Skip Broke

Skip Broke is one of the pre-created, yet unplayable sims featured in The Sims 2 as ancestors of playable, pre-created sims. Though deceased when the game begins, you can see him in the relationship trees of playable sims Dustin Broke, Beau Broke and Unborn Son Broke, who are his sons. You can also see him in the relationship tree of his wife, Brandi Broke.

He resided, during his lifetime, in Pleasantview, one of the neighborhoods that ships with the game. He is the father of Dustin Broke, Beau Broke, Unborn Son Broke and his wife was Brandi Broke.

Life Leading up to The Sims 2
By the time the storyline has caught to The Sims 2, Skip Broke is already deceased. His death is explained as "suspicious pool ladder accident" because he drowned in the pool, in the back of the Broke's house. "Suspicious" hints that the accident wasn't just a bad luck but at the same time it doesn't clearly say that there is a killer somewhere. For that reason, Skip's death is kind of a mystery with open end. Although his grave is nowhere to be found, he is resurrectable. Skip's past life is explained in the family photo album. When he met Brandi, he immediately fell in love with her and they were engaged(later - married). It looks like they lived at the Newbies for some time judging by the family photo pictures before they probably moved out or before they rebuilt the old house of Betty and Bob Newbie. When the already mentioned "suspicious pool ladder accident" happened, he left his wife Brandi Broke to take care of Dustin Broke and Beau Broke alone.

Life Leading up to The Sims 3
Skip Broke won't appear in The Sims 3 but his parents will do. His father, Flat Broke will be in the Sunset Valley as a child living with his dad. Skip's mother, Flo Broke will also make an appearance but as a toddler.

Two Skip Brokes
If you check Brandi's memories you'll find out that there are two Skip Brokes but it's quite debatable to say which one is real and which is not because one Skip appears in the family photo album and the other one in the relationship tree and he is also resurrectable. However, Skip which appears in the family photo album is not resurrectable, which means he is unplayable unlike the resurrectable and playable Skip.

They look alike in some ways, both Skips wear black and white T-shirt with jeans but colour of their eyes is different. Unresurrectable Skip has dark blue eyes and resurrectable Skip has green ones, hinting that the real father of Dustin Broke and Beau Broke is Skip with dark blue eyes, although they are not linked to him in the relationship tree. This is also proven in Brandi's memories, where you can see that she met Skip with green eyes only once, then she met and married to Skip with dark blue eyes.

When it comes to their character, unresurrectable Skip has Popularity aspiration and his zodiac sign is Aries, resurrectable Skip has Romance aspiration and he has the same sign as unresurrectable Skip, who is extremely interested in the crime, weather, food, travel and environment. Resurrectable Skip, on the other side, is interested in the sports, travel, politics and fashion.

Rumours
Brandi's memories clearly states that she gave birth to Beau after Skip's death but if she'll have another child with Skip, it would simply mean that she WooHooed with Skip's ghost, which is very unlikely to happen. Perhaps this is the reason why there are two Skips in the game. When Maxis created first, unresurrectable Skip they killed him before they find out that they need father of Brandi's upcoming child, so they created a likeness of Skip - the second, resurrectable Skip, which would explain why the Unborn Son Broke has green eyes instead of the usual dark blue ones.