Bella Goth

Bella Goth, or Bella Bachelor in The Sims 3, is one of the premade Sims shipped with The Sims game, in which she lives with her husband, Mortimer Goth, and her daughter, Cassandra Goth. Between The Sims and The Sims 2, Bella and Mortimer had one more child, Alexander Goth.

Her biography states: ''Her name in Italian means "beauty" and it fits her better than her red leather corset. Descended from a long line of occultists, mystics and decadents, she has thrown convention to the wind. Her disdain for the pedestrian and normal is only matched by her sense of ennui and isolation. She distracts herself from this world with a little organ practice and exotic gardenings of the lethal variety.''

Life leading up to The Sims
Bella Goth, her husband, Mortimer Goth, and her daughter, Cassandra Goth, are first introduced in The Sims. She is an elegant, yet athletic, woman who seems to enjoy playing golf. Her activities when you play her will either be painting or playing the piano, which gives creditably to the theory that she may also be a very creative and talented person. She also has quite a high interest in the paranormal.

Life leading up to The Sims 2
By the time the storyline has caught up to The Sims 2, Bella has another child, Alexander Goth, and has disappeared via alien abduction. It is then revealed that Bella is the sister to Michael Bachelor. She does exist in Pleasantview, but is hidden within the game code and can only be found using cheats or third-party programs. Bella's disappearance from the game is a major component to the background story of Pleasantview and it's theorized that Maxis picked her for the major role because she is a mysterious, yet elegant, woman.

Her last known whereabouts are Don's deck and it is shown in the photo album and memory panel of Don Lothario that  Don had attempted to do some romantic interactions with Bella, which she didn't accept before mysteriously disappearing. Many of Mortimer's, Cassandra's, and  Alexander's memories involve Bella, meaning that she hasn't been gone for too long. On the family tree panel, Bella's face is not gray, which indicates that the game does not consider her to be dead. Although her husband, her children and Don Lothario have memories of her being abducted by aliens, the story does not explicitly state what happened to Bella.

Maxis created a likeness of Bella and used it as a townie in Strangetown. This version is a little different than the Pleasantview Bella, but is acknowledged by Maxis as the same Bella. The fact that the Bella in Strangetown has no memories of her loved ones or past life is simply blamed on alien experiments during her abduction.

Some players prefer to play the Bella Goth in Strangetown and consider her the real Bella because she has no connection to Pleasantview and is not tied with the Goth/Bachelor family tree, which lends credence to the theory that the alien experiments left her mind wiped.

Life leading up to The Sims 3
In The Sims 3, Bella is a child (12/13 days to teen) who lives with her mother, Jocasta Bachelor. Her father, Simis Bachelor is dead and her mother is pregnant with Michael Bachelor. She wears a red dress because her favorite color is red. Bella and Mortimer Goth are best friends. (He is one day older than her.) Her traits are Good, Brave and Lucky.

The Rumors about Bella Goth
There is a rumor going around that Maxis originally created Bella, but got deleted while creating the game. To cover up their mistake, they made up a story that explained her disappearance.

With the Seasons expansion pack, there is a new family, the Roth Family, living in Riverblossom Hills. Like a mirror of the Goth Family, the Roth Family has a Stella,  Morty,  Sandra and  Xander (as opposed to  Mortimer, Bella,  Cassandra and  Alexander).

Reuniting the Goths
A few people around the Internet have suggested many ways in order to get the original Bella back. Here are a few suggestions:

Pleasantview Bella:


 * This will only work if you have University. First, summon the cheat bar by typing in Ctrl then Shift then C, then type in boolprop testingcheatsenabled true. Hold down the Shift key and left click on a Sim. You will see a menu with many options, you'll want to click on the option called "spawn." There will be many more options. Click on the Tombstone of L and D. Next, click on the Tombstone of L and D, which is a literal tombstone, and you will see many options again. Choose "Add neighbor to family." Go through all the names until you see Bella Goth. Click on her name and she appear. This is important: you should not leave the lot yet because when you load the lot, Bella will be gone. You must make her the controlable sim and click on a computer or newspaper and select "Find Own Place". She will be put in your family bin when you return to your neighborhood view. Then you can place her in the same lot again or another.


 * Okay, this actually worked for me, and I have everything up to FreeTime except for Open for Business. But it only works with inSIMenator. The sectionals you are going to need are the Summoner, QuickRelations, FamilyTree, and MortalityAdjustor. Click on the summoner and find Bella's name. Click on it, and she will appear beside the summoner. Click the QuickRelations as Mortimer and choose Mutual Relations/Bella/Mutual Love. Then click on the family tree and choose Set as my Spouse/Bella. This will fix any relationship confusion. After doing that, have Mortimer ask Bella to move in. She will accept. Then exit, and save the game, but make sure that Bella is performing an action when you do so (I haven't tested this without her performing an action, so just do it if you want to be safe). When you come back, she will be transparent and will fade away once the action card at the top of the screen goes away. Click on the mortality adjustor and click "resurrection" and then select Bella to resurrect. She will come back, and she will not disappear anymore!


 * Get Cassandra abducted. Then, Bella will come back. Save and leave. Bella will disappear so resurrect her using a Resurrect-O-Nomitron, Genie lamp, SimPE, or InSimenator. No matter what Bella will be brought back to life.


 * This method worked for me, but I did it with inSIMenator. Click the Mortality Adjustor then select "Resurrection".(Make sure that Bellla is already dead) Then click Bella Goth. She will be back, but make sure that before you exit the lot that she is doing something(just to be safe) and I guarantee you, she will never disappear again!

Strangetown Bella:


 * To get Bella without cheats or SimPE, you will need everything up to FreeTime (or everything up to Apartment Life) and the ability to download from ModTheSims2. Download the MegaHood (or Uber-MegaHood if you have Apartment Life). Go to the Goth Manor and wait until Bella Goth and any member of the Goth Family meet. After building a relationship with her, have someone invite Bella over. When she appears on the lot, greet her and ask her to move in.


 * First go into the Strangetown neighborhood and either make a new family in CAS or use a pre-existing Sim. When Bella visits the lot (or you meet her another way), talk to her. Become friends with her, having a high enough relationship to ask her to move in, or have her fall in love with a Sim and propose to her, asking her to move in. Then have her move out if you don't want her and your Sim living together. Place her into a house and move that house into the catalog. Now you can place her wherever you want to.

Poems and songs about Bella Goth
Bella, Bella, Bella Goth, What a pleasant name you've got, Every gamer wants to find Pleasant Bella in the mind.

Bella, where did you go? Where do you live now? Everybody misses you now, How to find you, Bella, how?

Lovely Bella flew away, Never to be seen again, People search day after day, To find the missing lovely dame. Bella Goth is missing, It is the fault of Don, But we will remember her, Even though she is gone.

Bella on an alien ship, Always on a really long trip. Will she ever come home, When that alien ship has flown? Bella, you're my favorite one, Then you flew up past the sun. I hope you're happy way out there, With all the green men with no hair.

Probably the most sought-after Sim, Oh, lovely Bella, where have you been? Did you really go on an outer-space trip And now you can't get out of that alien ship? Oh, Bella, dear Bella, do we need SimPE? If not so, why did Maxis not just let you be? Maybe the mystery will be solved in The Sims 3? Oh, Bella, answer me, from wherever you are, Bella, please answer me, from near or far.

Bella, Bella, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind! Bella, Bella, tell me why, you flew up, higher than a fly, Bella, Bella, tell me how, tell me with your exquisite gown!!!!

Bella Goth Trivia & Easter Eggs
There are many Easter eggs involving Bella Goth (for more info see Easter Eggs). Here is a list so far:


 * Bella Squared: Bella Squared is a portrait of Bella Goth you can hang in your Sim's house. Allegedly, if in Strangetown, you hang the Bella Squared portrait in your house, the Strangetown Bella Goth will eventually show up.
 * Marketing Print by Seph Eia: If you have the highest graphic quality set (allowing you to see portraits clearly), you will see that the last two portraits in the marketing print are of Bella Goth.
 * Pianist: On SimStation Dance, some people say the pianist in the R&B song is Bella Goth. This woman has brown hair and glasses.
 * Milk: A "missing persons" photo of Bella Goth can be seen on the milk cartons in the game.
 * Hot Air Balloon: A little graphic that looks a lot like Bella Goth can be seen inside of the hot air balloon's basket with Don. Some people say that the Sims in question are the Dreamboat and Blonde Bombshell.
 * Belladonna Cove Statue: Easily the most conspicuous Easter egg, there is a very tall, golden statue of Bella holding a platinum plumbob that ships with the Apartment Life expansion pack.
 * Broken Bella and Mortimer snow globe: One of the many hidden files found and posted on | Modthesims2.
 * Fireplace: In the Goth Family album, there is a picture of Cassandra and a modern looking fireplace. In another picture, you see Don kissing Cassandra, but the fireplace is changed to the most expensive one. If you look at the textures of the modern looking fireplace, there is a picture of Bella.
 * Music: There is a song under the Jazz section on the radio entitled "Good Evening Bella." There is also one called "Mortimer's Touch."
 * Photograph: When you blackmail another Sim, there is a very pixilated image of a figure wearing a Red Corsett.

Appearance
Bella's hair didn't changed much in The Sims and The Sims 2, and neither did her red dress (except they gave her a green necklace in The Sims 2). In The Sims Bustin' Out, she is seen wearing a red leather corset gown. In The Sims 3, as a child, she wears two different outfits: a purple t-shirt with white arms and camouflage shorts, and a red dress similar to the one she wears in The Sims and The Sims 2.

Bella Goth in Other Games
Bella Goth is perhaps one of the most well known Sims. She appeared in The Sims Bustin' Out along with her husband Mortimer, she was in the TV family in The Sims 2 for Gameboy Advance, she appeared in The Sims 2 for PSP, and she appeared in SimCity 4. According to her quotes in SimGolf (which she made an appearance as the download-able golfer, along with her family), she is very nice, an excellent neighbor, a little vain, compares bad things to Mortimer's foul moods and compares her family members to her shots (such as a Bella shot is too easy, a Mortimer shot is too difficult, and a Cassandra shot is impossible).