MY COMPLETE BELLA GOTH HEADCANON STORY
Elegant and athletic are two qualities that describe Bella―her name in Italian means "beauty" 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, exotic gardening of the lethal variety and a variety of activities from golf to miniature golf.
What you're gonna read is my headcanon after reading Alex Play Sims awesome theory about what happened to Bella Goth. You can read how he solved the mystery here. All sims mentioned here are CANON sims from the games. I haven't made any up; I only linked them.
ROOTS
Descended from a long line of occultists, mystics, and decadents...
The decadents from which Bella descends are none other than Princess Cordelia Thebe―daughter of Queen Thebe and Eetion Thebe―and her pirate lover, Rodrigo de Pablo. Yes, this makes Bella and Consort Capp first cousins once removed, and I love it. After much sailing, Cordelia landed on the haunted shores of Belladonna Coven, where Rodrigo and his coven-crew of pirate warlocks had their free ports. Rodrigo left everything for Cordelia and accompanied her on the Eppsilon. Together, they toured the Simuyan Sea, exploring Barnacle Bay, Bridgeport, and even the Llama People Islands. Years later, the couple had a daughter, Jocasta, born with the magical powers of Rodrigo's bloodline.
Jocasta was left in Belladonna Coven in the care of her great-aunts Medusha and Marasenna, who lived with her great-grandmother Belladonna. Liliana Sidi, Rodrigo's mother and Jocasta's grandmother, had been a gypsy princess settled in Belladona Cove, known as the "Maid of the Shade," but her mysterious life had been very short; that's why Rodrigo had grown up with his buccaneer father. However, the Belladonna coven now claimed the guardianship of their last descendant. Jocasta was then raised by her great-aunt Marasenna, the queen of non-sleepers; her great-aunt Medusha; and her great-grandmother Belladonna, the witch for which Belladonna Cove was later named. This is the lineage of occultists from which Bella is descended.
Belladonna Coven grew non-stop in those years, and magic seemed doomed, but the witches maintained their traditions and pilgrimages, roaming all over Sim City with their camps and their Magic Town. However, Belladonna Coven was where Jocasta met Simis Bachelor, a young man none of her witch relatives approved of. Still, Jocasta, like her father, left everything to marry Simis and, just as Morgana Goth―another witch―had done long ago, she went on to keep her powers a secret. Outwardly, hers would be a perfectly ordinary suburban family, but behind the secret doors hidden in the bookshelves, Jocasta would still be a good witch protecting her family.
Simis was very suspicious of the supernatural and had always wanted to have a normal, ordinary life. He had never gotten along with her parents, Milton and Enriqueta, because they liked to organize séances and other eccentricities. But her mother, Enriqueta, was the true mystic who maintained the voodoo customs of her mother, Mama Royales, the illegitimate daughter of the rich landowner don Pedro. Her father had been Fen Bittern, a non-spellcaster researcher studying the magical arts in the late 1800s. His research had been later dismissed and mocked by people like his grandson Simis. However, in the magical community, he had gained a cult-like following, and his mother, the Lady Ophelia Shrewill of Battyshire, another eccentric supernatural fan, died happy and famous because of that. Moreover, Simis also had a sister who called herself a voodoo priestess, Miss Lucille, whom he couldn't even see. And this is the lineage of mystics from which Bella descends.
BEGINNINGS
Simis wanted to be rich and was trying to build a career as a novelist―and Jocasta loved his horror novels. Although he had strict rules that he expected his wife to abide by, Simis was kind. He also had a romantic spirit.
Michael, their firstborn son, was born in Belladona Cove―as it was named by that time―and soon after Bella was born too. Jocasta named her after her great-grandmother Belladona, who got to know her great-great-granddaughter. Some years later, Jocasta and other witches, keeping the tradition of pilgrimages, arrived at the small―recently founded―town of Sunsent Valley.
Bella was already a child―the best-dressed girl in town―and always looked adorable flitting around and talking to other kids, adults, and anyone who would listen. Bella didn't know she was a witch and didn't practice, but she had some strange innate power that others were drawn to. Every year, when the Magic Town came to Sunset Valley, her mother Jocasta would take her to Clowntastic Land, where Bella learned to play miniature golf. Together, mother and daughter would also look after their garden. They shared an unbreakable magic bond, but Jocasta never told Bella about her roots.
When Bella was in her late teens, many families from Sunset Valley decided to follow Gunther Goth after the town was ruined by the Altos and the Landgraabs. Seeking a better life for his wife and son, Gunther formed the Old Town in the marshes near Belladona Cove. There, Bella and Mortimer Goth started dating.
OLD TOWN
Soon after Bella's engagement to Morty Goth, Simis and Jocasta passed away. Some years later, when Cassandra was already a girl, the Magic Town came to the city, and Bella received the visit of her great-grandaunts Medusha and Marasenna. After learning a bit about her heritage, Bella kept visiting the Magic Town, playing miniature golf, tending her garden, and teaching her daughter Cassandra about her way of living. However, she started to grow apart from Mortimer… Cassandra herself seemed to be more akin to him―and his science stuff―than to Bella's world. Thus, Bella ended up alone and distanced from her husband and daughter.
The woman was solely devoted to her plants and herbs, some of them healing, others deadly. The family cemetery garden brought her to life, especially the red flowers that grew around Cassandra's twin sister's grave, the bratty girl who had died a few years ago.
PLEASANTVIEW
Years passed... Bella felt lonely and trapped in her role as the ideal and perfect woman. The celebrity. She ended up forming a friendship with Skip Broke, the test subject her brother Michael used. Both were married, but the attraction was stronger, and they ended up having an affair. The gap between Mortimer and Bella became insurmountable then, although they would never divorce.
For a while, the couple, even though they lived together, led separate lives. Cassandra, innocent and naive as hell, never realized the enmity between her parents. She was only focused on her studies, her scientific aspirations, and reading the occasional romantic novel. It was for her that Mortimer and Bella decided to call a truce and try to reconcile, which is why Alexander was such a late child. And to show her good faith, Bella ended her relationship with Skip, who had his own problems with Brandy.
Alexander was Bella's apple of the eye, and she devoted herself to the care of her son. In him, she felt the legacy of the mystics and occultists, the spirit of the witch Belladonna, and it was undeniable that a supernatural bond strongly connected mother and son.
It was then that Michael died, and Dina, his widow, moved to Pleasantview with her sister, Nina. Bella didn't have much interaction with her brother, and she couldn't stand her sister-in-law, but Mortimer seemed very comfortable in the company of young Dina Caliente. These days, Don Lothario also moved to the neighborhood, whom Bella, as the first lady of the place, went to greet and meet. Don already knew Bella from the magazines and was more than fascinated with her, so when the opportunity presented itself, he tried to win her over, but Bella rejected him. She was taking the second chance Mortimer had given her very seriously, and although she wasn't sure, she suspected she was pregnant again.
Don Lothario was the last person to see her, but he was not the one responsible for her disappearance.
Bella Goth. The perfect woman. The ideal woman. The woman in red. The woman who had contributed to her husband finding the formula for the Elixir of Life. The woman destined to be the supreme Birth Queen of the aliens.
That was the Bella Goth who disappeared. How? It is not known. Why? Because Mortimer sold her―in exchange for a large sum of money―to fulfill a destiny that had haunted him since adolescence.
When Morty was still very young, but Michael was already an incredible inventor, they both traveled to the future―almost 75 years into the future from the time of The Sims 3―with their first invention, the PlasmaPunch Gyroscopic Conductor. This invention could create a wormhole that led to another planet in the future―that is, the future of that planet. There, they discovered that Bella Goth would become the Birth Mother of all aliens. After weeks trapped in ruined cities, in a crystal and gem paradise where they saw a fleeting reflection of Bella Goth as the dimensional gate faded away. That last glimpse that they saw would always remind them that Bella is still out there... somewhere.
Michael and Mortimer decided that they would never speak of what they had seen, but young Morty was already determined, perhaps out of curiosity, to fulfill that horrific future of which he had been a witness. Did he love Bella? Yes. Did he take advantage of the situation for his own benefit? Indeed. He had gotten rid of his wife, obtained a fortune―and valuable knowledge―and had a clear path with Dina Caliente.
THE BUG
But the aliens didn't account for the fact that Bella was pregnant. Aliens were on the brink of a world-ending catastrophe that left all their females sterile―Birth Mothers were carefully molded and selected. To ensure the survival of their species, they sought refuge on Earth and discovered a remarkable compatibility between human males and the internal organs of alien females. This unique compatibility led them to only impregnate human males as a means to avoid the extinction of their kind.
Bella's pregnancy disrupted the experiments, causing the UFO to crash in Strangetown, in a corner of the desert which later became Division 47. The aliens had to devise a way to clone Bella in record time―that's why she is an incomplete and inaccurate clone―and leave her in the desert. When reinforcements, XY-XY and XHT-F―who would later return to Strangetown to settle and monitor Bella's clone, arrived with their own UFO, Bella finally reached outer space.
On the mysterious crystal planet of the aliens, Mathilda Goth would be born, the third―or fourth―daughter of Bella and Mortimer Goth. However, mother and daughter were separated after the girl was sent to Lunar Lakes, so Bella had to use her role as the supreme Birth Mother to escape from the aliens and find Mathilda.
Did this forced goddess manage to escape? Who knows...?
But her aged body was eventually buried in Lunar Lakes 25 years later.
MEANWHILE…
Mortimer married Dina and had a daughter with her, Gloria Goth. Alexander became estranged from his father because the boy did not give up on his quest to uncover the truth about his mother's disappearance. However, in a twist of fate, he ended up finding genuine support in his stepmother, Dina.
Yes, Alexander would go on to build a time machine with his sister using designs from his father and uncle Michael. And yes, that same machine would send Don Lothario and Alexander more than 50 years back in time.
But that's another story...
