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| “ | You'll forgive yourself... Won't you... Sunny? | „ |
| ~ Mari's ghost wanting Sunny to forgive himself for what he did to her. |
Mari is the overarching protagonist of the 2020 psychological horror game OMORI.
She was the older sister of Sunny who, during an argument that the two were having, ends up accidentally being killed after Sunny pushes her down the stairs. Leading him and Basil to dragging her body into the back yard and hanging her in order to make her death look like a suicide. With this ultimately being the main catalyst to the rest of the game's events.
Her Good Ranking[]
What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Good?[]
- As seen in flashbacks throughout the game, Mari was a very supportive and kind figure to everyone around her, always trying her best to uplift others and showing them support. This is especially true for Sunny, who she is shown to be a loving older sibling figure for, always caring about him and trying to make him happy.
- When she, Hero, Sunny, and Kel find Aubrey crying on the side of the road after losing her shoe, they all quickly run to support her, trying to calm her down before allowing her to join their friend group. This would also lead to Basil joining the friend group not too long after as it was Aubrey who introduced him to everybody.
- When Sunny got scared of a spider and wound up falling into the lake at the Hangout Spot, Mari quickly moved to rescue him, saving him from drowning before then insisting that they don't go there anymore due to the threat that it poses to her little brother.
- Her gravestone states that "the sun shined brighter when she was here", implying that she was a beloved figure to the entirety of Faraway Town.
- While she does teasingly flirt with Hero on occasion as well as pulling pranks on him, this is all in good fun and she clearly doesn't mean anything bad by it beyond some friendly bickering.
- While she does allow Kel and Aubrey to banter amongst themselves at the beach, this is only because she wants everyone to be able to relax and have fun at said beach.
- Even after being killed by Sunny and having her death staged as a suicide by him and Basil, her ghost seems to show that she never held anything against them for this and wanted them to be able to forgive themselves.
- Following her death, Mari would seemingly become a ghost living inside Sunny's head where she continues to be supportive towards him. When Sunny begins repressing his memories and is at threat of taking his own life, Mari begins to directly communicate with him, trying to encourage him to remember and forgive himself for his actions, with this playing a big part in Sunny's character growth in the good ending.
- When Sunny finds her ghost playing the piano late at night. Mari expresses remorse for pushing him too hard and leading him to accidentally pushing her down the stares out of sheer anguish before offering to let him play the piano with her.
- At the end of the game's good ending, she speaks to Sunny right before he goes to face Omori, offering him support and congratulating him for how far he has come.
- During Sunny's fight against Omori, Sunny uses Mari's want for him to forgive himself to help him in his confrontation.
- At the end of the game, Mari finally does the recital with Sunny, allowing him to truly come to terms with his trauma and forgive himself, with the ending shot of her body lying peacefully in a bed of flowers implying that she was able to move on after this, finally accomplishing her goal of stopping him from going down a dark path and helping him build up the courage to tell his friends the truth of what happened to her.
- Overall, it was thanks to the support that Mari showed Sunny within his Headspace that he would be able to forgive himself in the good ending, remember what he had done, stop Basil from ending his own life, and ultimately helping him build the courage to confess the truth to his friends.
- While characters such as Kel also help Sunny recover from his bad state mentally, Mari manages to stand out due to the more direct role she plays in Sunny's healing process due to directly going into his dreams and helping him remember the tragedy he had forgotten before ultimately forgiving himself, with Kel not having awareness of this until the end of the game's good ending, which even then is implied at best as it's unknown what happens following Sunny's confession or how he reacts to the news.
What Prevents Her From Being Pure Good?[]
- The exact nature of Mari's ghost in Sunny's Headspace is not made very clear. As while there are heavy implications that it is the real Mari speaking to him, it's not outright confirmed if she is real or if she is just a manifestation of Sunny's own mind wanting him to forgive himself, and while it's true that characters such as Hero acknowledge her ghostly presence in the game, it's possible that he only heard her music coming from the piano room of Sunny's house because he too was suffering from similar guilt that Sunny was. Meaning that she relies on Fridge Logic to pass the standards, with the only confirmed acts that she has being shared with other more heroic characters such as Kel, Hero, and even Sunny himself, and her act of saving Sunny from drowning at the Hangout Spot being outshined by Hero himself, who did something similar and managed to save both Sunny and Basil from dying. That said, there are still enough implications to say that the ghost we see in the game is the real Mari, meaning it is not too ambiguous for it to be a serious preventing trait.
- She was implied to have been a perfectionist who constantly pushed Sunny to practice his violin despite it being too much for him to handle, with this being the reason for him throwing his violin down the stairs and then accidentally killing her afterwards when she began reprimanding him. While it's true that her ghost apologizes for doing this, due to the ambiguous nature of her ghost being the real deal or not, it is unknown if she truly subverted this quality or not. However, it clearly wasn't her intention to push Sunny to that point and she couldn't possibly have known of the mental turmoil that this put everyone in the main cast through afterwards, and she is generally shown to be a kindhearted, supportive figure outside of that, meaning this isn't too big of a prevention.
Trivia[]
- A Manga Adaptation of OMORI is currently set to release in Spring of 2024. It is unknown if Mari will end up being Near Pure Good in that version.
External Links[]
- Mari on the Heroes Wiki
- Mari on the OMORI Wiki
- Mari on the Love Exalted Wiki