Father Simon (シモン神父, Shimon-shinpu?) is the local priest living on Alimango Island in Fate/Zero.
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Background
Father Simon was the local priest of Alimango Island. He was the one who taught Shirley to read and write due to a lack of a school on the island.[1] After Norikata Emiya and Kiritsugu Emiya arrived on the island, he became vary wary of Norikata for the following year.
Personality
Simon normally shows a gentle disposition, but harshly judges Norikata Emiya as a heretic. He warns Shirley being around him will cause her to be "ensnared by the devil."
Appearance
Role
Fate/Zero
Simon is shown speaking to Shirley, urging her not to return to Norikata's home for work. He instructs Shirley to carry a silver knife with her as a warding talisman. After Shirley drinks the potion that turns her into a Dead Apostle, Kiritsugu goes to Simon for help. They find the remains of the chickens she preyed upon, but she is nowhere to be found. Simon contacts people off the island for help, leading to the Holy Church and Mage's Association to exterminate the island, and goes to warn the villagers. Simon is turned into a ghoul while warning the villagers, later killed by Natalia Kaminski while he is about to attack Kiritsugu.
Development
Father Simon is only briefly mentioned in the original novel, lacking any lines. He is given slightly more attention in the anime adaptation.
References
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[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Shirley [Person's name], p.097 Shirley [Person's name]
A native of Alimango Island, where Emiya Norikata chose to sequester himself away from the outside world. Though the educational environment she grew up in was extremely poor – she did not even attend elementary school, and only learned reading and writing from the local priest – it was enough to stimulate her ample intellectual curiosity, and by the time she was 13 years old she had already received a master's degree through correspondence courses alone. Of course, this talent did not go unnoticed by Emiya Norikata. He brought her on as his assistant, putting her in charge of handling all the miscellaneous daily tasks in the Emiya household.
While she did receive some training from Norikata, it was not at the level of being taken on as his disciple. He simply taught her the basics of the basics, and nothing more. And really, even calling it that much is a stretch. All he actually did was interact with her without bothering to hide his true nature as a magus. Nevertheless, Shirley's innate thirst for knowledge allowed her to absorb Norikata's words at an astonishing pace, and he expected great things from her in the future. However, as the old saying goes, "Curiosity killed the cat." In the end, her inquisitive mind brought about a tragedy.
She was the young Kiritsugu's very first love. It seems that the reason he ended up pampering the kendo girl he met in his later years so much was because she reminded him so much of Shirley.シャーレイ【人名】
衛宮矩賢が隠遁先として選んだアリマゴ島の住人。小学校すらなく、伝道所の神父から読み書きを教わるのみ、という劣悪な教育環境で育ちながらも、有り余る知的好奇心に突き動かされ、通信教育だけで13歳のうちに修士課程まで獲得してしまった天才少女。その才能に日をつけた矩賢により助手として起用され、アリマゴ島における衛官父子の生活の雑事全般を引き受けていた。
矩賢による教導は弟子入り示しいうほどの本格的なものではなく、あくまで基礎中の基礎の知識を伝えるのみだった。むしろただ単に矩賢が、魔術師という正体を隠すことなく少女と接していた、という程度のものでしかないのだが、それでもシャーレイの持ち前の知識欲は、驚くべきペースで矩賢の言葉を吸収し、矩賢としても彼女の才能にはそれなりめ期待を懐いていた節がある。だが「好奇心は猫をも殺す」の諺通り、最後にはその並外れた探求心が悲劇をもたらすことになる。
色気づいて間もない少年切嗣の初恋の女性。晩年の切嗣が出会った剣道少女は、どこかシャーレイに面影が似ていたらしく、ちょっと必要以上に甘やかしてしまったとか何とか。