#And that Basil won't talk to me... Did I do something?

[kel-is-here]

“Hey there younger Kel. How’re things going?”

@tales-of-a-wilted-sunflower ‘s Sunny

"Oh, hey older Sunny!"

"And things are going fine!! How are things with you? What about the others?"

[humornaut]

An Analysis of Foreshadowing in Omori's Prologue

Hey everyone!

With the Omori manga's first chapter's release, one thing has been made clear: They are FLYING through the game. Unless they are doing something weird, the entire prologue segment has been moved to right after the Aubrey fight, a move I can only believe has been made so that the real world characters appear in the first chapter. I won't be making any judgements until I see how it all fits together (and maybe I won't make many judgments in general, I don't really consider myself a judgmental person for better or for worse), but it did get me thinking about how well Omori's prologue works in general! So today, I'd like to take some time to talk about that!

The Sidequests

The first things I want to mention are the side quests! I've mentioned it before (or maybe I haven't, I don't remember everything I've said), but nearly all the side quests in Headspace are symbolic on a meta level. A lot of people dismiss this as boring repetitiveness (perhaps true), but the vast majority of the side quests are about finding a lost item or individual. This is, of course, echoing the larger Headspace plot of Basil going missing. However, there is something about this concept that I'd like to point out using one of the sidequests!

In the quest "Whereabouts of Duckie Jr.", you are tasked with determining the whereabouts of Duckie Jr! Crazy, I know. Remember how I said that most of the sidequests are reminiscent of the quest to find Basil? Like 2 seconds ago? Well, this one is good for actually illuminating what is going on with that questline overall! Duckie Jr. and his family are references to a famous optical illusion in which a person can see either a duck or a bunny. Take a look at the house that the family lives in:

They live in a present! Now take a look at this!

"SUNNY won't leave the box, so KEL put a food bowl inside. I guess this box will be SUNNY and MEWO's new home."

So that's interesting! Add in the distant demeanor of Duckie Jr's father, as well as Mari's statements about Duckie having his head in the clouds and comparing Duckie to Omori, it becomes clear that Duckie in this situation is a reference to Sunny, not Basil. What does this mean? Well, it means that we should rethink the Headspace quest all together! The quest to find Basil is much more a quest for Sunny to re-find himself.

Now this (as well as the quest for the character Daisy that I have mentioned previously) is interesting, but it isn't exactly foreshadowing. For that, I would like to draw your attention to the sidequest Stick in the Mud.

In this quest, you must go around Cattail fields to find Mr. Scarecrows three crow friends, and have them return to him. In order to do this, you have to use Hero when interacting with the three crows.

I personally believe that this is a bit of foreshadowing to the Sunny route. Hero's maturity is necessary to bringing Sunny, Kel, and Aubrey back together and bringing them to Basil. I also choose to see Mr. Scarecrow as an analogue for Basil rather than Sunny due to the coloring of Mr. Scarecrow's sprite (Blond hair, blue eyes, green clothes), and Hero doesn't actually bring Basil specifically to anyone (heck, Hero doesn't actually ever talk to Basil in the real world segments of the game)

I also want to make clear: I'm not trying to imply that this is symbolism on the part of Sunny's mind, like a lot of the things that I talk about on this account, rather that this is a bit of meta storytelling foreshadowing how the real world plot will turn out. This will go for everything else that I talk about here as well.

Captain of the Space Pirates

Now that we've talked about the sidequests, I'd like to draw your attention to the main questline of Otherworld. As a reminder, once the gang gets into Otherworld, we are introduced to Captain Spaceboy, who is bedridden and depressed following his break-up with Sweetheart. In order to solve this problem, we have to go through the junkyard to find his mixtape. We aren't the only ones looking for it, and while there, we meet Rosa, a Sweetheart super-fan.

We get the mixtape back, bring it to Spaceboy, at which point Kel plays it, triggering Spaceboy to start his boss fight.

The argument for this all being one large bit of foreshadowing goes like this:

Spaceboy would be Basil (purely from a narrative perspective, not in any kind of character-sense). We go to the junkyard and dig through the trash to find the mixtape, just like we eventually get the photo album by digging through Aubrey's trash. Rosa in this case represents Aubrey, attempting to take care of the mixtape due to her personal connection to the item, revealing that Spaceboy is the one that threw it out in the first place, echoing how in the real world, Aubrey takes care of the photo album for four years due to what it means to her, despite how Basil (from her perspective) destroyed it originally.

We bring the mixtape back to Spaceboy, and just as Kel is the one that kicks off going through the photo album with Basil, he is the one that rushes to put the mixtape into the boombox, triggering the memories that set off Spaceboy, causing the fight.

Admittedly, things get a little cloudy here, as the fight between Sunny and Basil isn't directly caused by the photo album. You could even say that the Spaceboy fight represents the fight with Omori (or even both the Basil fight AND the Omori fight) due to Omori's fight being due to Sunny's mind reacting to memories of the past, better mirroring the Spaceboy fight. But hey! Spaceboy's hair turns green and his eyes turn red so who can say. :P

Then, after the fight, we get a few things! We get an eyepatch (goes without saying), a train pass (representing how Sunny will be moving after the conclusion of the game), and a sno-cone ticket (yeah I don't think this one represents anything).

And, just like the Sunny route, the prologue ends with an early look at Memory Lane, and the dream ends, with Sunny waking up.

There's probably a lot more I could talk about regarding Omori's prologue, so I might update this later! I hope you enjoyed reading this! Within the game, I feel like the prologue is one of the strongest bits of Headspace, and I've always wanted to talk about how I believe it foreshadows the rest of the game! This is a topic that I'd love to hear more people's opinion on!

[woodchipp]

Thank you for spelling out your character development, Aubrey! You really needed to because you didn't actually have it in the first place, but the game needs to pretend as if you did!

"I felt like everyone abandoned me... and abandoned MARI too..."

I'd like to note the way Aubrey phrases this line. Mari is tacked on at the end of the sentence as if she's an afterthought.

Considering how self-centered Aubrey has shown herself to be over the course of the game, it reads more as "Everyone abandoned me, goddammit! oh and there's that dead girl too ig"

It's very subtle and intricate writing when your characters rant about their foibles to the audience as if they're standing in a confessional.

"After SUNNY stopped coming to school..."

Which he did on a whim, apparently. Nowhere in the game is it stated or implied he was homeschooled or granted some special exemption.

Also... the writer... totally... isn't... overusing... ellipses...

"I just wanted to go through the photos, because... well... I guess I just wanted to see everyone happy again."

It always circles back to Aubrey and what she wants. It didn't occur to her to leave Basil's things alone since going through the album might bring up some painful memories for him. No, all that mattered is that she wanted to "see everyone happy again," even if that makes those same people miserable now.

Aubrey is an asshole.

"All of our memories together..."

Because the giant "BASIL'S MEMORIES" on the album's cover wasn't convincing enough for her, apparently.

I have already touched on this in other posts, but for the purposes of this one, I have to reiterate.

1) Aubrey's immediate reaction to a perceived slight was to basically disown her close friend of God knows how many years (even though she had no reason to blame him, nor did she let him explain himself) and make a conscious choice to start harassing him. Because that's what strong friendship is, isn't it?

2) She conveniently doesn't specify other "things like that" she called Basil, which implies she might have called him something way worse than "creep"

As you should.

You won't get to do anything about that, though, because the story is going to shift its focus to Sunny in a few minutes anyway.

Peak writing!

And now she's turned on the waterworks because the game's running short on time allotted to her "character arc", so we need to pity her as fast as possible.

I find it funny how the fact Aubrey nearly killed Basil back at their old hangout spot the day prior is not directly brought up or addressed by her at any point of her rant. Her sudden breakdown would have made more sense if it came after her admitting how guilty she actually feels about the accident because she crossed a line or something like that. Nothing of the sort happens, and all we ever get is a vague "What I've been doing is worse than what BASIL did"

BULLYING PEOPLE IS NOT A "MISTAKE". IT IS A DELIBERATE DECISION YOU MAKE.

FUCK YOU.

(also, Sunny taking a few steps back instead of trying to comfort his friend like Hero and Kel speaks more of his character than the game ever could)

"I'm going to acknowledge I'm a shitty friend, but you're not going to see me develop! What do you take me for? An important character?"

"sorry I didn't put my life on hold to keep you all from turning on each other because I'm this group's singular braincell, apparently :<"

Yes, they don't deserve an asshole like you as a friend.

Sunny and Aubrey are both friends no one deserves, actually. One is so unreliable he walked out on his bestie when said bestie was at his most vulnerable and the other harassed her friend for four years just because she assumed he wronged her

Hero's argument to convince Aubrey she does care about her friends after all omits the fact she stole one of her friends' property and then bullied said friend because of it.

Love that no one gives a shit about Basil in this game.

And you couldn't say this while you were talking to her in the church on Three Days Left because...?

>>"We should all be here for each other!" >>Sunny is due to move town the next day

fucking lmao

And that's it! Aubrey's redemption is official!

Except it literally took a single poorly-written rant. And a hug.

Because that's peak writing.

143/10 once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece would absolutely kill my sister because I couldn't watch the TV for as long as I want again

[dj-bynum3718]

Of Fire and Ice - chapter 2

Melissa Schemmenti X reader X Larissa Weemes   

Summary: The dinner and questioning 

Words: 2367    

Notes: so this is going better than I thought I'm kinda living for it!  Thank you all for the love and support its really making me want to just get this out as fast as I can!! 

Wanings: slight talk of discrimination.  

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3:45 the last kiddo from your class finally leaves you take that as a sign to get the heck out of there you don’t want to be cornered before the dinner. You gather your belongings and rush out of the school to your vehicle leaving to go pick up some ingredients for dinner.   

You can feel them watching you pull out of the parking lot you see Melissa and Barbara standing on the steps to the school. You don’t acknowledge them.  

Dinner tonight was supposed to just be leftovers from this weekend but now you actually have to put in effort since people will be coming over. It was lunch when you decided on penne arrabbiata. Your unintentional need to impress Melissa coming to head. So, you go out and buy some fresh parmesan, the rest you have at home, always going to the famers market on Saturdays. You have since picked up some new wines for your collection, so you won't need to get any more and for dessert well you did make some mini cheesecakes yesterday so those will have to do.  

Its 5:00 by the time you get home you immediately set to work on getting yourself ready just because you see these people every day doesn’t mean you don’t want to look nice when they come to your house.

6:30 you have finished touching up your make up and have changed into something comfortable letting your hair out of its messy bun and fixing the loose curls you had this morning. “meh good enough” you say to your reflection. 

6:35 you are starting on dinner it only takes about 20 minuets to finish the meal. When the bell rings you flick your wrist and suddenly the dining room table is set. You open the door and see all your friends waiting. “hey, come on in everything is ready” you motion with your hand to let them come in. 

“mmmh smells good hun what did you make? I can smell the fresh basil from here.” Melissa looks at you, she looks beautiful, she has changed into comfortable clothes herself and it should be illegal to look that good. You swallow your throat suddenly dry. “oh um penne arrabbiata.” she smirks at you oh god why does she do that. “a woman after my own heart I can’t wait to try it.” she winks at you walking into the house with the others.  

You close the door heading to the dining room. “come on in I don’t bite. Well unless you want me too” you joke looking back at them. “Guys I'm kidding” They all sit down at the table and you pull out 3 bottles of nice wine  

This peaks Barbaras interest as she hands you, her glass. You pour everyone some wine and serve the food. You hear the collective sigh as everyone takes a bite, Melissas hand lands on your free one as she nods in approval. Your brain short circuits as you take a big gulp of your wine.  

“so, how do you want to go about the questions” Jacob askes from his place at the table besides Janine. You let out a sigh and lean back against your chair. “Why don’t y’all take turns, we can start with Melissa and work our way around the table. Sound good?” they all nod as you turn your way to Melissa. “Okay beautiful we will start with you.” you don’t know where the bout of confidence came from, but her smile made it worth it. 

“So what kind of outcast are you? We know there are many different kinds so?” wow starting strong “I'm a witch I come from a long line. Don’t worry, the stories make us seem worse than we really are. She nods taking in your answer. 

Barbara takes her turn next “So you can do magic like the movies?” “Well yes kinda but it’s a bit more than that its connected to emotions yes but with practice I can use it for most things.  

“So, this school you went to it’s like a boarding school?” Gregory asks. “Yes, it’s been around since 1791.” you respond. 

“Is it only for outcast or can anyone go?” Janine askes “we have a few normies every so often, but they are rare and far between it is open to anyone but not many people feel comfortable with us.” 

Jacob looks at you now “what is the curriculum like?” “well we have the normal stuff but then some more specialized stuff too.” you respond 

“Who is this lady?” Ava holds out her phone to show the official nevermore page. Showing you a picture of Larissa. Your breath hitch's she is just a beautiful as you remember her. Those blue eyes piercing your soul all over again. You swallow hard before answering. “That is Larissa Weems the headmistress of Nevermore Acadamy” 

Melissa noticed the change in you immediately. “Who was she to you?” “My ex-girlfriend” you let out a sigh and look at her making eye contact calmed you immediately. 

Barbara takes her next turn “is that why you were upset this morning? Is she going to be there?” you simply nod your head in response.  

Melissa skips the others to ask her next question “when was the last time you saw her? And how long did you date?” You look to her confused as you can hear her voice waver. You grab Ava’s phone “we dated for 4 years, and I haven’t seen her in about 6. It looks like time has been good to her” you turn the phone to her “oh she is beautiful” you can hear the emotion in her voice, but you can't place it. “I was going to propose to her but then things started getting hard and I didn’t fight for her.” you shrug. 

Gregory raises his hand. “Yes?” you respond. “Can I go now Melissa Skipped me” you nod to him “cool so like you can do magic can you show us some?”  

You grin flicking your wrist and suddenly the table is cleared, and desert is on the table in front of them. You hear a collective gasp and Jacob claps. “Oh, that would come in handy.” Barbara responds.  

You nod “I use it more than I care to admit” you respond sheepishly thinking back on all the times you have used it in secret at school. The rest of the night goes on like this them asking you responding.

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“Well, I do believe we all have to teach tomorrow. “ Barbara says standing “I'm going to take my leave thank you for an amazing dinner and enlightening evening.” the others nod and stand walking with her to the door. All leaving except Melissa who stayed on the couch as you walked them out. 

“You, okay?” you ask her from the doorway. She looks up at you and nods clearly there is something on her mind. You take her hand in yours and sit across from her. “Mel?”  

“What if I go with you?” she asked now you are confused. “What?” you respond not getting what she is referring to. 

“What if I went as your date to your reunion? I could be your fake girlfriend and you can show her that you are better now.” 

“I-I um Mel I can’t ask that of you it's a lot.” you are looking into her eyes now. “But you aren't askin I'm offering... so what do you say?” 

“lets do it” you nod grinning. 

10:45 Mel has already gone home, and you are filling out your RSVP and plus one paperwork. So maybe today wasn’t the worst day but now you have a whole other thing to worry about but till then that can be a problem for future you.  

[winniethewife]

Believe in one thing, I won't go away

(Basil Stitt x Reader)

Chapter 1: I only felt the thorns

Warning: Acid attack, Knife violence, angst, Revenge,

Prologue

Words: 1207

“When you get back, you promise you’ll give us a try?” Basil asks for the tenth time since she had said that she had to go home and deal with some things before she moved here to New York to help him out, to be the one that doesn’t leave, when she came on the Red Eye flight a few week before, she was not expecting all the old feelings of a childhood crush to come back up, much less for them to be reciprocated.

“Of course Basil, I said I would, that isn’t going to change” She holds his face gently as to not irritate the scaring on his face. She smiles as she looked into his eyes. “I’ll be back before you know it, I just got to get everything packed in boxes and my roommate will ship them here. My boss already approved my work from home request until they can transfer me to the New York branch, It’ll be fine, it might take a week, probably less.” She had gone over the plan many times but she knows how much more anxious he is now. How no one had responded well to his breakdown, how alone he really felt.

“Okay, Okay. I’m sorry I just, I’ve gotten used to you being here, and I don’t know what to do.” Basil sighs and leans in to kiss her forehead, a smile appears on her face, as he does so.

“Hey, we go it figured out, I helped you with all that meal prep for a reason. And I’ll call you every night. It’ll be okay.”

When she gets back home, she starts to pack right away. Every night she and Basil talk on the phone before he goes to bed. Every night she promises she still wants him. and every night he believes her a little bit more. It was the night before she was supposed to leave. She goes out for drinks with friends, there’s a pretty bad thunder storm that evening. It reminds her of Basil, she is definitely glad for this send off with friends but she honestly can’t wait to See Basil the next day. As she left the bar she noticed that someone was following her. She grabs her keys interlacing her fingers ready to turn and jab this guy, but just as she turns to confront the guy, she was knocked to the ground, her hands pinned to the ground. She looked at her attacker and her blood runs cold. Jeffery, her ex.

“What the fu-“He covers her mouth.

“I heard you’re leaving for some guy in New York. I hear he’s a real catch… too bad you won’t be when I’m done with you, I’m gonna make sure you regret leaving me.”

The next thing she knows is she feels a burning on her face as he pours something on her face, she screams before blacking out from the pain.

~

When she woke up in the hospital she felt like she had been to hell and back. Every inch of her body hurt. Nothing felt right, she felt like she wasn’t herself anymore. As she sits up in bed she looks around the room. Why can’t she see out of her left eye? Her next thought is Basil. She’s got to call him. She starts to get out of the bed trying to figure out what was going on around her. That’s when she sees her reflection in the window pane. The left side of her face... A nurse comes rushing in.

“Woah there careful.” The nurse came to help steady her.

“I’m supposed to fly to New York today, my friend is waiting for me.”

“I’ll get you a phone to call your friend and call to reschedule your flight.”

~

Basil is pacing the apartment. She didn’t call the night before. What happened? He was coming up with every worst case scenario in his head before his phone starts to ring. He scrambles to grab the phone accepting the call as quickly as he can.

“Hello?”

“Basil”

“Oh thank god, when you didn’t call last night I was worried.”

“Uhm… I’m gonna be out here a couple more days, I rescheduled my flight for Sunday.”

“Wha? Why? Did something happen?”

“Yeah. I’m in the hospital. My ex Jeffery…he attacked me last night. Apparently he found out about me moving in with you.”

“Oh my god. Are you okay? Do you want me to come see you?” Basil was so concerned for her the worry of his own disfigurement slipped his mind.

“No, no, I got it…”

“If you’re sure”

“I’m sure.” She says with a confidence she doesn’t really feel. She doesn’t even want to tell him about her face. Avoiding the idea at all costs.

When she hung up Basil felt a rage he hadn’t felt since the lighting strike. He throws his Phone to the side and screams. He couldn’t believe he let her go back alone, he can’t believe he let her leave in the first place. There was no way she would ever be his, if someone would hurt her because of him? Why would she ever want to be his?

~

When she does get to New York, It is with her hood pulled up around her face and with only the determination to get away from the city as fast as she can. The acid scaring across her cheek and the knife wound across her left eye were enough of a reminder, she didn’t need to see the place it happened every day. When she gets to Basils Apartment. It takes everything in her power to open the door, she didn’t want him to see her like this. Basil was pacing near the entry way for her to show and once she did he was over joyed, He pulled her in for an embrace.

“God, I missed you. I really fucking missed you.” He’s laughing and crying at the same time. She hides in his chest. Hoping to all hope this will go better than she feels like it will. He pulls away and pulled down her hood intent on kissing her there and then if she would let him, but instead he’s confronted with what happened. He looks at her in stunned silence. He feels the immense guilt come over him in a wave. If she had never left, if he went with her, if he hadn’t called her in the first place, this would never have happened. He gently takes her chin and turns her wounded side to the light, he felt like it was his fault. The tears continue to run down his face as he pulls her in again, burying his face in her hair, taking in her scent. “I’m sorry.”

“You don’t need to be sorry. You didn’t do this.” She couldn’t understand what he was apologizing for, he didn’t ask for this to happen when she was gone.  She was intensely afraid, of him not wanting her around anymore, of not being able to keep her promise, to take care of him. How could she take care of anyone like this? She had managed to get to New York. Now what?

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My thoughts on omori secret/true ending. and all points of forgiveness.

Sunny's main strength in telling the truth is he believes his friends will forgive him and basil. he have to trust them because his biggest fear is they would hate him and not forgive him. After Sunny faints after his fight with Basil, Basil says:

İ also thinks this is Basil's spirit/thoughts. Because “My thoughts will follow you into your dreams”. İ think we see first time normal Basil here.

later, Sunny takes his broken violin. The violin was a gift from his friends. It represents the bond between them. He broke this bond by breaking the violin. He is repairing the violin by remembering his memories with his friends in memory lane. Sunny will use the violin in BACK STAGE and omori fight.

Oh don't forget to seashell necklace. You can use seashell necklace in omori fight too

"to help you remember your friends" Remembering his friends make him stronger

and at BACK STAGE his friends say they will always be best friends with him. Hero says that Sunny has to trust his friends, that he has lived with this pain for a very long time, that he will be there for him because he wants to and they will cheering him in omori fight. Aubrey emphasize their friendship by saying that Sunny always has time for her and she can always count on him for that. Kel says they missed each other over the years but it doesn't have to be like that anymore, people always call him careless but he will always be there for Sunny, doing something bad doesn't make you a bad person and they will always be best friends.

AUBREY:

"You know... before we met.I had a lot of trouble fitting in...

Even after we all became friends... I always assumed you were going to leave me eventually.

But... when the others were busy doing things.... you always seemed to have time for me.

You would listen to me talk for hours and

hours... I could always rely on you to do that."

Kel: "People always tell me that I'm dense or that I'm kinda careless... but I'll always be here if you're okay with that! Just because you've done something bad... doesn't make you bad. And... We really hope that this isn't goodbye. You can do this, SUNNY! I promise to stick with you until the very end! Yeah... I think we'll always be best friends. That's okay with you too, right?"

Hero: "SUNNY... We know that you're not someone who likes to take the lead. This has been really hard for you. But... you have to put a little bit of trust in us, too.(for forgive) You've had to live with this pain for so long... and you've been keeping it all inside. It might be easier to ignore your problems, but it's okay to cry about them too. There's more good times to come. Life gets better... and you can be the one to make that happen. But we're here for you because you want us to be. Keep us in your thoughts. We'll be cheering you on."

All speechs

In the omori fight, omori says that his friends will hate him, they will abandon him and he will never gain their trust again for hurting them. This is Sunny's fear

OMORI: "Your friends will never forgive you. They'll abandon you like you did to them... and that's what you deserve.

You're nothing but a liar... and when they see the truth... They'll hate you as much as you hate yourself.

If they know the truth, you'll never be able to regain their trust. No matter what you do, it will be hopeless. All you'll do is make things worse."

But Sunny can keep fighting with remember these words from his friends.

KEL: "Friends... Friends are supposed to be there for each other. "

AUBEY: "I hope you can find some peace... or you know... some happiness."

HERO: "We made the mistake of leaving each other when we needed each other the most. This time... we'll stay together."

BASIL: "Maybe one day... things can go back to the way they were before."

His friends support is necessary for continue to fight. The hope that his friends won't abandon him and that everything will be as before keeps him fighting against omori. and Sunny beats omori by playing the last duet with Mari and remembering all the memories with his friends and that's how Omori found out he was wrong with Sunny's friends

Sunny dreamed of going on adventures with his friends for 4 years and hanged out in real life unknown years . They are so important for him. Now he will don't care them?

looking at all this. How could Sunny, who wasn't very good at smiling, smile like that at the secret ending? Because he betrayed his friends ? Because he destroy the friend group again before leaving? Because he leave Basil alone with the consequences? would Sunny smile if that was the case? Sunny could smile like that if he see his friends like that before he moving? But Sunny's motivation is obvious right?

Also Sunny told the truth, knowing Basil's wish, fear of being alone, and that himself moving soon. And Basil smile back Sunny. what is does that mean? i think answer is obvious

OMOCAT says in this tweet what omori is about.

>After OMORI, I understand why I love MOTHER a bit better now. For me, MOTHER is a story about hope. It's about finding the willpower to do something impossible, overcoming grief and pain, and the unwavering strength of friendship. Perhaps the genres of the games are different, but OMORI is about that too.

- story about hope. It's about finding the willpower to do something impossible, overcoming grief and pain, and the unwavering strength of friendship. -

if OMORI is about these. it would be nonsense doesn't get to these conclusions right?

this shows that Sunny and Basil are forgiven and they are still together.

İt's not open ended!

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İ think its showed enough reason for why friends Understand and forgive Basil and Sunny .

Sunny hasn't been out for 4 years, was malnourished, his father left him, and he lost an eye. Hero knows sunny hates being alone "So where should we sleep, SUNNY? Probably somewhere in your room, right? I remember you used to hate sleeping alone."

Also, while playing hide and seek at the beginning of the game, his friends say that he doesn't like to be alone and they worry about him. So probably they know as well

they promised to be there for each other no matter what.

KEL: Friends... Friends are supposed to be there for each other.

HERO: We made the mistake of leaving each other when we needed each other the most. This time... we'll stay together.

it's impossible to didn't see Sunny's pain and regret. he was malnourished, did not go out for 4 years and now he lost his eye. Friends knew Mari loved him.

AUBREY:I'll never forget that moment that she carried you out of the lake. And when you finally opened your eyes, she fell on top of you and burst into tears. ... I had never seen her that way before...

HERO: MARI really loved you, Sunny. You know that, don't you?

and they know Sunny loved mari too.

They have to know Sunny is good person. they must have seen it with the flowers around his hospital bed. He helped the whole town. (I take universally loved achievement as canon). They have to knowing that such a person would not knowingly want to do something bad and would regret it if he did. especially to his friends. Especially to his sister. (Sunny didn't even push Mari strong enough to cause fall Mari have a bad knee and there's broken violin on the floor) And if Sunny cries while confessing, Aubrey, kel and hero will definitely understand. They will understand his regret. They have to know things can go back to the way they were before. they were hanging out normally before telling the truth. why does this have to be ruined after saying? The entire point of the reality segment is to show you how the group is not doomed, how they can recover, and how they might in time be close the way they used to be. Arguing against that idea is pretty much confirming what Omori was telling Sunny in their fight.

Sunny and Basil also loved Mari. and suffered from what happened obviously. now they can all leave behind everything they've been through together. It's nonsense that friends get together just to break up again. It's nonsense that things go bad again when things getting better. I don't believe this is intented

Hero and Kel's fight is similar to Mari and Sunny's. this may help them better understand the situation accident

Sunny's thoughts of his friends

They have to know very well what mari would want

Hero: But I knew her as a person who would always want all of us to be happy, even if it was without her.

Kel: Look at all of us back together again... MARI would be so happy for us!

Kel: But, yeah... it's true. I know we'll always be there for each other. Just like I know that MARI's still here with us too.

Opinions from other people why they would forgive

Hero, the one who beats himself up for "failing" Mari and being unable to keep everyone together, gets a weight off his shoulders knowing Mari didn't commit suicide. And he promised that he'd keep the group together. Plus, he's studying to become a doctor and would be able to recontextualize all of Sunny's actions. People always act like Hero would hate him but that is so off base it's unreal. Hero would probably be the first to genuinely understand Sunny's mindset.

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also my point of view on this. I feel like Hero would sympathize with Sunny because he also went through a hikikomori phase, one year to be exact ,but he still had family around him, he still had his brother and in the end that saved him from this sedentary state that he was in and he managed to recover. Now think about it, Sunny , who killed his sister the only one who has ever been shown to protect him, was stuck for 4 years in this cycle with no one to get him out. I think that Hero would actually be the first one to hug him...because he went through a similar experience and more than that, it is what Mari would have wanted, she would have wanted for them to be happy again.

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Aubrey would definitely be the one to really care about what happened to Sunny and Basil tbh. She legit knows what it's like to hurt someone you care about, and I feel like she'd be pretty much, like, not even forgiveness. Just comforting from the start.

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It is also no accident that Aubrey pushing Basil into the lake and almost killing him (and Sunny) is juxtaposed with Sunny pushing Mari and killing her. The player is supposed to see Aubrey in this state, and understand (like the rest of the group does) that it was an accident. It could happen to anyone; someone’s life can be ended in a second. I think it’s unlikely that the group would break up and never speak to each other again. I also think it’s unfair and frankly naive to think that the only “realistic” end to this story is a sad one. That seems to suggest that people who have gone through trauma can never move on, and the point of the game is to suggest otherwise. 

hero and Kel understood Aubrey's situation and how she was feeling. Even hero said before talking to her.

Hero: "What? That was AUBREY back there?No way... She wouldn't do that to BASIL. I'm sure there was some kind of misunderstanding."

(yes, Kel was angry at Aubrey when she pushed Basil into the lake, but at that moment Kel thought Aubrey did it on purpose at that time. and all that talking she did before she push Basil to lake is effective to Kel think this way. Basil was not blocking her way and she was the one who yell at Basil and she bullied Basil every time she saw him. Of course he would mad at her at that time. He always tried to talk he but she all she do is cause trouble and this make Kel give up on her. later at Aubrey's house, After talking and putting photos to photo album with her, Kel understood Aubrey did not purposely pushed Basil into the lake and how she regret for that.) She have a bad home life, no father, catatonic mom , she felt abonded and now she regret what she did to Basil and other things. AUBREY: "Sniff... I don't...I don't deserve friends like you."

Also, Sunny was 12 years old. Aubrey is 16. and Sunny has been alone for 4 years while everyone goes to check on Aubrey 1 day after she pushed Basil. they have to understand Sunny's regret

Basil... Basil's grandma dead, he has no parents to be by his side since he was toddler, bullied for 4 years, almost died in lake, he did not lose his eye but he beaten up enough to go to the hospital. and maybe they know he attempt suicide (unintentionally. I know he is hallucinating). You would leave alone someone like this? Friends went to sleep over at Basil's house to see how is Basil was and not to leave him alone.and it would be nonsense if they just left him alone after that. especially in this situation. Basil also doesn't want to be alone again. His friends means everything for him. He connected his friends with flowers and took pictures of them. photo album is his most precious belonging. he can't handle loneliness again, and this time he's grandma is dead.

BASIL: I don't... want to be... alone... not again. You... can't... leave me... again...(to sunny. Before the fight)

so why he smile to Sunny in the end if he would lonely again? I think Basil's wish is happen. BASIL: Maybe one day... things can go back to the way they were before.

This is the only way that fit writing wise/story wise. I have a hard time believing that anyone would smile after losing 3/4 of their best friends after their biggest fear is being alone, hated by his friends and their dream is about trusting them. Yeah.. this is what intented

I want share this blog (use translate)

[goldrushzukka]

10, 17, 21, 29 🤔

hi my love

10. Is there a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

i never ever ever thought aidays would get the attention it did. granted it was originally supposed to be 3 chapters of angst-less romcom hijinks, so of course i didn't expect it to blow up as much as it has bc it also blew up in my own mind to become this huge story. the encouragement when i decided to expand it a bit was amazing, and even better was the theorising and close reading that came when i decided to expand it a Lot. (and this is so cheesy but thank you so much to you specifically michelle for loving aidays enough that i noticed and befriended you bc i would not have finished it without you ily)

17. What’s something you’ve learned about while doing research for a fic?

none of my writing has ever gone into much detail on anything technical so i dont really have a good answer for this except for all the times i learned americans have so many different words for things that really do not need a different word. also some irish-isms are so deeply ingrained in me that it takes saying them out loud in an american accent to hear how wrong it sounds for my narration.

21. Have you ever deleted an entire scene after spending hours laboring over it? If so, why?

29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic. (If you don’t have either, just share a random fic idea you have that you don’t plan on getting to.)

these two have the same answer so I'll just do them together. in my original draft of aidays11, the scene where sokka goes to get groceries actually had a zukka interaction. i wrote about 1.5k words and then realised i hated all of them and scrapped the scene entirely, and then that supermarket trip became just an excuse to get sokka outside into the rain for the sparks fly/how you get the girl climax moment. i won't post the full scene here bc i truly do actually hate most of it but here's some of it

His shoe squeaks on the linoleum when he stops dead in his tracks.  Zuko, examining the skin of a peach three feet away, looks up at the sound. “Oh,” he says, setting the peach down. Several expressions flash across his face, and Sokka can’t get a read on any of them. “Hey.” The first thing out of Sokka’s mouth, before he can stop it, before he can even think, is, “What are you doing here?” Zuko blinks at him. “Sorry, that was – sorry,” Sokka says. He shouldn’t get any closer, but he does, approaching the fruit stand and cutting the distance between them in half. Like that’ll help him think straight. “This is just – I mean, isn’t there a supermarket closer to your place? This is a little out of your way, isn’t it?” Okay, so there are less rude ways to ask that. Ways that don’t make it sound like Sokka’s being territorial about the fucking produce section. But Sokka doesn’t know how to talk about anything normal right now, especially not with Zuko, because all he can think about is last chances and leaps of faith and his own terrible, terrible wanting.  Is this what it’s going to be like forever? Unable to have a normal interaction without almost spilling every secret he’s ever had, every desire that holds his heart for ransom? Forever crushed under the foot of the elephant in the room? “Azula needs something specific for a recipe she’s working on,” Zuko says. He holds his hands by his sides in a way that Sokka thinks is very intentional. “Our place doesn’t have it. Well, no, it does, but I brought it home and she threatened me with a knife, so I guess our place doesn’t have the right one.” He smiles a little as he says it, and for a second, Sokka forgets about the last chances and the leaps of faith and the terribleness of his wanting. He forgets about Katara and Jet and Suki and the what-does-it-all-mean headache he’s had since waking.  For a second, Sokka is standing in the produce section and the man he loves is smiling at him. Zuko asks, “Do you know where the basil is?”

And Sokka says, “Yeah. Do you need it dried or fresh?” “Fresh, I think.” “Okay. This way.” Sokka leads him to the tiny garden section, right by a big window at the end of the frozen food section. It’s mostly flower bouquets and succulents, but there’s a handful of potted plants under a cheerful sign encouraging customers to start their own herb gardens.  Sokka hands a potted basil plant to Zuko. “There’s a little card in there that tells you how to take care of it.” “Oh, cool,” Zuko says. “Thank you.” “We had one for a little while,” Sokka says, astonished at himself for being able to carry this conversation as far as he has. “We kept it in Suki’s room.” “Your room gets better light, though.” Something awful and bright as a star twists inside Sokka’s chest. “Yeah, but Suki was the one who remembered to water it. And then Momo got at it, and we had to throw away two sets of sheets.” Zuko throws his head back laughing, the same way he did last night and a hundred times before then, and that awful star inside him expands, exploding as he thinks, maybe this is it.  But Zuko says, “Thanks. I’ll see you.” And it isn’t. Sokka lets him go, because what else is there to do? If Zuko wanted to stay, he would. If Zuko wanted to talk about last night, he would. If Zuko wanted to choose him, he would.

[ask-the-ddlcxpjsk-gang]

Welcome!

Welcome to our wonderful masterpiece of a club! Be honored that your upperclassmen had the time to spare to make such an arrangement for you to join on this fine day!

oh boy... Tsukasa, leave them alone... sorry about that... it's nice to have you here, i'm Kusanagi Nene.

HWEH!?!? NEW MEMBER?? hi there! I'm Ootori Emu! Emu means smile~! We'll make sure this is a WONDERHOY club for you!! ⭐

Kamishiro Rui, president of the theater club, it's a pleasure to meet you~ Ah- did Tsukasa already explain what we do in the club?

Sadly, we only write scripts for plays in this club, as this school doesn't have access to a stage, but we still hope you have a good time here. our goal is to ensure the happiness of all who read our works~

and of course... me! TENMA TSUKASA!! WORLDA FUTURE STAR!! TENMA MEANING-

they already know who you are, don't even bother.

Stuff to know under

OOC:

Welcome to my DDLC X PJSK AU!!

Here's just some stuff you should know:

I have not played DDLC, but watched a playthroughs and other stuff surrounding DDLC, please don't come for me if some lore here is different than the game-

there won't always be drawings, but I will try to make drawings sometimes, it'll mostly be writing though

this will work different from the game... cus... this is tumblr-

there will be much less emphasis on the dating sim part of DDLC, and it'll be more like having friendships with them instead of dating

Trigger warnings for possible things in the future: Suicide, glitches, swearing (this'll be updated as time goes on)

Updates may be VERY inconsistent

This is my first time doing something like this, it is probably very likely I will fuck something up

If you'd like to speak to me, refer to me as basil <3 (anyone else use their names)

You will be clumped together as "one person" with the name Kaidan when wxs talks to you

with that said, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show <3

Main account: @boiledbasil

[vellatra]

Path of Radiance - Alternate Outcome Fic

I was plumbing the depths of my old, often unfinished, Tellius fanfics (may or may not have to do with the Tellius Big Bang event!), and found this one... enjoy! Or don't. :P ;)

– Almedha –

Crickets were chirping in the distance as I stood in the courtyard, counting the constellations. I thought of my son. Did anyone teach him the constellations? I might never know....

Clink.

I started and looked round. “Who's that?!”

Clinkety-clink-clank. The hedges at the edge of the courtyard rustled and gave way as a dark shape appeared within them. Something jingled as the figure shuffled out onto the flagstones, clutching his stomach with one hand. The breeze picked up. Suddenly I knew a lot about my visitor. He was a man of my country, he hadn't washed in several days, and his whole aura was rank with fear. And I knew exactly who he was.

“How did you get here?” I gasped, coming to meet him. “Are you ill? What's the matter? Say something!”

My brother shivered, and hugged me. I could feel a broken chain hanging off his wrists. He brought his lips to my ear and hissed – a low, trembling whisper.

“I came to... f-find you. You need to escape. It's v-very... bad. You're in d-danger. Unngh!” He convulsed in pain, and gripped his stomach again.

“I can't leave my son here,” I said. “What's wrong with you? Why are you chained?”

“H-have... to go,” he groaned, leaning against me. “Ashnard's... hurting us. K-killing us. He's got me. Y-you have to run... while you can....”

“What are you talking about? ...Rajaion!!” for he had crumpled to the ground and lay there, moaning.

“G-g-go,” he whimpered, writhing a little. “Hurry... May....” The shifting began.

“Rajaion?!” I said again. He growled and reverted.

“Leave me,” he hissed. “I'm l-losing my mind. I might... hurt you....” He groaned and shifted again, clawing at the flagstones in anguish.

“What have they done to you?!”

My brother fixed me with a hard, fierce stare. A low rumble started deep in his chest, then burst out in a roar as he snapped at me. I sprang back, trembling. He reverted and sank to his knees, clutching his head.

“S-sorry,” he whimpered. “You... you have to go. Find Soren. R-run away. Before... they get you....” He writhed and shifted.

“I heard him!” someone shouted, not very far away. “He's in that courtyard!”

“Be careful,” I heard a nasally voice say. “He should be changing by now.”

Rajaion reverted again, panting and shaking.

“I won't leave you,” I said. “We'll get away together.”

“C-can't,” Rajaion whined. He looked up at me, eyes filled with tears. “T-too late... for me. Agghh!” And he shifted again.

“There he is,” called a soldier, entering the far side of the courtyard.

A short, gaunt, greasy man appeared at his elbow. “He's going,” he said. “Catch him! Tie him down before he hurts somebody.” Dozens of soldiers ran toward us. I expected them to overwhelm us immediately, but Rajaion suddenly lashed out. Before I knew what was happening, people were thrown to the ground, winded, wounded, dying, or scrambling away in terror. I knew my brother was strong, but this... this was unnatural.

“Stop him! Stop him!” the greasy man was screaming.

“Hang on, Rajaion,” I said, vaulting up onto his back. “I'll get you out.” He bucked and writhed, but I held on. He reached up to brush me off, but I shimmied into the niche between his wings – he never could reach back there. “I don't care if you want to be left behind,” I said. “We're going together.” Rajaion spread his wings and took off as the next wave of soldiers came at us. “Okay,” I said, “I know where to go. Just let me guide you....” I leaned forward and he flew into the night.

– Kurthnaga –

“I'm surprised at how well the garden's been doing this summer,” I said, picking a basil leaf and nibbling it. “Gareth has truly outdone himself.”

“He's full of surprises,” said Ena, giving the garden a surveying look. “Did you know he grew special herbs just for the queen, when...” she trailed off, looking at the horizon. I followed her gaze.

There, soaring over the mountains, was the unmistakable form of a dragon.

“You don't suppose it's-”

“Rajaion!” Ena gasped. She immediately ran her hands through her hair. “Do I look alright?” she said, turning to me.

“To him, you always do,” I said, grinning. “Come on, let's go to meet him.” We hurried out to the front lawn, and down the path toward the woods beyond, where Rajaion seemed to be landing.

“Why's he coming down there?” said Ena. “It's so much harder to land in the trees.”

“You know him,” I said as we hit the tree line. “Sometimes he likes a dramatic entrance.” Ena laughed.

“St-stay back!” said a shrill voice from deeper in. We both froze.

“That's...” said Ena.

“...Almedha?” I called.

“Is that Kurth?”

“Yeah,” I said. Ena and I rounded a thicket and came into a clearing. My brother, in dragon form, was crouched on the forest floor, breathing hard.

“Rajaion!”

“You're safe!” I said, hurrying toward him.

“Don't come any closer!”

We skidded to a halt. Looking up, we saw Almedha perched between his wings. Her hair was coming undone and her eyes were shadowy. There was a bundled cloak clutched tightly to her chest.

“Stay clear,” she said as my brother gave a throaty growl. “He's not safe.”

“What do you mean?” said Ena, nervously looking first at Rajaion, then at Almedha, then back again.

Almedha slowly swung her legs over to one side, then slid to the ground, still holding the bundle. She leaned wearily against Rajaion. “He's... mad,” she said, barely above a whisper.

“What! Mad?” Ena yelped. She stepped closer to her mate, who snarled menacingly.

“Steady,” said Almedha, putting her hand on Rajaion's snout. He kept growling. “Be careful, Ena,” she murmured. “I can't keep him... from hurting you.”

“Hurting me?”

“He's already... killed people,” Almedha whispered.

“What!?” I said, but she couldn't go on. She slid down and collapsed underneath Rajaion. He hunkered over her and eyed us warily, a deep rumble still going in his chest.

But Ena had had enough. “Rajaion! Don't you know me?” she cried, edging closer still.

Rajaion reverted, still snarling. Almedha was right, he was mad – I could see it in his eyes. But Ena was heedless. She sank to her knees beside her husband and embraced him. He stiffened... and stopped growling.

************************************************************************

Father closed his eyes, letting it all sink in. “So... the king is dead, then.”

Almedha sighed. “Yes. I just wanted to run, but when he tried to stop me...” she shuddered.

“It seems he was meddling with powers too strong for him,” he said quietly. “You think Rajaion wasn't the only one?”

“Well, when he tried to warn me, he said something about Ashnard hurting and killing us. I don't know if he was already... being strange at that point?”

“I doubt it, from what you've told me,” he said, pressing his forehead with his fingers. He did this a lot when he was thinking. “It's likely that other laguz were captured.”

“Well then, shouldn't we send a warning to the other tribes?” I said. “I'm sure they'd be interested in reclaiming their people, too.”

“Perhaps, but it would be dangerous for them,” said my father, finally opening his eyes again. “Even with Ashnard defeated, Daein is still full of his underlings. That, and without a cure, anyone rescued is a disaster waiting to happen.”

“...Was I wrong?” said Almedha. “To bring him back?”

“No,” he said. “Between you and Ena, he seems to be relatively docile. Only we must be careful. If he's riled up, there could be trouble. From what you've said, even I might not be able to hold him down.” He paused as a strange noise came out of Almedha's bundle, which she was still holding. “What is that?”

Almedha blushed and looked down at it. “This... is my son, Soren,” she said, pulling the cloak down a little. A thin little face framed in black hair looked out at us.

Father sat in stunned silence. “...Your son.” He held out his arms. “May I?” Almedha gently surrendered the boy. Father looked him over, and noticed one rounded ear. “...You were with a beorc,” he said softly. He looked up at Almedha, who was avoiding his gaze. “Then you cannot shift anymore?”

“How did you know?” she said, glancing up in surprise.

It was Father's turn to look away. “That was Lehran's curse, also.”

There was a moment's silence.

“How hard would it be to go back for his father?” I finally asked.

“His father is dead,” said Almedha. “But... I already told you that.”

We both tensed. “No,” I whispered. “Not... him?”

Almedha hung her head. “Yes.”

Father rose up... and embraced her.

[kingmagnificoofrosas]

I’m gonna list some foods, you guys tell us if you’d eat it or pass!

• pizza

• chicken

• hashbrowns

• chips

• chips

• I really like chips

• honey chicken with Mac and cheese

• jam donuts

And any food you guys wanna take you can! If you just wanna give your opinion that’s all good too 👍💙

"Here we go again. More food." *leans back in chair*

"Don't look at me! I wasn't like - Oh, I eat like a starved T-Rex every day!"

"Did you just compare me to a dinosaur?"

"Your appetite! When you're very hungry you go grrrrr."

"Well ..."

"Grrrrr, I want steak, rrrrr!"

"Stop it, baby crocodile!" *pushes my shouler in amusement*

"Garrrrrr! Steaaaak!" 🦖

"Julie!"

😝 "Ok, ok! Fine! Let's do this!" 😃 "Pizza ... eh, I will eat it if I must but it's definitely not my favourite. Pass."

"What's a pizza?"

"Relatively modern dish from italy. Flat dough, traditionally with tomato-sauce, mozzarella cheese and basil. However, these days it comes in many more versions. Salami sausage, cheese, mushrooms ... honestly, sometimes they put the craziest things on pizza."

*shrugs shoulders* "I'll try it." *takes a slice* "Oh! Is ... is it supposed to ... be that floppy?"

😂 "Yes. Original italian pizza. Don't get me started on the disgusting frozen ones. Big yikes! Try folding both sides to the middle, like a sandwich. Its easier to eat that way."

*eats* "That is very interesting! It's good."

"Ok, next! Chicken? YES!"

"Yes!"

*laugh* "Chicken in any shape or form right? Speaking of modern food! Remember the chicken nuggets I had this one anon make us?"

"Oh, yes! You got good taste for being such a picky eater!" 😏

"Pfff, very charming. Thank you Magnifico!"

"You're welcome dear." 😌 "Now what are hashbrowns? Some sort of animal?"

*snort* 🤣 "Ahahaha! Yes, beware the potato! Very dangerous! It's natural habitat is the field and at night it goes out to hunt handsome kings!"

"Don't be silly!"

"It's made out of potatos!"

"I figured as far."

"Basically, grated potatos that get fried."

"Again the frying?" *tries* "Somewhat boring compared to the other things."

"Not my favourite either. If my Dad makes them however, I make sure to dip them into a sauce or something. Mayonaise, ketchup, anything!"

"Chips." *inspects the bowl*

"Magnifico!"

"Hm?"

"No scientific examination!"

*chuckles* "Don't worry. I was just looking."

"Yeah, by now I know that expression!"

"What do you mean?"

"You know ... the ... the thing you do with your eyebrows, that, that hyper focus thing! Like so-"

*laughs* "If you do that you remind me of an angry kitten."

"An angry kitten can bite as well. Anyway! Ohhh nachos with cheese dip! Or guacamole!"

*tries* "Yes, I can understand people liking this!"

"Ok, lets see .... Honey-chicken and mac and cheese. OUHHH, Mac'n cheese!!"

"More cheese?"

"Never enough cheese!"

"I can order us a cheese plate."

"Yes please!! Oh and anything noodles is a win for me!"

"Who knew."

"Try spagetti and we're talking!"

"Jam donuts." *tries* 😳 *puts them to the side slowly* "Shhht! You never saw a thing!"

"Uhm ... weren't there like, donuts or something?"

"What donuts? There were donuts?"

🤨 "Jam filled buns? Raspberry and strawberry jam filled fried dough?"

😐

*opens hand* ☺️🫴🏼

*groan* "Fine! Here you go!"

"Thank you!" 😁 *eyes the donut for a moment and then gives it back* "You can have them all."

😧 "Why?"

"Because."

"Because what?"

"Because, because!" *looks to the side* "Puppy eyes."

"What was that?"

"Eat your stupid donuts and don't ask!"

*chuckles* "I was joking. Please, I won't eat them if I can't share them with you. I'll feel bad."

"Awww. Fine. Just one then. They're calorie bombs!"

*looks at you* "Thank you for the food!"

[outsiders-owen]

I'm back.

I promised I'd come back, didn't I? I can't really remember, I'm too tired. Sorry if my voice sounds off, I'm trying not to cry again.

Basil... Basil walked out on me. I don't really know why. They just- they just ran.

They- they didn't want to talk about anything after my death and then they started getting upset and- and I couldn't calm them down and they just ran away-

I'm sorry if I worried you, I know my message was kind of abrupt and I know you-

.

.

.

Somethings different.

What- what happened while I was gone? Something's... changed.

oh. oh no.

nononono not again he promised it wouldn't happen again he promised he wouldn't let it happen what did he do-

-Pastry Voice

Pastry Voice! Lovely to see you, a pleasure to have you here, as always... my apologies about the whole Basil situation, by the way. That can't be fun.

I wasn't too worried. You can take care of yourself.

Wonderful deducing, Pastry Voice, razor-sharp as always. Something is different! A change for the better. I have so many plans, my friend, so many things to do! You should be excited. Big things are happening soon.

I can never thank Apo enough for giving me my memories back. I can't believe I was so stupid in the past. Killing the demons doesn't do anything, it just turns people against you.

No, I won't be doing that again, thank you very much.

I'll simply turn the clearing's opinions my way.

[jj-the-writer]

Day 1 @kelbreyweek:

Omori spoilers!

Comforting/Grieving.

A lazy Sunday afternoon hanging out at the park with Kim and the others. Vance suggests we go and get some candy from the othermart, but I decline saying I had business to do. The others tried to convince me to come along, but Kim stopped them, she knew what today was, and she knew I needed space.

"Thanks Kim. See ya tomorrow guys." I said as I made my way out the park.

"See ya tomorrow Aubrey!" Responded everyone as I made my way down the road.

Walking on the sidewalk I think to myself and I wonder if the others will be there...

I kick a pebble I find in the side walk to the bushes.

Hero probably can't make it since he's not in the city, but even if he was...

I stop and stare at a paper windmill that's planted to the grass next to the sidewalk. I keep walking...

Basil probably won't make it because he wouldn't want to bump into me.

I make a turn and I see the church in the distance.

Sunny has been closed off from everyone for about two years so I don't believe he has the guts to come out now, even if it is the second anniversary of his sister's death.

I open the door to the church and go inside.

Now Kel...

I really don't know how I'd react if I saw any of them today. Maybe I'd yell at them for only now appearing... I don't want to be angry...

I walk around in the graveyard and I let my eyes land towards Mari's gravestone and to my surprise... There he is, a tall boy dressed in an orange hoodie and brown cargo pants with straight brown hair down to his neck, looking at my friend's gravestone and holding a bouquet of flowers...

Why... Is he here... I haven't seen him once in those two years visit her grave and you decide to show up now?!

I bite my tongue and walk towards him and the grave.

"Aubrey! You're here..." He said in a conflicted tone as he saw me.

"Ofcourse I am." Did he think I wouldn't? Or was he hoping he wouldn't see me? "What are you doing here Kel?" I snark, trying to mask my conflicting emotions.

"... As of today it's been two years since she died, I wanted to pay my respects." He said with a soft smile while looking at my friend's grave.

"Pay your respects? Kel you haven't been here once after her burial."

"That's not true! I come here on occasion and I came last year too, the fact that you don't see me doesn't mean I don't visit her."

"Tch. Whatever, loser." I say as I sit cross legged looking at Mari's gravestone.

Kel lets out a sigh and sits next to me.

A few minutes of silence pass and even if none of us wanted to admit it, it felt nice to have someone as we visited Mari...

Kel moves a little forward and places his bouquet next to the gravestone before sitting back down.

"Even if we don't talk anymore, I'm glad you showed up Aubrey..." He said as he rubbed his eyes.

"Are you crying?" I responded in a sort of shock.

"What?! Ofcourse not! There's just something in my eye." Kel tried to defend himself, I could see through his lie since his voice was a little shaky...

"You're visiting... Your dead friend, you can cry you know..." For some reason I felt the need to reassure him that he can be open around me, even after he neglected me for so long... What am I even doing... I begin talking to Mari...

"Hello Mari, as of today you've been gone for two whole years... and my life has changed dramatically since you left..."

My voice starts to get shaky.

"I think you might've been the glue of our group, the one who kept us together..."

Kel looks at me and a few tears run down my face.

"Because ever since you left... we have all fallen apart. And it's so... Difficult to not have my group anymore, and your absence makes everything worse..."

I lower my head and put my palms over my eyes.

"Every day... I ask WHY?... Why did you leave us... And was there anything we could've done...?"

A few seconds if silence only broken by my hiccups.

"Why did you have to leave... You were so loved... What could've driven you to..."

I raise my head once more and I notice that Kel has been crying silently... This is the first time I'd seen him cry...

He begins to speak, not tearing his eyes away from our friend's gravestone.

"Mari... I don't know if I even have the right to say this but... Your absence has been so difficult... Everything is so different when you're not around... And I wish we hadn't fallen apart, everything would be so much more bearable if we stuck together..."

"Kel don't say that." I say, in complete disregard of my eyes running like some sort of waterfall. "Ofcourse you have the right to express your pain, just as much as anyone else!"

"And Aubrey..." He continues as he turned his head around to face me. "I'm so sorry I never made an effort to reach out to you... It must have been so difficult for you and I am so terribly sorry for not ever talking to you." He says as he puts my hands in his. "You didn't deserve that."

"Don't talk like that idiot! You had your own issues to deal with, and I only realize that now, I should've tried to..." I say and I feel my face turned red as a plethora of emotions rush over me. "I'm... I'm sorry." I said as my entire worldview for the past two years shattered in an instant.

Kel rushes forward and goes for a deep hug. I'm caught off guard but I don't shove him away. Which is what I would do under normal circumstances... However his hug felt warm, and not only the temperature kind of warm, the warmth of embrace, of problems fading, of... Love.

I slowly move my hands behind his back and I hug him back. Both of us audibly crying on each other's shoulders. The first time both of us let ourselves be vulnerable with the presence of someone else in a long time.

After a few minutes of this much needed embrace we break it off and look at each other. Suddenly I realize that the sun was setting, twilight painting the sky in a warm orange color.

"You know, I think orange isn't so bad after all." I say with a smile as I wipe my tears.

We both stare at each other for a few seconds and burst out laughing. But amidst Kel's laughing I hear him say something.

"HAHA... Haha I love you..."

"Haha... You... You what...?"

Kel suddenly realizes what he said and tries to convince me he didn't say what I heard, in a combination of poor excuses and stuttering. I let out a sigh and I stop him on his tracks.

"I swear..." I look at him once before speaking again. "Please repeat that." I tell him while looking at him right in his eyes.

He scratches the back of her s head trying to avert his eyes from me, but eventually we lock eyes and he says the thing that I so wanted to hear.

"I love you."

My eyes instantly tear up, I feel my face flare up and I go for a hug once again. And as my face is covered by his shoulder, I respond. "I love you too, dumbass..."

He grabs my shoulders softly and pulls me away so he can look at my eyes properly. He put his palm on my cheek and he softly wiped my tears with his fingers as softly as ever. It sends a shiver down my spine to see him handle me so gently.

His gentle movements wake something in me and without realizing my hands move on their own and I grab his face as I go for a passionate kiss. It felt... So liberating, so sweet and warm, it felt like sunlight itself.

He must've been caught off guard because after that, he fell behind, leaving me on top of him.

I slowly pull away and I hear him breathing fast, his eyes wide open. The only thing he was capable of saying was just "Wow..." Which made me realize what I'd done. I cover my mouth and i move away from him to give him some space. "I'm so sorry, I... I don't know what came over me you just looked so pretty against the sun I-"

His face was bright red but despite that he opened his mouth to comfort me... "Hey! Don't apologise!" He said and he held me in his arms...

"It's okay, I actually liked it..." Kel looked at my eyes again... "Would you mind if I kissed you back...?"

"You idiot, don't even ask..." And after those words were said, we both pulled closer and kissed as the twilight shined upon us. It felt like there was no one else in the entire world, this was our moment. It felt like all our problems disappeared momentarily, all to enjoy this moment with each other. Tears fell off of both our eyes as we kissed... And we eventually broke off.

"Even after two years that she's been gone, Mari is the one who brought us together again. You were right, she is the glue of our group." Said Kel with teary eyes and we both let out a weak laugh.

We both turned back to Mari and poured our hearts to her once more, this time closer to each other, and finally we thanked her for bringing us together before walking away from the cemetery. Once we got out of the church we noticed the sun had set, being a little dark out.

"Do you want to hang out, or would you like me to walk you to your place?" Said Kel with one of his usual bright smiles.

"I'll take the hangout option, thank you very much." I said as I softly punched the side of his arm.

The both of us started walking along the sidewalk as Kel pulled my hand out of my jacket's pocket to hold it. I said nothing, only smiled and kept walking...

[woodchipp]

I'm gonna be honest - along with OMORI pressuring the player into choosing the good ending lest Sunny kills himself, the whole DUET cutscene doesn't strike me as anything but very blatant emotional manipulation either. Every mention of it I saw was followed by fans talking at length about how thoroughly devastated they were left by that moment, but if you look past the Feels and focus on the Reals, what is there to be devastated about, really?

The (supposed) purpose of the cutscene is to show Sunny placating his depression by recalling the good times he had with Mari and his friends... except that is exactly what he's been doing via Basil's photo album throughout the entire game. That's what Memory Lane, which you have to go through right before the final boss, was there for. And just like the aforementioned two, the good times showcased in DUET are glurgy, meaningless fluff. They don't tell you anything new about the characters and they don't show them helping each other through thick and thin as people you could call "real" friends are supposed to. The fact that the cutscene itself looks like a PowerPoint slideshow or something you could theoretically cook up in Windows Movie Maker doesn't help, especially if you remove the music track altogether.

I think one of my "favorite" moments is Sunny and Mari meeting Kel and Hero, which is represented by the latter two literally popping out of thin air

You'd think that as a story with the power of friendship as one of its central themes, the game would show how the characters became friends in the first place and what makes them gel together, but no. This is all you get.

It's the same thing with Aubrey and Basil. The gang meets Aubrey for the first time while she's crying on the sidewalk before the game cuts to her introducing Basil to them. Was them comforting Aubrey over her lost shoe enough for her to befriend them? How exactly did she and Basil meet? I dunno, you tell me! Think about the plot so the writer won't have to!

So emotional. So peak. Two hundred thousand dollars was spent on this.

Speaking of Sunny and Mari, the cutscene's Peakest™ moment is the smash cut from a bright shot of Mari embracing a younger Sunny to a gloomier shot of the older Sunny sitting there all alone and morose, which delivers the message with all the subtlety of a nuclear bomb explosion

she passed on The Emo to him. truely devastating. also why do they both look malnourished. what the hell is this artstyle

Yes, game. I get it. The grass was greener when Mari was alive. That's roughly her gravestone's epitaph. What is the point of this? What am I supposed to cry about?

That brings me to what I believe is the main problem with DUET, and a problem with the game itself as well - the story doesn't put in any real effort to flesh out the characters you're supposed to feel bad for, yet expects you to feel bad for them anyway. Even after playing the entire 25 hours of this game, I don't know anything about Sunny, nor can I recall anything noteworthy about him except from him calling lemons "oragnes". I don't know anything about who Mari really was except that she's treated by the narrative as if she was Jesus in the flesh. They're not characters - they're effectively cardboard cutouts, and I have no idea why the game's imploring me to shed tears over two cardboard cutouts.

The cherry on top is Omori straight-up vanishing after the cutscene ends. One could argue that Sunny's victory was temporary, but that's not indicated - Omori seems to actually vanish once and for all after the game's events, and the main menu even features Sunny himself as opposed to Omori to mark the change. Because we all know that severe depression can be treated by thinking happy thoughts, right? tfw the powerpoint slideshow was so cringe that even the depression decided to peace out

Maybe I wouldn't have been as harsh if the story had Mari kill herself instead of it being a cover-up for manslaughter. Maybe then I'd have been able to see the tragedy. But given the context of the plot twist, all I can see is a coward and a liar soothing his well-earned guilt over committing a serious crime and lying about it in the most laughably melodramatic fashion possible.

[idv-news-boi]

-> Sunflower Garden {Basilyn} 🌻♡🌸

Note// I'm literally treating this as if it's ship month challenge-/ih,,, some HCs are from discord and some are newly thought,,,,-

These two are technically flower themed babies- which is why there are two flowers with a heart in between,,, jdjdhdne

Is hard to think of Rosie dying over some person she loves- but here we are..../ih

Rosie doesn't go crazy over a person since she's too used to be very independent... she's just having a soft spot for that person. 🥺

At first, she's too self-conscious about confronting new hunters, not liking the thought of being mocked for wearing a ceramic mask to hide her crybaby face,,, She still wears it out of shyness though 😔 (A certain clown did that before-)

But when Rosalyn does open up with Basil, she would gently take off her mask just to gently caress and peck around his face softly,, Not minding if he sees her face for now, after few months of getting to know each other,,,

Rosalyn just quietly and timidly whispering sweet things on his ear,,, wanting to hold him close just for a moment despite how flustered she's slowly becoming.

Basil calling Rosalyn sunshine would just make her cover her blush with her long sleeves,,, Another way of covering her blush is hide on Basil's arm if they were hugging or something dbdbdb

Rosalyn gives sweet nicknames,,, probably darling- DEFINITELY NOT HER LAST NAME INTENDED, OF COURSE- X'D Also amor,,, dulzura,,, cariño,,, Spanish sweet nicknames <3

To be honest, it feels strange for Rosie that Basil shares pictures of him when he's lil and she does not,,,, so eventually, she would share an album herself to him too... Which is ranged in time from little girl Rosie holding a white bunny named Mr Fluffy and a wooden puppet, to a young lady opening a flower themed bakery

Not the other Iconic members cooing at Rosalyn once knowing she has a boyfriend-/ih

I think Rosie won't even get tired of hearing Basil talk,,, that's for sure- Like, she loves British voices a lot, they made things look fancy despite the awful meanings of certain words djdnnn,,, especially from sweet guys like Basil, it makes her melt-

Doesn't have a low self-esteem, but Rosie would just get flattered by every sweet thing he would say and do for her,,,

Just me already thinking that they should have matching flower themed costumes rjrnrn,,, I'll probably draw that in summer bc why not owo

Character interaction emote idea// Rosalyn places a flower on Basil's head as he leans down for her,,, she's too short to reach- x'3

{Modern AU}

Also Basil and Rosalyn 110% going to have a lot of plants in their house- they both know how to work with flowers hhh

Is hard to imagine the ship sharing a room- I've never thought of Rosalyn sharing a room with someone while being shy fjfbfb

But I think it starts with separate rooms at first- until Rosie got a nightmare and sadly asks if she can sleep with Basil for one night,,, :'3

Rosalyn just keeping to herself in the beginning,,, i think the ship would just sleep in their own sides since Rosie just hugs on Cecilion the mochi plushy but aware that Basil is with her to keep her company... Rosie is not very used to cuddles in her sleep hehe,,, But she wouldn't mind if cuddles happened,,,

[lobyuslucas]

"And That's How I Met My Chocolate Pie" (Omori x Undertale) (Sunny x Chara)

"And That's How I Met My Chocolate Pie" (Part 1/4) the day Chara and Sunny met each other, serving as more lore for the idea of ​​Indie Fortress (Team Fortress 2 with Indie games) (YES THIS IS A FANFIC, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED)

If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's a link to the context, I got some attention around this idea and I'm not going to stop anytime soon:

https://www.tumblr.com/lobyuslucas/743802481063149568/i-didnt-expect-something-like-this-so-soon-but-it?source=share

It all starts in a small bar, in a local place near Sunny's new house. Sunny, around 22 years old, goes to the bar to see if alcohol can solve any of her trauma problems, but Sunny refuses to drink.

Chara is traveling through some universes, having a cup of hot chocolate in that same bar, as she has known that bar for a long time. Chara always stays in the corner of the bar looking at all those people with blossoming romances and vigorous friendships while she is alone at the tables in that bar. Soon after she sees Sunny, she finds someone like him at the bar interesting, being someone different than any random drunk or a grown man asking a girlfriend out on a date.

So, Chara, aged 24, decides to risk social interaction, approaching Sunny and asking for another cup of chocolate

Chara: "hey… new here?"

Sunny:" yeah… looks like I'm the only newbie around the place… the only weirdo who doesn't drink"

Chara:" Nah… don't pay attention to these clowns, they're just alcoholics with no one to fill the void inside. I just come here to have a coffee, maybe eat something and then leave this place"

Sunny: "maybe I'm here to fill the void within myself… and forget the void I left in others"

Chara takes a deep dive into her cup, noticing someone with peculiar problems… like her.

Chara:" trust me buddy, alcohol will only dig deeper into your depression. I'm not a psychologist but I have years of experience, and I confirm this because I've already tried… and it's horrible"

Sunny:" I know… but it seems like all this won't go away, even if you do what's right. Even if they forgive you, you feel like they will always hate you, they will always see you as a filthy pest"

Chara: "It's like you have faithful friends one day, and after one false step, they all leave your life… isn't it?"

Sunny: "damn sis, that's exactly it… I mean… you also have problems in the friendship circle"

Chara: "did you just call me sis? That's…weird…but okay, I guess that's how friendships begin"

Sunny:" but hey, you also have great friends… or something like that. I have a lot of stories to tell about my friendship cycle"

Chara and Sunny talk from afternoon until night and then say goodbye, but they agree to meet up later

Chara: "you talk like that about your friend, Basil, he reminds me of Asriel, my brother"

Sunny: "anyway… I'll see you tomorrow… maybe?"

Chara: "Yes, of course, please"

Chara leaves the bar with a look of interest, perhaps it was the beginning of something magical, but she will only be able to confirm this the next day.

END OF PART 1 Regardless of disapproval, I will do more, and my hyperfocus will work until I can no longer

[peakypeakiiii]

Can I request a fanfic of Sunny and Mari just being siblings please?

ᵃ/ⁿ﹔ ʸᵃʸᵃʸᵃ ᶠⁱʳˢᵗ ʳᵉᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᵗᵗᵗ ⁱ ᶜᵒᵘˡᵈⁿ'ᵗ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ ᵒᶠ ᵃ ᵗⁱᵗˡᵉ ᵒʳ ᶠⁱⁿᵈ ᵃ ʰᵉᵃᵈᵉʳ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵇᵒᵗʰ ˢᵘⁿⁿʸ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵐᵃʳⁱ ﹕ˢᵒᵇ﹕ ᵃⁿᵈ ⁱ ʷᵃˢ ᵗᵒᵒ ˡᵃᶻʸ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵃᵏᵉ ʰᵉᵃᵈᵉʳˢ ᵒⁿ ᵐʸ ᵒʷⁿ ⁽ⁱˡˡ ᵖʳᵒᵇᵃᵇˡʸ ᵐᵃᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵉᵐ ˢᵒᵒⁿ���⁾ tw; (slight)mentions of THE incident in the end i think..and that's it Pairing; SUNNY, MARI + OMORI , DW MARI (added the other sillies cauz i got bored...i'm sorri)

now that i reread this after posting this it's literally more like hc's not a fic IM SORRY I WROTE THIS WHEN IT WAS LIKE 2 IN THE MORNING (pls forgive me i'm just a silly little beginner writer :sob:)

DREAMWORLD MARI + OMORI !

idk why but this whole dynamic they have just gives off ''He asked for NO pickles'' sorta shit but OMORI just doesn't talk...

LIKE SOMETHING LIKE ;

''Excuse me, but he asked for NO pickles!'' (I DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT MARI I DID ZERO RESEARCH IM SORRY) and OMORI is just standing behind MARI or something like

I could see MARI (trying to) feed OMORI like a baby just to tease him or something...

definitely friendship bracelets. i can't stop thinking about MARI making friendship bracelets with OMORI....

MARI would definitely try to make OMORI smile or something like it's just THERE. that thought won't go away and i'm using this as an excuse to ramble about silly things AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME.

i feel like that MARI would be this protective ass sister

protective as in going mental on whoever says something bad about him and/or hurts him or sum shit

THESE ARE VERY VERY OOC HC'S BUT I DON'T REALLY CARE AT THIS POINT (i'm sorri)

overall 10/10 sibling dynamic would recommend

RW MARI + SUNNY !

(the silliest of sillies) (again. i couldn't FIND SHIT.) (+ BASIL mention)

oh god

i'm debating if i should make this into angst or just wholesome fluff.

fuck it im doing both i donut care

I feel like MARI would try to teach SUNNY how to play the piano

and ask if SUNNY can teach her how to play the violin

(it did not work out)

Hear me out. MARI and SUNNY trying on eachother clothes.

MARI would probably beg SUNNY or something for that to happen

I could see her going something like ;

''Oh please SUNNY! Just this once!!''

time for a bit of a silly little after the stairs incident :3 (IM SORRY FOR THIS)

I feel like SUNNY would visit MARI'S grave and have little picnics there (NOT IN A CREEPY WAY)

or bring her fav flowers/food ect

i could see him sleeping in her bed once in a while

idk why it just seems so...SUNNY

i feel like he'd have like a whole ass sketchbook of doodles of MARI

and like right next to each doodle would be like something like 'im sorry.' or something

SUNNY would most likely borrow BASIL'S photo album (BEFORE AUBREY TOOK MARI'S PICTURES OR WTV) and just stare at the pictures MARI was in

overall 8/10 dynamic i love it but too much trauma i had to witness

GAHHH IM SO SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION I HAD WHEN I FIRST READ YOUR REQUEST I HOPE YOU CAN FORGIVE ME

that was a lot easier than i thought it would be but my fingers still hurt... :sob:

words; i have NO IDEA

ANYWAYS BYEBYE TAKE CARE OF URSELF POOKIE DRINK WATER + GET REST + EAT WELL + ILY!!!!!