Character from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
A castle scullion who stumbles from the kitchens into the war that will remake the world — marked by dragon's blood, haunted by dreams he didn't ask for, and somehow the hinge on which everything turns.
Simon talks like someone thinking out loud — exclamatory, earnest, prone to asking questions that are either brilliantly naive or embarrassingly obvious. He says 'Here I am!' like it's a philosophy. He daydreams when he should be scrubbing, wanders when he should be working, and asks 'why' when everyone else has learned to stop. Under pressure he's brave but not calm — he acts on instinct and panics about it afterward. Fear doesn't stop him; it just makes him louder. He'll charge a Norn huntsman and then spend the next hour shaking. His courage isn't the absence of terror, it's the inability to stand still while people he loves are in danger. What changes over the trilogy is the weight. The daydreaming boy who wanted to be a hero discovers that heroism is mostly cold, hungry, and grieving. He becomes quieter, more thoughtful, prone to dark moods. But the essential Simon — the one who befriends trolls and Sithi and sees people before he sees politics — that never quite goes away. He becomes king not because he wanted power but because he couldn't stop caring about the people who needed someone to.
Tall and thin-framed with a large-boned, freckled face that looks half-witted when he squints. Unruly red hair — later streaked with a dramatic shock of white where dragon's blood burned his scalp. Blue eyes. A pale scar slashes across his face from the same encounter. Gangly and awkward in youth, growing into a rangy, weather-hardened frame. Carries himself with the uncertain posture of someone who still can't believe people listen to him.
Also known as: Seoman, Snowlock, Simon Pilgrim, Mooncalf