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» NAME: Simon Bellamy
» FANDOM: Misfits
» CANON POINT: 2.03, Future Simon saves Alisha
» AGE: 18
» GENDER: Male
» ORIENTATION: Straight
» COLLAR: Dog tags on a thick band of leather.

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» PAIRING PREFERENCES: Simon/ Alisha 5ever

EXTENDED PROFILE
» APPEARANCE: A shy guy by nature, he was once more of a nerd and often picked on. Simon has since buffed up, though he still retains a very shy persona. He's quiet and intense. While his build is muscular, he's average height with dark hair and blue eyes.

His actor is Iwan Rheon.

» PERSONALITY: At the beginning Simon is a quiet, shy boy who had been arrested for arson. He wasn't the most stable nor entirely great with people. All he really wanted was friends. How Simon got to where he is is because he wanted to be friends with a childhood friend who had snubbed him. He even gets mad at Nathan and tells him that he just wanted to be their friend.

Ultimately that is a large part of who he is and who he becomes. He tells Lucy that he finally feels like he belongs somewhere which is life changing for him. In the beginning it's very subtle. He goes from being picked on by Nathan constantly to first being defended by Kelly. But there's something else that deeply knits all of them together-- and it's not just killing their probation worker.

The group are all struck by lightening during a freak storm. It happens all through the city, and slowly it's revealed that certain people develop powers. Kelly was the first, but Simon's was quick to develop as well. He has the power of invisibility which was fitting since he never seemed to fit in and often went unnoticed. He was the shy, nerdy kid that didn't talk much and was overlooked.

This freak accident sparked a lot of things though. Their first probation worker went insane, trying to kill them. They end up killing him and having to hide his body, not once but twice. Most of the show is kind of like that. They get into these zany predicaments, and often it's Simon who gets them out, being the smartest out of the group. He also is into sci-fi and tends to know various tropes of what they run into.

He's also quite observant and sees things for what they are. He notices things about people, even if he's not that good at being social. He's terrible at lying, and often comes off very stiff. But he's almost too genuine, hence why his lying is so bad. But he does start to come out of his shell eventually from actually having friends and having fun. When Alisha starts to take notice of him (due in part to how close she becomes to future!Simon), she apologizes for being a bitch. Simon replies, "Sometimes I think it’s difficult for beautiful girls. People don’t see past their looks." He tends to know how people feel after feeling so lonely and ostracized himself.

When we first see the 'masked man' he's been following the group around. His identity is unknown, but it's clear he's mostly interested in Alisha. He gives the others clues and helps save them. The truth is that Simon is the masked man. It becomes this whole plot line. He explains that he is still himself, but things happen to him to make him become this person. Eventually he tells her that she's the reason he does all this.

« It's you falling in love with him that makes him me. »

He didn't know why Alisha started to take an interest in him, but Simon isn't one to turn someone away. His string of girlfriends proves that with how crazy Lucy was, and the fact that the second probation worker was only using him, and he let her get so close. But Alisha is different. Reluctant at first, she starts by asking to walk with him and sharing a headset.

Another defining moment is when the public finds out about their powers. Simon doesn't agree with becoming famous, thinking its for the wrong reasons. His moral compass guides him far more than the others, wanting to do good with their powers instead. He does try to do what's right more often than not, genuinely caring about people. This sparks Alisha to mention something that future Simon had told her, something Simon had never actually said. Following her, he discovers that he was the masked man.

It's an important moment for him, because not only does Alisha explain that he's still him, just a more confident version, but he's a proper superhero. Not only does it start their relationship together, but he starts training, wanting to save people-- his friends included. When one of the former famous superhumans starts targeting them, it's up to Simon and Curtis to stop him. For Simon, when he sees Alisha laying there dead, it changes him.

No longer is he sheepish, but he knows what has to be done. He's a harder man after her death. Granted Curtis did go back and change the course of events, but in season 3, we still see a much more confident Simon. Before it seemed like his default look was shy and awkward whereas in season 3, he more looks like 'why am I putting up with these idiots?' despite his confession that being with them was the best time of his life.

Through his transformation, Simon sells his powers (being told that he should do it). Still dealing with his insecurity, he also ends up with foresight. Most of the season is then Simon devoted to training. However once again Alisha's life is in jeopardy. They've developed a close relationship by this point, accepting each other's past and flaws. But their love story isn't over.

In some ways it's a paradox, because Alisha does die. He knows he has to go back into the past then, to make her fall in love with him and restart the cycle all over. And so he does. He's completely changed at this point. Coming back into the past, he protects his friends and sets things in motion. And just like that everything repeats itself.

So ultimately he's a quiet guy who is changed by needing to go to community service, gaining powers, and meeting four other young offenders, one whom he falls in love with. He dies, and she dies, but it was worth continuing the cycle just to be loved as much as he was.

» BACKGROUND:

◦ Simon tries to burn down the house of a once friend who seriously snubs him.
◦ He goes to a psychiatric unit and is eventually released, provided he works community service.
◦ On his first day he meets Nathan, Kelly, Alisha, and Curtis. They get electrocuted by a freak storm, and they end up killing their probation worker.
◦ Simon gains invisibility.
◦ They get a new probation worker who is actually the fiancé of the one they killed. She tricks Simon into getting closer to find out more information. She threatens to go to the police, but Simon ends up accidentally killing her.
◦ Meanwhile a fanatical Christian girl with the power of persuasion comes along. In the process of trying to save her, Nathan dies. Unbeknownst to them he is immortal. A masked man starts appearing around them, helping them out when they need it. Kelly gets hit by a note that says to go to Nathan's grave, and by hearing his thoughts, she realizes he isn't dead. Basically he orchestrates a lot of things coming together at once.
◦ The masked man starts following Alisha around, once saving her. She still gets hurt, and when she awakes she's in the masked man's flat. It turns out the Masked Man is Simon from the future, and he's come back to save her.
◦ It turns out they all in love, first Alisha falling in love with future Simon, but he ends up taking a bullet for her. He ends up dying in her arms, and telling her that it's her love that changes him. But he doesn't know it, yet.
◦ So slowly they start a relationship, though Simon is very wary of why she's changed. Using his invisibility, he discovers the flat that she still visits. He confronts her about it, and she explains that he was the Masked Man.
◦ This starts Simon on a path of training and doing a lot of parkour.
◦ The gang becomes famous, but then they rewind time so that doesn't actually happen.
◦ Simon, along with the others, sell their abilities, but it turns out they really do need them. He doesn't get his invisibility back, but gains foresight.
◦ All is going well in their relationship until some of the ghosts from their past show up, namely the two probation workers and the Christian girl. As revenge the one he killed, kills Alisha.
◦ He realizes he must go into the past to start the whole cycle over again, insuring that they fall in love. It is just a perpetual circle over and over again. Future Simon saves Alisha but dies. Alisha having fallen in love with future Simon, connects with Simon. He changes into Superhoodie, and then she dies, and he goes into the past.

» OTHER: It should be noted that Simon is "Future Simon", which means he's lived through seasons 2-3 and came back.

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