#omori!marzenie

[elusiiev]

Marze

YAYYYYY!!!! i finally drew them!!!!

this is Marze from @dannybobany's Marzenie au!! if you havent heard of it you should 100% check it out, its based on the idea of basil's headspace!!

alternate version under the cut:

i couldnt decide which version of the fire thingy i liked more so heres both !!!!

[dannybobany]

Eight hours of work over four days later!!! say hello to Marzenie

A cold, quiet wasteland of inescapable familiarity, not a place to hide, but a place that is actively hunting you

You are not safe here. It’s just as bad here as it is out there

[cough cough … so in case this is your first time seeing me posting about Marzenie, the general idea is that it’s an omori au that shows things from Basil’s perspective- giving him his own inner world and a deeper look into what he’s actually going through, given omori is from Sunny’s perspective we don’t really get the most in depth idea of how things are in Basils own mind other then the vague idea that it’s really bad— Marzenie is an AU that hopes to elaborate on Basils character and inner struggle in ways that Omori does not. And yes that means sending him on a fantasy adventure in his own mind but like- when I say fantasy I mean In the same way as a game like Fear and Hunger is “fantasy”]

[sotogalmo]

11:45

Au by @dannybobany !! (Just a scene I made up by myself due to some lyrics- in the scene)

Marze, a name he went by, was walking as he normally does in the cold forest.

(in between where the shadow meets the light) The feeling of being stared at. Normal, everything about this experience is normal; but it.....

Ah? Oh. An Edelweiss,

... Quietly blooming, I watch lest it disappears. They always bloom on these parts of the forest (maybe it's more of a mountain, now? It seems that he's getting closer to a mountain moreso). They look.. pretty. They feel.. comforting. They look like stars!

Hear the magic, old as time, whisper in my ear: ... It doesn't really take him long, he's known this place for a while (maybe since he was 5? 7 moreso), so he knows his ways around the forest and mountain paths— well, not really. The mountain.. is.... Somewhat new. The Edelweiss flowers too. Those are new. But- they feel, again, comforting. Like it was meant to be?

Singing? Humming. It's humming.

Who's humming?

“you've the power in your hands to change the world” — The ...

The same paintings, the same stained glasses, the same paragraphs detailing the appearance of such a God.

The humming ....

...... Is coming from him?

, Let us dream forevermore. Oh, why am I surprised?

The books, the altars, the notes, the paragraphs- the worshippers words and everything...

I should've known he would've sounded like a beautiful violin. A harp even! And not return. I look down, to my hands— I sometimes pick up flowers; the Edelweisses grow back. I know so, they always grow back so fast in these parts; I hope that they continue to grow just like that.

In the time that I have left, Shit.

Did he notice me? .. he looks like.. is he just waking up? His eyes have that look to it. But he doesn't open them— “If he ever opens his eyes, a fire happens. We already saw it happen. We don't want it again.”; is what I remember now.

what can I do? He looks at me, it feels lighter? Better... Is he asking a question? He doesn't seem to be speaking to me. Maybe he isn't asking me a question? But.. he earns, no- he deserves an answer. I should give him an answer;

All I want is to forget, and be with you. Is what is written on the petal I had ripped of the Eldiweiss I had in my hand. That's what he wants, right? It's answer. I gave him an answer. I hope.. he's happy with it.

Live for all that is real, everything that I feel— he gives it back to me, replacing the 'I' as 'you'— me?. With a smile (enough to burn my fears away, the bugs and eggs away for getting too deep and too much).

He reaches out to hold.. my hand?

This wish of mine, one day will shine and : conjure life.

I let him. Of course I would.

Like old times,

And hopefully.....

For the rest of our lives, as well. For the future.

I hope.

[dannybobany]

AHHHHH!!! I LOVE THIS SO MUCH ‼️‼️‼️‼️

CANNOT get enough of how Marze looks in your style EXPLODES 💥 and posing him as praying is AUGH everything about this makes me so so joyous and insane I ‼️💥‼️💥💥

I absolutely adore this take on the depiction of Sol and the design of the window, Basil’s constant lying to himself and willful ignorance around Sunny’s faults paralleling with ideas of religious guilt and church teachings— no matter what it can’t be HIM, Basil doesn’t care what lies he has to tell to make Sunny innocent in the end, wether it’s blaming himself or “something” no matter what it can’t be SUNNY, and this all fits in so well with the Marzenie lore I had in mind because within that world Sol really has been taken over by a malevolent “something” entity, Basil’s quest within Marzenie is to defeat it and return the sun, refusing to believe that someone like Sunny would abandon him willingly and falling headfirst into outright delusion

Basically what I’m saying is that your take is accurate and fits in perfectly with the rest of the lore, it’s also just a really neat visual <3 I’m still so insane about this art HWUAJXUWIAHG

I’m so exited to hear what other ideas you have about this au because so far I am obsessed with all of your takes around it-

stupid sketches of @dannybobany 's marzenie au because it's so fire man... colouring this is a pain so I'm just uploading the sketches but!!!!!!! here!!!!!!!!!! them!!!!!!!!!!!

i wanted to draw the scene of sol's stained glass window in the church and this was my idea of what it would look like. since the church and marze kind of represent basil's blind hope for sol's (or parallel, sunny's) return, i feel like it would also internalise basil's blind bluff of "something" being responsible for all their problems, even though he knows deep down that isn't true. the space in general just kind of embodies basil's purposeful ignorance and attempt to push the blame onto something non-existent, as well as playing into the religious trauma aspect of it and feeling "lied to" by the church or that things are exaggerated in the bible and its teachings, and that being reflected by the church "lying" in the sense that it's portraying something as "pulling the strings" in a way. its better to believe that than the alternative. and of course he blames himself too because... can't be sunny's fault at all in any way guys trust!!1!11! and also basil's tendency to self hate and blame himself for everything

i have a lot of ideas for this au in general since its so fun and abstract ESPECIALLY concerning the entities so i may take to yapping about that later but uh. yeah. have fun with these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ask-marzenie]

[MARZENIE GUIDE POST BECAUSE I DONT FEEL LIKE THE OTHER ONE EXPLAINED WELL ENOUGH]

so here’s a slightly better rundown of my little Basil-POV AU

MARZENIE as opposed to HEADSAPCE

Headspace is … at least mostly a VOLUNTARY experience that Sunny is pretty chill about, headspace is an escape, a paradise

Marzenie on the other hand is completely involuntary, Basil doesn’t want to be there but he ends up there anyway, this is largely a guilt complex- Marzenie is bad because Basil thinks he deserves that, to be trapped in a world of torment is only his punishment, the only way to make up for what he did, Marzenie isn’t really ‘designed’ either, headspace has had multiple iterations and has had to replace characters when things go wrong, Marzenie on the other hand has been a developing constant for Basil since about a year after the incident, a place that gradually evolved as his mental state became worse and worse, but when I say it’s not ‘designed’ I mean to imply that Sunny (or omori?) very intentionally crafted their idea of who the characters should BE in headspace, Marzenie characters are based upon Basil’s unconscious views on people. If you’re a monster in marzenie that’s not his fault, he didn’t do that on purpose

Additionally:

Ok that’s all!!

I might pin this post because I find it very useful for making clear what exactly this au is supposed to BE

[dannybobany]

Whoops my hand slipped

[dannybobany]

Good god it’s been awhile, but at last my dearest Omori Marzenie returns !!

after all these years I finally drew alter boy!! Gosh, that leaves only the as of now unnamed Aubrey monster for the main four-

Design detail ramble ⬇️

Okay okay, flower meaning time guys

So Kel had me a little confused at first since ‘cactus’ is incredibly vague, Basil never specifies what type of cactus he’s talking about but it was surprisingly easy to find the right match-

This is the adorably named strawberry hedgehog cactus, representing resilience and the ability to thrive in harsh conditions- a perfect match to its omori counterpart and most likely the type of cactus Basil would’ve initially been talking about when explaining its meaning, it’s also a good visual match by its signature pink flowers

But that’s just canon, what about those flowers on his sleeves? Well this is where I got a bit silly because those there are anemones, which can mean a lot of things but in this case represent abandonment, which is relevant to what alter boy himself is representing in Marzenie

Kel and Basil have a very awkward relationship, Kel is kind of trying really hard to ignore Basil in the nicest way he can- he isn’t really meaning to do this, he just… doesn’t know what to DO with Basil, Basil won’t laugh at his jokes aside from the occasional very obviously forced chuckle, Basil can’t hold a conversation with him anymore, they just stand there making awkward chitchat smiling at each other in an increasingly uncomfortable manner

So when they do talk, which is rarely, it largely consists of Kel going on for a few minutes about things that have happened to him recently… which are usually accomplishments, which make Basil feel like shit in comparison-

Thus, alter boy, he’s like a less pronounced reflection- there’s still that element of shame where Basil feels worse about himself because of how he views Kel, but there’s something else too… a little bit of mockery, obviously Kel has never done that, but to Basil, being bombarded by stories of all his friends accomplishments, how much better his life is when Basil is barely in it? It hits him like an insult, like mockery

Which leaves alterboy as this… passively antagonistic character, whenever spoken too he only tells Marze how futile everything he’s doing is and saying out loud every harsh truth about the situation, throwing it all in Marze’s face for him to dwell on

This is one of those times where Basil is taking things as being far worse the they are, not that he can help it, but that’s what’s happening

[sotogalmo]

@dannybobany

twt archive 10/?

omori deep dive au game concept

[dannybobany]

Did someone say out of context Marzenie meme???

No?? Take it anyway !!

[dannybobany]

ok ok im outting myself for stupidity... whats marzenie.....

IM REALLY INTERESTED SO FAR BUT im still very confused

HOLY SHIT THIS IS MY FAVORITE QUESTION THANK YOU FOR ASKING

Marzenie is my omori au In which the games events occur from Basil’s perspective rather then Sunny’s, which includes giving Basil his own “headspace”, that’s what “Marzenie” is (Marzenie being the polish word for dream)

Marzenie is yes, a space that exists in Basil’s dreams, but that’s about all it has in common with headspace- Basil’s views on the world and his fears influence Marzenie to be far bleaker and more violent then Headspace

Here’s a Map I made to help visualize things I’m talking about-

Marzenie is a frosted over wasteland, everything in it is based upon the very worst of Basil’s thoughts— unlike Sunny he doesn’t really repress his trauma’s, they burden him actively and in some cases voluntarily—  Basil, considering himself responsible for everything tears happened to his friends, allows this hell to exist in his mind as the punishment he believes he deserves

that’s not to say Basil controls Marzenie, it’s almost entirely subconscious, just that Basil allows Marzenie too exist and doesn’t try to improve his thinking

Additionally, like headspace, Marzenie has a persona character for Basil and a Stranger for Sunny

Basil’s persona is Marze, but don’t get me wrong, Marze is not like Omori- while Omori is somewhat of an individual and separate character, Marze is no more then a costume and possesses no consciousness or autonomy separate from Basil- Marze is just a costume that Basil is wearing in these dreams of Marzenie

As for Basil’s Stranger, his name is Sol, within Marzenie itself Sol is a god, the very embodiment of the sun- but separated from his character, metaphorically Sol is Basil’s idealization’s of Sunny and the role Sol plays in Marzenie’s story is a parallel to how Basil has felt without Sunny, like a world without its sun

There are other things in Marzenie that I could absolutely ramble about but I’ll only go on like this if you actually want to know- but that’s rhe rundown!

[dannybobany]

Here’s an updated height scale for all current Marzenie characters- I did this because I find it’s hard to tell how large these characters are in their individual art and I think it’s important to know their scale when imagining them- important to me at least

Reflection and the Kim one were both crouching in their art so I had to lasso tool them a bit but it’s finnneeee

[dannybobany]

HOLY SHIT MARZENIE FINALLY

the long awaited one I keep talking about but not actually drawing is finally here

‘The pale maiden’

(aka the personification of Basil’s mother issues)

Elaboration below ⬇️ <3

The Pale Maiden is a reoccurring presence in Marzenie, she’s always around… somewhere, but when you get too close she disappears again, to get interactions with this entity you have to actively seek it out, if you find her in every location she’s present in you’ll find her one last time in the ‘Haunted House’ area where she will begin following you, there’s a very small door in the house that if you go through while she’s following you she will get stuck in, allowing you to initiate the boss battle

Killing The pale maiden is completely optional, there is no material reward, but if you do it after you try to exit the house instead of the door going outside it will show you a ‘memory’ of the day Basil’s parents left (<- again I’m using language as if Marzenie were an actual game but idk that’s just how of think of it), additionally it will stop snowing in Marzenie (there’s no benefit to this it’s just tjat thr visual snow stops, but considering this would be hypothetically very close to the end of the game it wouldn’t matter much, it’s just meant to signify that you’ve done something significant)

The Pale maiden isn’t very complex, it’s just a twisted representation of Basil’s mother (or more so her absence), there were a handful of inspirations here… I was thinking a lot about ‘the snow Queen’ when I had the idea for her, because in terms of how Marzenie itself works this entity is meant to be heavily connected to the cold itself (insert symbolism)— but that’s not what she’s based on in universe, in universe Basil is subconsciously connecting her to a story she read to him of the same name, because being read that story as a very young child is one of the only good memories Basil has of his mother (yikes!)

The actual story of “The pale Maiden” doesn’t have too much relevance, but that’s why her fingers are cut off in the design

I should mention that The pale maiden technically has two different designs because above her existing in Marzenie Basil also hallucinates a very similar entity in real life sections (which I’ve barely touched on at all but… speaking in game terms again, real life sections are a thing)

[dannybobany]

THE REFLECTION makes itself known

[plus a gif to show what it would look like in an actual battle]

Alrightttt, I’d like everyone to meet The reflection! This was one of the first ideas I had for an enemy in Marzenie, a miniboss based on Hero

It’s meant to embody some of the more general insecurities Basil has, it takes the form of Hero because from Basil’s perspective Hero is like. The GOAL for the kind of person you should be in life, he’s smart, successful, attractive, he’s the embodiment of (from an outside angle) the perfect man (and obviously Basil is wrong to think Hero is perfect, but comparing himself to Hero is one of his self deprecating habits so that’s what all of this is mostly about in the end)

Given the Fear and Hunger inspirations for this AU, there’s probably a form of ‘sanity’ bar in addition to HP, this enemy would do a mixture of both but its mind attacks would be far worse while its physical attacks would do barely any damage, the gimmick of the fight is that before it uses one of its mirrors a text pop up will say something hinting at which it’s about to use, and which mirror its raising is the one you have to shatter before its able to use its attack (basically the whole ‘which limb do I cut off to avoid getting obliterated’ thing in fear and hunger but with mirrors)

PS: if this is the first Marzenie post you’ve seen, it’s a perspective switch au where Basil has an inner world like sunny does except his is terrifying and awful! More info available in tag teehee

[dannybobany]

Marzenie time guysss

Here’s the Basil design!

Other versions plus a little elaboration on the design:

Cloakless + wing design versions

So for the sake of specificity I’ve been calling him “Marze” whenever I refer to the in-dream version of Basil, Same naming convention as (Hikik)Omori, but don’t be mistaken, Marze is not an individual like Omori is, Marze is a costume- just the suit that Basil wears while venturing the horrors of his mind, Marze is merely how Basil conforms himself to the world of Marzenie, none of the characters there are really human so it’d be out of place if Basil himself was (this can be viewed as a form of self-dehumanizing on Basil’s part but it’s mostly for the artists sake- the meta explanation is just as important as the in-world one)

Now for the design itself:

maybe the symbolism here is really obvious but I wanna explain it anyway, the Deer parts (antlers and legs) are representative of Basil’s general personality as a whole- he’s skittish and vulnerable yes but when forced deer do fight back, an idea that’s very important to Marzenie given it displays Basil LITERALLY fighting to survive against his inner struggles, that and the creator (me) really likes deer … so there’s that

Otherwise, the wings are Moths wings, which seems like it’s a really simple connection to Sunny and the idea that Moths are drawn to light but it’s a little more literal in Marzenie because it’s not just that Sunny is Basils sun in a metaphorical way it’s that in Marzenie he actually IS, in the world of Marzenie there is a Sun-God character that is very obviously just Sunny, which is both about bit about Basil’s view of Sunny as someone without flaw but also about just how much Basil relies on him… or rather the IDEA of him

Sun-God-Sunny is a very important presence in Marzenie because it’s his very absence that’s made Marzenie what it is, returning to that Map art I made for a moment here

Within Marzenie it’s not just that Sunny is a god but that he’s a dead/‘sleeping’ god, and in his absence the world has become cold and dark (which necessitates that lantern in the desgin above)

Yes Basil had issues before the incident but having friends and having SUNNY made that bearable and something he could have gradually put behind him, being abandoned so suddenly in such a traumatic way has thrown Basil’s mind into a state of eternal darkness, the world of Marzenie is cold and dark and dangerous, and all of this is the most literal possible representation of the damage Sunny’s absence has inflicted on Basil’s mental state

Sunny’s character in Marzenie being the Sun god is also why the center of it and the beginning of the journey is a church, the only hope Basil has anymore is that Sunny will return and they can be friends again, so he’s build an alter in his mind dedicated to this hope, this prayer

Also religious imagery is fun <3, also it’s a parallel to the church of something and how Basil’s house is at the center of Vast forest (and thus the center of Sunny’s mind, they center their places of safety around each other, even if for Basil that place is a tiny candlelit alter in the center of a dark woodland while for Sunny that Place of safety is EVERYTHING in his mind, so vastly different and yet sort of the same <- does any of this make sense? Probably not, who cares, it’s my AU and I WILL ramble as much as I like ok)

[dannybobany]

Marzenie kinda

[dannybobany]

So I’m sort of composing a Basil au of some general kind- I’m hesitant to call it an au but it is, just not in the usual way

The general idea is just to tell omori from basils perspective, give looks inside his mind and what he’s thinking and delve more into his personal non-sunny related trauma that doesn’t get explored in the game, it’s an au in the sense that I deviate from canon to tell his story in a way that gets around all the missing information (namely stuff about his parents)

In my mind Basil doesn’t have a headspace or a whitespace but he does go somewhere in his dreams and when he spaces out, Basils mind and its locations are comprised of memory’s and vague ideas of places he may or may not have been, very little in Basils mind is entirely new or even warped fantasy versions of real life, it’s more like … decoupage

Also Basils mind is significantly more fucked up in the sense that he doesn’t compartmentalize his trauma like sunny does, it’s just there, right next to the good memories no matter how jarring the transitions are, he can’t hide like sunny can, in a way he doesn’t really want to, in a way Basil sort of wants to be miserable; he thinks he deserves it

I plan on making art for this au soon and maybe even fully writing it- I’ve talked about it a little bit once or twice and if I can I’ll go back and add those posts to the tag I’m about to make- which for the time being is omori!marzenie (marzenie meaning dream in polish, basil is polish by the way that’s my headcanon for him and it’s kind of important to this au idea I have)

Anyway, if anyone is interested and has questions or requests, that’s what my ask box is for! Feel so so free to use it