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for my own amusement, I had once thought of what things would count as 'omoricore.' I had chuckled then and said to myself 'what can be more omoricore than to bottle-up your emotions and to live neck-deep in escapism?' of course, I ended that question with a LMAO but my efforts seem to have worked, if in small ways. 'No, no,' was what I thought right after, in a way I sometimes imagine as a little bird, like a hummingbird. 'that's not what omori stands for, that's not its message. omori is about friendship, reconnecting, leaving behind your harmful ways, facing what scares you the most and taking the reings of your life in the direction you actually want. that's what it is about, and pretending the contrary is to disrespect that. why use this game you held so dearly as another excuse to hurt yourself?' yeah, why use omori as another excuse to hurt myself? I snapped out of it then, that… place, you see all over the internet. Its not much what I can manage, Im not beyond repeating the sentiment, the "joke" that eventually stops being one, but I surprised myself, and maybe I was a little proud, of stopping myself. they say its good to challenge the hurtful thoughts, though I wish I could manage something better. So, if I say omori is important to me, it is because of what it stands for. so, omoricore should look like being honest with your emotions,speaking about what troubles you, taking a stroll in a natural place, telling your friends you love them and telling yourself you're more than this damage. that's what it is about.

I doubt there's such thing as an aesthetic called omoricore, but it gave me a good idea of how to tackle this. I remembered those challenges that last a month, such as the inktober version of omori (I dont remember the name right now) and the ship weeks. At that, this year, I had the idea of making one myself for myself, a challenge of 30 days, though it wouldn't be one focused on art or fanfiction. it would be one like those books of activities. it would be of real-world challenges to get out my comfort zone. it sounded fun, and a good way to use omori as an excuse to better myself, because that's what it is about. that was what it was about back then, when I felt happy. it's good to remember that. I hope there will be one day where I can say Im happy again. for now, I have a small victory, they say its good to be proud of them, and this game that means so much to me.

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all it costs is your love!

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Me and my buddies KikiKaela and _WIKIPIXEL_

Omori - fied icons lined up!

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EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY

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uhhh.. idk.. deer basil. deersil?

when i first saw basil’s animal thingie i thought it was a deer/goat so now here we are

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basil from OMORI

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WOOO OMORI!!

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Mari 💜

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Room full of broken things

Static world in one of it's early stages, and Mari exhausting herself for a while. She'll get back to action, obviously. But it is especially hard sometimes

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the holy trinity

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Omori.

// Alternative versions under the cut, Warning for Spoilers and warnings related to this game "This game contains depictions of depression, anxiety, and suicide, and may not be suitable for all audiences"

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Mari!!! (made in roblox)

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“Sunny, I love you.”

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I think the thing that always fucks me up to think about is that Mari is dead before the story even begins, and remains dead throughout the entirety of it. Ghost Mari is a concept toyed around with throughout Omori but I think that's wholly in Sunny's head.

But when you see her corpse during the Final Duet, that's real. That's her. That's the most real and direct vision we get of what Mari actually looks like throughout the course of the game. That's where she is from the start of the game and everything else has been something in Sunny's head. Seeing her actual dead body laid out before us is Sunny's way of truly acknowledging the truth of what happened to her, and it's the full acknowledgement that all of what we've seen of her so far wasn't strictly real. Sunny has an active imagination, after all...

Mari is dead. She is not coming back, and nothing you can do will ever bring her back.

And that's why that moment in the Duet always strikes me so heavily. Because yes, Sunny's vision of Mari always reassuring him, encouraging him along, and assuring him of her love is very much based on his memory of her. It's certainly got reality to it.

But it's not real. It's not her. She is dead and has been this whole time. We won't know any of how she would've actually responded to any of the events in the game, or to his situation at all.

Because she's dead. She can't respond. What we see as Mari's character is a memory; an image constructed by Sunny because he can't let her go.