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Name: Linds
Age: 31
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💀 Character Information
Name: Simon Tam
Canon: Firefly / Serenity
Canon Point: Halfway through the events of "Objects In Space"; Simon contemplates jumping Early, who catches him, takes aim at Simon and warns against it. In this scenario, Simon does get the drop on Early, who abruptly shoots him in the head for his trouble.
Age: 26
Description: Simon is a shuài young doctor of average height and a fairly fit build; he has blue eyes and dark brown hair that's always neatly swept back. He's rarely in anything less casual than a crisp collared shirt, brocade vest and trousers, although Hell may force him to reconsider his wardrobe at some point. If you catch him at the hospital, he'll have a filthy white labcoat thrown over his clothes. (It's perfectly cleaned and ironed when he arrives, of course, but that doesn't last long.)
Physical changes: Simon arrives from Heaven rocking a real holier-than-thou angelic aura. It doesn't show through his clothing, and he'll use a glow-suppressing product to make it less obvious when he's out in the city.
Powers: None.
History: [ HERE ]
Hell Status: Heaven Transfer
What Brings Them To Hell: Of all the possible branches of medicine Simon could've gone into, he chose trauma surgeon; he feels most confident and in control as an expert in his field, and in the midst of crisis and chaos. After the events of Firefly, Simon would be bored to tears in Heaven, a place which would have considerably less injury and action than his post in Capitol City or medic gig on Serenity.
The most difficult part of dying for Simon was leaving River behind, with no one left to protect her. He's determined to find out where she is and what's happened to her, a line of inquiry that's politely hushed and sternly discouraged in Heaven, where any attempted contact with the living world is strictly illegal.
Oh, it's illegal in Hell, too-- not to mention dangerous, ill-advised, and practically impossible in every way-- but by now, Simon has already given up everything he has to save his sister. Now he really has nothing left to lose.
Simon applies for a Hell visa under the pretense of assisting with the everyday deluge of emergency-room cases at Abaddon Hope Hospital, possibly with the intention of opening his own clinic eventually. He's needed more in Hell, you see; Hippocratic Oath and all that.
Privately, Simon hopes to learn more about the illegal channels through which he might have a hope of accessing the living world-- even if it's just to see, for a moment, that River is safe.
And even if he doesn't want to admit it-- which he very much does not-- it's entirely possible that living on the lam for so long has given Simon a taste for something other than the perfectly sterile, wholly appropriate lifestyle that an eternity in Heaven has to offer.
The Pitch:
It's perfectly obvious, if you're familiar with the canon (or even just scanning a wiki page) what's good about Simon. He's extremely intelligent, he's a gifted doctor and a heroic brother, he's handsome and polite.
It's also perfectly boring. A guy like that doesn't belong in Hell. He'd get his gooey self-righteousness and perfection all over everything!
Luckily, Simon's more than all that. He's also a stuck-up, sneaky, clueless punk-ass bitch, and frankly, I think a little time in Hell would only serve to emphasize these far more compelling qualities.
Allow me:
SIMON " XIǍO BÁI " TAM :
an affectionate dressing-down
S T U C K - U P
As well-mannered and pleasant as Simon is, he’s not the kind of guy you'd imagine got invited to a lot of birthday parties as a kid. He is the kind of guy who’s pedantic enough to notice when someone is wrong but, unless they've really started out on the wrong foot, he’s generally too polite to call them on it. He’ll pepper a conversation with stilted trivia where other people might fit personal anecdotes, failing to gauge his audience’s interest and coming off a bit like a know-it-all. You can’t help but feel a certain amount of schadenfreude around him when he’s out of his element-- there’s something really amusing about watching him squirm in boorish or vulgar company, get his hands dirty, or, god forbid, one of his fancy suits. Growing up in the society that he did, he’s accustomed to having the best, and although he's unlikely to make a fuss when he has to go without, it's obvious that he misses the 'embarrassingly large stacks of money' he was making at the hospital in Capitol City.
TL;DR: It's not that Simon thinks he's inherently better than you-- nono, he's not saying that at all. That would be rude. It's just that he did attend the best medical academy in the 'verse and he did graduate in the top 3% of his class and his waistcoats are made from silk brocade and, oh, excuse me, but did you know you just said who when you should've said whom?
As I'm sure Jayne Cobb would agree, he's the kind of guy to whom you'd like to deliver a swift kick in the teeth, and hey! Little Hades can absolutely provide that. In numbers.
S N E A K Y
Don't let the awkward stutter or the heroic doctor act fool you: Simon is a sneaky son-of-a-bitch who lies openly and by omission to the crew of Serenity over and over again throughout the series.
He tells the crew he hired men to break River out, but that's a lie. Our little Lord Fauntleroy actually had the brass balls to walk into a clearly evil black-ops government facility dressed as a uniformed official and break his little sister out himself like a damn boss. A really uptight, kinda prissy boss.
Once he's on Serenity, he abuses his medic status by straight-up doping avalued crew member (okay fine, it's just Jayne) when it looks like he might try for a coup. (Listen, he was totally gonna coup.)
Later, in Ariel, Mr. Who-Me?-I'm-Just-A-Pretty-Doctor goes to the crew with a perfectly-laid plan for robbing the local hospital and selling the drugs on the black market. And in Serenity, while everyone else stares in horror at River's sudden amazing ninja skills, Simon casually drops a Russian safe word that puts her to sleep, prompting the entire crew to wonder why, exactly, if he knew about whole deadly seventeen-year-old superweapon thing, he maybe couldn't have given them a little heads up?
Simon never tells anyone more than they need to know, because dude is a stone-cold Slytherin who takes care of himself and his baby sister before anyone else. Deal with it.
C L U E L E S S
For all his so-called manners, Mr. Top-Three-Percent ain't exactly a genius in the social skills department. This isn't just foot-in-mouth disease we're dealing with, this is handstitched-leather-Oxford-in-mouth disease, which is a very rare and far more severe condition that results in scenarios like the gif pictured above. Good breeding notwithstanding, Simon is massively awkward and really not a people person; he uses his etiquette and River's unstable condition as a shield throughout the series to protect himself from the messy business of making human connection. (Particularly romantic connection with Kaylee, but that's an essay for another gay. Day. Sorry.)
Of course, it's not that he's actually a robot (although Kaylee does specifically call him one); it's more to do with the fact that Simon prefers to stick to what he's good at, and so rarely ventures outside of his comfort zone. And while the chaotic circumstances he's living under on Serenity certainly aren't ideal for close bonding, romantic or otherwise, one gets the impression that he's quite accustomed to compartmentalizing and repressing whatever he has to in order to better fit the mold of the Ideal Son his parents have had him on the hook for from a young age.
That said, when Simon does attempt to relax a little, he tends to overdo it, true to what you'd expect of someone so tightly wound. He reminisces with Kaylee about his commencement-- how he got drunk on sake, climbed a statue of Hippocrates and sang the national anthem loud enough to bring the Feds. And then again, in Jaynestown, he drinks enough mudder's milk to transform into a slurring, unbuttoned, dare-we-even-say affectionate mess.
It's a good look for him, yeah? I think Little Hades can deliver on this one, too.
P U N K - A S S...B I T C H
Simon is oddly abrasive and sarcastic for someone who seems, at first blush, so politic and mild-mannered. He's always rolling his eyes or saying something facetious, particularly at Mal (who learns pretty quickly that the doc bites back) and Jayne (who happens to be an incredibly satisfying target for Simon's arch one-liners). And it's not just a smart mouth, either. He's ruthless when threatened, refusing to work on Kaylee after she's been shot in the stomach unless the Captain turns the ship around and runs from the Feds, and, as pictured above, delivers a swift suckerpunch to Mal after the Captain nearly gets baby-sister killed on a 'routine' job.
And it's the little things, too: calling Jayne a trained ape without the training, or assuring Kaylee with bright sarcasm that yes, he likes 'being forced to live at the ass-end of the galaxy on a piece-of-garbage wreck'. In a brilliantly stereotypical jerk-ass rich kid move, he even admits to bribing the Feds not to tell his parents about his statue-climbing, sake-induced university indiscretions.
Tsk, tsk. Not very angelic behavior, Dr. Tam.
Setting Fit: Simon is perfect for Little Hades because he'll be such a terrible fit. Simon is tidy, predictable and urbane; Little Hades is filthy, chaotic and brutal. If Simon thought Serenity and all its imminent danger and criminal capers was a rude awakening, Little Hades will certainly set him straight.
Simon, whether he wants to admit it or not, will actually thrive in an environment like Abaddon Hope Hospital, where he'll get to show off his skills in a low-tech environment without ever actually having the threat of losing a patient hanging over his head. Little Eden will be an utterly pleasant, safe reminder of what he left behind in Heaven, but he'll still have to navigate the disgusting pandemonium of the city en route to work and back.
And despite what he told the folks in Heaven, Simon's not just in Hell for a little do-gooding. As soon as he feels like he's got a firm footing, or someone he can trust, Simon's going to make some quiet inquiries within Hell backchannels: how to find a loved one somewhere in the underworld, and failing that, how to get in touch with someone in the Living World.
I'm not really interested in reuniting Simon with River in the afterlife, but I definitely think I can use his single-minded devotion to his sister as a motivation for getting him into all sorts of Hell trouble. It's obvious he's not averse to a little criminal activity in the pursuit of finding River and keeping her safe, and the idea of his search drawing him deeper into the Little Hades underground, possibly leaving him indebted to all sorts of unsavory characters is a really appealing one to me.
I think Simon will strike a nice balance between playing the fish-out-of-water and adapting to survive, and I think he'll lend an amusing contrast to many of the current cast members.
Samples: There's a bunch [ HERE ].
Name: Linds
Age: 31
Contact:
Characters In-game: Cuthbert Allgood
💀 Character Information
Name: Simon Tam
Canon: Firefly / Serenity
Canon Point: Halfway through the events of "Objects In Space"; Simon contemplates jumping Early, who catches him, takes aim at Simon and warns against it. In this scenario, Simon does get the drop on Early, who abruptly shoots him in the head for his trouble.
Age: 26
Description: Simon is a shuài young doctor of average height and a fairly fit build; he has blue eyes and dark brown hair that's always neatly swept back. He's rarely in anything less casual than a crisp collared shirt, brocade vest and trousers, although Hell may force him to reconsider his wardrobe at some point. If you catch him at the hospital, he'll have a filthy white labcoat thrown over his clothes. (It's perfectly cleaned and ironed when he arrives, of course, but that doesn't last long.)
Physical changes: Simon arrives from Heaven rocking a real holier-than-thou angelic aura. It doesn't show through his clothing, and he'll use a glow-suppressing product to make it less obvious when he's out in the city.
Powers: None.
History: [ HERE ]
Hell Status: Heaven Transfer
What Brings Them To Hell: Of all the possible branches of medicine Simon could've gone into, he chose trauma surgeon; he feels most confident and in control as an expert in his field, and in the midst of crisis and chaos. After the events of Firefly, Simon would be bored to tears in Heaven, a place which would have considerably less injury and action than his post in Capitol City or medic gig on Serenity.
The most difficult part of dying for Simon was leaving River behind, with no one left to protect her. He's determined to find out where she is and what's happened to her, a line of inquiry that's politely hushed and sternly discouraged in Heaven, where any attempted contact with the living world is strictly illegal.
Oh, it's illegal in Hell, too-- not to mention dangerous, ill-advised, and practically impossible in every way-- but by now, Simon has already given up everything he has to save his sister. Now he really has nothing left to lose.
Simon applies for a Hell visa under the pretense of assisting with the everyday deluge of emergency-room cases at Abaddon Hope Hospital, possibly with the intention of opening his own clinic eventually. He's needed more in Hell, you see; Hippocratic Oath and all that.
Privately, Simon hopes to learn more about the illegal channels through which he might have a hope of accessing the living world-- even if it's just to see, for a moment, that River is safe.
And even if he doesn't want to admit it-- which he very much does not-- it's entirely possible that living on the lam for so long has given Simon a taste for something other than the perfectly sterile, wholly appropriate lifestyle that an eternity in Heaven has to offer.
The Pitch:
It's perfectly obvious, if you're familiar with the canon (or even just scanning a wiki page) what's good about Simon. He's extremely intelligent, he's a gifted doctor and a heroic brother, he's handsome and polite.
It's also perfectly boring. A guy like that doesn't belong in Hell. He'd get his gooey self-righteousness and perfection all over everything!
Luckily, Simon's more than all that. He's also a stuck-up, sneaky, clueless punk-ass bitch, and frankly, I think a little time in Hell would only serve to emphasize these far more compelling qualities.
Allow me:
an affectionate dressing-down
As well-mannered and pleasant as Simon is, he’s not the kind of guy you'd imagine got invited to a lot of birthday parties as a kid. He is the kind of guy who’s pedantic enough to notice when someone is wrong but, unless they've really started out on the wrong foot, he’s generally too polite to call them on it. He’ll pepper a conversation with stilted trivia where other people might fit personal anecdotes, failing to gauge his audience’s interest and coming off a bit like a know-it-all. You can’t help but feel a certain amount of schadenfreude around him when he’s out of his element-- there’s something really amusing about watching him squirm in boorish or vulgar company, get his hands dirty, or, god forbid, one of his fancy suits. Growing up in the society that he did, he’s accustomed to having the best, and although he's unlikely to make a fuss when he has to go without, it's obvious that he misses the 'embarrassingly large stacks of money' he was making at the hospital in Capitol City.
TL;DR: It's not that Simon thinks he's inherently better than you-- nono, he's not saying that at all. That would be rude. It's just that he did attend the best medical academy in the 'verse and he did graduate in the top 3% of his class and his waistcoats are made from silk brocade and, oh, excuse me, but did you know you just said who when you should've said whom?
As I'm sure Jayne Cobb would agree, he's the kind of guy to whom you'd like to deliver a swift kick in the teeth, and hey! Little Hades can absolutely provide that. In numbers.
Don't let the awkward stutter or the heroic doctor act fool you: Simon is a sneaky son-of-a-bitch who lies openly and by omission to the crew of Serenity over and over again throughout the series.
He tells the crew he hired men to break River out, but that's a lie. Our little Lord Fauntleroy actually had the brass balls to walk into a clearly evil black-ops government facility dressed as a uniformed official and break his little sister out himself like a damn boss. A really uptight, kinda prissy boss.
Once he's on Serenity, he abuses his medic status by straight-up doping a
Later, in Ariel, Mr. Who-Me?-I'm-Just-A-Pretty-Doctor goes to the crew with a perfectly-laid plan for robbing the local hospital and selling the drugs on the black market. And in Serenity, while everyone else stares in horror at River's sudden amazing ninja skills, Simon casually drops a Russian safe word that puts her to sleep, prompting the entire crew to wonder why, exactly, if he knew about whole deadly seventeen-year-old superweapon thing, he maybe couldn't have given them a little heads up?
Simon never tells anyone more than they need to know, because dude is a stone-cold Slytherin who takes care of himself and his baby sister before anyone else. Deal with it.
For all his so-called manners, Mr. Top-Three-Percent ain't exactly a genius in the social skills department. This isn't just foot-in-mouth disease we're dealing with, this is handstitched-leather-Oxford-in-mouth disease, which is a very rare and far more severe condition that results in scenarios like the gif pictured above. Good breeding notwithstanding, Simon is massively awkward and really not a people person; he uses his etiquette and River's unstable condition as a shield throughout the series to protect himself from the messy business of making human connection. (Particularly romantic connection with Kaylee, but that's an essay for another gay. Day. Sorry.)
Of course, it's not that he's actually a robot (although Kaylee does specifically call him one); it's more to do with the fact that Simon prefers to stick to what he's good at, and so rarely ventures outside of his comfort zone. And while the chaotic circumstances he's living under on Serenity certainly aren't ideal for close bonding, romantic or otherwise, one gets the impression that he's quite accustomed to compartmentalizing and repressing whatever he has to in order to better fit the mold of the Ideal Son his parents have had him on the hook for from a young age.
That said, when Simon does attempt to relax a little, he tends to overdo it, true to what you'd expect of someone so tightly wound. He reminisces with Kaylee about his commencement-- how he got drunk on sake, climbed a statue of Hippocrates and sang the national anthem loud enough to bring the Feds. And then again, in Jaynestown, he drinks enough mudder's milk to transform into a slurring, unbuttoned, dare-we-even-say affectionate mess.
It's a good look for him, yeah? I think Little Hades can deliver on this one, too.
Simon is oddly abrasive and sarcastic for someone who seems, at first blush, so politic and mild-mannered. He's always rolling his eyes or saying something facetious, particularly at Mal (who learns pretty quickly that the doc bites back) and Jayne (who happens to be an incredibly satisfying target for Simon's arch one-liners). And it's not just a smart mouth, either. He's ruthless when threatened, refusing to work on Kaylee after she's been shot in the stomach unless the Captain turns the ship around and runs from the Feds, and, as pictured above, delivers a swift suckerpunch to Mal after the Captain nearly gets baby-sister killed on a 'routine' job.
And it's the little things, too: calling Jayne a trained ape without the training, or assuring Kaylee with bright sarcasm that yes, he likes 'being forced to live at the ass-end of the galaxy on a piece-of-garbage wreck'. In a brilliantly stereotypical jerk-ass rich kid move, he even admits to bribing the Feds not to tell his parents about his statue-climbing, sake-induced university indiscretions.
Tsk, tsk. Not very angelic behavior, Dr. Tam.
Setting Fit: Simon is perfect for Little Hades because he'll be such a terrible fit. Simon is tidy, predictable and urbane; Little Hades is filthy, chaotic and brutal. If Simon thought Serenity and all its imminent danger and criminal capers was a rude awakening, Little Hades will certainly set him straight.
Simon, whether he wants to admit it or not, will actually thrive in an environment like Abaddon Hope Hospital, where he'll get to show off his skills in a low-tech environment without ever actually having the threat of losing a patient hanging over his head. Little Eden will be an utterly pleasant, safe reminder of what he left behind in Heaven, but he'll still have to navigate the disgusting pandemonium of the city en route to work and back.
And despite what he told the folks in Heaven, Simon's not just in Hell for a little do-gooding. As soon as he feels like he's got a firm footing, or someone he can trust, Simon's going to make some quiet inquiries within Hell backchannels: how to find a loved one somewhere in the underworld, and failing that, how to get in touch with someone in the Living World.
I'm not really interested in reuniting Simon with River in the afterlife, but I definitely think I can use his single-minded devotion to his sister as a motivation for getting him into all sorts of Hell trouble. It's obvious he's not averse to a little criminal activity in the pursuit of finding River and keeping her safe, and the idea of his search drawing him deeper into the Little Hades underground, possibly leaving him indebted to all sorts of unsavory characters is a really appealing one to me.
I think Simon will strike a nice balance between playing the fish-out-of-water and adapting to survive, and I think he'll lend an amusing contrast to many of the current cast members.
Samples: There's a bunch [ HERE ].
