Simon if the C.O.I kept their promise
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Simon if the C.O.I kept their promise
Look guys!! It's Simon!! From iron lung!!! Where nothing bad ever happened. Remember how Simon got to go home free after he and Ava met up and he gave her the super awesome box of knowledge? Yeah!!! Look here he is, from that iconic scene at the end of the movie, where they're able to restart civilization thanks to Simon, and he sits in a field of sunflowers. You know, the flower that represents the desire to be free? Anyways. This definitely happened, and everyone had their happy ending, and even the scary fish monster god got to have like.. kids, or something. And a nice bow. Turns out Mr angler blob fish was actually just really lonely.
Everyone got to know him as Simon, not the convict, who helped save everyone. Yay!!!
Incoherent cringe fanfic rambling undercut
I just want to live .. is that so wrong ?
Slight Iron Lung spoilers if you haven’t seen it
Massive rant.
Something I like about Simon’s characterization is that he never cries. Yes, he’s been vulnerable and broken down during many different points throughout the movie - but something interesting to me is that he never actually sheds tears.
He’s quick to get angry, and he’s clearly a moderately empathetic guy; he feels guilt for blasting people with radiation and clearly feels strongly about filament station. There’s a lot going on there.
But amongst his crashouts, he’s never actually let himself cry. The closest we got to him genuinely almost breaking down in tears was when he gets down to his last bit of oxygen and realizes he won’t have enough to survive - when talking to the voice on the intercom. He asks the voice to keep talking to him, likely to calm him down amongst other factors, and very quickly switches to “Actually, I don’t wanna talk anymore”.
When he’s having his big vent about humanity, where we get his big famous line “I just wanna live, is that so wrong?” He quickly backtracks and sucks it up by pushing the idea down. “It doesn’t matter, does it?” It’s almost like he feels stupid for caring so much.
When he realizes Ava isn’t going to save him, and he says “You still need that, right?” He sounds broken, but again, doesn’t shed tears.
What strikes me about this is that he’s been through some of the most exhausting, nightmarish experiences and the whole time he’s lost on the SM-13 and can’t contact anyone, he’s completely alone. Even when he has no connection to humanity and is completely isolated he doesn’t let himself actually get emotional - he’s not putting on some persona to seem tough in front of the C.O.I, or anybody else. In his most lonesome moments he feels there’s no point to his emotions.
With that said, it poses many interesting aspects to his character. Is it the exhaustion that prevents him from crying? Is he already just overwhelmed? Or is it guilt - does he believe he’s not worthy of feeling that emotional pain because he may deserve it in some way?
Or is this something to do with how Eden raised him? Is this something form of something more deep rooted and societal in this world? I mean, everyone we’ve met so far in the movie seems either hostile or in general disinterested.
It’s a part of Simon I really like. How he’s not just one of those characters who cries at every misfortune. His emotion is strained and pushed back by survival and in every distressing situation he resorts to anger over tears.
It’s almost like he’s scared that if he lets himself totally break down he’s admitting that he’s given up.
This is me every second I am not watching iron lung, aren't able to talk about iron lung or not holding the iron lung dvd (cuz is doesn't exist yet) in my hands btw
It’s been a while huh
Gotta learn how to draw him again lol
Hello!!! Can i get a simon iron lung one pretty please <3
My favorite guy with 200,000 or something rads of radiation, covered in blood, experiencing the horrors :D
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if simon were to survive, not only would his body be wracking with the reprocussions of becoming a tree in the form of chronic pain in his veins and lungs,
but he would have severe c-ptsd. i want to say added because he was already deeply disturbed by filament station, and eden, and all of the harm tied to his title of the butcher. not to mention his aggressiveness and impulsivity, both large symptoms. hallucinations are heavy and id like to take this segment from @flankerclinger0a's iron lung au
obviously when theres only 2 prominent space stations that are tied to your trauma you dont have much you can do to escape, so hallucinations are near constant. these exact ones. he tries to contain his rage in his nice little personal housing station in the coi (in the game, convicts from filament station are expected to "repay their debts and integrate into coi society," so there is a non-zero chance of simon ever going back to eden) but more often than not he splits and either breaks something or leaves something ruined. then he breaks down crying.
on the topic of his physical damage, i think maybe he ends up nearsighted as a result of cornea burns from all the isopropyl he drank. permanent organ failure is also a major symptom. concentration difficulty is big. hemorrhagic gastritis. heres a long list of long term symptoms tied to drinking isopropyl alcohol:
thats all i can think to mention right now. i think he'd feel as though his limbs are very stretched. chronic scratchy/sore throat. yeah.