For those of you who have played the Goths...

I played a them a little when I got the game, now they're long gone. I had my own plans for them, which mainly involved Cassandra finding a man and giving birth to a daughter. I also played Mortimer as a ghost for a while when game moved him into one of the empty houses. They were mostly just background characters for me until a grandson of Cassandra got married to a sim I had created and they became one of the main families in my rotation. He is now an elderly celebrity author. Sorry this is not what you asked really, just got lost on the memory lane. I like your plan!

I just sort of decided that in ts4 real bella is still missing and the sim called Bella Goth is in fact fake clone of hers planted by aliens

reason i came to this conclusion is that in ts4 bella goth doesn't behave like bella goth in ts1 and 2 and also I feel her genetics are off and she doesn't look quite right

and if i just decide shes fake that automatically solves all my petty annoyances and possible plot holes yet to discover

When Strangerville came out, I made whole letsplay about Bella losing memory, finding herself in Strangervile, joining the military and eventually defeating mother plant. And every other day I would play as Goth, they would go to EVERY community lot searching for Bella until finally Cassandra met her. Then Mortimer won Bella over again and married her again. It was pretty dope letsplay.

And almost no one here can watch it because it's all in Russian.

I didn’t intentionally, but she was immediately abducted in my game, so I guess the game decided to follow the original storyline, lol.

The first thing I did with the Goths was give Bella a makeover. The tiny party dress worn everyday was not really a look I liked for her. I did keep her in an iconic red dress though. Just a more classy casual red dress instead. I kept her as a secret agent and also at home with her family. Mortimer was the one that got abducted by aliens when I played with them. That was fun to watch. He didn't come back with an alien baby on board though.

I tend to always turn Bella into a vampire. That's about it.

lol I don't touch them kinda think of them collector item haha they're my fave family I don't dare touch. lately itching fix Cassandra outfits and hair pigtails need to go but she wore in ts2 so I won't xD

I don't make Bella go missing, but I combine her career as a spy with Strangerville to make her often leave Willow Creek/Pleasantview for a while while she's doing that challenge. What I'd like to be able to do is somehow reconcile TS2 aliens, TS4 aliens, and The Mother Plant -- to create some narrative that makes them make sense, and weave Bella into THAT story.

The TS2 Goth story was interesting, but I never bothered to pay it too much mind in any iteration as far as my own gameplay went. At the time, I did wonder if I could actually find her.

Most recently, her and Mortimer are having illegitimate, secret children in my saves.

I never really liked Pleasantview in TS2, they killed off or got rid of nearly everyone from TS1, and made their children characters in a trashy soap opera, pretty much only the Burbs have a unmiserable, drama free life. Sure, the whole Bella Goth mystery made it interesting, but there was pretty much no in game way to actually formally resolve it, and ultimately, they just done away with their most popular character.

I ended up just creating a new neighbourhood, with the characters recreated and expanded.