History YMMV / Omori

** Sweetheart is a RoyalBrat who mistreats her boyfriend, Captain Spaceboy, and locks people in her dungeon for petty reasons. She is the local HateSink of the game, and is hated by many players, but said players still express a purely physical attraction to her, despite- or perhaps ''because of''- her domineering personality. It helps that the game has a photo of her in a bikini in the Orange Oasis area. Notably, when a body pillow of her (and her clone Perfectheart) was released as official merchandise, it sold out ''very'' quickly.

*** This has eventually mutated into {{Role Swap AU}}s [[spoiler:that shuffle the six kids around, with "Neutral-Killer/Dreamer", "Dead-Victim", "Fear-Accomplice/Stranger", "Sad-Mourner", "Angry-Rebel", and "Happy-Waker". An example would be an Omori-Kel AU where Kel accidentally killed Hero, and Basil becomes a punk.]]
** In general, fics where [[spoiler:[[SparedByTheAdaptation Mari survives her fall down the stairs]] and/or Sunny never moves away from his friends tend to be rather common.]]
** Another idea involves the Headspace kids interacting [[spoiler:with their Faraway counterparts, or vise-versa, whether it's the Faraway kids [[TrappedInAnotherWorld finding themselves in Headspace]] and interacting with the madness, or the Headspace kids [[LivingDream finding themselves in Faraway Town]] and encountering {{Surprisingly Realistic Outcome}}s.]]

** Many fans like to imagine that Sunny's friends would witness him [[spoiler:falling to his death from behind the hospital room's windows, during the bad ending of the normal route where Sunny commits suicide by jumping off the building's balcony.]]

** A good amount of fics view Basil as suicidal even before the start of the game's backstory, on account of the fact that [[spoiler:he knew how to make a noose when he was 12.]]

** "My Time" by Music/BoEn played in the 2014 trailer, and people latched onto it as the overall anthem for the game with the sweet lyrics clashing against the trippy melody. [[spoiler:It plays in-game during the worst ending when Omori has compelled Sunny to toss himself off a hospital, and the credits roll]].
** The 2020 trailer line "Everything is going to be okay" becomes MUCH darker [[spoiler:when it's revealed that the full context of the original line is Basil reassuring Sunny after they faked Mari's suicide.]]

** The way that Basil and Sunny hold hands in [[BirdsOfAFeather shared tranquility]] while looking at photographs. [[spoiler:It's even more telling is that Basil's SanitySlippage worsens when he finds out that Sunny and his mother are moving, and he's extremely hurt by the fact that his best friend is leaving him. Basil also couldn't comprehend that Sunny pushed Mari down the stairs, and is convinced that a monster named Something did it instead]].

* JerkassWoobie: Real-world Aubrey leads a gang of "Hooligans" and bullies Basil for apparently asinine reasons, stealing his precious photo album and dumping it in the trash afterwards. All of it is because she's been trying to cope with [[spoiler:Mari's death and she falsely believed that the others in her childhood friend group just forgot about Mari, and she breaks down almost crying when she realizes the rest of the ex-group was trying to cope too after all and regrets mistreating Basil, Sunny, and Kel for all the wrong reasons, as her coping mechanisms were harming those three as well. She only wanted to take Basil's album away because the photos of Mari were all she had left of her, and she put in the effort to remove the permanent marker that she thought Basil had smeared all over the photos of Mari.]] In the ending where [[spoiler:Basil kills himself while she, Sunny, Kel, and Hero are staying over at his house, she goes into a full-on HeroicBSOD, believing (mostly falsely) that her torment of Basil was what drove him to suicide.]]

** By the same token, [[spoiler:Hero is occasionally depicted as willing [[RonTheDeathEater to kill Sunny when he learns that he killed Mari]].]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Sweetheart seems to be vain and narcissistic, but she doesn't seem bad. That is, until it's revealed that she sentences anyone who crosses her to starve in her dungeons, and the Hikkikomori route shows skeletons. A person can do something as small as refuse to date her.  As a result, a player is practically cheering when [[spoiler:either Humphrey eats her, or Perfectheart turns Sweetheart into her personal servant]].
* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler: In the final dream sequence, there is a part where the final two pictures of how Mari's death happened are picked up, finally spelling it out for the player. These incredibly [[GutPunch shocking moments]] may be a little bit ruined by the sound effect that plays when you pick them up, which is supposed to sound like someone slamming all the keys on a [[SignatureInstrument piano]] at once]], but sounds more like the Vine "boom" sound effect.

** Deciding to [[spoiler:not save Basil and go to bed]] results in this, especially if a Let's Player or Streamer is crying at this juncture. [[spoiler:Basil stabs himself, and the friend group wakes up to find his body bleeding out in his room. Sunny immediately represses the tragic occurrence, with Hero telling him he should move away from these bad memories]].

** [[spoiler:Losing the final battle to Omori and choosing "No" after the FissionMailed screen will result in not only Sunny dying to Omori, but also him [[SplitPersonalityTakeover taking over Sunny's body]] and committing suicide. And to make matters worse, bo en's "My Time", the song used in the first trailer plays in the background as Omori plummets to his death. And it's all because of your choice.]]

%% Sunny's beloved friendship group broke up several years ago after [[spoiler:his sister Mari died]]. Aubrey became a delinquent, Basil withdrew into himself, Hero gave up his dreams of becoming a chef, and Sunny didn't leave his house until Kel came knocking on his door. They can only get closure if you choose to reach out to them as Sunny.
%% [[spoiler:On the day of a big recital, Sunny got frustrated while practicing and tossed his violin down the stairs. Mari came to confront him about it, since she and their friends had pooled all their money to buy the violin. Sunny tried to walk away, but Mari wouldn't let him, and their argument escalated to the point where he pushed her down. By the worst of luck, [[StaircaseTumble she was next to the flight of stairs]] [[DeathByFallingOver and unable to cushion her fall]]. Basil came by and saw Sunny begging Mari to PleaseWakeUp and tucking her into bed. He convinced Sunny to drag her body outside and get the jump rope. They staged her death so it looked like a suicide]].
%% If you choose to save Basil, [[spoiler:the trauma of covering up Mari's death causes him to snap and attack Sunny, mistakenly believing that the Something haunting them is about to attack his friend, and accidentally ''stabs him in the eye''. All Sunny can do is fend him off, unable to calm down because of Basil being more of a physical threat than Something ever was. Fortunately, they made such a ruckus that their friends were able to call emergency services and get them both to the hospital for treatment. Basil starts crying TearsOfRemorse when seeing the bandages in the good ending, due to the incident having permanently damaged the real Sunny's vision and likely hampered their friendship with each other.]]

** The only bad thing Sunny's dad did in canon was [[spoiler: walk out on the family]], though that can be justified as a cruel reaction from grief. In many fanworks, he's portrayed to be a flat-out abusive parent, even before the incident. [[spoiler:There is a Black Space segment where he tells Sunny "[[IHaveNoSon You are not my son]]", but it is not clear whether this is something he actually did or a hypothetical scenario.]]
** Sunny's mom also sometimes gets a similar treatment. Like his dad, she is not entirely blameless - coming off as rather neglectful towards Sunny, leaving him alone in a house without power for several days with only a (possibly spoiled?) steak to eat, but her phone messages and flashback appearances seem to imply she does care for Sunny and it would be easy to explain her neglectfulness as a result of not being in the best place mentally herself. Some fanworks, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjtWC0Oi0e0 this video]], portray her as an outright abusive parent [[spoiler:who wishes Sunny had died instead of Mari]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: A mentally-ill hikkikomori who alternates between the real world and the dream world in his head, wields a knife for a weapon, [[spoiler:goes through a bunch of doors housing SurrealHorror within]], and can potentially [[spoiler:kill himself, with one of those ways being to jump off a tall building]]? Sounds like a great ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' sequel.

** "Universally Loved", which is the achievement for [[spoiler: getting all the possible flowers on the good ending. The difficulty of this achievement is because it's a huge GuideDangIt, as much of the sidequests are off the beaten path and easy to miss, and unlike the Headspace sidequests, you have to keep track of the Faraway Town sidequests on your own.]]

** Pretty much the entire main cast has suffered from some degree of trauma with regards to [[spoiler: Mari's murder/faked suicide.]] Aside from [[JerkassWoobie Aubrey]] and [[IronWoobie Kel]]:
*** Sunny completely shut himself off from the outside world and reality [[spoiler:due to his guilt over accidentally killing his beloved sister and covering it up as a suicide. On all but one ending he either [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]] or permanently shuts himself out from the outside world. If he saves Basil from killing himself, he gets stabbed in the eye and has to leave his best friends upon moving out of town.]]
*** Basil is utterly devastated by [[spoiler:his guilt from helping Sunny cover up Mari’s death]] and is reduced to a fragile NervousWreck who is preyed on and bullied by Aubrey and the hooligans, [[spoiler:albeit over a misunderstanding. He ends up attempting suicide over learning Sunny is moving away and due to his grandmother, implied to be the [[LivingEmotionalCrutch the one person keeping him stable]], being hospitalized and likely passing away. Should Sunny save him, he stabs Sunny in the eye in an attempt to destroy his "Something".]]

*** [[spoiler:This puts Something's status as the main BigBad into question-does it represent the trauma itself, or, rather, the ''need'' for the trauma to be addressed?]]
** Real Kel and Hero argue about this regarding [[spoiler: Aubrey. Kel believes that Aubrey has changed too much and no longer cares about her friends, given she nearly drowned Basil. Hero says she wouldn't forget about her childhood friends just because of a traumatic incident. We see some evidence that both are right, though Aubrey admits she attacked Basil because she mistakenly thought he had removed Mari's pictures from the photo album. It's a question of Aubrey caring either too much or too little]].

** Mari herself also invites this, given [[spoiler:she's a PosthumousCharacter. Everyone in her friend group goes for NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead, with everyone saying that she was a wonderful cook, generous with her time and things, and compassionate towards her loved ones. We also get a flashback of her saving Sunny from drowning, and tearfully hugging him afterward. There are hints that she was the favorite of their parents, however, and that she could be perfectionist, unintentionally pressuring Sunny to be the same]].
** The extra-text from datamining in the photos that [[spoiler:reveal how Mari really died showed that it wasn't Sunny's idea to make her death look like a suicide. He was in HeroicBSOD, and tried tucking her into bed to make her wake up. Basil took initiative to hang up her body and asked for Sunny's help in bring the corpse outside and finding the jumprope. Even Basil seems to have no idea about why he did it, rather than calling 911. Was he also on autopilot? Did he worry how the others would turn on Sunny]]?  

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Out of the game's main cast, Basil is the most divisive member of the group. While many fans adore his close friendship with Sunny, gentle demeanor, and collection of memories for the friend group; [[spoiler:many others resent him for the trauma his codependence inflicted on Sunny -- on ''two'' different nights]].

** While approaching the igloo in the Frozen Lake area, a short cutscene plays, showing a smiling ghost leaving the igloo and floating away with an eerie sound effect. Even on the Hikkikomori Route where the igloo is revealed to be a passage to Snowglobe Mountain, the smiling ghost does not appear again and its presence is never acknowledged.

** A basic strategy that a lot of players fall back on is having Kel anger Aubrey, and Omori make an enemy Sad so that Aubrey can Headbutt them for high damage. This skill combination is available from just before you set off to Otherworld, and it's a [[BoringYetPractical basic yet reliable]] method of dealing high damage that doesn't cost a lot of Juice. Make Omori himself Sad and you can exploit the [[ArmorPiercingAttack defense-ignoring Stab]] alongside Aubrey. Those who become overdependent on this combination may not even notice that they can swap their skills around after each member learns more than the maximum of four at once, and realizing this too late can lead to crushing defeats, usually by [[ThatOneBoss Sweetheart]]'s [[note]] Who is constantly happy, which hard counters anger. [[/note]] hand.

** The Kel nuke strat: equip Kel with the Chicken Ball, make him Ecstatic, give him enough Coffee, proceed to use Run'n'Gun and you'll see yourself dealing thousands of damage to the point of OneHitKill pretty much [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill everything.]] [[spoiler:The console-exclusive boss rush bonus round, where you face Aubrey, Kel, and Hero, will use the same combo on ''you'' to obliterate either Basil, your only other party member, or Omori if you're [[LuckBasedMission unlucky]] enough.]]
* CrackPairing: Any ship that ships a character with [[spoiler:Something.]] Especially Hero and Basil.

* CrossoverShip: Omori and the Fallen Child (aka Chara) from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. A pair of [[PsychoKnifeNut knife-bent]] CreepyChild protagonists who can be seen as {{foil}}s of each other, Chara being associated with [[{{Determinator}} Determination]] pushed to its most harmful maximum, the idea of never giving up on your goals no matter the consequences to everyone else, while [[spoiler:Omori is a personification of depression and suicide, the ultimate form of giving up on everything.]]

** Also in the junkyard, Hero summons a hamster to eat a wheel of cheese blocking the gang's path, before departing and saying she'll be [[ChekhovsGun there when they need her]]...[[BaitAndSwitch which never shows up or gets referenced again]].

** The only bad thing Sunny's dad did in canon was [[spoiler: walk out on the family]], though that can be justified as a cruel reaction from grief. In many fanworks, he's portrayed to be a flat-out abusive parent, even before the incident.

* ThatOneBoss: Sweetheart at the end of Three Days Left. Once her HP starts going down, she copies Space Ex-Boyfriend's gimmick and becomes ''permanently'' Happy for the rest of the fight and upgrades it as it goes on, thwarting any strategy dependent on her having any other Emotion and nullifying the attack boost you get from being Angry. Sweetheart’s worst attack is a nasty party-wide strike she uses often, and she also has a party-wide Angry-inducer, so if you can't switch emotions fast enough she'll enjoy a damage advantage while also being a lightning-fast, CriticalHit-slinging maniac. All of this can be mitigated if you got some rain clouds before [[PlotTunnel entering the Castle]], but they and most other mood-altering toys are finite in number at that point in the story. You may end up needing to grind off the enemies in her Castle to even the playing field. And as if that was not bad enough, she reappears in the BossRush, with all her attacks souped-up, and is so difficult that the game [[SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity feels the need to give you]] several Life Jams (the revival item) just before her battle.

** A basic strategy that a lot of players fall back on is having Kel anger Aubrey, and Omori make an enemy Sad so that Aubrey can Headbutt them for high damage. This skill combination is available from just before you set off to Otherworld, and it's a [[BoringYetPractical basic yet reliable]] method of dealing high damage that doesn't cost a lot of Juice. Make Omori himself Sad and you can exploit the [[ArmorPiercingAttack defense-ignoring Stab]] alongside Aubrey. Those who become overdependent on this combination may not even notice that they can swap their skills around after each member learns more than the maximum of four at once, and realizing this too late can lead to crushing defeats, usually by [[ThatOneBoss Sweetheart]]'s hand.

** Sweetheart is a RoyalBrat who mistreats her boyfriend, Captain Spaceboy, and locks people in her dungeon for petty reasons. She is the local HateSink of the game, and is hated by many players, but said players still express a purely physical attraction to her, despite- or perhaps ''because of''- her domineering personality. It helps that the game has a photo of her in a bikini in the Orange Oasis area.

* FountainOfMemes: Kel is impulsive and hilarious enough for fans to joke that ''[[Memes/{{Omori}} every]]'' [[Memes/{{Omori}} meme that involves him]] ''[[Memes/{{Omori}} in the slightest]]'' can be considered canon.

* EvilIsSexy: The Slime Girls are a trio of ethically dubious scientists conducting horrible experiments on innocent creatures. They also have a {{Stripperiffic}} battle sprite that many players regard as ''very'' attractive.

* StoicWoobie: Kel is the least visibly affected of the group, [[spoiler:having diminished the ''visibility'' and avoided his parents' negative attention with a cheerful front. Mari's death still hit him hard, and an optional scene reveals that he felt isolated and alone when the gang drifted apart and had to endure his brother falling into months of depression. That’s not even getting into his parents taking Hero’s side when Hero lashed out at Kel for trying to comfort him.]]

** Pretty much the entire main cast has suffered from some degree of trauma with regards to [[spoiler: Mari's murder/faked suicide.]] Aside from [[JerkassWoobie Aubrey]] and [[StoicWoobie Kel]]:

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: After six years in development, the struggle to move the game from RPG Maker VX to MV, the cancellation of the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS version, and the lack of communication between developers and backers, many expected the game to be the next ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'': another broken game and another Kickstarter failure that didn't deliver what it was promised. Thankfully this wasn't the case: the game came out on Christmas Day 2020, and it got a lot of positive reception from backers and players alike.

* EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame: The game's few detractors tend to find its gameplay pacing to be a detriment to its story instead of an aid to it, but even they tend to see the story as touching. Given that the RPG segments are mainly focused in Headspace [[spoiler: which is meant to be an escape from reality]] and the only "big" RPG segment in Faraway Town is the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane possibly hallucinatory]] Recycultists, it's possibly intentional, especially since the RPG elements are expanded [[spoiler: on the Hikikomori route, where the actual main story is explicitly rejected.]]

* EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame: Many of the game's detractors find its gameplay pacing to be a detriment to its story instead of an aid to it, but even they tend to see the story as touching. Given that the RPG segments are mainly focused in Headspace [[spoiler: which is meant to be an escape from reality]] and the only "big" RPG segment in Faraway Town is the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane possibly hallucinatory]] Recycultists, it's possibly an IntendedAudienceReaction, especially since the RPG elements are expanded [[spoiler: on the Hikikomori route, where the actual main story is explicitly rejected.]] It's also somewhat downplayed; compared to other EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame contemporaries like ''VideoGame/{{Off}}'', the actual gameplay layer of ''OMORI'' is regarded as a fairly competent RPG.

** [[spoiler: In a lot of "post-good ending" fanfics, Hero tends to be portrayed with the worst reactions to Sunny and Basil's truth, in spite of his normal demeanor, due to Hero not taking Mari's death very well at all. Downplayed however since Hero was given years of pain and guilt from Mari's faked suicide, but the fanfics still exaggerate his reaction.]]

* EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame: Many of the game's detractors find its gameplay pacing to be a detriment to its story instead of an aid to it, but even they tend to see the story as touching. Given that the RPG segments are mainly focused in Headspace [[spoiler: which is meant to be an escape from reality]] and the only "big" RPG segment in Faraway Town is the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane possibly hallucinatory]] Recycultists, it's possibly an IntendedAudienceReaction, especially since the RPG elements are expanded [[spoiler: on the Hikikomori route, where the actual main story is explicitly rejected.]]

* MemeticMolester: A somewhat popular AU version of Mari, nicknamed Bad Touch Mari, reinterprets her as a sexual predator who preys on her “friends”, usually [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother Sunny]]. Sometimes played for BlackComedy, and other times it's fetishized, but it has also received fanfics that treat the concept completely seriously (such as ''[[Fanfic/HandsOmori Hands]]'').

* MemeticMolester: A somewhat popular AU version of Mari, Bad Touch Mari, reinterprets her as a sexual predator who preys on her “friends”, usually [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother Sunny]]. Sometimes played for BlackComedy, but has also received fanfics that treat the concept completely seriously (such as ''[[Fanfic/HandsOmori Hands]]'').

* MemeticMolester: A somewhat popular AU version of Mari, Bad Touch Mari, reinterprets her as a sexual predator who preys on her “friends”, usually [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother Sunny]]. Sometimes played for BlackComedy, but has also received fanfics that treat the concept completely seriously (such as ''Fanfic/HandsOmori'').

* MemeticMolester: A somewhat popular AU version of Mari, Bad Touch Mari, reinterprets her as a sexual predator who preys on her “friends”, usually [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother Sunny]]. Sometimes played for BlackComedy, but has also received fanfics that treat the concept completely seriously (such as ''Fanfic/HandsOmori'')

* MemeticMolester: A somewhat popular AU version of Mari, Bad Touch Mari, reinterprets her as a sexual predator who preys on her “friends”, usually [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother Sunny]]. Sometimes played for BlackComedy, but has also received fanfics that great the concept completely seriously (such as ''Fanfic/HandsOmori'')

-->''You thought I was the psycho with a knife. But fools! I am also the psycho with a pepper spray!''

** Sunny's mom also sometimes gets a similar treatment. Like his dad, she is not entirely blameless - coming off as rather neglectful towards Sunny, leaving him alone in a house without power for several days with only a (possibly spoiled?) steak to eat, but her phone messages and flashback appearances seem to imply she does care for Sunny and it would be easy to explain her neglectfulness as a result of not being in the best place mentally herself. Some fanworks, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjtWC0Oi0e0 this video]], portray her as an outright abusive parent who wishes Sunny had died [[spoiler:instead of Mari]].

** Real Basil [[spoiler:approaches Sunny with garden shears if you decide to save him on the last day, "reassuring" him, "This is for the best". From the sound of it, he seems to be intending a MurderSuicide in the middle of his breakdown. Yet he says that he's going after Sunny's Something, which keeps Sunny from leaving the room. In the end, it's not exactly stated what Basil's intentions were after he calms down in the hospital]].

** Sunny's mom also sometimes gets a similar treatment. Like his dad, she is not entirely blameless - coming off as rather neglectful towards Sunny, leaving him alone in a house without power for several days with only a (possibly spoiled?) steak to eat, but her phone messages and flashback appearances seem to imply she does care for Sunny and it would be easy to explain her neglectfulness as a result of not being in the best place mentally herself. Some fanworks, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjtWC0Oi0e0 this video]], portray her as an outright abusive parent who wishes Sunny had died instead of Mari.

* EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame: Many of the game's detractors find its gameplay pacing to be a detriment to its story instead of an aid to it, but even they tend to see the story as touching.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqQC_gl5k0w "GOLDENVENGEANCE"]], the boss theme for [[spoiler:Pluto (Expanded)]], sounds like a slower-paced version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCCYEdib_Jc "You are the Miserable"]] from ''VideoGame/{{Lanota}}''.

** The AwfulTruth of what caused the friend group to split up. [[spoiler:As you gather the photos detailing how exactly Mari died, you learn that she didn't kill herself; ''Sunny'' did. Even though Sunny is only a PlayerCharacter, and her death is a backstory event with no playable component, it will feel as if ''you'' personally killed her years ago, as if ''you'' are the one suppressing memories that are finally coming back to the surface. Especially if you named Sunny after yourself.]]

** The AwfulTruth of what caused the friend group to split up. [[spoiler:As you gather the photos detailing how exactly Mari died, you learn that she didn't kill herself; ''Sunny'' did. Even though Sunny is only a PlayerCharacter, and it's a backstory event with no playable component, it will feel as if ''you'' personally killed her years ago, as if ''you'' are the one suppressing memories that are finally coming back to the surface. Especially if you named Sunny after yourself.]]