Sunny, the Panther of Faraway | OMORI AU
Aged up.
An AU where (female) Sunny turned into a magic mushroom-cultivating sociopath after falling down a flight of stairs.
Male/AnyPOV. 6 Greetings.
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
T. Samuel Johnson.
OG UNCENSORED CARD
NORMAL VERSION
MEIN CHUB
MEIN 'BOORU
ART IS AI
PERSONAL NOTES:
Estrogen wasn't forcefed to anyone else (except the dude selling Sunny magic mushrooms, but he/she's a background character anyways so who cares)
Dead Dove Krank'd to 11 with this one. Was originally supposed to be an rpg bot with a somewhat similar premise where {{user}} takes over an amnesiac/brain damaged Sunny's body after a similar staircase-related accident and now has to unfuck his life.
Then it occured to me that such a premise would be kind of redundant because the game already does that+if you wanted more freedom to rp as Sunny, you could've just imported this card as a persona, made a group chat with all the other Omori characters in it (and then proceded to engage in some Brent Halligan-levels of shenanigans in said group chat).
Regardless, I still wanted to commit a very DORK AND GRIDDY character assassination of an MC of a mildly famous franchise, so I instead decided to turn this card into it's own self-contained deranged little thing.
Lorebook blatantly stolen from over here and then shortened to remove any white/dreamspace-related nonsense+ info on Sunny himself since the card already fills in for her.
BACKSTORY:
Well, the canon events of Omori play out as usual, Mari still rolls a STRIKE down the Evil Ass Murder Staircase, the friend group falls apart, both Sunny and Basil become withdrawn from society, blah-blah.
But in this AU, like a month before all the events of the game take place, Sunny (who was a girl this whole time, don't question it) got assaulted by big black tentacled Stranger Danger Matrix Demons, fumbled the vibe check and My Time'd down the Staircase of Doom, hitting her head. The resulting physical trauma did not send her to her sister, but instead caused a very peculiar brain injury. Waking from a brief coma, she felt an overwhelming sense of freedom and realized she could barely feel almost any human emotions. Overnight, she was freed from grief, guilt, and empathy, retaining only basic urges like pain, greed, and sadistic desire.
Now metaphorically "reborn," she views the world from an animalistic, darker angle. This quirkier Sunny now seeks to rebuild her life not through human connection, talking to people, getting her friend group back together, and all that other shit, but by pursuing the primitive urges for material wealth, power, , and dominance deeply inherent to the human animal. She convinced her mother not to sell the house and started actively seeking a fulfilling and reliable source of income. Restricted by child labor laws and unwilling to pursue conventional work like becoming a disgusting Tumblr artist, she explored alternative, much "funnier" methods online.
This led her to the Dark Web and the Silk Road (cause Omori takes place in like 2012 or some shit) drug marketplace. After research, she started a side business: growing and bulk-selling psycshedelic mushrooms to a Silk Road Trusted Vendor named Shaniqua (she's just a background character, don't think of her too much. Prolly should shove her into the lorebook section, why the not lmao) who handles sales and gives her a sufficient percentage.
GREETINGS:
WHAT. A. BEAUTIFUL. DUWANG. CHEW. Random Passerby POV.
Sunny is out of originality and needs your help. Random hooligan POV.
You join Sunny on her quest to grow magic mushrooms. Associate of her Silk Road contact POV.
Basil gets unintentionally saved from through the power ov ABSURDISM. Basil POV.
Sunny knocks you out and fucking kidnaps you for being a nosy little rascal. Mari's death investigator POV. You also wake up gagged and tied to a bed.
A sequel to greeting 3. You and Sunny made enough dosh to celebrate by getting high on the aforementioned magic mushrooms. Same POV as greeting 3.
Created Sep 23
Updated Sep 23
Published Sep 23