Who is Johny Zest to the Landgraabs?

Then again, Nancy and Geoffrey are nearly Elder stage and Johnny is YA, Malcom a teenager.
Maybe Johnny is Geoffrey’s from another/previous relationship. Nancy could hate him??

I'm seeing Malcolm as late teen, around 17-18'ish, and Johnny 21-22. In my mind, they aren't that far apart. The couple of times I've played the Landgraabs, Mal is aged up as soon as he gets an A in school. I always make them brothers, when I plan to or actually play Johnny. Which is, I forget how many, around 7-9 saves...? What can I say? He's my fav goofball :)

There is little information about him on the Sims Fandom wiki, and he is nowhere to be seen in TS3, where Malcolm is a child and living with his parents Geoffrey and Nancy. Of course, if he is Geoffreys brother, Johnny could be living in some other town we don't know about.

Never specified. The two options I usually see are that he's Nancy and Geoffrey's eldest son, or Nancy's younger brother (it's TS3 canon that she's the one from the Landgraab family, and Geoffrey changed his name when they married. Never said otherwise in TS4, so I assume it's the same there). I go with the first option.

And honestly, the ages work fine for me? I play Johnny and have a whole story set up, so the ages I have at the start of a new save are Johnny at 23-24, Malcolm at 16, Nancy and Geoffrey around mid-40s to 50s (middle aged, but certainly not elderly). Johnny would have been born when his parents were in their early-mid 20s, Malcolm in their early 30s. Johnny is disowned when he's 16 and Malcolm is 7-8.

My theory is that Johnny is the OG Malcolm Landgraab. He didn't want to follow in his parents' footsteps and wanted to become a comedian, which lead to them disowning him. He then changed his name to Johnny Zest. The Landgraab legacy has to continue, though, so they cloned Johnny (by maybe using one of his hairs or forcing him into the cloning machine) and the result is the teenaged spoilt brat that lives with the Landgraabs now.

I recently wrote a story about it, if anyone's interested: https://ageekylegacy.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/a-zest-for-life/

Also, if you change Johnny into a teen and change his hair to the same colour and style as Malcolm's, you'll see just how similar they are. This is what I did for the story I wrote about him and you almost can't tell the difference. You also have to wonder why Johnny's eyebrows are the same yellow colour as Malcolm's hair (the yellow is most likely his real hair colour and he just dyed it blonde).

I think he's a distant cousin/relative on Geoffrey's side of the family. They're a huge family that's been featured throughout the Sims series. The current Landgraabs in The Sims 4 seem like the nicer bunch so I don't think that they were the ones involved in kicking out poor little Johnny

I assumed he was Malcolm's older brother. These are all interesting theories! So much more creative than my assumptions. :D

"Satell8ite;c-17471144" wrote:
I think he's a distant cousin/relative on Geoffrey's side of the family. They're a huge family that's been featured throughout the Sims series. The current Landgraabs in The Sims 4 seem like the nicer bunch so I don't think that they were the ones involved in kicking out poor little Johnny

If he is a Langraab he would be on Nancy's side. As mentioned before Nancy is the Landgraab and Geoffrey took her name when they married. At least that was how it was in ts3. I always just assume he must be Nancy's younger brother.

@fruitsbasket101 The Sims 4 is taking place in an alternate universe. No way of knowing if Geoffrey took her name as it says he did in TS3.

Interesting. Thanks everyone. It seems Johnny could be many things. I didn’t know Nancy is supposed to be the Landgraab. o:) I don’t quite remember them from TS3..