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Summary[]
Simon is a humanoid robot bearing resemblance to the human skeleton created by Fritz Glade. He's the main antagonist of POPGOES. He is the arch Nemesis of Strings.
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.
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 Fitz, 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.
Deadline[]
The Deadline upgrade would be worked on by Simon during each night of POPGOES 2, basing it off many of his beliefs and his knowledge of various animals and legends. Simon was planning on upgrading himself eventually, and he started work on it after Epitome Popgoes' disastrous activation. It's revealed that Deadline/Simon feels trapped, no matter what he does. He wants to interrogate and torture anyone who could answer his questions to know everything that there is to know, and become the most free being in the world. However, he can't achieve true freedom due to not having a soul. Deadline would be literally unbeatable, jumpscaring the player again and again until being directly told that they cannot beat him. However, if you achieved the Secret Ending you would be able to shut down WeasleWare and stop Deadline once and for all.
Endings[]
POPGOES 1[]
Grave ending[]
During the Grave Ending, Simon manages to manipulate Strings into believing in his story. Thanks to his success, he decides to try to manipulate Fritz Glade, and gain access to the WeaselWare. After that, he creates Blackrabbit with a 3D Printer in Fritz's Office, leading to the murder of Fritz. He later escaped the chains and left the Office, to encounter Strings.
POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest begins a month after the Grave Ending.
Gem Ending[]
During the Gem Ending, Strings does not find Simon, and he gives up on trying to manipulate him. This leads to Simon never getting freed. Blackrabbit never gets finished and she continues to haunt the location and Popgoes the Weasel is still trying to collect the six Toy Bonnie's parts, which could be used as her body. As a reward for his work, Fritz gives Strings the ability to mess with the animatronics' AI to increase or decrease their activity. This leads to the Good Night. Though it should be noted that this ending is not canon.
POPGOES 2[]
Regular Ending[]
On the Sixth Night, Deadline is finished. In the regular ending, it's impossible to defend from him and he runs down the stairs into the warehouse, and attacks you after a couple of seconds. After your third try to beat the Sixth Night, credits roll, saying that you cannot win. Simon would release the Epitomes on the world and there would be news sightings of them in the final cutscene.
Good Ending[]
In the minigames before Night 6, you can trick WeaselWare into thinking you destroyed Fritz's nightmares of the Toys. Through this process, a phone prop in your room lights up on the Sixth Night, allowing you to shut down the WeaselWare. When you shut it down, Deadline reaches you at the top, but he freezes. Strings says one last thing to him - "You won't come back" and the game closes.
Trivia[]
- Simon's eye color normally changes to emote.
- However, in the Grave Ending, Simon changes his color 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.
- Deadline is 12ft tall, being the largest antagonist in the series.
- Deadline's design is based off of the mythical creatures known as "Wendigo."
- It was chosen due to it being the "leader of the forest."
- Deadline is the only alternate form of Simon not primarily purple in design. This is most likely to fit in with Simon's obsession with light and freedom.
- Deadline's antlers were originally cracked and used to control The Epitomes through some kind of unspecified magic. But the concept was replaced with the Heart Monitors on his chest being what controls them.
- According to Deadline's concept art, Fractured Simon's name was Damaged Simon, earlier in development. His face's damage would have been less severe, extending his mouth into a large grin instead of having his upper jaw snapped off.
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