Simon is still shaking his head. "Children are... you can have expectations, but they will surprise you in the ways they grow. Even twins don't turn out the same. My brother was a hero."

And Simon was not. And at this point, he was pretty sure he didn't want to be. Heroes meant something in Faerie, and that something was 'everyone from the local monarch to fate itself will throw problems at you, until you retire or die'.