Do you think Ámbar is bad? And therefore, Simón likes bad girls? (As he also fell for Daniela)
I really have a problem with the word “bad” because it implies a thinking of black and white. “One person is good through and through, another person is bad through and through.” ... I was never a fan of this thinking because I doubt it is realistic to say that life works that way. There are barely people out there of whom you can say they are bad through and through (although I do believe there are indeed people who are that way but this term of being “bad” I reserve for murderers, child abusers and child molesters, rapists and animal abusers - not all of them, but some of them might indeed be bad in every way possible), and much less do we have people on earth who are good in every second of their life. We are human beings, we make faults. Some of us make more faults, some of us make less faults. Some faults seem minor, some seem major than others. The key is to learn out of those faults - but at the same time, for others to see our reasoning. Some faults might be exused because of reasons, others cannot be excused, but they can be understood, they are reasonable, even if the action itself cannot be excused. And those faults that people make that aren’t reasonable in any way (and can much less be excused) are those that I’d attach the term “bad” to. I don’t know if I explained myself well, so here, have a little graphic of what I’m talking about:
If you ask me if Ámbar made more faults in her life than most other characters in Soy Luna, the answer is yes. Yes, she did make more faults. Ámbar mostly falls in the category of comprehensible actions. She also acted totally incomprehensible before as well as she also sometimes did some things she’s excused for. But mostly, she falls into the category of comprehensible actions. And no, she didn’t learn from all her faults. She’s still often doing the things that are considered to be wrong. But if you ask me if Ámbar is a bad person, my answer is no. No, she is definitely not. She’s often rude and mean, she’s often devious and sneaky, she often lies. Eventually though, if you look at her reasonings - some things she does to protect the person who raised her, or to make the person who raised her proud of her. Yes, Sharon raised Ámbar without much love, but if you look at many of their interactions, Ámbar looks up to Sharon and loves her endlessly. Sharon was the person who’s been there for Ámbar all her life, and Ámbar wants to make Sharon proud of her and show her how much she’s actually learned from her and how much she looks up to her. That’s why many of Ámbar’s actions are influenced by Ámbar’s need to feel loved and appreicated. Her reasonings are often very on point, she just often approaches the things she faces the wrong way.
Back to your question if Simón therefore likes bad girls... The answer is no. Daniela, tbh, didn’t get a lot of layers on the show. She was a very two-dimensional character and they just didn’t develop her well, she was just there to cause drama, nothing else. Ámbar is a very amazingly written three-dimensional character, on the other hand, with lots of layers. What Simón saw in Daniela... I don’t know, tbh. As I said, Daniela’s character + her relationship with Simón was only there to create drama between Luna and Simón, nothing else. There was nothing deep about it. That was the whole purpose of her character and of the Daniela/Simón ship. Ámbar is very deep, and her relationship with Simón is very deep as well. Simón doesn’t like her for her less lovable sides and layers, he likes her when she’s honest, letting him be part of her life, when she’s completely open to him and is nice, when she’s helpful and when she’s not pretending to be someone she isn’t. I also believe that Simón fell for her because Simón saw someone in Ámbar he could help. He wants to help her become a better, so... in a psychology lesson, we’ve once learned that some people search other people to “repair” them. These people often are broken themselves, but they search someone else they can “repair”, they can help. I kinda see that with Simón and Ámbar although I am never really sure how broken Simón actually is. He’s this happy, wonderful human being who wants peace and happiness all over the world. He likes Ámbar for her lovable layers whenever he recognized them in her, but I think, he also wants to repair her less lovable layers... I just know he liked her and, at the same, he wanted to help her with all her problems. So, for now, this is my interpretation of it.
