#omori sweethearts castle

[humornaut]

Hey, @basil-daisy here.

I just wanted to drop by because there's something that has been eating my insides for a long time and I can't get it out of my head.

I wanna talk about the scenes in Black Space, more precisely the scenes in the Church of Something, both the Sunny route and Omori route, although the Omori route one was really the one that made me think.

Have you ever thought about how the scene where Omori finally finds and "saves" Basil in the Omori route feels strangely like... A wedding?

It's not only the bridal style way Omori catches Basil. It's the way Basil lightly complains about Omori being late, the way they stop as Omori gives Basil his flower crown back and how directly after the act is interrupted by Stranger, who objects the whole "thing". A spectacle a bunch of "guests" witness.

I was always really curious about the church symbolism. For example the way Basil is stuck at the top of the church. I've tried really hard not to think about what usually is in the same place in churches because that comparison is making me die inside, even if it weirdly makes sense (Basil died for your sins U^U).

Besides that we have Sunny's interesting relationship with religion. Mainly that he probably feels insanely guilty. He feels judged by all the religious statues, moreover the snow angels, which are also one of my favourites, don't need to have the game tell us Omori feels judged by them. You feel it just by looking at their eyes.

The fact that Basil is in a church of all places is so telling too. Besides masses churches are known for holding weddings and, well, funerals. And in case of Faraway town's church is has a graveyard right behind it, where Mari lies.

I wonder if the scene in the Omori route is supposed to feel like a wedding but also double as a funeral (considering it marks the end of Stranger and his admittance of defeat that is actually a premonition of Basil's death in real life). It's one of the few scenes between routes that changes drastically and what it represents is absolutely fascinating.

What is really interesting also is that in the Sunny route the scene feels is completely different. It no longer feels like wedding. If anything it is just Basil begging for forgiveness, which does of course ties well with religion. But he's not begging for God's forgiveness, no, he's begging for his best friend's forgiveness.

I imagine this might be another way of showing us that Basil idolises Sunny as well as telling us that Basil feels really bad (what an understatement).

I also question if the Omori route scene is there to mirror the Sweetheart marriage scene somewhat, but I think I would need to dwell a bit more on that to come reach a proper conclusion.

Anyway, I hope you're having a lovely day! 💜

Wow, this is a really good ask! I'm going to break it down into a few different parts.

The Symbolism of the Church of Something

I think you are right on the money in how things go down in the Church of Something in the Omori route. The entire scene does almost play out as a wedding! Not just as a marriage to Headspace Basil, but as a final marriage to Headspace in general. After Sunny moves, whether or not he ever finds out about the fate of the real Basil, he has wholly become Omori. Stranger's objection does represent the last vestige of Sunny's mind trying to stop him from doing this; after all, saving the real Basil is the only loose end that Sunny really feels a responsibility for in a way that he can fix. He may want to see his other friends again, but he doesn't feel guilty for not doing so, because he feels he doesn't deserve it. Basil's a different story, because he knows he did Basil wrong for the selfish reason of protecting himself from his past.

To deepen the significance of this "wedding to Headspace Basil, and with it, a marriage to the concept of Headspace itself", I also want to point out that there is an implication that the end of Black Space in the Sunny route is not an end to the loop of Headspace, which won't happen until Sunny decides to shatter the light bulb on the next night. There is Stranger dialogue in the hub area that makes clear that killing the Basil that has seen the truth in Red Space is something that usually happens, and when you go there, you can find multiple of Basil's bodies littering the area. Instead, it's the Omori route that "breaks the loop of Headspace", via Stranger choosing to attack Sunny for abandoning Basil and the others.

That's not even mentioning the things that happen after this in the Omori route.

The flower crown that Headspace Basil gives to Sunny in the last Headspace Night in the Omori route provides twice as much HEART as the next best charm in that department (with those charms being the the Pretty Bow, a charm tied to Aubrey, and the Tulip Hairstick, a charm tied to Omori). The use of the word "precious" is also used in the Sunny route, in the description for Basil's Photo Album:

All three of these charms are only accessible in the Omori route, as well. The Pretty Bow item is only receivable after defeating Abbi, and is explicitly described as "too flashy for your taste".

Finally, so long as we are talking about weddings in Headspace, there is another thing that we would be remiss not to talk about. To go along with your mention of the Snow Angels (who have another interesting connection that I will go over later), the charm that you get from completing this area is the Wedding Ring.

As I've mentioned before, there are three different charms that allow the wearer to start happy, and they generally have fairly romantic connotations. First is the daisy, which both you and I understand is likely tied to Basil, but also has a romantic connotation due to the context of being a reward for assisting a character acquire a gift for their crush.

The second is one that I would also tie to Basil.

The Heart String is such an interesting little item, and the way it is tied to Basil isn't as immediately obvious as the Daisy. First off, this item is really easy to miss. You have to grab it during the chase section within Humphrey, and you can't go back to grab it afterwards to get it. There is also another item in the same area: the Blender weapon for Hero. This item immediately sets off alarm bells in my head, because smoothies (the only snacks in the list that are made in a blender) are snacks that are pretty clearly tied to Basil. Why make these two items into two of the only completely miss-able items in the game? And it doesn't evade my notice that shortly before Humphrey, where you find these charms, you have the Branch Coral, who makes another connection to Basil using the romantic image of a string.

Finally, the wedding ring is tied to Basil in another way, and that is what's going on in the area that you find it. Obviously, there is a negative association between Headspace Basil and the cold/snow, but there's also the fact that the ascent up Snowglobe Mountain is reminiscent of the leadup to the Church of Something in general, with the stairs and the snow. And regarding the Snow Angels, aside from the religious connotations behind them, there is another neat association. Take a look:

this was pointed out by someone in a discord server that I am in, and I unfortunately do not remember who at this point. Let me know if you see this and want credit!

I would argue that this similarity was intentional, as an older version of the game had White Egret Orchids looking much different, though I can't find a beta picture of Basil's house at this exact moment. These Snow Angels serve much the same purpose as Stranger in this route: being embodiments of Sunny's guilt for abandoning Basil and refusing to take responsibility for his sins. This takes place on the final night before Sunny moves, the same night that the real Basil chooses to end his own life. These are his final thoughts following Sunny into his dreams (whether you take this as literal or figurative).

One last thought on Basil in the Omori route before moving on: the Basil Rush, and how it’s the most explicit the game ever gets about how Sunny imagines his Basil's closeness.

Like, oh my goodness. The TAG photos didn't even need to exist, but they were put in anyway! And a little detail that goes unnoticed a lot, is that the hand-holding TAG photo is one in which Omori has initiated it! I think part of the tragedy of the Omori route is that it is most player's second playthrough (if they ever play it at all) and it is when the idea of Sunny and Basil having romantic feelings for each other starts being implied way heavier than before. Congrats! You got some heavy romantic subtext between the two boys. One of them is dead in the real world because you didn't save him.

Moving on!

The Religious Connotations of Headspace Basil

You didn't want to go into it very heavily, but I will: among other things, Sunny's dreamworld has turned Headspace Basil into a Christ-like figure.

Of course, there is his position in the Church of Something, but that's not all. He constantly wears a Flower Crown (crown of thorns, anyone?). In fact, Omori has to give Basil the Flower Crown back in the very first Black Space area, the Watermelon Area, seemingly as a preface for what's going to be happening with Headspace Basil throughout that portion of the game.

Look at what he says during the hide and seek game:

There's also the fact that in the Sunny route, we are looking at a game that takes place over three days and three nights after Basil disappears from Headspace, which I'm sure I don't have to point out the significance of.

This is a connotation that Sunny is making himself. Basil did not choose to take on Sunny's sins in real life, he expected that they would always be together. It was Sunny that decided to throw the responsibility of both of their sins on Basil, by choosing to forget. Basil will literally die for Sunny's sins in the real world.

Which brings us to the Flower Crown that Basil gifts to Omori after being rescued. Whether Sunny knows it or not, Basil has decided to end his own suffering in the real world. By gifting the flower crown to Omori, Headspace Basil has symbolically indicated that the situation has been reversed. Basil is no longer suffering for Sunny's sins, but Sunny is about to start suffering for Basil's. We are told numerous times throughout the game that Headspace is on its last legs. It's running out of places to hide the truth. We see Black Space leaking through almost everywhere, and the Basil Rush ends in a direct reminder of the day of the incident.

All that is to say, Headspace is seemingly going to fail, and soon. Black Space has grown too strong. If you ask me, it's only a matter of time until news of the real Basil's death has reached Sunny in the real world, and that will be the tipping point. From there on, assuming Sunny even decides to go on after that point, he will be living with the same weight that Basil did for those four years after Sunny left him, and there won't be anyone to save him.

The Sunny Route and Sweetheart's Castle

Finally, you mentioned how the scene goes in the Sunny Route. It should be noted, right after Stranger merges with the version of Basil there is the first time in the entire game that a version of Basil in Sunny's head refers to Sunny exclusively as his best friend, and from that point on, we will see that repeated in Sunny's mind. The room that Omori and Basil fall into prior to Red Space is one that we will see during the truth sequence, but it also appears in the Omori route, in a manner that we should discuss, as it ties into what you said about Sweetheart's Castle being connected. After all, the room that Omori and Basil falls into is the same room that Sweetheart's Castle turns into once you accept the Keeper of the Castle's deal, as I noted in my post about Sweetheart's Castle previously.

Sweetheart herself represents Sunny; both in his quest for presenting a perfect version of himself and his broken understanding of love, both of others and himself. Spaceboy represents the more "Omori" part of him; someone claiming to be above his emotions, but ultimately ruled by them. He even changes his name while he is in a relationship with Sweetheart. From this interpretation, we can extrapolate that their wedding in the castle is a representation of the Omori route's ending, right down to ending up on Snowglobe Mountain.

I also want to point out what happens right after this. You don't immediately just jump on down to the Lost Library. You try to leave, but right before you exit the area, you get the cutscene showing Stranger on the stage, leading you into the hole, meaning you literally need to walk down the aisle of an area explicitly designed for a wedding to follow Stranger into the Lost Library.

Whether or not you interpret Sunny and Basil as having romantic feelings for each other, this seems very symbolic of the fact that accepting and following Stranger (who I have previously described as the individual in which Basil's love of Sunny resides, be it romantic or platonic) is how you get to the truth. It's as if Sweetheart and Spaceboy's wedding represented the ending of Black Space in the Omori route, while what happens right after represents the ending of Black Space in the Sunny route. And like most of the ways Sunny remembers aspects of his history, the library is tied to Basil. Where the real Basil would provide books for Sunny to read, Stranger leads him to an entire library filled with books depicting his memories, both good and bad.

I hope you found all this interesting! I haven't really gotten the chance to talk about these things before, since I haven't really found the motivation to talk about them in their own post before! I hope you have a wonderful day as well! Time to go back to packing for my flight tomorrow!

#omori #omori analysis #omori spoilers #omori basil #omori sunny #omori sunflower #sunnflower #sunflower omori #omori stranger #black space #church of something #sweetheart's castle #snowglobe mountain #snow angels #what's going on with headspace basil is so interesting and i could talk about it for ages

[iidsch]

[Major Omori spoilers]

I know a lot of people in the Omori fandom like to focus on Aubrey, Hero and Kel's suffering after Mari's death, but I cannot stop thinking about Sunny and how tragic his story is.

When you think about it, the reason Hero, Kel and Aubrey became so depressed after Mari's death was not her death alone, but the fact that they believed she had committed suicide, meaning that Mari had been suffering all this time but no one noticed it. Everyone felt guilty about it, and even in the best-case scenario of them moving on in the future, the thought of "I could have helped her and stopped her suicide" would have remained in the back of their minds until the end.

With Sunny telling them that he killed Mari by accident, and that the suicide was fake, Hero, Kel and Aubrey are free of any guilt regarding her death. Even Basil gets to finally clear his conscience, since his guilt was a product of him lying to everyone. The guilt that had been weighing them down all these years is gone, and now they all get to move on and live a better life.

Except Sunny. Because nothing will ever change the fact that he killed his sister. It doesn't matter whether his friends forgive him or not for what he did - Mari is still dead, and she's not coming back.

This is why the last scene of the true ending is so important, why leaving everyone's reactions out of the game is what makes the game so perfect. Because the journey Sunny goes through is not about being forgiven by his friends. It's about the only thing that will take the burden off his shoulders. It's about forgiving oneself.

#omori #m #anyway im getting emotional over this game again etc etc #also i just finished Sweetheart's castle! next thing is spending the day with kel and possibly getting my heart destroyed haaaa

[misty-wisp]

[tsumi to batsu au]

The empress.

(artwork for chapter 13 of yurushite)

#omori #omori aubrey #omori au #tsumi to batsu au #omori fanfic #yurushite fic #my art #THE BATSUBREY!!!! THE BATSUBREY IS REALLL #dream aubrey glow-up is real. homegirl went and took sweetheart's castle for herself #we love to see a girlboss winning

[slightlyplant]

hahahaha whaaaaat no of course i’m not recreating sweethearts entire castle in minecraft that would be bonkers

#so guess who’s recreating sweethearts whole castle in minecraft!! #plants paragraphs #sweetheart omori #omori sweetheart #omori #omori game #building sweethearts castle

[lilac-gold]

keeper, going over sweetheart's resume: Okay, so right here, it states that you’re creative. sweetheart: Yes keeper: Okay... may I know what you create? sweetheart: Problems.

#sweetheart in a nutshell #she's such a terrible person in such a fun way #keeper of the castle #omori sweetheart #incorrect quotes #what do u mean #this is exactly how she got the castle :) #omori incorrect quotes

[twiggibranch]

Inktober Week 2! And an Update!

I’m sorry for not posting last week’s drawings, schoolwork started ramping up and I tried my best to catch up with the drawings I missed. I don’t know if I’ll be continuing Inktober this year because I’m over a week behind, but I still enjoyed every second of it! :) here’s week two’s drawings!

Day 8! I believe there’s a toad/frog in Deep Well but I’m not certain.

Day 9! Young Kel and Aubrey goofing off on the swingset! I remember always being too scared to jump off the swings when I was younger, but I think Kel would use it to challenge Aubrey. I kinda changed bounce into jump for this one.

Day 10! My paper kept ripping so Omori and Kel’s faces are messed up :’)

Day 11! I drew Stangers wandering Blackspace! I threw a filter over it because I thought it looked better.

I skipped day 12 because I didn’t know what to draw. Sorry! :(

Day 13! Rise of the living bread! Rise of the undead bread?

And Sweetheart’s Castle for day 14!

#inktober #omori #Omori deep well #omori kel #omori stranger #omori blackspace #omori biscuit #omori doughie #omori unbread twins #Omori sweetheart’s castle #fan art

[maris-snack-shop]

Good Mari, even if you regain control, your body was still used to commit murder.

It's a crime you won't escape from...

It's something you couldn't stop

Hahahaha

Then I will pay for my crimes fairly...

NO!! I WILL NOT BE FORCED BEHIND BARS AGAIN!!

#mari's snack shop #omori ask blog #ask blog #omori food administration #ofa #for anyone wondering what that line references #sweethearts castle

[omoris-bar]

*after a few sickening pops, the boy can no longer move his dislocated and possibly broken limbs*

Heh, I’ll give you dat. Dat hurt.

*a few tears streak down the boys still-grinning face*

You can’t kill me though. I’m youwr only souwrce of info- inf- infoermatin

If you won't talk that makes you useless. I was nice to your friends. And I can blame what happens to you on some girl scouts, who would GLADLY take the fall for me, knowing them..talk. NOW! WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO TO MY SISTER!?

#is this like a mafia or something? #also Omori has a collection of Medieval Torture Devices he stole from Sweetheart's castle #this Omori is kind and sweet but DO NOT get on his bad side like this kid

[aria0fgold]

Whoooaaaa! Life gotten bit hectic again but like not events but more like just me. Was feeling melancholic??? like, bit down in the dumps lately but I’m feeling better now! :D And then I had my wisdom tooth removed yesterday! Ngl tho I didn’t realize it was my wisdom tooth up until the dentist said it cuz I always referred to it as the tooth at the very end. For smth called a wisdom tooth, it sure dont grow out wisely.

Been practicing writing again too! But more like, practicing planning. I at first wanted to continue a lil personal story about my OC, Alec and while expanding more on smth I realized a lot of loopholes everywhere in his overall story and ngl, doing a self-test style where I create questions for me to answer helped a lot in finding those loopholes.

Cuz like, I’m the type of writer that goes with the flow and worry bout things later which is honestly not that good as planning goes. I’ve tried like other ways of outlining that I’ve searched up but nothing worked out and now I finally found one that does! So I’m thinking of doing that same technique with my fics too cuz there’s a lot I need to connect with everything and it can also help me with figuring out where to go next!

#aria rants #esp need a lot of planning for oafb #for the ppl that read it yk like theres a scene where at the beginning omori beheaded the corrupted king crawler monster? #i had like 0 plans for it. like legit no reason why omori beheaded the thing. #when i wrote that chapter i was like: yeah checks out thats def smth omori would do #it wasnt until i wrote the later chapters that i found a use for that scene so it wasnt just a scene that happened just cause #like omori finding that silver key and that same key will be useful during the sweetheart castle adventure #having a beginning middle and end is good for me in my fics cuz i can think up ways to bridge each one but also not that good as well #cuz of my overall writing technique that results in changes on the middle part which will later affect the end too and like damn #i need a proper way to outline everything so i dont connect as i write but i have everything connected before i write #and just build upon that connection so it dont look bad! #im just glad i found a way to outline properly when i was losing my marbles finding all the horrible loopholes in my ocs story #ngl working on my oc while looking at my omori fanfics reminds me of how much ive improved as a writer #and i love it! ive come a long way! im proud of it and im still improving! :D #so yeah! oh and im like thinking of doing smth too #basically updating all 3 fics in a very consistent manner + the aubrey and letterbrey fic i have in tumblr too #all i need now is to wake up early again cuz gurl needs to stop waking up at noon

[samthecookielord]

Hello Sam Samthecookielord. I would like to give you a chance to explain why you love Captain Spaceboy so much and how you found out about him

AGSSGEGASAGD SPPACED BOY........... that is all good night,,

ok jk ill explain

Um!!! Idk man hes an interesting guy! And hes sad and pathetic but also really cool and awesome when hes not sad and pathetic <3 hope this helps <3

I first found out about him when my friend Kit was playing through omori for the first time and she was talking about it and i heard about spaceboy through that but had no idea who he was other than the fact that apparently hes a sweetheart fan (i also did not know who sweetheart was at the time) and then i watched another friend play through sweethearts castle for the first time and saw glimpses of Boy but still having no clue who the hell he was

And then i just searched spaceboy on the omori wiki and read through it all and went "wow this man sounds so sad and angstable. I am going to watch a youtube video of all his cutscenes now"

And now here we are! Brainrot central

I think another interesting thing about him is the secret lore™ he has outside of omori! (cuz he existed as a character way before omori did)

PLUS he comes with a BANGER CHIPTUNE SONG ALBUM (my current discord status is a link to one of the songs in there lol)!!!

Also hes fun to draw

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

#the order that i experienced omori is so funny. i saw last resort first and then i saw humphrey (none of the events inbetween) #then sweethearts castle and also a glimpse at blackspace i think and a glimpse at a neutral ending and THEN i saw yhe beginning lollll #asks

[humornaut]

Sunny and Home and Basil (and Sweetheart?!)

Hey all! I've been thinking a lot about how home is represented in Omori, and especially about how Sunny thinks about home and imagines it. Omori Spoilers Ahead!

So to start this off, it has been noted quite a lot that Sunny associates the concept of home with Basil. The main thing that people point out to support this is the fact that before Memory Lane and right after the fight with Basil, it's Basil that is waiting for Sunny in front of his house to welcome him home, but there is so much more to look at when it comes to this concept.

For starters, the theme music for Basil's house in both the real world and Headspace is entitled "A Home for Flowers", but there are some very specific flowers that Basil's house is a home for. Within Headspace, it is a home for tulips, which is the flower associated with Sunny, courtesy of Basil. The other two flower versions of this are Sunflower and Daisy. Sunflower plays during the Birthday Memory of Memory Lane, and Daisy plays in Basil's Meadow after the true Something battle. Finally, the Empty version of this theme is what plays at Basil's house in the real world. Basil's home is also a home for Sunny, within Sunny's head. The Empty version shows that in the present day, Basil's home doesn't really provide any respite for either Sunny or Basil, because metaphorically, neither of them have been "home" since the Incident.

However, I'd also like to put forward that there's another big thing within Headspace that tells us a lot about how Sunny views the concept of "home".

Sweetheart's Castle

Sweetheart's Castle is a very interesting area of the game that the player spends a lot of time in. In fact, it can tell us a lot about how Sunny feels about the concept of "home" if you pay attention to the little details it gives us. For now, I would like to set aside the fact that the castle is associated with Sweetheart to talk about what happens in the castle itself.

To me, the castle is very clearly based off of Basil's house, or more specifically, the things that happen during this part of the game take a lot of inspiration from the memory of Basil's birthday.

To start out, there are four tasks that the player must complete while inside the castle. The first is assisting with preparing a strawberry cake, which is a clear parallel to the Birthday Memory, since it implies that Sunny was involved with the making of Basil's cake in the first place. The castle is also filled with many other strawberry cakes that Sunny/Omori associate with different smells, and bring the player to different areas of headspace. Check out my other analysis on Sunny's relationship with food and cooking for more details!

Within Sweetheart's bedroom, the player has to destroy a statue of Spaceboy, to be replaced with a statue of Sweetheart. In addition, Sweetheart's bedroom contains a bed that the player can rest at to heal, much like a picnic. To me, this very much relates to how Basil's bed is the only one that Sunny notes is comfortable, other than his own. It also is reminiscent of how Basil's birthday party in the Photo Album appears to have ended in a sleepover. The bedroom is also filled with different kinds of snacks and sodas, and this is also the area where you can get the Teapot weapon for Hero, and learn the Teatime skill.

Next, you have to go to the Royal Library to assist with the guest list. While I don't think the group had to think too hard at all about who was invited to Basil's birthday party, since it's pretty much just the friend group, there are some interesting things about this area. Sweetheart's Castle's purpose within Headspace is to cover up the Lost Library, so the fact that a library was included at all is interesting, considering the connotations. Within this area, you can find the Interesting Book for the "Fascinating Literature" side quest, a poetry book, and the Book charm, which can increase experience gain. To me, this relates back to Basil's love of reading, which he shared with Sunny.

Finally, you go to the Royal Ballroom to assist with preparing the Sprout Mole Choir to sing at the wedding. You might be able to say that this area is reminiscent of Basil's love of listening to Sunny and Mari practice their music, after all, it was Basil and Hero that moved all of the stools into the practice room to listen to the two. This room also contains a Sprout Mole that you can slow dance with to restore the party's Health and Juice. No matter if you dance with them with Aubrey or one of the boys, they will always say, "That was so much fun... Ah... What is this feeling? My heart is racing so fast... Thanks, hehe...". Just a little interesting thing for Sunny's mind to include in this area, specifically with the small plant creature that enjoys tofu.

The associations don't end there. There is also the Royal Gallery, which contains a bunch of art. Though we don't get to see it much in the real world, Headspace Kel notes that Basil does enjoy art, along with reading, flowers, and photography. The player can even become art in this area, by standing on a podium. You can once again do this with any character selected, so this could very much reference that Basil prefers to take pictures of his friends, since he is afraid of losing them.

Then you have the Royal Theater, where there are 11 different movies that the party could watch, which absolutely could represent how Sunny and Basil would have sleepovers where they would watch movies, or more generally represent the group watching movies as part of Basil's party. The castle also has a large garden, which is something that Sunny's mind also associates with Basil.

But What About Sweetheart?

I won't go into too much detail about what Sweetheart represents, as there is a very good post about it already, but to paraphrase what's important, Spaceboy and Sweetheart both represent aspects of Sunny, and his relationship with himself/Omori. Some people try and say it represents how Sunny really feels about how a relationship with Aubrey would go, but I think this concept is a little bit of a stretch. As far as we're concerned here, Sweetheart represents Sunny's broken idea of love following the incident, as well as his inability to even conceptualize what loving himself even means following what happened to Mari.

That being said, there is a character within Sweetheart's castle that does appear to represent someone other than Sunny...

Look at this dude, with his stupid dumb teal hair, pink hairclip and overalls. Wait

After finishing up the primary quest line in Sweetheart's Castle, you have the ability to meet a character by the name of Rococo. Rococo has some interesting similarities with Basil's story. He doesn't really have his own people due to his original planet being destroyed, in the same way that Basil doesn't really have his own family outside of his grandmother. He was taken in by Sweetheart and her family in a way that is similar to Basil being accepted into the friend group, and more specifically, how he appears to have spent a lot of time at Sunny and Mari's house. He'll paint pictures of Omori's party, in the same way that Basil in the real world would take photos of his friends, but not a lot of himself.

He sleeps on a futon with sheets made of the finest materials with a self-heating and cooling option. Seeing as Sunny recognizes Basil's bed as comfortable, this could be seen as a reference to Sunny sleeping on Basil's bed during sleepovers, while Basil himself slept on a rollout futon.

The fact that he has been sealed away from Sweetheart's castle reflects both how Headspace itself is filled with things that Basil loves while Basil is kept away from it by spending most of the game sealed away in Black Space or restricted to a picnic blanket, and how Sunny has physically shut out Basil in the real world for four years, keeping the two apart. Rococo is also depicted as being very lonely after being sealed away for so long, even growing desperate when the party tries to leave before he can tell his story, in a manner that resembles how Basil behaves during the real world segments of the game.

If you want to take the connections between Sweetheart & Rococo and Sunny & Basil literally, Rococo even says this:

Obviously, you don't have to take everything literally here if you don't believe there is any kind of romantic connection at all between Sunny and Basil, but this backstory does kind of parallel the way that the past is told in Omori. For instance, after meeting Sweetheart, Rococo has a gap in his memory of a few years leading up to he and Sweetheart falling in love and moving into the castle. Meanwhile, we know almost nothing about Sunny or Basil or anyone else in the group during the period of time between when Basil joined the friend group and when Basil started taking pictures for the photo album. Within the photo album, there are many things that imply that Sunny and Basil became closer throughout that final year than they were before, even if Basil already considered Sunny his best friend from the first picture. The falling out between Sweetheart and Rococo is more metaphorical than literal, as the thing that caused Sunny to lock Basil away both in his mind and in real life was the fact that he was a reminder of a past that Sunny desperately wanted to forget, not that Sunny was becoming more popular and receiving fan mail and requests from suitors, though you could see Rococo as representing the real Basil that was locked out and the suitors and popularity as representing the new friends that Sunny created within Headspace.

The Castle as Home

So how does this all line up with how Sunny sees "home"?

Below the castle is a little area with an NPC by the name of "The Keeper of the Castle".

The Keeper tells us that the castle takes the shape of one's deepest desires. "A place to return to. Somewhere to call home." In a way, since Sweetheart represents an aspect of Sunny, we could say that part of Sunny desires his home to be represented by this castle.

The Keeper also tells us that it knows that Sweetheart will soon leave, and it will need to look for a new owner. If you are playing the Hikikomori route, Omori will become the new owner of the castle. However, Omori/Sunny has rejected the real world in this route. He has rejected reconciling with his friends, ending the delusion, and he has rejected his special connection with Basil, with Basil's photo album no longer referring to the two as best friends, and instead referring to the friend group as a whole as Basil's best friends.

To that end, once Omori becomes the castle's new owner, all reminders of the reasons that Basil is associated with home are erased. All of the strawberry cakes, the art, the books, the garden, and Rococo himself are erased, leaving behind the "Boring Room", where all Omori/Sunny can do is sit, surrounded by pictures of a past that no longer exists, which is emblematic of how Sunny's own house must feel after those four years inside without his friends and his only family being a busy mother.

This is the hikikomori route's twisted version of Sunny "finding his way back home." No Basil, no Mewo, no Mari, and definitely no violin or Memory Lane. Only reminders of Sunny's broken family that he is confronted with every day, with all of the reminders of his friend group and especially Basil ripped away and forgotten. And this is how you get the "Welcome Home" achievement.

Hope you enjoyed!

#omori #omori analysis #sunnflower #omori sunflower #sunflower omori #kind of #i guess #sweetheart #omori sunny #omori basil #rococo #sweetheart's castle #omori spoilers #hikikomori route #keeper of the castle #rococo says he would do literally anything for sweetheart #omocat says that basil would do literally anything for sunny #thats real interesting #anyway if headspace still exists post true ending you just know that sunnys mind is moving himself and basil into that castle

[overclockedroulette]

if omori ends and it's like "actually it was all a metaphor 🥺🥺 he imagined it it was never real🥺🥺" i am going to SHIT MY PANTS give me legit fucked up brain demons and fucked up fantasy quests RIGHT now

#please please please i'm begging #DON'T let this go the way i think it's going #omori #no spoilers pls 😭 #i'm only up to like. sweetheart's castle.

[paigeyintheclouds-archive]

♡̩̥̩♡̩̩̥͙♡̩͙ˊˎ Madame Suliman Sweetheart ˏˋ°•*⁀➷

A Sweetheart battle sprite I edited to look like Madame Suliman!

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“Now I understand. You’re in love with HERO.”

#omori #omori sprite #omori sweetheart #sweetheart omori #howls moving castle #madame suliman

[slightlyplant]

a painting of CAPT. SPACEBOY. FRUIT JUICE has been splashed all over it.

got swh’s bedroom + part of the dungeon + the theater done!! did i spend hours and hours of my life on that spaceboy painting? yes. did it end up being only a single insignificant block in the corner? also yes but i do not regret it

#omori game #omori #sweetheart omori #omori sweetheart #space boyfriend #captain spaceboy #gonna start a tag for this i suppose #building sweethearts castle

[lilac-gold]

if omori speaks to the keeper of the castle,, and gets SWH's castle for himself,,, and turns it into his little room,,,,

does rococo just, like. die? in sunny's dreams? where does he go?? one minute he's chilling in the walls, the next he's just,, poof. gone forever.

#omori #omori omori #omori rococo #rip rococo ig #omori sunny #keeper of the castle #omori sweetheart #random thoughts

[misty-wisp]

reader theories my beloved

#feels like i've made it as a writer now that i'm sorta getting some hehe #hope to see some in the comments of upcoming chapters tbh...there's a lot of juicy stuff goin on #omori's sus...aubrey's taken over sweetheart's castle...there's apparently darkness n shit in headspace... #and also some other things going on i think #lotsa stuff!!! lots #misty says things