I'm really sad about Simon and his relationship with Athena and the UR-1 case:
Athena Cykes was eleven when her mother died, and this poor girl was so adamant that she could fix her mom, the same way robot's could be fixed.
They were so ready to convict this eleven year old that basically the only reason they didn't is that Simon took the blame.
Simon refused to let Athena take the blame. This 21 year old insisted that he did it and accepted the death penalty to protect his little sister. (Fuck you capcom, they're siblings) And the thing about prison is that in the US at least, the prison system doesn't do anything to rehabilitate people and inmates often leave prison not knowing how to FUNCTION in the real world(which leads to a lot of re-incarceration because at least they know how to exist in prison) so Simon was probably fucked over by seven years in prison, and he chose that willingly to protect Athena.
Simon is so self sacrificing and cares so much about his sister. He's such a good character and he's canonically really protective of the people he loves and we see him willingly put himself in harms way to keep them safe.
Simon Blackquill should be a fandom favorite, and the main reason is that people don't like Dual Destinies, which is awful because he's such an interesting character with so much depth.
