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HAHAHAH I AM MY OWN TARGET AUDIENCE IM SO. FUNNY

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[ “to quiet my fears, i’ll drown in you” ] — sunflower as ivantill

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autumn solace

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oh!! sorry LMAO :D are there any additions to his design? like accessories? would his hair be as long? thank you! ^^

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okay so. taps microphone.

basil is not dendro-coded at all to me. if he’s dendro because he knows knowledge considered “forbidden” (the incident), then so many characters in genshin would be dendro. childe, wanderer, albedo, etc. would all be dendro because they know forbidden knowledge and/or are connected/have gone to the abyss once. dendro is not knowing something, rather it is seeking out the knowledge of something—forbidden or not. this ties well with how the characters are either scholars seeking out knowledge, or professionals at their field due to them seeking it out. we can see this with the sumeru characters! especially those in one of the 6 darshans (tighnari being in amurta which seeks out knowledge about biology and medicine, al haitham being in haravatat which seks out knowledge about ancient runes and linguistics, and kaveh being in kshahrewar which seeks out knowledge about technology and architecture). while we do see those of other visions be part of darshans, it is the level of dedication to the pursuit of knowledge that makes them dendro. we see how dedicated kaveh is to architecture, as well as how tighnari uses his knowledge to aid others through medicine (and also is able to help use during the AQ where we passed out due to the incense).

knowing something doesn’t equate to seeking out the knowledge of something. basil being the only one other than sunny to know the events of the incident does not make him dendro. being knowledgeable does not make you dendro either—because if it does, other characters like lisa, for example, would be dendro.

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coughs. crawls out of my grave. hey guys look at my homosexuals.

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Watched a play through of the BASIL’s Grief mod. It’s pretty nice! It provides perspective, but one thing I’m upset about is how it practically erases BASIL and SUNNY’s connection as well as doesn’t explore the potential for a headspace (I do know that BASIL’s headspace wouldn’t be as like… dream-like as SUNNY’s, but… I kinda expected more??? If that makes sense.). There’s also a lot of unexplored themes but… oh well. It’s good overall :]

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ROWAN n BASIL !! saw people making them cousins and went crazy over that concept

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Random rant. Can people stop forgetting that being bullied for 4 years, even if on and off, can affect a person even when they think they deserve it?

“You could easily stop it” Except… you can’t. Any form of resistance is looked down upon, and laughed at by the bullies. It takes more than just you standing up for yourself to stop bullying. This comes true especially when being bullied by a group. Even if you were friends with one person in the group, how close you were with said person in the group before all that doesn’t matter as much, when their empathy for you is replaced by the need to appease their other friends as well as the need to “fit in”.

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Seeing people call BASIL out of all OMORI characters “cowardly” is… pretty funny, when all things considered, SUNNY is more of a coward than BASIL is. In fact, his cowardice is what drives OMORI in the first place.

SUNNY being a coward is… pretty much a big part of his character. He runs away from anything he finds scary. He runs away from anything he finds uncomfortable. He runs away from the truth, and even created an entire world in his mind to shield him from it. While yes, when it comes to HEADSPACE, i know he’s grieving, but as for everything else, it shoes that he has displayed cowardly tendencies even before. We also see that in the phobia fights, the button for the running option is changed to “Run!” instead of “Run…”. He is the embodiment of a coward. and while he may have been brave in facing the truth, he was only able to do it after the encouragement his friends (and BASIL especially) gave. He was only able to lessen his intense fear of things after thinking about MARI encouraging him.

He is such a coward, and it’s okay! Cowardice isn’t inherently bad, and SUNNY is a display of that.

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OHHHH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD.

been lately thinking about if Basil never met Sunny, he wouldn't have just grown out of his nervous shell, he would've fucking wrecked it. he would be a menace. no one can talk to him, he's so deep in self hatred that he hates the world for letting him live. and then there's Sunny, this big-eyed boy who has no understanding of social cues hanging around Basil. and Basil is a fucking wreck. this boy... this angel wants to hang around him? WHY??? and Basil never really grew out of his shell, he just replaced one wall with another, and Sunny tears it down with his autism eyes and stupid conversations.

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why?

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am i qualified to be called basil’s biggest fan. or at least one of them

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ON WHY BASIL AND SUNNY, WHILE NOT BEING OPPOSITES ON A SURFACE LEVEL, ARE OPPOSITES ON A MORE DEEPER LEVEL — 🪴

SPOILERS FOR OMORI’S PLOT!

Despite acting similar, they do contrast in ways that highlight the character trait of the other.

While SUNNY doesn’t particularly desire to be loved and doesn’t suck up to others, he is cared for and wanted by others. this contrasts BASIL who desires to be just… wanted by others—to be cared for and loved. despite how much he sacrifices of himself to be wanted by others, he does not receive the same care that he gives out. SUNNY being loved without effort on his part (which, he does canonically feel guilty for, as mentioned in the OMORI fight) highlights BASIL’s struggle just to be wanted around by others. BASIL’s struggle highlights how treasured SUNNY truly is in rhe group—how important he is. This is further reinforced by how everything started to get back together only when SUNNY came out of his house.

We do also see that BASIL is more scared of concepts and events (abandonment, being alone again, interactions, etc.) than things traditionally found scary, such as spiders, heights, even deep bodies of water (despite him not knowing how to swim), even stuff like darkness. This contrasts to how SUNNY is more scared of things that can be found in reality. Spiders, heights, deep bodies of water, etc. He is scared of what is traditionally found scary—things that can usually be found in the real world.

BASIL being scared of such concepts highlights how even dreams aren’t an escape for him—how even his imagination is not a safe space for him. He has nowhere to be safe. Outaide, he has to face the judgement from the hooligans, the stares, the verbal abuse, the physical abuse. Outside, he has to face the guilt of knowing you played a part in destroying the very friend group you loved—the very friend group you took pictures of because you didn’t want to lose them. Inside, he has to face the overwhelming feeling of loneliness, the pain and hurt that comes from once again being alone, the heavy and empty feeling in your heart after being abandoned. This highlights how SUNNY is more scared of the real world—of things like spiders, heights, his friends, the consequences of his actions, the effects of it and how it ruined everyone. He feels the deep guilt of it all, and witnesses the suffering he had caused, and just wants to hide from it all. Just wants to withdraw back to his fantasy world where he’s safe, where harm can’t reach him, where nothing happened. He is more comfortable in his imaginations, having always relied on it when he’s troubled. He is safe there. He can hide there. And he did—for 4 years straight, until the truth’s roots eventually seeped its way into the soil of his headspace in a manner that cannot be uprooted. In a way where BASIL’s feelings and MARI’s thoughts found its way into his dreams.

However, there is a similarity in terms of their fears. Both of them are scared of being alone. however, their reasons for it are different. BASIL is scared of it due how he’s always been alone—desperately doing everything so that people won’t abandon him. Desperately wishing and praying he doesn’t have to go back to that. Whereas sunny’s more scared of it due to him never experiencing how it is to be truly alone with nobody “by his side”. He’s always had people around him, his parents, HERO, KEL, AUBREY, MARI, and BASIL. And him, being scared of the unknown, was terrified at the aspect of how bad it would feel—especially when he’s heard the feelings of one who has experienced it.

The tragedy of their character also contrasts. The tragedy of BASIL’s character lies in him re-experiencing how it is to be stuck with nobody being there by his side again just right after he finally found people who he can rely on and confide in. It lies in him having to go through everything just to be loved again. It lies in losing everything and going back to having nothing once again. While the tragedy of SUNNY’s character comes with the loss of something you have always had by your side. The tragedy of inexperience, and the grief from losing something you loved. The tragedy of being alone when you were always surrounded by loved ones—one way or another.

Even if BASIL wants to be free, no matter how much he does to free himself and SUNNY from everything that happened—he’s still essentially trapped. While SUNNY traps himself deeper via his headspace despite him being the one who could set both himself and BASIL free. He does realize this, though—however, it was too late. He finally realizes how much trapping himself affected BASIL, he finally realize that he needs to be there for him even just for a little while right as BASIL was about to kill himself. SUNNY desperately rushes in to save him, and no matter how much he wants to leave, he decides to stay. There’s no more running away when the life of a friend you love—platonically or not—is on the line.

Perhaps there was a deep sense of jealousy within BASIL towards SUNNY. A deep sense of jealousy that he rejected out of fear of accidentally hurting SUNNY. His color is green, right? The color of hope, of life, of modesty, of renewal, endurance, growth… but also the color of stagnation, isolation, sickness, envy, death. It perfectly incapsulates him, and his feelings towards SUNNY. Towards everyone. Towards himself.

In a way, they’re like the sun and the moon. Whenever SUNNY reaches out for BASIL, BASIL avoids him. Whenever BASIL reaches out for SUNNY, SUNNY runs away. Rather than the waves and the moon, they’re like the sun and moon—running away from each other in cycles. Rinse and repeat. Over and over again.

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IT JUST OCCURRED TO ME THAT I FORGOT TO POST THIS

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doodles. style testing hehe :3

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(20XX/02/18) — Happy Birthday, BASIL!

( …Thank you. For everything. -🪴 )