i’ve been thinking about simon and his mom a lot recently and had some thoughts that devastated me so i need to share them
so we know that his mom was a really important person for simon. the knife sheath she gave him was a comfort item he frequently used to regulate when he was overwhelmed and he asked her to protect the black box at the end, but i had a thought of something kinda tragic
simon was born before the quiet rapture, going off assumptions that he’s around 33 years old during the events of the movie and that the movie’s timeline of events matches the game’s (quiet rapture in 357 EIC, filament station in 362 EIC, and the SM-13 mission in 378 EIC) (this would also mean simon was only 17 during the attack and spent 16 years in jail waiting realization)
i think he was born on mars and was sent to the eden station for some reason that idk yet. maybe he had some behavioral problems and it was like a “boarding school for troubled kids” type deal, but he didn’t want to go. when simon is having the auditory flashbacks when going back to the SM-8 for the black box data, we hear the voice of his mom saying things like “don’t be like that, simon”, “you’re going to love it there”, “they have trees” (i’m paraphrasing cus i don’t remember exactly, and i might be missing one), trying to encourage and reassure him that it’ll be okay
i think they were on mars rather than earth cus eden was mainly a martian station and i would expect trees were rare on mars due to the soil, making the fact that eden had trees significant
while he’s on eden, when he would’ve been about 12, the quiet rapture happens, and his mom was still on mars when everything disappeared
his mom is gone, yet he remains
there are a number of points during the movie where it seems like he’s in denial or refusing to fully accept this
when he says that he can see the stars, they’re still there, that’s him not wanting to accept that they’re gone. cus if he accepts that the stars are gone, he has to accept that his mom is too
when the oxygen drops to one bar and he’s breaking down, he asks what’s more believable, that all the stars and planets vanished or that a few space stations and ships vanished, what if they’re still there wondering where the rest of them are. he clings to a possibility that his mom is still out there, wondering where he is
when the voice from the SM-8 (who we know is elli the eel but he thinks is a real person at this point) mentions that the light is what caused the quiet rapture, or a fraction of it, simon asks if that means there’s a way to undo it (at least i think he did, im pretty sure he did ask that). he’s holding onto a hope, however delusional it is, that there’s a way to undo the quiet rapture and reunite with his mom
maybe that’s why he’s so desperate to live. no one else seems to consider the possibility that the space stations and ships vanished rather than the planets and stars, and as far as i know no one else seems to want a way to reverse what happened
but simon does. because if that’s the case, if they disappeared or if the quiet rapture can be undone, then there’s a chance he can get back to his mom. he has to live so he can see her again
but we all know that he can’t, which makes his fight against fate even more tragic
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