Darren Dreamer

Darren Dreamer is a sim within The Sims 2 Pleasantview, he is widowed and left to raise his son. At the beginning of the game he is broke and unemployed left with only an easel and some creativity points to make money and pay off his bills.

Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/sim\_dreamer

### ***History***

Darren was born April 1rst as an Aries, being the true April fool. His mother, Delilah Dreamer, was a file clerk in the law profession at this time and his father, Davis Dreamer, was a brick layer in the architect profession. Both parents worked hard in the hopes of providing for their new found family, dreaming of the possibility of moving out of the Belladonna Cove slums and to a tiny suburb called Pleasantview.

When Darren was 2 years old his parents gave birth to their second and last child, Diana Dreamer. Darren was ecstatic to be an older brother, he loved playing peekaboo with his sister, smustling with her, and teaching her how to draw. Though Diana was never the best at art, she was still able to collaborate with her brother by making stories for him to draw.

While Darren was in middle school and Diana just about to start elementary, the Dreamer family moved to Pleasantview. Being a very social and outgoing person, Darren found it easy to meet people around the town--especially when asking for modals for his art projects. Within this time he met a wallflower named Darlene. They quickly feel in love.

Though Darren had been very focused on his education and newly forming relationship with Darlene, he still took the time to focus on his sister and help her out. In truth, Darren was his sisters only friend--he knew that she was a very special person and found it difficult to connect with others. As Darren spent his time on dates, Diana began studying her new fascination with the supernatural--spells, potions, folk tales, lunar cycles, you name it Diana had an encyclopedic knowledge of it when it came to supernatural species. This knowledge helped her create new amazing tales of magic, adventure, love, and loss. Soon such loss would come into Darrens life, but for now he would enjoy his almost perfect happy family.

One evening, Diana asked Darren to sneak out with her and observe the creatures of the forest nearby. Though the Pleasantview forest wasn't as magical as some other areas, Diana felt the need to observe these lands and species with her true friend. Over time the werewolfs, witches, fairies, and others began to notice the presence of the Dreamer siblings as they continued to visit the magic forest of Pleasantview.

Diana grew to bond with these beings, the first true friends that she had outside of her family--however, no perfect time could last.

Darren left to go to Académie Le Tour with his new fiancé, Darlene. Though this new period of his life would appear to be great with Darren having the love of his life and the ability to focus on his art--this time in his life would be overshadowed by the darkness of losing his dear mother.

Soon after Diana got diagnosed with a mysterious illness, which would happen to be fatal for the beautiful bright spirit of Diana Dreamer. Before her death, she asked for Darren to care for and protect her supernatural friends--and for Darren to do anything to help those that are different.

During this time in his life, filled with grief and loss, Darren relied upon Darlene and his father to help him.

His wedding day was the most amazing day of his life, now having Darlene officially as a part of the family---and they soon after would be starting their own small family. After graduating college with a bachelors in art, Darren became a commissioned artist, soon after he decided to go into business as art wasn't able to provide for his family at the time.

The days continued the same way for a long time, Darren leaving for his business job, Darlene spending a few days of the week helping at the preschool, and Davis Dreamer helping raise his grandson. Another almost perfect time in Darren's life, a loving family that was hoping to expand even more soon in the future--but happiness is always followed by tragedy for Darren Dreamer.

On a quiet day, early on in Dirk's elementary school career and as Darren was at work in his grueling business job---Darlene and Davis Dreamer had been caught in a housefire at Darren's childhood home. It was always wondered by Darren what exactly caused this fire, why did Darlene been visiting his father that day, and how could he get through more grief?

But, after everything that has happened, Darren just had to deal with it. Coming to the realization that life was too short--Darren quit his business job and decided to try and take his skills and finesse into the art word, in the hopes of finally fulfilling his dreams and having a gallery based entirely upon those stories that his sister once made for him.

### ***Role-Play Events***

Darren Dreamer joined twitter in Mid-March after hearing about his crush, Cassandra Goth's avoidance of the evidence that Don had been cheating on her. Cassandra had been blatantly avoiding the evidence of him cheating for some time before that, she had been deep "in the nile", but this day would be the one in which she finally found the truth--no help to Darren. However, his teenage crush (other than Darlene) had finally been single and would hopefully be able to get over Don Lothario soon.

But, Cassandra and her "bestie" Mary Sue had begun to act a bit strange, a bit insane, due to the mental trauma they had been going through with their husbands cheating on them. Blinded by his crush on Cassandra, Darren enabled their actions and tried to side with them when possible.

Despite being friends with some slightly toxic people, Darren was actually able to befriend many across the sims community. Through these friendships he was able to go to many parties, and actually make the connections (thanks to Juliet Capp) to get into the artist career, which he has actually gotten to level 6 in.

Darren and Cassandra did get into a relationship for a short period of time, however she ended up rejecting his proposal--which then caused him to decide to break up since he wants a serious relationship.

A serious relationship which he still hasn't gotten into. He had many nightmares about the possibility of Darlene coming back, but he decided that it would be best to stay alone right now. Though he also realized that he may have a tiny crush on Dina Goth, but she doesn't like him back--so now Darren has fully given up on love, a happy ending to a beautiful story.

But, seriously, Darren decided to focus on his art and his friends, also on the hopes of trying to finally contact his sisters spirit again. Sadly, he really doesn't have much supernatural ability, so he can't really do much without help--he has yet to ask for any help though.

Recently Darren found love while at a wedding, he met Kent Capp. Spending some time growing closer both to Kent and becoming even more close friends with Regan and Cornwall. Currently Darren has moved in with Kent and plans to propose soon.

### ***Fun Facts About Darren***

* Darren was an emo teen, he just doesn't talk about it. He still listens to some emo music.
* Darren has a secret handbag collection, he's really inspired by the Crumplebottoms, but he's a bit too scared that people will make fun of him. Plus he's not the best as sewing yet and he doesn't want anyone to see his bad projects.
* Darren is currently trying to work on some gallery pieces based on his friends and their current trip to Three Lakes.
* Darren loves theatre music and his favorite musical is Falsettos, or Everbody's Talking About Jamie, or the Legally Blond Musical, or The Lightening Thief Musical, or The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, or many other great musicals.
* Darren has depression and anxiety, that's not very fun, but it's a fact ;)
* Darren is a proud member of the Holy Church of Ravioli, an organization founded by Nina Caliente.
* Darren is a founding member of the Cult/Club of Corn, a group who enjoys spending time together in corn fields, making recipes with corn, and appreciating the value of this resource in a group.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iOzJYOSpE7iKHfTjJPX1QTIDFn-OukG8Rw-r0xVYePk/edit
* Darren got a magical black cat at some point, this *totally isn't* me just putting my baby cat Leo into the role-play...*definitely not ;)*