The Plumbs are a fairly large family of artistically-inclined Sims originating in Sunset Valley. The patriarch of the family, Nigel Plumb, was said to have been an immigrant from Yorkshire, England by way of Riverview. The family symbol, the white rose flanking the plumbob, reflects their place of origin, and several family members have this symbol as a tattoo. The unlikely matriarch of the family was Jamie Jolina, who passed on her musical traits to several of her descendants, including, most notably, her son, Nathan Jolina-Plumb, a renowned musician and composer. The Plumbs' talent (and a bit of luck) has led to substantial wealth.
Nigel Plumb, one of the two family founders.
Who are the Plumbs?[]
Nathan Jolina-Plumb, the gifted musician and composer
The Plumbs made their name and fortune in the entertainment business. Margaret Plumb was a noted novelist of mostly speculative fiction, most famous for the six Moon Colony science-fiction books. She spent her childhood in Riverview, but moved to Sunset Valley as a teenager and found literary fame. She never married and didn't have children.
The current Plumbs are all descended from Margaret's half-brother, Nathan, Nigel's son with Jamie Jolina. Nathan was known professionally as Nathan Jolina-Plumb, the young man electing to carry his mother's name. Because these current Plumbs trace their line of descent through Nigel and Jamie via Nathan, they are sometimes known as the Jolina-Plumbs. It is unknown if they are also descended from the Jolinas of Twinbrook, who are referenced in the Jolina Family Mausoleum there. What is apparent, though, is that they take at least as much from Jamie as they do Nigel.
Another thing that is striking about the Plumbs, particularly this current batch - is that they do nothing half-way. They have an all-or-nothing attitude. That's been both good and bad, as is evident in their family history. Whatever they choose to do, they go all-in, and are usually highly successful at it. This startling quality is evident even in some of the youngest Plumbs.
Nathan and his longtime partner, Shandra Bellingham Plumb, the mother of two of his children, was a hit movie composer. Before marrying Shandra, however, Nathan dated all around Sunset Valley, having children with such luminaries as Holly Alto and the Ursine daughter, named Sharon. His half-sister took issue with his seemingly aimless life. When he met Shandra, however, things started to change for him, and he began to funnel his considerable talent into his music. The multi-talented Shandra herself became the first female conductor of the Sunset Valley orchestra, wrote, and painted.
Sebastian, youngest son of Nathan Jolina-Plumb, is an accomplished actor and musician
Savannah, daughter of Nathan and Shandra, is the family's current most well-known member. Intelligent, feisty, haughty, and fiercely independent, Savannah was determined to carve her own path in life. Though the daughter of two musicians, Savannah had decided very early in life that she wanted nothing to do with the family business. She was a wild child to the core and on a first-name basis with the police. Instead, the strong-willed girl followed the example of her aunt Maggie and became a successful writer in her own right. But instead of writing science fiction, Savannah chose to chronicle her own travels in the Sim world and her forays into the paranormal. She has had a multi-faceted career as an author and adventurer, and currently is a Will Wright professor of history and paranormal studies at Sims University. She was the beneficiary of a privileged upbringing and an excellent education in Sunset Valley's Summer Hill Court - an education she received despite never attending college. She surprised many observers by marrying her former high school classmate after a fling with a French nectar historian and photographer.
Soon after Savannah became a teenager, her younger brother Sebastian was born. The two could not have been more different temperamentally. While Savannah was intense and serious, Sebastian was laid back and something of a cutup. Despite the two's obvious differences, they were close growing up. Soon after high school, Sebastian left Sunset Valley to make a movie career in Bridgeport, and he was successful with that - until his love life made more headlines than his films. Accomplished in his own right, he won both a Simmy and a Sim's Choice Award for his acting, one of only a few actors to nab both statues. Sebastian's chameleon-like acting skills have garnered him accolades. The family biographer speculates that Sebastian became an actor and left Sunset Valley largely to get out of Nathan's shadow.
Plumb Family Lore[]
Kaydence, one of the newest generation of Plumbs and daughter of Sebastian, has already started to make her mark
The first major legend of Plumb family lore involves Nathan, progenitor of the current group. He watched the deaths of both of his parents - though not at the same time. He was a young boy at the time of his father's death, but when his mother died he was a young adult. A gifted young string picker not yet employed by the orchestra, Nathan nevertheless pulled out his guitar, and the Grim Reaper stopped to listen, in approval - in a sense giving the young man the confidence and the blessing to go on with his music career, the same career that made him and his descendants fabulously wealthy.
The second significant chapter of family lore happened just before the birth of Nathan's daughter Savannah. Nathan had married a woman named Shandra Bellingham, who turned out to be an ambrosial polymath. That simply meant that she had the ability to prepare the ambrosia dish to extend the life span. An urban legend in Sunset Valley has it that before Savannah was born, she was at the cemetery late at night attempting to catch the elusive deathfish.
The next significant chapter of family lore occurred when Savannah became the first family member to leave Sunset Valley, embarking on her whirlwind, worldwide adventures. First, she fought mummies in Egypt, then sought Pangu's Axe in China, and eventually tasted nectar in France.
Then, Savannah's third-born daughter Sierra, then a young teen, was abducted by aliens while the family lived in Moonlight Falls. Since she was a teen, and a female, she was unable to reproduce, but got their attention, as aliens would frequent the family home. Later, Sierra would become the first family member to travel to the futuristic world of Oasis Landing. Once there, she saw Nathan's legacy statue.
Sierra's cousin Kaydence, the daughter of Savannah's younger brother Sebastian, however, took this concept to another level, when she decided that not only did she want to visit the future, but she wanted to turn the future world into a utopia - all while still in her teens. This was a painstaking process involving the time traveler, Emit Relevart, and convincing military pilots to spray happiness dew all over Sunset Valley.
If Nathan realized he could literally stop death in its tracks with his music, then his granddaughters tapped into a different ability - to alter time itself.
The Plumbs' Dark Side[]
The Plumbs, blessed with high intelligence and artistic talent, also have a history of self-destructive behavior. Nathan Plumb dropped out of high school the summer after his freshman year, devoting himself wholly to his music. His breathtaking talent caught the attention of the Grim Reaper when he was harvesting Jamie Jolina's ghost.
Savannah Rachel Bellingham Plumb, Nathan's brilliant, proud, fiercely independent daughter, pictured as a teen
His son, Noah, eloped with his girlfriend, Sadie Alvi, when both were teenagers, and his grandson, Neil, even lived with him for a time after his issues with anxiety became known. His daughter, Savannah, was also wildly out of control, and three of her children (one adopted and two biological) have been remanded to Fort Starch Military Academy for this same behavior. One of those, Sierra, has an extensive record which includes arrests for breaking and entering, malicious destruction of property, curfew violations, truancy, vandalism, and assault.
After Savannah's sons, AJ and Imsety, threw a wild party at which paparazzi were present, Savannah's husband, Andrew, moved his wife and children to Hidden Springs to escape the fallout.
The boy who eventually became Savannah's husband, Andy, had lusted after her ever since he and his adoptive mother moved into the Landgraab mansion next door to the Plumb estate after her brief marriage to Malcolm Landgraab. On paper their union seemed like a big mismatch - he, an adoptee and she, an heiress by the time she reached her teens. The relationship started out inauspiciously, with her being assigned as his tutor and them referring to each other with insulting names. But, eventually, when Savannah went missing in Egypt, Andy realized he loved her. They eventually wed, and the rest, is history.
The wedding shocked Sunset Valley. Savannah, who had been known as a wild child, had gotten married. And the couple wasn't done, either. Their first son, Andrew, Jr. (AJ) was born in short order after the wedding and their subsequent move to a cabin on Pinochle Pond in Sunset Valley. Following him were Sage, Sierra, Skylar and Sawyer. As the family expanded, so did their needs, and eventually they left Sunset Valley for Hidden Springs, which was the birthplace of the youngest two children. The family has since returned to Sunset Valley, but maintain their property in Hidden Springs and Moonlight Falls.
Meanwhile, after a string of failed relationships, Sebastian met Madison Avenue (née Madison Westley) while on vacation in Hidden Springs. They fell madly in love. Sebastian sold his Bridgeport penthouse and moved to Starlight Shores to be with her. The two had a tumultuous relationship, which resulted in their daughter, Kaydence. Madison's burgeoning success took a toll on their relationship, and their breakup was painful, resulting in a bitter and drawn-out court battle. After Sebastian won custody of Kaydence and lost a significant part of his personal fortune, he returned to his native Sunset Valley with her, while Madison returned to Starlight Shores, never to be a significant part of her daughter's life again.
Sebastian then married Cherise Hall, a lounge singer, in Sunlit Tides while on vacation there. Cherise bore two children with Sebastian - Jazz Lyric and Moonlight Sonata. Cherise filed for divorce after discovering Sebastian's affair with the family butler, Anissa Swenson, who herself would bear him a daughter, Rhapsody.
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Notable family members[]
- Nigel (founder)
- Margaret
- Nathan
- Noah
- Savannah
- Sebastian
- AJ
- Sage
- Sierra
- Skylar
- Sawyer
- Kaydence
- Jazz
- Sonata
Trivia[]
- The name Jolina may derive from a French word, jolie, meaning "pretty." The family matriarch, Jamie Jolina, is said to have been very attractive.
- The name Plumb, according to the Surname Database, may either be Anglo-Saxon, for someone who lived by a plum tree, or Old French, as an occupational name for a plumber. Alternatively, it may also be short for the Sims 'plumbob.' This name is borne by the family patriarch, Nigel Plumb.
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