is omari basil still a delinquent
(and side note here id LOVE to hear you ramble all about your Omari au)
Ahem,,,, if it is alright with you then,,,,,, I will talk about my OMARI Basil then,,,,
To answer your question, he was planned to be the delinquent of the group (as per typical swap aus), though over time, I really began to sit down and think about it the more swap aus began to pop up around the fandom. I didn't really like the idea of being a carbon copy of various other omari aus in specific, so during the time I have been absent on here I began to slowly revamp the AU over time. I had to start over with what I originally had in the first place since a lot of the au things in my take on it also had contributions by followers as well!
For Basil, his first concept was initially a delinquent take... but the thing that caused a problem with that was the fact that I had planned for him to also play a sort of "detective" role in this universe, as I had written a short snippet on Basil having caught on to something suspicious going on between the older siblings and Sunny's sudden disappearance.......
Frankly, as much as a delinquent Basil is my darling concept of all concepts, I had to, unfortunately, push it to the side and alter his role in this AU to fit with the revamped look I was going for him... therefore fully integrating him into his "detective" role. In a way though, looking through Mari's perspective, he's sort of a clashing force with her and is equivalent to an antagonist in her own story (but! Keep in mind, Mari in this AU isn't the Mari who you should be sympathizing for.... an unreliable narrator who happens to be a wolf in sheeps clothing....).
As for the emotions, while a lot of people tend to view the emotions being assigned to the characters as their possible role in RW (the happy-go-lucky, the perfect student, the delinquent), for mine I ended up making it were each friend had 2 main emotions.... Basils would be anger and sorrow (Aubrey and Kel tend to have anger as their second emotion, though that is still up for debate! I still have a few things to work out :3). So, in a way you could say that in Headspace they were only ever seen as a one-dimensional character by Mari/Hikkiko, while in the real world, they had a even bigger "mess" of emotions that they all dealt with. In turn, Basil's concept strayed further away from the path of delinquent and more into a path which.... ehehe..... obsession as a concept is such a fun thing to play around with, don't you think?
Just as much as he plays the "investigator", he also is meant to be a parallel of what Mari/Hikkiko is. Obsession has always been a part of his character, and in doing so, you could say I played around with it until I found quite a nice concept with this. Mari/Hikkiko both have a need to keep Sunny around as the perfect brother and therefore paint his Headspace counterpart to their own liking.... while Basil in turn has, on some level, a need to imitate Sunny as closely as he can. Both are a form of obsessions I have given them, and in a way, the only reason Basils is a more "lighter" version of this is because Aubrey, Kel, Hero (sort of), Polly, his grandmother, and Faraway Town as a whole have been there to guide him on a better path. Though his obsession to keep Sunny's memory alive by becoming like him is still there, it's not to say that he doesn't have people to talk some sense into him-- meanwhile Mari does not have that type of support.
Obsession stems from love, at least, in their case. And in the end, it really depends on whether or not they have people who are willing to reel them back into a state of sanity. Basil was, at least in terms of my omari lore, viewed as a delinquent at one point, though he never acted out aggressively towards others unless provoked enough and only ever kept to himself.... eventually the town residents accepted the fact that this was just his way of grieving and treated him with patience and respect, especially with the fact he took it upon himself to go around town and helping around with the little things, though especially with gardening and photography.
it's not to say though, that he doesn't have some... worrying habits. That as in, most of his plants being replaced with tulips and most of the heads of certain plants being chopped off with garden shears, left to rot. While Basil mimics his best friends habits, he isn't exactly the best at fully hiding his feelings and emotions as Sunny was able to. No amount of masquerading will change the fact that once he's laid his sights on you, it'll only be a matter time before he seeks for your head on a silver platter.
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the prologue of an omori fanfic ive been working on [title still undecided]:
“I have something to tell you.”
Kel, Aubrey, and Hero turned to meet Sunny, still in his hospital gown and bandages, standing at the entrance of the room.
“Hey Sunny!” Kel yelled with excitement, despite the puzzled looks on everyone else’s faces.
“Sunny, how did you get in here?” Aubrey said, hiding her happiness under a brash remark.
“Where’s your nurse?” said Hero. “You should be lying down right now.”
Sunny’s only acknowledgement of Hero’s words was a pained grimace, before he repeated the same statement.
“I have something to tell you.”
Basil, who at first smiled upon Sunny’s unexpected appearance in his room, sat up in his hospital bed with a worried look on his bandaged face.
“Sunny, a-are you sure about this?”everyone turned back to face Basil. “Maybe we should wait before…”
“If you’ve got something to say, then say it!” Kel interjected, unintentionally blunt.
“We are here for you if you need to tell us anything,” Hero paused before quickly adding “but I really think now’s the time to rest, don’t you think Sunny?” he finished with a caring smile.
Sunny’s heart was trying to escape his chest as thoughts freshly excavated from his subconscious filled his mind.
“I need to tell you guys something. I don’t know how much longer I can keep this in,” his voice began to break.
“Hey it’s alright, I’m not mad, just making sure you’re healthy enough to be out of your bed!” Hero said warmly, as he and Kel approached Sunny for a hug.
“You should get him some water,” Aubrey spoke as she shuffled over to the three boys, pulling up a chair for him.
“I’ll get it for you Sunny!” Kel hurried out of the room, almost colliding with a passing-by nurse.
Sunny wanted to thank Aubrey for the chair, but he couldn’t leave Basil on the other side of the room. He pointed to his friend’s bed and hoped she would understand. She didn’t, but Hero did.
“Come sit with us over here,” he said, moving Sunny’s chair back to where Basil was. Aubrey didn’t seem to mind, and joined them in the back of the room.
Sunny’s one eye stared absently at the floor. Basil looked around aimlessly before closing his eyes and taking a deep breath.
“So… what’s up?” Aubrey spoke after a few minutes of silence.
Despite Aubrey and Hero’s understanding presence, Sunny and Basil’s minds were burning with turmoil.
“It’s about Mari,” is all the black-haired boy could muster. This instantly changed the look on the other two’s faces, yet they remained silent.
“She…” Sunny gulped as tears began to rise in his throat and drip from his good eye. The other one stung with pain under its patch.
“Mari didn’t end her own life.”
“Sunny, what do you mean? You’re not making any sense.” Aubrey said after a fleeting thought of confusion.
Hero pondered Sunny’s words, bargaining with his own mind, before simply telling him “I really think you should lay back down. A couple years ago I got my wisdom teeth removed, and that recovery was a mess! I think I told Kel that aliens were doing surgery on me, or that Hector was in the operating room next to me.” He flashed a brief smile and chuckled, but deep down there was a part of him that believed Sunny’s words. Then the boy spoke again.
“That day there was… an accident.” After that, Sunny’s mouth continued to move but no sound escaped him. There were too many thoughts and not enough words to keep up with the speed his mind was racing at. After a long silence, Aubrey finally replied with
“We all know what happened that day,” Sunny’s heart skipped a beat after hearing her words, thinking she somehow knew the truth the entire time, before she completed her speech and snapped him back to reality. “Don’t put the blame on yourself. Nobody could’ve predicted she would… do that to herself.”
Hero stared at Sunny’s hands. They were trembling. Why would they be trembling so much if he was just saying something delusional from the medicine? Nothing was making sense to him, but before he could think about it more, Basil cried from his bed, “I’m so sorry everyone. I’m so sorry…” Hero looked over at his stitch-covered face, crimson as tears poured from his eyes and snot dripped from his broken nose. There was no way both Sunny and Basil could be thinking the same random, delusional lies about Mari’s death and acting this paranoid about them. Something was very wrong. But he could not speak, and continued to stare at the floor and cover his mouth in a distraught state.
Kel suddenly appeared back in the room, carefully juggling the cups of water and jello in his hands.
“Hey guys, I’m back!” he spoke enthusiastically before noticing Aubrey comforting Basil as he sobbed in his bed, and Hero looking as if he had seen a ghost. Kel rushed over to Basil’s bed, “Wait Basil are you okay? Here, I brought you something,” but his offer was stopped as Hero reached his hand out to block his brother.
“Thank you Kel,” he spoke, taking some cups from Kel’s hands and placing them near Basil. “Could you step back out for a moment?”
“Why? What’s going on?” Kel handed the other cups to Sunny, who grasped them weakly with his still shaking hands, and then sat next to him and Hero.
“N…nevermind. I’m sorry,” his brother recoiled, hiding a bad thought that had surfaced onto his face.
“What’s up with him?” Kel said to Sunny, pointing to his distraught brother, before realizing the look on Sunny’s face and shifting the conversation’s subject to him.
“Hey what’s wrong?” Kel whispered as he nudged closer to Sunny, who then stood up suddenly with a deep, trembling breath.
“Mari didn’t kill herself. That’s the truth. The reason I’ve been trapped in a prison of my own creation,” Sunny spoke with an unexpected clarity despite the unease in his throat. “I need you guys to listen to me. You deserve to know what really happened. I’m so sorry we’ve kept this from you for all this time. I’m sorry.” His voice broke into a violent sob and he collapsed back into his chair, holding himself in a fetal position. A wave of dread passed over the room. Aubrey, who was holding Basil’s hand as he wept, froze, unsure what to do with the muscles on her face. Kel kept trying to hug Sunny, to pat his back or hold his hand, but hesitated right before making contact each time. Hero looked away, his absent eyes glued to the wall, before uttering something.
“Basil, is this true?” His desolate, glazed expression turned to meet the flower boy, who lay paralyzed in his bed. Not a moment of silence passed before Aubrey forced a confession out of him.
“Say something! You’re freaking us all out here!”
Hero wanted to tell her, and if he was being honest, himself, to settle down, but Basil replied
“Yes. I’m sorry,” with a yelp.
Kel continued to awkwardly hover around Sunny, as even he felt himself beginning to cry. Aubrey looked like she was about to throw up. Hero had began pacing about the room uncomfortably.
“If Mari’s death really was an accident, then how did she end up in that tree?” His voice felt both fast and slow at the same time, a dichotomy of confusion reflecting his inner doubts. Hero intended for the two confessors to answer, but kept pacing the room anxiously, unable to rally the courage to ask again.
But wether he wanted to or not did not matter, as all the trauma Hero had deep within himself furiously erupted like a volcano, ignited by Sunny and Basil’s revelation.
“HOW THE FUCK DID SHE END UP IN THAT TREE, SUNNY?” he screamed, grasping Sunny’s shoulders as tears burst from his crazed eyes.
“Hero stop it!” Kel jumped up and ripped his brother away from the quivering boy. “What has gotten into you?! How could you do that to him after what just happened?!?” Hero ignored his brother’s words, staring at Sunny with anguish as Kel pulled him further away. Aubrey burst out of the room, completely disgruntled, leaving the four boys to themselves.
“I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m so so sorry,” Basil cried, helplessly watching from his bed as his friends fought.
Sunny began to shut down. The whole world was spinning around him. Hero’s screaming words echoed through his mind. The mortified look on Aubrey’s face as she ran out of the room was all he could see, as everything continued to spin. Telling the truth was supposed to be the good decision, right? The last thing Sunny saw was his best friend Basil’s blurry face as he tumbled to the ground and the Earth’s spin slammed to a halt.
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☀️🍊Suntan Week 2023, Day 6: Cuddling / Angst
(‼️MAJOR OMORI SPOILERS UNDER CUT‼️)
Nothing is always happy. Likewise, relationships are not always perfect. When I write and portray relationships, I try to keep this balance of idealization and reality, regardless of who the people are. (And naturally, this doesn’t just apply to romantic relationships, but all different types.)
That applies to these two as well, as well as the rest of the OMORI cast. Sunny and Kel would definitely have a big wedge thrown between them due to The Truth. While this is my interpretation, I think, out of him, Aubrey, and Hero, Kel would have the most negative reaction and be the most impacted.
I personally like how each of the characters to Mari’s death differently, but with Kel representing happiness, he wasn’t really given all that much development. There are two ways to go about it, with Kel having successfully moved on faster than the others, or, him suppressing his more negative emotions to feel okay and have a “happy facade”. I personally prefer the latter interpretations, especially given his sibling dynamic Hero, as him not getting much attention might lead him to think that his feelings aren’t as important as say, Hero going through a major depression.
So. Either way you go about it, I think Kel would be filled with many conflicting and strong emotions when hearing and having to deal with The Truth. That would cause a huge strain in his relationship with Sunny, which is made even worse by Sunny moving a short time afterwards. I don’t think anyone got closure to their relationships with Sunny after all that, except maybe Basil. Kel especially, since the two of them had just rebuilt a connection over the past couple of days.
I don’t think its hopeless though. Within the timeline of the game, yes, I don’t think that Sunny leaves on a super positive note. But, as time passes, and people mature, and who’s to say that they won’t meet again another day in the future? Not just Sunny and Kel, but Aubrey and Basil too. Nothing will be the same as it was, but I think that’s okay.
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