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History:SO once upon at time there was a very small teenager named Simon. Simon was shy, awkward and a typical teenager. He had no friends, but a pet molepig (Boota) and this guy who kind of bothered him and made him call him Aniki a lot and made him do all sorts of things that got him into trouble. Simon worked all day, the same thing, day after day, digging tunnels to expand the underground village he lived for—Jiiha. Girls called him dirty and smelly. Boys avoided him because he was so small. Simon lived a very lonely existence, being orphaned at the age of seven in a cave-in. Like the other orphans in Jiiha, Simon was kept under the care of the village “chief,” who was a rat bastard who beat up on them when they didn't listen to him and forced them to work digging tunnels or they wouldn't be allowed to eat. Anyone who spoke against him ended up imprisoned.
Simon was not very fond of this way of life and longed for a life away from “day after day.” Unfortunately for him, Kamina was willing to give him that life—by means of trying to get to the surface. Now, you have to understand, for a thousand years, no one from Jiiha had ever seen the surface. Just like Santa Claus, Zeus and Pluto being a planet, it had faded into merely myth. People called Kamina crazy and stupid. No one believed in him. Except, maybe, for Simon.
You see, Simon genuinely liked Kamina. Maybe he had a pull toward the adrenaline Kamina always provided, or maybe it was just the fact that someone treated him like family, or maybe it was simply that someone didn't point and laugh at him whenever he came near, but Simon always did his best when the older boy was involved.
And that was how he always played a pivotal part in Kamina's “reach-the-surface” plots. And why, on the day the story of Gurren Lagann starts, it was how Simon became the one he shared the surface with.