Deena & Simon

Deena & Simon is the friendship between Deena Johnson and Simon Kalivoda from the Fear Street fandom.

Canon
Both Deena and Simon were residents of the town of Shadyside, where in every few years, a seemingly normal citizen would suddenly "snap" and become a murderer. They both attended Shadyside High School. Sometime prior to the events of the film, Deena, Simon and Kate Schmidt became close friends. After Deena broke up with her girlfriend Sam, they met in the bathroom, where Simon joked about the recent Shadyside Mall Killings which resulted in their schoolmate Heather's death. As they emerged from the bathrooms, Simon cheered on as people recreated Heather's death.

The next day, a fully-costumed figure began stalking Deena, Kate and Simon. They decided to head to the local hospital with Deena's brother Josh to visit Sam, believing the figure to be Peter. Josh, Kate and Simon waited by a vending machine while Deena confronted Sam. However, Sam and Deena soon ran past them, followed after by the figure, was was now wielding a knife. The figure ignored Kate, Simon and Josh, who began screaming. Later, Simon was attacked by a girl with a razor. Before she could stab him, Deena appeared with Sam, Kate and Josh and shot the girl with a gun she had stolen from Officer Kapinski. After this, the left for Deena and Josh's house. When Josh heard Simon's description of the girl, he realised that she was Ruby Lane, a Shadyside killer from 1965. He then told them about the previous killers of Shadyside's past, as well as the legend of Sarah Fier. Sam then told the group that after the car crash, she had visions of Fier. The group then went to the site of the crash, where they found Fier's body. They then attempted to rid themselves of the curse by giving Fier a reburial. However, more revived killers appeared and attacked the group, forcing them to flee.

As they fled in an ambulance, they realised that the killers were targeting Sam. Kate and Simon were attacked as they had Sam's blood on their clothes. They then went to the school, where they changed their clothes and cleaned themselves of Sam's blood. While at the school, they used Sam's blood to lure all of the killers to the bathroom, where they would burn them. The killers then regenerated their incinerated bodies as the group escaped to a classroom. Just as the group was about to sacrifice Sam, Josh learned through a newspaper clipping that in a previous massacre, there was a survivor who had seen the witch, just as Sam had. They realised that Berman had died, but was brought back to life through CPR, thereby freeing her from the curse. After learning about Berman, they unsuccessfully tried to contact her through a wall-mounted phone.

The group then travelled in the ambulance to the supermarket pharmacy where Simon worked. There, they gathered various pills for Sam to overdose on. Simon then explained what effect each and every pill would have. After Sam overdosed, they would revive her with adrenaline. As a distraction, Simon, Kate and Josh would run around the supermarket smeared with Sam's blood. However, Sam vomited out several pills, ruining the plan just as Torres attacked them. After Kate's death, Simon and Josh discovered her body, just as an axed was lodged in Simon's head.

Fanon
The friendship is Simon's most written ship on AO3 and Deena's fifth most written ship. It is also Deena's second most written friendship on AO3, and the ninth most written ship for Fear Street on AO3. However, works that use the "Deena Johnson & Simon Kalivoda" tag tend to focus on the group as a whole rather than Simon and Deena's friendship. This is largely due to the lack of one-on-one interactions between the two characters. Very few people choose to ship them romantically, as Sameena is canon and the trilogy revolves around their relationship. The friendship currently has 20+ written works on AO3. As a friendship, it is commonly included with Deena & Kate, Kate & Simon, Deena & Josh.

Fandom

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