#sunny and kel of course

[venusisalynx]

hmmhmhmhmhmmm who should i scream about at every opportunity i get today?

[seven-oh-four]

SUNNY tells BASIL things too. BASIL doesn't just dump all of his problems on SUNNY. They talk to each other.

[fried-manto]

What is your favourite food?

Interview taking place during a picnic day (pre-recital):

Hmm-? munch..munch- munch- Orange Joe-!

Hehe slow down Kel~

Orange joe is not a food Kel.

Munch- yes it is-! Munch- sometimes there's some- munch- crunchy bits- munch- in- in it!

What-? Kel...I don't think you should drink that anymore..

Whaaaaaaaat- no fair Hero!

Honestly I like to eat anything, unlike a certain picky someone.. but my favourite is definitely watermelons! Oh- oh and...uhm.. roasted eggplants...

EW those long purple things that looks like a-

KEL!

Oops- sorry.

Hmph! Besides! They don't look like when that when you cut it up, and they actually taste good IF you would just try it!

Never!

Sigh...

Ah-ha...well, I actually really enjoy tofu and my grandma cooks it for me all the time so...

Guess tofu's Basil's favourite food!

Those white squishy things that tastes like cardboard?

KEL!!

Y- yeah...they taste good to me though...

If you say so.

Of course it taste good Basil, you grandma is a great cook!

Hmm.. I'm actually fine with anything really.

Actually, Hero really likes the Hero sandwich from Gino's hehe~

Yeah! That's why we call him Hero!

G- guys-!

A healthy bento meal would do me just fine!

Yeah! Mari's bentos are the best!

Mhm!

Aww you guys~ why don't I make some for your school lunch next week?

YAY! WOOHOO!

Steak.

What about that rice ball thingy you always eat at school?

Onigiri, and that's my second favourite.

How about Mari's cookies?

That's everyone's favourite, so it doesn't count.

True!

[samthecookielord]

I really liked @deadlydoofus 's faraway objects au so i drew some art!

And also drew some of my versions of the gang™ with theirs

[herosub]

ok i updated my name to be less target on sight worthy LMAO. but still very much into herosunny post game

[alex-just-vibing]

Sally running up to Kel to give him a congratulations hug not caring that Kel's all sweaty after the game.

Awww <3333 The sister ever <3

He definitely appreciates it a lot <3

[secretagent-businessfish]

shipping future versions of most of the group in omori works cause if aubrey and kel can have the mental and emotional means to not only forgive sunny but to even consider a relationship then polyamory would be like. fucking nothing honestly. not even close to an issue

[lillythecoolest]

do you still write omori bc I've been thinking of playfighting hcs w the main 6 for the longest time..

(if you don't want to do all of them, just kel is cool with me)

Of course!

Omori Cast x Reader Playfighting HCs!

Warnings: So fluffy you might get diabetes

Sunny🌙🖤

•Sunny might not get it at first

•But when he sees how happy it makes you, he starts to play along

•He actually finds it kind of fun!

•You try to go easy on him, but you come to find out he’s pretty good at it!

•I wonder why

•You actually see him smile, even laugh!

Basil🌻💛

•Poor thing definitely didn’t understand at first

•He thought you were actually trying to fight with him

•But once he gets it, he actually gets a little competitive

•He likes pillow fights the most since it’s the least likely thing to hurt you

•And if he does end up actually hurting you, he’d never forgive himself

Hero☁️💙

•He’s so corny about this

•He probably wins, being used to Kel

•But usually he lets you win!

•Definitely picks you up and throws you over his shoulder

•Then plops you down on the couch and tickles the life out of you!

Kel🏀🧡

•Oh god

•He talks himself up a storm

•But you win every time

•Every time he says you were going too hard, or that round didn’t count!

•What can I say, a real charmer

•Somehow tries to bring basketball into it?

Aubrey⚡️🩷

•You’re DEAD

•She knows every way to win, no matter if you’re taller than her or not

•And every time she says she was going easy on you

•And if she accidentally DID hit you, she’d stop everything and let you win!

Mari💀💜

•COMPETITIVE AS HELL

•She’d laugh the whole time, so hard she’d give up and let you win

•So much fluff my teeth are rotting

•Idk what else to put she’s kinda uh

thank you anon! I love writing for omori so much💕

[nervocat]

★ 📝 — notes: first writing for flufftober, first Omori writing. don't think I'll do this specific top with hsr or genshin impact but if people rlly want me too than I will.

this is strictly platonic btw and reader (you) just come over to their house, you're not siblings with anyone and is hinted to being on the younger side.

       — word count: 857 , fandom: omori , cw: omori spoilers, sorry, it's like a bittersweet moment for this.. but it's still fluff and ig with the smallest hint of angst, idek if it's that, more so hurt/comfort ig — ✦

                     " Cooking Halloween Cookies with Them "

★ — Sunny & Mari

     Mari does most of the work like the cooking of the cookies, but you and Sunny do the icing together and help mix the cookie batter (you two sneak a bite of the raw cookie dough, but Mari notices it and just lets it slide with a stifled giggle). Sunny's cookies probably turn out better than yours if you're not experienced with this stuff, the icing being relatively straight, maybe uneven. You and Sunny decided that you would do ghosts and he would do pumpkins, Mari doing other things like witch hats, candles, black cats, the usual, but she doesn't mind. You guys normally make a minimum of 30 cookies so you can share with the others every year since Mari was 9.

     When Halloween day comes around, you bring the cookies over to wherever a Halloween party is being held between the friend group and the cookies are always the best. Whenever it's your guy's turn to make the cookies for this year, it's always good.

     Even after the death of Mari and since Sunny shut himself away, you brought cookies to his door every Halloween with Kel to remind him that you're there for him and to remind him of the good times. ☆

✦ — Hero & Kel

     Again, Hero does most if not all the work while you and Kell goof off. Hero's not mad at all, quite the opposite, and you two normally get only about 3 cookies decorated, which were a couple ghosts and a black cat and a pumpkin. You two eat a lot of the raw cookie dough and he has to scold you guys after your third bite.

     "Kel, [name], you've eaten six total raw cookies, you're lucky I made more batter than needed."

     "Sorry Hero.." You and Kel say in unison, looking away from Hero and each other while you fidgeted with your fingers with your heads down. Hero just sighed and let out a breath of laughter, patting both of your guy's heads while Hero and Kels mom watched on in the back with a smile.

     The friend group loves Hero's cookies. They're always just right and look very nice and people can always tell who decorated what cookie since your guy's is a little messy (especially Kels). You and Kels cookies taste the same though, and Aubery teases you two about your messy decorating job and it turns into a mini playful fight — like always, the others just laugh to themselves.. other than Sunny of course, who just watches on from his sisters side.

     After Maris death, you two made it your mission to get good at making cookies and with the help of Kel and Hero's mom, you succeed, and try to get Hero to have some when Halloween comes around. You two always notice how the couple of cookies you gave him are gone the next day. ✧

★ — Aubrey

      She's actually a pretty good cook. Aubrey always comes over to your house to make them though and if you also don't have the best home life, you go to Mari and Sunny's house to make them. The group likes her cookies and she adds her own little flare to the cats, hats, ghosts and whatever else she decides to make by adding something pink to them. She really does love to cook with you and it always reminds her that her friends and you are there for her.

     She likes to have quality time with her friends and teases Kel for not being able to cook cookies or decorate them properly, which is just playful banter the two have and they still are good friends. Whenever Hero or Mari compliments her cooking, she always beams at the praise and hugs them, to which they reciprocate with gentle laughter.

      Even after Maris death and everyone kinda ditched her, you made sure to stick by her side throughout all her changes and even though her group tells her to ditch you, she can't get rid of her cookie cooking buddy, and still has the little flare to her cookies when it's Halloween. ✧

★ — Basil

     Doesn't actually know how to cook very well. He focuses more on gardening and taking pictures so he doesn't really find much need to cook complex things like cookies. If you're good at cooking, you show him how to make it and if not, Polly helps you two. Basil's very good at decorating though, and he loves to decorate the cookies with you. He decided to make Halloween colored flowers while you made the typical Halloween stuff.

     The group likes how Basil does his cookies even if he didn't exactly cook them himself. When the group and you are just hanging out, like always, he takes pictures of you all and makes sure he gets the cookies in there as well.

     After Maris death, you notice he becomes more jumpy and skittish, but either way, he still makes the cookies with you every Halloween and thoroughly enjoys doing it. It's one of the things that kept him grounded when Mari died and helped him temporarily forget his involvement in the incident. ☆

🌊 ★ — © nervocat || I appreciate any reblogs made, and pls don't repost or translate my works anywhere, ty — ✦ 📖

[10pm-cafe-lattes]

a floating mirror. your friends (?) smile warmly behind you.

so i mentioned an omori x furina au? stay tuned i'm gonna very slowly work on character references in the event there is demand (some people proved there was demand for the au soooo), but in the meantime, here's the general idea:

in-line with genshin canon, actually! this takes place just post-fontaine AQ, when furina's a just a little bit traumatised and trying her best to hold herself together.

so she ends up creating her version of white space, where she can just forget all her worries, all her troubles, and have fun and adventures. the thing she's 'forgotten', the 'truth', is what she wants. who she wants to be.

somehow, somewhere, she's joined by three other companions (she doesn't know if she's made them up or not). there's a boy who tells her to call him WANDERER. there's a girl, maybe his little sister, goes by DREAMER. that last boy doesn't have a name- she calls him AEOLUS.

there's one more, another girl who looks like her but who has long hair. she says her name is FOCALORS, but furina always calls her 'mirror'. she loves the other girl dearly, appreciates her company and the tea parties she sets up for them, but she can never quite bring herself to call the other girl by her name.

(if you're looking for character role equivalents, wanderer = aubrey, venti = kel, nahida = hero, focalors = mari and basil both! furina = omori/sunny, of course. props to @alchemania for giving me the idea to include other characters, by which i mean wanderer, which then got me thinking about the actual story)

[gothicxreylover]

hello! I saw you accept requests for headcanons and omori so I have a request if you feel like writing!

can I request platonic yandere headcanons (could be anyone/everyone from main 6!) or oneshots for gender neutral reader? I'm sucker for platonic yanderes and sadly there's lack of them everywhere

you can freely dismiss this request, please take care!

Hello! And I would love to do your request I don't see much of OMORI so I would serve this to you. I hope you enjoy!

Sorry if this doesn't seem platonic but I hope it's still showing in there.

Pros-

Sunny- Sunny is a very calm person and isn't very social at all. Of course, just because he doesn't talk to you a lot he still enjoys your presence. Sitting there in silence makes Sunny happy (even if he doesn't show it). Quality time is how he shows his appreciation towards you he does love affection but not all the time. Maybe small hand-holding or a hug is what he likes. Cuddles or small kisses (It's shown as platonic) are something he was he be prepared for and doesn't like to be rushed with.

Mari- Mari is a very social butterfly and loves to talk to you. Telling you stories about her adventures with her friends or even made-up ones just to get your attention. She loves affection and often shows it towards you. Just like Sunny, he doesn't like to be rushed with affection so it would take her a small amount of time to warm up to you (it takes her about a week or so). She craves quality time and loves to have fun with you such as baking or having a small picnic with her friends.

Hero- Hero can be a dork around you he can't help but be all giddy or happy in your presence. Hero is the same as Mari he loves to tell you small stories and likes to have quality time with you. Sometimes the whole group goes on adventures to make memories or is just too goofy but Hero treasures it in his memories a lot. Hero is more like a brother since he's the oldest in the group but you saying that he's a brother to you makes him happy to know that you feel close it him.

Kel- Kel the massive goofball who just loves talking to you a lot. He loves quality time and affection and he's not afraid to show it to you. He shows you how to do tricks in basketball and sometimes shows off just to hear your praises. Affection is something that Kel lacks a lot so his receiving a hug makes him happy and he craves more of it. He sometimes gets you into trouble and you both get scolded by Hero, Mari, or an adult but that's okay since it creates a lot of inside jokes between the two of you.

Basil- Basil is kinda the same as Sunny. He's very shy and doesn't talk to you a lot but he warms up on how he gets used to your presence. He loves to talk about flowers and shows you his garden from time to time. He loves quality time and sometimes acts of service. Sometimes just being there with you makes him calm and collective. Acts of service are something he likes to do even if it's just bringing you something small.

Aubrey- Aubrey is a massive tunsudere and pretends that your not really worthy of her. But sometimes she does let her touch persona slip once in a while. She loves quality time and Acts of serves and affection. You being there makes her calm and she warms up to you. Acts of serves is her way of showing she cares for you and doesn't mind getting things for you even if she complains about doing them. Affection is something she doesn't receive a lot and something she lacks in life. You showing her affection makes her feel loves and worthy to be your friend.

Cons

Sunny- He gets pretty jealous a lot especially if your hanging out with someone he doesn't know. He overthinks a lot a thinks that the person your with would take you away from him and he doesn't like that at all. You can tell him that they're just a friend and he'll apologize to you and them but that doesn't mean he still can't hold a grudge against them.

Mari- Sometimes Mari can be a bit overbearing she loves to hang out with you and invites you over a lot. This makes you feel suffocated in her presence and you can help but think she's a tiny bit clingy. If you tell her about it she'll be hurt but fully understanding and apologize she would fix the problem but also goes back into her behavior again after a while.

Hero- He's overprotective of you and doesn't want you to get hurt. This causes a bit of an argument between you and him but does get settled down. You argue that you can take care of yourself and there's nothing he should be worried about at all. Hero claims that you shouldn't be walking around without any company due to how dangerous outside could be.

Kel- He's a bit oblivious towards everything and doesn't see a problem with what he's doing. Sure he can be clingy and slightly jealous sometimes but that's normal. If you bring it up he'll say it's normal for him to feel that way and does push on to you. His being oblivious to everything makes your friendship a bit complicated but you still have a strong bond.

Basil- Basil guilt trips you a lot if you want to hang out with someone he would say that it's okay and he'll be all alone with no one with him. He also obliviously brings up his trauma on how he doesn't want to be alone or you'll leave him like the others making you stay with him. He doesn't want you to leave too many people in his life left him already he doesn't need you too.

Aubrey- Her anger issues are something she needs to work on a lot. She gets jealous of people you talk to and sometimes yells at the scram off. Her presence is already intimidating enough so people do back away from you and her. You tell her that her anger is something she needs to work on and she knows that. Of course, she tries her best to work on it but it's just too much for her to actually fix.

[moog-enthusiast]

Since there's emori daisybells

How do you think daisybells would work in the little mari au?

Unfortunately, daisybells would not work in the little mari au without some adjustments— Basil would have to be older, so Flower could complete the age swap too. However, if Basil were the same age as Sunny and Kel, I imagine it’d look something like this;

Flower in headspace wouldn’t be a party member, but would probably be running around all the time, getting distracted by pretty flowers or butterflies etc. She is often found running towards Mari and the party, trying to catch up!! Although this Flower is more energetic and extroverted due to being the younger sibling this time around, she is still very caring and worried about her loved ones. She carries lots of of water bottles and juice to add to Mari’s inventory- she doesn’t want anyone getting dehydrated!! She very clearly has a crush, but she never acts on it. She doesn’t know how to flirt even in Mari’s dreams lol

In Faraway, Flower would probably start a book club. Presumably no one joins, but she tries to invite Mari anyways! Even if it’s just the two of them, Flower is desperate to reconnect- and what better way than through shared interests? Mari won’t open the door, so it ends up with Flower always making an extra copy of whatever she’s reading to leave on the front porch with a sticky note. Flower hears the piano every night, which she finds comforting since it proves she’s still alive. When Mari does eventually come outside though, Flower would immediately try to cling to her side, showing her all the changes she’s missed, asking lots of questions, and trying to buy her lots of food and treats and what not around town hoping it’ll make her stay.

Although of course Flower couldn’t be canon due to pre-set ages and also the fact she’s not real, (lol), this was fun to think about and draw, so thank you very much for the suggestion!

Little Mari au belongs to @zipsunz , be sure to check it out!

[fireroll]

LOOK IT"S THE GUY!!!

still from summer breeze/solar system au btw...

some notes under cut about the au! not a summary, you can ask if you want one or look for the Basil one haha

Aubrey still got mad at Basil for the photo album. She still snatched it and ran away after calling him a creep. However!! She bumped into Kel, and due to them sticking with each other in this AU, she told him what happened in tears and showed him the blacked out photos. Kel managed to calm him down and they eventually go talk to Basil together. Aubrey (and Basil, even though Aubrey insists he shouldn't) apologises.

No, he did not tell them it wasn't him who blacked out the photos. He did, though, a little after they made up again after the revelation of the Truth.

They clean the photos together!!

All of them consistently knocked on Sunny's door often. However, it was either that his mom was trying another doctor for him, or he was asleep, or he didn't want to come out, or nobody answered, etc. etc.

Kel's a lot more well-adjusted in this au. Not (as much?) toxic positivity. Aubrey and Basil help him let out a lot of more difficult emotions.

Aubrey and Kel both struggle to verbalise feelings (what? i'm not projecting psh.) but Basil helps a lot. They're surprisingly good at decoding Feelings™

I HC canon Aubrey forgave Sunny and Basil a lot more easily/faster because of the similar incident with the lake and Basil, but hated how they kept it a secret. In this AU she definitely needed some more time to untangle everything that just resurfaced that came along with the truth.

Kel got angry (like I hc in canon lol). During the period of adjustment to the Truth he and Aubrey hung out/talk a lot. They Struggled™ because Basil wasn't there to comb through the knots of their complicated feelings for once.

i WILL think more about Hero i promise. i promise promise. i love hero.

After the bombshell (the Truth) got dropped there was this bit where they all deteriorated mentally again. It's like Mari died again.

And...well, Aubrey hated it (an understatement). He reached out to Basil, determined to not back out of the promise they all made together ("We're always gonna stick together").

Eventually they start hanging out again. It takes more than a couple months for things to somewhat get back to normal

It takes a couple months more for these idiots to realise their feelings for each other. I think Aubrey was the first one to realise. Too bad she's in denial. Kel takes wayy too long to realise. Basil is caught in the middle, too shy and apprehensive (despite them saying they forgive him, he was still worried and hated making the first move) to do anything.

Kel and Aubrey confessed at the same time because of course they did

Basil cried a lot

After they get themselves (relatively) sorted out they decide to tackle Sunny

They crash through the window to physically force him outside. Of course they do.

OH did I mention although nothing's official, Aubrey sleeps over at Basil's or Kel's nearly everyday. None of them mind and Kel's parents are just happy to see him hanging out with his friends + looking generally happier again

[sirenspells]

New AU. hiiii

So this takes place after the neutral ending (specifically the knife ending, so Sunny’s dead too). Aubrey, Kel, and Hero are each haunted by one of their dead friends, and its up to them to uncover the truth of the night of the recital so that their friends’ spirits can move on. As said in the pic Basil is forced to haunt Aubrey, Sunny haunts Kel, and Mari haunts Hero. The one being haunted is the only one who can see and hear their respective ghost friend (and they can’t see other ghosts so the living friends have no idea that the others are being guided by ghosts too)

Also due to Ghost Rules the ghosts cannot just say the truth of the incident cause that would be too easy (I like to imagine if they try they literally glitch out for a sec, idk think its a cool visual) but they can give indirect hints and of course lead the living friends to places and such. So yeah fun times Aubrey and Kel are going through it <3

Know I don’t really have the AU’s plot that developed yet, rn its just a concept and I’m not too concerned with figuring out all the story beats rn

[woodchipp]

A CRITIQUE OF OMORI, PART 3: MARI AND THE TRUTH

NOTE: Reader discretion is advised. By clicking on “Keep reading”, you willingly choose to continue reading the post.

OMORI spends a considerable amount of time trying to ingratiate you to Mari as a character. In Headspace, she plays a motherly role to Omori and the gang, providing endless positivity and advice to the party whenever they take a break at her picnic blanket; at one point, Kel even begs Hero not to tell Mari about him and Aubrey knocking Basil over the same way a child would beg someone else to not tell their mother after messing up. In the real world, everyone who knew her only ever speaks of her as being kind and gentle, and the official walkthrough guide even calls her “the glue that holds everyone together”.

As wholesome as all of that may seem at first glance, this is one of the main problems with Mari’s writing: the game tries to get you to love her so hard that it comes off as overly aggressive character shilling. For instance, during the second picnic Omori and his friends can have with Mari en route to Basil’s house, Basil wishes to be more like Mari and notes that she always seems to have everything under control, Hero compliments her on how she always makes everything look easy, and Aubrey describes her as "effortlessly graceful". As with Basil summing up each of the characters via flowers, the game spells out the character’s personality for you right at the start rather than allowing you to parse it for yourself over the course of the story.

[Pictured: complex and nuanced characterization.]

[How should I know? I literally just met her a few minutes ago.]

If the shilling had been limited to Headspace, it could’ve been a powerful narrative tool to show how much Sunny idolizes his big sister and foreshadow that his perception of her is unreliable. The problem is that what we learn about her in the real world reinforces said unreliable perception; as with the photo album and the main characters’ childhood, the narrative paints the real Mari as too impossibly perfect of a person to be remotely believable. Not only did she switch beds with her brother when the latter started to have difficulty falling asleep, she also let him sleep with her when he had nightmares, took the blame for him breaking one of their mother’s vases and even saved him from drowning once. She also bought Basil his signature photo album, bought Sunny a giant building block set as a gift for one of his birthdays, carried Sunny back home after he fell asleep on the bus, pitched in along with Sunny's other friends to buy him a violin for Christmas, was the perfect match for Hero and generally served as the group’s caring mother figure in the real world as well. C’mon, love her already!

Of course, such a flawless angel is too good for this sinful earth. That is why, after spending the entirety of its runtime building up to Mari having killed herself due to her own mental issues, the game pulls a last-minute plot twist and reveals that Sunny accidentally killed her by shoving her down the stairs during an argument they had over Sunny breaking his violin on the day of a recital they were to perform at. As evidenced by the datamined text from the “Truth” photo album, the game gives no consideration to Mari’s perspective on the matter and only focuses on Sunny’s feelings. It’s all about how he was overcome, how his fingers were shaking in pain and how he was sick of practicing over and over. How did Mari feel when she saw her brother destroy the fruit of her and his friends’ hard work in one fell swoop? How did she feel being perpetually dissatisfied with the waltz she obsessively practiced, trying to reach the unreachable standards she set for herself? These are questions the game doesn’t bother answering, because Sunny and his feelings are of central priority to the story at all times, even if it comes at the expense of other characters, their own feelings or even logic. 

(speaking of logic, the game never explains why Sunny and Mari were arguing at the top of the staircase in the first place. the piano room, which is most likely where the two practiced since Mari's piano is located there, is on the first floor of their house, while Photo of an Argument shows them them having said argument on the second one. peak writing)

Additionally, the story fails to properly establish just how strenuous violin practice was for Sunny. The only bit of set-up for the argument the game provides during the main story is Lost Library's “Saturday morning cartoons” book, which isn’t much and requires the player to make a giant leap from “Sunny doesn’t like violin practice because he misses out on watching cartoons with his friends” to “violin practice physically hurts Sunny and he resents Mari for her perfectionism”. Likewise, the narrative’s prior and consistent portrayal of Mari as flawless is incompatible with the plot twist’s insinuation that she overworked Sunny and was harsh on him when he made mistakes, which makes the twist feel even more inorganic than it already is.

If the game left the twist at Sunny shoving Mari down the stairs, that probably would’ve been enough. However, it subsequently inserts Basil into the scene, him having bore witness to the argument and Mari’s murder. This doesn’t make sense on a logistical level because the game never explains how Basil managed to get inside Sunny’s house and why he was there in the first place. Not only does Basil not try to call an ambulance/find the nearest adult to help, he comes up with a plan to cover up Mari’s murder by framing it as a suicide. Basil’s multi-step plan is not something one would come up with in a situation of high anxiety and stress: it feels nearly premeditated, and at no step of the way does Basil seem to have had second thoughts, like one would if they were acting irrationally. Furthermore, the sheer tonal dissonance created by the fact that Basil of all people came up with an idea this demented isn’t disturbing as much as it is absurd. It reeks of the writer assuming that a topic like murder instantly makes a story Deep and Complex without putting any thought into it, and it seems Basil was written into the twist solely to absolve Sunny of any responsibility for the cover-up. 

Finally, the game inadvertently implies that Mari's suicide wasn't investigated properly, if at all. The clues indicating that she didn't hang herself are obvious, such as the fact that she seemingly used a jumping rope and her stockings being clean as opposed to stained with grass and mud from the ground around the tree. Such a break from reality isn't much of a significant problem, but it does become rather conspicuous once you notice it. Fans tend to theorize that Sunny's parents somehow knew the truth and possibly bribed the police into dropping the case, but there isn't enough concrete evidence to support this theory.

The knowledge of the twist is imperative to understanding just how aggressive and transparent the shilling becomes. Some of the most notable moments that explicitly demonstrate what the player is meant to think about Mari include divine light shining down on her grave in the town’s cemetery, her farewell to Sunny at the end of the North Lake segment, where she is briefly shown walking on water, and her brief conversation with Sunny in his house's piano room on One Day Left, where she apologizes to Sunny for “pushing him too hard”, implying that her brother killing her was somehow her fault.

Mari isn’t a character in her own right - she is the quintessential fridged woman, existing purely as the object fueling the main characters’ grief and being important only when the game needs to assure the player that Sunny killing his sister wasn’t much of a big deal. After all, even the person he killed is shown to forgive him for what he did.

Speaking of Sunny, his actions in the aftermath of the incident paint him as rather reprehensible. Not only does he vandalize Basil’s most precious belonging and then leave him alone, but he also chooses to lie by omission to his friends and his parents, letting them believe that they failed her because of the assumed nature of her death as a suicide. On top of all that, the game seems to heavily imply that Sunny blacked out the photos due to Omori’s influence; considering that Omori is apparently meant to be the personification of Sunny’s depression, this reads as a convenient way to absolve Sunny of any responsibility for his horrible actions by making his Evil Mental Illness the culprit.

It’s time to talk about this game’s depiction of mental illness, then.

[h4amarch]

Hi I’m on my OMORI (read: Kel) brainrot bullshit again so here we go.

Goes without saying, but SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF OMORI.

Nothing in the game is directly about Kel. The main plot revolves around resolving the misunderstanding between Aubrey and Basil, and every heavy moment regarding the effects of Mari’s death we see revolves around Hero (the nighttime piano scene, bringing Hero to the graveyard for his first ever visit, etc).

You know that scene where Kel talks to Sunny at the graveyard when they’re by themselves? When he talks about that fight between Hero and him, that’s the only in-game, overtly-stated evidence we get regarding how Kel grappled with the loss. As a result, a lot of fan-created content that deals with Kel’s grief mainly focuses on that fight, because it’s the only thing we’re given without digging under the plainly stated or shown. And you know what?

It’s still not about Kel. That entire scene, Kel is talking about how Hero became despondent, and how Hero reacted, and how Hero lashed out, and how Hero cried afterwards and apologized. Kel’s mention of himself in the equation, the part about his parents ignoring him in favor of comforting his older brother... that’s added almost as an unintentional afterthought. Immediately after it, Kel re-directs the topic back to Hero by saying he hugged and apologized to him, and talking about how he got back to school.

So in light of that, here’s some other evidence that people might miss, because Kel doesn’t talk about it.

Kel’s birthday: A lot of people have caught onto this one; the recital (and therefore Mari’s death) was in October, and Kel’s birthday, not shown in-game, is November. OMOCAT’s official art showing present-day Kel forcing past-Kel into a smile, both wearing party hats in front of a birthday cake, is most likely a reference to this.

Kel’s new friends: This one is a bit subjective, but; when Kel introduces Sunny to a few of his friends from school that he knows (Jay and Cris; Jay being a fellow sports kid and Cris being a swimmer), there’s a visible disconnect between them. For instance, Cris has been away to a different school for a while... and one of Jay’s first words to Kel is that he didn’t know he lived around here. This doesn’t mean they aren’t friends, of course! But from my experience of high school, you may not know where all your friends live... but you usually know where your close friends live.

Kel’s visits to Mari: Kel visits Mari’s grave a few times, as stated while the group goes to see her. But every time we visit her, whether it’s with Sunny or with the group, he’s always visibly uncomfortable or upset. He’s still grieving, still disheartened by it, just like everyone else. He probably isn’t any happier in the times he visits alone.

“Mari wouldn’t want this” + variants: Here’s a big one.

Kel says this to Hero, and also to Aubrey when he sees her bullying Basil. But the thing is... what about him? Sure, if Mari were around, she would probably hate to see Hero trapped in his bed, or Aubrey hurting Basil... but in the end, it’s Kel who’s around to see these things happening, and it’s Kel who finds issue with them. Instead of saying that he doesn’t want Hero to rot away, or that it hurts him to see his friends fighting, he brings up Mari. Why not just say what he feels? Well... it’s probably because it’s never worked before.

Think about it; I’m sure Kel has talked about how much he wants Hero to get out of bed, and how much he doesn’t want Aubrey to go down her destructive path. But we see evidence of this not working, in the form of Hero staying in bed for almost a year anyway, and in the form of Aubrey brushing him off. Talking about Mari gets an emotional reaction out of them; talking about himself doesn’t. And I don’t know if he consciously knows this, but he’s definitely internalized it.

I just think that’s really depressing.