Seeing your posts recently, a question just popped out from my head: If Simon is raises by Stans in the Falls for decades, how do you imagine people's perceptions on Simon?
Simon is weird, but so is the rest of the town. The kid kinda fits right in. He becomes best friends with Robbie’s dad the second he shows up to school, and the town kinda ends up associating him (and Stan by extension) with another one of the Valentino’s; another one of their friendly neighborhood corpse handlers. This image is further enforced when Simon becomes the local coroner as an adult.
He’s basically just another one of them. As is his dad. Stan ends up having to reach out to some of the townspeople for help, and they become pretty protective of him. They’re one of them. Gravity Falls is a place for the weirdest of peoples and things to come together and live as normally as they damn well please, and it’s the perfect place for someone like Simon to grow up in.
But yeah. The people like him. He becomes just as much of a cemented figure in the town as, say, Lazy Susan or Tyler Cutebiker. He’s just always around doing Simon things and they all appreciate him for it.
On the other hand, however; he’s also known as the kid with the helicopter dad (He constantly gets asked “does your dad know where you are?” As a teenager and he loathes it) and he’s known as the kid that sometimes gets chased by a demon. The demon chasing has slowly become Just Another Event to them.
