#fish simon

Canon 1: My blorbo. My beloved ghost light. He holds so much grief in his eyes. I want to comfort him. To quote Polites, “I see in your face there is so much guilt inside your heart.” I want to alleviate him of that guilt. I also want to feel his body heat but that is not the point.

Canon 2: ZOOWEEMAMA. You. You need serious medical help. I only have ibuprofen. And…a scalpel where did that come from what??? Who could have given me this? Don’t- Don’t look so spooked- well. You do have every right to be spooked, since, uh… THIS. But be not afraid! I know what I’m doing mostly, and I have ibuprofen.

Saved: Even saved, he’s still miserable. Even more miserable than before because now, not only does he get nightmares about Eden and Filament, he also gets nightmares of drowning in hot, thick blood as he feels his body get torn apart. He’s probably felt his head get torn off in the dreams. Me too. God I wish I could help him here. It seems even more hopeless on the surface than in the blood.

Monster: I am snorting this au like crack cocaine. Having Simon survive but he gets trapped in his own head as his survival instincts take over so he doesn’t even feel like himself, but it’s still him in there so he fights Elli, resists the hivemind, and drags submarines back to the surface but he doesn’t know why. He needs to get found and reminded that he’s still in there. He’s still Simon. Dear god I want to bite him

ISWM: The best au imo. He actually gets to be happy for once. He’s slow to trust and is snappy and irritable, but that’s his trauma response. He lost an arm for fucks sake and now he was in a place he didn’t recognize with strange people. But they give him space. They don’t get angry with him. They let him rest. They give him food and time. And Engie is there. Convineer for the win :)

Simon my pookie. Hes got burn scars and weird eye and teeth. But the burns can heal over time. Mostly.

I had only really heard of markiplier before. Never watched any of his content (exept the iron lung ones now recently) but the one thing ive always kinda thought about him, is that he is very beautiful.

A beautiful man.

The movie was beautiful. I appreciate works of art when i see it. (Maybe a little to ferally)

Lost my sanity over it a lil. In a …umm passionate way?

Aaaanyway… you know those drawings of simon with gills. Yeah. I like that idea. And a dorsal fin for some reason 🤷‍♀️ . Heres a version with that headcanon. Well in adittion to the face above.

So you see the blood around his mouth? He “breathed blood” in (ig) and it kinda seeped out his gills . Thereby The stains on his sweater. Idk maybe he sneezed.

And while i love tails (again, to a somewhat feral degree) i dont think it actually fits his carachter much, so i (suprisingly) wont give him one. I was gonna give him scales. But the eel didnt have scales and i guess it didnt make that much sense 🤷‍♀️ his skin is probably just redder and a different (tougher?) texture is some areas. Kinda like the burns

Wanna hear more creature simon headcanons???

:D

Basically an au where he gets the black box gets flung around sub fills with (not entirely) blood and hes lost for a few days. But he escapes the eel and ava doesnt die. Simon is eventually found and sabmved yippe!

So

• he can echolocate (involuntarily or subconsciously mostly) and thats how he navigated the submarine so well despight the lack of light. The echolocation is sorta like a constant flow of quiet clicks. Maybe they get louder when hes agitated? Cuz then hed have the need to “see” further. Personally i like if makes happy clicks too. Cuz simon deserves happiness

• his eyes are too sensitive to actually see anything in normal light anymore (i get this) and he can wear his bandanna over his eyes to help with the brightness. No he cant see with the bandanna on, or without it really.

•his burn scars heal but his skin is still tough and red and not because its a scar but cuz he haz weird scalless fish skin now ig

• he gets cold really fast. He kinda hates warm places (or whatever submarine ptsd) but he desperately needs it, and instictively (i do not like this word very much) seeks it. (also am i the only one who thought the submarine being hot was because of the blood. Cuz blood is warm ?)

• suprisingly he doesnt have claustrophobia. He might actually find small spaces more comforting. I say this mostly because of his poor vision paired with the limited range of his echolocation, (and his familiarity with one space? Idk i havent been in a submarine. Lowkey looks cozy but i have thallasofobia ) i think hed most likely be afraid of big open spaces (the ocean??)

• blood doesnt outright scare him but it makes him really tense/ puts him on edge. Looks at you with murderous eyes??? Not judgmentally

• touch deprived but afraid he will radiate people (i think his radiation went bye bye cuz hes my pookie and i dont whant spicy air for him) even though hes not radioactive anymore hes still (i forgot the word help) umm cautious..? Scared … uuhhh. Cringes?? Nahh idk low key jumps away from u, muscle memory that whas never memorized. 🤷‍♀️

Yah i ran out of headcanons. Maybe somthing about how he interacts with others? Idk

Id make him like me, that he avoids showers but still likes them , its more the thought of getting in the shower thats lowkey scary , but the shower is nice in itself ig (im writing this as im actively avoiding a shower .Im very good at staying clean, trust. I dont need a shower rn. *my shower looking at me dissapointedly, with the towel i put there 2 hours ago for showering*)

Imagine if he puts the shower hose in his mouth (i did this when the water used to be drinkable (thats when i lived on the other side of the continent)) and water just. Comes out of his gills. Idk it was funnier in my head…. If it the first shower he has ,after getting rescued, he doesnt .. wash his gills… (i mean he prolly didnt know that would be necessary) and then later he sneezes. All of the blood that would be left from when he was on the submarine (and unknowingly breathing the blood(or subconsciously? I dont think hed be aware enough to notice or somthing??? Like the ,oh whatever)) would immediatly stain his clothes (kinda like i drew above.)

Ok i doodled a screenshot

Makes sense? Thats not his blood btw. He didnt explode his gills

actually i have two more head canons (this is me editing later)

so, flashing lights distract him. that's kind of obvious. yes it will hurt his eyes but what if its something important. i don't think it has to happen every time, maybe only when he's off guard. distracting him negatively, just catching his attention or causing him to disassociate, im not entirely sure, u pick.

his eyes (both of them) glow (or reflect) in the dark.

Borrowing this one: he has the light lure thing :D but maybe he dint notice because instead of it being in front of him it was slicked back into his hair because of the weight of blood?

Pointy ears supremacy.

The fin on his back might be smaller than. I drew in or maybe just a bunch of spines or somthin 🤷‍♀️

Ok just ONE more headcanon. So fish have a really really cood sense of smell. Well for simon rn, there probably isnt a whole lot to smell other than blood and idk future dying civilization things. Not the most fragrant things… so maybe (i say that alot) he can also smell emotions? To some degree. Just a little bit. Like a good intuition :D 👍

ok that's it i think! tell me ur own head canons and what u think of mine. id be happy to listen and muse with u.

Ive edited this post like 6 times to add headcanons..

OKAY JUST ONE MORE one more ☝️

Bioluminescent freckles. That pulse with his heart beat. Ok ok thats it . Im going for real now