Simon Laurent (CDCAT)

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> Yes yes, I could already tell when you lost last round for us.
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> Simon, Crippling Gambling Addiction

Simon is a contestant in Characters Do Challenges And Things - Casino Madness.

## Coverage

In Crippling Gambling Addiction,  Simon is first seen with James staring at his hand. When James asks, he brushes it off as nothing. Then whenever the two encounter Wigglytuff, Simon advises to not get close, but James insists it'll be fine. He then questions if Wigglytuff is even alive, which James figures out that he is just asleep. When Wigglytuff wakes up and notices him and James are human, Simon immediately notes that he's not, and is confused when Wigglytuff mentions that humans are real and asks James if he's supposed to be able to talk and whenever he learns that he's on a team with Wigglytuff, he complains under his breath. He's then more annoyed when Latias and Latios approach him and when it's revealed they're on a team with him, he's noticeably less excited than James about it. Afterwards, he just ends up questioning when Gelatin says two new friends.

When team names are being chosen, Simon immediately rejects Carnivore Lunatics, saying that it makes them sound like psychos and whenever The Toxic Crushers seems to have some agreement, he says to stop wasting time and pick it. In his first confessional, he notes his poor performance in Crossover Conquest Redux and claims he actually knows what he's doing this time around.

In the challenge, Simon doesn't contribute much in the first round, just commenting that Bread should be an easy out and gets him out after Bread's attempt to get someone on his team out. Simon ends up deciding what his team's strategy should be in the next round and get Lysithea out with James and notes that he doesn't know how losing feels when Candace asks, as his team is tied and not losing. Then, seeing as they can't do much, Simon uses Google as a shield against the others and gets Package out, but Candace gets him out after Google is out. Regardless, his team wins and moves onto the next round. In between rounds, Simon sees Noah reading his book and tries to talk with him, then tries to make a deal with him, only to get immediately rejected by the bookworm much to his annoyance. In the matches against The Cool Deluxe, Simon gets in front of Latios when the team tries to target him, trying to get Callie out, however failing. He is however able to get Izzy out, as well as Ibuki, getting his team the win. When strategizing for the next round, he rejects Gelatin's idea to use Google again which causes Google to mention his past on the train, which catches him off guard and immediately gets back on the court. In the second round, he comments about Latias should at least be on par with her brother, which angers her and she throws a ball at him as well as a few of her other teammates on accident, which ends up losing her team the challenge, angering Simon. Due to being in a tie game, he gives in to using Google, and in the final round he is caught off guard by Latios getting hit early, and simply brushes off Latias trying to prove him wrong. He's then shortly taken out by Callie and Ibuki, but his team wins the challenge. As \*flop\* and Of Madness are competing against each other, he expresses clear disdain for Callie and Ibuki's puns.

After the challenge, Simon approaches Noah with changed terms of his deal he mentioned earlier, mentioning that he saw him overhear everything.

In Party 'Till You Drop!, when the room starts shaking from Wigglytuff Simon immediately asks what's going on along with the others asking what's going on. Later when Google says to give Wigglytuff what he wants Simon asks what he wants, but Google stops responding. When Noah says the internet's gone out, Simon questions if he's being serious or not. Whenever his team talks about wanting to spend time with the other teams, he comes in and says that they want to have a party and whenever Nora asks if they can help, he shoots the idea down, saying that they aren't allowed in the VIP room. Whenever Latias is setting up the disco ball, she says that she's not incompetent which Simon immediately disagrees with.

In the first part of The Good Ol' Switcheroo, a flashback reveals that Simon made a deal with Noah that if he doesn't mess with him, he won't reveal that he eavesdropped on BFDI Rocky. Whenever he is brought to the shop by Latias, he asks Latios what he's doing to Lugia, in which Lugia lies about an explanation for. Whenever Noah is talkig with Lugia, Simon asks if he knows who they are which he confirms, and whenever Lugia pulls out a reference card he questions it. Lugia shortly after explains the immunity ticket gives immunity to someone after the challenge and Simon immediately buys it, not caring for the price. He then sees James excited and terrified and he tells Simon that there are now three legendary Pokemon in the competition grounds, which Simon shows to not care much about.

During the vote reveal, Simon is not shocked to have gotten zero votes and mentions that he expected the hate wave to flood in. Whenever Latias defends Lugia from Maverick's words, he says to ask from the source, which Lugia responds that it's a complicated situation.

Before the challenge when asked to view his card, Simon disregards the idea of mistaking his own team and whenever Latios starts to freak out about being on a different team, he seems confused about it, thinking that he was the one of the two that was actually calm.

In the challenge, Simon shouts for Latias whenever she flies off with Noah, but he gets no response and complains about getting stuck with her. He asks if Google is even cold at all, in which they respond that they aren't. He then suggests huddle for warmth as they figure out a plan. He suggests getting out as soon as possible, but then realizes that they're missing someone.

In the second part, Simon tells James to stop calling for Izzy since she stopped responding. Izzy then appears shortly after and he questions her, asking where she was and how she was handling the cold well. She then ignores him and tells everyone to follow her and he asks where she's leading them and when they finally catch up, Simon demands her to tell them about her "crew" first, and when she shows that one of her members is a semicircle, a confessional of his is shown where he complains about the swap. He questions the random statue which James says it could be to add spice, in which he responds saying that'd just be weird. Whenever Izzy is about to announce her last crew member, he interrupts guessing that it's another random object, and it's revealed to be Teardrop. Whenever Izzy responds to Gelatin saying that he thought they lost her, he responds saying she ran away intentionally, and asks if she even knows the challenge and whenever she says that everyone knows it he says that he wouldn't be surprised if she didn't. He then immediately rejects Izzy's plan to explode the place and seems concerned when James expresses interest in it, and hopes that he knows what he's doing. Later whenever Simon is watching James enact his plan and The Cool Deluxe arrives, he expresses disdain for their arrival and asks what they're doing here, whenever answered he then tells them to go away and tells Google that they didn't have to answer Nora asking what they were doing. Whenever Nora smashes the fireworks, Simon questions how they aren't exploding before it does end up exploding, and then responds to James annoyed when he admits it wasn't a great idea.

After blasting off, Simon pulls James out of the ground and leads him to Carl's impaled corpse. Whenever Nora shouts for him, he tells her that it was her fault and Teardrop tries to mediate the argument going on, and Simon disagrees with the idea of working together to find their teammates and suggests splitting off. Whenever James tries to argue they should be more prepared, he argues back that they would've gone for Latias and Noah in that case. He then notes that it's late at night and agrees to get some sleep. In the morning, he ends up reuniting with his team and tells Izzy to stop messing around but she just runs away from him. Eventually, he and the rest of the team goes into the castle where he runs into Gus and Package, and he's the first to note that they can see them. He's then the one to remind the team about the prize for sabotaging the team and when they get Package, he tries to stop the team from going after Gus but Izzy goes after him anyway, and Simon mentions that they can get the reward with just Package. He then meets up with Latias and Noah with the rest of the team and when Google starts glitching he asks what's wrong with them. He tries to ask again but Google ends up exploding, which kills him in the process. Despite this, the explosion got his team the win.

After he is recovered, he asks Google what happened back there now they're back to normal and they deny anything happening and Noah stops him from questioning further, and when BFDI Rocky is reading the winning prediction message he questions if it's even the right one and he keeps reading anyway, whenever the end of the vote reason is read he starts to panic and asks to elaborate, only for BFDI Rocky to remind him that the message won't randomly update. BFDI Rocky then admits that he fucked up, and Simon says that they already know and he specifies not with the message.