Simon

Simon is an individual appearing in many Yai Gameworks titles, a major character in Close Your Eyes and the main character (referred to as "Mole") in My Hole is a Mouth of Dirt.

Appearance
As a younger being, Simon resembled a strange humanoid with brown skin, red eyes, and scruffy beige hair. As he grew older, Simon became much larger and monstrous, including a proboscis-like horn growing down and out of his forehead and other bug-like qualities, most notably his fingers transforming into something similar to the ends of insect legs. His eyes remained red but began to resemble a goat's eyes more than a human being's.

Background
Simon grew up in an abusive home, where his parents regularly mistreated him. He turned to faith in order to escape his cruel reality, and eventually stole a bible from his local church. Eventually he left home and made contact with a being he believed to be God. This abuse seemed to have a long-term effect on Simon, slowly building up a sadistic streak within him, to such an extent that he couldn't bear the guilt of certain actions.

My Hole is a Mouth of Dirt
This being told him that the world was about to end, and to prepare he must retreat deep underground, where he lived for several months. Simon's god eventually told him to take on the name "Mole", which Simon eagerly did. While performing certain tasks in his hideout, Simon stumbled across a little white dog that he had seen before, but ran away from him before he could catch up to it. Soon after this encounter and one of his sermons, an event happened which he believed was the moment he'd been waiting for: The end of the world. His god drove him deeper and deeper underground, ordering Simon to reach the "Cradle", where he found the Marshmallow Monk, then a small wriggling entity in the middle of a giant spiderweb. Simon's god instructed him to deliver him to the depths of the earth, instructions with which an otherwise directionless and lost Simon chose to comply with.

Upon leaving the Cradle, the reality in which Simon was trapped in slowly began to come apart at the seams more and more, with strange plantlike monsters in a greenhouse and slow-moving cross-shaped beasts in a massive cavern full of twisted religious iconography. Simon began to lose his grip as he made his way through these horrors, and in despair at no longer being directed by his god, a violent shade within him came out. No longer referring to himself as Mole, Simon brutally ripped apart countless of the cross creatures (which were in his way but otherwise completely harmless).

Eventually, Simon came face to face with The Host, assuming the form of a massive mouth full of gargantuan teeth and sinewy red gums. The Host, knowing Simon's name, mocked him and his beliefs, saying that his god was "no Saint" and that his beliefs wouldn't make up for what he had done. Simon refused to accept these accusations of his god and labeled The Host a demon, and upon being told to give Marshmallow to him, Simon scorned The Host and ran.

Avoiding demonic kings and other nightmares, Simon eventually made it back to his home, having reached the conclusion that giving everything to his faith in his god didn't benefit him and all he had wanted was to be needed. Recognizing that Marshmallow, whom he was still carrying, hadn't been alive for a while (having stopped moving a while ago), Simon decided that while maybe he didn't deserve to live, his infant friend friend did, and he sacrificed a piece of himself to bring them back to life. Ripping apart massive teeth from The Host that blocked his way out, Simon fought his way out of his longtime home, throwing Marshmallow into a river through the massive drain at the edge of his lair, before leaping himself and escaping the nightmares that were pursuing him.

Simon waded along the river bank and saw that the world hadn't ended yet, and though he figured it would end one day, he wanted to spend much more time with other people before that occurred. As he made his way along the banks, he saw the small white dog ahead of him. Calling out to it, Simon excitedly proclaimed how he had missed the animal and was sorry for how he had "behaved" with it before. He became increasingly stressed out when it didn't bark back at him, and he starting begging the dog to respond to him. He failed to see the truth of the situation in front of him: the animal had been completed ripped apart, spine and head torn out of its torso and its limbs ripped off and strewn about. Simon had viciously killed the animal a while ago, and being unable to handle what he had done, distracted himself from his act of depravity and made himself believe that nothing had happened.

Close Your Eyes
Simon leaves notes for Marshmallow to find as they make their way through the hellish and psychologically twisted landscapes. In the notes, Simon introduces himself to Marshmallow and tells them that they are meant to be together. Typically at the end of each note Simon performs an action beneficial to Marshmallow's progress. As Marshmallow moves along their journey, Simon's notes become increasingly perverted and sexually violent and visceral, all professing his love for his "Little Marshmallow".

Eventually, Simon directs Marshmallow to a graveyard and makes them jump into a hole. Within the hole is a maze where Valerie resides (through notes it is shown that Simon tortured and mutated Valerie to the point of insanity), and warns Marshmallow that she wants to kill them. After making it to the end of the maze (and seeing a vision of Simon's god, The Saint), Marshmallow finds themself in the room where they ate breakfast with The Girl. Through the room's window, Simon reveals himself, overjoyed that the two of them are finally reunited. After this, Marshmallow wakes up in Judith Manor once again.

Feast Your Eyes
Simon's presence is alluded to for much of the game initially, and eventually appears to Marshmallow within the suspicious house they wake up in. After chasing them at first, Simon peacefully confronts them in a distorted closet (the walls made of flesh instead of drywall).

Appearing as a bloodied human monk with a wicked smile, Simon tells Marshmallow that Valerie (Marshmallow's mother) has strayed from her faith and has come to take her away. He says that he's under orders to leave Marshmallow alone, but tells them that one day he will return for them when he can no longer contain his lust. After that, he unlocks the bathroom door and lets them leave.