IM HAVING MORE BLOODYMARY THOUGHTS okay we've all seen scared, volatile simon upon waking up in the hail mary yes? okay great what if he was so deeply traumatized that he was not trusting of anything or anyone to the point he just. won't talk at all. he couldnt trust anyone he talked to back at eden, not in the COI, most certainly not in the sub. the last two times he trusted someone, it was an illusion by the eel (or was it? he doesn't know,) and then ava, with the blackbox (he trusted her, she said he would be free, she said she would come get him in thirty minutes she said-)
it's to the point grace and rocky think he's fully mute, refusing to respond to anything beyond a nod or shake of the head. maybe still too far in shock to process anything, i mean, by all accounts he should be dead, right?