#Mr. Jawsum

[ryhmus]

Noli Mei Oblivisci Chapter 9, [The House always wins]

[scarceghost]

Beat him today, I like Mr. Jawsum. He’s Jawsum sauce.

Original

[i-headcannon-in-omori-that]

MR. JAWSUM is based off SUNNY's father

[argentdandelion]

OMORI Prompts (April Fools' Day)

Selected for maximum funniness with the least morbid humor.

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Kel says Hero is learning “bedroom eyes” in school. Hero quickly corrects him: it’s “bedside manner”.

Someone tries to “suck the venom out” when someone else is stung on the lips. They end up sucking like a vacuum cleaner and are embarrassed to say the venom was really tasty.

Sunny wants leg hair. (According to the artbook, “everything Sunny wants, Kel has”.)’

Mr. Jawsum eats sushi. He responds to an accusation of cannibalism by saying, “that’s business, kid.”

Sunny memorizes the first lines of the Bible (in Japanese) just to intimidate people.

Sunny concludes God (of the Bible) is evil because he forbade Adam and Eve from eating apples, and rants about the health benefits and happiness associated with apples.

Spirit Mari gently calls Sunny a freak because of his newfound obsession with eating apples (in an emo way).

Sunny’s last name is not Suzuki, but “Sizzletwister”.

(Based on the idea the Headspace outfits are all pajamas): in the final battle, Omori is wearing an animal onesie as pajamas.

On one reset, Omori's pajamas are just…sleeping in the nude. (This is the shortest Headspace cycle.)

(Mildly Dirty) Hero needs to use the bathroom in the middle of the night at Basil’s house. Still only half-awake, he shows up at the Basil and Sunny fight and chastises them with “Safe, sane and consensual, guys.” 

[zipsunz]

KEL: but i gotta say... this job thing isn't all it's cut out to be. KEL: so why don't we get everyone to quit and get the heck out of here?

my piece that won honorable mention in the pixiv drawfest omori fanart competition last month! 🎰 🦈

[pixelga1axy]

That first scene with the Mewo-Spider happened just like that, I am not exaggerating. I have arachnophobia as well, which was hilarious once we entered Pyrefly Forest. @tuusenarts got my ass

Masterpost

[lilac-gold]

i know that this is just a part of how omori's fight system operates, but i find it very interesting that we are able to make memes like the one pictured below considering all we know about hero's character throughout omori, both in the real world and in headspace

this meme is made by using hero's "smile" skill as well as a rain cloud, sad poem or anything else that inflicts a sad emotion on him. hero's skills are primarily always either food-based healing (e.g. "cook", "fast food", "homemade jam", "snack time") or some form of charisma (e.g. "captivate", "mesmerise", "enchant", "dazzle"). it's hero's job to be the support of their team, and to use his pleasant demeanor and appearance as a distraction.

no matter which emotion hero has, he can still use every one of those skills. it is of no relevance how he feels as long as he can uphold his designated role as a charmer and a healer.

now, consider real world hero's way of dealing with things, which is that he simply doesn't. when he returns to faraway, he's there for everyone else, appearing on the surface to be completely fine and content, and simply not acknowledging his own trauma. he puts on a constant facade of normalcy and perfection. because to hero, it doesn't matter which emotion he has, he can still use every one of his skills. it is of no relevance how he feels as long as he can uphold his designated role as a charmer and a healer.

hero would bend over backwards to please others. he canonically has depression, but would much rather be someone else's shoulder to cry on than admit he's not okay. everyone puts him on a pedestal, viewing him as a sort of ideal to look up to. sunny does it. kel does it. his parents do it. even hero himself does.

i think that's part of the reason why he's so often overlooked by the fandom: hero's unrealistically perfect, but that's exactly the point. he forces those expectations on himself, forces himself to earn trophies and medals even while he struggles to even get out of bed. he smiles despite wanting to do the opposite, because he's not supposed to be depressed. he's hero.

his charm-based skills in headspace alternate between a) reducing foes' attack with a bonus happy effect and b) acting first with all foes targeting him for one turn. hero either dissolves the situation a little, acting like the mediator he always has been, or takes the blunt of the damage for his friends.

he's constantly in the spotlight, in every world.

headspace hero has done a ridiculous amount to help people, from stopping a wildfire to giving up all of his organs, has made such a profound impact on so many lives through his good deeds, and that's recognised. people in headspace adore him.

the conveyor belts at the junkyard are endeared to him. sweetheart falls in love with him. mr jawsum plans to essentially keep him trapped working at the last resort forever. medusa thinks he's "too pretty to sell". hero's worth something to so many people, even when he doesn't want to be.

and that applies to the real world too. he's the only older sibling left for his friends after mari's death. he has to be strong for them, to be that ideal, because they have no-one else to fill that role. he brings kel and aubrey together, rescues sunny and basil, says that they should have a sleepover like "old times". he's trying so hard for everyone else, he can't afford to let himself crumble.

hero's a performer. and we see canonically that he has at least some stage fright from sweetheart's quest for hearts.

sweetheart's an interesting case. i find it interesting that the image above would be found mostly in the fight against her. sweetheart is one of the bosses with a uniquely heightened emotional state, hers being that of happiness in "manic". due to the way the emotion system in battle works (explained to us, funnily enough, by hero himself), it makes sense to oppose sweetheart's mania with sadness, misery, and depression.

so that's what hero does! he has the depressed effect, he'd otherwise look incredibly morose, but as soon as time calls for it, he's got a smile back on his face. we see how uncomfortable he is about her advances, but he gives her a smile that sets into motion a whole separate stream of dialogue where sweetheart proclaims her that she would like to "make [his smile] mine".

hero's the group golden boy. the charmer, the healer, the protector, the older brother, the pillar for them to lean on when things get tough. he knows that he is, and upholds that image to the best of his ability.

that is, until mari dies.

then, he falls into a deep, serious state of depression in the real world, because he's failed. he and mari have strived for perfection their whole lives, only for her to apparently deem it all pointless and leave them behind. hero feels like he wasn't enough, like he never will be, no matter how much he's tried. the faked grins disappear alongside those which were genuine, for how is he supposed to smile when he's given up on the facade?

he stops talking to people. stops going outside. stops helping. he can't do anything but reflect on his perceived failures, and without his pillar of support, the group crumbles to pieces.

hero stays like that for a whole year, until he argues with kel and remembers the reason why he needs to stay alive. this is hurting his brother as much as it is hero, and kel's depending on him to get better. so he does, in a way.

he earns medals and trophies again, helps out again, lives up to expectations then exceeds them even more. he can't bring himself to do the things he enjoys anymore, or talk to the three kids he viewed as little siblings and he failed, but he's trying. then, he leaves, off to medical school like his parents wanted. it's a fresh start. it's a chance for him to start to move on.

he's been healing, a little, by the time he comes back to faraway. he can talk about what mari would have wanted without breaking down entirely. he can make kel and sunny breakfast. he can bring the group together like old times, and reminisce on all he used to have.

but he's still not better, and it shows. it shows in the tears he spills when alone beside mari's old piano. it shows in his refusal to visit her grave. it shows in all the little ways he can try to hide, can cover up with a smile too bright to be real. depression doesn't go away that easily, no matter how much hero tries to pretend he's fine.

all in all, i think this meme essentially sums up hero's character and arc in a single, otherwise funny image. am i overcomplicating things? oh, definitely yes. was this a blast to analyse nonetheless? absolutely! there are far too few takes on hero out there, and i hope this gave a little bit of insight as to why i adore him so much.

[foundeded]

[toyotacorrola]

yeag

[travelerbasilau]

[sprite edits and messy, messy concepts galore!]

[lilithsaga]

So you're telling me that, while we were gone, our friends got coerced into joining a casino and worked without pay? 💸

Pretty sure the owner is gill-ty of many crimes... 🦈

[ryhmus]

YET EVEN MORE INCORRECT QUOTATIONS

Kel; "OMORI, how come Basil gets four different versions of him and we just have one?"

OMORI; [*remembers all the strange versions of KEL he'd seen in BLACK SPACE like octopus KEL, fast KEL, MONEY SPACE KEL, etc.] "Em...*shrugs* budgetary reasons?"

(*KEL is eating baking soda out of the pantry)

BASIL; "Why are you always doing weird things when no one's around?"

KEL; "Well, HERO is about 95 percent of my self control when he's around me so..."

MARI; "Nice bat."

Aubrey; "Thanks, I use it for Baseball."

MARI; "So why is it covered in nails?"

Aubrey; "...Extreme baseball."

MR. JAWSUM; "I don't care who the IRS sends about the allegations of forced child labor, I'm not paying them a cent!"

FLOWER; "I'll have you know I watched the entirety of Evangelion and only cried for 12 hours."

[get-bonked]

Please bonk mr jawsum from omori

Thank you and have a great day. Your bonks are appreciated by everyone

Mr Jawsum from Omori has been BONKED

[samthecookielord]

Capitalist Poll Round 2 Results

Out of 247 votes...

Bossman Hero: 83%

Jawsum: 17%

Bossman Hero wins by a landslide! This is the hugest gap I've seen in this so far!

Out of 121 votes...

Haltmann: 33%

Scrooge: 67%

Scrooge wins!

Out of 145 votes...

Mr. Grizz: 35%

Spamton: 65%

Spamton wins!

Out of 166 votes...

Hellstrom: 37%

Steve Cobs: 63%

Steve Cobs wins!

And that was round 2! Next round poll's will begin later today once I've prepared the art for it!

[cryptidkeef]

JAWHAWHAWHAWHAW

Okay I know for sure this has been done before but I cannot stop thinking about it.

[lilac-gold]

Omori laughs are honestly wild. You could just have a regular 'haha', but no. No, instead they did this:

(Mr Jawsum)

(Sweetheart)

(Rococo)

they are incapable of being normal and i love that for them