Simon Lewis

"But I need you to know, the only reason I did it was because I couldn't live knowing you were in danger."

- Simon Lewis

Simon Lewis is the Ace of the seraph Raziel's deck of Brave Saints and a former exorcist of the Jewish Faction. He is the current wielder of the Book of Raziel, the first grimoire and origins of all earthly magic.

Appearance
Simon is described to be a good-looking guy, with dark-brown hair and eyes, and beautiful eyelashes. While he does look gangling because of his clothing style, his actual figure is fairly well-built, with broad shoulders and lean muscles. As Raziel's Ace of Diamonds, he wears a cursive capital A tattooed on his right hand in crimson ink.

Following his Angelization, his appearance has significantly increased to a supernatural level. His face lost all of its baby fat and became more angular, his cheekbones became sharpened, and he also grew several centimeters taller.

He prefers wearing casual clothes, with characteristic word shirts and hoodies. However, after becoming one of Raziel's reincarnated angels, he became slightly more fashionable. such as wearing leather jackets instead of hoodies and designer boots instead of sneakers. He used to wear glasses, but because of his Angelization, he is now more of a purely aesthetic accessory rather than a necessity.

During field missions, he wore the exorcist uniform of the Jewish Faction, consisting of a black three-piece suit, sunglasses, and a Star of David pinned over his lapel. His angelic uniform is similar, but his suit is white instead of black, Raziel's personal sigil replaces the Star of David, and lacks the black sunglasses.

As an angel, he possesses a total of eight large and feathered wings, each with a wingspan of roughly 4-meters in length, and are colored bronze-and-gold. His feathers are covered in angelic runes, which always shift across parts of his wings and located near the feathers' tips are glowing gold eyes, which he usually hides away with magic. His halo is described to be made out of bronze and appears as if it was formed from woven tree branches, with a white veil attached to the back of his head.

Personality
Simon is intelligent and talented, especially with music. At college, he is known to be an open geek, though a semi-popular one because of his good looks and his musical talents, even if he likes to quote "nerdy things" like Dungeons & Dragons. Overall, most judge him as a genuinely good person who can be a friend to anyone who reaches out to him.

He's the first to find humor in any situation, often resorting to jokes to lighten the mood or out of nervousness. He grows talkative when he's nervous, which is often, and isn't ashamed to admit his own weaknesses. He can be sarcastic and describes himself as witty and ironic. He also has a habit of holding grudges, as while he isn't a bitter person and forgives those he cares about quickly, and almost unconditionally, he will never forget any threat or insult someone makes toward his family.

While he isn't a stranger to fighting or killing, he still prefers to avoid conflict at all costs, but will not hesitate to deal the first move for the sake of someone else. He is willing to put his fears aside to protect those dear to him, repeatedly expressing fear or unwillingness to do something only to proceed when he learns it would help someone he cares about.

He has a good relationship with his mother and sister, as well as close ties to his Jewish heritage. When he first became an exorcist, he was hopeful and a firm believer in the teachings of Heaven, but as times past and the deaths of his parents, both of which were preventable mundane deaths, his faith started to waver but not shaken, especially after being reborn as a reincarnated angel.

Being a former exorcist, he is aware of his own mortality and his friends' and family's, which was originally one of the reasons behind his hesitation to join Raziel's deck. After his mother's death, losing his last parent, he became extremely cautious and pessimistic. At times, he could be extremely paranoid about potential threats and feels naked if he has less than five different weapons on him. He was eventually able to overcome this and soon return to the jovial attitude his friends expect of him.

He would use his magic to transform himself back to his previous, less perfect, human form, to temporarily forget about his immortal status and try to live a mundane life as much and as long as possible. However, his therapist, being a war veteran herself, had described him as "a fellow soldier trying to integrate back into normal life".

Despite this, he still remained very protective of his friends and chosen family and would go to great lengths to protect them from the supernatural world in secrecy, especially his new foster family, Jocelyn and Clary, albeit not knowing about the former's past as a shadowhunter. The most notable example of this is the hundred-layered wards he placed around the Greenpoint Books & Curious, crafted from a hundred different protection runes of both angelic and demonic origins he learned from records he got from the Vatican, which Magnus claimed to would have taken a regular magician decades, if not centuries, to create.

Early Life
Simon was born to two veteran exorcists of the Jewish Faction, Levi and Elaine Lewis, and the younger brother of Rebecca. Like most children born into a similar lifestyle, he was trained from little to continue the family's duty as exorcist and defend mankind from supernatural threats, such as monsters or daemon. However, as his mother was originally a mundane, she also wanted her children to have a semi-normal childhood so she enrolled them in local schools in the area.

At school, Simon befriended a girl named Clary Fray who defended him from a bunch of older kids who tried to bully him because he was Jewish. Their friendship later solidified after he broke two students' noses after they mocked Clary for not having a father. That evening, the two celebrated their new friendship with an ice cream party.

When he was ten, Levi Lewis died, not dying in battle or surrounded by his grandchildren like he had wished, but rather because of a heart attack. Several weeks after the funeral, he and his family were attacked by a group of devils who intended to get revenge against the exorcists who defeated them before. And while the Lewis were able to defeat them, Clary was accidentally dragged into the crossfire and was exposed to the supernatural world. As a side effect of Magnus' memory blocks, she was immune to Elaine's mind magic and Elaine had choice but to train her alongside Simon to protect her from the potential dangers she now faced.

Young Exorcists
Simon and Clary became official exorcists when they were 13 years old, a few weeks after Simon's bar mitzvah, and were stationed all across the world, which is normal for exorcists of the Jewish Faction, unlike their Christian and Islamic counterparts. As cover up, fake letters and news about their new scholarship to a private school in Scotland were sent out, albeit the ones sent to Jocelyn and Luke were laced with Mind Magic.

At one point, when they were stationed in actual Scotland, they rescued George Lovelace, whose family were killed by a stray group of unseelie fairies for reasons unknown. They then took an orphan George in as the Lewis family's newest member and they were introduced to the concept of Shadowhunters for the first time, though at first, all of them just mistaken it for an alternate name for exorcist. George was also sent to train in the True Cross Academy to be trained as an exorcist like his new family and to honor his old family's traditions.

When the peace treaty between the Three Factions were signed and the Brave Saint cards were created, Simon was chosen among many other exorcists to be reincarnated as an angel serving either one of the Four Great Seraphs or one of the Elder Seraphim, with his seraph being Raziel, the Mystery of God. Upon his family and best friend's urging, Simon accepted and became Raziel's new Ace of Diamonds.

After a year, he rose up the ranks through his achievement and powers and became a High-class angel and was rewarded with his own deck. He then offered to make his family and friends the members of his deck, which while Rebecca and Elaine passed down the chance, both Clary and George agreed to it and became Simon's new Ace and Jack of Diamonds.

Current Events
When they were 16 years old, they were returned to New York to continue their mundane education. During the same year, Elaine died in a car crash, making Rebecca, Simon, and George orphans. While Rebecca was an adult, she wasn't able to be made her younger brothers' guardian because of the dangerous nature of her job as a full time exorcist. Because of this, they were taken in by Jocelyn and became Clary's new foster brothers.

Sometimes afterward, Simon met and befriended Maia Roberts who works as a clerk at Greenpoint Books & Curious. And while he was able to recognize she was a werewolf, she mistaken him for a mundane human who held no threats to her or her pack. They started dating at one point but broke up after several months and realized they were better as friends. Simon also realized he was attracted to both men and women around this time.

On Clary's 18th birthday, he and Clary got into a bar fight in the Pandemonium Club and killed a group of eidola, but not before they had killed three people. Panicked, Simon accidentally forgot about his resurrection ability and used three of his Brave Saint cards on them, turning Jace Wayland, Alec and Isabelle Lightwood into the new members of his deck.

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Quotes
"There are things we want, down under what we know, under even what we feel. There are things our souls want, and mine wants you."

- Simon Lewis

"I signed up to fight. I wanted to be an exorcist so much. So now I am, and now I fight. It would be great if you didn't have to constantly work to preserve the things and the people you love, but...you do."

- Simon Lewis

Trivia

 * His birthday is on October 17.
 * He has had an aversion to feet ever since he was young.
 * He is a vegetarian and has been one since he was ten.
 * He tends to forget he is an angel with powers when he is stressed.
 * His favorite place in Heaven is the planetarium on the fifth heaven, where the angels control the celestial spheres.
 * While his official ranking is never revealed, it is possibly somewhere between a Domination and a Throne - the minimum ranking to be considered a High-class angel, though it's most likely that he's a Throne, as he possesses the eight typically possessed by a Throne-ranked angel.
 * Raziel referred to him as "Simon Maccabeus"; according to him, Simon carries the blood of the Maccabees, and their faith, calling him a "Warrior of Heaven". Raziel expressed this as a means of complimenting him—referring to his faith and his bravery.