#cries in heromari

[hero-deserves-to-be-happy]

💘 heromari first kiss please?

Absolutely, Anon! Thank you so much for the ask and for playing our “Hearts For Hero” headcanons game! There are lots of ways this could have played out, but here's a favorite of ours:

💘-- HeroMari First Kiss Headcanons

Hero and Mari weren't "officially" dating. Her family (her father especially) thought she was too young, and Hero was shy and respectful--he didn't want to upset anyone and was more than willing to take things very slow. In his mind, he and Mari had their whole lives--had "forever" to be together so they could take their time and wait until they were older before becoming anything more serious than just sweethearts. That said, they knew how they felt about one another and the devotion and romantic interest was undeniable.

The closest they got to "dating" was really just doing the things that they would have done with their friends (i.e. go out to eat or to the movies or to a walk in the park) but just as the two of them and Hero insisted on paying. The first time Hero asked Mari out one of these pseudo-dates, he was so nervous and spent way too much time picking out what to wear and trying to comb his hair and look his best. It wasn’t anything special, but it was the best he could afford as a teenager: taking her to Gino's and the park.

After their meal (and Mari good-naturedly teasing Hero for ordering a sandwich at a pizza place), they took a walk in the park during which Hero eventually (after a lot of nervousness) finally plucked up the courage to ask if he could hold her hand. She said yes, of course.

They stayed at Faraway Park until sunset—sitting out in their favorite spot by the lake talking and laughing for hours and having so much fun just enjoying each other’s company that they completely lost track of time. When it started to get dark, Hero panicked a little that he had lost track of time and that it was getting so late. He thanked Mari for going out with me and asked if he could walk her home. She said "Yes, but first every perfect first date needs to end with a kiss…" and then she kissed him.

It was a sweet kiss but it happened so quickly that Hero couldn’t even really process it. He didn’t know what to do and kind of just froze turning bright red and actually said "Thank you" which Mari thought was very sweet. If anyone asked her it was "magical," and Hero just beamed the entire walk home even though he was too shocked and too sheepish to really say anything about it. Still, he had never known he could be that happy.

[zipsunz]

under the mistletoe 🌿

(art by me, script by @sunkitty143!)

[acacia-may]

These are beautiful, Sprinkles, and just what I needed to help heal my broken shipping heart after finishing Omori. These darlings deserved so much better than what they got. 😭 It's lovely to see some happy, fluffy moments for them! I love all of these little sketches you've made--especially the one of Hero clinging to her for dear life scared to death of the spider-bunny. That actually made me laugh--it's brilliant. 😂 Also, the one in the top left corner where Sunny is hiding behind Mari and Kel is just being Kel and living his best life is everything! I love it so, so much! Too adorable! Thanks for sharing!💕

HeroMari sketchdump

[clegfly]

Finally got caught up with TADC and to no one’s surprise I’m now uncontrollably sobbing over the tragic doomed loving couple

[ask-emoripals]

What would you do with a million dollars?

🎹: Make a cat cafe business with Hero as my lovely husband who visits daily to drink coffee!

🔪: Find a way to pet tigers without dying.

⭐️: Save up on the money and when I have enough, fund treatment for my mom’s alcoholism and to support me and my dads house. :|

🪴: Get therapy for my weed addiction, and buy a new camera.

🏀: Move out of that fucked up house with my baby sis and Sunny.

📖: Support Sally and her future, as I am worried they’ll neglect her as they did Kel.

🦖: Find a way to revive dinosaurs or other prehistoric animals. Either that or find a way to destroy Jack Horner’s wealth! >:(

🖌️: Buy art supplies and not starve as an artist.

🦈: Make an actually USABLE submarine!

[acacia-may]

*tiptoes in* heromari please? thank you *tiptoes out*

Oh my goodness, I am sobbing, Anon-Friend! 😭💖 Oh HeroMari! 💙💜 I don't usually get too into shipping in my media, but boy oh boy did I cry real, actual tears about these two. Seriously, about a week after I finished the game, I was sitting my backyard listening to music and just start thinking about them, and the next thing I know I am literally wiping away tears. But more about that under the cut...

To avoid MAJOR OMORI SPOILERS, I've put your song and your headcanons under the cut. Thank you so much for your ask and for playing my song + headcanon game! 🥰

Okay so I love HeroMari intensely (even though knowing how things turned out for them makes me want to curl up in a corner and cry)! I actually have a whole Spotify playlist for them, but my all-time favorite HeroMari song is without a doubt "Here There and Everywhere" by The Beatles. I have some very specific headcanons about this song and HeroMari so I thought it was probably the perfect choice for this game. 😊

In general, I really feel like this song captures how Hero felt about Mari. He really loved her and thought she was wonderful, and, despite them being young, I think Hero is this sort of old-fashioned romantic and he did have these dreams of sharing their lives with each other and getting to be together forever. One of his big problems in the present/"real world" is that he just doesn't know what "forever" looks like without her in it and losing her has left him so listless and lost--he doesn't know what he wants out of life anymore. And I feel like that kind of sentiment is a sort of shadow of the song "Here There and Everywhere." It's this beautiful, sincere love song (absolutely the kind of love song that I think Hero, with that romantic streak in him, would really gravitate towards), but in this HeroMari context, suddenly there is a sort of bittersweet sadness to lines like:

I want her everywhere, and if she's beside me I know I need never care.

But to love her is to need her everywhere.

Knowing that love is to share.

Each one believing that love never dies.

Watching her eyes, and hoping I'm always there

Because the painful thing is that it's so clear that Hero would have been there--that the two of them (probably) would have been together forever if Mari hadn't passed away, and even now, when she's gone, Hero still loves her and still misses her and there probably is a part of him that always will.

Related Headcanons (from least sad to most sad):

The Beatles' Revolver album was the first vinyl record Hero ever purchased for himself. He bought it because he couldn't get enough of the song "Here There and Everywhere," and after wearing out his cassette tape, decided he really needed to hear the vinyl version of the song. He was so excited that he invited Mari over to listen to it with her. Mari thought it was just because he was excited about buying his first record, but he really just wanted to play her that song because he thought of her every time he listened to it.

It was the first song they ever really "officially" slow danced to. Hero was so nervous that his hands were trembling and sweating the entire time, but Mari didn't seem to care and really she had never been happier. That night she stayed up late just thinking about how he had smiled at her and how gentle and sincere his voice had sounded when he had started quietly (and perhaps a little absent-mindedly) singing along with some of the words.

When they officially became high school sweethearts, he finally confessed that the song had always made him think of her. Mari found this incredibly moving and declared that it was officially their "song" now.

Eventually, Hero gave Mari his Revolver record, and when she died, her mother returned it to him.

After Mari passed away, Hero couldn't even bring himself to listen to "Here There and Everywhere." Once when he was driving home from high school, he heard it playing on the local classic rock radio station and started crying so much he had to pull over to the side of the road--sobbing bitterly in his car. When he finally calmed enough to finish his drive home, he locked himself in his room and hid the record in a box in his closet. He never listened to "Here There and Everywhere" again after that. [A/N: This was the thought that had me weeping in my yard while listening to this song--just imagining how painful it would be for Hero the first time he heard it after Mari passed away].

Bonus Hopeful Headcanons (so it doesn't end on such an angsty note):

Eventually Hero gets the therapy he so desperately needs, and his therapist suggests that he try listening to the song again as part of his grieving process. It's painful at first, but he does eventually reach a place where he can listen to that song and enjoy it again even if it reminds him of Mari and how much he misses her.

If Hero ever finds love again someday, they would never really listen to “Here There and Everywhere” together (knowing Hero he would probably find a new, completely different song for them to share with each other), and his new love would understand and respect that "Here There and Everywhere" is his and Mari's song and only their song forever.

Here, There And Everywhere (Remastered 2009) - YouTube

[burnyourdread]

Because uh i'm curious I have few questions

What are your Omori OTPs?

What are your headcanons for each character?

who's your favorite character?

SUNFLOWER!!!! i love sunflower. and heromari. and kimbrey. i loaf them all

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sunny - he is autistic, he is selectively mute, he grew out a mullet, he’s 4’11.5 (but tells everyone he’s 5 feet because being under 5 feet is to embarrassing for him) and uhhhh he knows a lot of useless facts. he’s also a menace on twitter

basil - he is also autistic (me projecting my autism onto everyone), he’s tall, and muscular, he once cried to gee by girls generation, his hair is unnaturally soft, he’s a platonic kisser, and he is vegetarian except for bacon when someone else makes it. he’s german/french.

aubrey - she has piercings that she did herself, gets together with basil to dye her hair, really likes marshmallows, likes kpop (secretly), also likes a lot of punk/rock music, and she’s korean/slavic.

kel - he has adhd, he is actually really smart but a lot of people don’t think he is because of his reputation, weirdly insightful and notices a lot of small details that others don’t. really likes chocolate chip muffins. also his hair is curly. he is brazilian/mexican

hero - he is a TWINK. i don’t care what anyone says he is not muscular at all. he is a noodle guy. he has to have the dishes done before he cooks anything. he likes the dad clothes section of target. he likes water with only one ice cube, his hair is also curlier. exclusively wears low rise converse. same ethnicity as kel :D

mari - she is transgender. no it wouldn’t make sense because of when the game takes place but i believe in trans mari. she has ocd, and she is very soft spoken. dresses like a grandma for comfort. she has a HUGE sweet tooth!!!! she also has a round face and always smiles with her teeth

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my favorite character is basil!!!! he is so silly, and his character is really relatable to me. also apparently i have a thing for blondes. who would’ve guessed

[opalescent-apples]

How the Homestuck Trolls would play Omori

Aradia: She made it through Black space and somehow wasn't freaked out by the "friendsssss...." Scene (you know the one). She will find every door. She will not shut up about this game. She's a HeroMari stan.

Tavros: Kins Basil and has to have Gamzee and/or Aradia near him to finish the game during Black Space. He mostly wanted to quit over the bunny side quest. He really didn't want to kill them; he's with headspace Aubrey there. He makes Fiduspawn teams for everyone.

Sollux: Considers the game too easy, though the story hits home for him. He intends to mod Black Space to have actual bosses; Aradia and Feferi are cheering him on. He adds new phobia bosses.

Karkat: Rage quit the game on Sweetheart. Sollux makes fun of him for being bad at video games.

Nepeta: Like Roxy, she could not kill Mewo. Equius offered to step in before she figured it out. Later, she becomes the most prolific Baseball (kelbrey) shipper on ao3.

Kanaya: finishes the game with Rose. She prefers games with more customization or straightforward combat, though. She does appreciate Aubrey.

Terezi: almost quit in white space before getting into the pastel world. She appreciates the use of color in Omori, and has absolutely looped My Time before. She's pestering Karkat to finish the game so she and Dave can throw memes at him.

Vriska: Guys you don't understand. Aubrey is the best character to ever be written. She deserves the world. She deserves to hit people with that bat. She should commit more crimes with Kim, actually. Those stupid other characters should just leave her alone!!!!!!!! Ugh she's not a 8ad person this is not up for de88.

Equius: Nepeta made him play it, but he actually got scared of it (sorry it's hard to write this guy). He eventually told her to seek more dignified entertainment. She did not listen.

Gamzee: Plays it with Tavros. He wouldn't have figured whitespace out otherwise. He's a relatively casual fan of the game, but he relates to Sunny a little more than he admits.

Eridan: "Wwhat do you mean there isn't a route wwhere you kill everyone. Wwhat's the glubbin point then?" He puts down the game for more flarp.

Feferi: Got the hikkikomori route on the first try. She wanted to see where the colorful story went. She loves the underwater sections. Went back for the main route and cried up a storm. Reads Rose's obscure fanfiction about Tako.

[lilac-udon]

Au notes

Working on hero and kel , kel story sad …why

working on omori

I have no idea how to write heromari (especially hero

Sunny/basil/parents(sunny dad,mom/kel mom/mincy/cris -finished (probably

Land map

——I have not draw anything o(-(

[sweethibiscustea82]

for the ask game !! I forgot which omori ships youblike cries ummmm suntan or picnic sandwhich/heromari :D

I will do both of those! (I’m a multishipper so I ship like everything lmao)

Suntan:

kel and sunny have such a sweet sun and moon dynamic, and kel always seems so incredibly supportive and happy with sunny. I love optimist x pessimist.

Hmm probably the height difference maybe? I love really athletic big tall people who are super happy and then they’re crush who they can carry on their back lol.

Not particularly no!

Picnic Sandwich:

1: where do I start man, their entire dynamic is so amazing. In dreamworld you can see how cute they are together that they definitely had something. And then in the realworld it shows you just how much hero cared about mari and how much they loved eachother. How he grieved when she died. All the photos with them together. It hurt me. I understand if you want to ship smth else but you can’t deny that these two are absolutely perfect.

2: I love the fact that mari flirts with him and teases him, and how he gets flustered. It’s adorable and it makes me so happy.

3: again no unpopular opinions lol

[theelispace]

Pure Love in Kamurocho

I’ve imagined the following Omori Ships singing this song as a sextet (a group of six people playing music or singing together).

HeroMari: Hero x Mari

SunBurn: Sunny x Aubrey

BeachBall: Kel x Cris

This seems fitting!

[hero-deserves-to-be-happy]

Can you do HeroMari 💘💖 for the headcanons game? Maybe a headcanon about how Hero would have proposed in a Mari Lives AU? Thank you!

Of course, Anon! This is such a cathartic ask. You have no idea how much we wish Mari and Hero would have had the opportunity to grow old together and get married in the future. 💙💜😭 But alas, we can only have this in dreams and Mari Lives AUs now (and in headcanons, of course).

Needless to say, we were very excited for this ask, especially since we haven't written anything concrete about a HeroMari proposal before (Sprinkles does have a doodle of Mari proposing to Hero as part of a HeroMari sketch dump though). It was lots of fun to think of the proposal from Hero's side, so thank you so much this ask and for playing our "Hearts for Hero" Headcanons Game!

💘💖 --HeroMari Proposal (By Hero) in a Mari Lives AU Headcanon

Hero has wanted to marry Mari for pretty much his entire life, so he puts a lot of thought and effort into planning the perfect proposal for her when they are old enough and ready to get married. Hero knows Mari is a romantic at heart, so it's very important to him to make sure his proposal is very special for her. After trying to decide between several different ideas, Hero eventually chooses to plan an elaborate scavenger hunt for Mari throughout Faraway Town with clues leading to different locations that are important to them and their relationship. He also makes sure to include their friends and family to help pass out the clues, knowing that Mari would want her loved ones nearby on such an important day.

Though Hero tries his best to surprise Mari, she catches on pretty quickly that Hero is waiting for her at the end of the scavenger hunt with a ring, and, sure enough, the final clue leads to their secret hangout spot in Faraway Park where Hero is waiting on a picnic blanket with a meal of all of Mari's favorite foods that he cooked himself. Mari starts tearing up when Hero gets down on one knee which makes Hero start to cry happy tears himself as he recites the little speech he prepared (and practiced at length) about how much he loves her and how much he wants them to spend the rest of their lives together. When Mari accepts his proposal, their family and friends who are hiding in the bushes all cheer, and Mari and Hero kiss.

Bonus: Basil gets photographs of the whole thing, and he makes a scrapbook out of them and other photos of Hero and Mari through the years which he gives to them as a wedding present when they get married the following year.

And they all live a very well deserved happily ever after... 💙💜

[seven-oh-four]

couldnt fit it all into a reply heres all my guesses before & after the hints

FIRST GUESSES WITHOUT THE HINTS

Dark fountain - stranger & ...? stranger & someone. idk who.

Edible Paper - kel & mincy

Swedish Fish - kim & cris

Bread bank - hero x bowen? bc hero is a capitalist.

Raspberry Pie - basil x the maverick?

Vanilla - uhhh.... kel, because beans, like coffee beans? and kel is associated with coffee...? through orange joe????? and..... basil. because he's white. or, omori. he's whiter.

Limeade - ???? absolutely no clue

Dandelion - basil & ..?

Runaway Moon - omori & kel

Kaleidoscope - ???

Chamomile tea - ???

Melonbread - aubrey &... the maverick?

Picture perfect - basil & mincy?

Watercolor Splash - cris & mincy???

Made With Love - heromari?

Rainstar - cris & sunny?

Sweet Crepe - candice x hero????

Deadpan - mari x hero???

WITH THE HINTS:

Dark fountain - hm... sunny x kel x cris? sunny darkness....... fountain water............ difficult!!

Edible Paper - kim & mincy!!

Swedish Fish - kim & cris OHHH THAT MAKES SENSE W THE LAST ONE THEY GO TOGETHER. ok.

Bread bank - HERO X BISCUIT I KNEW IT. SAME THING

Raspberry Pie - the maverick x..............??? wait why am i even associating him with raspberries?? is it... that lady in the park who bakes pies x her husband???

Vanilla - uhh.. yeah idk :'D

Limeade - there are... a lot of popular ships !! ohw ait... maybe... hs versions of a rw ship? like.... berly x someone? or something like that?

Dandelion - basil... sunny... and........ kel...???

Runaway Moon - oh wow. i really thought i was right on the money with that one!! uhh..... spaceboy & rococo? because you only meet them in a dream?

Kaleidoscope - Canopy x the telescope in orange oasis

Chamomile tea - basil x charlie?

Melonbread - yeah i'm sticking with aubrey x the maverick.

Picture perfect - parsley & mincy?

Watercolor Splash - kel x mincy x cris

Made With Love - hero, mari, and daphne..?

Rainstar - sunny & kel

Sweet Crepe - kim & the maverick?

Deadpan - you're fucking evil

OK OK fun. little game. list of pretty obscure Omori ship names (some r obscure in general. some are less so, but r just called smth different) :3 guess them. (in the tags or whatever idk)

Dark fountain Edible Paper Swedish Fish Bread bank Raspberry Pie Vanilla Limeade Dandelion Runaway Moon Kaleidoscope Chamomile tea Melonbread Picture perfect Watercolor Splash Made With Love Rainstar Sweet Crepe Deadpan

[serenashido]

totally normal heromari doing canon heromari things like being alive and going to college together canonly and both alive because thats what happened in omori

[ask-emoripals]

Can we see everyone's reactions? Pls?

🔪: Amazing, very epic and real of big sis to marry my boyfriends older brother. 👍

🏀: Cool

⭐️: YIPPEEEEE!!! :D

🪴: Will there be free food at the wedding? ;)

🦖: Uh idk how to feel but very cool and epic! :)

🖌️: Don’t care, I’m going to draw now.

🦈: Very awesome.

[acacia-may]

How I deal with my most painful ship

 I also like to avoid shipping. Thus, if my shipping fail, I will be disappointed. However, I'm only human after all, hence I do get involved with shipping in my media consumption. Therefore, I like to stroll while daydreaming about a sad story. I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face since it helps to soothe my heart. Thus, I can walk far without feeling tired. When it was raining listening to the music that correlated with my story is also helping. Furthermore, I'm glad to read fanfiction and watch fanart about my ships. There are a lot of amazing writers and artists. I'm really thankful.

These is a trope I daydream about.

She fell too early, he fell too late

Right person, wrong time 

Unrequited love

 I'm an aspiring to write a good story in future. However, my idea disappearing when I hold a pen or keyboard to organize my thought. One of the way I deal with my painful ship too. (Hahaha)

Do you mind to share from which story that ships hurt you now?

Hi there, Anon-friend! Thank you so much for sending this ask in. I'll admit I've been wallowing a bit in shipping angst right now, so these were some lovely suggestions! 🥰 I've put my response under the cut since it got really long and rambling... 😅

(Warnings: brief/vague mentions of death, death games, trauma, and weapons. No specific spoilers but some vague ones for Danganronpa V3 and Omori).

I absolutely love listening to music that reminds me of my favorite stories, characters, and ships. I think that's probably my main method of coping--not just for romantic ships but for painful platonic relationships as well. (I can't tell you how much time I've spent crying over the song "Forest Fire" by Brighton (YouTube) and thinking about some of the most tragic sibling relationships--ouch!). I listen to a lot of happy/upbeat songs too, so it's not all depressing (though believe me, I have definitely gotten emotional over some happier songs as well).

Those tropes definitely sound like they have the potential to be soul-crushing. It got me thinking a little bit about the tropes surrounding my favorite tragic ships, and I think most of my tragic ships are torn apart by outside circumstances, trauma, and/or death, usually combination of several (i.e. Character A had a severely traumatic childhood which prevented them from fully opening up to and believing in the love of Character B until their dying moments so not only did they lose their beloved but also lost any chance they may have had to be happy together prior to losing them forever ect. Extra tragedy points if that then sends Character A on a downward spiral in which they lose themselves and become a bitter, depressed, and/or more villainous shell of their former selves. I've gotten attached to quite a few ships in this category over the years 😭).

I've also tend to have the misfortune of thinking a pairing is "The Ship"™️ only for the story to throw a curveball in the third act and decide "Nope. It's this one over here, actually." And I'm just left with surprised pikachu face and emotional whiplash, wondering if my love detector is broken. [And most frustrating of all, usually when this happens nothing ever gets "canon"-ed so it's all left up to speculation and now way more complicated than it needs to be 🙈].

(Actual footage of me when Sunny has a crush on Aubrey or Klaus likes Fiona or Tsubaki realizes she loves Kousei or Sparrow would rather date Holly than her sister, or David Copperfield freaking marries Dora Spenlow, or Naho marries Suwa in an alternate timeline or Finral wants to marry his brother's fiancée which he has somehow failed to mention this entire time... For the record, I actually like a lot of these ships too (not Fiona and Klaus that much though--it has issues but I threw it in there to note how this has been an ongoing problem since my childhood), but it's difficult not to feel a bit frustrated that they didn't just come right out with these relationships from the beginning so we could avoid the emotional whiplash of suddenly having to change directions and feeling like "Well I shipped this other thing before so I don't know what to do now..." 🤷‍♀️ The drama is just not worth it, and I find it exhausting--one of the big reasons I really don't like love shapes).

Anyway, I guess since I'm not usually that into shipping, I'm not very observant or very good at picking up the vibes of what will or will not be a ship, or maybe the universe is just conspiring against me and wants to make me feel stupid, I don't know. 😝😂 But I do think a lot of relationship drama in fiction is unnecessarily complicated when it doesn't need to be. For the most part though, when I talk about my tragic ships, they've mostly been separated by death or serious, tragic circumstances rather than their own stupidity or in favor of another ship (if that makes sense).

I would be happy to tell you the story/fandom my painful ships are from--thank you so much for asking! 🥰I have quite a few painful ships, but I will only list the three main ones I've taken on in the last month which have me feeling all broken up and emotional recently. 🙈😭

MomoHaru (Kaito Momota x Maki Harukawa) is from Danganronpa V3 which is a video game/visual novel I just finished earlier this month. It's probably my favorite ship not just in that game but in the entire Danganronpa series of games, and there are some pretty good ships in that series--none of which I got nearly as invested in as this one, however, since that's usually not my thing, but Kaito and Maki were special. It's definitely one of those opposites attract type relationships: he's incredibly outgoing and friendly and wants to be believe in the best in people, but she's very jaded, quiet, and closed off. He chooses to trust her when no one else does and doesn't give up on trying to befriend her, and eventually she slowly warms up to him and finds herself falling in love with the wonderful person that he is. Unfortunately, this all takes place during a death game where they are basically fighting for their lives so naturally there are a lot outside impediments to their romance and it's just heart-wrenching.

[This is them by the way (screenshot from the game on the wiki) She's showing him how to use a crossbow, the most inherently romantic of all weapons... (or so was the joke my sister & I made whilst playing the game)😅]

The other two are from another game called Omori. It's my sister favorite video game of all time which is saying a lot since she has played and loved many, many video games. 😊 I don't play a lot of games myself, but this year it has been a bit of a resolution of mine to try out some more games and we went through most of my list of games I wanted to play so I promised my sister I'd give this one a try too, and I just finished it last week. I don't think I was very good at it (at least not the battle aspect), but I did get the good ending so I think I must've done something right somewhere. 😅😁

I liked a lot of ships in this game, but my favorites were probably Kelbrey (Kel x Aubrey) and HeroMari (Hero x Mari).

Kel and Aubrey both have really strong personalities, and they're both pretty stubborn. Aubrey is a little bit bossy and Kel never stops talking, so they don't always see eye to eye, but at the end of the day they really do care about each other very much. One of my favorite moments is this cut scene where a young Aubrey starts to cry because their friend is lost and young Kel sort of panics--he tells her he doesn't like it when she cries and tries to his best to reassure her and make her happy again. It's very, very sweet. 🧡 Given the structure of the game, we get to see bits of both what they're like both as kids (preteens) and as older teens so that allows for some really interesting perspective, getting to watch them kind of grow and change over time. (There's also the difference between what the unreliable narrator character imagines/remembers them to be like versus what they are actually like now. It's really interesting). They were really good friends in their childhood but were torn apart by tragic circumstances they didn't have emotional maturity to deal with. In the vague-est terms, they suffered a serious trauma, and they were just kids at the time so, naturally, they didn't/couldn't handle it well and their friendship suffered for that. But eventually they do get to find each other again and start to rebuild that friendship and relationship. Though as I'm sure you can see here, they never really stop teasing and bothering each other. 😂

[These are some of my favorite screenshots from the game--these ones are from the wiki].

I love them as platonic friends as well, and I like a lot of Aubrey ships, honestly, so I think I'd be happy even if this one didn't sail, but there's just something about Kelbrey. It's called "Baseball Bat" in the fandom, and it's an appropriate name because it just hits really hard, I think. 😂 My sister and I feel a bit differently about it (in relation to some of the other possible ships especially), and so while we would usually commiserate together, I feel a bit like I'm suffering alone on this one. 🙈 Probably why I'm rambling about it on the internet lol... 😂

Then the final one, HeroMari is just this wonderful, beautiful, tragic ship between the kindest people who deserved so much better than what they got. I'm not the biggest shipper usually, but best friends to lovers can really get me sometimes when it's done well, and Hero and Mari were a great example of that trope--that romantic love slowly building over time on the foundation of a really solid and beautiful friendship. They are just so precious in the way they really built each other up and supported each other, and they also had this delightful playfulness and banter that was really cute and really fun too. But...yeah this one just really, really hurts. 😭 I'm going to start tearing up if I talk too much about it. But seriously look at them. They're so in love. 🥺😭💗

(This is a screenshot from the game too. Just leave me to cry... 😭)

I've been picking up a lot of ships that I like or are okay with recently, but these are probably my favorites and the ones causing me the most pain. Thank you so much for the excuse to ramble about them a little bit. It helps me feel a little better. 💕

I want to really encourage you in your writing as well. I know that writer's block can be difficult and I have spent a long time staring at blank pages when trying to write myself, but I find it is always worth it in the end. Truthfully, I think writing about my favorite dynamics is my favorite way to deal with all my feelings about them. I've started a Momoharu story (which I've fallen a bit behind on already, I'm afraid 🙈), and I would love to write for the others one of these days too. Just have to iron out some story ideas. I wish you the best of luck with your story ideas as well.

Thank you so much for the ask and for the opportunity to share a little bit about my most painful ships (from this month anyway 😅). Please feel free to drop by any time to chat. I'd love to hear about your painful ship too, if you don't mind sharing. 💕 Cheers and much love, friend! 🥰