I wrote it casually after thinking of "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Simon is indeed very much like a crew microphone, a tool protagonist.
But it's still interesting to look into. Simon's character was inspired by Shinji in many ways, timid and cowardly, but not lacking in talent, and he would not evade responsibility at critical moments. Before his eldest brother died in battle, he was a footnote to himself as a hero "eldest brother", just as he helped his eldest brother escape and was willing to be questioned for his courage. After the death of the eldest brother, he began to work hard to become the eldest brother, because the Dahonglian Group cannot continue without a leader. But in the end, what Big Brother said made him not a hero like Big Brother, but Simon who led everyone in his own way. Since then, Simon has begun to work hard to interpret the leader of everyone given by fate, and strive to complete the mission of protecting everyone.
Although the later political episodes have been criticized, and to be honest, I don't like it very much, but there is indeed a magic stroke of character description here. In the night chat between Villalu and Simon, Simon praised Luo Xiu, and said that as long as others can survive, he doesn't care whether he has reached the end. Simon at this time is already a figurative hero. His scope of protection has changed from the Great Red Lotus Group to humans, but the humans do not include himself. This is also the sense of responsibility for abstract things that Shinji can't achieve, and the courage that emerges from it, who only decides actions from the people around him, perhaps more like the protagonist of the old generation of carrot chips.
From this point of view, Simon finally gave up saving Nia, and sealed the power, which is a more reasonable ending. He has long been the incarnation of humanity's will to survive as a group, so he will never affect its mission as a hero for personal confidence. And Simon's terrifying spiral force from beginning to end, the subversion of this order, I am afraid there is also a considerable inevitability.
Simon, in my eyes, is probably like this, a person who faces the character assigned by the director who calmly faces and strives to interpret fate.
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