Daniel Pleasant

Daniel Pleasant


Gender	Male
Age	Child
Life state	Sim
Biography
Daniel and his family are new to the neighborhood. Can you help him make new friends and succeed in school?
Family
Family/Families	Pleasant family
Parents	Jeff Pleasant, Diane Pleasant
Siblings	Jennifer Pleasant
Personality
Zodiac sign	Sagittarius
Appearance
Hair color	Brown
Skin color	Light
Body shape	Thin
Other information
Game	The Sims
Playability	Family Bin
Neighborhood	Neighborhood 1

Daniel Pleasant


Gender	Male
Age	Child
Life state	Sim
Family
Family/Families	Pleasant family
Parents	Jeff Pleasant, Diane Pleasant
Siblings	Jennifer Pleasant
Personality
Zodiac sign	Capricorn
Appearance
Hair color	Brown
Skin color	Tan
Body shape	Thin
Other information
Game	The Sims (console)
Playability	Family Bin
Neighborhood	Willville

Daniel Pleasant


Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Life state	Sim
Biography
Since his father Jeff died without achieving his dream of going to Mars, Daniel has felt an overwhelming guilt.
Education and employment
Career	Assistant Coach
Family
Family/Families	Pleasant family
Parents	Jeff Pleasant, Diane Pleasant
Siblings	Jennifer Burb
Marital status	Married
Romances	Mary-Sue Pleasant , Kaylynn Langerak
Children	Angela Pleasant , Lilith Pleasant
Personality
Zodiac sign	Virgo
Aspiration	Romance
Appearance
Hair color	Red
Eye color	Green
Skin color	Tan
Body shape	Thin
Other information
Game	The Sims 2
Playability	Playable
Neighborhood	Pleasantview

Daniel Pleasant


Gender	Male
Age	Young Adult
Life state	Sim
Biography
This island is fantastic! Beautiful beaches and great fishing!
Education and employment
Career	Unemployed
Family
Family/Families	Pleasant family
Marital status	Married
Romances	Mary-Sue Pleasant
Personality
Traits	Athletic
	Charismatic
	Commitment Issues
	Flirty
	Great Kisser
Zodiac sign	Aries
Lifetime wish	Heartbreaker
Favorites	Latin
	Dim Sum
	Green
Appearance
Hair color	Red
Eye color	Green
Skin color	Light
Body shape	Fit
Other information
Game	The Sims 3 Store
Playability	Playable
World	Sunlit Tides

Daniel Pleasant


Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Life state	Sim
Education and employment
Career	Unemployed
Family
Family/Families	Pleasant family
Marital status	Married
Romances	Mary-Sue Pleasant
Children	Angela Pleasant , Lilith Pleasant
Personality
Traits	Romantic
	Noncommittal
	Outgoing
	Alluring
Aspiration	Serial Romantic
Appearance
Hair color	Red
Eye color	Green
Skin color	Light
Body shape	Thin
Other information
Game	The Sims 4
Playability	Gallery

Daniel Pleasant is a pre-made Sim who has appeared in all four PC installations of The Sims, as well as some of the console versions. He appears as a child in the base game of the original The Sims, living with his parents, Jeff and Diane, and younger sister Jennifer in Neighborhood 1, a role he reprised in the console version. In The Sims 2 base game, which is set twenty-five years later, he is an adult living in Pleasantview with his wife, Mary-Sue, and twin teenage daughters Angela and Lilith.

The Sims 3 was the first PC base game in the series not to include Daniel as a pre-made Sim, justified by the fact that its story takes the form of a prequel set around fifty years before The Sims 2 and twenty-five years before The Sims, which would either set the initial action recently before Daniel's birth, or before his family moved to Pleasantview. However, several of the worlds later made available from The Sims 3 Store seem to take place outside of the game's main continuity, and Daniel and his wife Mary-Sue are featured as young adults on an extended honeymoon in Sunlit Tides. Since their daughters have not yet been conceived, it can be estimated that this version of Daniel is intended to be around seventeen years or younger than the one found in The Sims 2.

He was originally not in The Sims 4 but was later added in a free update for the 19th anniversary, along with his wife and two daughters.

Biography[edit | edit source]

Life leading up to The Sims (console)[edit | edit source]

Daniel appears in console version of The Sims along with his family in SimValley. He wears the same thing he does in The Sims and has a 20+ relationship with his whole family.

Life leading up to The Sims[edit | edit source]

He appeared in The Sims as a child, along with his parents (who are deceased in The Sims 2) and sister Jennifer Pleasant.

While all children in The Sims are the same age, The Sims 2 establishes that he is much older than Jennifer. He would probably have been a teen at the time of The Sims, except that The Sims doesn't have a teen life stage.

While he has red hair in The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, he has brown hair in both the PC/Mac and console versions of The Sims. This could imply that his hair was dyed brown in The Sims. However, it could also be a continuity error by the developers of The Sims 2.

A different version of Daniel appeared in Japanese copies of the game, with completely different facial features and black hair. If Expansion Packs are installed before the Pleasant family is first played, this version of Daniel will start with an A+ instead of a B.

Life leading up to The Sims 3[edit | edit source]

Daniel and his wife, Mary-Sue make a comeback as a newlywed couple enjoying their honeymoon on Sunlit Tides. Daniel has two points in the Athletic, four in Charisma and one in Cooking. He also has the Flirty and Commitment issues traits, possibly setting him up for cheating on his wife.

In their photo album in The Sims 2, Daniel has a beard in the wedding picture. However, on his honeymoon in Sunlit Tides, he does not have a beard. It may be that he shaved it off and let it grow again after returning to Pleasantview.

Life leading up to The Sims 2[edit | edit source]

Daniel works in the Athletic career track as an Assistant Coach. Unknown to Mary-Sue, he is having an affair with the family's maid, Kaylynn Langerak. He's also enemies with Angela's boyfriend, Dustin Broke and dislikes her dating him. He has not met Lilith's boyfriend, Dirk Dreamer - why this is so is up to the imaginations of individual players. Daniel has red hair and a red beard. He wears a tan jacket over a white mock-neck shirt, blue jeans and brown dress shoes. When first played, he is 5 days away from becoming an elder. He is close to becoming fat.

Daniel's relationship with his wife is very poor, and at the start of the game they are not even best friends, much less in love with each other. Despite this, Daniel and Mary-Sue usually end up autonomously performing at least one romantic action immediately after the family is first played, thus making them both become best friends and fall in love at the same time. One of the neighborhood story-telling pictures shows Mary-Sue rejecting Daniel's WooHoo for work, and one of the family's story-telling photos shows Daniel and Mary-Sue arguing. Mary-Sue's apparent obsession with her job may have caused their relationship to suffer, and may have been the source for Angela and Lilith's own fighting - yet this too, can be left up to the imagination of the player.

His father Jeff died without achieving his dream to be the first man to set foot on Mars, and Daniel feels guilty for it. (When The Sims was released, Maxis was developing a game called SimMars, but it was canceled due to the overwhelming response to The Sims. It's possible, though highly speculative, that Daniel's guilt about Jeff not getting to Mars is a nod to that.)

For some reason, Daniel's personality has changed in The Sims 2. In The Sims, his zodiac sign was Sagittarius but now he's a Virgo. Also, according to his personality in The Sims 2, he should be Cancer. As a Romance Sim, Daniel has negative memories of engagement and marriage, but strangely, the memory of going steady with Mary-Sue is positive.

Strangely, Daniel's memories state that he met Mary-Sue before Jennifer's birth, even though at the time of The Sims, Jennifer was a young child and Daniel didn't know anybody named Mary-Sue. This could simply be an error on the developers part. Because he had reached level 5 of the Athletic career, Daniel has the Athletic career reward available for him to purchase.

Daniel has 9 body points, while Athletic jobs from Superstar (level 7) up require 10 body points. This may have been an oversight by the game developers. (One outcome of the Superstar chance card is a promotion to Assistant Coach, but there is no Athletic track card that can promote a Sim to Superstar.)

Life leading up to The Sims 4[edit | edit source]

An official Maxis recreation of Daniel, Mary-Sue, Angela, and Lilith in The Sims 4 was uploaded to the Gallery on February 22, 2019, marking the 19 year anniversary of The Sims. He is 21 days away from becoming an elder. At the start of the game, Daniel is loyal to his wife, but due to his noncommittal nature, he may have a whim to cheat on her.

Simology[edit | edit source]

;The Sims 2

Image	Skill	Level
	Mechanical
	Charisma
	Body

The Sims 3

Image	Skill	Level
	Athletic
	Charisma
	Cooking

;The Sims

Name	Relationship score	Relationship level
Jeff Pleasant	20/20	Acquaintance
Diane Pleasant	20/20	Acquaintance
Jennifer Pleasant	20/20	Acquaintance

The Sims (console)

Name	Relationship score	Relationship level
Jeff Pleasant	20/20	Acquaintance
Diane Pleasant	20/20	Acquaintance
Jennifer Pleasant	20/20	Acquaintance

The Sims 2

Image	Name	Relationship level
	Mary-Sue Pleasant	Married
	Kaylynn Langerak	Love
	Jennifer Burb	Acquaintance
	Angela Pleasant	Acquaintance
	Lilith Pleasant	Acquaintance
	John Burb	Acquaintance
	Dustin Broke	Enemy
	Lucy Burb	Acquaintance

The Sims 3

Image	Name	Relationship level
	Mary-Sue Pleasant	Married

The Sims 4

Image	Name	Relationship level
	Mary-Sue Pleasant	Married
	Angela Pleasant	Friend
	Lilith Pleasant	Friend

;The Sims

Personality
Sagittarius Sagittarius
Sloppy		Neat
Shy		Outgoing
Lazy		Active
Serious		Playful
Grouchy		Nice

The Sims (console)

Personality
Capricorn Capricorn
Sloppy		Neat
Shy		Outgoing
Lazy		Active
Serious		Playful
Grouchy		Nice

The Sims 2

Personality
Virgo Virgo
Sloppy		Neat
Shy		Outgoing
Lazy		Active
Serious		Playful
Grouchy		Nice

Sign / personality mismatch

A Sim with this personality would normally be a Cancer.

;The Sims

Image	Interest	Level
	Weather
	Sports
	Music
	Outdoors
	Toys
	Aliens
	Pets
	School

The Sims 2

Image	Interest	Level
	Environment
	Food
	Weather
	Culture
	Money
	Politics
	Paranormal
	Health
	Fashion
	Travel
	Crime
	Sports
	Entertainment
	Animals
	Work
	School
	Toys
	Sci-Fi

;The Sims 2

Image	Memory	Type
	Potty Trained by Diane	Positive
	Learned to Walk from Jeff	Positive
	Learned to Talk from Jeff	Positive
	Grew Up Well	Positive
	Met Mary-Sue	Positive
	Jennifer Joined the Family!	Positive
	Made Best Friends with Mary-Sue	Positive
	Grew Up Well	Positive
	Got Rejected for Very First Kiss by Mary-Sue	Negative
	Jennifer Grew Up Well	Positive
	Went Steady with Mary-Sue	Positive
	Had Very First Kiss with Mary-Sue	Positive
	Kissed Mary-Sue for the First Time	Positive
	Grew Up Well	Positive
	Got a Job	Positive
	Fell in Love with Mary-Sue	Positive
	Got a Promotion	Positive
	Got Engaged to Mary-Sue	Negative
	Got Married to Mary-Sue	Negative
	Got a Promotion	Positive
	Jennifer Got Engaged	Positive
	Jennifer Got Married	Positive
	Got a Promotion	Positive
	Did WooHoo with Mary-Sue	Positive
	Had Angela!	Positive
	Had Lilith!	Positive
	Potty Trained Angela	Positive
	Diane Died	Negative
	Jeff Died	Negative
	Got a Promotion	Positive
	Angela Grew Up Well	Positive
	Lilith Grew Up Badly	Negative
	Kissed Kaylynn for the First Time	Positive
	Got a Promotion	Positive
	Angela Grew Up Well	Positive
	Lilith Grew Up Badly	Negative
	Got a Promotion	Positive
	Fell in Love with Kaylynn	Positive
	Had an Affair with Kaylynn	Positive
	Got a Promotion	Positive

His memories indicate that Jeff and Diane died while his daughters were toddlers and his sister was pregnant with her child.

Other Languages[edit | edit source]

Language	The Sims	The Sims 2	The Sims 3
English	Daniel Pleasant	Daniel Pleasant	Daniel Pleasant
Brazilian Portuguese	Daniel Cortês	Daniel dos Encantos	Daniel dos Encantos
Chinese (Simplified)		丹尼尔快乐
Chinese (Traditional)		戴麥爾皮樂
Czech		Daniel Slušný	Daniel Pleasant
Danish	Daniel Pleasant	Daniel Gohdmodigsen
Dutch	Patrick Plezant	Patrick Plezant
European Portuguese		Daniel Agradável
Finnish		Tapio Mukavainen
French	Daniel Bonpote	Daniel Simpa	Daniel Simpa
German	Daniel Freuntlig	Daniel Hübsch	Daniel Hübsch
Hebrew	דניאל פלזנט	דניאל פלזנט
Hungarian		Daniel Pleasant
Italian		Marco Bartolini	Marco Bartolini
Japanese	ダニエル心地よい (Daniel Kokochiyoi)	ダニエルプリーザント (Daniel Pleasant)
Korean		대니얼 플래전트
Norwegian	Daniel Jovialsen	Daniel Jovialsen	Daniel Behagelig
Polish	Daniel Kumpel	Daniel Przyjemniaczek	Daniel Pleasant
Russian	Данила Рябинов	Дэниел Новосельских	Дэниел Новосельских
Spanish	Daniel Gentil	Daniel Gentil	Daniel Gentil
Swedish	Daniel Trevlig	Daniel Trevlig	Daniel Trevlig
Thai		ดา•เนี•ยล เพลซ•เซินท์

Trivia[edit | edit source]

Daniel is the only member of the Pleasant family to appear in all four Sims games.
Daniel is the only sim who is a child in The Sims to appear in all four Sims games.
Daniel Pleasant, along with Mortimer Goth, Bella Goth, Betty Newbie, and Bob Newbie are the only pre-made Sims to appear in all four of the main series games.
Daniel is the only male pre-made child in the base game of The Sims as well as The Sims: Livin' Large, The Sims: House Party and The Sims: Hot Date.