#Also I don't know what Omori is saying here but Sunny is Not Amused

[ariaverde]

Pic of Witch!Sunny from @sirenspells's AU, but with a different cloak. I like to think the cabin Sunny found was once inhabited by a different witch, and some of their stuff was left untouched thanks to ~*magic*~. This cloak is one of those items. The idea of Sunny running off into the woods and becoming a witch hermit with his snarky familiar Omori speaks to me on a fundamental level.

Moon/night motif instead of Sun for Sunny since the moon is more connected to illusions than the sun is, which is the kind of magic Sunny specializes in. Plus, Sunny brings his traumas to life and haunts the woods with shadow monsters. Night motif fits better here.

[coreyww]

Omori Fic Recs: In Which Sunny is Bad at Naming Things

(Link to AO3. Written by @enby-peep )

So ... I say this without exaggeration ... this is the funniest fic in any fandom I've ever been in that I have ever read. Ever. I'm about to go into detail but I'm just going to put the most important thing at the top: if you have played Omori and enjoyed the characters in it, and you like comedy, please read this.

... okay so now that we got that out of the way, let me elaborate.

So this fic is a chatfic that takes place after the events of the True Ending. (I want to emphasize I don't typically prefer chatfics THAT much but this is so good that honestly it doesn't even matter. Besides, it has some extended prose passages later on as well). It is mostly episodic funny slice-of-life stories, but there is an ongoing plot running through it at the start where it is Kel, Aubrey, and Hero dealing with finding out The Truth and coming to terms with all that, while Basil and especially Sunny sort of ... avoid talking about it much for a while. Which SOUNDS really dramatic, and it is, but most of the drama and heavy elements happen in the background, while the focus is just ... REALLY fun banter and great characterization for everyone in the cast (and not just the main cast, because other characters get fleshed out later, especially the Hooligans, and especially the Maverick who is just ... just so entertaining every time he's around). The drama is always present, but rarely is it something the characters themselves choose to focus on for very long simply. And it works, it gives it a lot of depth in addition to the hilarious writing.

We could be here all day if I went into everything the author does right for all the characters, but the best example and one that kinda gives you a good impression of what this fic is ... is how Sunny is characterized. So Sunny in the games is a silent protagonist and most of his characterization is kinda open to interpretation to some degree. In this fic, he is not silent, but he talks very rarely, often in very short sentences and even MORE often with single words. He comes off as blunt sometimes, and is very very VERY clearly dealing with a lot that he chooses not to talk about most of the time, and his way of covering that up is to often be .... eccentric, I guess is the best way to put it. One behavior you see very early on is Sunny sending Basil funny memes unprompted. And after Basil outright asks if they should talk about, you know, EVERYTHING that just happened during The Plot of the Game, and Sunny is basically like "yeah. Not right now though" and just sends more memes.

He also gets attached to the mice in his new house and later gets eyepatches with goofy designs on them. And also always says "good morning" whenever he's greeting someone after waking up, which is often at noon ... or five in the afternoon ... or three in the morning. Basically any time that's not actually morning.

He also likes bluntly stating things that ... make sense to absolutely no one he's speaking too but make perfect sense to anyone who has Played The Game and seen into Sunny's head a bit, which never fails to be amusing.

It is the most fun characterization of Sunny ever. Not that he never gets heavy because HE DOES, but he tries his best to avoid it even when he is being social which fits how I would picture him after the events of the game a lot.

But anyway ... if any of that sounded interesting to you, trust me, every character has that level of stuff going on, where they just have hilarious eccentricities that seem in character, but doesn't sacrifice the depth they have. And when the fic DOES focus on heavier moments, it does them really well (there is only exactly one scene where I thought Hero's dialogue was maybe too harsh even though the circumstances justified it and that's literally the only criticism I have of the entire fic and it's a minor nitpick in a largely really great scene that's a highlight of the whole thing.)

I cannot say enough good things about this fic. It has 25 chapters so far and I chewed through them in a couple days (and that was honestly me going slow due to Work and Childcare), and I'm still hungry for more.

If you like Omori, please read this if you haven't yet. It's amazing and I love it.