#yes my first post in my tumblr blog is a theory walltext

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How Captain Spaceboy and Sweetheart relate to Sunny's relationship with Mari (theory)

(No, no incest implications, I know the title sounds wrong but no) (Heavy spoilers ahead, read at your own risk)

Ok let me make clear, first of all, that this whole walltext is all made of my own interpretations and I consider none of them to be fact.

I think most players have already noticed references or foreshadowing during moments with captain spaceboy and/or sweetheart (the most commented being the name of spaceboy battle themes). But as I watched more Omori streams, I started to notice small similarities between Captain spaceboy's actions in Headspace and Sunny's actions in real life, specially when it was in regard to Mari. At first I thought it was just me overthinking stuff but by now my brain has cooked it enough for me to want to spill it out. So guess I'll try.

Let's start with the similarities in chronological order:

• Spaceboy dealt with his heartbreak the same way Sunny dealt with Mari's death: he locked himself away from the outside word and refused to even leave his bed;

• The connection between Spaceboy and Sweetheart was the mixtape with their favorite songs. In the same way, the connection between Sunny and Mari was the final duet, the song they practiced over and over together and was never forgotten by Sunny;

• Spaceboy had a second side to him connected to his bottled up emotions (who we fought in the game), just like Sunny developed a second persona (Omori) to hide from the truth;

• After the gang beats him, Spaceboy leaves in order to try healing together with his friends. Sunny left his home for the first time thanks to Kel (if True Route was chosen);

And now Spaceboy's moment ends for a while. Next, we are introduced to the character os Sweetheart:

• Of course, Sweetheart herself is not a variant for Mari, after all she has her own dreamworld variant. But Sweetheart shares Mari's innate flaw: she is a perfectionist. No one else in Headspace shares that trait, not even dream!Mari herself;

• And just like Mari, that flaw is what causes her demise inside of Humphrey, but it seems Sunny's mind inserts a layer of irony in that: even after seeing a perfect copy of herself in front of her, Sweetheart still refused to acknowledge that her search for her perfect suitor was something so idealized she would never reach it. Looking at Mari, her perfectionism pushed Sunny to the point he exploded due to the pressure. He knew he would never be able to reach the level of skill she wanted;

Next time we see one of the two is in Hikkikomori route, as we fight Spaceboy in the mountains:

• One more time, we can notice how Spaceboy's and Sunny's thought processes are similar. After being dumped for the second time, Spaceboy is forced to confront the fact that he will never be good enough for sweetheart. But he cannot accept it, and prefers to end himself, frozen in the mountains. As for Sunny, he cannot accept the fact that he killed Mari and in Hikki Route prefers to hide behind Omori, who eventually chooses to die or go to the city as the dominant personality (and as we know, stabbing Sunny is an option in real life only when Omori is the dominant one).

If we go along with this parallel, a few things gain a new meaning:

• Remember Spaceboy battle themes, "You're wrong, go back" and "You cannot go back"? Looking at them with this walltext in mind, they could reference Spaceboy and Sunny's denial. "That event is wrong, it never happened, go back to when everything was alright" and "it's impossible to go back, it's better to just die";

• Spaceboy's and Sunny's respective ends are opposite depending on the route. If you choose Hikki Route, Spaceboy is saved from his death wish and reunites once again with his friends, while Sunny will most probably suicide. If you choose True Route, Sunny will be able to forgive himself and move on while Spaceboy would eventually meet his demise since the gang never goes to the mountains;

• When we first meet Spaceboy, he had already been dumped by sweetheart once. In the same way, we know from Basil's photo album that Sunny had already given up on playing the violin once as well before the game events. We do not know the reason for that, but considering the gang had to save money to buy a second violin for him, we can be sure that whatever was the reason, it was enough for the first violin to be disposed of. Could Mari have been part of the reason as well?

• After the fight against Sweetheart, Spaceboy invades the scene and proposes to her out of the blue, even though he said he was going to be together with his crew. And it is never shown what caused him to change his mind. Looking at real life, it was never explained what caused Sunny to drop the violin the first time but we do know he took it again anyway because he wanted to spend time with Mari;

Ok, I'm done with my theory. I've seen a lot of people (mainly in reddit and youtube) dismiss spaceboy and sweetheart as an extra excuse for dungeons and don't relate to Sunny's view of his real life in any way. That was my way of saying no, they are as important as all the other foreshadows and references. And I also wrote this because I ABSOLUTELY LOVE reading people's theory walltexts of games I love so I wanted to write one as well. I know there are weak points in this theory (because ofc, it's just a fan theory), but many thabks if you read it this far and kept up with my crazy ideas.