Simone Andersen

## **Simone**

**Simone Andersen** is the main protagonist of the series ***The Rain***. Her father worked for Apollon and helped create the virus that took over the world. Just before it's release he took their family to a bomb shelter and made Simone promise to take care of her brother Rasmus.

## History

Simone is a 17 year old, about to have an exam, when her dad suddenly comes to school to get her. Simone, Rasmus and their parents evacuate the city and hide in a bunker built by the company Apollon, which her father works for. Her father explains to her that there is a virus in the rain, that he has to go out, and Simone, Rasmus and their mother have to stay in the bunker until he comes back. He tells her to protect Rasmus, and leaves. When a person infected by the virus knocks on the bunker, Rasmus and Simone run to open the door, but the man grabs Rasmus while Simone yells at him to let go and their mother is stuck in the bunker. When she finally gets out, she runs out and tackles the man to the ground, and they both get infected and die. Simone and Rasmus wait for their father to return for six years, but there are no signs of him anywhere. When they begin to run out of food, Simone puts on a hazmat suit and goes outside for the first time. She encounters nothing but realizing they'll have to leave the bunker to survive, she tells Rasmus that they are leaving together the next day. That night, Rasmus is woken by the bunker's alarms going off to warn them that the oxygen levels are critically low. Simone is already too weak to move from oxygen deficiency. In a desperate attempt to save themselves, Rasmus carries Simone's body out of the bunker where they encounter a group of young fellow survivors, who had blocked their vents in order to lure them out.

The group initially was going to take any food they had and leave them for dead, until Simone shows the leader of the group, Martin, a map of other bunkers. She makes clear that there will be food in the other bunkers, and then she destroys the iPad on which the map was stored, so only she knows where more food can be found. After this, Martin decides to let Rasmus and Simone into the group so they can lead them to food, and they go on to the next bunker.

Simone has blurry memories of strange conversations about her brother, about the rain, and about her father's job, and riddled by these and wanting to find her father and hopefully also a cure, she convinces the group to set out to Sweden.

## Season 2

### "Avoid Contact"

Simone confronts her father, who gives her coordinates to a location that can derive a cure from Rasmus without killing him. Simone watches as her father is shot and killed, before being forced to flee. Later, while gathering supplies, Simone tries to make Rasmus believe that their father wanted to help them, that she won't let him die, and that they must go to the location their father gave them in order to keep Rasmus alive. Simone then has a flashback to when Rasmus was sick as a child, with her father experimenting on Rasmus with exposure to the virus while working with Apollon.

Later, she tends to Martin's wounds before continuing on to the coordinates, keeping Rasmus away from a diseased tree en route. She discovers scientists studying the tree later, presuming them to be the ones her father sent her to, but they deny it and tell them to avoid the contaminated tree. Rasmus doubles over when they burn the tree, startling them and allowing Simone to convince them to take them all back to their base to help Rasmus. There, Fie explained that they could help Rasmus, but that the virus was spreading between trees and likely to kill them all without a cure.

Going to tell Martin, she found him and the rest of the group playing with clothes, which angered Simone for some reason and prompted her to run off. She later apologized and had sex with Martin, having him promise to never leave her. An alarm then caught her attention, so she went to the operating room to find Rasmus surrounded by corpses.

### "The Truth Hurts"

Simone lied to everyone that a sample had been dropped, causing the deaths. She then decided to go after her father's notes so that Fie could find a vaccine, and although Rasmus wanted to come with her, she was afraid of being infected by him. She locked him in his room, and claimed she'd be back soon. She and Martin came upon two survivors Johanne and Klaus, who kindly took them in and noted that the Strangers ("Grey Ones") no longer hunt people down, but rather are simply looking for a boy to cure everyone. She still got along well with the survivors, and Klaus didn't want to harm them, but still they decided to turn Simone and Martin in to Apollon — which Simone overheard.

Rousing Martin, Simone grabbed their shotgun, killed Johanne, and Martin disarmed Klaus, leaving him to grieve for Johanne. Martin comforted her, but she remained unsure as they continued for the computer. There, Simone snuck in while Martin distracted Apollon's guards, successfully recovering the computer.

### "Stay in Control"

While Fie created a cure, she explained to Simone that mutated strains of the rain could not be defended against — therefore, if Rasmus' strain mutated, he could not be cured. To avoid this happening, Simone moved Rasmus to a new room. Later, a message from Sten arrived demanding that Rasmus be turned over, giving them only 24 hours, so she sought to find a cure herself when Fie was unable to do so. She had little success until Fie changed her mind and developed a vaccine, which they used on a rat — however, rather than curing the rat, the rat exploded in a viral cloud.

Everyone soon realized that Rasmus was spreading the plague, at which point everyone, even Martin, turned on Simone for her deception. She thought back to her father's dying words, that she must kill Rasmus if the scientists fail to cure him, lest he fall into Apollon's hands. Even so, she continued searching for a vaccine (while trapped in the lab due to Martin's actions), and nearly found one, but Rasmus had escaped before she could convince Fie to help her with it.

### "Save Yourself"

Simone went after Rasmus, furious with Martin for attempting to hand over Rasmus to Apollon. She wanted him gone, but he and Fie insisted on coming along, intent on handing over Rasmus to Apollon. Throughout, she continually had to ward off Martin's attempts to rekindle their relationship until they made some headway on the trail. She tried to convince Fie to her side, but was captured by Klaus. To her horror, Martin began cooperating with Klaus, telling him how he might find Rasmus, and then left with him to hunt Rasmus down, leaving Simone behind in bondage. Alone, she finally managed to convince Fie to help, so they undid their bounds and continued on.

Simone called for Rasmus in Bakken, but Klaus heard it and pulled a gun on her, threatening to kill Rasmus, only for Martin to disarm and kill him instead. Together, Simone, Martin, and Fie continued after Rasmus, found him, and then escaped Kira after Rasmus ran her off. In the aftermath, Simone broke off her relationship with Martin because he didn't trust her judgment, so he left in anger, calling her "naïve". She stayed up all night, distraught, until Rasmus woke up. She told him that she'd always be there for him, and he comforted her as she cried.

### "Keep It Together"

Lea supports Simone after Martin left her, and later, Fie warns Simone that the treatment for Rasmus is risky and irreversible, but Simone vows that she'll kill Rasmus if he isn't cured. Later, Jean asks Simone for advice on his fear of losing Lea, so Simone comforts him. After this, Rasmus comes out in hysteria asking for the cure, but rather than comfort him, she sends him back alone with his thoughts. Unsurprisingly, he steals the cure later and she finds him unconscious. Following this, Rasmus decides not to cure himself, so Simone poisons him so she can cure him while unconscious. He wakes up at the last minute and summons his virus, which nearly kills Simone, until Lea rushes in and sacrifices herself to save Simone. She uses this opportunity of distraction to jam the cure in Rasmus' back, administering it.

### "Survival of the Fittest"

Simone thinks Rasmus is cured and tells Rasmus so. Later on, she cannot find Rasmus and learns from Jean that Jean betrayed them. She tries to find him, and eventually succeeds, but then more bounty hunters arrive that force her to flee with Rasmus. En route she meets Martin and reconciles with him, tells Kira that Rasmus is absolutely cured, but when she gets pinned down by bounty hunters, Rasmus reveals that he still has the virus. He goes out and kills the bounty hunters, so Simone follows him to force him to stay. When he won't listen, she pulls a gun on him. Martin distracts him to pull the virus away from Simone, so Simone shoots Rasmus, her own brother. Rasmus lives, and leaves.

## Season 3

### "Don't Give Up"

Simone is in love with Martin but intends to leave the zone with Fie, to get help from the outside world. In the tunnel out, Fie is trapped behind her, so Simone goes on alone. Out in the real world, she discovers that the virus is everywhere, so she returns and is captured by Apollon. She's brought before Rasmus, who tries to convince her that adaptation is the only way to survive the virus, but she becomes emotional and refuses to consider it other than to be revolted by it. She's sent away to actually calm down, but she doesn't introspect, and instead gets a patient Rasmus is trying to save, brings her to Rasmus, and then taunts him until his virus explodes out of him. She then leaves him in disgust as he calls for her not to abandon him — again — but she continues on. She's cornered by Apollon on a bridge later, but rather than actually consider her brother's desperate words this time, she kills herself to avoid accepting him.

### "Never Let Go"

Simone actually survives the fall from the bridge to the river, and is nursed to health by Daniel. Daniel hits on Simone, and shows her his small piece of virus-free paradise, even taking her to a lake to gaze up at the sky. Later, Daniel's dad arrives and demands she be kept in a secure area until she can leave. Luna shows Simone a special nectar that defeats the virus, which she is amazed by, so she shadows Daniel to find a strange flower from which he collects the nectar. However, Daniel's father finds her, knows their secret is revealed, so brings her for judgment. She urges them to use what they have to cure the virus and restore Denmark, but the father just wants to kill Simone. Daniel turns on his father, allowing Simone to escape.

### "Stay Strong"

Simone continues running from Daniel's father until she sees a fire. She bee-lines toward it and begs help from wild men nearby, but Daniel runs them off and prepares to stab Simone. Kira then arrives and saves Simone, Simone takes the nectar from them, and she demonstrates its use in banishing the virus en route back to the flower that is its source. Daniel shows Simone how they harvest the nectar, so Simone demands he fill all his vials. However, her urging pushes him beyond what is safe, and the plant reacts by launching projectile thorns at everyone that nearly kills them all.

After hearing a gunshot near Daniel's parents, Simone rushes back to find the father suffering from a bolt wound. She's assigned to pull it out, and does so. Later, Luna comes to them while securing the perimeter, so Simone sends Luna back, but Luna ends up captured and they have to search.

### "Be the Change You Want in the World"

Simone argues about how to get Luna back, Kira interrupts them and has them go after the wild men with food as an offering. In the abandoned city where they make their home, they come under attack and are forced to use the nectar to make it through a virus-ridden passage to escape. They rise up into the tower, climb up the side of it, and then end up kidnapped by the wild men. Simone argues that they must agree to their demands for the nectar, that they need help, so they make an offer that the wild men "accept". In reality, they poison Simone with spiked Coca Cola that knocks her out and allows them to leave to seize the flower source. Jean saves them, so Simone races to the flower, only to find the corpses of all the wild men, including their dying leader. After that tragedy, Daniel kisses her that night.

### "Love Yourself"

Simone ends the kiss and leaves, only to be found by Martin. She's relieved and hugs him. Later, Martin convinces her to go to Rasmus because Sten is dead and because Rasmus has supposedly changed. Worse, only a single vial of nectar cannot save the world, so Simone agrees. She goes with Martin, slower than him because she doesn't have the virus, insisting they stop. She expresses her love to Martin, and he returns it, and at camp she assures him that she'll never leave him. That morning, she finds him acting strangely, and later when Martin reveals that Sarah is alive (sustained by the virus) and that the virus can be used to keep everyone alive, even broaching the subject once again brings out Simone's hysteria. She refuses to address what Martin says and agitates him until the virus comes out in him, too.

Disgusted by the virus within Martin, all her promises of staying with him go out the window and she refuses to even hear his explanations. When he forces the issue, she doesn't care what he says, and simply eggs him on until he loses control. She demands that he drink untested nectar to cure the virus before she'll even consider him again, at which point his virus explodes outward and defends itself, trying to enshroud her. Struggling mightily, Martin drinks the vial, for her, to save her, and dies. Looking at what she had wrought, Simone cries and sobs over his corpse, and later brings it back to be buried before going to bed.

### "And This Too Shall Pass"

Simone is depressed and wants to mope, but Kira makes her attend Martin's burial, where Luna comforts her. Jean tries to comfort her as well, but she wants to stay depressed. When she learns that Rasmus is coming, she decides to defend Daniel's family (although she prefers they leave). Using Luna's last flask of nectar, she gives it to Kira to make into a bullet that can kill the afflicted. She intends to trap Rasmus in the flower compound to kill him, and although she manages to lure him to the compound, he sends a subordinate who is killed by Kira in his place.

Rasmus comes before her, and although she urges him to kill her, just not to kill the flower, Rasmus admits that all he ever wanted was for them to be together. He and Sarah then funnel their virus into the flower, which explodes, and eliminates the virus everywhere, killing everyone who's infected. Simone then decides to rebuild humanity in Rasmus' honour.

## Personality

Simone is shown to be extremely clever and she has a strong moral compass. She often appears to be more empathetic and compassionate than the others, due to having lived in exclusion for the first six years after the rain first started, which leads her to often being a voice of reason to the sometimes ruthless Martin, but also, especially in the beginning, makes it difficult for her to deal with all the death and destruction around her.

## Gallery

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3

* Simone in Stay Inside
* Simone in Stay Together
* Simone in Have Faith
* Simone in Trust Your Instincts
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* Simone in Stay in Control
* Simone in Save Yourself
1/2

* Simone in Don't Give Up
* Simone in Stay Strong
* Simone in Be the Change You Want in the World
* Simone in Love Yourself
* Simone in And This Too Shall Pass
1/5

## Appearances

2. Stay Together
3. Avoid The City
4. Trust No One
5. Have Faith
6. Keep Your Friends Close
7. Don't Talk To Strangers
8. Trust Your Instincts
2. "The Truth Hurts"
3. "Stay in Control"
4. "Save Yourself"
5. "Keep It Together"
6. "Survival of the Fittest"
2. "Never Let Go"
3. "Stay Strong"
4. "Be the Change You Want in the World"
5. "Love Yourself"
6. "And This Too Shall Pass"