Eli 🌿 18+ 🌿 She/her
Omori sideblog (main @botaniia). Stranger and Omori focused. Check pinned post for more stuff I post here. Nightshade connoisseur. Also blackthorn, nightmare orchard, sunflower, photobomb, and spacecoco 🔪🗝️ CEO of Rowan 🧩 Vice President of Stranger 👣
Art tag 🌿 AO3
Header art by zipsunz!
My name’s Eli, and this is my Omori sideblog (main @botaniia). Some more info about me and my stay in the fandom in this here pinned post.
I adore Stranger and Omori, and this blog’s gonna be a mixed bag of nightshade and other content. Other characters I love are Rowan, Spaceboy, Rococo, Basil, Omoriboy, and Sunny. I picked up the game in December of 2023 and instantly got attached, so now I have this blog to share some art, writing, and other fan creations, both my own and others’ ✨
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My tumblr's art tag can be found here. I tag characters by their first name (Omori gets the tag #omori (character)), and ships by their simplest name.
You can find me on AO3 as polaroidpetals. This is where I'll post my fics and writings.
Some of my fics thus far
🌿 Tangled in Dreams of Light and Shadow
A post-good ending verse exploring Stranger and how he deals with persisting long after he should've ceased to be. More info in this verse's masterpost.
🌿 Stray
A real-world Omori and Stranger AU following Omori's journey as the less prestigious twin in a successful family of musicians.
🌿 Petal by Petal
A post-good ending exploration of Basil's psyche as he writes letters to Sunny from his mental hospital.
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Some of my favourite ships you’ll find stuff for here:
🔪🩸 Nightshade
🔪🧩 Blackthorn
🔪🗝️☀️🌻 Nightmare Orchard
🚀🎨 Spacecoco
🌑☀️ Midnight Sun
🔪🌻 Moonflower
🧩🌻 Betagarden
☀️🌻 Sunflower
🧩💻 Betaboy
🌸💻 Flowerboy
🧩☀️ Flowerbud
🌻🎀 Photobomb ⚔️🌸
🎀🌻🏀 Summer Breeze
☀️🌻🎀🏀 Solar System
Current favs near the top of the chart, though that order changes with the phases of the moon ✨
Got bored, made an OMORI Kinsey scale. Mix of stuff known from canon, extrapolated from canon, and personal headcanons. More to the left is more attracted to the opposite sex, more to the right is more attracted to the same sex.
Some explanation for them below the cut
Headspace friends
Since Sunny gets to choose who his friends are in headspace, he often disregards what he knows about them and modifies them as needed.
The headspace friends, with Mari and Hero as an exception, were all designed to be infatuated with Omori and adore him and him alone deeply. As such, headspace Kel, Aubrey, and Basil are attracted to just Omori. However, they can stray from their protocol in some iterations.
Headspace Mari was designed to be with Hero, so she doesn't need to be attracted to anyone else. However, headspace Hero is in a unique position as both a headspace friend infatuated with Omori and intended to be with Mari, placing him smack-dab in the middle of bisexuality.
Since Omori is meant to be an idealised, socially accepted version of Sunny whom everyone adores, he was intended to be straight. However, with Sunny's struggle with his identity, Omori has very much been used to explore his attractions to the same gender, to the point where Omori himself has a male preference.
Lastly, Stranger should be exclusively homosexual as he is also a Basil and therefore subjected to being attracted to all things Sunny, but as he has more free will and he comes with the parts of Basil that Sunny has suppressed, a slight bit of bisexuality shines through that may rear its head once in a blue moon. Functionally gay.
Real world friends
Sunny, at the very least, has a viscerally negative association with the idea of being romantically involved with Aubrey. This can be interpreted as either not being attracted to just Aubrey, or not being attracted to women at all. But as every detail in a story has its function, and knowing Omocat's a bit of a fujo, the detail of his aversion to romance with Aubrey was most likely added to the game as an indicator that he's gay. He may never find the words to express this or define himself as gay, though, and go by vibes and feelings alone.
I like bisexual Basil because he deserves smooches from everyone. Slight male leaning, but not intensely.
Likewise with Aubrey, though she's a little more in the centre. Though she hasn't shown attraction or kinship that can be interpreted as romantic to any men in canon, I still like her as bisexual.
At this point in his life, Kel can best be described as a mostly straight but bicurious guy. However, as his life goes on and he gains more experience, he may migrate more towards the right as he strays from that image where the jock has a girlfriend.
Hero hasn't thought about love or sexuality since he was 15. In reality, he's probably slightly more centred, but after Mari, the very idea of starting a relationship with anyone makes him nervous.
Mari is a very simple case: she figured stuff out pretty early, but by the time she did, she already had caught herself a future husband and didn't date around. Slight male leaning.
Beta buddies
Rowan might be the most exclusively homosexual character on the chart. He owns his spot on there, and he's gonna either proudly and arrogantly embrace it or staunchly deny it without modifying any behaviour.
As for Omoriboy, while he will eventually come out on the exclusively gay side of the scale, he currently is dealing with a hefty dose of comphet.
(I don't know where to place Flower at all, hence why he's not on this chart. Every attempt to place him has made me go "but what about x?" Obviously likes Omoriboy, but also doesn't strike me as exclusively gay. Might be asexual?)
Sweetheart & co
Sweetheart is probably a centre bisexual because she has dated men and had no issue with the idea of dating women, albeit her own clones. However, since she has only ever volunteered relationships with men, I like the idea she has a sliiight preference towards male. She might just be so self-centred that she'll date anyone who inflates her ego.
I've put Spaceboy down as a balanced bisexual due to his infatuation with Sweetheart that just makes the idea of him seeking comfort with a man so much tastier. He doesn't really care about the gender of his partner per se, but Sweetheart scarred him, making him date more towards the male side.
And finally, Rococo I see as someone who thought he was bisexual but who's slowly concluding he's gay. Sweetheart was all he had, and he did genuinely love her, but maybe it was all due to his codependence. The grass seems greener on the other side.
