Darren Booker

Darren Booker/ Pattingham is a recurring character within the main universe of the Sims Save.

Background
Darren was born in Willow Creek to Deborah Booker around 20 years ago, with the influence on his name coming from her as opposed to his father, Nicholas Booker. Around 5 years later, when the time had come again, the Bookers welcomed a new addition to the family, Nika, Darren's sister.

Darren, alongside the rest of his family, was raised and have been living in Oasis Springs for their entire lineage. It is here where Darren met his best friend, H***** A*****, at the Community Park one fateful summer. H***** put Darren on to the ins-and-outs of basic street knowledge. something he was familiar with but particularly sheltered from in his younger years. It was this reckless summer that laid the foundations for a friendship to last.

Coming to the end of summer, both Darren and H***** were enrolled in Buckingham High where they met Darrell Paxworth, who had already gained quite the reputation with his nickname "Rolla" for his tendency to be caught smoking by the authority. The trio ran well for a while until Rolla's "induction" into the family business. Losing a friend would be just the start of loss for Darren though as sickness struck the Booker family, claiming the lives of Deborah and Nicholas to their respective cases of cancer and cirrhosis of the liver. After their funerals, Darren and Nika were sent to South Oasis to live with their grandparents who unfortunately passed years later due to complications with age. During his stay on the Southside, he and H***** fell in with the leader of the local gang set - The Crips, becoming his two favourites of the set as they aged. When his grandparents had passed, Smurfy took Darren and Nika in for their later years of education - making them both Pattinghams by law.

Physical appearance
Darren is a Human male with dark skin, aged into his twenties, with black hair and dark brown eyes. He is of a stocky build and stands relatively tall for his race.

His stocky, athletic build is due to his time in Buckingham High as a field player for the Buckingham Bulls, his lengthy workout regime and his love for McDonalds and Antonia's fried chicken. On some days, he moves slower than usual due to his smoking and drinking habits - he is estimated to smoke at least 6 joints a day."'All you do is gangbang and smoke with your other deadbeat friends but then you go and talk about 'protecting me'.'""- Nika Booker in Chapter Three"Darren's default outfit is a hoodie (Blue Swatch) by seze [s4seze], black bottoms (U) and Air Jordan 1s in a Blue/White colourway (U). He is also known to wear a Blue Flannel (U).

Personality
Darren is a confused man, stuck between an indefinite realm of good and evil. Spending a lot of time in his head, one might think he is nostalgic or reminiscing yet the people that know him dearly know that he is always tactically thinking of a way to stay on top of things. Above all, he is a family man. Treating all of his friends, family and, on rare occasions, strangers.

Trivia

 * Although he sports the colour blue a lot - Yellow is Darren's favourite colour.
 * He is loosely named after his Mother whereas his sister is loosely named after her father.