Vance Lingolin (Cataclysmic Gerosha)

Vance Lingolin is an employee of Sleet Mountain in Blood Over Water. He is a romantic interest for Monica; as well as a coworker with Chris Kennal, Ashley Phillips, Kyle Tugrass, and Mark Stefflin.

Personality
Vance's is shown to be hopeless romantic and a very ethical worker. His attachment to Monica begins early, with them meeting in class and becoming teammates. He understands that Monica's past tragic origin is partially why she is hesitant to commit to a relationship with him; and he's patient with her to the point that she declares him patient "to a fault."

Otherwise, Vance's brief presence in the story serves to make him moreso than anything else, a catalyst for other characters. He doesn't shy away from sexual trysts with Monica; and even has a slight deviant bent with regard to wanting to push sexual boundaries with her. However, he never proceeds on anything without at least her implied consent.

Vance suffers from arachnophobia. His keen moral awareness when it comes to business ethics, however, is dwarfed only by Aaron's strong sense of general morality. That being said, he is not very tactful about his desire to rebel against Clyde. He makes himself - and nearly also Monica - targets for George almost immediately, by not keeping his mouth shut. His recklessness prompts Mark - and later Chris - to be much more sneaky in their own acts of betrayal.

Development
Vance's introduction into the overall story had a bumpy beginning. In 2009, the original miniseries was produced. The wiki articles at that time were lacking in sufficient explanation for why Mark would be willing to risk being murdered for revealing company secrets. Also unclear is why Clyde would consider a pollution and cleanup fraud scandal to be worth murdering someone over. Background materials for the miniseries left those questions unanswered. What was answered, however, was why Clyde eventually pressured Chris and Ashley into disposing of Mark. This was explained in backstory material as having been due to the failure of an offscreen character named Vance to do the job properly.

The 2013 early proposal for the remake created a lot of room for character reinterpretations, and Vance was among many characters to be reinterpreted. He was changed into a hero for this version - and Mark's catalyst. Mark was made into a greedier individual with fewer ethics, having been corrupted by his friendship with Chris. Chris remains mostly the same, though his exact motivations at the company were altered.

Vance was also reimagined as a romantic interest for Monica, thus explaining her willingness to help Aaron discover Mark's fate later. The original miniseries referred to Monica as Aaron's "lady friend," when Kyle is taunting them. However, the term may have been used pejoratively. There is no evidence to suggest that Aaron and Monica were ever actually a couple. Instead, the remake rewrites Aaron and Monica to be explicitly platonic, and to have met in class some time before the story began. Monica is given Vance as a love interest, and Aaron is explicitly stated to be dating a new character: Meredith Celestine. Meredith's influence on Aaron further explained why he and Mark took different directions in life.

Trivia

 * In appearance, Vance has always been interpreted as being red-haired and with some facial hair, as well as skinny and having either an SUV or a minivan.
 * Little else was said or known of him until January 18th of 2014, when he was visually depicted for the first time in the Blood Over Water Story Pack for The Sims 3 - at what is now DzMD.