Simon

Simon (サイモン, Saimon) was the furniture belonging to an unnamed Onyx who owned Miguel the Paradita.

## Simon and Miguel

Simon and Miguel seemed to have a typical furniture-pet relationship. Simon was there to do his bidding, including sexual services to quell Miguel’s rare frustrations.

Because Miguel stood out so much from the other pets, he found it hard to socialise. It was Simon who recommended the Botanical Garden as a good place to make friends, advice that backfired on him, because the “friend” Miguel found there was Riki. When Simon heard this, he felt feint but Miguel completely ignored his warnings. Miguel was unpredictable and seemed to have a strange obsession with Riki, paying no heed to Simon’s warnings at all.

## The Simon Incident

When Simon heard the extent of Miguel’s obsession with Riki, he became ill due to excessive stress. His assigned pet becoming the subject of nasty talk in the salon would reflect badly on him, and the association with the slum mongrel was bound to end in trouble. Riki was known to be violent, and as Miguel’s furniture, he would be held responsible if any harm were to happen to the pet. All these thoughts stressed him to the point where he could no longer accomplish his daily tasks.

Simon informed his floor leader of his concerns and then secretly asked Tomass, the floor leader of the Top Level, for advice. Tomass, who had already experienced something similar with his pet Stein, judged that this was too much for a furniture to handle, and addressed the matter to his master, Aisha.

Simon’s request to Tomass was for this matter to be settled quietly, and so no official report was made, but it did reach the highest echelons of Eos, and resulted in Riki being confined to his quarters for a time.

### Attack on Riki

Not only did Simon worry about all the incidents Riki was infamous for in Eos, but being his junior block mate in Guardian, he had even more insight in just how troublesome Riki could be. Seeing his assigned pet cling to Riki to this extent, he was possibly reminded of a similar incident where a kid in Guardian latched onto to Riki. His attachment reached such levels that he was ostracised by the rest and started acting strange. If this were to happen to Miguel, it would be Simon who bears the blame. And so this prolonged stress lead him to take an all-purpose laser-knife commonly used by furniture and head to the Elevator Hall where he waited for Riki.

After a short verbal altercation, Riki said something that completely set Simon off.

Namely, Riki recognised him, to Simon’s shock, and called him by his previous name – Vince. This seemed to be a trigger for the furniture to go into full rage, and attack Riki, causing him to suffer a near-lethal wound. In turn, Riki beat him up in self defense.

### Vince

Vince (ヴィンス, Vinsu) was Simon’s name before he was chosen against his will, forcibly castrated, deprived of his original name, and made into living furniture. That was the price Vince paid to become Simon the furniture, to be reborn into a life of luxury and servitude.

> Could it be that when you become furniture in Eos, you are all assigned new names?
>
>

To become Simon was all that Vince had in Eos. It encompassed everything he had been working so hard to achieve. But with Riki there, everything changed. And then, to be called by his former name, he couldn’t be “Simon” anymore. In desperation, he lashed out at the bane of his existence in Eos.

### Consequences

The incident rocked all of Eos, and not only because it was unthinkable that a furniture would attack a Blondy’s pet.  When Tomass informed Aisha that Riki recognised Simon as Vince, it was clear that Riki knew that Eos furniture is sourced from Guardian. This was unacceptable to the Blondies. If other pets were to find this out, it would cause absolute chaos. Ultimately, this resulted in Riki being moved out of Eos to Apathia, to the relief of everyone involved.

> It's not life-threatening...but the furniture broke.
>
>

Simon’s fate wasn’t as favourable. Getting beaten badly by Riki, he suffered blunt trauma, internal bleeding, a broken collarbone, and cracked ribs, but no brain damage. However, as a result of his crazed actions, his shattered mind shut down and he became catatonic. He could breathe on his own and his heart was beating, but for all intents and purposes he was not even aware that he was alive. Not only did he end up in a vegetative state, but his brain synapses died entirely, losing all of his memory irretrievably. After this, his only fate was disposal.

## Simon’s Onyx Owner

Simon’s owner was an Onyx whose pet was a prestigious male Paradita, Miguel. The uniqueness and rarity of Miguel’s characteristics made him extremely popular, which in turn gave prestige to the Onyx. The requests to mate with Miguel were endless and were booked months in advance.

Because of the disparity in his rank with Iason, and Miguel’s rank with Riki, the Onyx not only tolerated, but tacitly approved of Simon reporting the issue between the two pets.

After finding out that his furniture did the unfathomable – assaulted a Blondy’s pet, he was in absolute shock. He flew into a rage cursing at Simon, accusing him of ruining his reputation and disgracing him, leaving him to fear Iason’s retribution. He immediately replaced the furniture. Despite his humblest apologies to Iason, the Onyx, who had been somewhat savoring the previous years thanks to his rare and valuable Paradita, had now completely lost face.