I don't even go here . This isn't my ship to man or steer. But in the vein of first meetings for the convict vs the engineer,
you gotta man, you gotta just,
You gotta make Simon annoyed as SHIT at first. Wide eyed idealist that follows around a silent captain blindly ? What an idiot. Why do you trust someone that beautiful and/or handsome?
(-says the guy who lived and grew up in a cult and definitely isn't just overly cautious about joining another one by accident-)
Don't you know the charismatic, pretty people that exist with enough power can cause the worst amount of trouble if you let them?
What do you mean you followed them through universes to get where you are now. That's insane. What do you mean in another, black and white universe You're pretty sure you wanted to take them on a date ? You're insane. Stop talking. Stop. Shut up.
Canon 1: My blorbo. My beloved ghost light. He holds so much grief in his eyes. I want to comfort him. To quote Polites, “I see in your face there is so much guilt inside your heart.” I want to alleviate him of that guilt. I also want to feel his body heat but that is not the point.
Canon 2: ZOOWEEMAMA. You. You need serious medical help. I only have ibuprofen. And…a scalpel where did that come from what??? Who could have given me this? Don’t- Don’t look so spooked- well. You do have every right to be spooked, since, uh… THIS. But be not afraid! I know what I’m doing mostly, and I have ibuprofen.
Saved: Even saved, he’s still miserable. Even more miserable than before because now, not only does he get nightmares about Eden and Filament, he also gets nightmares of drowning in hot, thick blood as he feels his body get torn apart. He’s probably felt his head get torn off in the dreams. Me too. God I wish I could help him here. It seems even more hopeless on the surface than in the blood.
Monster: I am snorting this au like crack cocaine. Having Simon survive but he gets trapped in his own head as his survival instincts take over so he doesn’t even feel like himself, but it’s still him in there so he fights Elli, resists the hivemind, and drags submarines back to the surface but he doesn’t know why. He needs to get found and reminded that he’s still in there. He’s still Simon. Dear god I want to bite him
ISWM: The best au imo. He actually gets to be happy for once. He’s slow to trust and is snappy and irritable, but that’s his trauma response. He lost an arm for fucks sake and now he was in a place he didn’t recognize with strange people. But they give him space. They don’t get angry with him. They let him rest. They give him food and time. And Engie is there. Convineer for the win :)
Reignited Light: My original story. Glowing organs. Burning blood. Voices screaming in his head. It’s loud. It hurts. He should have just died in that ocean. He should just pitch himself to the waves right now. Jump back in the blood. Jump in and come back. Come back to me. Come back to the light. Accept the light. Love the light. Love me. Join me. Become one with me. The spark to revive this dying flame. This universe consuming cataclysm. Come back to us, Simon. We will love you. We are waiting for you. Come back. Come back to me. shut up shut up SHUT UP!!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!
Simon is on the Invincible-II. Simon still has a part of the blood ocean within him, so he can still occasionally hear the hivemind. Sometimes he gets overwhelmed by the voices and blacks out, then he wakes up somewhere else. You guessed it. He gets puppeted around. Sometimes he enacts violence on himself or others because the blood is just dragging him all over the place.
So when this happens, they lock him in a room until he comes back.
This is an image of the first time he got taken over. He doesn’t know what happened. What he does know is that he was hearing every possible voice at once, then it went quiet, and now he’s in a small locked room in the dark covered in blood that isn’t his.
Panic attack ensues.
Mark eventually goes to check on him. Finds him sobbing and hyperventilating.
