Simon (2016)

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* Reprinted
* Original game

**Simon** is a humanoid robot bearing resemblance to the human skeleton created by Fritz Glade. He's the main antagonist of the POPGOES series.

## Description

* Memory Card
* P1 Extras

## Appearance

Simon is a large, futuristic, violet, robotic replica of a human skeleton with glowing white eyes, glowing shoulder lights, a heart rate monitor, supports that run throughout his body, and wires that wrap around his body. He has no nose and has an additional pair of endoskeleton teeth to go with his normal teeth. He has an endoskeleton head but does not have any other endoskeleton parts.

## Behavior

Simon is an artificial intelligence created by Fritz Glade. Simon was created with an extension allowing him to evolve, advance through the gathering of as much information as possible. Thanks to it, Simon was able to learn human speech, understand how to manipulate robots with similar AI and finally, manipulate Fritz into giving him access to the WeaselWare and later - murdering him. Simon is able to perceive emotions, such as anger. Fritz gave him this extension so he would act like a real human instead of a lifeless robot.

### Gameplay

During each night, Simon appears in a specific camera in a specific time. When he appears, there is a time frame that lasts a few seconds where you can press one of the Simon Says buttons that correspond with his eye colour. If you do this correctly, he disappears from the camera and his head appears in front of the player, flashing repeatedly while talking to you. However, on the Sixth Night, he doesn't appear in a camera; instead, he appears on the table behind you and talks to you without needing a button to be pressed.

### POPGOES 2015

In POPGOES 2015, Simon was an additional enemy who could appear on your desk during the night and play "Simon Says" with you.

## Story

### POPGOES 1: The Blackrabbit

After Fazbear's Fright burned down, there was an auction that sold all of the remaining items. Fritz Glade bought all of the items that were available, and that included the head of Springtrap. Fritz realized that Springtrap's head contained the head of his now deceased brother, Simon Fitzgerald, and decided that he suffered an unfair death. He decided that he would hold a proper funeral for his brother, and went to work to bring his brother back to life.

Fritz knew that he couldn't bring his brother's head back to life, so he decided to create a robotic replica of him; however, he did not fully remember his brother, so he looked up the legends of the Purple Man to base the design of this robot off of. This lead to the creation of Simon, who was a giant purple robot that contained details that were based on the Purple Man, such as being tall, thin, purple, and with glowing eyes. He was a skeleton because the human was dead.

Simon's programming started with the same base AI that Strings did, but he had a special expansion called evolution. This would allow Simon to have a mind that grew similar to a human's brain, albeit significantly faster. It would also make Simon desire to do the "right" thing. After finishing Simon, Fritz grew terrified of what he created and the potential it had to hurt him and others. However, he saw Simon as his actual brother, so he did not want to just scrap him. Thus, as a way to protect himself and others, he chained Simon up to a wall before activating him.

After Simon was activated, he had the mentality of a young toddler and had to preface everything he said with "Simon says". Eventually, Simon grew very angry at Fritz as he tied him up to a wall for his entire life. He saw an opportunity to escape after Strings became the security guard, and hatched a plan that would ensure his escape. He knew that Fritz had lost his daughter, Bonnie Glade, so he decided to manipulate him into connecting him to WeaselWare. Not confident he could manipulate Fritz, he decided to practice his manipulation skills on Strings.

During the Gem Ending timeline, Simon was not able to successfully manipulate Strings. After this happens, he gives up and resigns himself to being held in captivity for the rest of his existence.

During the Grave Ending, he manages to successfully manipulate Strings into finding him 6 times. He tells Strings he knows the truth about Fritz and tries to show his power in the minigames, transforming the regular animatronics into the Lux Animatronics capable of destroying the Toy Animatronics.

After this, he gains the confidence to manipulate Fritz, and thanks Strings for giving that to him. He then tells Fritz that he can save Bonnie, but he has to be connected to WeaselWare to do it. Fritz, desperate to save his daughter, connects him to WeaselWare. Simon then immediately printed off The Blackrabbit in the 3D Printer that was inside of the South Office. Bonnie then possesses the parts and immediately takes to kill Fritz.

After Fritz is killed, Simon is freed and is able to walk out. He breaks out of the office and approaches Strings, which causes him to have a panic attack and automatically shut down.

### POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest

After being freed, Simon destroyed all The Popgoes Pizzeria animatronics and took their Heart modules. He also destroyed Strings, creating Frayed Strings, taking his two hands, two nubs, two "wings" from his base and also his Curiosity Module. He then left all the animatronics thinking they were destroyed. Simon later attached the Curiosity Module to his own "Heart" to see its effects. This caused him to hallucinate a version of himself trying to get him to stop his plan, causing Simon to rip out the Module in anger.

Simon reconnected himself to WeaselWare to look up information regarding his namesake, looking at old articles about the Purple Man. Later, he began to design and build the Epitome Animatronics. When he finished and turned Epitome Popgoes on, he was attacked by him. He has lost his left hand and upper jaw before he managed to turn off Epitome Popgoes. From that point on, Simon became Fractured Simon.

## Trivia

* Simon's eye colour normally changes to emote.
	+ However, in the Grave Ending, Simon changes his colour to impress, intimidate, and manipulate Strings, not to show emotions.
* The Epitome Animatronics' appearance strongly resembles Simon.
* Despite the common perception, Simon is blind. His eyes are LED screens with no camera behind. He's using a connection to the WeaselWare to see the environment.
	+ Since Strings has a camera that he can access, Simon saw himself for the first time when he approached him in the final cutscene of POPGOES' Grave Ending.
* Staying on Simons Extra page for too long will result in the game crashing.

## Gallery

### POPGOES

Simon, with the red Power ColourSimon, with the pink Power ColourSimon, with the cyan Power ColourSimon, with the yellow Power ColourSimon, with the green Power ColourFirst Night encounterSecond Night encounterThird Night encounterFourth Night encounterFifth Night encounterSixth Night encounterSimon staring at StringsStrings Staring at SimonSimon walking to Strings
### Making of Simon

Making of SimonDittoDittoSideview of SimonSimon's Endo HeadSideview of Simon's Endo HeadSimon with a lighter shade of purpleSimon with Unused NoseSimon with a darker shade of purpleSimon with shadingDitto
### Full Body

Original Simon FrontOriginal Simon LeftOriginal Simon BackOriginal Simon RightReprinted Simon FrontReprinted Simon LeftReprinted Simon BackReprinted Simon RightReprinted Simon Top
### POPGOES Reprinted

Optimized Simon's Prototype HeadOptimized Simon's Head and Endoskeloton HeadOptimized Simon's HandSimon's Memory CardOriginal Modified Simon HeadSimon's "Heart Monitor"Simon's Head BlueprintSimon's Eye BlueprintSimon's Evolution ModuleSimon's Heart ModuleUnfinished Artwork of Simon
## References

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7k8wxk/comment/drcqanl/?context=999

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