Bella Goth's hobbies & new job

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Hello :) This all started because I wanted to add some drama to my main legacy family and Alexander Goth is married into it. So I decided that the main chunk of the drama will happen in the Goth family and there will be drama in my legacy family as a consequence.Right as I loaded the Goth family, Mortimer died of old age, so he's out of the picture :/ so, it occured to me to send Bella on a work mission to spy on Vlad (I decided that in my game sims cannot tell vampires appart from regular sims, so they are investigating his "suspicious activities"), she enters his property but messes up and Vlad traps her in his dungeon. Vlad goes and traps the whole family because he needs to erase everybody's memory (via that one vampire perk). He gets Cassandra, but Alexander manages to escape (leaving my legacy family abruptly and without giving any explanations - for their safety - and that's the drama in my main legacy).I played through all this and I'm now with Bella, after forgetting everybody she knew (I made her unemployed bc I find it's more realistic that her job assumed she was dead) in the trailer home in Strangerville and I can't think of what she could do now. I want her to get another job, but don't know which one makes the most sense. Also I don't know what kind of hobby she would be into... Do you guys have any ideas?It's more clear to me what Cassandra's life could play out. With Alexander I know more or less that he will have to be homeless for a while, because he just ran away and he only owns the set of clothes he has on him. Then he coudl live somewhere off the grid, selling collectibles (which matches his geek trait) and leave the possibility open that he might find Cassandra or Bella in the future, either looking for them or by chance, I'm not sure yet. He also might contact my legacy family again somehow in the future. I see a lot of possiblities for the kids but somehow not for Bella :(Some pictures and the story if you are curious :)Spoiler (Highlight to read)https://i.imgur.com/343jN6R.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/vv2ZkfT.pngShe hadn't gotten over Mortimer's death yet, but her job had preassured her into this new mission. She had to break into Vlad's mansion and report on what she found. https://i.imgur.com/NkfiYAd.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/G8Jhhtu.pngShe had surveilled his mansion from the outside for some days and she found that he played the organ quite often. She figured she would enter the mansion as he begins one of his organ sessions, the sound of the organ would be her indicator of whether she can walk around or if she has to hide.https://i.imgur.com/coNKWLj.pngShe enters the kitchen and can tell right away that nobody had used it in decades.She went to the second floor and before she looked around, she looked down to check on Vlad, he was still playing the organ, oblivious to the situation.https://i.imgur.com/DDyx9bM.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/AOcBuIk.pngAnd then she saw, at the other end of that immense living room where Vlad was, what looked like a book case, but having worked as a secret agent for so many years, she could tell right away it was a passage and not an actual book case. She decided to go and inspect it, she figured the sound of the organ was loud enough to cover the possible noise it would make and it was quite far away from Vlad.https://i.imgur.com/TKMSE1a.pngAnd sure enough, the bookcase slid to the left and she went down some stairs. What she found sent chills down her spine. https://i.imgur.com/WJItqyR.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/VgKoRoC.pngThere were two empty cells with a bed, toilet and sink each, another organ, two ellegant armchairs. Then, if possible she saw something even creepier. A casket on a platform, and some type of old book on a stand. She went to inspect the book when she heard something behind her. She had greatly underestimated Vlad, he had been aware of her presence this entire time.https://i.imgur.com/uMUmYjF.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/bSCI7Xe.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/WEHdTvd.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/N0ayXji.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/6C5dDNF.pngNow Bella is in some trailer home in a deserted town. She doesn't know how she got there, she doesn't remember anyone and her neck hurts. She looked in her purse and her ID was gone. But she found a folded picture of an old man. She didn't remember who he is, but she felt warmth when she looked at him. So she decided to hang it up on the wall.https://i.imgur.com/ruyHmKV.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/EA16Uqv.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/343jN6R.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/vv2ZkfT.pngShe hadn't gotten over Mortimer's death yet, but her job had preassured her into this new mission. She had to break into Vlad's mansion and report on what she found. https://i.imgur.com/NkfiYAd.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/G8Jhhtu.pngShe had surveilled his mansion from the outside for some days and she found that he played the organ quite often. She figured she would enter the mansion as he begins one of his organ sessions, the sound of the organ would be her indicator of whether she can walk around or if she has to hide.https://i.imgur.com/coNKWLj.pngShe enters the kitchen and can tell right away that nobody had used it in decades.She went to the second floor and before she looked around, she looked down to check on Vlad, he was still playing the organ, oblivious to the situation.https://i.imgur.com/DDyx9bM.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/AOcBuIk.pngAnd then she saw, at the other end of that immense living room where Vlad was, what looked like a book case, but having worked as a secret agent for so many years, she could tell right away it was a passage and not an actual book case. She decided to go and inspect it, she figured the sound of the organ was loud enough to cover the possible noise it would make and it was quite far away from Vlad.https://i.imgur.com/TKMSE1a.pngAnd sure enough, the bookcase slid to the left and she went down some stairs. What she found sent chills down her spine. https://i.imgur.com/WJItqyR.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/VgKoRoC.pngThere were two empty cells with a bed, toilet and sink each, another organ, two ellegant armchairs. Then, if possible she saw something even creepier. A casket on a platform, and some type of old book on a stand. She went to inspect the book when she heard something behind her. She had greatly underestimated Vlad, he had been aware of her presence this entire time.https://i.imgur.com/uMUmYjF.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/bSCI7Xe.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/WEHdTvd.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/N0ayXji.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/6C5dDNF.pngNow Bella is in some trailer home in a deserted town. She doesn't know how she got there, she doesn't remember anyone and her neck hurts. She looked in her purse and her ID was gone. But she found a folded picture of an old man. She didn't remember who he is, but she felt warmth when she looked at him. So she decided to hang it up on the wall.https://i.imgur.com/ruyHmKV.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/EA16Uqv.png

imahulazombie · Answer

the story sounds interesting but poor mortimer :(
as for what to do with bella;
on sims 1 console i kinda remember the whole goth gang spent half their time crying over the tombstones in the garden and burning the kitchen lol but these are her official descriptions:
on ts1: Elegant and athletic are two qualities that describe Bella. She enjoys a variety of activities from golf to miniature golf.
on bustin out: Bella - her name in Italian means "beauty" and it fits her better than her red leather corset. Descended from a long line of occultists, mystics and decadents, she has thrown convention to the wind. Her disdain for the pedestrian and normal is only matched by her sense of ennui and isolation. She distracts herself from this world with a little organ practice and exotic gardening of the lethal variety.
(i thought she was hispanic but i guess this hints she's meant to have italian ancestry? perhaps both? lol)
on ts3: Bella is probably the best dressed girl you'll ever see. She always looks adorable flitting around and talking to other kids, adults, and anyone who will listen.

perhaps those will give you an idea about her hobbies.
as for the career, if you are into the strangerville thing you can use the whole story to make her solve the mystery (or adapt it to your story) which makes her remember she was some kind of agent and then remember her whole past! if you're into more fantastic gameplay you can make her try to revive mortimer once she remembers him and all the details, and also find her kids wherever they might be.
i'm a bad storyteller but i love the goths, hope i helped you on anything lol

mingussssss · Answer

Thank you for the info, @bella_goth ! I have so much to learn regarding the sims lore! maybe something fashion related is the way to go.. but in my mind she should be doing something low key, otherwise she could very easily get famous and then her work would find her very easily and so would Alexander...

In my save, another sim already solved the Strangerville thing. but I definitely want to have her find her way back to mortimer's grave and try to revive him (Idk if it's possible if the death was due to old age?) or just get together with the ghost and try to reunite the family. That's a sweet idea.

mingussssss · Answer

@bella_goth hahaha those aren't bad ideas! I also found this video by Plumbella where she does mention some of Bella's hobbies according to different games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hyLaQsNqMM

I will continue this story on my tumblr, but I'm so behind on my stories :#

imahulazombie · Answer

ohh true. with an old age i'm not sure if you can. hmm, then after finding mortimer's ghost, you could make bella try to "ally" with vampires to give her the secret of eternal life and the undead so she can make her husband younger and then resurrect him
let me know if you need more bad ideas i'll be glad on helping lol
hope you continue the story <3

imahulazombie · Answer

ohh just saw the video and i loved it!
there is a rumor that says bella's whole plot twist on ts2 was also consequence of a fire that happened on the maxis department or something and a lot of game data got lost including bella herself which they had to remake.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/870294/sims-2-huge-office-fire here is more info about it in some comments

whether it's true or not, we can't deny bella goth has a weird and sad story for her. i wonder if sims 5 will continue it, or if we got what we got, and will never know what was bella doing in lunar lakes. i'm not sure if ts3 devs share ts2 devs or ts1 devs, which would be a whole story told by different people and by sims 5 perhaps we'll see yet another bella clone lol

personally i only maintain as "canon" ts1 and ts3 sunset valley story for the goths as i love how it's shown that they were childhood friends cuz it makes everything special and from ts1 i always saw them as that one different but lovely couple just like the addams.

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