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Rain World Character Sheet

The various denizens of Rain World's monsoon-prone ecosystem.

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!Playable Slugcats

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[[folder:The Survivor]]

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[[folder:The Monk]]

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[[folder:The Hunter]]

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[[folder:The Gourmand]]

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[[folder:The Artificer]]

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[[folder:The Rivulet]]

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[[folder:The Spearmaster]]

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[[folder:The Saint]]

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!Hostile Creatures

[[folder:Lizards]]

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[[folder:Vultures]]

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[[folder:Centipedes]]

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[[folder:Leeches]]

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[[folder:Worm Grass]]

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[[folder:Pole Plants]]

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[[folder:Monster Kelp]]

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[[folder:Leviathans]]

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[[folder:Giant Jellyfish]]

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[[folder:Spiders]]

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[[folder:Dropwigs]]

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[[folder:Stowaways]]

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[[folder:Miros Birds]]

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[[folder:Miros Vultures]]

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!Neutral Creatures

[[folder:Squidcadas]]

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[[folder:Noodleflies]]

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[[folder:Snails]]

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[[folder:Hazers]]

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[[folder:Garbage Worms]]

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[[folder:Scavengers]]

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[[folder:Jetfish]]

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[[folder:Jellyfish]]

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[[folder:Inspectors]]

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!Passive Creatures

[[folder:Overseers]]

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[[folder:Batflies]]

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[[folder:Bugs]]

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[[folder:Eggbugs]]

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[[folder:Lantern Mice]]

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[[folder:Grappling Worms]]

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[[folder:Neuron Flies]]

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[[folder:Rain Deer]]

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[[folder:Yeeks]]

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!Iterators

[[folder:Looks to the Moon]]

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[[folder:Five Pebbles]]

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[[folder:No Significant Harassment]]

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[[folder:Seven Red Suns]]

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[[folder:Sliver of Straw]]

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'''UNMARKED RAIN WORLD SPOILERS BELOW'''

!Ancient Entities

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[[folder:Echoes]]

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[[folder:Guardians]]

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[[folder:Void Worm]]

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!Secret Downpour Creatures

[[folder:Slugpups]]

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[[folder:Hunter Long Legs]]

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[[folder:Chieftain Scavenger]]

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[[folder:Enot]]

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[[folder:Train Lizards]]

[[folder:Pole Plants]]

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[[folder:Monster Kelp]]

[[folder:Leviathans]]

[[folder:Dropwigs]]

[[folder:The Rot]]

[[folder:Miros Birds]]

[[folder:Worm Grass]]

[[folder:Giant Jellyfish]]

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!Void Entities

[[folder:Centipedes]]

[[folder:Spiders]]

[[folder:Stowaways]]

[[folder:Giant Jellyfish]]

[[folder:Pole Plants]]

[[folder:Monster Kelp]]

[[folder:Leviathans]]

[[folder:Miros Birds]]

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[[folder:The Rot]]

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!Hostile Species

!Neutral Species

[[folder:Garbage Worms]]

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[[folder:Scavengers]]

[[folder:Jetfish]]

!Passive Species

!Secret Creatures

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[[folder:Complete Monster Entries]]

''What She Did'': The sisterly Mari [[AdaptationalVillainy is depicted here]] as an emotionally manipulative sexual predator. Even since her brother, Sunny, turned twelve, she slowly and possessively groomed him into thinking that sexual interactions between brother and sister were normal. Shortly after Sunny turned sixteen, Mari repeatedly raped him amidst her monthly visits from college. Over the years, she used the friend group's and Faraway Town's [[VillainWithGoodPublicity adoration of her]] as grounds to keep the abuse a secret, leaving Sunny with hallucinations of her and [[HatesBeingTouched a severe phobia of physical affection]]. When Rowan confronted her about her abuse, she mocked and silenced him as well, by threatening to [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset out him as gay]] and accuse him of being the one who raped Sunny.

''What She Did'': The sisterly Mari [[AdaptationalVillainy is depicted here]] as an emotionally manipulative sexual predator. Even since her brother, Sunny, turned twelve, she slowly and possessively groomed him into thinking that sexual interactions between brother and sister were normal. Shortly after Sunny turned sixteen, Mari repeatedly raped him amidst her monthly visits from college. Over the years, she used the friend group's and Faraway Town's [[VillainWithGoodPublicity adoration of her]] as grounds to keep the abuse a secret, leaving Sunny with hallucinations of her and [[HatesBeingTouched a severe phobia of physical affection]]. When Rowan confronted her about her abuse, she taunted and silenced him as well, by threatening to [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset out him as gay]] and accuse him of being the one who raped Sunny.

''What She Did'': The sisterly Mari [[AdaptationalVillainy is depicted here]] as an emotionally manipulative sexual predator. Even since her brother, Sunny, turned twelve, she slowly and possessively groomed him into thinking that sexual interactions between brother and sister are normal. Shortly after Sunny turned sixteen, Mari repeatedly raped him amidst her monthly visits from college. Over the years, she used the friend group's and Faraway Town's [[VillainWithGoodPublicity adoration of her]] as grounds to keep the abuse a secret, leaving Sunny with hallucinations of her and [[HatesBeingTouched a severe phobia of physical affection]]. When Rowan confronted her about her abuse, she taunted and silenced him as well, by threatening to [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset out him as gay]] and accuse him of being the one who raped Sunny.

The sisterly Mari [[AdaptationalVillainy is depicted here]] as an emotionally manipulative sexual predator. Even since her brother, Sunny, turned twelve, she slowly and possessively groomed him into thinking that sexual interactions between brother and sister are normal. Shortly after Sunny turned sixteen, Mari repeatedly raped him amidst her monthly visits from college. Over the years, she used the friend group's and Faraway Town's [[VillainWithGoodPublicity adoration of her]] as grounds to keep the abuse a secret, leaving Sunny with hallucinations of her and [[HatesBeingTouched a severe phobia of physical affection]]. When Rowan confronted her about her abuse, she taunted and silenced him as well, by threatening to [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset out him as gay]] and accuse him of being the one who raped Sunny.

I noticed the ''What She Did'' quote for the VillainWithGoodPublicity trope, and eventually decided to read the fic. After much deliberation, I determined that its "Bad Touch Mari" meets this trope's requirements and decided to make a proper effort post, especially considering the negative light she is portrayed in.

!!What is ''What She Did''?

''What She Did'' is an ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'' DarkFic that, similarly to ''[[Fanfic/HandsOmori Hands]]'', explores what would happen if Sunny's big sister, Mari, [[AdaptationalVillainy was sexually abusive to him]]. There are two major differences in this continuity: Sunny's closest friend, Basil, is replaced with [[RecurringFanonCharacter an assertive, raven-haired version named Rowan]] ([[WhatCouldHaveBeen who was scrapped from the source material]]); and Mari died in her mid-20s from a car crash, instead of a StaircaseTumble at the age of 15.

The fic proper takes place immediately after Mari's death, when Sunny, Rowan, Kel, and Aubrey are in their early 20s. Despite Rowan's reassurance that Mari can't hurt Sunny anymore, the latter deeply HatesBeingTouched and lives in constant fear of harming or killing himself. Once Sunny finds the right time to tell his best friends the truth about Mari, however, he starts to heal from his trauma, and the fic ends [[HappyEnding on a happy note]].

Mari's villainy isn't some attempt to bash her canon self, let alone a byproduct of [[RonTheDeathEater any belief that her evilness is canon]]. It is treated with tact and fits the fic's serious subject matter. Besides, the fic lacks explicit sexual content; the closest thing to such is Mari forcefully kissing her brother on the lips.

!!Who is Mari, and what did this version of her do?

Mari is Sunny's deceased older sister. In the canon ''OMORI'', she was TheHeart to all the people around her, but her perfectionism over her musical recital with Sunny lead him to accidentally shove her down the stairs, [[AccidentalMurder killing her]] and breaking up their friend group for four years.

Fitting this fic's themes and inspiration, however, Mari is [[AdaptationalVillainy portrayed as unambiguously cruel behind closed doors]]. Seeing Sunny as her favorite victim of control and source of sexual satisfaction, around the time her canon counterpart died, she started to sexually molest him, getting him to deny that her behavior was harmful. Four years later, she started raping Sunny whenever she visited him, worsening his complex PTSD.

Mari used the friend group's and neighborhood's love of her to justify Sunny (and Rowan, once he found out the truth) keeping the abuse a secret. The two boys had no way of telling Kel, Aubrey, or Hero about their ordeal until Mari suddenly died in a car crash.

!!Any justifying backstory or other redeeming features?

While Mari keeps telling Sunny that she loves him, her "love" is nothing but perversion and possessiveness. She coldly scolds him for slights as small as misaligned eating utensils, and her telling Rowan that "...[Faraway Town would] probably think YOU raped Sunny!" indicates that she fully knows that she's raping her brother and it traumatizes the hell out of him -- and has no remorse for it.

The story doesn't contain any backstory that would have caused Mari to act how she did, but her perfectionism is played up to make it a believable reason -- but ''not'' an excuse -- for her cruelty.

Considering that Mari's boyfriend, Hero, was utterly disgusted by her diary entries on her brother, and refused to even look at her true thoughts on him, she's not known to care about the rest of the friend group, or her family.

!!Is she exceptionally heinous?

Mari's most powerful resource is her neighbors' adoration of her, and she uses it to full effect. She tells Sunny and Rowan that no one will believe them if the abuse is reported, and the narrative indicates that any ill word about Mari to the citizens of Faraway would have fallen on deaf ears. Also, the town is depicted as full of homophobic religious fundamentalists, which Mari would have exploited by outing Rowan as gay and claiming that he's the one who abused Sunny.

Mari molested her brother for at least eight years. While she didn't do it as much when she was an adult, [[PragmaticVillainy this is only because]] she had to attend college regularly to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity maintain her public image]]; she did it much more frequently when she was a high schooler. At both times, she molested Sunny ''as much as she reasonably could''.

''OMORI'' is a RealisticFiction ComingOfAgeStory, and this fic follows a similar formula. The heinous standard is thus low in terms of [[SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat scale]] (something Mari easily meets).

However, considering that Mari raped her brother numerous times; Sunny's friend group finds her deeds to be extremely reprehensible on a [[ItsPersonal personal]] level, to the point that Hero burned all of Mari's belongings and all his keepsakes of her, vowing to cut all emotional ties with her.

!!Final verdict?

Yes, this version of Mari is a CompleteMonster. Below is a succinct summary of her actions that I plan to use as the trope example:

The story doesn't contain any backstory that would have caused Mari to act how she did, but her perfectionism is played up to make it a believable motive -- but ''not'' an excuse -- for her to hurt Sunny the way she did.

Mari's most powerful resource is her neighbors' adoration of her. She uses it to the greatest possible effect: she tells Sunny and Rowan that no one will believe them if the abuse is reported, and the narrative indicates that any ill word about Mari to the citizens of Faraway would have fallen on deaf ears. Also, the town is depicted as full of homophobic religious fundamentalists, which Mari would have exploited by outing Rowan as gay and claiming that he's the one who abused Sunny.

However, considering that Mari raped her brother many, many times; Sunny's friend group finds her deeds to be extremely reprehensible on a [[ItsPersonal personal]] level, to the point that Hero burned all of Mari's belongings and all his keepsakes of her, vowing to cut all emotional ties with her.