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guys i kinda passed out and somehow ended up doing a whole as ref for ATLA!Simon. Enjoy?

Even though ATLA’s designs are pretty minimalist, I am a sucker for intricate character designs, and my own designs tend to be pretty detailed oriented. So I ended up doing a simple-but-not-so-simple design for Simon, basing on other people’s fanon designs for the Gaang.

Here we have 3 outfits for the boy:

His “official” design. This is what he wears when the story takes place. He recently escaped the Fire Nation and was rescued by Grace, so he wears a Earth Kingdom shirt with his Water Nation pants, which have been patched up due to being damaged. He holds none of his weapons ans he lost his harness/knife sheath. His face, neck and arm are scarred and his hair is white because I believe in white-haired Simon.

Before Filament. That’s the clothing he wore while attacking the Fire Nation with his Brothers, so it’s been burned in places. Lightweight for mobility in fights and weapons just in case.

South Pole garment. I wanted to add Simon’s hood, and it kinda made sense to me that he had it while in the South Pole where its cold. Heavy jacket and big boots for the cold weather.

Anyhow, I somehow ended up rendering everything even though it was supposed to be a quick drawing what is wrong with me.

human rocky and adrian and the strays they picked up (yes thats simon the cat)

‼️ Cw gore and abuse ‼️

Simon’s backstory

I finished this thing in a day literally. Im surprised of myself. This is my first (completed) animatic and i suck at editing so don’t judge too hard 🙏

Look at my thoughts about Simon’s past tho

I got my vision on it from a couple of different fanfics so listen to my mashup

As we know he was born on Mars, so the Quiet Rapture happened when he was about 8. Like a year before it Simon with his mother moved to the Eden because she was offered a job as a botanist there. But after the Rapture all plants except The Tree died and Simon’s mother was probably blamed for it and got fired. She was not able to support a child anymore and he had to join some kind of group that bred solders for Eden. They were rather close to the Father and were getting their minds washed really hard, but Simon remembered life before Eden and his mother’s tales.

At the age of ~14 they started to take part in real fights.

bloodymary but make it atla.

i have many thoughts on this, stay tuned for more.

Trying to work out Simon’s mutations if he was saved and brought up from the sub.

- New respiratory tract formed that simulate the gill chambers fish have

- Submerged, the bronchi are cut off, he will take in blood/water through his mouth and it is expelled through the gills which collect oxygen from it

- Gills are hooked up to the pulmonary veins, carrying oxygen through the rest of the body

- Kept moist with his own blood to keep them from drying out which can leak out cause why not

Trying to work out Simon’s mutations if he was saved and brought up from the sub.

- New respiratory tract formed that simulate the gill chambers fish have

- Submerged, the bronchi are cut off, he will take in blood/water through his mouth and it is expelled through the gills which collect oxygen from it

- Gills are hooked up to the pulmonary veins, carrying oxygen through the rest of the body

- Kept moist with his own blood to keep them from drying out which can leak out cause why not

So, I'm friends with someone who makes airplanes for a living. They wish to remain anon. I tossed them some SM-13 renders to see if they could make anything of it (for wiki purposes), and got this in response...

The only thing left they had to say:

Grace is a scientist recruited somewhat against his will to help research kaiju (basically the same as the beginning of phm movie)

Rocky is an engineer working on building a jaeger called the Hail Mary¹ 😮

Adrian works with grace in The Lab™ 

NOW HERES WHERE SIMON COMES IN

He used to pilot this older jaeger called the SM-13² for Eden³  Simon at some point fought a higher class Kaiju⁴ and ended up losing his arm and maybe got kaiju goo in his eye or something

SM13 basically scrapped after that but now Simon is called back to pilot the new Hail Mary jaeger!! cause he was the best in the biz idk

He tries to drift with a bunch of other possible candidates, but none of them can handle his Evil Blood Trauma™ so either he finds someone to drift with or they pick a new person

Through Rocky/Adrian Simon ends up going to the lab and meeting Grace and the two hit it off <3

Happy ending, Grace ends up being able to drift with Simon and they pilot the Hail Mary together

Bonus points if their first mission is defeating a Kaiju nicknamed Sun Eater or something similar⁵

¹ new and possibly solar energy related (if I could draw mechs there would be so much petrova line symbolism) ² in the first pacific rim movie they say older models run on dangerous nuclear power so maybe there was the equivalent of the “photo flash” death like from the iron lung movie where Simon accidentally killed a technician or something ³ a different base on the Pacific (possibly Korean based cause idk Mark) but it's more strict and had that doomsday mentality (def not a cult right?) ⁴ Code name: Ellie (looks like blood eel) ⁵ astrophage reference :D

since this is being posted i believe a month after the last part im gonna say that yes they've been at this for 4 weeks and grace categorically refused to engage with a weird dream riddle and delegated that in favor studying of his new front yard decoration until frustration finally broke him

we love an avoidant behaviour king

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 3.5, part 4, part 5

+ bonus what i imagine the eridians looked like witnessing the Plot™

random yapping by yours truly below the cut

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Look guys!! Joy in the Mary!!!

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Bonus:

More species swap shenanigans

His ass is not listening 🙏

Question:

With Grace's multiple eye mutation can he see from them? If so how well.

Can he feel them, do they cause pain?

Because that looks very painful

Heyyy I've gone back and forth with this a few times but he can feel them they aren't too painful but they do cause crazy migraines and he can see out of them but can't fully control where they're looking 😭😭😭 they also do range in blurriness. Like some of the eyes are basically blind and some of them have crystal clear vision 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

He's too weak when they first find him to go through the surgeries he needs to remove the malignant tissue and the eyes so his first few weeks on the hail Mary are a medically induced in and out of consciousness motion sick nightmare I imagine his vision looks similar to a fly's (but blurry) I hate this actually I'm sorry reverse au grace LOLLL

Simon: "hey champ how you doing"

Grace POV:

what if project hail mary got a video game adaptation instead... and resident space-obsessed youtuber played it?

close-ups below!