Like At First He'd Be Scared But After A While He'd Just Be Really Chilled About It, And The Kidnappers

This is so Sizzy core

Why is everybody just ignoring dilf Simon???? Is no one seeing absolute dilf Simon Lovelace but me???

WHO IS IGNORING HIM? WHOM? WHOMST? SHOW ME! I WILL FIGHT THEM FOR THIS CRIME.

Maia: Come on, I can see right through you. You are a mom pleaser - a level five mom pleaser! You will say anything to make that woman happy.

Simon: Alright, I used to be a mom pleaser, but I'm not anymore. I'm not gonna lie to feed into her dysfunction.

Maia: Who cares? Who cares what an old lady thinks about your life?

Simon: Not me! I'm a grown up!

Maia: ...Yes, and nothing sells that better than yelling, "I'm a grown up!"

Izzy lightwood fashion game fanart

Nobody:

Simon biting Jace and Alec in TMI:

I am absolutely certain that Simon was the captain of his school’s debate team. I know a podium hates to see him coming.

Thoughts on the mundanes simon knew looking at simon post shadowhunters academy? His old friends, the tmi band? Someone outside of his old group?

i feel like eric, kirk, and matt would view the differences in a similar way to how they viewed his vampire glow up. less surprised and more impressed, and they would definitely use his tattoos and new musculature as fodder for their friendly banter lol but i also think they would have been teasing him about him coming back from the military academy all buff before he even left for it (and maybe make fun of him for going through two years of training and not becoming more buff than he does hehe lovingly and jokingly of course). tho the tattoos were definitely a badass surprise.

[insert side discussion about whether simon tells the band about being a shadowhunter despite the rules bc (a) he remembers their reaction to his downworlder status, (b) the origins of their band name, (c) the reality of them playing at the pandemonium club ...]

the thing is too, it's not just the physicality. i've said before that i don't think simon's thin frame would allow him to become properly buff, and i don't think that's the thing people will notice right away. they may attribute it to that, like the barista at java jones might do a double take when he sees simon walk in for the first time since returning to brooklyn, or some girls from st. agnes might gossip about it if they see him at a tmi show or in the neighborhood or something, but i really think the biggest difference comes in the way he holds himself. the confidence he's gained, the shit he's seen. hell i mean.. it's not just the shadowhunter academy that he's been through when he comes back, it's also all the fucked up shit that happened in fall of 2007 and the brutal death of his best friend. boy's been through it. and how can that not show? especially toward the beginning. when he's grappling with returned memories and grief. but he's also so much more sure of himself than he was before. he has solid girlfriend and when he talks to people, there's an air of authority or belonging that wasn't there before. the shadowhunter traits that make them so easy to pick out in a crowd.

Let’s admit, Jace and Simon are the best duo in tmi😭

Also clary coded now that I think about it

Simon coded

"The state of the hair of the New York Institute is strong, and with the exception of a single mishap, which we are recovering from, we foresee only positive developments in the domain of our hair in the months and years to come."