Nostalgia..

I have a few Sims that were made in the CAS demo that we were given before the game release. They always are in my saves. I will usually start out with Brett and Kaia and the others will marry into the family at some point. Usually sooner than later 😃

Kaia, Brett, Chris. They're evolved a bit over the years with CC, ect

I still think about some of my TS2 sims - there were a number that left a lasting impression on me. Years ago, I had thought of recreating them in TS4, and I don't know now why I never did. 

I think I'll recreate a number of them and plop them in-game as townies/unplayed households so they'll be sims around the neighborhood that the sims I'm playing can interact with, marry, etc. 

Thank you for this wonderful idea!

Don Lothorio in TS2

I had so much fun playing him, that I still giggle reading my notes (I kept these on all my TS2 sims for my sims website):

One dead maid, one girlfriend, two wives, three mistresses and nine children...when Don Lothario goes on to that great sunspot in the sky he will have left behind quite a legacy in the small community of Pleasantview.

When I first bought The Sims 2, Don Lothario was the first Sim I played to get used to the game. Somehow this must have secured him a special place in my heart, and I've made sure that Don leaves his legacy all over Pleasantview.

Life Events of Note

Romance

If there's one thing that's prominent in Don's life, it's romance. Don has left many broken hearts in his wake - and a few full bellies to boot. One can never say that Don didn't live his Romance aspiration to its fullest.

• First Wife: Cassandra Goth
  • 2 children with
    • Bella Goth
    • Ethan Goth
• Mistress: Nina Caliente
  • 1 child with
    • Don Lothario, Jr
• Second Wife: Brandi Newbie
  • 2 children (twins) with
    • Isabel Lothario
    • Catelyn Lothario
• Mistress: Aurora Chalmers
  • 1 child with
    • Nigel Lothario
• Mistress: Melissa Fancey
  • 2 children with
    • Drusilla Lothario
    • Mackenzie Lothario
• Mistress: Angel Hurt
  • 1 child with
    • Donovan Lothario

Miscellany

• Long before he got married and started reproducing, his lover and maid, Kaylynn Langerak, died in a house fire while he was at work; she is still buried on his old lot.

 

 The Legacy of Lothario

When I first took over as goddess of Pleasantview, Don was hot and heavy with his first love, Nina Caliente, and his maid, Kaylynn Langerak. He was also engaged to marry millionaire heiress, Cassandra Goth.

At first, I just played Don as a regular, run-of-the-mill, suburban lothario. He got married to Cassandra but kept his fling with Nina hot and heavy. He most likely would've kept it going on with his maid, too, but, shortly before his wedding, she perished in his home after a tragic fiery accident involving a toaster pastry.

He had two children with his family-oriented wife to keep her happy and accidentally knocked up Nina along the way. As decreed in his father-in-law Mortimer Goth's will, Don's first two children, Bella and Ethan, kept the Goth surname. Don Jr., his son with Nina, was the first of his offspring to bear the Lothario surname, but certainly not the last.

Children were not something Don had ever intended on, and his first two sons (born after his daughter) - Ethan, with his wife, and Don Jr., with Nina - each secured him a spot in front of the therapist's whirly-gig.

Then something happened. Don realized fatherhood was not that bad; especially when you let the mother do most of the raising.

No longer afraid of creating offspring, Don let loose on Pleasantview with renewed romantic fervor. Just as he was beginning to explore his new, fully-fledged lothario-ness, Cassandra caught him in the hot tub with Nina. She gave him the boot and Don struck out again on his own.

At first, he was glad to be rid of the ties of marriage, but he soon learned that a wedding ring attracted more women than a bare finger. Plus, he liked having a woman he could always come home to - a home that was, also then, clean and smelled of cooking supper.

He soon met and wooed renowned widow Brandi Broke and the two were married after a very short courtship. If Brandi had questions about Don's fidelity, she soon had no time to worry about it because nine months after the wedding she gave birth to twin girls, Catelyn and Isabel. Don adored his daughters, and not only because they afforded him lots of unfettered time to screw around - he wasn't that much of a **bleep**.

It wasn't long before Don seduced a young woman who had befriended the family while delivering Chinese food to his very-pregnant second wife. When the delivery girl became pregnant, he moved her into his old home and gave her enough money to get by. His young son born of this affair, Nigel, rarely sees him though he does visit at times.

He then met and fell hard for Melissa Fancey; a female version of himself. He keeps Melissa happy with a home and a constant supply of money, though he's aware she has her own flings on the side. In the course of being his girlfriend, Melissa has given Don two children, Drusilla and Donovan.

In between starting a family with his girlfriend and raising twin girls with his wife, Don also found time to woo a young woman who had recently left the orphanage she'd been raised in, Angel Hurt. This tryst produced another child for Don, Mackenzie. Don put Angel and Mackenzie in Brandi's old home.

The mark of Lothario is strong in Pleasantview.

 

Needless to say, I had a lot of fun with my TS2 sims.

In my TS4 universe, Don is less of an actual lothario but he's still a handsome, charming sim! Here's my Don makeover:

I thought I lost the flash drive for this, my very first raccoon Bandit. Every other raccoon I come across instantly reminds me of him and all the fun times🥰 I hope it's ok to include pets for this 

Bandit all grown up, this silly little ringtail. This Wednesday this photo is exactly 5 years old too, fun 🙂

He was in your avatar in Vanilla?🤩

Yup, that was Bandit ☺️