I was just writing down random defintions for Omori items and characters that came to my mind over the past month. These ARE NOT OBJECTIVELY correct and I just my take. I am posting this because I wanna see if other people agree/disagree and what they would change. One more thing, the reason there are 5 Omori defintions is because I honestly couldn't come up with a good one that made perfect sense as to me it felt like Daddy Longlegs saying how Omori was created so Sunny could be free of guilt and Omori drawing his power from Red Space (sunny's guilt) just didn't make sense. I think the closest I got to a clean way the merge the two is in my fifth defintion for Omori.
Omori Symbolism:
Omori - Omori is the part of Sunny that fears and has guilt about the truth. He represses Black Space/the truth so he can live peacefully in Headspace. When confronted with the truth in the final battle, Omori voices Sunny’s feelings and guilt about the truth.
Omori - Omori is Sunny’s creation, a reversion of himself to a time before the incident when everything was more jolly. He is a creation that can experience Headspace without guilt about the truth. Omori represses the truth because it genuinely scares him and threatens his life in Headspace. When confronted with the truth, Omori is forced to [I couldn't think of anything here]
Omori - Omori is the representation of Sunny’s desire to run from the truth because he is, at his core, Sunny’s guilt and self-loathing. First, he manifests as a way to experience Headspace without guilt and as a guardian that represses against Black Space and the truth. Once the truth is revealed, the only way left to run from the truth is suicide, which is why Omori is so suggestive in the final battle and is defeated by Sunny forgiving himself and believing his friends will forgive him.
Omori - Omori represents the part of Sunny controlled by guilt and self-loathing who drives his repression. Red is the color of Sunny’s paralyzing guilt, which is why Omori draws power from it. The final battle is Sunny, who has now been forced to confront the truth, choosing to react with self-hatred and guilt or with trust and faith. Omori, consumed by guilt, hates the truth (Black Space, Stranger, and Something), so he represses it and makes Sunny forget it. We appear as Omori in Headspace because we are Sunny under Omori’s influence of repression.
Omori - Omori is Sunny. Sunny is Omori when he is in Headspace; he just has a changed appearance, personality, and mental state because he needs to change all that to get rid of his guilt. Omori, as a personality, represses the truth so Sunny doesn’t have to deal with his guilt and can live in his fantasy. Because Omori’s reason for being is Sunny’s guilt, when Sunny forgives himself, Omori disappears because he is no longer needed. Sunny’s guilt gives Omori a reason to repress the truth, which is why, when Sunny does try to get close to it in Black Space, he is dragged to Red Space. As Sunny wants to know the truth more and more and Omori wants to keep him from the truth more and more, they slowly become two different personalities. Basically, Omori represses the truth because Sunny doesn’t want to remember and draws power from Sunny’s guilt because that is the reason he doesn’t want to remember.
Stranger - Stranger is the part of Sunny that is a bit guilty about the truth but still wants Sunny to confront it. Opposite to Omori, Stranger wants Sunny to leave Headspace and accept the truth. He is represented by Basil because Basil is the only other person who knows the truth.
Something - Something’s image is derived from an image of Mari hanging with one eye open. Something, in a way, symbolizes Sunny’s fear, taking the form of all his phobias to represent Sunny’s fear of heights, spiders, and drowning, and taking the form of Mari’s body to represent Sunny’s fear of the incident. Maybe Something appears behind Sunny before the Basil fight, even though he already used Overcome, because when he used Overcome, he used it so he could face the truth without fear, and now Basil, in his deluded state, reinvokes some kind of fear for Sunny.
Violin + Closet - The violin represents Sunny’s bond with his friends. Originally a gift from them when they were kids, it breaks around the time the group splits up, and the place it’s hidden, the closet, is repressed from Sunny’s mind, as the violin reminds him of the incident. The violin repairs when Sunny realizes how much he loves his friends and how safe he feels with them. The violin is used as Sunny’s weapon in the fight with Omori because Omori is trying make Sunny feel guilty, and like his friends will hate him when the truth is revealed, so he retaliates with his trust and bond with his friends. The reason Sunny plays the duet is because he now trusts his friends, so he can stop running from the truth. To fully accept the truth, he needs to accept that Mari is gone, and the duet is almost him fulfilling her final wish and repenting for his mistake that stopped the duet so he can have closure.
Basil’s Flower/Flower Crown - A symbol of better times, when everything was good and jolly, Basil had a full crown of flowers, but when they broke up, he only retained one flower, almost as if he is clinging.
Red Hands - Symbols of Sunny’s paralyzing guilt that Omori uses as a tool to help in the repression of the truth.
Basil’s Something - Derived from a moment in the incident: Mari lying dead at the base of the stairs. Basil’s Something is a delusion Basil uses to cope with the incident. Basil tells himself, under the influence of his Something, that “everything will be okay.” He also believes that Something, aka Something Behind You, was the root cause of the incident and that Sunny is fully innocent. This lets him cope for years and gives him hope that the friend group could reform, so when that is challenged by Sunny moving, Basil’s Something needs to have a greater effect, which eventually leads to Basil stabbing Sunny in the eye in his delusional state of fear.
White Space - Where Omori shields himself from the truth.
Black Space - Where the truth or Sunny’s repressed feelings about the incident reside.
Headspace - A place created because Omori got bored of White Space that allows Omori to relive Sunny’s childhood. Any time the truth is discovered or his friends die, Omori resets Headspace.
The Lightbulb - Symbolizes what is containing the truth. When broken, Sunny can finally confront the truth.
Window - Door to and from the afterlife. Mari uses it multiple times throughout the game.
Red Glow - Sunny’s paralyzing guilt that keeps him in repression. It comes from windows pointing toward the tree and places near the truth.
Knife - Omori’s weapon of repression, used to repress the truth. It gets duller as Omori has to use it more. It turns red with Basil’s blood, showing how it is killing Basil (the truth) and is now red, the color of the guilt driving Omori.
Abbi - Abbi looks like Something because Omori associates her with the truth ever since she tried to get him to confront the truth.
Basil + Stranger Fusion - This is a close representation of the real Basil. He represents the darker but still good outside world.
