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The Sims 4

The Howlter Household

     Dil Howlter 
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The klutzy, awkward Sim who started it all, Dil Howlter is the first Sim in the series and the leader of the Howlter household.


  • Alien Abduction: He gets to experience it in the bowling episode, and takes the experience much better than Tabitha did in her experiences. This abduction is what gets him pregnant. He's since been abducted a second time with no consequence.
  • Color Motifs: Wears all black, like Dan, but retains Phil's silliness with coordinating bunny slippers.
  • Composite Character: Designed to be one for Dan and Phil.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: He's a bit of a ditz.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: A tad; he has a tendency to intervene whenever Tabitha is talking to someone else (with Dan and Phil's influence, of course).
  • Doting Parent: He acts like one occasionally.
  • Fainting: Of the exhaustion variety. Dil is prone to going so long without re-energizing that his energy stat bar will completely deplete, and he'll have an energy failure and collapse.
  • Family Man: Dil cares a lot about his wife and children.
  • Fleeting Passionate Hobbies: He's been a mixologist, a violinist, a painter, a bonsai trimmer, and a guitarist. While he shows some proficiency in each of these, they are all fleeting hobbies because Dan and Phil tend to sacrifice the hobby items to sell when they need money for something else.
  • Happily Married: To Tabitha as of Episode 29.
  • In-Series Nickname: Dan and Phil call him "Dilly" every now and then.
  • The Klutz: He's constantly dropping plates and bowls in the sink and breaking them when trying to wash them. Well, Dan and Phil did give him the clumsy trait...
  • Mad Scientist: Since becoming a scientist, he's fallen in this category, and at Dan's behest, a creepy laboratory was even added to his home to go with this idea. He's more clueless and excited than malicious, but still, his activities in this played-straight LP include:
    • Freezing people and transforming so many objects with his SimRay that the ray only creates flames, on multiple occasions.
    • Going as far as to break into the home of his tenuous friends and start transforming their things, too, which makes them none too happy, especially after it creates a fire instead.
    • Cloning Eliza.
    • Building a portal to an alien planet, taking the clone Eliza on a visit there with him and leaving her there. Except Dan and Phil accidentally sent the real Eliza instead.
  • Meaningful Name: It's a combination of "Dan Howell" and "Phil Lester", as he's designed to resemble a combination of his two creators.
  • Mister Seahorse: His abduction leaves him pregnant with an alien baby.
  • No Social Skills: Subverted. While he's quite friendly and sociable, he's also very weird and has no real close friendships, with past contacts either becoming enemies, forgetting about him, or only weakly remaining friends due to his actions.
  • Official Couple: With Tabitha.
  • Parents as People: Loves his sons, but is rather neglectful due to his busy schedule and clumsiness, to the point that his son Dab once collapsed due to exhaustion and hunger.
  • Second Love: Tabitha was married before him, but now, the two of them are Happily Married.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Erica Pendleton.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Dil publicly fights Erica Pendleton on two occasions, the first time solidifying their enmity, and the second making the enmity officially declared.
  • The Xenophile: Being abducted by aliens usually leaves the abductee (such as his wife) dazed. But when Dil comes back from being abducted, he's having a Fanboy moment over the alien technology!

     Tabitha Casper 
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The fourth girl Dil gets involved with, and the one who becomes his wife. Though her marital past comes into question upon her moving in, she seems to be in a better situation with Dil.


  • Absurdly Youthful Mother: It's unclear how old she's supposed to be (she has been married before Dil, so she can't be that young), but during his childhood, she could have easily passed herself off as Dab's older sister.
    • Actually becomes plot relevant in season 2, where she is deaged like Dil, and they have to move neighborhoods to avoid suspicion.
  • Alien Abduction: This has happened to her three times.
  • Ascended Extra: She went from a background stranger to Dil's girlfriend and wife, and Dan and Phil have since given her some focus after gaining the ability to oversee her actions upon her moving in with Dil.
  • Boring, but Practical: Her job as an entertainment entrepreneur bores Phil, but her salary is enticing enough to let her keep the job once Dan and Phil gain control of her.
  • Birds of a Feather: She and Dil are both weird, geeky types who get overly-excited about things.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: She's a good match for Dil, as she sleeps in sunglasses and stays up all night swimming and dancing after WooHoo, in addition to playing with toys in the middle of the street and dancing with shop mannequins.
  • Contrived Coincidence: In a meta sense. In appearance and personality, she might be compared to a female combination of Dan and Phil, and she ends up with the male, intentional combination of the two in Dil. This, as well as her lack of official info, has fueled a conspiracy theory about Dan and Phil creating her to hook up with Dil, despite randomly-generated Sims being a thing, and her visible apprearances prior to becoming a relevant character.
  • Cool Shades: She wears these with her work outfit and, bizarrely, with her pajamas.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: She made an early appearance in the ninth episode of the playthrough when Dil went out fishing.
  • Gasshole: Has been seen farting on multiple occasions, and is the only character in the playthrough seen doing so.
  • Good Stepmother: To Dalien, whose biological mother is fully out of the picture. She loves Dalien with all her heart and treats him no differently than her first son.
  • Happily Married: To Dil.
  • In-Series Nickname: She's often referred to as "Tabs" and "T-bag." (The latter being used despite both Dan and Phil agreeing it's a terrible nickname and they should stop.)
  • Last Girl Wins: She's the fourth and last character introduced as a love interest for Dil, and she was the first of them that entered a serious relationship with him. Eventually, they married and have each had a child.)
  • Moment Killer: She becomes the most embarrassing mom ever when she stops by Dab's room while Evan is over and starts dancing to his jukebox right when things were about to get more a little more serious between the teens.
  • My Beloved Smother: Showed some shades of this after Dab got his own apartment with Evan. Dan and Phil almost immediately regretted giving her a key because she visited so often that it was practically her second home, leading to Dab revoking her key rights soon after.
  • Official Couple: She became the first proper girlfriend, and soon after, wife, to Dil, and has started a family with him.
  • Parents as People: Loves her sons, but is rather neglectful due to her absentmindedness to the point that Dab once collapsed due to exhaustion and hunger, and her stress drives her to distract herself with a game of Blicblock while Dil is giving birth to Dalien.
  • Perky Goth: She has dark hair and wears a shirt with a fancy skull pattern, but she's a childlike personality who often wears lighter colors (including the color of her skull shirt). Likely conscious of this vibe, Dan and Phil have Tabitha buy a skeleton-rabbit guitar during a shopping trip. This gothness prompts Dan and Phil to take Tabitha and Dil on a trip... to a vampire's house.
    • This is brought up again in Season 2, when Dil and Tabitha Woohoo in a Haunted House.
  • The Pigpen: In Dan's words, she's a "stinky ho", which is to say that one of her inherent traits is Slob, which makes her prone to flatulence, dirtiness, and poor hygiene. Even Dil has been grossed out by her.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Has black hair and is rather pale.
  • Tears of Fear: When Dil scares her with his panda costume on their camping trip, she is startled to tears, but he quickly cheers her up with a stroke of the cheek and a kiss...while still wearing the creepy panda costume.
  • Two First Names: Her surname, Casper, is also commonly a first name.
  • Wicked Stepmother: Inverted. She's not Dalien's biological mother, but raises him as her own, and doesn't love him any less than she loves Dab.
  • Womanchild: She has the "childish" trait, after all. Downplayed in that she's capable of taking care of herself (mostly) and has a job and can do "adult" things like pay bills... she just does those things in between playing with a toy dinosaur, dancing with mannequins, and drawing on the back of menus. She also frequently raids her sons' toy chest and has genuinely played with the toys more than her children have.

     Dab Howlter 
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Click here to see toddler Dab. 

The son of Dil and Tabitha Howlter. He's energetic and artistically inclined, and while emotional, he tends to be a bit of a flirt with a goofy wild side. He goes into acting upon becoming an adult and moving out.


  • Awesomeness by Analysis: While there are a few setbacks, Dab manages to puzzle his way through an ancient temple by taking time to examine everything first, which narrows down his courses of action.
  • Cheerful Child: He becomes this when he ages into a toddler, and Dan and Phil choose for him to retain this trait when he ages up.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: He and Evan were born close to the same time and knew each other ever since, becoming friends and later developing feelings for each other upon becoming teenagers. They become a couple soon after and get married in Season 2.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: He's made friends with the monster under his bed. He acts a bit weird in other ways, too, and is often very theatrical and inappropriately grandiose in his romantic expression.
  • Cool Big Bro: To Dalien, despite some initial jealousy on Dab's part when they were younger. Dab quickly grows fond of his little brother, and has no problem with letting Dalien sleep in his room for the night when the boy is frightened by the monster under his bed.
  • Emo Teen: Dan and Phil interpret him this way once he gets rejected by Evan and throws himself under the covers in apparent shame. His bedroom is also redecorated to be very pretentious.
  • Flowers of Romance: Due to his romantic tendencies, he tends to itch for the chance to produce these, and this turns out to be the safer, successful way for him to initiate romantic interactions with Evan.
  • Friend to All Living Things: On a jungle trip with Evan, he continually chooses to help wild animals thanks to Dan and Phil, even after failures that hurt him and upset the wildlife.
  • From the Mouths of Babes: He appalls a group of teenagers at the park by shouting curse words, and this isn't the first time Dan and Phil have made him do so during his childhood.
  • Growing Up Sucks: Dab misses toddlerhood during his child years.
  • Happily Married: To Evan as of Season 2, Episode 6.
  • I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Per Dan and Phil, Dab exercises a bit of caution in trying again to engage romantically with Evan after an embarrassing faux pas. Turns out the friendship was fine, but Dab was just way too forward.
  • I Kiss Your Hand: An attempted romantic advance with Evan that backfired horribly. The two got over it, though, and it has since succeeded.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Tends to alienate others with his exuberance, and Dan and Phil make him wear bunny slippers like Dil. Dab also follows in his father's footsteps by immediately falling asleep after his first sexual experience.
  • Meaningful Name: It's a combination of his parents', much like Dil's was a combination of his creators'. Also, it doubles as a memetic reference that annoys Dan.
  • Messy Hair: During toddlerhood, his hair is a huge frizzy bob. His hair is much neater as a child, but upon becoming a teenager, his hair becomes a bit less tidy.
  • Official Couple: With Evan.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The energetic, artistic Red Oni to Evan's shy, scientific Blue. When it comes to romance, there are further contrasts, as Dab is much bolder and naughtier than Evan.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: He looks very much like Dil...right down to inheriting his bunny slippers! However, his are restricted to his sleepwear. Additionally, upon aging up again, his default teen outfit shows about the same amount of class as his parents'.

     Dalien Howlter 
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Click here to see toddler Dalien. 
Click here to see child Dalien. 

The son of Dil and Senior Pollination Technician #3...carried, birthed, and even breastfed by Dil.


  • Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is blue.
  • Cool Shades: His human swimwear includes them as a child.
  • Emo Teen: Due to his Gloomy trait, he's frequently sad and withdrawn. Played even more seriously in the channel revival, where Dan and Phil redesign his appearance to that of a stereotypical early 2000's emo teen after seeing him go through a couple of gloomy moodlets. Dalien takes right to the makeover, dramatically sobbing the second he changes.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Half-alien, half-human. This allows him to transform into a humanoid form at will.
  • Happily Adopted: In a sense, by Tabitha, since his biological mother isn't around. Tabitha seems fine with raising Dalien as her own, and Dalien probably can't tell the difference, anyhow.
  • Heroes Love Dogs: He has the Dog Lover trait, which strengthes his already close bond to Nuki. He's frequently seen playing with the dog and doting on him with pets and kisses.
  • Humanoid Aliens: Born from a species of them and from an actual human. But his blue skin, black eyes, and lack of hair mean he can't be mistaken for anything but an alien.
  • Meaningful Name: Like Dil and Dab, he's a combination of his parents' names.
  • Missing Mom: He has never met his biological mother and sadly, he never can, seeing as she only exists for genetic purposes in the game's code. However, he is happy in his new family, and his mother sent a letter to him.
  • Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: He's an alien with a red-haired, green-eyed human disguise.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can make himself look like an ordinary human at will, which becomes his default guise under Dan and Phil's discretion.

     Nuki Howlter 

The family dog, a "Shiba Corgu" mix.


     Scapula Osseus 
A skeletal servant summoned by the Totecallama Death Relic Dab discovered on his jungle adventure.


The Pancakes Household

     Eliza Pancakes 

Dil's friend and initially a prospective girlfriend whose relationship potential with him ended due to her existing marriage. While she turned out to be something of a clingy friend, a SimRay incident that both made Dil seem like an ass to them and led to Eliza and her husband conceiving Evan in the aftermath has brought her closer to her husband.


  • Absurdly Youthful Mother: She's been married for several years and has a child, yet she still looks relatively young.
  • Awful Wedded Life: She and Bob don't seem very happy, but with the birth of Evan, it may be getting better. The couple are seen passionately kissing later on, so maybe it did help.
  • Moment Killer: She always seems to text at the worst time. Like when Tabitha is in labor, for instance. She also interrupts a get-together between Dab and Evan (in which Dab was trying to figure out his friend's potential feelings for him) by sitting on the couch between them and chatting.
  • Romantic False Lead: She was originally intended to be Dil's love interest and they did spend a fair amount of time together. However, her marriage ended the romance before it could begin, with her rejecting Dil and Dan and Phil backing off with his pursuit.
  • Scare Chord: Dan and Phil always mark her frequent uninvited appearances with these.
  • Silver Vixen: Dan and Phil note that she's still quite beautiful upon aging up to an elder.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Dan and Phil interpret her behavior as such after Dil stopped pursuing her. She has a habit of showing up unannounced at Dil's house and texting him at extremely inopportune times, especially involving Tabitha.

     Bob Pancakes 

Eliza's husband. He and Dil have a somewhat shaky friendship, due to Dil's brief attempts to court his wife.


  • Awful Wedded Life: He and Eliza don't have the best marriage. Time will tell if Evan's birth will change it. Judging by their makeout sessions seen later, they must not be doing too badly.
  • Odd Friendship: With Dil. Early interactions with Dil were increasingly awkward on account of his brief pursuit of Eliza. But once that ship was fully sunk, Bob still maintained a tentative friendship with his neighbor, and the relationship between the two men improved enough to the point where Dil even asked Bob to be the best man at his wedding.
  • Opposites Attract: With his wife Eliza. She has the Neat trait and he has the Slob trait, which caused some noticeable strain on their relationship until Evan arrived.

     Evan Pancakes 
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The son of Eliza and Bob Pancakes. After buying the Pancakes family a new bed (they lit their old one on fire), Dan and Phil have Bob and Eliza WooHoo to test the bed, and Eliza becomes pregnant, with Evan as the result. He is shy and reserved and interested in science, and goes into the medical field as an adult.


  • Childhood Friend Romance: He and Dab have known each other all their lives, and later become romantically interested in each other as teenagers before becoming boyfriends and eventually getting married.
  • Happily Married: He and Dab officially tie the knot in Season 2, Episode 6.
  • Meaningful Name: Subverted since Dan and Phil missed the birth and Evan had already been named. Perhaps this was for the best, as the only probable names under Dan and Phil's established pattern would be "Boliza" or "Elizob".
  • Official Couple: With Dab.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The reserved, scientific Blue Oni to Dab's energetic, artistic Red Oni. He is also shyer and more low-key when it comes to romance, whereas Dab is a bold and theatrical flirt.
  • Secret-Keeper: He was the first person outside the Howlter family to know that Dalien is an alien. He was initially shaken, but quickly got over it.
  • Shrinking Violet: Certainly qualified as this when he was little, but has since gained a sense of confidence, though not enough to make him take any action to leave a city club after the Howlters forgot him there for three days. Dan and Phil choose to keep a shy, awkward element in his personality, however.

     Pancake Pancakes 

The Pancakes family cat.


  • Artistic License – Biology: She has a raccoon's voice, due to Dan and Phil selecting that vocal setting to test it out as a joke and never switching it back to a cat setting.
  • Cats Are Mean: Has no problem with taking another animal's pet bed, and makes no efforts to leave.
  • Cute Kitten: Cute enough for Dab to just casually steal her and take her home.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: Her name, though it's partially influenced by her golden brown coloring.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Subverted as of episode 53. Dan and Phil forgot to give her cat amenities or any kind of attention at all when she was first added to the Pancakes household, not realizing their error because they don't play as the Pancakeses that often. Thanks to a storm of distressed comments, they finally got around to it.

     Erika Pancakes 
A clone of Eliza, shunted off to live with the Pancakeses in Dan and Phil's horror at her creation.


  • Identical Twin ID Tag: Her outfits were initially the only thing setting her apart from Eliza, but a couple of episodes after her introduction, where Dan and Phil age up the cast, they deliberately elect to leave her alone so the now-elderly Eliza will be easier to tell apart.
  • Theme Naming: Her name is slightly different from Eliza's, but similar enough to make it clear she's a clone.

Friends and Acquaintances

     Erica Pendleton 

A girl Dil sees sleeping on a park bench on his first night. Dan and Phil try to get them to hook up, but she is definitely not the girl for Dil, as her evil personality and a public fight turn them into bitter enemies instead.


  • Jerkass: Since she's literally evil, it makes sense. She'll openly fight and insult Dil, and even refuses to attend his wedding before showing up anyway.
  • Odd Friendship: Bizarrely, she's apparently rather good friends with Tabitha.
  • Pet the Dog: She comes to Dil and Tabitha's wedding even though she and Dil hate each other, presumably because she's friends with Tabitha.
  • Romantic False Lead: She was originally intended to be a love interest for Dil, but that didn't last very long due to their clashing personalities and clear distaste for each other. She instead became his...
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: After a public fight completely destroyed any salvageable goodwill between her and Dil (and a second one made them Official Enemies), she serves this role from time to time, and is the closest thing the playthrough has to a villain.

     Summer Holiday 

A former love interest of Dil's. Like Eliza, she doesn't seem to want to leave Dil alone.


  • Expy: Bears a striking resemblance to Queen Elsa.
  • Ironic Name: Looks like Frozen's Elsa, An Ice Person, but is named for the opposite of winter.
  • Out of Focus: Since she and Dil stopped seeing each other, she's been seen increasingly less, and only remained a presence in the playthrough by continuing to text Dil. As Dil is married and the focus has shifted to the new generation of Howlters and Pancakeses, she is unlikely to reappear by Dan and Phil's intention.
  • Romantic False Lead: She was set up as a possible girlfriend for Dil earlier in the series, but the relationship didn't stick.
  • Stalker with a Crush: She has bothered Dil with requests to spend time with him, including texting Dil right before his wedding asking him out on a date.
  • Unrequited Love Switcheroo: After tepid interactions with Dil, which fizzled out when she rejected him, she started to show more interest in him, asking to hang out with him despite his having well moved on with Tabitha.

     Penny Pizzazz 

Dab and Evan's next door neighbor, and a popular online influencer in San Myshuno.


  • Nice Girl: She's very friendly and polite, as seen early on when she first introduces herself to her new neighbors.
  • Right Through the Wall: Episode 6 of Season 2 has Dab confronting Penny over some very loud, unusual noises coming from her apartment. And judging by the heart shapes emanating from the door, one can only assume what she was up to...
  • Screen Name: Her online handle is shown to be "Pennyforyourthoughts".

     Alijah Grimm 

An athletic teen that Dalien meets on his first day of high-school, and who quickly becomes his first real friend.


  • Nice Guy: He's pretty friendly with Dalien right off the bat, and appears to have no issues with Dalien's alien heritage.
  • Secret-Keeper: He quickly finds out about Dalien's alien nature, but holds no issues with it and overall seems very accepting.
  • Younger Than They Look: With his broad shoulders and athletic physique, Alijah could easily be mistaken for an adult.


The Mark of Oxin

     Alex 

A hero whose ordinary adventures soon take him on a much stranger journey. He bears the titular Mark of Oxin, which he is reluctant to acknowledge.


     Emily 

The main sidekick of Alex, specializing in magic.


  • The Medic: She has healing magic and is most useful in this role.
  • Shock and Awe: She has an electric attack known as "Sparkle".
  • Spell My Name With An S: Being from a game created by a fourteen-year-old Phil, her name is frequently misspelled as "Emiliy" in the game's text.
  • Women Are Wiser: She is more cautious and sensible than Alex, but her suggestions are largely ignored.

     Jake 

Emily's brother, and a late addition to the party.


     Ryan 

A mysterious villain who really kicks off the story by killing Alex.


     God 

The creator and protector of the universe. He also appears only as animals, because He can.



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