Heya!! I have a question abt what you’d think would be a good reason to keep simon locked up.
So, basically— in the fanfic I’m writing, I want to have Simon contained in a xenonite barrier because the idea of him being kept away and desperate for physical contact makes me gleeful. Especially since there was that scene of Simon pressing his face against the glass in the SM-13 (even if it was for him to be able to hear better, you can’t tell me he wasn’t a little desperate for human contact)
Anyways, Basically what I’m asking is if you have any ideas for why Simon would be in his own little xenonite barrier apart from the others, I already asked this on my account and people were telling me it’d be due to him being radioactive but since I’m such a stickler for medical accuracy— I’m not doing that. So, do you have any ideas as to why he’d be in there? Because it has such good angst potential but Idk😭
Ps— I also wanted to say that your blog’s of Simon’s character analysis are always so well thought out and researched it was one of the main reasons as to why I wanted your idea on this specifically, keep up what you’re doing big dog.🩷
Simon grew up on a space station. He's known cramped spaces all his life.
Getting thrown into a biodome as open as it is would scare the shit out of him, as much as he'd be emotional over it and want to come out, but his body would be ADRENALINE DUMPINGGGGG.
To reiterate something I said earlier, getting ripped from the Iron Lung situation to somewhere that makes no logical sense (e.g. the Mary, biodome) would have made him check the fuck out. Dude would be swinging from this to near-catatonia for a while.
After breathing recycled, chemically-sterilized air his entire life (I assume the kind of air you breathe on an airplane, thin and kinda makes you feel lightheaded), a simulated earth environment would really fucking suck for the following reasons:
An Earth-like atmosphere would be sensory overload on the olfactory
REALLY HIGH OXYGEN SATURATION REALLY FAST <- He'd have to be slowly introduced to the biodome or risk getting sick
Germs. Re: if a future-dweller were to go back in time and meet a bunch of medieval people, they would kill everybody immediately. Grace would assume this to be a danger the moment he realizes Simon's not from this time. He'd be quarantining very quickly, for both Simon's sake and his own, because their immune systems are vastly different with a 300-year evolutionary difference.
Simon spent days exposed to an unmapped, extra-terrestrial organic fluid under immense pressure. He'd be covered in alien contaminant. Not only this, but imagine someone getting blipped from the bottom of an ocean to the surface instantly, from a moon with a thin exosphere to a high-gravity planet. Goodbye, eardrums!
Oh, there's a painful idea. Simon going fucking deaf from the instant pressure change.
I hope this gives you some good writing ideas! Thanks for the ask.
