Bella Goth

Bella Goth (née Bachelor) 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. She also has an elder brother who is named Michael Bachelor

Her biography states: ''Her name in Italian means "beautiful" 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 and her children 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. A further area worth looking into was when you send Alexander Goth off to University. The scene that you see before they enter the university features a regular Bella as Alexander's mother and she is sobbing about the loss of her son as he is grown up, but after that clip she still remains missing!

Appearance
Bella's hair didn't change much in The Sims and The Sims 2, but the dress she is wearing is no longer a dress, it is a 2 piece shirt and tube-top. 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.

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


 * With 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" and go through all the names until you see "Bella". Click on her name and she appears. 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.

or Add Bella with the Tombstone of L & D, and she will appear at your lot. Then kill her as you want (fire, starvation: you can use the tomb with all the tipes of deaths) and resurrect her. You mustn't get out of the lot while you do this. Then, Bella will be back.


 * With the 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.

or 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!

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).

Life leading up to The Sims 3
In The Sims 3, Bella is a child (12 or 13 days to teen) who lives with her mother, Jocasta Bachelor, father Simis Bachelor and older brother Michael Bachelor. Because she is still a child, she goes by her maiden name of 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. She attends Elementary School.

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).

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 Sims 2. In The Sims 3, this is the Tragic Clown.
 * 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.
 * Book: In The Sims 3 you can find a book called "Where's Bella?" in your Sim's bookcase.
 * DJ bar:There is a CD with a picture of Bella in the DJ bars that comes with nightlife and freetime.
 * Collectibles: In The Sims 3 you can collect space rocks called "Unusual Bellacite" after analyzing them.
 * Book Case: In the Sims 3, when you look on the book case, there is a picture of what looks like Sims 2 Bella.