Okay everybody! I’m all done with this semester and about to pop the fuck off on my Bloodymary x reader teacher au.
I already established in my original post that you and Grace are married, that you teach another form of science, and your classrooms are right next to each other. Like you have those joining doors that classrooms have right next to each other.
You two are sort of the school’s power couple. Everyone on the staff knows that you two are married even if you two might have kept your last names. not like you two are PDA in front of everybody, of course not! You two are just so married that everybody within visionary of you can look at you two together and be like “Yeah. these two are married.”. It does take your students a minute to realize that sometimes though. I do like to think that you two will pop into each other’s classrooms to ask a question or get a second opinion if you think the other would have more insight on a certain subject or maybe even have a playful rivalry between your classes where you try to see who’s classes gets better grades. (In high school there were two teachers like that where they were married and would do that. Granted they taught different subjects (math and history) but you get it.) I feel like you and Grace would do that. All that to say that they can see that you two are very close and maybe even ship you two together till one day they get such a casual answer. Like one of them notices his wedding ring and asks if he’s married, then jokingly ask if it’s you, and then be shocked when he says yes and you’ve been married this whole time. It happens every school year.
Anyways! Simon! In this au Simon is a former engineer and marine biologist, best known for discovering a new species of deep sea eel (wink), turned teacher after an incident on his last expedition where he was solo and his submarine failed, resulting in him losing his arm and some burns that went up his lost arm to his face. He managed to get good graft work done on his face that you can barely notice it. He can still see out of the effected eye even though it looks foggy. He just wears a custom contact that makes it look perfectly fine. Unless you saw him putting it in or taking it out, you’d never know. But the burn scars are more obvious on his neck, shoulder, and overall side of his body. His clothes normally cover it up though say for the skin peaking out of his shirt collars. The only noticeable thing is his prosthetic arm.
Simon’s new to this whole teaching thing. He didn’t really expect to ever find himself being any sort of professor let alone a middle school teacher. His main thing was marine biology and engineering new technology for the field until the incident that nearly killed him. He’s sort of still recovering from the incident. He didn’t want to give up on it entirely but he still isn’t ready to go back into the sea so he settled on teaching the possible future of it through the kids… even though he doesn’t really know how to interact with them… or anyone.
Simon is a very introverted guy. He’s not one for socialization and never really knows what to say when he has to unless it was talking about his research and discoveries and even then it was very to the point. He hates it when people find out that he’s THE Simon that discovered the newly discovered blood eel (as he’s named it) because it’s all they want to talk about and they ask all these questions, and he just hates it. He hates being the center of attention like that. Most of his lessons are to the point. He teaches them what they need to be taught, makes quizzes and tests about the material, and answers any questions and grades accordingly. He takes his lunch breaks alone. His classroom is sparsely decorated. Again, he just got here but he also still hasn’t found his style like you and Grace have. But you two will help with that.
It starts when he awkwardly asks you and Grace for help on something related to teaching. That’s when you notice him and just sort of keep noticing him. You tell him to not be afraid to come and ask anything of you two. Your doors are always open. And that you’ll gladly save a spot of him in the teacher’s lounge during your lunch breaks, which you just happen to share. And then you give him some tips and suggestions on how to decorate when he decides that his classroom is too empty. Or ideas for projects for his students to do for different lessons. And then suddenly he’s just in your little click and he’s been absorbed into relationship.
He doesn’t know how he got here. You all went out for dinner after the last day of school one year and things happened. Now he’s your boyfriend. Obviously you guys don’t talk about it at work. Everyone just knows you as this trio of science teachers who are close and two of you just happen to be married to each other, but little do they know that you’ve all moved in together and kiss each other.
(And now I’m going to spend the rest of this talking about my hc on teacher!Simon)
Over time Simon finds his style
So Simon teaches basic and advanced biology along with the extracurricular engineering class, and is the coach for the engineering team. He does perfectly fine teaching the entirety of biology but his classroom’s theme leans more towards marine biology with a few things from engineering. I actually like to think that he takes a picture with his engineering kids when they win tournaments each year and in every picture he starts looking prouder and fonder.
His midterm and final projects are a scientific paper about an animal of their choosing and a detailed slideshow presentation about one of the biomes and ecosystems they learned about that year including the plants, animals, geographic location and landscape, and any threats they might be facing. He’s pretty lenient on what animal and ecosystem they pick, like if a kid wants to present for a very specific biome related to one of the types of ecosystems they learned about then he let’s them. But he lets the kids know one thing. The blood eel is the only animal off limits for the paper because too many kids tried to get an “easy grade” by trying to flatter him. Furthermore, you don’t get bonus points if your ecosystem slideshow is about a marine one just because he was a marine biologist. He’s not dumb, don’t even think about it. It needs to be genuine. That’s how he knows his marine biology propaganda is working.
He seems really intimidating at first because his teaching style is very no nonsense on the surface. He knows he’s dealing with middle schoolers here and their attention tends to wander or they want to goof around a little, and thats okay. He doesn’t get mad if a kid doodles on their notes, chews gum (even though the school tries to enforce a no gum policy) as long as they’re not sticking it under the desks, or on the other kids, or popping and chewing it super loud, or can’t sit still. As long as they aren’t interrupting or ignoring his teaching. He can tell who’s paying attention and who’s not through the grades and their demeanor. And even then he can tell who’s getting bad grades because they’re struggling and who’s getting them because they haven’t been listening. He still tries to help them but some kids just don’t care and he can’t cure “I don’t care”. Some kids just aren’t science people and if their parents get mad then thats on them.
Simon can still be fun though. He likes to keep the stupid doodles that the kids do on scrap paper that he found funny. Someone once made a papier-mâché anglerfish for art class and gifted it to him as decoration afterwards. The hall pass is an eel plushie that you and Grace got him. He uses his prosthetic arm as an example in engineering class of what perusing it can do. He actually does this thing where if he catches kids passing notes in class he takes them and tapes them to a board where anyone can go and see them. He literally doesn’t care what’s in them but he knows that if the whole class has the ability to know your business it discourages it. He does however read it very briefly so that he doesn’t end up putting sensitive information out there like a female student asking another for a pad/tampon. If thats the case he just quietly says “You may go to the nurse.”.
He says that he doesn’t have favorites but thats a lie. He does. But it’s not obvious nor does he ever tell, not even you and Grace. But he totally does. No it’s not the teacher’s pet. Or the class clowns. Or the try hard kid. But if you look closely you can see it. It’s the kids that actually care about what they’re doing without expecting anything. Those are the kids he looks out for.
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