writing again lately, mostly editing/revising, but still. And #2, I'm working on probably the closest I've come to a planned Sims storyline since... I'm not even sure when?

It involves my Veronaville, which has turned into being more about other premades that moved there (and of course, The Sparks Legacy, which is in an odd place due to me wanting to even out some ages a bit). It's funny because I've been casually leaning into the storytelling more and more in my posts, and some of the events feel like they were leading me to this... and then I was hit with inspiration.

I'm kind of excited to see how it turns out, though I also feel compelled to warn you not to expect too much because I'm still mostly a gameplay person, and I didn't go into like poses or deep set-up for this. The 'big event' was done on a whim in one session after reading a post about a sim-ilar (😅) idea, though I swear my random gameplay was setting up for this mini story for a while.

Behind-the-Scenes Notes (only lightly spoilery): It is way harder to intentionally kill off a sim than I remember. 😆 I'm not sure I've seriously tried to do this since trying to replicate a black widow story in The Sims 1 back when I was a dark, moody, traumatized twelve-year-old. In the end, though it doesn't fit the story as I set it up, I had to go with the classic pool ladder trick to actually pull off the deed, which led to less than stellar ending photos. But oh, well!

Please bear with me if I do some extra reposting while setting up the new story posts. And thank you to the community in general for sharing all of your amazing stories and gameplay photos. Because you and this Simblr have honestly helped me get back in touch with my desire to create.

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Fairytales Inspired Generations Challenge

This challenge purpuse is to make you think of the game differently and maybe explore all the functions and game play option without being stuck in the same circle of actions. This challenge is completely made up by myself, taking inspiration both by Generation Challenge and Legacy Challenge. Also, there are a lot of Disney themed challenge around and I don't want simply create a copy-paste version of Disney characters, so the whole thing is my own interpretation of Disney classics and traditional fairytales too. The goal is to make it through 10 generations with completely different personalities for each generation and a new challenge to complete with each set of children.

Every generation has a set of mini-challenges Ispired by a Disney character that you have to complete before you finish the generation. You have to complete at least 4 of the 5 before the original parent of the generation dies AND the heir grows into a young adult. If your heir is the first born you have less time to complete the challenges ahead.

Each generation is different from the previous one and to the entire personality of the children in it. The challenges may grow harder, or may grow easier. You DO NOT have to do the challenges in order. I will name every required expansion pack or game pack that you need to pass through the theme of the challenge.

Gameplay Setup

Your journey begins in Create a Sim (CAS). Here you begin making your sim. Do whatever you want, the only restrictions is that the founder should be a young adult female and the only sim in the household. Feel free to pick any traits you want, but remember genetics aren't the only thing passed down from generation from generation. You can set your sim's life expectation to LONG, so you have more time to do each task, if you want.

You can’t use FREEREAL ESTATE to obtain a better house for your sim. You should use the money you have to buy a cheap house or an empty lot. You can't use the story mod to create your sim: the founder must start with 0 ability and develop them from the beginning.

Gender/Blood Rules for the HEIR

First Born — The first born child is the heir.

Female Only — Females can only be heirs, unless there are no living female children.

Blood Relation — Direct descendant of the parents, unless there are no living blood relation children.

Basic Rules

No restarting after a bad event. If your HEIR deceased, you will pass to the next one in line following the above criteria to fix the unexpected events.

No cheats/mods that make give you an unfair advantage: don't fix your sim's mood with cheats and absolutely DON'T USE THE MOTHERLODE CHEAT AT ALL!

No bringing the dead back, you CAN plead the with the reaper though and have ghosts, but nothing else.

Anti-aging potion can only be used once per generation.

You can only have one played household in the world. You can add households in the world for friends, but not spouses.

The next generation starts when the first female child is born. You can do whatever you would like with the other children of the household (kids who aren't heirs).

You MAY NOT influence gender.

Any Sim that is abducted by aliens and becomes pregnant has a choice of keeping the child, but whatever your heir rules are may or may not become an heir.

1. Cinderella - Jillie Cinder

The founder generation has started with this sim named Jillie Cinder: she is a good-heated girl who is just escaped from a bad family situation and dreams for a fresh start.

Rules:

- Your CINDERELLA loves small animals, so she should have at least one animal related trait: Animal Enthusiast, Cat or Dog Lover. Traits comes from The Sims 4: Cottage Living and The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs.

- Your CINDERELLA must have the Good trait.

Task:

- Your CINDERELLA must reach Level 10 Painting: it's the easiest way to get money to support your family, because your sim can't have a job. ✅

- Your CINDERELLA must maximize her positive reputation: the highest level is Good. ✅ This comes with The Sims 4 Get Famous

Alternative: Friend to the World Life Goal

- Your CINDERELLA must take care of an animal from puppy to elder: this could be a cat, a dog or a chicken from The Sims 4: Cottage Living. If your animal dies before reaching the elder state, you must restart with another one.

- Your CINDERELLA must have at least two daughters. One of them should be Father Winter's daughter. Father Winter (Clement Frost) comes from The Sims 4: Seasons. ✅

- Your CINDERELLA daughters DON'T have the same father.

- Your CINDERELLA must maximize the Entrepreneur skill. This comes from The Sims 4: High School Years. Knitting Cross-stitch are useful to make easy money by selling creation in shop or online.

- Your CINDERELLA must marry a Sim who has a Political Career. This comes with The Sims 4: City Living.

2. Frozen - Elsa Frost

Rules:

- Your ELSA must have ”Father Winter’s Baby” listed in her traits panel: she is born from your CINDERELLA and Father Winter. ✅

- You ELSA must be the eldest daughter. She has a sister ANNA (who owns a Llama farm or a ranch with her husband - Rancher or Horse Lover would be good traits for husband - social trait introduced in The Sims 4: Horse Ranch), who doesn't have the same father of ELSA. ANNA doesn't have the ”Father Winter’s Baby” listed in her traits panel. (You need The Sims 4: Seasons)

- ELSA must live in Mt. Koreobi and Master at least one of the skills of The Sims 4: Snowy Escape.

Traits:

- Your ELSA must have the Gloomy trait, while her sister ANNA must have the Cheerful trait. Loner traits is also a good option.

- Ambitious or Overachiever (comes from The Sims 4: High School Years) are good choice for her traits.

Task:

- Your ELSA must become a Witch in her teen years and learn all the spells (this would be modified later). Yuo need The Sims 4: Realm of Magic.

- Your ELSA must had a troubled childhood and a bad reputation she must overcome.

- ELSA is a self-made woman, she can help in her mother's shop, but she must have a part-time job since her teen years. She must have a Overachiever trait (comes with The Sims 4: High School Years).

- ELSA must graduate in (at least) one of the following: History (Distinguished Degrees in Britechester) or Economics (Distinguished Degree in Foxbury). Elsa must maximize her Research and Debate skill, if she is admitted in Britechester she must join the The Debate Guild. This is available with The Sims 4: Discover University.

- ELSA career options are Civil Designer or politician. The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle and The Sims 4: City Living.

- Close Knit Lifestyle and/or Workaholic Lifestyle. This comes from The Sims 4: Snowy Escape.

3. Snow White - Blanca

Trait:

- She must have the Party Animal and Dance Machine trait and be a Vegetarian.

Rules:

- Daughter of ANNA and her husband. She grow up in a Llama farm with her family. Has a troubled relationship with her parents, but deeply loves her aunt ELSA.

- She starts as human, but would be vampirized in her teens. Good Vampire Aspiration. The description of Snow-White as a “little daughter who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood” made me think of vampire, so Snow-White will be a vampire. You need The Sims 4: Vampire.

Task:

- Move here to Windenburg. This town would welcome her well. We want a Gothic vibe here.

- She must have at least 8 best friends (the dwarves) and join a club - the Garden Gnomes (The Sims 4: Get Together) would be perfect, but you have freedom of choice.

- Neighborhood Confidante, Friend of the World or Party Animal would be an ideal life aspiration to complete.

- At a some point she ended up in a bad relationship, but has a daughter, RAPUNZEL.

- She married an ambitious/evil vampire lady: the vampire lady is not RAPUNZEL mother, she is a step-mother.

- Dies before becoming an elder. Her daughter should be in her childhood/teen years.

4. Rapunzel - Ranya

Trait:

- Socially Awkward (comes with The Sims 4: High School Years) or Clumsy. Goofball would be OK too.

Rules:

- Raised by her vampire step-mother, that uses her as a source of blood.

- Unhappy childhood, dreams of the world outside, but she too scared to run away.

Task:

- She must be a programmer and maximize the programming skill.

- Perfectly Pristine

- Indoorsy Lifestyle. This comes from The Sims 4: Snowy Escape.

5. Beauty and The Beast - Belle

- married to a werewolf

- Booklover trait

- Maximize writing skill

6. Red Riding Hood - Rosette

- daughter of a werewolf (you need The Sims 4: Werewolves)

- search for cure - Cure Seeker

7. Frog Princess - Tyane

- famous chef and/or restaurant owner (The Sims 4: Go To Work - The Sims 4: Dine Out)

- Foodie trait

- Master Chef or Master Mixologist, but also Expert Nectar Maker (The Sims 4: Horse Ranch), Appliance Wiz or Market Magnate (The Sims 4: Home Chef Hustle)

- lives in Sulani

- married a triton (The Sims 4: Island Living)

8. Little Mermaid - Arlette

Task:

- Trait: Child of the Ocean - Child of the Island (The Sims 4: Island Living)

- She dreams to be a singer and escape from the small island she grown up in: maximize a musical ability (piano, guitar, violin, ecc.) and Singing. (The Sims 4: City Living)

- She must start her career singing and playing guitar for money in San Myshumo, so move her away when she became a young adult. (The Sims 4: City Living)

- Become famous Musical Genius - City Native (The Sims 4: City Living) - World-Famous Celebrity (The Sims 4: Get Famous)

9. Peter Pan - Tinkerbell (twins/siblings?)

Creature: alien (You need The Sims 4: Go To Work) or fairy

- Since it's gen. 9, there is a gender twist: the heir, Peter, must be a male | Tinkerbell a female

Profession: scientist - engeneer graduate or biology (The Sims 4: Discover University)

Skills: logic, rocket and reach Sixam

Traits: noncommittal, childish and erratic.

His wife divorced from him and moves away with children - incompatible traits (Wendy)

10. Pinocchio or Dr. Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley captivated and horrified readers with a novel many consider to be the genesis of the science fiction genre, the tale of a conceited scientist who builds a man, brings him to life, and then rejects his own creation for not looking pretty enough. Victor Frankenstein’s greatest sin is not that he builds the creature, but the fact that he sees the man he made as a creature and shirks responsibility for his monstrous-seeming child.

Trait: Genius - Loner - Snob

Skill: robotics (The Sims 4: Discover University)

Some creepy gore. This one is Renaissance Sim, Master Maker (The Sims 4: Ecoliving) , Computer Whiz

Our heir, a male, is a privilege kid, so his profession would be Landlord (The Sims 4: For Rent). He is wealthy and snob. Doesn't care about others. He is smart, well-educated. An engeneer like his father. Being a nepo-baby gave him this sense of superiority that alienated him from society.

Since it's the last generation, here there wouldn't be no human heir: his heir will be a robot (Servos from The Sims 4: Discover University) - evil or good, it's your choice.

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Bella Goth Disappearance FINALLY Solved!

Back in the day, I had originally subscribed to the theory that Bella was abducted by aliens that were set on her by the Caliente’s who then murdered her when she returned, and so I went in the game to do a walkthrough as to how I came to that theory. That’s when I found that I WAS WAYYYY OFF, there is a whole ass rabbit-hole here, and like a total Alice, I fell in it.

And, after 16 years of wondering and imagining different scenarios, I finally found out the truth. Turns out, we were ALL wrong, and the truth has been staring at us in the face the whole time.

Just as a warning, this is VERY dark and bleak and depressing. Bella wasn’t dealt a good hand, guys. What happened to her was all sorts of MESSED up.

Just for clarity, I do base this off of events that happen in the official sims storyline, because while the game is ultimately up to us to live life as we like, go ahead and do whatever with your game, there IS a story being told here, but in a way that doesn’t conflict with our own free will. It’s ingenious, really. This goes with the main Sims games released for PC and Mac. However, the console versions do provide a lot of insight to further details and situations. Specifically the Sims 2 for PSP, and the Sims 3 for the Nintendo DS.

 So, first off, it has been verified what happened to her: In 2014, Twitter held an AMA for the SimGurus just before the release of the Sims 4. Someone asked the following question, and SimGuru Sarah responded.

It was later confirmed that Bella Goth of Lunar Lakes IS the Bella Goth of Pleasantview. She does look like the rest of the ghosts there with pale skin and yellow hair and eyes, and with that in mind, you can see for yourself…

That’s her, alright.

Okay, if she died on Lunar Lakes, there are still questions that need answers:

1.       Did she ever go home?

2.       Does her family know what happened to her?

3.       How did she die on Lunar Lakes?

Well, she died of old age, that can be found out easily enough, but I found the answers to the other two: Kinda and no.

 So, just to recap, I’m gonna review Bella’s life as we know it canonically.

Bella was born to Simis and Jocasta Bachelor of Sunset Valley. She grew up the road from her childhood best friend, and later, husband, Mortimer Goth, with her older brother Michael. She always had a sense of the macabre and dark and was known as “the best dressed girl in town.” Even then she wore a red dress. A more child appropriate red dress, but a red dress. She just came from an average suburban family who had a fascination for the not average. She’s still a child, and not a Goth yet. She still goes by the surname Bachelor.

Twenty-five years later, she shows up in the Sims 1 with her childhood best friend and now husband, Mortimer Goth, and they have moved into their own home, and have a daughter, Cassandra. Her in-laws moved out of their home in Sunset Valley and moved into what would later become the Goth House of the Sims 2 in the beginnings of what would be known as Pleasantview. Unless you got her a job, she was a housewife, and she was known to be athletic, elegant, and friendly towards her neighbors. I remember her often being the first to come and say hello to any new Sims I’d move into the neighborhood. Her brother, Michael, is also in town, however, there is no acknowledgement of them being siblings. A family tree system didn’t really exist in the Sims 1, and I’m sure they didn’t even think to make them siblings back then, but the fact remains that they have no relationship at this point in time. The only reason why it’s known that Cornelia and Gunther Goth are Mortimer’s parents is because it straight up says so in the bio. That and their names are the same, but anyway.

So far, things are simple.

That’s because in the 25 years between the Sims 1 and 2, a series of events occurs that really makes things interesting.

Michael joins the science career track. One can assume the reason why he settled into domestic living years after Bella had done so was because he was at grad school. Because he was graduated from grad school, he gets a jumpstart in the career and climbs the latter a lot faster than Mortimer does.

1.       Scientist Sims contribute an invention into the Sims world. Michael’s invention was cloning technology. He cloned himself, and a test subject: Skip Broke.

         a.       Even though he died before it happened, arrangements were made so Brandi could be the next test subject and the first female subject, and when you start Pleasantview for the first time, she is pregnant with her own clone. The baby is always born a boy.

       b.       Michael’s clones have a 100% rate of being male, genetic identicals to those they were cloned from (Brandi’s just being a boy rather than a girl) and so far, a 100% rate of dying at the same time as the original. They are genetically identical, but wear different clothes.

2.       Michael and Bella don’t really have a relationship in their adult lives because Michael leaves Pleasantview early on while Cassandra is still a child and moves to the city.

3.       Mortimer follows after Michael, and invents the age reversal serum. Bella is the first test subject, and, the day of her abduction, she takes the serum until she reverts back to being a brand-new adult. Probably to allow herself to fit in her red dress as strikingly as she does, I don’t think an elderly woman could pull that off.

4.       Cassandra enters private school.

5.       Around this time, Gunther Goth dies. Bella, Mortimer, and Cassandra move out of their home and in with Cornelia to be with her in her last stages of life.

6.       Michael marries Dina Caliente. It is speculated that, because of the age gap, they only marry for Michael’s money. But it is worth noting that Michael was Dina’s first serious relationship and she didn’t begin to cheat on Michael with Don until years later just before Michael died.

7.       Alexander is born.

8.       Shortly after Alexander’s birth, Cornelia dies at the same time Michael does.

9.       Dina inherits Michael’s estate and moves in with Nina. They then move to Pleasantview.

10.   Don follows them and moves the next day.

11.   Bella goes to introduce herself to her new neighbor, Don. They get along, and Don gets the wrong idea and puts the move on Bella. Bella rejects him. He then runs off to go be with Kaylynn and is not there when Bella is abducted by aliens.

12.   Bella is never seen again, but shortly after her abduction, a UFO crashlands in Strangetown, and reports that Bella is in Strangetown start rolling in. But, spoiler alert, that’s not the real Bella.

Then, after Bella’s abduction and before you start Pleasantview for the first time, the following happens:

1.       Mortimer and Dina hit it off rather fast, and marriage is definitely in the picture when the game first starts.

2.       Cassandra, Mortimer, and Alexander all age up on the same day 2 days after Bella disappears.

3.       Cassandra goes to Don’s house to find out what he knows about what happened to Bella (jack squat since he wasn’t there) and that’s where they meet for the first time. Don tries to seduce her, probably not knowing who she is, and Cassandra, as much as you gotta love the girl, is naïve as all hell and thinks she won the jackpot and falls for Don quickly.

4.       Alexander goes to private school

5.       Mortimer retires

6.       Cassandra gets engaged the VERY day the game starts.

That is an important thing to note because people like to speculate that Don had something to do with Bella’s disappearance because he made the moves on her mother and they were engaged and he didn’t want to jeopardize that by Bella opening her yap. This is NOT the case because Cassandra was still a teenager when Bella vanished. Don may be a hoe, but he isn’t a pedo. Chris Hansen doesn’t need to be called for this one.

Another important thing to point out is that it’s not known if Dina and Nina knew Bella. At least, not well, since it can’t be established if Michael and Bella had a relationship at all. Despite the fact that they were friends when they were younger, Mortimer has no memories of Michael, and neither do Cassandra or Alexander. They never met their uncle.

ALSO, yes Dina and Nina do have alien ancestry. Their father was a result of an alien abduction pregnancy. But he was born human, so they’re not part alien. Which means they didn’t order ANY aliens to go and kidnap anybody. Why would they? They don’t know her. Not even normal alien sims do that, y’all are just racist.

It’s also worth noting that Mortimer is COMPLETELY fine with Bella being gone. He’s not heartbroken and he isn’t desperately trying to find her like the game tries to suggest. He’s strangely cool about it.

Why is Mortimer fine with Bella being gone?

Because they are no longer married and haven’t been since around the time Alexander was born.

And THAT, guys, gals, and nonbinary pals, is the BIGGEST part that y’all need to just remember. If you can only take one thing away from this part, take away the fact that they’re divorced. It’s S U P E R important.

 Now, it is possible to bring Bella back with the Tombstone of Life and Death. She’ll only stick around for a short while because she has a death token that activates when you save the lot, go into Pleasantview, and reload the Goth House. She’ll disappear. Interesting to note that if she’s in the middle of doing something, like talking with a sim or cooking food, she doesn’t disappear completely until she’s done. She does turn see-through and it kinda glitches out…it’s really creepy. Give it a try, you’ll see what I mean. But when she’s done, she’ll disappear, and you’ll get a notification saying she died somewhere else and her spirit has returned to where she was buried.

However, if she dies this way, you cannot resurrect her with the resurrect-o-nomitron. It doesn’t matter who tries it, where they are, or anything. Grim acts like he doesn’t know anything about Bella being dead and even if the Sim COULD resurrect a sim, Bella is not listed.

Since we know Bella is buried in Lunar Lakes, this means she died sometime between the week of her abduction and Cassandra’s wedding where the game starts.

However, while you have Bella in your household, you’ll find she’s brought back with no personality points. She has no memories besides what happened to her children after the first load of Pleasantview. So let’s say that between loading the game and bringing back Bella with the Tombstone, Cassandra gives birth to twin boys. Bella will come back with memories that Cassandra had twins, and she will even know who her grandchildren are. (I use this example because in my most recent Pleasantview playthrough, Cassandra had twin boys named Hendrick and Caspian with Don Lothario.)

Bella will have NO relationship at all whatsoever with Mortimer. You can see before you bring her back on the Goth family tree that they are not married at that point, and Mortimer and Bella start their relationship over as acquaintances. If you let them progress their relationship naturally with no cheats, they actually fight a lot and do not get along at all.

Now, any townie and NPC created before Nightlife will have their turn-on and turn-offs randomized. But it seems to constantly make it so that Bella is never attracted to Mortimer and Mortimer is RARELY attracted to Bella. This is a consistent thing. Interesting to take into consideration.

It’s clear to me, at least, that there were some problems boiling up for some time before Bella vanished.

--they get divorced at around the same time Alexander is born

--they do not get along at all

--Mortimer is completely fine after Bella’s disappearance and isn’t the frantic husband he’s marketed to be at this point in time.

--Mortimer gets into a relationship with Dina Caliente extremely soon after Bella vanishes.

--If Bella does come back and Mortimer is still alive, they naturally do not get along at all.

Which is weird, right? They were always shown to be this desperately in love couple who couldn’t live without eachother. I remember them having a good relationship in the Sims 1.

Also worth noting, Bella is a romance aspiration sim. In the Sims 2, they tend to hoe around a lot. There are a few other adult sims in Pleasantview who are also romance aspiration sims.

1.       Don Lothario (the epitome of the romance aspiration)

2.       Nina Caliente

3.       Daniel Pleasant

4.       Skip Broke was also a romance aspiration sim when he was alive.

What is interesting is that while for the most part, romance aspiration sims like to hoe around, there is one exception to this rule so far: Nina Caliente. Nina Caliente’s only romantically involved with Don Lothario. Unless you have another sim start putting the moves on her, then it’s a whole other story. If it were a thing back then, Nina would have been a soulmate romance aspiration while the others would have been serial romantic aspirations.

Bella COULD have been the same way, but that wouldn’t make any sense with the myriad of problems with her relationship with Mortimer.

So, in conclusion, Bella had an affair. Mortimer found out about it, which caused them to, at the least, separate for a while. Then, Bella became pregnant with Alexander, which would have brought up an important question—who is Alexander’s father? Once Alexander was born, and as he got a little older, it becomes clear that he resembles Cornelia, therefore verifying that Mortimer is indeed his father. This would have caused them to try their relationship again, and Bella would have turned down Don in good faith to Mortimer.

Who did Bella have an affair with?

Don wasn’t in town yet, and they hadn’t met. Neither did she meet the Caliente’s yet. Which leaves two possible contenders for Bella’s secret lover: Daniel Pleasant and Skip Broke.

On one hand, Daniel was Bella’s neighbor. She knew the Pleasants, and was friends with Mary-Sue. Daniel had an affair with Kaylynn going on, so he definitely could have some action on the side with Bella, too. My only reservation on that would be that I couldn’t imagine her doing that to her best friend. But then again, she did have an affair on her husband, so who’s to say what her morals are.

Then, there’s Skip Broke. This one makes the most sense to me, personally. While she wasn’t close with Michael, that doesn’t mean she completely avoided him altogether. She would have heard about Michael’s cloning experiments and could have met Skip that way, or she came to say hello and that was how they met. There is a theory going around that Brandi found out Skip was cheating on her, and that’s why she killed him and took his insurance money.

Maybe I’ll do another thing on that because the Skip Broke incident happens to be another rabbit hole altogether.

 So, we know that Bella had an affair with Mortimer and things weren’t going so well between them at the time of her disappearance. We know that the Calientes and Don are completely innocent, at least as far as her disappearance goes. (And Nina is innocent altogether, she just loves Don and is completely oblivious to the fact that he’s doing her sister and two other women. She is ALSO a victim here, you guys. Give some love to Nina Caliente, she needs it.)

She dies sometime in the week between her abduction and the first time the Goth household is booted up from old age on Lunar Lakes despite the fact that she was a brand new adult again thanks to Mortimer’s reverse age serum.

Then a UFO crashlands in Strangetown and shortly thereafter reports of Bella Goth being in Strangetown start swarming around.

And yes, this Bella is a clone—there are subtle facial similarities, she is not in the family tree at all for the Goth house, but other than that, she’s structured exactly like the Real Bella goes as far as her outfit, her personality, and her aspiration.

(The Wiki says it’s her despite the fact that it’s been verified she’s not, and it also has MANY discrepencies, saying she’s related to the Curious Family and they appear on her family tree, which is incorrect because Strangetown Bella’s family tree is COMPLETELY EMPTY.)

So, clearly, when Bella was abducted, something went wrong. But what?

Well, why would the aliens even abduct her in the first place?

They tend to go after sims who are wealthy, high-skilled, good-looking, popular, anything like that. Bella was ALL of those things. She was the epitome of the perfect sim to the aliens. They practically worshipped her and their queen took her name and appearance. (This is referenced several times, specifically in the Sims 3.)

So, if something were to go wrong, why would the aliens worship her unless she had been being watched for some time before her abduction?

And what went wrong that caused her to lose her memories, her skills, her personality, her youth, everything?

Aliens also do not abduct children, the elderly, and pregnant sims because their experimentation could go drastically wrong.

She wasn’t a child, and reversed her age so she wouldn’t be an elder for quite some time—

So the only thing that’s left is that she was pregnant when she was abducted and that was why things went wrong.

She wouldn’t have known this, and neither would the aliens—it’s possible that the baby was conceived that day, which helped Bella in the case where Don was hitting on her—she wouldn’t go cheating on Mortimer if she were trying to rekindle their relationship and they had made it to woo-hoo that day.

Also worth noting is that there IS another Goth on Lunar Lakes who happens to look exactly like Bella.

Anyone recognize her?

This is Mathilde Goth.

She is the long-lost third child of Mortimer and Bella Goth.

No, they don’t appear on eachother’s family tree, but they wouldn’t if Bella died shortly after giving birth to her and Mathilde was put in the orphanage.

Mathilde looks almost identical to Bella with the exception of her blue eyes. She also has a preference for blue where Bella preferred red.

Mathilde has no idea where her mother came from and the fact that she has a family on Earth who is just as oblivious to her existence as she is to theirs.

 What happens to Cassandra and Alexander after they find out about Bella’s death?

Remember how I said scientist sims end up inventing something?

Cassandra’s invention is time travel. She makes a time machine and the first use is to send Don to the future after her, Dina, Nina, and Kaylynn find out that he was playing all of them. She then goes on to live her life. We don’t know how that looks yet, but she never finds out what happened to her mother and that she has a younger sister.

Alexander is greatly affected by his mother’s death. He has no memories of her being abducted by aliens. Normally toddlers remember things like that so it’s odd that he doesn’t when the rest of his family does. What he does remember is her disappearing, Mortimer being okay with it and getting together with Dina really fast after she vanished, and then finding out that his mother was dead.

Alexander is a child prodigee. He’s a smart kid. So, he would go with any other conclusion someone would go with that limited information: he believed Mortimer killed her.

Well, Cassandra still has her time machine after she uses it to get rid of Don. And as we all know, Alexander’s name shows up in the Sims 3 a few times despite the fact that he doesn’t exist yet. And, according to the Goth family tree, it’s not a family name of an ancestor of his, he is the only Alexander Goth.

Once again, we’re going to reference a console game. This time is the Sims 3 for the Nintendo DS. Alexander actually makes an appearance, and this time, he’s not alone: he’s married to a woman named Cecelia. The family bio says that their gloominess is BECAUSE of Mortimer. Alexander dyed his hair orange. Probably he was trying to bleach it and didn’t know what toner was.  He doesn’t have that great of a relationship with Cecelia, as a matter of fact, she has a better relationship with Don Alto than she does her own husband.

Back in the realm of the PC games, Alexander wrote two books when he went back in time to the continuity of the Sims 3:

Baron Graff Van Gold, which comes with Supernatural,

And then there’s the one that appears in the base game.

Murder in Pleasantview.

To string it altogether, Alexander remembers her being gone, then learning she died. He suspects Mortimer was the one to do it but he never actually talks to his father about it. He doesn’t know anything about the abduction, if anything thinking it a ridiculous rumor. He grows up, gets married, and decides at some point in time to go back in time to try and prevent his mother’s death. So he and his wife go into the time machine and try to go back to when it happened, but instead get sent back wayyyy too far to when his parents are still children. What happens to the time machine? It breaks. He’s stuck in a period of time where Time travel wasn’t a thing and no one really knows how to help him and he sure as hell doesn’t know himself. Effectively, he’s stuck there.

So, he writes A Murder in Pleasantview to tell the story of what he thinks happens to his mother. He doesn’t know it’s really all for nothing, but at the same time, it is because of what ends up happening as a result. A result he probably didn’t even know would happen.

See, A Murder in Pleasantview is a best-seller. It blows up the world of 50 years before his time. Every bookshelf has a copy of this book, standard-load. Sims would have read this, and would be influenced accordingly. They would have made better decisions, not wanting this tragic thing to happen to them.

And yes, it does literally take the world by storm. Better decisions in the past truly make for a better future.

This is where the Sims 4 comes in. It is a different continuity, but it is different because they are aware of what Alexander believes to have happened to Bella. This would be why their personalities are so completely different, why the age gap between Cassandra and Alexander aren’t so extreme, why the Goths are so much more reclusive.

Alexander did something that inadvertently changed the future, eliminating himself and his circumstances entirely. He vanished suddenly, probably in a series of events identical to Back to the Future, where he is then allowed to live his life as a child with his mother in the picture, having no idea what he believed happened to her, nor knowing the truth. He erases his little sister altogether, but he can’t be blamed for that since he didn’t know she even existed.

What happened to his wife? Did she get erased like Alexander did?

No, actually she died. She tried repairing the time machine, failed, and was electrocuted to death as a result. She died young and is buried in the Goth mansion’s graveyard, confusing future generations because no one knows where she comes from because she has the surname Goth but they can’t find her on their family tree.

Lolita Goth was the wife of Alexander Goth.

Yes, it says she’s single, which means one of two things happened:

Either she tried repairing the time machine one last time after Alexander vanished and died,

OR

Like Alexander’s marriage to Cecelia, they didn’t have the best relationship and they ended up getting a divorce, then, possibly with Alexander still around, did the same and died.

She clearly wanted to go back home to her time and wasn’t happy with Alexander for being stuck there.

And it makes sense that she would have been electrocuted with the time machine because there are no other objects in the Goth Mansion that would result in her electrocution.

Which would ALSO explain why the Goths of the Sims 3 can’t figure out who she is. You can’t list a descendent and their wife on your family tree if they don’t exist yet, can you?

 Tragedy is just par for the course in the Goth Family, it matches their dark and dreary macabre air. But Bella’s story is just really extra sad. Imagine trying to repair your failed marriage, going to meet a new neighbor only for him to put the moves on you without invitation, then get abducted by aliens where their experiments go wrong, causing you to lose your memories, your personality, your youth, and then you find out that it went wrong because you’re pregnant, which you didn’t know about that either, and your kidnappers take a tissue sample from you, and then drop you on a strange planet far from home where you have no way to communicate to them that you’re there, but you don’t remember anyone but your children anyway, leaving you to have a baby you didn’t even know existed when you were abducted and live just long enough to name her?

The truth has been staring at us in the face since 2014, but we all missed it. Me included for the longest time. It’s been 16 years since Bella went missing, and we all had theories and ideas, but THIS is the truth, and it’s really. Messed up. Yeah, I found out what happened to Bella, but do I like it? No, not at all. Bella deserved better, and so do her children. Mathilde especially. She grew up in an orphanage never knowing she had a family who would have loved her so very much, only to become a mailcarrier on her home planet. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a mailcarrier, don’t get me wrong.

Dina Caliente is innocent, but seriously? Bye.

Nina Caliente is innocent, and really deserves better.

Don Lothario is innocent, but yet he sucks.

Mortimer Goth used to be my favorite out of the Goth family, yes, even over Bella. But after learning everything about him I have mixed feelings about the guy. I don’t blame him for not trusting Bella, and I don’t blame him for wanting to move on, but jeez, at least show a little genuine emotion, Morty, she was your childhood best friend, and, if nothing else, the mother of your children.

There was no plot to get rid of her and swipe the Goth fortune.

It was just poor timing on the alien’s end, and bad luck altogether.

So, yeah.

That’s what happened to Bella Goth.

[mimzy-writing-online]

Five Facts About Me

@belles-library tagged me in a game where you share five facts about yourself and tag five people. The original post is a little long so I’m separating this (because my ADHD said so).

1. I was born left handed but I’m almost completely ambidextrous at this point in life.

2. Current addictions: tea and caffeine. Yes, they’re separated even if it’s basically the same thing in my case. Previous addictions: nicotine in cigarette form. Not an addiction but you could argue it if you ignored the actual definition of an addiction: collecting mugs, collecting blankets, Sims, run-on sentences in this specific post because reasons.

3. Speaks some German, uses some Yiddish words but cannot speak it because it’s so fucking rare to find someone who does speak it natively as an actual language but the words are so common place in English!, wish I remembered any of my high school Spanish, distrust French as a language, and made up a version of Latin to use in A Witch’s Memory that I call Modern Latin. A language that basically evolved from “Old” Latin because Western witches found it more convenient for magic and it just evolved like all languages do.

4.  I’ve been accused of- being psychic (jokingly, by a family member), being a mind reader (almost seriously, by my best friend), being a mind controller (slightly more seriously, by my best friend), psychic (again, also by my best friend), having super senses (other friends, joking about blindness and super powers), being far too quiet for a normal human (every family member in my house, repeatedly), being an alien (theoretically, by my best friend), a cryptid (lovingly, by my girlfriend at the time), and others. Actual real stories, not joking. Feel free to ask about those because I love those stories.

5. May have finally figured out what the fuck is wrong with my eyes??? I have snow vision. Which is hard to diagnose because most ophthalmologists don’t even know it’s a thing, because people only became aware of what it was less than a decade ago and there’s next to no research on it. I would probably be considered a severe case. It’s genetic, my mum has a mild case of it. I have a severe case. I know exactly one person with a case as severe as mine, and their doctors, local organization for the blind, O&M instructors and support system have never heard of it.

It’s something you only get diagnosed with in the absence of any other explainable and provable condition. Kind of like chronic fatigue syndrome.

Those are some long answers but I’m in a sharing mood, what can I say. It’s also, like, 3 am and I need someone to talk to because I’m bored and a chronic insomniac, but hopefully I’ll go to bed soon.

Tagging People! Gotta tag five!

Here’s some urls I see a lot but don’t know much about and I want to change that.

@thequeenofthemultiverse @theater-girlie123 @snowblossim @maggie-wolff-writes @ishouldbewritingx

[dramallamadingdang]

Replies!

A bunch o’ them. Some are old because I’ve been bad. :(

For @getmygameon, @penig, @shaonharryandpannisim, @didilysims, @pensblr, @esotheria-sims, @celebkiriedhel, @leavealight-on, @sim-boo, @cedanyblee, @holleyberry, annnnnnd @clericalrodent...

Omg a pregnant sim that knows how to feed themselves. Its going to snow o.o

I dunno, all my Sims take pretty good care of themselves in terms of filling their own motives as well as gaining skill points. It’s probably because of the mods I have that nuke a portion of the behaviors they can engage in, so that they are more directed towards things that actually do something for them. Also, I’ve made lots of objects have autonomous interactions, so it keeps them busy and happy. :) Of course, it makes things like Asylum Challenges a little less fun, but I generally prefer to have Sims that I don’t have to micromanage, as I’m mostly a hands-off sort of player.

penig replied to your photoset “Cherry, nesting. In her pajamas-that-are-really-underwear. (I really...”

Sounds like a useful, fulfilling life to me. I wouldn't want it, myself. But somebody should.

It’s a good life for a Popularity Sim, I think. Cherry’s Romance/Popularity, but she’s always been more interested in the popularity-type things than the romance-type things. Well, except for woohoo, but she’s perfectly happy to keep that within the triad.

shaonharryandpannisim replied to your photo “Mars the wee puppy grew into Mars the great big hairy...”

You always get the best Pets !! Look at the cute ball of floof

He is very floofy! And I dunno, I tend to get fugly dogs, at least those that are game-generated and not the “premade” ones in the adoption bin. Cute cats, fugly dogs. Poor dogs. This one’s not so fugly, at least.

didilysims replied to your post “*sigh*”

Doesn't help that tumblr takes a lot of internet juice to run! My poor shoddy internet doesn't like it much, and some days refuses to load everything, though other sites will run fine. I feel your pain.

Yeah, all those pics and GIFs and stuff to load can really gum up the works. I’m used to it being slow in Colorado, where the only option available is really, really crappy DSL. It’s cheap and it’s the only option for the moment, so it’s not really worth complaining about. But here in CA, where we’ve been for over a year now, we have that fiberoptic jazz, and it’s usually really, really fast and it’s expensive. So, when you pay a lot for fast internet, you expect it to be...Well, fast. All the time. :) But apparently they were doing something the past couple days and I guess they’re done because it’s back to normal now. :)

pensblr replied to your photoset “For the anon who requested them, here’s the mangled version of Spaik’s...”

Still loving your hi-res textures on...all the things. Thank you!

You’re welcome! I still worry that it’ll be pushing it too much...but then I remember that most of the converted stuff from other games is high-res/high-poly, and since I don’t have very much of that stuff AND I don’t have an unreasonable amount of hi-res custom hair, either, I’m figuring I, at least, can go sort of hog-wild with objects and walls/floors. Not so sure about everyone else, though...

esotheria-sims replied to your photoset “For the anon who requested them, here’s the mangled version of Spaik’s...”

*snags* Your hi-res recolors will be the death of me...

I promise to say nice things at your funeral. ;)

celebkiriedhel replied to your post “*sigh*”

More importantly - check your ping - it might be that one of the networks may be struggling. Its worth talking to your internet provider to see.

Yeah, the hubbo called them. It’s his job to do phone things, since I hate talking on phones. Apparently, they were doing something or something was down (I kind of tuned out all the technobabble that I don’t understand), but it’s fixed now. YAY! I’m just glad it wasn’t a problem on our end.

getmygameon replied to your photo “Pop! (I love her OMGWTF?! face.)”

More like a 'no! I just bought this! Damnit I knew I shouldn't have had that extra cinnamon roll last night!' Face XD

Heh. Yeah, pregnancy bumps AND getting fat both kinda happen very suddenly to Sims. Like, 0 to 60 in 0.1 seconds. :) I imagine it might be hard to know which is which, at first. “Am I pregnant? Or am I just fat?” Then again, all the barfing should be a clue to them, I’d think...

leavealight-on replied to your photo “Aaron barged in to hog the piano.”

Apologies if you've already been asked this, but where are those curtains from? They're gorgeous :)

They are a recolor I have of the Holy Simoly “Simply Elegant” curtains. I’m sorry to say that I have no idea who made that particular recolor or where it might be found since I have hundreds of recolors of those things, gathered over years. I’m sorry! But I agree they’re nice. But then, orange IS one of my favorite colors. :)

sim-boo replied to your post “And of course the next morning, Amelia rolled up the usual...”

I like how its not like "I WANT THIS PERSON TO DIE" cause that would be too direct instead they just imply it

I imagine the people who do the game ratings might be a little iffy on Sims outright wishing death on people. :) But it is still pretty much the same thing. Even more vicious is wanting them to be eaten by a cowplant so that the pissed-off Sim can drink their life essence. Yow!

didilysims replied to your photoset “New lots! Captioned.”

They look so cool with their Lot Adjuster adjustedness. (And even without--pretty snazzy buildings.)

Thanks! I’m in love with the Lot Adjuster a little bit. So many cool things you can do with it! I wish Mootilda was still with us, so that I could thank her more for all of her utilities for the game. :(

cedanyblee replied to your photoset “Here are @nimitwinklesims‘s horizonless skies, edited to be compatible...”

That's the sims 2?! Whaaaa- so pretty. ��

It is indeed TS2! Completely unedited pics, too. With all of the stuff that’s been made for the game in the past couple of years, particularly the stuff that affects neighborbood view, I think it’s the prettiest game of the four. But, I could be a wee bit biased. ;)

holleyberry replied to your post “*is contemplating building a custom uni* *is probably insane* *has...”

Yes! There are so many things you can do in this game.

I know! There are so many things that I STILL haven’t done, even though I’ve been playing for almost 10 years. And I see people saying, “Oh, I’m so bored with the game!” and I’m like...how? How can you be? You can do literally ANYTHING with it! Boredom is not possible! I mean, I can see being bored with a particular family or even a particular neighborhood. But with the game as a whole? Not possible.

penig replied to your photo “These two barged in and…um… Well, he’s always admired her at her pool...”

And she needs to get on with her life. No one can mourn forever.

This is true. But seriously, does she need to get on with her life with her brother-in-law??? Because, judging by her wants, she really, really wants to. But A) I’m not sure I wanna go there. I mean, I’m perfectly OK with doing in the game some things that freak other people out, but...I dunno, for me that’s pushing it. And B) Simon doesn’t seem to feel the same. Yeah, he’ll mess with her if they’re together, but he doesn’t roll wants for her. Probably because for him, she’s just one of many.

clericalrodent replied to your photo “Owen is just slightly kitty-obsessed. As in, he pretty much does...”

Ooh, you should totally get some custom kitties to spice up the genetics game.

I might, if I do more breeding. As it is, I’m happy with just what the game generates. Same as I am with Sims, for that matter. Once in a blue moon I’ll download a Sim, but generally I’m happy with what my game generates.