OMORI
Description
Based on the game
Entry
The story and plot of OMORI revolves around a boy named SUNNY and his “alter-ego” OMORI. The imaginary world of HEADSPACE is explored through OMORI and his friends at night, whereas SUNNY explores the real world via FARAWAY TOWN at daytime.
SUNNY must overcome whatever’s troubling him and move on from the past. He will also have to conquer his fears and secrets while trying to reconnect with his old childhood friends along the way.
At some point following MARI’s death, SUNNY stopped going to school and became a hikikomori. He began visiting WHITE SPACE through a black-and-white doppelgänger called OMORI. He cut himself off from the outside world and lost contact with his friends, refusing to leave his house at all. With the help of OMORI, SUNNY repressed his memories of the night MARI died and instead lived in the colorful world of HEADSPACE.
HEADSPACE serves as a world full of pure imagination and colorful areas. This was also where SUNNY could escape from reality and instead relive the happier moments of his life, with younger versions of his friends still together and happy, as well as MARI still being alive. Despite his efforts to keep the truth locked away, it still haunted SUNNY in the form of SOMETHING and other ominous reminders. This endless cycle of escapism within SUNNY’s dreamscape continued for about three or four years before the game’s events took place.
After SUNNY accidentally pushes MARI down the stairs, BASIL speaks words of comfort to him and makes the decision to frame the accidental homicide as a suicide. Although both carry the body, SUNNY appears to be in a state of dissociation, and it’s implied that he doesn’t fully process that BASIL is with him. SUNNY doesn’t seem to take part in actually hanging MARI.
After looking back into the garden through the glass sliding door, the sight of the corpse’s eye staring back at them through MARI’s disheveled hair traumatizes SUNNY and BASIL. This results in the creation of “SOMETHING” that haunts SUNNY and BASIL for the next four years of their lives.
SUNNY begins using OMORI’s WHITE SPACE to repress the traumatic events of the day of the recital. OMORI continues to interact with SUNNY’s old friends in this dream world. However, since SUNNY knows BASIL was involved, SOMETHING follows BASIL and causes him to disappear, prompting OMORI and his dream friends to search for him while SOMETHING haunts them. It is implied that these events have perpetuated in a cycle ever since MARI died four years ago.
FARAWAY TOWN is a small suburban town located ambiguously in the continental United States. It is a peaceful neighborhood featuring rows of normal-looking houses and a few shops visitors can check out occasionally. Its residents are mostly amicable and friendly but a few of them such as the HOOLIGANS occasionally cause trouble on the streets.
Each street within FARAWAY TOWN contains four rows of houses where its residents reside. The town also contains a playground, a hidden hangout spot, a plaza filled with local shops and restaurants, and a church to find peace within. Unlike HEADSPACE, there are no roaming overworld enemies to fight, as the fights primarily happen by story-progression means or by initiating them in certain areas.
SUNNY and MARI grew up together with KEL, HERO, AUBREY and BASIL in FARAWAY TOWN. The group of friends would always explore different places to hang out and make the best of memories. However, this all changed when MARI died for unknown reasons, shattering the friend group’s bond.
Four years after MARI’s untimely death, HERO has left for college and SUNNY is moving away. Four days before moving away, SUNNY has the option to meet up with KEL for the first time in years to explore FARAWAY TOWN and its various residents, to reconnect with the bonds he has left.
SUNNY’S STREET is the primary residence of where SUNNY resides all by himself. It is also where his neighbors KEL, HERO, CRIS, and THE MAVERICK live as well. This street is the first area SUNNY can explore outside, only if he accepts KEL’s request to open the door and spend his last three days in town with friends. Continuing east from where SUNNY goes outside allows him to venture through the rest of FARAWAY TOWN in the process. The back of SUNNY’s house is where the old TREEHOUSE is located within his abandoned backyard.
The first house within the place is none other than SUNNY’S HOUSE. The house is largely vacant due to most of the objects inside being stored into cardboard boxes, as SUNNY’S MOM has planned to take her son to move away into the big city. Throughout the story, SUNNY will occasionally experience hallucinations inside the house, mostly in the form of SOMETHING haunting him in different forms. It is only the REAL WORLD location explored if SUNNY chooses to remain indoors doing his chores for his remaining three days on an alternate route.
KEL’S HOUSE is the house next to SUNNY’S HOUSE, and the home of KEL and HERO’s family. Unlike their neighbor’s home, KEL and HERO’s home is rather lively and bright in atmosphere.
The other two remaining houses, which belong to CRIS and THE MAVERICK’s families respectively. CRIS’s dad ALL-AMERICAN GUY has lost his remote, and the group can find it for him when inside.
AUBREY’S STREET is the primary residence of where the troubled delinquent AUBREY resides with her deadbeat mother, located southwest of the crossroad intersection subarea. This street is also where SEAN, KAREN, SARAH, and GRUFF GUY live as well.
Continuing to move west of the street leads to FARAWAY TOWN’s local CHURCH, where AUBREY goes there herself to find peace after the tragedy that occurred four years ago.
AUBREY’s worn-down house is the first house found on that block. Unlike other house interiors, the insides are very dirty and unorganized with various piles of trash lying around on each floor. It is also mentioned that the friend group never visited AUBREY’s home before in the past, likely due to her not wanting them to learn of her family’s poor living conditions.
The house next to AUBREY’s belongs to the newlyweds SEAN and KAREN, who are deciding to throw a housewarming party after moving into their new home.
BASIL’S STREET is where BASIL, his grandmother, and caretaker POLLY primarily reside, located southeast of the crossroad intersection subarea. This is also where JESSE, BEBE, ANGEL, and ARTIST reside as well.
The first house, which is surrounded with various flowers and plants, belonging to BASIL himself. Once inside, SUNNY and KEL reconnect with BASIL but the flower boy appears to be deeply troubled for unknown reasons. The group later revisits the house on the following two days to check on BASIL, as well as SUNNY revisiting past memories of a long-repressed truth locked inside of his mind.
The house next to BASIL’s home is where WRINKLY FOREHEAD and his son JESSE live. Right next to that house is the residence of BEBE, her mother, and her older siblings BRANDI and BILLY. The last house belongs to ARTIST and her little brother ANGEL. When knocking on the door, ARTIST invites the group to help her with a variety of tasks such as giving her advice for her upcoming artwork or help fetching ANGEL from another place. ANGEL can also be fought inside of his room for a rematch on that same day. Other than that, this street is often visited whenever the group tries to look after BASIL’s well-being.
The last street is known as the OTHER STREET, where KIM, VANCE, and CHARLENE primarily reside with their families. It is located northeast of the crossroad intersection subarea.
The intersection that links between the characters’ streets and FARAWAY PARK up north is known as the CROSSROADS. This is also where the group first met AUBREY during their childhood youth, as revealed when interacting with the lone pink pinwheel on the bottom right corner of the intersection subarea.
Though not much is done there, the group can find a few visions depending on the day they encounter them.
FARAWAY PARK
Up north from the CROSSROADS intersection is FARAWAY TOWN’s local park, which contains a wide open space with lush green grass and surrounded by trees. This is also one of the various spots SUNNY and his friends used to play at during their childhood youth. The sign in front of the park reads out that “THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE DREAMERS!” The area itself is surrounded by trees, and has a basketball court at the west. The main section of the park features a small playground filled with various playthings such as a swing, monkey bars, a slide, and a large metallic cat resembling that of HEADSPACE’s BIG YELLOW CAT.
A lone white bench is shown near the playground, and this is often where PRETTY BOY takes breaks on a few occasions. To the top of it is where the OLD LADY is trying to reduce TRASH across the town, and a lone tetherball poll. To the left is a large basketball court where JOCK occupies most of the time, and SMELLY HOBO is shown hiding somewhere there. Below there is a picnic table and a few toys. APPLE GUY can be found running his fruit cart, wanting to give visitors APPLE JUICE to compete with his brother who sells ORANGE JUICE.
There is a small grove in the trees with a bench and fruit cart inside at the north east, and an entrance from the road at the south. Further east into the park are more trees, as well as another bench. In the middle of the park is an expanse of bark chips, which is home to a swing set, slide, monkey bars, and a small play structure. North of the park is HANGOUT SPOT, while east of it is FARAWAY PLAZA. The east direction of the park also contains two vending machines like the ones found in HEADSPACE on occasions.
FARAWAY PLAZA
FARAWAY TOWN’s local plaza is where many of its shops can be found. These consist mainly of HOBBEEZ, GINO’S, OTHERMART, AND FIX-IT. There are many street lamps, and there is a fountain next to the stores. Below, there is a parking lot, where many of the spots are taken up. Below it is the road. It is east of FARAWAY PARK.
This is also where MICHAEL the guitar-playing man appears, mostly wanting some money to be able to get out of town to fulfill his dreams.
HANGOUT SPOT
Heading up northeast of FARAWAY PARK leads to the friend group’s old HANGOUT SPOT. Initially one of the spots where the group often visited, it is currently used by AUBREY and her new friends the HOOLIGANS for their own personal space. It is revealed that the reason the friend group stopped coming there was due to SUNNY nearly drowning when accidentally falling into the lake there.
It consists of a grassy clearing, with surrounding trees. There is a lake with a small pier, and a small island with a statue that serves as the symbol of FARAWAY TOWN; a gateway to a better life. There is some trash scattered around, and there is a bench on the far end of the lake. On the top right corner is a group of pinwheels, each having a color that alludes to the friend group’s current selves. A blue picnic basket is right near the lake but isn’t the same one MARI would normally use before.
CHURCH
Continuing west is where FARAWAY CHURCH is found. Inside is filled with various benches and pillars. Up front is where the PREACHER does his regular sermon sessions and right beside him is a piano branded as OMORI. The top doors lead to FARAWAY cemetery, where the deceased are laid to rest.
FARAWAY CEMETERY
Upon going into FARAWAY CEMETERY, the group is taken to a large cemetery filled with various tombstones and gifts left behind a deceased person’s tomb. It is lined with rows of tombs, each showcasing the name of a deceased person buried underneath. It is located behind FARAWAY TOWN’s CHURCH.
Not that many people visit here but only a few come here to pay respect to their loved ones that are now gone from the world itself. The only NPC the group can interact with is an old man known as OLD BEARDY. Talking to him allows the group to hear his cryptic speeches, such as him believing that he can see spirits and speaking of people mourning very soon.
SHOPS
HOBBEEZ
Talking to PEDRO gives the opportunity to purchase a PET ROCK for $10, initiating the entire PET ROCKS minigame across FARAWAY TOWN. He also mentions that HOBBEEZ doubles as a pawn shop where you can sell unneeded items in the real world. A music CD can be found behind the poster, and the five CDs on display can also be purchased for $10 each. One can also interact with an INTERESTING POSTER in the top right corner of HOBBEEZ.
The next shop visited is OTHERMART, a large supermarket located on the right side of the street and is adjacent in terms of mapping to the FARAWAY PARK. The name bears a resemblance to OTHERWORLD, and some of the elements within resemble those of its HEADSPACE counterpart. The interior is filled with various foods and beverages one can buy. The middle section is filled with frozen foods, cooking objects, and cereal boxes in their respective aisles. The top corner of the supermarket features various small shops.
The first one is the MEAT section, where the pun-loving MEAT MAN prepares and sells raw meat to his customers. The second top section is the SEAFOOD section, where AYEE sells raw sea meat to her customers.
The third shop is a local bread bakery, run by MIKHAEL’s parents and older siblings DAPHNE and BOWEN. It is revealed by MRS. BAKER that her family has been running the bakery for four generations, and MIKHAEL is the only member currently not interested in helping them out.
Heading west leads to the PHARMACY area run by the PHARMACIST, while going east is where MISS CANDICE’s CANDY STORE can be found. Note that the CANDY STORE is also where KIM and VANCE like to run off with stolen candy whenever they get the chance to steal some.
GINO’S DINER
GINO’S DINER is FARAWAY TOWN’s local pizza place, located between HOBBEEZ and OTHERMART. The interior of the pizza parlor is derived of mainly wooden planks for a flooring and a mismatched brick patterned wall. The chairs have red seats and are placed around tables bearing a cloth reminiscent of the one hanging out of MARI’s picnic basket.
Many barrels and potted plants are scattered around the floor as decoration, as is a cooler next to the jukebox. From there, SUNNY can insert a total of thirteen CDs, all of which music connoisseur RAI will point out to the group. An arcade game machine is shown on the upper right hand corner of the interior which can be used to play SPROUT MOLE EATER with the usage of an ARCADE PIECE.
FIX-IT is a tool store found to the right of OTHERMART, in FARAWAY PLAZA. The exterior seems to have various tools and paint scattered around, with a broken roof. Inside, there are many racks of various tools, along with paint, lamps, fertilizer, and other home decor options. At the back, there is an open area which sells many gardening supplies, along with various flowers.
Main Characters (Headspace)
OMORI
Is a young boy who wears a black tank top, long black socks, and black and white striped shorts. He is the only character to be colored black and white in contrast with the colorful residents of HEADSPACE, and he is also the only character to have blank eyes with no pupils. His overall design stems from SUNNY’s twelve-year-old appearance. It is implied that he is quite melancholic, as his narration sometimes has gloomy inputs.
AUBREY
In HEADSPACE, AUBREY wears a light blue nightgown and a pink bow in her long dark hair. Like the other party members, she does not wear socks or shoes, and her hair and eyes are a dreamlike mix of purple and blue. She also carries around a STUFFED TOY known as MR. PLANTEGG. She is very cheerful and always happy to play with her friends. Strong-willed and always acting true to her feelings, AUBREY serves as a constant source of morale for her friends.
KEL
The HEADSPACE version of KEL appears as a young boy wearing a colorful tank top covered in multicolored squares. Like the others in the party, he does not wear socks or shoes and his hair and eyes are purple like AUBREY and HERO. KEL is a bit bratty, impulsive and rude, always getting into little tiffs with his friends. He is very competitive by nature, always wanting to win games or races, and is indeed very energetic and fast. He also thinks romance is gross and that girls have cooties. However, even though he is loud and likes to annoy his friends, he genuinely cares about them to the point of constantly protecting them with a strong sense of justice. KEL appears to share a strong bond with his brother HERO and occasionally bickers with AUBREY over petty disagreements over minor topics. He even sees the quiet SUNNY as someone who is a great person and believes the best in him.
HERO
The HEADSPACE version of HERO wears a set of blue-striped pajamas. His hair is unkempt from sleep, as seen in his sprites. Like KEL and AUBREY, he lacks socks or shoes and his hair and eyes are purple. HERO is the peacemaker of the group, who tries to restrain his friends whenever they get too worked up. He is described as having a mild personality and passionate in domestic work like baking, cooking, and cleaning, making him an ideal employee. HERO also has a charismatic side that he uses to charm others. His charisma allows him to convince others to go along with his requests, get discounts from MAILBOX and befriend animals like EMS. However, he can sometimes be a pushover when confronted, and has difficulty refusing others. He also appears to have arachnophobia (an irrational fear of spiders) to the point of freezing up completely.
BASIL
In HEADSPACE, BASIL is a medium-height boy with pale skin, teal eyes, mint green chin-length hair, and wears a purple, blue, and pink flower crown. He wears knee-length denim overalls with a large pocket on the chest and a yellow button-up shirt under. He doesn’t wear any shoes. BASIL’s HEADSPACE counterpart is rather cheery, yet shy and humble. He is quick to forgive and is rather empathetic in nature. BASIL is also quite friendly, and his shyness seems to stem from thinking lowly of himself and putting others’ needs above his own.
He’s very sentimental, keeping memorabilia of his friends and happy memories through photos, and planting flowers that remind him of his friends. BASIL notably shows great care to plant flowers with flower language, each one corresponding to how he sees his friends. His empathy stretches to his plants as well, showing a lot of worries when they’re in danger of being hurt, and talking to them as he would with his friends. It is noted that he avoids conflict due to his kind, sentimental demeanor.
MARI
MARI is a teenage girl with long, straight hair and bangs. In HEADSPACE, she has dark hair and eyes which are stylized as purple. She wears what looks like a variation of a Japanese seifuku. She’s often spoken of as being kind and gentle, and plays a sisterly role in the friend group with SUNNY, HERO, KEL, AUBREY, and BASIL. She has a mischievous side, poking fun at KEL and AUBREY’s mannerisms and afterwards teasing HERO.
Main Characters (Faraway)
SUNNY
SUNNY looks like an average teenager. He has straight, black, ear-length hair with a fringe that slightly covers his eyes. He also has arched eyebrows and eyes with the same shade of black, in contrast with his paler skin. SUNNY is extremely shy and quiet. He rarely speaks and does not like to smile. However, despite not expressing it as clearly as the others, he still appears to care deeply for his friends. SUNNY appears to struggle with issues of self-confidence and self-worth. He perceives himself as weak, worthless, and not “good enough.” As the “baby of the group,” he often falls back on others to take care of him but feels guilty for this as he does not believe he does anything for his friends in return. While these self-worth issues existed before MARI’s death, they drastically worsened afterward to the point where SUNNY may become suicidal. Despite being quiet, SUNNY is angered easily.
KEL
In the real world, KEL appears as an older teenager. He has grown much taller than most of his friends. Like his brother HERO, KEL has brown hair and dark skin. He also has a well-built body due to constantly playing basketball. His main attire consists of an orange basketball uniform with white stripes that resembles a dog. KEL still retains his happy demeanor but appears more mature and understanding towards others. He is very social and likes talking with strangers when SUNNY is busy with jobs. He constantly tries to help others in-need, which could often lead him to making rash choices at times. KEL also desires to reconnect with his old friends, notably when he encourages SUNNY to be more active and healthy. He even tries to understand AUBREY’s reasons for her anger and repeatedly protects BASIL from bullies as well, displaying the same sense of justice he possessed when he was younger. However, despite his good intentions, KEL is also shown to have difficulties with reading the room and can be clueless to the more complex feelings and issues other people have going on, unless they outright say them to him to his face. Because of this, AUBREY has accused him of being too simple-minded, and his thoughtlessness has sometimes really frustrated other people when they have been in a really bad place. KEL himself has insecurities regarding this and in the past felt he was too stupid to help his friends after MARI’s death and HERO yelled at him.
AUBREY
In the real world, AUBREY naturally has dark brown hair and eyes, but she has dyed her hair pink and wears teal contacts. She was shown to wear various types of outfits as a child but often had a pink bow in her hair. In the present, she is seen wearing a white and yellow varsity jacket, a black crop top, and a denim miniskirt. She also has a bright teal hair bow that used to be MARI’s. She is often seen wielding her NAIL BAT. In the REAL WORLD, after finding out about MARI’s death, she began coping through strong feelings of hatred against her old friend group, interpreting their reactions as them moving on too quickly.[9] She felt burdened by a sense of loneliness, given both the death of her best friend as well as the lack of support between her and her friends. She turned short tempered and violent, taking those bursts of anger out on others such as BASIL with the help of THE HOOLIGANS. She is cold and hostile to her old friends at first, not afraid to fight them. Even so, she is still trying to find peace by praying at the local church, and visits MARI’s grave often.
THE HOOLIGANS consists of their leader AUBREY, and the members KIM, VANCE, ANGEL, CHARLENE and THE MAVERICK. They usually tend to cause trouble around the streets of FARAWAY TOWN but all members are actually good-hearted people when getting to know them better, as noted by KEL himself.
HERO
In the present, HERO appears as a young adult man with a more mature appearance compared to the others. HERO has neatly-styled brown hair and black eyes like KEL. His main attire consists of a navy V-neck sweater, grey pants and white shoes. It is also notable that he grew taller like the other main characters. HERO still retains his amicable, warm-hearted persona during his adulthood. He is well-loved by the folks of FARAWAY TOWN and admired for his charisma as well. KEL even describes him as being “naturally good at everything”, and is proud of him for that. He notably possesses a talent in succeeding in virtually everything he tries, though he admits his reputation is heavily exaggerated. HERO is rather calm and understanding towards anyone he meets, even trying to comfort them in times of distress. Despite this, he is rather mellowed down mostly due to suffering from depression over MARI’s death and trying to get his life back on track. HERO also appears to keep his emotions in check most of the time, although he does get deeply emotional whenever he remembers MARI’s presence. Regardless, HERO still tries to remain strong for his friends and will do anything to make sure they feel comfortable and safe at all times. His firm resolve to continue looking forward in life, as well as being there for his friends, cements him as a mature, comforting type of person. Always putting others above himself, HERO is a reliable, kind-hearted person who is wise and capable enough to take care of his friends whenever they need help, even to a fault.
BASIL
In the real world, he has blond hair and has a single pink flower tucked behind his left ear. He wears a green knitted sweater vest over a white button-up shirt, beige shorts, and black shoes, resembling the same clothes that SUNNY wears. His FARAWAY counterpart is more anxious and sensitive overall. This more melancholy demeanor is most likely the result of a deep depression over the aftermath of MARI’s death combined with AUBREY and her friends’ bullying further whittling down his self-esteem. Due to being a witness to MARI’s murder, it can be inferred that he suffers from guilt or worse, possibly in the form of SOMETHING. BASIL is depicted as a relatively shy boy, well seen right after being introduced to the friend group, being rather insecure and fearing the thought of being perceived as a burden.