I was just thinking of making a "This is SIMON!" image in Photoshop. The art on the explosion of Guame's Ganmen was truly beautiful. Galaxy in the background, reference to Simon's line about drilling a hole to the heavens, and each explosion in the sequence comes out as a cross.

Nia is also very likable. Despite her total naivette about almost everything, she identified the problem with Simon almost immediately, and began to make the efforts to get him out of Kamina's shadow right away. It took a while for it to get the message through to him, and now he and she can both live their own lives. I loved her little tear-filled gasp when he came through for her, and her resolve to provide a proper burial for the other "dolls."