The Mystery of Simon Withal
So, a while back I was making dossiers for all the members of the Wolfcats, Arya's original squad with the Varden, and Simon Withal was the medic.
But he wasn't just the medic. See, Simon was a jack of all trades, master of all. He came about in my mind as a bit of a play on the 'Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man/ doctor, lawyer, chief' nursery rhyme. Simon was a soft spoken man that had an early-middle aged face, and, by Arya's and Glen's accounts (and Brom's, when pressed), they all met him at various times but he was always 'somewhere between twenty eight to fourty two, and even though we knew him for over forty years he never seemed to age more than ten.'
Simon knew how to do many things. If you ever asked him how or where he learned something, he would simply say 'I was xyz before I joined the varden.'
A quick list of SOME the things Simon claims to have been employed as:
