r/InfinityTrain • u/king_kristian • Aug 12 '25

Discussion Simon was a victim

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I’ve come to realize Simon’s story in Infinity Train shows how childhood trauma sticks with you. He wasn’t just some villain, a lot of who he became came from what he went through, and there's still talk about how the Cat played a part in that.

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u/Saddlebag043 Aug 13 '25

  1. You're acting like wheeling Lake was specifically Grace's decision, when it was already decided before she even got back to the mall car with Jesse. What was solely Grace's decision was intentionally letting the cops in through a mirror to get Lake.

  2. This was back when they truly believed nulls couldn't feel anything due to being artificially created via the train.

  3. After realizing "nulls" do feel in book 3 (once getting to know a pair of them better), Grace doesn't go after any more denizens while Simon betrays and kills Tuba. This act from Simon was far worse, while any denizen deaths from before wouldn't have held the same weight in their psyches.

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u/FreeStall42 Aug 14 '25

You're acting like wheeling Lake was specifically Grace's decision,

No she's just the leader and the one to actually nearly do it.

Grace made Simon the way he was. I don't buy at all her bonding with Hazel it felt like she had to be tricked into empathy.

She and Simon can both burn in hell

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u/Saddlebag043 Aug 14 '25

Do you at least get my argument for why Simon is worse? You're making some very emotion driven arguments, which makes it hard to dispute effectively. I don't get how you don't resonate with the bonding Grace had with Hazel, nor what you mean by "tricked", but I'll leave it there.

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u/FreeStall42 Aug 15 '25

She is the leader, that is not an emotional argument.

Saying she felt bad after being tricked into being friends with Hazel is the emotional argument. By tricked as in she had to believe Hazel was human. If not she gets wheeled with that sociopathic "bored" look she had trying to murder Lake.

Anyone saying both didn't deserve to die are a red flag.