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OMORI Color Symbolism

Some of this will be obvious. Some other stuff won’t be. Enjoy! (TW: Suicide, depression, OMORI spoilers)

White: Purity/ Sterility/ Dissociation

White is the color of OMORI. The game and the character. An oppressive white that banishes all impurities. White space is a place to become nothing. White is not good. At least not until later. White is simple like a tulip, and that’s probably why its Sunny’s favorite color, but Sunny has taken simplicity to a toxic new level. We also find another white flower, the Orchid Egret, a white flower that connects the dream world to the real one. Almost acting as an anchor, grounding the real world to Whitespace. At the end of the game, white and sterility is given a new meaning: redemption. It’s the sign of a clean slate. Sunny has come to terms with Mari’s death, his part in it, and has confessed. He can move on with his life.

Beige: The Past/ Dullness/ Decay

Beige is Sunny’s main color. Maybe even more than white. It’s the color that differentiates him from Omori. Unlike his evil doppelganger, Sunny is a person with memories. At the end of the game when the real Sunny explores his childhood home, all of his memories are cloaked in a sepia beige. It’s the color of old photos and old times. Towards the end, we seen the plant life surrounding basil’s forest die and decay into a sullen beige. Showing how his attachment to the past is stalling and killing his growth as a person. In the real world, Sunny wears beige cargo shorts, in a empty house with beige walls and floors. Lacking in color, the inside of Sunny’s house feels muted and dull in comparison to the vivid blues and greens just outside his front door.

Orange & Yellow: Joy/ Excitement/ Agitation

Orange is almost exclusively Kel’s color. Serving as a more fashionable alternative to yellow, it’s a bright, happy color that conveys the same positivity. Its warm and welcoming. It’s also the main color of the titular “Orange Oasis” an area of Headspace that’s easy going. But even in such an area, there is a truth teller, Mr. Outback, draped in orange. Poking holes in the fantasy and stirring up the waters. Orange is a loud, aggressive color, similar to red. It annoys and aggravates people. Just like Kel. But in doing so it can generate much needed disruption to break stagnation. Kel instigates the whole plot of the game, and in the end everyone is much happier for it.

Yellow is the game’s designated color for happiness, though sometimes it blends green into the happy symbolism as well. A core example is the sunflower, a yellow and green plant that Basil admires for its ability to see the bright side of things. There’s also Kel and Hero’s parents. In their family photo the parents wear yellow and green, subtly showing that the core value of the household is the happiness of the family above all else. Finally, there’s the Big Yellow Cat. The centerpiece of Sunny’s dream world, serving almost as an unofficial ruler of Headspace. Protecting the very precious thing Sunny treasures most, the happy memory of his old friends. It’s interesting to note that all three of Sunny’s childhood imaginary friends are babylike pastel primary colors. The cat is yellow, representing Sunny’s happiness in the dream world. Abbi’s tenacle is red, the arm of the wisest who was discontent with that world. And then we find Humphrey is a baby blue, the starving sadness that Sunny keeps tucked away at the bottom of it.

Blue: Sadness/ Truth

Blue is the color associated with sadness, and more importantly, the truth. All the horrific real world nighttime scenes are portrayed in blue on black. Meanwhile, the final hospital scene when Sunny confesses the truth is shown in blue on white. Visually showing the importance of truth in the story, as well as the suffocating sadness of the situation.

Hero is blue. A color that accentuates his masculinity and dependability reflected in his manly can-do attitude, though his conventional masculinity is often subverted by him wearing a feminine pink apron while cooking. However, the main reason he’s dressed in blue is because as mentioned before, it portrays his sadness. Hero is a character that is perpetually depressed. His intelligent mind over thinks things and blames himself. Mari’s death was no exception, so like Sunny, Hero seals himself away in a cocoon of sadness. Consider Humphrey, the big blue whale (the final boss of Headspace) that eats Sunny over and over again. Swallowing him deeper in a devouring cycle of depression. By escaping Humphrey, Sunny gets a chance to escape his depression and fantasy, just like Hero did before. Rejecting his fantasy, Sunny can start reintegrating into the real world outside.

Blue is one of the two main colors associated with the Real World, along with Green. We see it most prominently in the cloudy sky, showing the status of Sunny in the real world on the final title screen. Unlike the oppressive purple sky of dream world, the real sky is blue, wide and filled with many possibilities. It’s reflected in the blue picnic basket at the secret lake, its blue and white like the sky. Sunny describes it as “not as good as Mari’s” but it’s a real picnic in the true world. The only world where Sunny can learn and grow.

Green: Growth/ Change/ Basil’s Envy

The color of growth. Plants are the keystone metaphor the story. In the duet sequence we see the plants growing, and the children alongside them. OMORI at its core is a coming-of-age story. One that homes in on the worst part of growing up: facing traumatic catastrophe. And being able to grow in spite of it. One of the kids hit hardest by this trauma is Basil. The gardener. A boy with a green thumb and green eyes (not literally, figuratively.) Note that Basil’s envy is never a malicious thing. But its made clear that he was always questioning his place in Sunny’s friend group. Taking photos but never feeling apart of them. Basil wants to be someone else. Someone loved. He wants to change. Lacking options, he turns to gardening, so he can make something beautiful to add to the world. Hoping that maybe he can change along the way.

As mentioned before, Green is portrayed as a happy color too. And is almost always portrayed in a positively light, being the second main color of the Real World. Though it also has a place in the dream world as well. It’s the color of the Vast Forest. The one that reminds Sunny of the tree that changed everything. It’s even the color of Space Ex-boyfriend’s hair, where its made abundantly clear that green is the inverted color of pink. If green is the color of growth and change. Pink is quite the opposite.

Pink: Innocence/ Childishness

Aubrey’s color. Her punk pink hair, originally meant to be a testament of her girly innocence, has since become a symbol of defiance. But this is only one instance where innocence is defiled by the toxicity of their shared catastrophe. Pink is the color worn by Sally the baby, the most innocent character in the story. But most pink characters appear as obstacles. Aubrey is the most obvious example, but pink is also featured on all three of the major Headspace bosses. Spaceboy’s pink hair. Sweetheart’s strict adherence to pink attire. And Humphrey’s monstrous parasite form is a sea of pink. Each character once had innocent origins but are all lashing out from an unwillingness to move on. For Aubrey, its from Mari. For Spaceboy, its Sweetheart. Sweetheart can’t move past her heartbreak to love anyone. And Humphrey fights to maintain the “blissful ignorance” of Whitespace itself, refusing to let Sunny wake up from his childish dreaming. After all, the very floor of the Neighbor Room is pink. Pink almost appears as an antagonistic unnatural color. Or rather, pink is the childishness Sunny and Aubrey need to overcome to mature and grow.

Though for Aubrey’s case, there’s a second meaning. Pink and purple are considered a feminine color, though purple is decidedly more mature of the two. Growing up, Aubrey didn’t have many feminine role models. Since Aubrey’s mother is emotionally unavailable, Mari is the only other girl Aubrey has to relate to. So they planned to style their hair to celebrate this connection. By asking Mari to dye their hair pink and purple, it appears that Aubrey is seeking to share her feminine experience with Mari.

Purple: Lavishness/ Love

Mari’s color. Purple is a color that exalts femininity and abundance. Traditionally associated with royalty and luxury, purple provokes a feeling of richness. Although in Mari’s case, this richness is not material wealth but rather takes the form of doting and indulgence. Representing how Mari goes out of her way to express her love to others in the form of gifts. This is also the main color of Headspace, since the color black is missing from that world replaced by infinite purple indulgence of an escapist fantasy.

Black: Mystery/ Repression/ Fear

Black is not evil in this game. It’s simply darkness. Hiding something important from sight. Something, the ghost, is black. All of them are. And of course there’s Black Space itself. All of it hidden, all of it pushed down. Black is also the exclusive color of fear, and is tied explicitly to the Truth. In earlier versions of the game, Fear was going to be just another emotion. In fact, super early concept material even indicates that somethings and black space were just going to be a haunted level. Not so in the final game. Black stands out as a special nightmare, that not only encroaches on the dream world, but even the Real World. All colors are swallowed by a darkness that torments Sunny and hides something awful.

Red: Anger/ Guilt/ Trauma

The color of blood. Of her blood. The color of guilt. Of being caught red handed. The color of unbridled fury for doing something awful to someone who loved you dearly. Across the game, we see Sunny being lured into the red lights. Red is the destructive impulse to seek revenge for Mari’s sake. Take from himself what he took from her. In Red Space, Sunny fights Omori. He faces his own self-hatred and overcomes his darkest impulses. 

Anyway, I think that’s all the main colors. Happy Birthday Sunny!  I try to make time for lore posts like these whenever I find time.

Thanks for reading.

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a lil doodle compilation of the SDV Bachelors i’ve done through the year.

Shane, Harvey, Elliot

Sam, Sebastian, Alex

✨check out the Bachelorettes here!✨

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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Any guesses on what we might get with the Disney crossover? I'm still definitely in shock over it existing at all XD

I’m a little surprised just because I didn’t think Devsis even could score a collab with Disney. Disney is like The Big Guy when it comes to entertainment corporations

I’ve got NO idea what to expect. I’ve been told the vaguest of leaks but still not much, and I don’t know how much I’ve got permission to say. I’m at a loss, but it’s definitely going to be entertaining. A little tone deaf to put a collab with Disney of all companies right after an update with themes of classism/corrupt fantasy politics, but Devsis isn’t great either so what else is new

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Something dumb - I always thought those were butterfly wings cause I never processed the caption. So yea, rewrote a small bit to fix that. This will probably suck but it's 2 am and I got ideas so FUCK IT

I sigh as I close up shop early for the night, waving as a grumbling Vampire flies out the window, already predicting his sister scolding him again. It's basically their routine now, no real bite behind it. I walk around the bar cleaning things up and putting them away, humming a simple tune to myself as I work to dull the monotony. "They should be back soon, hm..." I turn off the lights and head upstairs to my living space, a pretty simple but nice apartment right above my bar. I check my watch. 9 PM. 'They should be back soon, might as well finish it for them. I set down the clothing as I hear my window open, seeing my partner in life and crime slip inside. "Hello then, right on time." I say with a smile. Roguefort hugs me close and we share a kiss. "Hello darling, how was business today?" I hum as I pull away. "Fine, everything should be ready for tonight." They laugh, the sound music to my ears. "Hah, well that's good." "By the way, I have something for you." "Hm? What's that?" I smile and take out his old raven costume, now repaired and given a bit more flair. "I made one for myself as well, i can't just be letting you do this alone can I?" I say as I walk over, placing the hat on his head and kissing his cheek with a grin. Roguefort returns it. "Well then my darling, tonight really shall be a night to remember~" They say, slipping the black and gold feather behind my ear.

You regretting giving me permission yet @accidental-host ? XD

🥂💎 Birds of a feather, partners in crime

#cookie run #sparkling cookie #roguefort cookie #roguespark #too tired to finish tagging

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I love him and I actually got him on my second gacha draw :)

Lucky bitch, took me 5 10 pulls... ;-; I got him tho and yep I love him. What can I say I'm a sucker for a pretty man with a cool voice XD

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I think why some people are upset with Affogato cookie being a guy is probably because of a few reasons: they’re sexist, Affogato’s design looks feminine which obviously isn’t a bad thing, and the whole “girlboss” thing which i don’t understand how the hell we came up with that term

Yea idk people are fucking weird. I love Affogato's design and am very curious about him so far. Also the fact girlboss is a term only ever really used in memes and MLM pitches probably ain't a good sign XD

Also huh. My first ever ask. Neat.

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Is neat

Hi guys!!! Soooo this was a BIG passion project for me; as an avid theme parks fan who knows how important character autographs can be to visitors, I thought it would be really fun to create a mockup of what a Freddy Fazbear's Pizzaplex autograph book might look like! I tried styling it similarly to the US Disney parks' autograph books, with some of the character autographs included on the back cover.

Click the read more for some notes on each characters' autographs! :0) I arranged them here (save for DJ Music Man and Monty, switch those two) in the order of which I drew them out. Enjoy!

🚫⚠️ Please do not use my art/illustration without my permission and please do not repost. If there is something you'd like to use it for, please ask me first! ⚠️🚫 Thanks!

EDIT: Please look at my pinned post for questions you may have regarding how you can use the book yourself! :)

Each character typically has their own preferred pen or marker to write with.

The Sun Daycare Attendant's autograph is written with a dying orange Sharpie marker. He's my favorite so of course I had to tackle his first! He likes to use whatever stickers he has on hand to decorate the page. Also worth noting: He has many different monikers with the daycare kiddos and just... in general, so he will often times write whatever name you refer to him as. "Mr. Sunshine", "Sunnyface", "Sun Guy", etc., thus his autograph often varies.

Freddy's autograph is... too perfect, so I either chalk that up to 1) his robotic dexterity is just that good or, more realistically, 2) he uses a special stamp for the name portion and writes/draws out the rest, because he's accidentally broken so many pens/markers trying to get it perfect and left some kiddos crying. Which make him feel HORRIBLE!! Best to avoid that at all costs!

(p.s. I am totally behind the fan theory that Bonnie went by "Superstar Bonnie" and/or called Freddy "superstar" and that's who he got it from. Freddy probably started adding that "To my superstar" bit to his autograph some time after Bonnie's decommission. Yes I ship Bonnie and Freddy so hard shhh 💔💔💔)

Superstar Bonnie's autograph was slightly inspired by the Palmer chocolates logo (and subconsciously, according to my friend Connor, the Cadbury logo). There's a joke here about chocolate easter bunnies. Anyways! Bonnie wrote in a purple ink fountain pen. The bunny face in the "O" was going to just have three dots to represent a bowling ball, with bunny ears incorporated on the "B", but I thought I'd combine the two for cuteness's sake. :-) His autograph is (obviously) very very rare since it's now impossible to get. Probably goes for a lot of money on eBay in the FFCU (Freddy Fazbear Cinematic Universe).

Sorry to any Roxy fans who were expecting something a little more exciting with her autograph! 😭 I just honestly didn't see her as someone who would spend too much time embellishing her writing with cutesy stuff... but I did put a lot of thought into what I wanted hers to look like. Since she's a raceway girl, I gave her a more "human-like" autograph. I wanted it to be reminiscent of a race car driver who signs giant posters, so the tails of her autograph often drag off of the page and it takes up basically every bit of space that it can on the paper. And of course, to give it that authentic "race car driver autograph feel", I tried rendering it like a silver Sharpie marker. :0)

Glamrock Chica just seems like the kind of girl to have a million glitter pens and highlighters and write in bubble letters... like every girl in middle school (and I mean that in the most endeared way possible).

DJ Music Man... bless his heart... he is VERY enthusiastic to sign autographs because he is rarely ever asked, but... he is so big that his autograph takes up two pages, often times with varying legibility (you have to hold that book STATUE STILL for him). However, large t-shirts are often slightly easier for him to write on, so he might have room to draw a music note or vinyl record for you! ...Or just carry a big ass poster board into the pizzaplex if you want. Go crazy! LMAOOO

Monty... as a Bonnie fan, he is on thin ice for me but I respect everyone who loves him LOL so I hope this does him justice! His paper is a bit more crumpled than the others and has a noticeable hole in it from his thumb claw accidentally stabbing the paper (yes, he is left-handed in my brain shhh). He is trying his best y'all 😭

And lastly, but definitely not least (I knew I had to hold myself back from drawing his until the end or I'd never finish all of these LOL), we have the Moon Daycare Attendant! Not much I can really say here about the autograph itself aside from the fact that he too draws a smile on his autograph, just like Sun does. His autograph is, unsurprisingly, basically just as hard-to-get as Bonnie's is nowadays. Once Vanny hacked into him and maintenance couldn't figure out what was causing him to act so... scary... they probably slapped that warning label on the back of the Daycare animatronic's head panel and decided that the Daycare's lights were to stay on indefinitely. Buuuut when he wasn't acting up, he was just as silly and kooky as Sun, just with a slightly different temperament. WE DO NOT STAND BY THE "MOON IS MEAN" THEORY IN THIS HOUSE HE IS A SILLY BOY ALL OF HIS IN-GAME ART IS VERY FRIENDLY IT'S NOT HIS FAULT HE'S ACTING LIKE THIS AAAAAHHHHHH

ANYWAYS!! Thanks for reading my big wall of text if you did!! <:'-) I hope you guys enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoyed making it!

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Ooh, sounds interesting. Do it if ya got time or something.

Hey do you know what the deal is with Fairy Cookie? Her story and some relationships talk like she might be evil or something and about strawberry jam...? Is there anything else on that? Cause I'm confused XD

There is so unbelievably little information about her I honestly don’t know what to tell you. Her whole thing is just Plants and Being Nice, which is pretty expected because of how old of a character she is

For what I think personally, she COULD be evil I guess. I don’t think it would be particularly groundbreaking or interesting, and it’s hard to imagine any reason she’d have to be evil without just completely rewriting her character. Which I could do, but that’s not really what you were asking

#i think itd be fun to see what youd do with evil strawberry jam fairy #also please ignore how probably stupid i sound my head got smashed into a walland im sleep deprived #but yea do it if ya have time

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Goes on Tumblr to check a notification assuming its an ask someone answered

It ends up being an artist I adore following me back

Me: proceeds to spittake "What?!"

#i thought this was funny

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Anyone else notice that before the game came out people shipped Glamrock Freddy with Monty, but now thanks to the game Glamrock Bonnie is now Freddy's husband in the fandom's eyes? idk I just noticed that and my brain focused in. Thanks fandom for making me find something that makes me even more depressed in this game.

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Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach...This game had no fucking right to make me cry. But also, FUCK YES FOUND FAMILY BABY!

seriously, emotional roller coaster, especially near the end

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I headcanon that Walnut & Roguefort, after the shitshow with Timekeeper, a time paradox was created, leaving the original versions of the two before they got involved with her behind to continue their daily lives as the other two continued their game of cat and mouse game through time.

Is this good? idk I've probably overlooked something

Any event stories or characters ya wanna see followed up on in Ovenbreak or Kingdom? I want more of Chess Choco+Earl Grey and to see what Lobster & Mocha Ray are doing after everything at Sugarteara

I also want to see the Chess Twins and Earl Grey, as well as Lobster and Mocha Ray, but I’m pretty sure we’re already getting more of them soon. Especially with the stuff mentioned in the Cradle Of Darkness cutscenes, with the chess twins going to meet Dark Choco soon, and Lobster being told to make everyone grieve Sugarteara so the darkness can manipulate them better.

Seeing more with them would be great, but as for opportunities I think have been completely missed, Roguefort and Timekeeper. I will do a separate analysis post about them at some point, but the fact that we have gotten no word on what happened between them and then it was treated as if nothing happened at all with the Butter Painting Affair, I think Devsis completely forgot about it.

Which is SUCH A SHAME because it would’ve been soo fucking interesting. I won’t go into detail about all my thoughts now though, because I want to make a separate post about it

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Didn't agree with the whitewashing is okay sometimes part, I agree with the first part cause I'm a lore and theory nerd (also the obvious don't whitewash ethnically coded characters) and was curious what they thought about the rest (the whitewashing controversy stuff they responded too in the long post) Genuinely yea I really should've been more specific and that's my bad for putting my whole freaking foot in my mouth there.

Random question: Ya seen the cookie run video by Callimara? I'm curious since she talked about some controversies in it and I thought had some good points and you also usually have good takes on this fandom/series

I have not, I hadn’t even heard of it but I’ll watch it now and give some kind of response later

It’s an hour long so I’m just gonna play it on my phone and prop it up next to my computer while I play minecraft or some shit

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...you're joking right? Please tell me this is an awful joke. Imma sincerely hope that they're that fucking oblivious if you aren't cause if not that means they condoned that in an official video oh my god

I planned to make an essay post addressing the Mintcocoa ship wars but honestly that’s only on tiktok and I don’t want to bring that plague here. This side of the fandom is all good upstanding citizens, you don’t need to be subjected to what’s happening on fucking tiktok

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So... I don't think it was ever actually confirmed, just implied (if I'm wrong correct me please). And why demonize Cocoa when she's fuckin adorable? And let's be honest if Juice Bar Regulars was a canon ship they'd say "I can ship whatever I want" anyway so... Seriously its not hard to respect ships fuckin hell. Is that just something I can do cause I'm a multishipper or am I right to be asking this fandom to be civil? Jeez XD

Also been on tiktok, and if anyone else says Mint Choco is straight just cause of an implied relationship and tries to use that as an excuse to be an asshole about gay ships imma snap...

Y’all do NOT go on tiktok they are having fucking ship wars as if this is Homestuck or something

I’d say Walmart Behavior In The Target but honestly this is extremely expected because nobody on tiktok can be normal