[12], Simon and Maia started as friends who got along and had a lot in common.
He also was together with Clary.
Sibling(s): Elaine Lewis
He is a hero of the Mortal and Dark wars.
[8], During his path to regaining his memories, Simon tried to keep his distance from Isabelle and Clary, conflicted about the feelings they had for his old selfthe one he couldn't rememberand intimidated by the memories they shared but he couldn't recall.
He spent the night there with Isabelle, once again keeping her company in a trying time.
Simon has demonstrated that he can be courageous, brave, and loyal. Before Clary managed to kill Sebastian, he had already sealed all the exits.
When he sought Clary's advice on the matter, she told him to 'DTR' -define the relationship-, an acronym it seemed everyone he knew was annoyingly aware of. Sammael planned to torture him for some time, starting off by hanging him up in chains and having him be cut up sporadically by blades.
Magnus was surprised that they all thought it was a wise idea to bring him considering his state of mind, but didn't interfere.
Simon, however, knew that they had no relatives and decided to investigate.
Simon had long been planning to tell Clary how he felt for her but never quite found the right moment.
While he confessed to Valentine's plan, "Sebastian" killed Hodge.
He put Simon in a random hell chamber to be personally tortured.
Simon received Jordan's Praetor Lupus pendant following his death. Simon subsequently ended the relationship, accepting the fact that Clary may never love him the way she loved Jace. Simon was jealous of Jace's growing romance with Clary, and Jace was distrustful of him, looking down at him for being a mundane, and was also jealous of his closeness with Clary. She accepted him wholeheartedly. This encounter made Simon think that he could pull off summoning Raziel. After hearing Simon out, however, and seeing Simon's dedication and stubbornness, he decided to help them, in exchange for the removal of the Mark on his forehead that he did not deserve.
Simon accompanied Clary, Isabelle, and Alec to a meeting with the Seelie Queen, who asked them to steal her a pair of faerie rings from the Institute, in return for information on Jace.
The experience was pleasurable, and intimate, for both of them, and Simon was able to control himself and stopped feeding on her.
Once there, Simon became an instant celebrity due to his contribution in the war; Simon, however, struggled with having incomplete memories and chose to be included in the "dregs" mundane learning track. They headed to Luke's farm for the summoning. She also admitted she had dated Simon believing he was still in love with Clary and that she was reluctant to commit to any relationship. Residence: Kind: Raphael talked with Simon again, but Simon quickly forgot him when he saw Clary close to death after saving Jace's life with an iratze. After breaking into Luke's house and finding him speaking to men Jace recognized as the people who killed his father, they all went to the New York Institute.
Before their lives being changed by the Shadow World, Simon was an open geek and the bass player of a garage band. After drinking a blue drink, while with Isabelle, Simon turned into a rat and was taken by a vampire, thinking he was one of theirs.
Magnus, restored some of his memories, and then recommended that he Ascend to become a Shadowhunter and retrieve his memories. Though things didn't brighten up immediately, and Simon was in fact put through another torment by Sammael the following morning in the Hell of the Pit of Fire with his friends, Simon's outlook did begin to look up.
5'10"[2] (approx. Shortly afterward, he learned from Jace that Kyle was a werewolf and was a guardian assigned to him by the Praetor Lupus. Unable to tell both about the other, he continued dating them, unsure of how serious the girls were about him.
Their relationship became complicated when they were thrown into the Shadow World, where Simon insisted on following her into despite the risks. He did not gain the guts to tell either, and when the girls found out about each other, they both dump him, furious about his deception.
When Simon first met Isabelle Lightwood, he was in love with Clary and, though he was attracted to her, only saw her as a way to either make Clary jealous or to get over her.
Clary initially refused but Simon insisted, saying he would turn himself over to Raphael with or without the Mark. They traveled to the Basilias where the wounded were.
When Chairman Meow innocently strayed into the pentagram, Simon, acting on instinct, saved the cat, putting himself in Azazel's reach instead.
The demon did as they asked, but wanted something in return. Battle soon broke out and Simon fought alongside his fiance, parabatai, and friends.
Simon agreed, and so Raziel gave him the sword Glorious and removed the Mark of Cain from his head. Though Jordan is his friend, first and foremost he is his guard, as evidenced by his telling Simon to flee the apartment after it is attacked by Endarkened.
Simon blames himself following Jordan's death, feeling he had gone to the Praetor only because of him.
Based on intel from the Iron Sisters, they realized that no weapon on Earth could harm Sebastian but not Jace.
His friends did their best to support him through this and Clary and Izzy especially tried to be there for him, but Simon was not coping well. ", Shadowhunter Army November 2019 newsletter, " Simon having one sister instead of two", " from an earlier draft, in which he had two sisters.".
He planned on staying temporarily at Eric's garage, but Kyle found him and offered him a place to stay.
Simon enjoyed his job, which usually involved helping scared Sighted mundanes.
The group split up to gather reinforcements to head to fight Sebastian at the Seventh Sacred Site. He often chose to not feed, holding it off as long as he could. Status: The two grew up together and became the best of friends, constantly in each other's company. Height: Meanwhile, Raphael sought him out for protection against Camille, but Simon refused.
They traveled by Portal to Idris and arrived amid Shadowhunters being sent to the response to an ongoing attack on the Adamant Citadel.
As a Shadowhunter, Simon initially struggled with not being invulnerable and the risks they constantly took.
After Valentine disappeared once again, Jace asked Simon to meet him at the Institute. [4], Simon on his relationship with Clary, City of Fallen Angels.
He soon developed romantic feelings for her and pined for her for the next ten years without voicing affections. Raphael appeared in Simon's cell as a projection and told him that he was a valuable commodity now and Downworlders wanted to get their hands on him, however to Raphael, he was an abomination and a danger to vampire kind for being able to walk in sunlight.
[3] Through Clary, the pair became constants in each other's lives. He was found by Jace, who ultimately gave him his blood, unwillingly giving Simon the ability to walk in the sun, earning him his title "Daylighter".[4]. Aldertree used Jewish religious symbols to hold Simon prisoner by carving them into the cell bars and walls.
While fighting with the vampires, the Werewolves also broke into the hotel looking for Clary. They've enjoyed introducing Izzy, Jace, Alec, and the others to such delicacies as green bean casserole and sweet potatoes with melted marshmallows. The two finally "DTR" ed and admitted their love for each other.
Later, in the Institute's Sanctuary, the only part he was able to enter, he talked with Isabelle and Magnus. [21] They slept together for the first time the night before his Ascension ceremony.
He also learned of Jordan's death.
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However, George was not as lucky and died a gruesome death after drinking from the Mortal Cup.
He stopped Raphael and pointed out The first Mark, The Mark of Cain.
Simon is a vegetariansomething he struggled with greatly as a vampire but has since continued to stay true to in his Shadowhunter life.
After the events of the Mortal War, Simon had been dating both Isabelle and Maia at the same time. Simon was also helping set up the new Academy at Luke's farm.
When he went back to his place that night, he found a note from Isabelle asking him to come to Magnus's apartment for her and immediately went.
Wanting to remember his friends and girlfriend, Simon agreed to attend the Shadowhunter Academy and train for his Ascension.
[12] In their sophomore year, they formed a band; they frequently played video games and rehearsed together. After a turn of events, Simon's immortality was taken away, along with his memories. Though Shadowhunters do not celebrate Thanksgiving, Simon and Clary, having grown up mundane, missed it and started throwing their own Thanksgiving parties with their new friends and family. [7], Though they were essentially together, the pair refused to admit it and continued to struggle with "defining the relationship."
Simon, Eric, Kirk, and Matt have known each other since they were kids. 
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Simon discovered later that Maureen had been found dead, and initially assumed it to be his fault, though he later found that she was the hostage held against him, after telling people at concerts that she was his girlfriend to impress them.
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Raphael thought that Luke had played a trick on him; then Simon explained that it was he who chose it.
Asmodeus wanted Simon's immortality and memories.
He was eventually able to overcome this and soon return to the jovial attitude his friends expect of him. When Simon's mother found his stash of blood in his room, Simon tried to explain to her again that he was a vampire. Simon wears glasses and often wore casual clothes, with characteristic word shirts.
Clary went on to steal the rings but devised a plan of her own with Simon: she would take the rings, leave one with him so they could communicate, then leave to join Jace and Sebastian when they returned for her. When Alec was elected as Consul, Simon was seen waving to Alec in a congratulatory way.
Isabelle, aware that he was not himself, said nothing by it, and Robert Lightwood, the new Inquisitor, came out to shoo him away. He also worried about life after his friends were gone, finding the prospect of remaining sixteen forever while his loved ones aged and died daunting. For the Cohort's sentencing meeting, they Projected in so that they could take part in the vote.
Raphael showed up as a Projection at the Hall of Accords and told Luke, Jocelyn, and Clary that the vampires would participate in the battle only if they gave him Simon. These small shows of affection did not go unnoticed by the daylighter. Simon and Clary met at the age of six and have been inseparable since. The pair made up fairly quickly afterward, but they chose to remain good friends.
The day after the funeral, he and Isabelle paid Julian Blackthorn and Emma Carstairs a visit before their journey to Faerie. October 17, 1990[1] Lilith wanted him to use his Daylighter powers to resurrect Sebastian, using a captive Clary as leverage.
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Slowly, Simon began regaining some of his memories but remembered little about his relationship with Isabelle, causing tension between the former couple, though the pair reconciled eventually. He and Jordan attended Jocelyn and Luke's engagement party.
Magnus made preparations for the summoning ritual, and Simon said his goodbyes to each of them.
Clary decided to tell Simon about the Shadow World, and he and Jace immediately began getting on each other's nerves. When the others explained that they had to try to stop Sammael's plans, Simon fought back saying that they could come back with reinforcements, that it was too much of gamble for just them. Full name: This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality.
Simon to Isabelle, City of Heavenly Fire.
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New York Institute Maia then led Simon through the forest in Idris to the vampire camp.
He took the pendant with him to the Shadowhunter Academy, and sometime after his arrival, Simon suddenly remembered details about Jordan and his emotions about his death came rushing back, devastating him once more.[9].
178 cm) [6], Their connection further deepened as they spent more time together on their missions, and their feelings for one another became undeniable though they tried both of them unwilling to open up to the possibility of heartbreak. They were attacked by demons, and Simon broke and lost the blood he had brought. He became somewhat excited in the face of demons and, at one point, he even felt strangely naked having only one weapon on him, showing he was truly settling into the Shadowhunter ways.[13]. Later, when Emma told them about Edom, and they discovered the way there through the Seelie Court, Simon accompanied the others as they invaded the Court and found the path to the demon dimension.
He broke down crying and Isabelle comforted him.
Following Izzy's lead, Simon offered Julian something of iron-make for use against the fey: his Dungeons and Dragons figurine, Lord Montgomery.
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Occupation: Momentarily forgetting their worries, they joked about Simon's bizarre clothes, and the two of them quickly fell into bed together but were interrupted by Alec. When Isabelle had woken up, the two of them found themselves alone together, and they both shared what they saw after crossing over to the demon realm. Simon and Jace were initially hostile towards one another.
Later, after obtaining drugged blood from Raphael, Simon, acting similarly to a drunk, went back to Isabelle's house and told her that he loved her. Simon had just been Turned into a vampire when he was kidnapped by Valentine Morgenstern and taken to his ship along with Maia for the ritual of Infernal Conversion.
Simon, still with hope of fixing things between them, said that he did truly care about her. At one point in their childhood, Simon began nursing romantic feelings for Clary, but she remained oblivious.
Alec again walked in on them kissing, and despite his earlier comments was once again horrified by what he was seeing. They later attended Julian's war council against the Cohort. Raziel already knew what he wanted and refused at first to interfere with their affairs by giving them what they wanted.
22 (as of 2012) Simon struggled with accepting that he was undead during his time as a vampire.
Shortly after, Simon received a menacing message warning Simon that his girlfriend was being held, hostage. Simon soon learned of Clary's growing affection for Jace. Isabelle was heartbroken but gained hope when Simon decided to try and Ascend to regain his memories, wanting to know them again. Sammael hated Simon and wished to see him punished for having killed his beloved, Lilith. Though he tried to appear as his normal, happy, wise-cracking self, he was clearly depressed and had glum outlook on life. [11], Simon successfully Ascended and became a Shadowhunterwith all of his memories coming back to him during the ceremony.
He held on to Clary as they were sucked up into a tornado through the Portal to Diyu.
One night, at the Pandemonium Club, things turned for the worse when Clary claimed to see people he couldn't; one of them being particularly interested in Clary.
Later that night, Isabelle tried to kiss Simon, but he thirsted for her blood and pulled away.
Isabelle vouched for him, and Robert said he will speak to him tomorrow at the meeting if he had sobered up by then.
After becoming a Shadowhunter, Simon returned to New York and he and Clary underwent their parabatai ceremony.
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There was a time when Magnuswhile they were on a mission togethermade no effort to remember and use Simon's name and called him by several other names such as Sherwin, Smedley, Sheldon, Seamus, and Sherlock. SiDaylighterVampireSimon Maccabeus (by Raziel)Mark-bearerLord Montgomery (by Izzy) When Simon fell, Isabelle, fearing he was dead, rushed out to meet him.
He can be sarcastic and describes himself as witty and ironic.
Rebecca Lewis (sister) That that's what the Academy taught him from George's death and he couldn't understand how they kept risking themselves and everyone they love over and over again. While on a date with Isabelle at Veselka, two of Camille Belcourt's subjugates came to fetch him for their master. While imprisoned he commiserated with his neighbor in the cell next to his, who called himself Samuel Blackburn.
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When Clary needed his help afterward, though, he still obliged, borrowing his friend Eric's van and drove them to Madame Dorothea.
He told Simon that when he would be set free if he disappeared and hid he would not harm him.
GALLERY, Simon to Alec, The Lost Book of the White. At a gig they played one evening at the Alto Bar, a hungry Simon ended up feeding on Maureen Brown. Simon LovelaceSimon Lewis (former) While with Jordan and Maia at their apartment, Endarkened called on them, and Simon alerted to the danger by Isabelle's necklace, was forced to flee the apartment.
After Jace investigated and almost destroyed himself with heavenly fire, Simon was horrified to see Clary rush after him, and immensely relieved when he saw she had survived and saved Jace.
He soon regained his normal, jovial disposition and was once again excited about life as a Shadowhunter.[13]. 
Raphael was baffled and talked to him about Cain's punishment. Privately, he reassured Simon that he did not dislike him as a person and that in their way he and Isabelle were perfect for each other. Magnus recalled Azazel and told him that they refused his help; the demon refused to be banished, its power allowing it to resist Magnus's banishment, and insisted on bargaining with them somehow.
Later, Simon tries to persuade Maia to forgive Jordan in an attempt to help his lovelorn roommate. 
He lectured them on their actions and ended up tending to their injuries.
However, Magnus, Catarina Loss, and Jem Carstairs explained that it was still possible for him and Clary because, not only could they be considered "true parabatai"meaning their previous connection made them perfect candidates for becoming parabataibut Simon, due to his months of dormancy as a vampire, was technically still eighteen, and they could still perform the ritual if he managed to Ascend in time.
Partner(s): He was later put on the spot when Jocelyn looked for Clary and was forced to finally tell everyone about Clary's plan; being the one who bore the bad news, Jocelyn blamed Simon for not trying hard enough to stop her but everyone stood up for him, recognizing that Clary was stubborn and would have done what she wanted either way. Simon, shocked to find out that Jace and Clary had gone to the battle, asked why Isabelle didn't tell him.
The Lightwoods were led to believe that Simon would be sent back to New York, but instead, he was locked up by Inquisitor Aldertree at the Gard when he refused to lie for him, against the Lightwoods.
Jace, Clary, and Simon returned to the Institute, where a furious Hodge was waiting for them.
Magnus said Simon would be the perfect candidate and the Clave would approve since they lost many in the Dark War.[8].
Days after the Frays disappeared, Simon went to Luke, who claimed that they were staying with a sick relative upstate.
Samuel told Simon that the name "Daylighter" was a Downworlder word and that there were legends about it.
Simon bit him during the fight and commented that Sebastian's blood tasted like poison.[5]. Crossing out the possibility of summoning an angel without suffering consequences, they decided to raise the Greater Demon Azazel, the Forger of Weapons. This knowledge did not last when Simon's circumstance caused his and the memories of those around him to exclude his days as a vampire. When he saw that Luke was packing weapons, he stuck around and ended up being seen by Clary and Jace Waylandone of the men at the Pandemonium that he didn't see.
This ended up being a turning point for Simon.