@deviatiions asked : Is your muse very emotionally intimate?
Yes!!! Very much so!!! Simon is not a one night stand or fling kind of guy. If he’s with you, he is in it with you 100000% People he’s with will be able to rely on him for emotional support but will also get to see a new side of him where he allows himself to more fully open up to how he’s feeling and the guilt he carries as a result of everything he’s been through.
What I mean is: Emotional intimacy always comes first for developing a relationship with him.
He isn’t really one to be hyperfocused on sexual gratification, he’s much more wrapped up in the loving and emotional aspect of a companion. Interfacing, soft kisses and whisper softly to each other into the night while curled up together, playing with hair and so on. Being raw is what he loves the most about that connection, the intimacy of just being bare and close and expressing love and affection in a wordless but adoring and tender way is what makes him so very interested in wanting a companion and wanting to try intimacy with the added attachments.
While normally he buries how he feels and struggles to articulate it or let himself depend on others, when he’s with someone he finds it a bit easier and safer to vent to them when he does need help. That’s not to say he will depend on them solely to fix his problems, but being able to let himself say it out loud to someone is unfortunately a privilege he never got to have when he was the leader of Jericho. Simon is very much a compassionate individual but he carries his own guilt and weight that he hides from the others because he feels he must, and being able to share it and show some side of him he’s never had the chance to would absolutely be something only those closest to him would get to see.
The emotional aspect of love and romance, to be seen fully and accepted and loved and doing so in return would make him feel so very alive. Regardless of whether his partner was a human or an android, he would adore them and support them fully and that’s his favorite part of love.
To be held, and looked at, and adored on such a deeply intimate level. The kind where they have seen him, both good and bad, and lay their hands onto him and say that he is still their love. That is what he wants, what he yearns for more than anything.