Darren Dreamer

Darren Dreamer is one of the pre-created, playable Sims that ships with The Sims 2. During his younger years, he lived in Lucky Palms, a downloadable neighborhood for The Sims 3.

Life Leading Up to The Sims 3
As a young adult, Darren Dreamer lived in a large, one-floor house in Lucky Palms. He has 20,000 simoleons in funds. At the start of the game, he is unemployed and has 7 skill points in painting and 1 point in the handiness, charisma, cooking, and athletic skills.

At this point, he is romantically interested in his "to-be" spouse, Darleen Matlapin. He is also quite well-known in the town - he is a two-star celebrity; being distant friends with Aya Tanner, Morgan Claremont, Yolanda Shaw, Ramon Tanner, Isadora Bard, Lennon Sosa and Sammi Claremont.

Life Leading Up to The Sims 2
He and his teenaged son, Dirk, reside in the Dreamer household in the neighborhood of Pleasantview. Darren is a widower - his wife, Darleen Dreamer is deceased before the game begins. Because he has no memory of the fire that killed her, it is safe to assume Darren wasn't present when she died.

He's secretly and unrequitedly in love with his neighbor, and best friend, Cassandra Goth, but she is engaged to the town womanizer, Don Lothario, who he considers an enemy. In the game, Darren loves to paint and wants to be a full time artist.

At one time, he had a job in the Business career track, but he quit around the time of Darleen's death. When first played, he has seven points of creativity skill, and is 15 days away from becoming an elder.

While Darren considers Don an enemy, Don just thinks of him as "Just Met". This is not possible in normal gameplay, but can be arranged by editing the package files, which Maxis would have been able to do. Likewise, while unrequited-love relationships are possible in normal gameplay (but difficult to achieve), the type of relationship that Darren and Cassandra have would require the use of a package editor, or a hack.

Darren, despite being a Knowledge Sim, has a hidden Family aspiration token.

Trivia

 * There is a high chance that Darren, Brandi Broke, and Nina Caliente will appear in the Welcome Wagon in The Sims 2 early in the game, since they are unemployed. The problem with this is that Darren and Nina will always start fighting.
 * Darren has a huge fear of fires, probably because his wife died in a fire.
 * In The Sims 3, there is a painting called "Misty Lighthouse", and the description contains a quote from "D. Dreamer.", which could have possibly been painted by a Dreamer family member.

Other languages

 * English: Darren Dreamer
 * French: Darren Dourève
 * German: Hugo Traumtänzer
 * Italian: Darren Sognidoro
 * Spanish: Tristán Soñador
 * Dutch: Daan Dromer
 * Danish: Danny Syyvsohver
 * Swedish: David Drömmare (Dag Drömmare in The Sims 3)
 * Norwegian: Dagfinn Drømmerud
 * Finnish: Taneli Haaveinen
 * Portuguese: Dário Sonhador
 * Japanese: (Sims 2) ダレン ドリーマー (Sims 3)  ダーレン ドリーマー
 * Polish: Dariusz Marzyciel
 * Chinese (simplified): 达伦 梦想家
 * Chinese (traditional): 戴倫 西夢
 * Thai: ดาร์•เรน ดรีม•เมอร์
 * Korean: 대런 드리머
 * Czech: David Snílek
 * Brazilian Portuguese: Dario nas Nuvens
 * Lithuanian: Darius Svajoklis
 * Russian: Вальтер Дример

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