Who is Omori?
When you first start playing Omori, you're led to believe that the protagonist is a grayscale boy living in a multicolored world of dreams and adventures with his friends. However, upon finishing the game's first major arc, it's revealed our protagonist is actually the young Sunny, a shut-in living in a fairly ordinary suburban neighborhood. What follows is a story that flips between the aforementioned brightly-colored adventures and the dark truth that lurks beneath it all. While the truth of the matter is gradually revealed to you by the end of the game, the precise identity of Omori isn't immediately apparent, at least not without extensive digging into the game's lore. The origin and motivations of this mysterious character are almost as distressing as those of his counterpart, Sunny.
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Fair warning, we will be getting into major spoilers for Omori here, so if you can, please experience this game first. More importantly, as with the game itself, we will be touching on some sensitive subjects here, including trauma and self-harm. If you find these subjects distressing, please consider not reading on.
Sunny, his friends, and his older sister Mari lived fun, carefree days during their collective childhoods. While they had some occasional problems in their individual lives, they were happy when they were together. This changed on Sunny's 12th birthday when everyone pitched in to get him a violin. He began practicing the instrument so he could play alongside Mari and her piano, but gradually found the pressure and expectations to be too great. On the night of Sunny and Mari's recital, Sunny pitched his violin down the stairs. When Mari confronted him, they got into a
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