Skip Broke

Skip Broke is one of the pre-made, yet unplayable, Sims featured in The Sims 2 as ancestors of pre-made playable Sims. Though deceased when the game begins, he is in the family trees of playable Sims Dustin Broke, Beau Broke and Unborn baby Broke, who are his sons, and his widow, Brandi Broke.
During his adult lifetime, he resided in Pleasantview, one of the neighborhoods shipped The Sims 2. As a child, he lived in Riverview. He is playable in The Sims 3. He does not appear in The Sims, and his whereabouts during that time period are not mentioned.
==Biography==
===Life Leading up to The Sims 3===
Skip is a child living in Riverview with his parents Flo and Flat, his older sister Ruby, his uncle Buck, and his cousins Trigger and Susie. Although he marries Bob and Betty Newbie's child, he is only 7 days younger than they are. This means that, for a while, Bob, Betty, and Skip are all teens at the same time. His bio states that Skip wishes for his parents to clean up after themselves, but makes it clear that he really loves his family.
As a child, Skip closely resembled his son Beau. Oddly enough, when aged up, his muscle slider will be close to maximum without player intervention. Child Sims cannot build muscle, possibly meaning that Skip was aged up at some point, either during development or in Create-A-Sim and had his body type modified.
===Life Leading up to The Sims 2===
By the time the storyline has reached The Sims 2, Skip is already deceased. His death by drowning is explained as a "suspicious pool ladder accident", and is believed to have happened in the pool in the back of the family's house—which has no ladder.In The Sims, many players would kill Sims by getting them to swim, then removing the ladders. This may have been a Maxis inside joke based on that. "Suspicious" hints that the accident wasn't just a stroke of 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 something of an open-ended mystery. Although he has no gravestone, he can be still be resurrected by linking him in SimPE.
Skip's past life is explained in the Broke family's photo album. When he met Brandi, he immediately fell in love with her and they were engaged (later - married). Judging by pictures in the album, it appears that they lived at the Newbies' for some time. It's not clear whether they moved out or rebuilt Betty and Bob's old house. After the "suspicious pool ladder accident" happened, his death forced a pregnant Brandi to take care of Dustin and Beau alone.
==Two Skip Brokes==
In Brandi's memories, there are two Skip Broke's, but which one is real and which is not is quite debatable because one Skip appears in the family photo album, while the other one appears in the family tree - and is also resurrectable. However, the Skip that appears in the family photo album is not resurrectable, which means he is unplayable, unlike the resurrectable Skip.
They look alike in some ways. Both Skips wear the same jeans and a similar black and white T-shirt, albeit they aren't the same color variant with the hidden Skip using the grey and white variant and the other Skip, the black and white. But the unresurrectable Skip has light blue eyes and thick eyebrows. The resurrectable Skip has green eyes, a narrower face and a different nose. The unresurrectable Skip is the true father of Dustin and Beau, although they are not linked to him in the family tree. This is also proven in Brandi's memories, which show that she met the resurrectable Skip only once, and then married the unresurrectable Skip.
When it comes to their character, both Skip's have the Aries zodiac sign, but unresurrectable Skip has the Popularity aspiration while resurrectable Skip has the Romance aspiration. The resurrectable Skip was voiced by Stephen Kearin, while the unresurrectable Skip was voiced by David Boat.Since the unresurrectable Skip cannot be resurrected in-game, the only way to confirm which voice he had is by copying his hexadecimal code and pasting it over the hexadecimal code of another Sim with SimPE.
==Simology==
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==Timeline Discrepancy Between The Sims 2 and The Sims 3==
It has been noted that Skip's age between the two installments of the game in which he appears fails to add up naturally. In The Sims 2 he is shown to have died as an adult, presumably not too long before the start of the game, since his sons are still very young. However, in The Sims 3, which is set 50 years in the past, he appears as a child alongside teenagers Bob Newbie and Betty Simovitch, who canonically become the parents of his wife, Brandi. Some players have taken this to mean that Skip is in fact much older than was initially believed, that there was a significant age difference between him and his wife, and that he must have been close to the Elder life stage when he died. Others, however, have dismissed the discrepancy as an error on the part of the creators.
Interestingly, a 2009 blog post by SimGuruRain on the official The Sims 3 website addresses the issue directly. SimGuruRain, who was the producer responsible for the development of Riverview, makes the following comment about the Broke family:
The Broke family has their roots in the more rustic area of town. If you've played The Sims 2 you'll have a very interesting time telling this story. (Hint: You'll have to Skip twice for it to work.)
While the comment makes it clear that the producers of the game were aware of the discrepancy, the exact nature of the quote is enigmatic. Possible explanations include the Riverview Skip being the father of the Pleasantview Skip (which would place The Sims 3 in an alternate timeline, since in-game both recognize Flat as their father), or Skip somehow becoming involved in time travel that allows him to 'skip' two generations in order to make the ages match - already hinted at by Don Lothario's appearance in Riverview (as Don's bio alludes to the fact that he was involved in time travel or teleportation), and made possible in-game to an extent in Ambitions and Into the Future. Other fan theories have speculated that perhaps the comment refers to Brandi, who would need to skip out and into the neighborhood in order to reach the same age as her husband. Alternatively, the comment may be taken simply as an Easter Egg, referring to the fact that there are two versions of Skip Broke in The Sims 2.
Skip might also have used ways to slow his natural aging like the fountain of youth.
==Gallery==
Green Eyed Skip Broke's Original Appearance in TS2.jpg
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Two Skips.png|The two Skips from The Sims 2
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Skip Broke 2.png|Skip Broke and Skip Broke (Hidden), side-by-side
==Other Languages==
Language 	The Sims 2 	The Sims 3
English 	Skip Broke 	Skip Broke
Brazilian Portuguese 	Durango Malpaga 	Durango Malpaga
Chinese (Simplified) 	斯奇普 布洛克 	
Chinese (Traditional)	史蒂普 布洛克 	史蒂普 布洛克
Czech 	Skip Švorc 	
Danish 	Søren Rabunduus 	
Dutch 	Steef Blut 	Steef Blut
European Portuguese 	Jaime Falido 	Jaime Falido
Finnish 	Kauko Vähälä 	
French 	Steeve Hasseck 	Steeve Hasseck
German 	Swen Braun 	Swen Braun
Hebrew 	סקיפ ברוק 	סקיפ ברוק
Hungarian 	Skip Broke 	
Italian 	Calogero Sventura 	Calogero Sventura
Japanese 	スキップ ブルック 	
Korean 	스킵 브로크 	
Norwegian 	Tom Blakstad 	
Polish 	Sławomir Biedak 	Sławomir Biedak
Russian 	Скип Брок 	Скип Брок
Spanish 	Berto Simblanca 	Berto Simblanca
Swedish 	Kim Pank (green-eyed)Saga Pank (blue-eyed)	Kim Pank
Thai 	สกิพ โบรค 	
==References==
fr:Steeve Hasseck
es:Berto Simblanca
no:Tom Blakstad
pl:Sławomir Biedak
pt-br:Durango Malpaga
ru:Скип Брок
nl:Steef Blut
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