I've noticed a lot of people missing out on some of Simon’s features when it comes to bloodymary. I completely understand if you have not seen Iron Lung, so I have things that may help if needed!!
Below will be some references and notes to help anyone out who may need it!! None of this is meant to come off as rude, I just want to help people out who have not had the opportunity to watch it.
I posted this on my twitter, but I wanna put it here too because tumblr gives me a lot more room to ramble on without cutting off tweets :]
SPOILERS BELOW FOR IRON LUNG!! and a general body horror warning!!
EDIT (4/1/26): I found more close up images of the mutations near the end of the movie!! They will be under everything else :]
EDIT (4/4/26): References and BTS of Simon's arm rip added!! AND HIS PENDANT!! THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT GUYS WE GOT A SOLID PENDANT REFERENCE
BODY HORROR WARNING!! SOME OF THESE PROSTHETICS AND MAKEUP ARE REALLY GNARLY AND GROSS
First off, here's a milanote moodboard for Simon's outfit in the film! Since we do not have a digital release yet, it is pieced together from BTS photos and resources of the costume people have found on amazon or other sites.
His clothes are pretty destroyed by the end of the movie, but it might help anyways. I think the most important part is the knife sheath his mother gave him :]
Here is a collage from Anna, someone who worked on Iron Lung!! It shows the gradual change of Simon's appearance through the movie.
The tattoo of Eden's symbol, burned off by the C.O.I. (Coalition of Iron), on the left side of his neck just below his ear!!
EDIT: here's more details of the mutations near the end of the movie!
Now for the arm!! Due to the massive amounts of radiation Simon was exposed to, his tissue had softened and made his body prone to easily falling apart.
I've seen some people interpret that the bone is sticking out since it's not near a joint. (In one of my own fic wips I have a little tidbit where armando amputates the rest of it up to his shoulder, so the snapped bone doesn't cause any discomfort.)
TLDR: His arm got stuck and he tried to tear it free, but ended up ripping nearly the whole thing off.
EDIT: Regarding the arm!! Here's reference to the prop itself. It's shown on the model they used that the bone snapped along with it.
I also found a BTS video of how they went through the process :]
And finally the clearest image we have yet of the seed pendant!! You can also see this post for their interpretation of it!! It's pretty close to the prop itself :]
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I also have a bunch of notes on the movie and game, both taken on my own and from the fandom website. (It's still a work in progress, but hopefully it helps anyone who needs it!)
That's pretty much it!! Feel free to reblog and add any notes or images that may help others. I may come back to this to add more, so keep an eye on it! 🙂↕️
My sister said I might want to put the full version under a cut because well... LOL. I got so frustrated with the coloring that I wish I had made monster Simon even nastier and more creepy (should have added a lot more blood), but that can be done with the next drawing. Anyway, finished piece of this sketch. Enjoy!
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BloodyMary is such a fascinating concept to me but i've yet to see anyone point out how desperately relieved Simon would be to have been proven right. "isn't it better to believe that everything is still there and we're the ones that disappeared? what if they're all out there somewhere wondering where we went?"
i love it actually when nonnative speakers make mistakes that reveal how their native languages work.
lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.
arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.
swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.
i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.
how neat is that?! it add a charm to international english usage in particular and make our appreciation of both our native languages and our learnt ones stronger...!!
i love this! one thing i notice with a lot of people (native speakers of polish, romanian, french and others) is no differentiation between present simple (i go) and present continuous (I am going), because those languages only have one present tense to cover both. it's so lovely every time i hear it
i always think one of the most fun things about learning languages is that it teaches you how weird your own is! especially english phrasal verbs (the very different meanings of stand up, stand down, stand off, stand up to), or trying to explain the difference between being up to something and being up for something to my french friend. I love it!
another tag reminded me of how spanish speakers often mix up /v/ and /b/ because in panish they pronounced identically!
I wish more people had the ability to become bilingual because you're right, it makes you understand your own language at a more intimate and analytical level!!
People whose native language is heavily gendered often apply gendered pronouns to English words that don't have them. For example, my Brazilian sports coach referred to my knee as "she" instead of "it". It's even more interesting when you realise that Old English did have gendered nouns, much like German, and we've essentially lost that entire element of our language.
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