Agnes Crumplebottom: The Sim's Most Misunderstood Character

hi there welcome to my channel I'm Jazz Sims and if you don't know already we're doing a little series on this channel where I take the most interesting and well-known Sims from the entire franchise doing a deep dive into their stories and bringing them up to date in The Sims 4 today we're going to be taking a closer look at Agnes crumple bottom I'm sure you've heard of her by now but I'm willing to bet that you'll find out something new about her in this video Agnes is the daughter of Simon and Prudence crumple bottom who appear in The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 in both of the games they're already deceased of old age but their tombstones can be found in the goth family graveyards and both their ghosts still haunt The Goth Manor the reason that they haunt The Goth Manor is that they also had another daughter called Cornelia who went on to marry Gunther goth and give birth to Mortimer this means that Agnes is mortimer's maternal Aunt we first see Agnes appear in The Sims hot dat which is an expansion pack for the first edition of The Sims released in 2001 her clothes are very conservative she wears a button- down gray dress with a pillbox hat and a little black handbag her name is also very fitting as Agnes is derived from hagnes which is a Greek word that means chased Pure or holy I'm thinking about about that's probably where the word hag comes from her last name sounds like grumpy bottom which is a good description of her personality she's a very prudent angry old woman who hates public displays of affection and will react negatively to any Sims being romantic with each other in her vicinity it makes her so angry that she can actually whack them with her handbag so she was obviously made as a funny character considering this was an expansion pack about romance but her biography explains why she is this way and it turns out it's actually a little less funny than it seems she unfortunately lost her husband Robert many years ago and never quite got over the emotional damage it caused her the cause of his death is explained in the item description of the crumple bottom chandelier in The Sims vacation he was said to be standing underneath the chandelier when it fell down two stories and crushed him the Sims 2 takes place after the Sims 1 chronologically by now she's deceased and she appears as a ghost that passed away from old age there is a character in The Sims 2 NTI that shares her appearance and behavior known as Mrs crumplebottom but these are not the same characters nightlife is set many many years in the future compared to the Sims 2 and to add to this Mrs crumple bottom actually carries a portrait of her great aunt Agnes crumplebottom in her handbag needless to say she completely idolizes her if the player has the Sims two seasons installed and makes a wish in the well there's a chance that Mrs crumplebottom can crawl out of the well and hit the player with her purse which would have given me nightmares as a child so now coming over to the Sims 3 which is set before the Sims 1 we see a much younger Agnes living alone in Sunset Valley she is a widow still but surprisingly she hasn't actually met Robert yet which means she was a widow to another Sim before him her first husband was called Eric darling and unfortunately he passed away on their honeymoon her description says Agnes cruma bottom hadn't even changed her last name into her husbands when an unfortunate accident on her honeymoon ended their marriage between her growing bitterness and her husband's ghost scaring away gentleman callers only the bravest Sim would ever try to win her heart and Fortune now so Eric unfortunately never really left his gravestone can be seen in Agnes's front yard and his ghost still wanders around the house and interacts with her as if nothing happened so poor Agnes was was really Frozen in time and she really couldn't move on a really heartbreaking detail is that there appears to be a baby room being decorated in that house and the work stopped halfway through I prefer to think that this was where they were just preparing ahead and with Eric's sudden death obviously all of her plans came to a stop something that I only learned just recently is that in the Sims 3 Supernatural expansion pack we have three more crumple bottom family members although it's not actually known how they're related to her exactly their three sisters called Belinda beatric and Bianca the three sisters are witches and the that they all have the same initials is a reference to either Charmed or Hocus Pocus so the three sisters are very different Bianca is the youngest sister and the most feisty she thinks everyone either wants her or wants to be her and she thinks that her sisters are jealous of her Youth and Beauty which can make her quite unbearable to live with she has a few points in the guitar skill and her life aspiration is to become a pop star the middle sister Belinda is the mediator between her two sisters she is mainly trying to have a quiet life and is kind of a glue that keeps the household together she wants both of her sisters to get along even if they are really both opposites from each other she loves cooking and works in the culinary career and then we have beatric who is a lonely Grump who always has a nose in a book and strives to be the perfect Witch she's obsessed with perfection and has really high standards and this means that she is normally quite condescending to other witches and doesn't ever see anyone else's success to me she definitely sounds the most like Agnes so we didn't see any crumple Bottoms in The Sims 4 until the release of the cottage living expansion pack in 2021 that introduced the beautiful countryside world of henford on Bagley Agnes appears as one of The Village's NPCs who owns a gardening store with her cousin Agatha the two are opposites and I'm beginning to see quite a pattern with the crumple bottom ladies here Agatha is playful flirty and very social and Agnes is very much the same old Aggie that we know and love if you do get caught by Agnes and you happen to have the growing together expansion pack installed they will unlock the crumple bottomed milestone in their Sims panel so until the summer of 2023 that was it for Agnes's story and then they dropped the horse ranch expansion pack this was pivotal in the crumple bottom timeline as we got a huge plot twist The Sims released an official video on their Tik Tok account confirming a backstory about an elusive NPC called Roberto crinkle top so in this video we see the mysterious character used to be married to Agnes they can be seen arguing quite a lot and then Robert sees the chandelier and he seems to have some sort of idea at that point and then the rest is history he gets out of there after seemingly faking his own death although they did seem to be quite Unhappily Married there's no way that faking your own passing is a normal response to that situation we are talking about a fully grown man who willingly got married to a woman that he probably knew quite well at this point Agnes has been bitter since her first marriage so I just feel like faking your own death after you know that your spouse has already lost a partner is like the coldest thing that you could ever do like I'm sure Agnes wouldn't have been the best person to be around if you brought up divorce with her but I am sure that there are other ways of doing that without giving her any more trauma there is actually a little speculation around if robbert actually did fake his own death like I said earlier he appears as an NPC and if you build up enough trust in him you can actually learn some of his nectar recipes he can actually teach you how to make Vitality nectar which is essentially a Revival potion that allows you to resurrect Sims from the dead I mean this could just be a funny little reference to the fact that he did fake his own death before or maybe he actually did die and just knew that he could take this special nectar recipe and revive himself after the fact there is actually a very interesting detail in the horse ranch expansion pack so one of the Townes appears to have been resurrected by a local hero and it makes that nectar Revival Theory all the more plausible I will just say that it's a little surpris Iz in that Robert went for such a similar name to his married name when he was still with Agnes Roberto crinkle top Robert crumper bottom I mean you'd assume that he'd go something different if he was trying to cover his tracks and also given how traditional and conservative Agnes is it seems a little strange that she wouldn't take her husband's last name but I guess the crumple bottom family was so prestigious and Wealthy that it was probably in everyone's best interest if he took her name okay so starting off in Create a Sim as you can see Agnes looks a tiny little bit different I do have the height slider mod install so if she looks a little bit smaller that will be why I didn't need to change her too much she's been around since the Sims 1 and she's really recognizable at this point so I just tweaked her face to look a little bit less cartoony and a little bit more realistic I wanted to make her just a tiny bit more pretty than her original version although you can still definitely see that she looks angry and annoyed all the time as you can see I did give her a few more traits so I made her hotheaded nosy aloner unflirty and a bookworm this is really going off the previous games and her kind of backstory in general so I kept her outfits pretty much the same I don't think I've ever seen Agnes crumper bottom do any type of physical activity in my games so I don't think we'll be seeing her in her athletic outfit I did give her untied hair for her sleepwear outfit and it's kind of weird to see her without her like very pristine updo but I feel like she wouldn't wear that a bed and it kind of humanizes her a bit to see her with a different hairstyle I don't know why so you might be thinking why is Agnes wearing normal clothes for her swimwear and it's because I read somewhere that in the original Sims game where she first appeared she used to get in swimming pool fully clothed so I thought that would be quite a fun detail to add in and she's got slightly different colored outfits for hot weather or cold weather but all pretty much the same she still has the life aspiration to become a freelance botanist as she loves gardening I really enjoy doing her preferences on this one because I feel like she's got quite a defined personality so she likes cross stitch and knitting which is a reference to the previous games where she used to carry around knitting needles in her handbag obviously she loves the color gray she loves gardening and she likes small talk and gossip I feel like a lot of old ladies just really like small talk and obviously a lot of likes based around romance and silly Behavior cuz obviously she's very well known for being quite serious and prude she does like a bit of Gossip because she is a nosy Sim if you don't know the nosy trait was brought in with the forign expansion pack and she is the first person that I thought of when I saw this new trait I feel like she's quite heavily based on upper class snooty British ladies they're very prim and proper they don't like silliness and they don't like too much displays of romantic affection but they are definitely quite prone to a bit of gossip and a bit of curtain twitching now we don't know too much about Agatha compared to Agnes but we do know that the two share a garden shop business together and an interesting detail about AGA is that her default emotion is actually playful instead of just fine like I said earlier she is the poal opposite of Agnes so she is bubbly playful and a bit of a flirt much to the dismay of Agnes so compared to Agnes Agatha doesn't take herself too seriously she is friendly romantic and cheerful I believe she initially had this snob personality trait but I changed that because I feel if she's playful and doesn't take herself too seriously she probably wouldn't be a snob I also dressed her down a little bit in her everyday wear but she kept that traditional and recognizable aesthetic in a few of her other outfit categories but she's definitely the more relatable out of the two I gave her the neighborhood Confidant aspiration which means that she really loves being part of the community and bonding with her neighbors obviously her preferences are very much opposite to Agnes so she is much more keen on positive interactions with other Sims she likes bubbly Sims like herself she likes getting to know other people and she has just a little bit more of a Carefree personality so that means she's into a few more Hobbies also just like her cousin she really enjoys gardening and she's actually an expert Gardener I feel like she's the version of Agnes if Agnes hadn't gone through a lot of traumatic things in her life and I feel like Agatha and Agnes live together so Agatha probably does get to see a little bit of Agnes's soft side every now and then and I mean if they didn't like each other they definitely wouldn't live together so Agatha is that kind of nice that she can see through the harsh exterior that nobody else can see through maybe she goes around trying to sort of warm people up to Agnes a little bit so before we take a look at their beautiful new home I'm sure you're thinking Well normally Agatha and Agnes are NPCs and they don't actually live in a lot the game won't recognize them as NPCs once they've been played so normally that is an issue but I figured out a work around obviously because I want to modify all of the NPCs for my save file so to do this I actually downloaded a mod that allows you to assign NPC rolls to Sims so once I'm done making them over I will just exit back out of the household delete the automatically game generated new NPC and go back and assign that roll back to the Sim do keep in mind though if you do play the save file or if you do want to download them off of the gallery you can't actually play with them as I said it will remove their NPC trait the build is called crumple bottom estate and it was put on the gallery by Abby arashi so a massive thank you to them it's absolutely stunning and it is the very typical wealthy English family living in the countryside kind of vibe this lot was so so perfect for the crumble bottoms and I'm actually really really obsessed with buildings like this in English Countryside in real life if we come to the back garden over here we can see that Agatha is busy working away tending the garden originally these weren't actually plants they were just build by flowers which was very pretty but I thought if they both really love gardening and they have a gardening shop business they're probably going to have actual plants in their Garden so I spent a really long time scouring debug which is basically the hidden menu that shows you all of the hidden objects in the game and manually planting each and every flower some of them aren't in season but I think you'll agree it does look really really pretty with all the different colors colors and textures and they can actually tend to the flowers in the garden like I said not that you can actually play with this household but if you do ever visit them they'll likely be tending to the flowers in the garden so starting off with Agnes as you can see she is busy currently steeping some tea from a teapot just as a side note I absolutely love the cottage living expansion pack I don't think I've ever gone over this before but I'm obviously very English as you can hear by my accent but I don't live in England anymore but I really really like anything kind of English Countryside I'm kind of obsessed with it in real life so I absolutely love seeing this in The Sims and I was so so happy when they announced the cottage living expansion pack in 2021 I filled out Agnes's skill panel with all of the relevant things that I think she might get up to in a spare time so gardening cross stitch knitting as well and then some more basic ones like cooking logic and writing I just looked at her relationship panel and it's quite hilarious so obviously she isn't the most social of Sims most of her relationships are made up of pchy the Scarecrow and all of the chickens I haven't really taken her out into the world to interact with anyone yet so that's why but it's pretty funny just to see a entire full panel just full of chickens as for bonus traits I gave her argumentative Twisted heart responsible good manners independent uncontrolled emotions High self-esteem and sacred knitting knowledge I gave her some Milestones now this was a feature added in the growing together expansion pack obviously she's had a very turbulent life so I wanted to add those details into her current self so in order she fell in love with Rober Berto crinkle top obviously the game registers him as Roberto crinkle top now she got engaged to him got married to him and then was widowed by him now obviously she wasn't in reality but of course for her she was widowed by him and that marked her in her life so I added that in there for Agnes has an atrocious reputation through her actions and she can't really blame anyone but herself so this just means that Sims will phone her up out of the blue and kind of Grill her for being a bad person which I think probably would happen if she was that horrible to people in real life and Sims are more likely to dislike her from the get-go when they meet her so as you could see in her relationship panel there was Patchy the Scarecrow now patchy is actually an object that you can get ined by you can actually interact with him so you can chat with him ask for gardening tips check his pockets for seeds or examin him so if you do these enough times he will actually begin to come to life at certain times of the day and you can basically just interact with him as a normal Sim he will do default actions like tin to your garden plant seeds and just kind of do general maintenance around the garden this is one of Agnes's only acquaintances for the moment I feel like that was really fitting she could only get along with a kind of semian animate object she's misunderstood by a lot of people and I feel like the Scarecrow is just not quite human enough to be annoyed by her like the rest of the world I gu her has also got quite a lot of skills so cooking baking a few things that Agnes would probably turn her nose up at a little bit like Charisma comedy Mischief Mixology dancing but she's a very well-rounded Sim so amongst her traits we have more friendly ones like kindness Ambassador socially gifted beloved Confidant as well she's responsible a mediator I feel like the mediator trait might come in a little bit useful for when she's trying to patch things over between Agnes and different townies but generally people kind of look up to Agatha and contrary to Agnes she has a great reputation so coming over to the build as you can see it's a very traditional Countryside State type house so the interior is very cozy but also you can tell that it's a wealthy and Rich family that have owned this place The Deco style is very vintage and we got items like record players and chest tables and pianos we've also got a really beautiful planted up Conservatory area I'm not sure what you call it in your country but we'd call this a conservatory where it's basically like a glass house attached to your house the lighting is beautiful in here and I figured that Agatha could probably sit there and paint if she wanted to and we also have this little flower arranging table in here coming out to the front lawn really quickly we've got quite a touching detail so it's the grave of Eric darling it's still in the front yard but his ghost has has moved on now to the afterlife and doesn't bother Agnes anymore this has been the case for quite a while at this point I feel like because she obviously got remarried uh to Roberto and turned into an elder but I thought that would be a really nice touch to kind of leave the gravestone of Eric in the front garden although his ghost kind of did stick around for a little too long I think they were really really in love and so he deserves a place in her garden so coming upstairs there's a little office over here it's probably Simon crumple bottoms when he was still alive got a spare bedroom over here which I'm guessing would have been the crumple bottom parents's bedroom so prudence and Simon a very purple bedroom over here which I'm guessing probably belonged to Cornelia goth as I said earlier Cornelia and Agnes were sisters Agatha's bedroom over here with a green bed as her favorite color is green I think we can guess whose bedroom this is this is Agnes's and I really really liked the touch of the little handbag sitting on a dressing table and a really cool detail is they recreated the baby bedroom from The Sims 3 I figured Agnes would probably have just left this bedroom um and sort of never touched it again quite a sensitive topic for her so overall I'm really glad that Agnes wasn't brought back just by herself there's actually someone living with her that's a family member it's a little bit less lonely and a bit less tragic I feel like the story would have gone something like Agnes lost her second husband and her cousin probably came and moved into the crumple bottom M State just to keep her company a little bit and although they're complete opposites I feel like they do have a little bit of a bond there so now we're going to head on over to glimmer Brook to check in on the three crumple bottom sisters that I brought back into the Sims 4 I have to admit that I'm not necessarily really an oul player and this was my first time actually playing with this pack and I've got to say it's actually really fun so as I explained earlier the three sisters are very different from each other the youngest one is a little Vain and difficult to live with she always thinks everyone's jealous of her the middle one is kind of the mediator of the family and just wants everybody to get along and the older one is quite grumpy and quite snobby and a little bit condescending to everyone else even when they have accomplished great things so I think we can start off with the eldest sister beatric she is a bookworm a SN snob a loner hot-headed self assured and a perfectionist and amongst her likes and dislikes she dislikes other hardworking Sims egotistical Sims romance enthusiasts and anyone that's kind of like a little bit bubbly like her younger sister favorite colors are green and purple and she enjoys research and debate she strives to be a really good Alchemist and her life aspiration is perve of potions I heavily based all of their outfits on what they were wearing in The Sims 3 but kind of updated it a little bit I gave her quite a cottage core themed wardrobe based on her favorite colors she has quite a mature aesthetic and doesn't show too much skin coming over to the middle sister Belinda so she is quite a happy go-lucky Sim who really enjoys baking and cooking so she's good cheerful a foodie generous and family oriented she dislikes argumentative Sims malicious interactions arguments and complaints and she enjoys the simpler things in life and basic fashion and she aspires to be a Master Chef she has a lot of purple in her outfits and her overall aesthetic kind of reminds me of someone from the mid 2000s which is really what a lot of the Sims 3 fashion was based on at the time and then coming over to the last sister Bianca she is romantic non-committal jealous and self-absorbed she aspires to be a world famous celebrity through her singing and guitar skills she's a very flirty Sim and dresses super confidently she mainly dresses in black and white and I feel like her outfits are pretty cute and put together most of the time so this build is called the good witch and it was uploaded onto the gallery by Wrath of cath it's such a pretty build it's very cottagey and really Blends into the world of glimmer brick so the interior is very much Cottage core little witch Nest away in the middle of the forest I tweaked the interior just a little bit to match their style so we got a little living room over here with a study area and fireplace entrance way and a very cozy kitchen over here we've got codron room where they make potions particularly berc as that's kind of her thing and I gave all three girls bedrooms very much based on their aesthetic and style so beatric is a little bit more Cottage core than her two sisters she likes greens and neutral tones and has hasn't really got many like fun items in her bedroom obviously this is blind's room she loves the color purple and has more of a fun and bubbly personality so I gave her a little bit more of a childlike themed bedroom and over here is Bianca's obviously lots of white everywhere her tasting Decor is a little bit more modern than her sisters they have their own common room over here with like a little games area a piano and A Mixology station so let's go over the Sims details quickly so beatric really enjoys things like gardening research and debate she likes Reading Writing archaeology things like that she isn't a bad sim but she definitely seeks power a little bit too keenly and can be quite insensitive so I reflected that in her bonus traits she still is the older sister and kind of feels responsible for her younger siblings she's a master mixer perfectionist potion Master observant headstrong which for me kind of means stubborn and also a mastermind if you saw my last video on the alto family you'll know that VA is a mastermind too which unlocks interactions like plant seeds of Doubt which kind of allows your sim to be very indirect directly mean to other Sims and kind of control their emotions and I figured she'd use that against her younger sister Belinda has skills in things like herbalism baking cooking and also parenting too I feel like she's kind of the mom of the family so the traits mediator compassionate responsible emotional control seemed to fit her just perfectly and the youngest sister Bianca has all those General skills too and more music and social orientated skills and she has a much more flirty and mischievous personality so as I mentioned earlier I was completely unfamiliar with the whole realm of magic side of the game so obviously I made this in spellcasters and I didn't really know where to start from there it wasn't very clear but they all had this glimmerstone in their inventories and what I figured out is that you need to use the glimmerstone to transport yourself to another realm the realm of magic and from here you can buy magical items you can acquire the things to perform magic so like a wand and a broom to fly around on and you can also meet the sages of magic so in the realm of Magic game there are three branches of magic mischief magic Untamed magic and Practical Magic and that actually happened to be perfect for this household because as you know the three sisters are very different and have different uses for their magic Bianca is kind of said to want to manipulate Sims into loving her and thinking that she's attractive so that she can be the center of attention all the time so I think she would use the Mischief category of spells the most Belinda is a very everyday girl and she just kind of wants to have an easy life so I figured that she probably would prefer Practical Magic and beatric seeks power and to be the best so obviously the fit category for her was Untamed magic each sister has more skills than the others in their kind of domain of magic you're not locked to one type of magic in the game which is good because if you want a little bit of mischief and a little bit of practical you can do that just a happy coincidence that I managed to find a house that I wanted to put in the game that really fit those three different categories perfectly and finally that leaves us with Roberto crinkle top which I feel like I don't even want to call him just out of spite I just want to kind of call him by his original name so Robert is an NPC in the world of Chestnut Ridge in the horse ranch expansion pack he is actually a hidden household so he doesn't even show up in the manage households Tab and the only way to see him is by being in the Appaloosa neighborhood Monday Wednesday and Friday at noon so he only appears to basically be available to buy a nectar off of your Sims if they have any to sell and you can kind of slowly befriend him like I mentioned earlier to be able to obtain things like recipes and knowledge from him so to get around the fact that he's an unplayable NPC I used a mod called control Sim which is super super useful for me making this save file I'll leave a link for that in the description so this mod basically allows you to temporarily add the Sim to your household to take control of them and from here I could see his personality and skills from The Game's perspective this doesn't actually Mark the Sim as being played it just kind of temporarily adds them to your control so it didn't mess up the fact that he's an NPC so the first thing I had to do when I saw his traits was to completely change them because his traits included good and romantic and I just think how good and romantic of a person could you be to further traumatize your spouse who has already lost a husband previously by faking your own death so I changed his traits up and gave him a little bit more of a fitting personality if you ask me if coward was a trait in The Sims 4 you can bet that I would have given him that as well as a side note I actually did go in and get Agnes to come find him and beat him up I just felt like I needed to get that temporary satisfaction of Agnes finally getting her revenge on him a little bit but I did ultimately decide to delete the relationship I think it's best probably that agones doesn't realize that he isn't dead I thought I should just keep them on their own separate story lines but what do you think maybe Robert could actually try and redeem himself a little bit maybe he's had enough time to think about what he's done and find Agnes and apologize who knows let me know what you think in the comments down below but personally I think that they should be kept on their own tracks at this point I did just want to say really quickly thank you so much for being one of my viewers on my channel we just hit 30,000 subscribers on this channel which absolutely blows my mind thank you so much to each and every one of you all of the Sims in today's video will be put on the gallery apart from Robert crinkle top my gallery ID is jazz is simming or one word and the custo content list used on the Sims will be in the description down below please let me know who I should remake or bring back next and I will see you next time bye guys

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Length: 25min 13sec (1513 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 14 2024