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Tony Simos is a monk of the Order of the Concrete Fist and a former First Fist of the Monastery of the Midnight Sun. After Sofia Lee is forced to step down, he resumes his position.
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The Unsleeping City: Chapter II
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Description[]
Tony is an older Greek man in his 60s. He is broad-shouldered with thick muscles covered in faded tattoos, and is between 5'6" - 5'10" tall, about as tall as Sofia Lee. His head is shaved and he has a thick salt-and-pepper beard that's more salt than pepper. He gives off a very classic macho New York/Staten Island vibe-- he has clearly been to the Jersey Shore or Long Island so much that he's baked into leather.
Background[]
Heather Simos[]
When Tony was in his early 20s in the 1980s, he met and married Heather Simos, who he was head over heels in love with. She was a Vox Phantasma, chosen by Nod, the Monarch of the Sixth Borough, but only held the position for three days before she was taken by Null and disappeared into deeper Dreaming. Tony had not yet been awakened to the Unsleeping City.
After Heather's death, Tony became angry and violent, frequently getting arrested for public brawling. He suffered from intense insomnia, so much so that after three days of sleeplessness, he began to see the magic of the Unsleeping City. He eventually found the fire escape above Spaghetti's Bakery and climbed up to the Monastery of the Midnight Sun, where he quickly became obsessed. He burned down a house in Staten Island and frequently stayed up all night working out and studying the Monastery's scrolls. In no time at all, he became the First Fist of the Order.
Conflict in the Order[]
There was a lot of camaraderie among Tony and the rest of the members in the Order, but starting in the late 1980s, his behavior began to put a strain on it. After Jackson Wei joined the Order, the two got into a screaming match about Tony going too far. Jackson reasoned that for Tony being in the Order was a personal vendetta and that his judgement was blinded.
Around 1991, Tony found a ritual in one of the scrolls involving pressure points and ritualistic scarring of his own heart tissue that allowed him to stop himself from dreaming. After doing so, he was confronted again by Jackson, a young Solomon Ojukwu, and the then-Abbess of the Monastery, and they insisted he was going too far. Jackson argued that the Order's purpose was to protect the city, but that Tony no longer cared about the city. Tony threatened to start his own Monastery, where he'd "finish what they started" and "actually get the job done".
Later, he returned to apologize to the group and step down as First Fist, recognizing that Jackson was a superior monk. Cindy Wong, who seemed to think very highly of Tony, was distraught by the situation, and spoke briefly with Jackson about whether or not Tony was a "good man". Jackson held that pain can make people do all sorts of ill-advised things, but even though the Order is supposed to protect the city from the beings of Dreaming, Tony should not have changed himself and his soul the way he did.
The Order of the Iron Heart[]
Shortly after, Tony left the city and moved out to start his own Monastery. He settled in San Francisco, and founded the Order of the Iron Heart, the name inspired by his own anti-dream heart surgery. Their monastery overlooked the Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, and they did well for a while, but starting around the late 2000s, they lost a lot of monks and there weren't enough young kids in the neighborhood to replace them. People moved or stopped coming until there were only about a dozen monks left.
Still seeking revenge for Heather's death, Tony used his new Order to destroy many of the connections from the Waking World to the Bay of Slumber, the local dream realm. This effort was helped in part by the Gladiator headquarters in Silicon Valley. A huge homelessness crisis which much of the city ignored and rising rent costs contributed towards weakening the Bay of Slumber and Nuria, its monarch. This force of emptiness was eroding the Monastery from within, and although the Order was dedicated to destroying dream magic, Nod and Nuria both felt obligated to help stop it: the Monastery was still a form of magic, and the Order was still Tony's dream in a way. As they fought to stop the Monastery from crumbling, they appeared as shadows in the waking world, which Tony perceived as monsters and the cause of the Monastery's downfall.
The emptiness eventually got the better of them and the Monastery cracked clean in half, killing the rest of the monks inside. Tony was able to escape from the rubble with his life and returned to New York City.
History[]
We Need to Talk About Cody[]
When Sofia returns to the monastery for the first time after the Dream Team's scuffle in the subway, she arrives to see Cindy Wong, the Abbess of the monastery, comforting a sobbing Tony. He quickly puts himself back together and introduces himself.
Trivia[]
- Tony's passive perception is 27.
- Tony watches the movie Death Wish everyday and loves Charles Bronson, the lead actor in the film.