Skip forward 7 years. Suddenly Simon is badass. Also: tall. He is now the leader of the human race, and an enormous metropolis named Kamina City has sprung up around the area where the Spiral King's fortress used to be. They did take the Spiral King's warning to heart, and one of the important functions that the government has been working on over the years has been to try to count the humans on the surface. The problem that Simon wasn't aware of is that his second-in-command, Rossiu, has been forcing all of the humans underground to come to the surface - at gunpoint if necessary - and the population is close to 1 million as a result. All of a sudden one of Simon's friends gives birth, and all hell breaks loose.
There is an ancient race called the Anti-Spirals, which apparently don't like races like humans who are adaptive and change things, because that causes entropy and the universe is going to end if enough spiral energy accumulates. And stuff. This whole difference of opinion between "Yay, spiral energy is good because we like shit to change and evolve and adapt" and "Dude, change means that death will happen and that's bad" caused a huge war a thousand years ago. The Anti-Spirals unfortunately WON this war, and so the humans - along with the other spiral races - were driven into hiding. An enormous security system was put in place around the Earth, and if too many humans were detected on the surface, it would activate and start blowing shit up. Which...is what the Spiral King (the last surviving person who remembered this war) was trying to prevent. Bummer.
Also beastmen have no spiral energy, so it was cool to have them on the surface. Because they have no spiral energy they can't procreate, and so they're grown in test tubes and shit. Yeah.
So now stuff is coming out of the sky and stuff is blowing up and people want to know what Simon is going to do about it. He flies out in Gurren Lagann and blows up the enemy mobile suits, but unfortunately that causes even mroe property damage, and people get really pissed off. Rossiu pulls a coup and imprisons Simon, and his fiancee Nia turns out to be an Anti-Spiral sleeper agent, and goes to hang out with her friends in some other dimension, and Simon is very sad.
Shit blows up. More shit blows up. Yoko busts Simon out of jail, along with his new beastman friend Viral who was his enemy since approximately episode 2. They save Rossiu's ass and for some reason don't ask too many questions about why he has the Spiral King's head in a jar. Spiral King head tells them that the moon is a giant ganmen and they use Lagann to take it over.
They pilot the FUCKING MOON INTO SPACE AND MORE SHIT BLOWS UP. AND THEY USE GALAXIES LIKE THROWING STARS. AND THEY SAVE THE UNIVERSE FROM THE ANTI-SPIRALS WITH THE POWER OF SIMON AND VIRAL'S COMBINED AMAZING. THE END.
Personality: Simon goes through a lot of changes over the course of the story. At the beginning, he's a shrimp - noted as particularly small for his age - and very quiet and hermitty. He has cripplingly low self-esteem, and mostly all he likes to do all day long is dig in his tunnels. His only real friend is Kamina, who actually does believe that Simon is pretty damn amazing, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Even at that time, he does have a small, deeply-buried spark of adventure, it's true. He says that the main reason he loves to dig is not so much because he wants to build tunnels, but because sometimes he finds treasure.
Re: Simon - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann 3/5
There is an ancient race called the Anti-Spirals, which apparently don't like races like humans who are adaptive and change things, because that causes entropy and the universe is going to end if enough spiral energy accumulates. And stuff. This whole difference of opinion between "Yay, spiral energy is good because we like shit to change and evolve and adapt" and "Dude, change means that death will happen and that's bad" caused a huge war a thousand years ago. The Anti-Spirals unfortunately WON this war, and so the humans - along with the other spiral races - were driven into hiding. An enormous security system was put in place around the Earth, and if too many humans were detected on the surface, it would activate and start blowing shit up. Which...is what the Spiral King (the last surviving person who remembered this war) was trying to prevent. Bummer.
Also beastmen have no spiral energy, so it was cool to have them on the surface. Because they have no spiral energy they can't procreate, and so they're grown in test tubes and shit. Yeah.
So now stuff is coming out of the sky and stuff is blowing up and people want to know what Simon is going to do about it. He flies out in Gurren Lagann and blows up the enemy mobile suits, but unfortunately that causes even mroe property damage, and people get really pissed off. Rossiu pulls a coup and imprisons Simon, and his fiancee Nia turns out to be an Anti-Spiral sleeper agent, and goes to hang out with her friends in some other dimension, and Simon is very sad.
Shit blows up. More shit blows up. Yoko busts Simon out of jail, along with his new beastman friend Viral who was his enemy since approximately episode 2. They save Rossiu's ass and for some reason don't ask too many questions about why he has the Spiral King's head in a jar. Spiral King head tells them that the moon is a giant ganmen and they use Lagann to take it over.
They pilot the FUCKING MOON INTO SPACE AND MORE SHIT BLOWS UP. AND THEY USE GALAXIES LIKE THROWING STARS. AND THEY SAVE THE UNIVERSE FROM THE ANTI-SPIRALS WITH THE POWER OF SIMON AND VIRAL'S COMBINED AMAZING. THE END.
Personality:
Simon goes through a lot of changes over the course of the story. At the beginning, he's a shrimp - noted as particularly small for his age - and very quiet and hermitty. He has cripplingly low self-esteem, and mostly all he likes to do all day long is dig in his tunnels. His only real friend is Kamina, who actually does believe that Simon is pretty damn amazing, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Even at that time, he does have a small, deeply-buried spark of adventure, it's true. He says that the main reason he loves to dig is not so much because he wants to build tunnels, but because sometimes he finds treasure.