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Brandi Broke
Brandi Broke
Gender Female Female
Age TS3-Adult Adult
Life state CAS Human icon Sim
Biography
Friendly by nature, Brandi has often been accused of being overly so. She enjoys grape juice and crumpling tin foil.
Education and employment
Career Unemployed Unemployed
Family
Family/Families Broke family
Parents Bob Newbie, Betty Newbie Both Deceased
Marital status Widowed
Romances Skip Broke Deceased
Children Dustin Broke Son, Beau Broke Son, Unborn baby Broke Son
Personality
Zodiac sign Aries Aries
Aspiration Family Family
Appearance
Hair color TS2 Black Hair Black
Eye color TS2 Grey Eyes Grey
Skin color Skin-light Light
Body shape Thin Thin
Other information
Game The Sims 2 Icon The Sims 2
Playability Playable
Neighborhood Pleasantview

Brandi Broke (née Newbie) is a pre-made female adult Sim residing in Pleasantview, a neighborhood shipped in The Sims 2. She is the daughter of Bob and Betty Newbie from The Sims (who are both deceased at the start of The Sims 2 storyline). She has two sons, Dustin and Beau, from her marriage to the late Skip Broke, and soon after the player begins to play the Broke family it becomes clear that she is carrying her third child.

Brandi and her sons live in a small trailer in an out of the way corner of the neighborhood. She has a hectic life watching her rebellious teenage son Dustin, caring for Beau and steering him away from Dustin's bad choices, and being pregnant with her late husband's third child. According to her biography she is known for being kind-hearted, sometimes overly so.

Brandi is one of only two living pre-made adult Sims from Pleasantview that was not featured in The Sims 3 (the other being Cassandra Goth). Her parents, however, are shown to be teenagers in Riverview, so it is possible for her to be born in-game once they become young adults.

Despite being older than Cassandra Goth, Brandi does not make an appearance in The Sims, nor is she mentioned. Her family tree in The Sims 2, however, proves that she is in fact the daughter of Bob and Betty Newbie.

Biography

Life leading up to The Sims 2

At the start of The Sims 2, Brandi and her sons live at 55 Woodland Drive. Upon first entering the game she wears a pink patterned halter top and tight blue jeans, and her black hair is pulled back with a yellow clip. She is the recently widowed mother of teenage Dustin, and toddler Beau. It becomes apparent very quickly that she is also carrying her third child. When the game is first played, Brandi is close to becoming fat.

Brandi does not seem to have very much money, perhaps a result of losing her husband to a pool ladder accident, and therefore losing the income he had brought in. However, she seems to have some expensive items in the house, such as the bed and the pinball machine. She had a job as a Drive Through Clerk in the Culinary career track, but quit shortly after giving birth to her son Beau.

When the family is first played Brandi is 22 days away from becoming an elder. Due to this, some players believe she had Dustin as a teen, which is not possible unless cheats or hacks are used. Additionally, her memories indicate that she was an adult when she had Dustin. The reason for this is because she was created in Create-a-Sim, but an in-universe explanation could be that she had access to the Elixir of Life at some point in her life.[n 1]

Her relationship with each of the Caliente sisters is just short of the friend level, though she does not seem to have much in common with either of them. There is a high chance that Brandi, Darren Dreamer, and Nina Caliente will appear in the welcome wagon in The Sims 2 early in the game, since they are unemployed.

In this image and all other storytelling images of Brandi in her adult life, Brandi has an unused hairstyle. It closely resembles her in-game hairstyle, but the texture is different and the bangs are thicker. Her unused hairstyle is shown in CAS in a trailer for The Sims 2.[1]

Brandi also appears in the trailer for The Sims 2: Open for Business. She is shown to be paying for something. She and her sons are the only pre-made family in Pleasantview that has no connection to the Goth family. In fact, no one from the Broke family even knows any member of the Goth family.


Brandi's Unborn Son(s)

Main article: Unborn baby Broke

When the game starts, it is revealed that Brandi is pregnant with her third child. However, due to Skip's genetic file being unlinked, the baby will take Brandi's genetics, and will always be male. Of course, the player may choose to change the baby's hair color when he is older. Linking Skip so that he is properly linked before the baby is born will result in the baby being born with the genetics of Brandi and Skip, and the chance of it being female. Usually, the baby boy turns into a toddler wearing a blue shirt, brown overalls, white shoes and socks.

There is an error with her memories in that she gave birth to Beau after Skip died, yet her third child is recognized by the game as his. Since Brandi could not have gotten pregnant with the third Broke child when she was already pregnant with Beau, Skip could not be the father unless he somehow impregnated her post-mortem. This, however, contradicts a picture in the family album that shows Brandi about to give birth with both Skip and Dustin present.

On the Sims Community Podcast, SimGuru Lyndsay explains that the mistake with the memories is simply due to an oversight while the cloning technique was used because the data for Brandi's pregnancy kept getting lost.[2]

Dustin and Beau's genetics

Though it can be seen in the family tree that green-eyed Skip is the father of Dustin and Beau, Brandi's memories show memories of a green-eyed Skip Broke and a light blue-eyed Skip Broke. Beau and Dustin both have dark blue eyes. Using SimPE, looking in the Default family shows that there are two Skip Brokes, and the one that can be resurrected has green eyes. (This is similar to Olive Specter and Circe and Loki Beaker having memories of a different Nervous Subject.) So, the mistake here is that the biological father of Beau and Dustin (green-eyed Skip) is the resurrectable Skip, though light blue-eyed Skip, who cannot be resurrected, is in the majority of Brandi's memories. Therefore, the genetics of both Skip's eyes and Dustin and Beau's do not match.

Simology

Image Skill Level
Skill Cooking Cooking 8
Skill Mechanical Mechanical 2
Skill Cleaning Cleaning 3

Image Name Relationship level
Beau Broke Beau Broke Acquaintance
Dustin Broke Dustin Broke Acquaintance
Dina Caliente Dina Caliente Acquaintance
Nina Caliente Nina Caliente Acquaintance

Personality
Aries
Aries
Sloppy 3 Neat
Shy 6 Outgoing
Lazy 4 Active
Serious 6 Playful
Grouchy 6 Nice
VibraLN
Sign / personality mismatch
A Sim with this personality would normally be an Aquarius.

Image Interest Level
Environment interest Environment 3
Food interest Food 2
Weather interest Weather 9
Culture interest Culture 2
Money interest Money 8
Politics interest Politics 2
Paranormal interest Paranormal 1
Health interest Health 6
Fashion interest Fashion 10
Travel interest Travel 9
Crime interest Crime 5
Sports interest Sports 10
Entertainment interest Entertainment 8
Animals interest Animals 6
Work interest Work 0
School interest School 4
Toys interest Toys 3
Sci-Fi interest Sci-Fi 2

Image Memory Type
Potty Trained Potty trained by Betty Positive
Learned to Walk from -Sim- Learned to Walk from Betty Positive
Learned to Talk from -Sim- Learned how to talk from Bob Positive
Grew Up Grew up well Positive
Met -Sim- Met Skip Positive
Became Best Friends with -Sim- Made best friends with Skip Positive
Grew Up Grew up well Positive
Had Very First Kiss with -Sim- Had Very First Kiss with Skip Positive
Had Very First Kiss with -Sim- Kissed Skip for the first time Positive
Grew Up Grew up well Positive
Fell in Love with -Sim- Fell in love with Skip Positive
Got Engaged to -Sim- Got Engaged to Skip Positive
Got a Job Got a Job Positive
Got Married to -Sim- Got Married to Skip Positive
Did WooHoo with -Sim- Did WooHoo with Skip Positive
-Sim- Died Bob died Negative
Got a Promotion Got a Promotion Positive
-Sim- Died Betty died Negative
Had -Sim- Had Dustin! Positive
Potty Trained Potty Trained Dustin Positive
Grew Up Dustin Grew up Well Positive
-Sim- Died Skip died Negative
Grew Up Dustin Grew up Badly Negative
Had -Sim- Had Beau! Positive
Quit Job Quit Job Positive

Other Languages

Language The Sims 2
English Brandi Broke
Brazilian Portuguese Brenda Malpaga
Chinese (Simplified) 布兰蒂 布洛克
Chinese (Traditional) 布蘭蒂 布洛克
Czech Pavlína Švorcová
Danish Birgitte Rabunduus
Dutch Wendy Blut
European Portuguese Brandi Falido
Finnish Raija Vähälä
French Brenda Hasseck
German Babsi Braun
Hebrew ברנדי ברוק
Hungarian Brandi Broke
Italian Luana Sventura
Japanese ブランディ ブルック
Korean 브랜디 브로크
Norwegian Beate Blakstad
Polish Balbina Biedak
Russian Брэнди Брок
Spanish Begoña Simblanca
Swedish Barbara Pank
Thai แบ•รน•ดี้ โบรค

Gallery

Notes

  1. She is not unique in this, as it has also been noted in Andrew Martin of Riverblossom Hills' Martin family.

References

The Broke Family
Flat - Flo - Buck - Mary Lu - Trigger - Susie - Ruby - Skip - Brandi - Dustin - Beau - Unborn Baby
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