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THE FIRST CHAPTER OF "MY FIRST FRIEND, HUMPHREY" IS NOW ON AO3!!!

Above is an image of Sunny's early childhood apartment before he moved to Faraway town.

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I have been reading @grey-spark's novelisation of their project "My First Friend Humphrey" and was quite taken with one of its antagonists : the Alien Leader.

I just HAD to draw that guy and was given the green light to do so !

I took some liberties from the text but still tried to be faithful to the description he was given and some of the imagery associated with him, as well as to early enemy drafts from OMORI which he was based on.

Also here are few scketches of my brainstorming for Alien Leader's outfit while I'm at it.

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It's done. "My First Friend, Humphrey" is complete. The first chapter will be posted this week. Thank you to everyone who stuck with me. I may start assembling a mod team this Summer.

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OMORI MUSICAL! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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OMORI MUSICAL ALBUM -COMING OUT CHRISTMAS DAY!!!

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Been a while, but more P5 x Omori battle screens‼️ This time with Goro Akechi fights 💔

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I've tried countless times to upload my Mari audition for the OMORI Musical but it keeps crashing. Is there any other way I can turn it in for the auditions?

Thanks for reaching out! In this event, you are welcome to send an mp3 file of the audition lines to my discord at "grey_spark"

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Thank you for making these. I was considering doing it myself but I am woefully unequipped to do translation. Though I did make a singable/ryhming one for Kyomei that I'm still proud of. I want to make singable versions for all of them but I was waiting for someone else to do the literal translations first. So this works out. Great job!

Tsurune Character Songs Album Translations - Masterlist

Up Stairs (Narumiya Minato, Takehaya Seiya)

Crossover (Nikaidou Eisuke, Fuwa Koushirou)

Ari no Mama de (Yamanouchi Ryouhei, Kisaragi Nanao)

Growing Up (Onogi Kaito, Kisaragi Nanao)

Gekkou (Takigawa Masaki)

Kyoumei (Narumiya Minato, Fujiwara Shuu)

Translations by: Mod Yumi

Edited by: Mod Optimus Prime

Stay tuned for an album review!

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SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN!

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These are my two favorite Humphrey fan art pieces. Together they capture the complete range of the character. One moment he's a delightful childhood friend bounding with love and joy for all things. The next moment he's an eldrich overwhelming nightmare.

It's hard to think of another character like this. It'd be like if Woody had to kill Andy in an infinite cycle for his own good. There's a reason he's been my personal obsession for three years.

Humphrey by Wafu39080 on Deviant Art DOWN THE WHALEHOLE by オカルトニック on Pixiv

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I recently replayed omori and remembered your my first friend humphrey mod, I have no idea if you're still making or if it's been abandoned but it's such a marvelous project that I just wanted to thank you for sharing it with us ❤️

PROJECT UPDATE

I won't pretend everything has been going according to schedule, because it's not. The inflation crisis along with some setbacks at work have forced me to put all my projects on hold. I basically lost a year of productivity, and its been heartbreaking.

I'll speak personally and say writing MFFH was an emotionally exhausting project that ate up a year of my life in 2021. So I just needed some space from it all, but then 2022 and the recession rolled around and made me take an extra year off. But MFFH does mean a lot to me, so I do want to at least share the story with all of you before I move on to the next phase of my life, whatever that may be. I'm going to have to make some tough choices. Over the next several months I am going to work to bring all my OMORI projects to a comfortable stopping point. These include:

My First Friend Humphrey

KELSEY

OMORI: A Song Cover Musical

I'm not abandoning them, rather I need a programming degree to finish most of them and improve my work situation. So a hiatus is required at a minimum. I will not be starting any other projects. Here is the rundown of what I need to do.

My First Friend, Humphrey is top priority. it will be released in five chapters. The first of five written chapters will be released with illustrations. Then I'm going to do a poll to see if the illustrations are worth the wait. If not, I'll just release the rest of the chapters without illustrations so everyone can at least read the novel. The actual MFFH mod is going to be a LONG time coming. The best your going to get soon is the written novel.

The KELSEY project is going to be put on hiatus indefinitely to make more time for other things. That project will also be released but only as a project outline with illustrations.

Finally, the musical project OMORI: A Song Cover Musical is also ready for its casting call. All the songs are written and all the demos are finally ready. Although, I'm sad I wasn't able to start the recording process during the summer break when the VA's had the most free time. So I kinda cooked the goose on that one. I will likely do the casting call over the fall, and do recording over Winter Break.

Again, I am very sorry to the people I've disappointed over the years. And I am going to do my best to deliver something. The bare minimum of what I promised to you all. I wish I could deliver some better news, but I'm in a tougher place right now due to the economy. I love OMORI. I love Humphrey. That is all. Thank you.

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Who is Rumerie?

So whoever RUMERIE is. They seem to be important to Futa’s story. And so I made this very long post going into who it might be. 

So the main theory goes that RUMORIE is the green friend. D_TTTTT is the orange friend. And ice_gorilla_ice (the first victim) is the blue guy, which kinda fits with the ice motif. He’s seen laughing at RUMORIE and that’s why he sets out for revenge. Both characters are the only two extras to have faces. Which lends more credence to their importance.

The biggest piece of evidence we later see someone in the second trial song holding a spray can with the same watch. A can that has the same color as the pink haired guys’ shirt. 

But what if we got this all wrong?

What if Rumerie might not be the pink haired guy. What if the colors at the start have no meaning and the pink hair guy is ice_gorilla_ice. 

He’s the one playing the game on the arcade. 

He’s the one our eye is drawn to.

He’s the one in the ice blue shirt. 

So I could totally see him being ice_gorilla_ice.

But if so, why does Futa attack him? In the post, Ice gorilla photoshopped himself into an icecream freezer (implying he’s cool) and adds the text “If you're worried that you might be getting unreliable”. (implying he’s good at gaming.) But Futa see’s Ice Gorilla (the pink haired guy) at the arcade and sees he sucks at the game. So he begins his first callout. 

If it turns out that RUMERIE isnt Pink hair guy who is it?

Let’s get the basic symbolism out of the way. His name is a play on words for RUMORY.  As in “Why are you spreading rumory gossip?”  An his pfp is a skull on radioactive green implying that he’s toxic. Not a good influence.

We see him talking to Futa at the start of the MV, before all the drama starts. Implying they are close (or at least online friends).  

Therefore, RUMERIE has to meet two criteria:

Has to be somebody close to Futa

Who helped spearhead his callouts. 

And that’s were I’m stumped... If only we saw Futa interacting with someone on his missions, collaborating with him.

You know, someone he looks to impress.

Sarcasm aside. I don’t know for certain if the Spear Guy is RUMORIE. He’s the most likely candidate if it’s not Pink hair guy. Regardless, spear guy seems like someone Futa is pretty close with. 

All of this is to say:

If Trial 3 comes out, and REMERIE is revealed to be the Spear Guy. I wouldn’t be surprised at all. It’d look obvious in hindsight. But I’m still not convinced. His watch and green color coding at the start is still pretty suggestive. So I lean towards it being Pink Hair Guy over some faceless dude.

RUMERIE is likely Pink Hair Guy, but if its not, its Spear Guy. 

There’s also the possibility that Spear Guy is Pink Hair Guy. As in, Pink Hair is anonymous as REMERIE. Therefore Pink hair guy takes on a different appearance in the metaphorical online world. Meanwhile, everyone knows Futa is Pazuzu, so he appears as himself. But again, I’m doubtful. Spear Guy could just be a random guy online. I just putting this forward, so we won’t be blindsighted by an alternate possibility.  

That being said, nothing is confirmed as canon yet. And we may never know who RUMERIE is. However, if Futa’s Trail 3 song is about the nature of friendship, (which seems to be where his story is going, since he has to make friends with the other prisoners to survive) then RUMERIE may be making an appearance. Knowing Futa it’ll be a heavy rock song about “🔥BETRAYAL!!!!🔥” not friendship. But in truth it’ll be about his gay feelings.

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Here are the posters and card prototypes. I was thinking about selling them for charity but now I'm not so sure. Still, they turned out pretty great! Maybe I'll make a few for my super fans someday.

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He’s beautiful.

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Hello everyone, Grey here! After months of hard work, this is the concept for a poster that compiles all the cards together.

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What do you imagine a boss fight with Big Yellow Cat would be? At what point in the plot would it occur?

Great question. On my first playthrough of OMORI I was convinced Big Yellow Cat would be the penultimate boss fought in the Nieghbor's Room just before entering whatever "Black Space" was. I thought he would act as a benevolent gatekeeper trying to keep Omori from unleashing a nightmare. Much like the misunderstood Dedede from Kirby's Adventure.

Though we did end up getting a boss like In a roundabout way, in the form of another Great Creature.

Yes and no. BYC could always be made into a bonus boss in the Boss Rush just like the Friends. But a serious fight? No. It would be redundant and a betrayal of concept.

The Cat is supposed to represent everything good and wonderful about Headspace. He is the endless dream to Humphrey's endless nightmare. In that sense, the whale and the cat are two sides of the exact same coin. Two allegories for the same dream world but from different perspectives. It makes sense that one is at the front and the other is at the very end. Alpha and Omega.

Its also pretty clear Omocat did NOT want an obvious confrontation over entering Black Space. Otherwise Humphrey's dialogue would have been more obvert about his true intentions.

That being said. I have my own ideas for a BYC boss fight, you might even see it in the future, who knows. If he did get a real boss fight, I imagine it would have music like "Fountain of Dreams".

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ITS FREE! BUT OMORI

FREE! IWATOBI SWIM CLUB 10TH ANNIVERSARY ...

...was about a month ago. But hey! Better late than never! The fact that I’m releasing this on the first day of Pride month is purely coincidental. You can trust me, I swear...   🤞