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Pleasant Family

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Pleasant Family
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Members Jeff Pleasant, Diane Pleasant, Daniel Pleasant, Jennifer Pleasant
Neighborhood Neighborhood 1
Appearance The Sims

Player stories


Pleasant Family

On the surface, Daniel and Mary-Sue Pleasant seem to have the perfect life, but is their love a flimsy façade? And can Angela and Lilith make the right choices when it comes to love?
Members Daniel Pleasant, Mary-Sue Pleasant, Angela Pleasant, Lilith Pleasant
Neighborhood Pleasantview
Family Connections Burb Family, Oldie Family, Broke Family, Dreamer Family, Langerak Family
Appearance The Sims 2

Player stories


The Pleasant Family has grown bigger in the years following The Sims, where it was the nicest and most normal family around. Jeff and Diane Pleasant are deceased, Jennifer Pleasant marries John Burb and has one child, Lucy. Daniel Pleasant marries Mary-Sue Pleasant and they have twin girls, Angela and Lilith.

Daniel Pleasant has an affair with their housekeeper, but you can decide what happens with that. Angela, who seems to be the "goody two-shoes" of the family, is worried that if she doesn't have her first kiss with her boyfriend Dustin Broke, he might want to break up with her. (Some players evidently prefer to break them up.) Lilith is something of a rebel, and has had a rough childhood. When you first play the family, Mary-Sue will either be fired from her job or demoted unless the player decides to ignore the chance card she gets.

The family lives at 215 Sim Lane and has a net worth of §104,000, of which §2,250 is in funds. They will be able to pay their bills, but Mary-Sue's Fortune Sim wants for stuff will be hard to satisfy.

The Pleasants appear in a televised pizza commercial, and seem to appear in one of the programs on the Sims Broadcasting Network channel.

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Onomatology

Pleasant -- "pleasing, agreeable, enjoyable"

Daniel Pleasant -- From a Hebrew name meaning "Judged by God" or "God is my judge"

Jennifer Burb -- (Daniel's sister) -- Popular name meaning "fair, white, smooth"

Mary-Sue Pleasant -- Mary Sue is a term for fictional characters in fan-fiction that are portrayed in an overly idealized way, and lack noteworthy or realistic flaws. Also, one of the main characters of the film Pleasantville (as opposed to Pleasantview) became named Mary Sue when she entered the titular neighborhood.

For Mary-Sue's adoptive parents onomatology, see Oldie Family.

Angela Pleasant -- The name derives from the heavenly angels.

Lilith Pleasant -- Meaning "of the night". This name was a demon in ancient Assyrian myths. In Jewish and Islamic tradition, she was Adam's first wife but was replaced by Eve. Offspring of Adam and Lillith were the evil spirits of the world.

Jeff Pleasant (Daniel's dad) -- Means either "territory peace", "stranger peace", "hostage peace" or "god's peace".

Diane Pleasant (Daniel's mom) -- Meaning "heavenly, divine"

Les Pleasant (Daniel's paternal grandfather) -- A pun so that the name says "Less Pleasant." The puns are quite hilarious, seeing as Les is a real name, short for Lester or Leslie.

Kynda Pleasant (Daniel's paternal grandmother) -- A pun so that the name says "Kind of Pleasant"

Danders: "loose scales formed on the skin and shed from the coat of feathers of various animals"

Marshall Danders Means "horse servant"

Melinda Danders Combination of "Mel" as in Melanie or Melissa and the popular suffix "inda". Means "honey" in Greek. Also means "sweet", "dark" and "serpent" in other languages. Might mean "horse" in Simlish.

Marsh -- "a tract of low wet land, often treeless, and periodically flooded".

William Marsh (John's maternal grandfather) -- Popular name meaning "will, desire" and "helmet, protection"

Anastasia Marsh (John's maternal grandmother) -- Means "resurrection" The only thing I'd like to point out is that Marsh and Burb both describe a place.

No real relation there. All names seem to fit in quite nicely. The name Lilith seems to be very fitting to her character, but holds a really bad reputation. Angela's name is the most obvious, but fitting. You can kind of see Mary-Sue as the "wanting-to-be-perfect" role in the family. And Daniel is "Judged by God" for cheating on his wife

Family Tree

Members

Photo Album

Daniel and Mary-Sue's Wedding

New Pleasants

Twin Birthday

Lilth and Dirk makeout

Angela Pleasant

Daniel Pleasant

Lilith Pleasant

Mary-Sue Pleasant



The Pleasant Family

- Les - Kynda - Jeff - Diane - Jennifer - Daniel - Mary-Sue - Angela - Lilith

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