Don Lothario

Don Lothario is one of the pre-created Sims who lives in Pleasantview in The Sims 2 and Riverview in The Sims 3.

The Sims 2
For theories on his involvement in Bella Goth's abduction, see Bella Goth/theories.

Don Lothario is one of the pre-created Sims featured in The Sims 2. He resides in Pleasantview, one of the neighborhoods that ships with the game. He wears blue jeans, a maroon striped top, and has a black pompadour. He likes to dance a lot, and likes to play on his computer. According to the neighborhood back-story, Don is the local womanizer, holding down relationships with four women at once. He is in love with both of the Caliente sisters, Nina, with whom he had his first kiss, and Dina. He appears to prefer Nina over Dina. His other lovers include Kaylynn Langerak, and Cassandra Goth, to whom he is engaged at the start of the game. Don is also involved in the plot surrounding Cassandra's mother, Bella. The back-story tells players that Bella was mysteriously abducted and never returned home. However, she was supposedly last seen at Don's home and rejected his attempt for 'Making Out'. It is said that Bella went to Don's house to welcome him to Pleasantview and was never seen again.

Don is the only child of Adriana Lothario and Nicolo Lothario. When first playing the Goths, Don and Cassandra will be in the backyard, which will be set for a wedding. If the player tries to marry them right away, Don will usually leave her at the altar unless their relationship is improved. (Being a Romance Sim, he has a negative memory of getting engaged to Cassandra. However, he will get a positive memory of a successful marriage to her, as Romance Sims don't get negative memories for marrying rich Sims.)

When Don is first played in The Sims 2, he is 28 days away from becoming an elder and is an Intern in the Medical career track. He has 2 points of Logic skill, 3 points of Mechanical skill, and 4 points of Cleaning skill, which are the skills required for his job. He lives in a condo at 150 Main Street, and has around §980 in funds. He looks a lot like his father. Also, if he has many children, most of them will have similar facial structures and will always have his black hair unless the hair is dyed a different color. He likes to talk about animals, fashion, sports, and the weather, but not about sci-fi, paranormal activity, or culture.

Don almost has top fitness, yet he has no body skill points. He may have lost these points when he got shocked, as his memories may suggest.

When reading the buyable tree trunk in Bon Voyage, messages can appear saying: DL+CG, DL+DC, DL+NC, DL+KL, a reference to all of Don Lothario's loves in Pleasantview. (Don Lothario+Cassandra Goth, Don Lothario+Dina Caliente, Don Lothario+Nina Caliente and Don Lothario+Kaylynn Langerak).

He seems to take after his paternal grandparents, Carmelo and Mama, as he shares their Romance aspirations, while both of his parents and maternal grandparents have the Fortune aspiration.

Don Lothario appears to have composed a self-help CD series: the BENNO CD Tower, a Sculpture item from the IKEA Home Stuff pack, mentions "the complete Don Lothario self-help CD collection" in its description.

Even though he is a womanizer, he has no Charisma skills - contrary to what players would think about him. In one of the Goth family storytelling images, he has an unused hairstyle.

He also has memory of meeting Mortimer Goth, but he doesn't appear in Don's relationship panel.

The Sims 2 for Console
In The Sims 2 for consoles, Don is a womanizing mean fellow who loves to woohoo. He and the Caliente sisters, despite clearly being full-grown adults, live at a youth hostel owned by retired boxer Toothless Joe. The player gets access to the hostel by letting fashionista/jester Larry Liu run, causing unbridled chaos in his boss, Chantal Leer's, stately Oriental home.

The Sims 3
Don appears in Riverview. The family bio reads "Don woke up one morning in a whole new world. He remembers stepping onto a teleporter, several women laughing, then nothing else until he found himself here..." "Here" refers to an old granary, abandoned for years and waiting for nature to demolish it, that is, until Don showed up. Don's bio reads "Don Lothario was facing a big choice between marriage and continuing to be a man about town. Will his "accidental" teleportation to a new town change his old ways?" It's possible that the laughing women are (some of) his lovers, though that is unconfirmed.

There is no sure way of knowing how he was teleported into the sleepy town of Riverview, but afterward, Don seems to have either simply moved into the old granary or bought it somehow. (He possibly worked for some time.) Don's story in The Sims 3 seems to have started a few days after Don was teleported to Riverview since the old granary was (poorly) furnished and Don owns a car. One theory is that the granary was owned by the McDermott family, then Don appeared and they gave it to him as a house (since Don knows Luke McDermott and he does have a huge farm nearby). This is also hinted at in a preview for Riverview in which Don teleports into the McDermott garden. His appearance changed a bit; he now has light skin and a new shirt.

Since Riverview includes younger versions of Betty Newbie, Bob Newbie, and Skip Broke, while Don looks like he did in The Sims 2, it appears that his incident involved time travel.

Don was the only character for whom the events of The Sims 3 apparently follow on from those depicted in The Sims 2, that was until the Caliente sisters returned via Barnacle Bay. For all the other returning characters, the game acts as a prequel rather than a sequel to the previous titles. Therefore, Don’s chronology within the series is unique. As in The Sims 2, Don has the personality of a Casanova and he has the lifetime wish to become a heart breaker.

Trivia

 * In The Sims 3, none of his relatives are on his family tree, though this is odd as almost certainly some would be alive at the time.
 * Also in The Sims 3, one of the beds is entitled "The LuxurLove Bedset from Lothario Designs", meaning that his family may have had a Designer business.
 * In The Sims 2: Double Deluxe and The Sims 2: Celebration! Stuff, during the startup loading screen, one of the scrolling strings says "De-inviting Don Lothario".
 * On the top floor of Don Lothario's granary, there is a dollhouse, teddy bear, and rug in a corner of the room. Why there is a toy area in his house when Don has no children is unknown, but could be because the McDermotts, who may have given him the granary, have two children.
 * In The Sims 3, Don's hair and facial hair are black, but his eyebrow color is brown.
 * In The Sims 3: University Life, Don is the author of "Social Networking Vol. 2: Cyber-stalking And You", the Social Networking skill book.

Other Languages
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