ngl the thought of never seeing simon again hurts. i want more of him i want to see him doing things that arenβt dying or being hurt but NOOOOOO they HAD to put his ass in the Ocean Of Eternal Torment And Doom
i want to see him doing something unspectacular and normal. like munching on some rations or reading. just SOMETHING that isnβt suffering
You know, getting sent to the Ocean of Eternal Torment and Doom does not negate doing unspectacular things.
Simon is a tree, last I checked. An heir to the Last Tree, actually. Pretty neat! ... *awkward ahem*
If you consider that the only thing disturbing the blood ocean are these hemorover blasting them with radiation, the ocean gets real boring, real fast.
Does photosynthesis count as a mundane task? /j
Do you think he's using the Light to do so? I have many interesting monster anatomy questions about tree-ified Simon. For logic-based writing purposes.
What is a death trap to its invaders is a pretty balanced ecosystem to these monsters. They have nest-homes full of bones, they hunt, they live just as any creature would in a native environment, perfectly tailored to it by the God. The only issue is that they, uh, well... they're still human on the inside. The Red-Eyed God can re-mold bodies, but it can't re-mold minds.
I know for sure that these creatures are telepathic in some way, as we see with Ellie, and are fully sentient, containing some memories of the past seeing as Ellie remembered the exact coordinates for the Light. I wonder if the tree could use a radio or speaker to communicate like Ellie did.
I'm imagining the Last Tree on AT-5 whispering through the radio as future hemorovers tunnel through its root structure in that trench. That is so cool.
Tree!Simon, awkwardly through the speaker: Uh, you bumped into me.
SM-15 Pilot: WHO SAID THAT βοΈ
Tree!Simon: Could you please move. That hurts.
SM-15 Pilot: Oh my god. I'm officially nuts.
Tree!Simon: Hey! I'm being nicer to you than most, asshole.
Silly but plausible given what we know! Don't be afraid of mundane horror!
You could very well see Simon again in a true-to-canon-sequel situation, because he's still down there. Of course the radio thing would actually be much more terrifying than my goofy jokes. Probably a lot of screaming and mad babbling about the Light, as usual with these creatures.