Madotsuki VS Omori is a What If? Death Battle and the COMPLETED 11th battle by NEWChristianthepupbot
Disclaimer[]
TRIGGER WARNING: The combatant's bio and the fight will go into disturbing topics like MENTAL HEALTH, ILLNESS and SUICIDE. These are two very dark characters. You have been warned.
Spoiler Warning: This page will also discuss spoilers for a very old game and a fairly recent game as of December 2021. Luckily, I'll be marking when spoilers start, so no worries, though they will be unavoidable if you want to experience the whole thing. Even the fight spoils things. If you plan to play Yume Nikki or Omori and care about being surprised, I suggest you wait to read this battle. If not, enjoy the show.
Description[]
Yume Nikki VS Omori. Today, two for RPGMaker's most tragic mentally ill shut ins will fight to the death and...wow, when you put it like that, it sounds way less cool. Will Madotsuki kill someone just like her or will Omori...kill...someone just like him. Jesus Christ.
Intro[]
Wiz: The dream world, a place for the mind to relax as we sleep. But sometimes, dreams can be harmful to oneself. Today, let's see what happens when hikikomoris clash.
Boomstick: Wiz, are you sure we should be doing this?
Wiz: No. Madotsuki, the mentally ill shut-in child.
Boomstick: And Omori, the mentally ill shut-in child. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their dreams, trauma, and themes to find out who would win A DEATH BATTLE.
Madotsuki[]
Madotsuki Explores DEATH BATTLE!
(Music: Working...please wait…)
Wiz: In Japan, a hikikomori is described as someone who withdraws from social interaction in favour of being with themselves for the vast majority of their time. That describes Yume Nikki's protagonist Madotsuki to a T.
Boomstick: Her schedule goes something like this: Sleep, write stuff down, play a Famicom game, repeat.
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BACKGROUND:
- Age: Unknown. Implied to be a child or teen.
- Height: Unknown. 4’9’’ (150cm) going by averages.
- Weight: Unknown.
- Nationality: Implied to be Japanese, possibly Peruvian.
- Refuses to leave her room.
- Spends her time sleeping and playing her Famicom.
- Has a diary for her dreams.
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Boomstick: My kind of life, honestly. But when it comes to her past, there isn’t much to talk about. She’s a pretty mysterious girl who's spent all of her time cooped up in her small room, alone. We don't know her parents, her birthday, what she likes...she just comes off as unhappy.
Wiz: The only thing that we know for certain about Madotsuki is that she isn’t healthy. She's clearly mentally unwell, given her isolationism, joyless mannerisms and her absolutely strange dreams. One of her key traits is how she absolutely refuses to leave her room. Some may say she has nowhere to go, others say she's simply afraid of the outside world. To figure it all out, we have to dive deep into Madotsuki’s favourite (or possibly least favourite) location; The Dream World.
Boomstick: Madotsuki spends her days and nights asleep writing down whatever she can remember from her dreams into a diary. A dream diary, or as it's called in Japan: a yume nikki...Wait, so does that mean the remake is titled Dream Diary: Dream Diary?
Wiz: So, let’s play Madotsuki’s game and enter this strange place she calls home.
Boomstick: So what are her dream li-OH MY GOD! WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS THAT!?
(Music: Floating Tile World REMIX)
Wiz:...A-Agreed. This land is a...bizarre place to say the least. Some of the locations can’t even really be called locations. While some do seem based on places in the real world, some are practically indescribable. With sites ranging from tribal symbolism to hells to...cubes?
Boomstick: Wiz, I cracked the case. She’s scared of her geometry homework. CAN WE LEAVE NOW?
Wiz: Not until we talk about her effects.
Boomstick: GODDAMNIT! Okay, so, this isn’t really an alternate horror dimension, this is Madotsuki’s mind. As such, she does have control over some things. Like herself. See, the girl likes to start in this weird set of doors called The Nexus, where she explores weird worlds. Madotsuki likes to look for these things in her dreams called effects. They’re like transformations she can use to aid her in her journey. I’ll show you.
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EFFECTS:
- Knife.
- Bicycle.
- Witch.
- Demon.
- Yuki-onna.
- Lamp.
- Cat.
- Spirit Headband.
- Stoplight.
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Boomstick: An example is when she went to the Neon World and found a Neon Parrot. This gave her the power to turn A E S T H E T I C (1:47). Yeah, some effects are just for looks. Like the blonde wig, or the long wig, or the poop wig...wait what?
Wiz: But these aren’t just some useless dress-up tools. Some have much more practical uses. The bicycle (3:13) is a very fast way for Madotsuki to get around these complex landscapes. She can even levitate with a Witch’s broom (4:00). In case you’re wondering if this benefits her offensively, it doesn’t...But you know what does?
Boomstick: Maddy can show her violent side with the knife effect (7:10) On the surface, it just seems like your run-of-the-mill Michael Myers kitchen knife. But if you’ve ever tried to pet a goose, you’d know looks are deceiving. See, this knife stabs things OUT OF EXISTENCE! If she jams it into you, you will fade from reality while screaming for your life! Wiz, I found the scariest thing in the game; it’s her.
Wiz: Oh, just you wait. As for the rest of the object effects, Madotsuki carries a towel and a hat, which can protect her from the cold uncaringness of the world.
Boomstick: Are you okay?
Wiz: And she has a flute (1:38)…which can be used as a flute...It plays nice tunes.
Boomstick: Okay...but what about the opposite end, Madotsuki changing herself. Well, she can certainly do that. Watch. BOOM, she’s a frog now. (0:21)
Wiz: If you want better transformations, the Spirit Headband (3:47) is capable of turning her invisible. Buyo Buyo (4:17) can make her body extremely squishy or she can turn into a snowman with the hat I mentioned earlier.
Boomstick: She also interacted with the weird hands that come out of the ground called the Medamaude. This turns her head into a giant hand (0:12) which she can close to teleport back to The Nexus. The Stoplight (5:38) allows her to turn her face into a traffic light for the most literal red light-green light game...As in, she can stop time with it. Because of course she can. And the cat (2:28) transformation turns her into a cute kitty. When she meows, even the eldritch horrors wanna come closer to pet her.
Wiz: And no, that's not Boomstick calling it cute, that's an actual ability it has. The Midget (1:19)...can we use that word?...Look, it’s what it’s called, if you’re offended, I’m very sorry. The Midget transformation turns her very small and gives her the ability to clone herself. On the other end...the Fat effect (1:12) makes her become...fat...Why did I get the ones that didn’t age well?
Boomstick: Going back on lights, she can turn her head into a lantern (2:40) as well...and...I’m starting to think most of these aren’t made for combat. Like, maybe she could blind people, but still.
Wiz: Well, if we want to discuss true power, there are the storm effects.
Boomstick: Oh, right. This is where shit gets useful. The umbrella (0:33) effect allows her to float a bit. But it can also summon a rainstorm, and combine with the Demon (0:51) effect to summon a thunderstorm with some lightning flashes. The Yuki-onna (0:58) effect can do the same but it’s a snowstorm.
Wiz: To create a storm, any storm, you’d need to match the total energy of at least 2 Megatons of TNT. But considering that the storms themselves can extend across the dream world, it’s likely much higher.
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FEATS
- Creates Storms.
- Ends things' existence with her knife.
- Survived a spaceship crashing.
- Could live as a severed head.
- Collected all of the effects.
- Technically created her dream world.
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Boomstick: When it comes to speed, Madotsuki isn’t slow. This Lief creature was able to move before the stoplight could affect it. If the stoplight’s power comes from actual light, that means the leaf thing is twice the speed of light. Dream Madotsuki should scale because...well...she created the damn thing.
Wiz: Madotsuki’s power is vague. Physically, the most impressive feat she has is surviving a spaceship crashing (2:24) but how durable this makes her is still very debatable. Perhaps we could extend her power to the fact that this is all her dream. The Dream World is shown to have planets and stars, being an entire universe that she can create and end via waking up and sleeping.
Boomstick: Hey Wiz, does that mean your science lectures make me universal?
Wiz: Okay, so obviously Madotsuki herself couldn’t just fight Goku and stand a chance. However, within the context of her dreams, she is the know-all end-all center of the universe.
Boomstick: I mean, it’s not like anything can really hurt her. The only major threat are these bird ladies who put you on a dock forever. Hell, she can even separate her head from her body (2:05). But a quick note that Madotsuki's effects only work on a one-at-a-time basis and that’s...it for Madotsuki. Yeah, that’s all we could cover.
Wiz: And what did we learn?
Boomstick: NOTHING!
Wiz: We have some time left, so let’s spend the rest of this analysis exploring the Dream World locations and figuring it all out. Starting with locations that might seem familiar to our real world, Madotsuki likes to imagine various forms of forests. From fairly basic spooky woods to gardens in the sky. Interestingly, in one of them, there seems to be a traffic accident.
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LOCATIONS OF NOTE:
- The Nexus.
- The Wilderness.
- Spaceship.
- The Forests.
- The White Desert.
- The Pink Sea.
- The Red Maze.
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Boomstick: And that’s the most normal thing in her dreams. Her mind is abstract as hell. From the checkered path to a block world. There’s even a spaceship that belongs to a piano player in there. And he can take you to Mars. Yes, Mars is a thing she can go to. Glad to see a little girl beat out Elon Musk. That's what he gets for ruining Heihachi VS Geese, Wario and the human race eventually.
Wiz: One thing I didn’t expect to see in this assumed Japanese child’s dreams is Mesoamerican imagery. A lot of this game's background art takes inspiration from Paracas culture, the natives of Peru. This is also shared by the Japanese imagery in the very same dreams, so Madotsuki could be a Japanese immigrant in Peru, a Peruvian immigrant in Japan, or share ancestry with the cultures.
Boomstick: Maybe there’s a cultural explanation for Hell, or the Red Maze. This fucking creepy red place with the worst sound you've heard in your life. It’s almost as creepy as Big Red, the giant snake thing that eats her! Maybe the creepiest thing in this game is the Stairway of Hands, or The White Desert of vast creepiness, or the vast wasteland featuring slums and the NES dimension.
Wiz: What’s creepy or scary is subjective, but we do know what’s most iconic.
Boomstick:...Do we have to talk about it now?...Ok, so, this is the Pink Sea. Looks fun, right. Looks like a cool party. And look at this girl, Poniko. She seems friendly. Look, Madotsuki finally gets a friend! (Awkwardly) Hehe...heh...Okay, so, then you flick the lights and…
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(7:35)
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Wiz: Uboa, the most famous element of Madotsuki’s dream. A black and white spirit that can send her to a dimension of evil. And we’ve barely scratched the surface of all of the things you can find in this mysterious and bizarre world. But exploring it isn’t nearly as hard as figuring out what it all means.
(Boomstick:...Okay, so, we originally had some stuff here about Yume Nikki theories, but that involved themes of sexual assault, racism and gender identity and it...really didn’t belong in a Death Battle analysis, so we cut it...But just to let you know, there are implied details of that kind of stuff in the game) .
Wiz: It seems the nature of Madotsuki and Yume Nikki are just naturally left up to any's interpretation. It’s no wonder it’s inspired so many fan games that it’s practically a genre. It's even inspired some games you may have heard about like Doki Doki Literature Club, Lisa and Omori...Wait a minute-
Boomstick: -Well, we talked about the text, the sub-text and the impact. Now all we need is...the ending…
(Spoilers, 2:47)
Wiz: Madotsuki ends her journey after collecting all of her effects and leaving them in the Nexus...where she wakes up for the last time. After walking towards the apartment balcony, she jumps off of it, falling down the building to her death. The reason is unknown. Maybe it was to dream forever. Maybe it was to escape her dreams. Maybe it was all just too much.
Boomstick: But even this is questionable. Some believe that she did just die, but others believe this was just another layer of the dream. Like, for example, what are the weird jellyfish doing out there?
Wiz: Some even believe the remaster, Dream Diary, is a sequel as it opened with a girl falling onto Madotsuki from the top of a building. This said game even ends with Madotsuki waking up and finally exiting her room after so long.
Boomstick: Aww, that's happy...But if it's just a remaster and nothing else...oh god the first game is sad...No matter if she died or not, Madotsuki is certainly a dark character and one of the biggest mysteries which we can never solve. Whether she conquered her fears or submitted to them, much like everything, is up to you.
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Madotsuki leaves her room.
-Madotsuki (1:04)
Omori[]
Omori Will Not Succumb in DEATH BATTLE!
Boomstick: Headspace, a vast and diverse world filled with more outlandish creatures than you could shake a knife at. Talking whales, capitalist sharks, space captains, living planets, killer food, bunnies that want to look cute while fighting you. You name it, you’ll probably find something like it in this weird place.
Wiz: So it’s shocking that, of the absolute wonder and strangeness of this world, only one person stands out as odd. All the colour is drained from him, his face is blank and he barely speaks. He even lives in an empty void called White Space, with only a computer and a cat to keep him company. This is Omori.
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BACKGROUND:
- Name: Omori.
- Age: 12...technically.
- Lives in a void.
- Rarely speaks.
- First appeared as a horny teenage loser, but that got scrapped.
- Likes: Cats, doodling, spending time with his friends.
- Dislikes: Some things.
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Wiz: Despite his black and white appearance, Omori isn’t a stranger to enjoying the happy things in life. Often, he goes out with his friends as they traverse the wonderful world of Headspace, meeting whoever they may come across in their quest to have fun. The mature cook Hero, his chaotic brother Kel, and the cheerful but hotheaded Aubrey.
Boomstick: But among his two favourite people are his older sister Mari. She’s a sweet and kind picnic lover who’s always there to support him with food and siblingly love. From my experience, siblingly love is just pushing and arguing, so it’s nice to see someone have a good connection with his sister.
Wiz: And there’s also his best friend, the photographer and gardener Basil. Despite being a meek boy, he’s always there for the friend group, loving to light up people with the bright side of things and wanting the best for everyone...so, it was incredibly traumatic when Basil saw an out-of-place photograph and suddenly disappeared. And in his place...SOMETHING.
Boomstick: WHAT THE ABSOLUTE HELL IS THIS THING!? It looks like a Pacman ghost in an after picture about drugs.
Wiz: That was Something, which is its literal name. An entity of many forms which has haunted Omori for a long while...Though, Omori isn’t Omori during those hauntings. He’s actually a boy named Sunny.
(Spoilers for up to TWO DAYS LEFT).
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ACTUAL BACKGROUND:
- Real Name: Sunny.
- Age: 16.
- Stays in his house for most of his time.
- Dreamed up Headspace and loves to visit there.
- Likes: Steak, cats, spending time with his dream friends.
- Dislikes: Heights, Spiders, Water, Violins, Himself.
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Boomstick: So that stuff about Omori and his friends going on adventures in Headspace...isn’t exactly true. Headspace exists in the mind of this kid. Sunny used to be your average quiet kid, hanging out with the friends you heard of earlier, only they were actually real. But that was years ago. Now the friend group is disbanded and Sunny spends his days locking himself in his house.
Wiz: His new life of isolation was thanks to one critical event. Four years ago, that caring and sweet older sister Mari was found hung on a tree branch, dead. This traumatized everyone in Sunny’s life, but undoubtedly hit him the hardest, especially due to it being just before their grand recital where they were supposed to perform together.
Boomstick: That's pretty heavy. So, Sunny's days now consist of locking himself in his house and going to fantasy land where nothing bad ever happens. Except for the enemies he creates just to put in his own way. So, upon becoming Omori, the boy gains the skills needed to fight them off.
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ABILITIES:
- Knife Skills (Stab, Hack Away and Final Strike).
- Emotional Manipulation (Sad Poem and Painful Truth).
- Straight Up Bullying (Shun, Mock and Exploit).
- Resilience (Not Succumbing).
- Release Energy.
- Terror (Red Hands, Vertigo, Cripple, Suffocate, Erase).
- Pepper Spray (As Sunny).
- Violin Abilities (As Sunny).
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Wiz: Omori wields a kitchen knife. While that may seem simple, it’s incredibly effective against those he’s fighting. Moves like Hack Away (1:06) can slash at foes multiple times, while Stab (0:44) comes in handy for precise and deadly blows. Final Strike is the most powerful of these types of moves, dealing damage to everyone and increasing said damage depending on how emotional Omori is.
Boomstick: Oh, right, we should probably talk about that. Emotion is a powerful force in Headspace. Happiness makes you lucky and faster while Anger makes you stronger. Omori, much like my ex, is a master of Sadness. He can make others, as well as himself, sad; which increases defence but makes you much slower. He does this with attacks like Sad Poem (0:21) or Painful Truth (1:38) in which he...reads to you...I’d call out the logic of just stopping a fight to read, but it’s his dream. He can have this one.
Wiz: When Omori is sad, his stabbing abilities can ignore defence altogether. Against angry foes, he can use Mock (0:56) to weaken them. He can do the same to sad foes with Shun (1:50). He can even do damage to all emotions with Exploit (2:13).
Boomstick: These aren’t attacks, these are bullying techniques! What kind of kid is this?
Wiz: Well, Omori was created by Sunny when he was in a very poor state of mind. Luckily, Omori’s friends do have his back in many situations so he can stay pleased. Based on the real friends of Sunny, The aforementioned Kel uses a ball to attack as quickly as he can (5:47). Aubrey is the powerhouse of the party who fights with any bat-like weapon she can find (5:04). Hero isn’t much when it comes to combat, but is an excellent healer when it comes to food (8:46).
Boomstick: With their powers combined, they can RELEASE ENERGY TO BREAK THE RULES OF THE GENRE AND ATTACK EVERYONE ALL AT ONCE (0:10). That’s a crime in take-turn RPGs, right?
Wiz: Breaking the rules of his own world is something Omori does quite well. Even on the verge of death, Omori has the power of not succumbing (2:12). After taking a blow that should kill him, Omori can push himself to keep living, even with only 1 HP.
Boomstick: Now don’t get us wrong, Omori can still technically die, but...like...it's a dream. He won't stay dead for long (0:19), that’s how it works. It’s how he can do shit like kill a humpback whale...Oh right, feats.
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FEATS:
- Defeated Humphrey the Whale.
- Defeated the planet Pluto (don’t ask).
- Defeated the Earth itself (dream logic, don’t worry about it).
- Defeated a gang of delinquents (as Sunny).
- Created Headspace in its entirety.
- Defeated his Alter Ego.
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Boomstick: Right off the bat (hehe) Aubrey from earlier managed to completely destroy this giant cube of metal when they were pretty low-levelled. Following this calc, that’s almost good Ton and a Half of TNT (1.4 to be exact).
Wiz: With their power increased later on their journey, it was no wonder they were able to fight and keep up with Pluto, the strongest…(ugh)...“planet.”
Boomstick: If this hunk of meat wants to be called a planet, I’m calling him a planet.
Wiz: Incorrect labelling aside, this living “planet” is capable of flying through outer space, much like Captain Spaceboy, a space traveler in a broken relationship. This could possibly mean Omori and his friends can keep up with people that can move and react in lightspeed contexts.
Boomstick: Plus this all means that Headspace is a universe (see 2:63, Pluto's entry) that Omori and Dreaming Sunny control. Again, this doesn’t mean he could fight an actual universal character, but it’s still something to consider. Hell, even the real Sunny could put up some fists. He’s managed to team with real Kel in fights with delinquents...though, they were teenagers and were really just a bunch of dorks pretending to be tough...Except for real-world Aubrey. Yeah, Mari’s death kinda turned her into a punk that attacks the boys with A NAIL BAT (4:03)! And they survived!
Wiz: He could even defeat all the hooligans at once with pepper spray (0:24, Kel does it in the video but Sunny can do it too). It seems no matter what he calls himself, Omori and Sunny can stand up to both the whimsical and traumatic enemies they create.
Boomstick: Traumatic? Wiz, most of these are bunnies and terrible girlfriends and...oh...we’re talking about this now. Welp, brace yourselves, folks. Here’s the true story of how Omori began and ended.
(Spoilers for the end of the game, mainly the Going Outside route).
Boomstick: So, remember how we said Sunny’s sister hung from a tree?...It wasn’t suicide.
Wiz: Mari was a piano player and Sunny had recently got a violin to join her...But the pressure to be perfect was incredibly draining. With Mari pushing him to surpass his limits as a player, Sunny resented the violin. So much so that he threw the instrument down the stairs, breaking it.
Boomstick: And then Mari came over to scold Sunny for doing that...And Sunny was so angry, he pushed his own sister down the stairs. Before you call him a monster, Sunny was driven by the heat of the moment and didn’t have time to consider where the hell they were arguing. However, once she hit the last step...it was over for her.
Wiz: He immediately regretted his action and came down to help her, but was too late. His best friend Basil was there that night. And through the sheer stress and fear for what could happen to Sunny, talked his friend into faking the suicide of Mari. And if you call them monsters for doing that...They would agree.
Boomstick: Sunny was so haunted by the actions of that night that it stuck with him for the rest of his life. To the point where that Something from earlier was actually Mari’s dead eyeball gazing at Sunny! There was only one place he could actually hide: his dreams. There was nothing to fear there...Nothing but himself. So, to look in the mirror and feel comfortable, Sunny created a better version of himself: Omori.
Wiz: However, Headspace is a universe built on top of pain and guilt. The cheerful, charming world is only the surface. Buried down is Black Space, the location of all the trauma and fear Sunny couldn’t face. Even with an entire power fantasy on top, the darkness kept seeping into his perfect world. Omori had to constantly reset the entirety of Headspace...But all these dives turned him into something else.
Boomstick: Black Space is a set of doors leading to worlds where describing things is basically a no-go. These are monuments to how much Sunny had fucked up. Two of the most notable places are this Red Maze filled with the worst thing you’ve ever seen in your life and this Stairway of Hands...Hey, that sounds familiar. The space affected Omori himself. Sure, he got some cool powers like summoning Red Hands (2:34) but he also became the manifestation of guilt, fear and self-hatred.
Wiz: There are many ways for Sunny’s story to end, but we’ll focus on two. They both begin with Sunny finally leaving for the outside world, meeting with his real friends again and reconnecting the group for a final time before he had to move out of town. However, the real Basil was losing his mind at this thought of Sunny leaving him. So much so that he tried to commit a murder-suicide.
Boomstick: He tried to confront Basil about this stuff, but then Sunny got his eye GOUGED (5:26) and had to go to the hospital. It was there that he decided it was time to end the hiding. He’d finally confess to his friends that Mari didn’t kill herself...However, there was one man in the way of that mission: Omori. He had a different approach to the trauma called dreaming forever. Thus, Sunny reclaimed his violin for the fight with himself. During this, Omori showed how much of a monster they both were.
Wiz: With both children achieving their purest forms in the fight, Omori and Sunny refused to die. Sunny clung onto his memories to heal himself, fighting with the violin he rejected so long ago. He kept fighting as Omori tried to erase him with the trauma of the past, refusing to succumb to Sunny’s endless attacks. He even went so far as to speak, telling Sunny how much he deserved to die.
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Omori: You're nothing but a liar, and when they see the truth, they'll hate you as much as you hate yourself.
(4:11)
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Boomstick: Remember how we started this show wanting to see if the cool guy from Star Wars could beat the cool girl from Metroid and now we’re summarizing how a boy contemplated suicide in the most violent way possible?
Wiz: There are two ways this fight ended. In one, Sunny finally played the recital with his perception (or the ghost, it’s unclear) of Mari. He had accepted who he was and what had happened. And so, Omori gave up and was absorbed. He woke up and confessed his misdeeds to his friend, causing the something following him to fade.
Boomstick: And in the other, Sunny just couldn’t handle the memories and gave up trying, deciding it would be better to just die. Omori absorbed Sunny instead and jumped off the hospital roof to his death so he could escape his dark thoughts forever...Wow...Just...Wiz, can we do a joke match after this? Because...Jesus Christ...
Wiz: Regardless of which identity he ends the game as, Sunny’s tale reflects trauma, guilt, and how neither die easily. How we can either move past it to be the best us we can be, or let it control our actions and ruin our lives. Depending on the circumstances, Sunny can either live with himself or die as Omori.
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Omori hugs Sunny, drops his knife, and disappears.
-Sunny/Omori (11:21)
Prone To Strange Dreams[]
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set and we've run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: It's time for a DEATH...oh no...
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The trees were natural green. The wood was a beautiful brown. The ground was black...and almost non-existent.
To say that Omori didn’t know where he was walking was an understatement. The black-haired boy had never seen anything like it. As he moved his snow-white legs around the forest, he started to ponder where he’d been. He’d only just finished an adventure and saw signs that maybe Basil would be in the path he’d taken, but it was clear that this was a foreign land not related to Headspace.
The boy’s pitch-black eyes then saw a site different from the rest of the forest. Coming closer to him was a being that didn’t match the bizarre imagery of the woods. It was merely a girl on a bicycle. Her shirt was pink, her hair was brown, and she appeared to be in a rush. That was until she noticed Omori in the middle of her path. Madotsuki moved her bicycle past the boy, but then spun around to stop her bike and face him.
Both children exchanged blank, emotionless looks.
Madotsuki could tell that there was something odd about the boy in front of her. In a world that didn’t make sense, he stood out as an anomaly. An invader. A threat not like the evils she’d seen. She couldn’t let him have the dream.
Omori looked at the silent, strange girl facing him. She must have been responsible. She must have dragged him away from his headspace. Away from his friends. Away from his fantasy. It was his dream and he wanted it back.
Omori gripped his knife. Madotsuki changed her effects.
“...”
“...”
SLICE!
FIGHT![]
The grey boy dashed at the girl, but Madotsuki was fast enough to block the attack with her knife. The knives clashed, both combatants trying to push the other out of the struggle. Madotsuki won the battle, quickly pushing Omori and causing him to slide back. Wanting to get rid of him quickly, Madotsuki ran in for the stab. The dreamer blocked the attack with the side of his knife, stopping her effect from hitting his gut. Taking advantage of the situation, Omori jumped back, ready to perform Hack Away.
SLICESLICESLICESLICE SLASH!
The knife drew black aiming at the ground, each slice managing to reach it, nearly cutting Madotsuki. But what Omori didn’t factor in was the girl summoning (blulalala) her bicycle before the slices could hit her. She quickly rode away from the slasher. He stopped the attack, landed and looked at the evading girl. He started running after her, wanting to punish Madotsuki for taking him away from his friends. The girl looked back and saw the boy running after her. It seemed evasion wasn’t an option; she’d have to fight. Madotsuki turned her bike around and peddled it at Omori.
Slam! The bicycle rammed into the boy, the spinning tired doing a number to his chest. As Madotsuki rode, she saw her bike heading towards a green gate and passed through it.
The world was an endless back, filled with cubes, rectangular prisms, and shapes that didn’t have common names to describe them; Block World. As she passed through, Madotsuki stopped her bicycle, launching Omori away and into a cube’s wall. He inhaled and exhaled from the painful attack. Ready to send him back to where he came from, Madotsuki switched to her knife and rushed at Omori. The boy saw the attack coming and rolled out of the way, leaving her knife jammed into the block.
Slice! He used this opening to attack Madotsuki, who was pushed back by the slice. Slash! Slash! Slash! Each cut was stronger yet slower than the one after, but they still hit Madotsuki. That was until Omori was preparing to finish the combo. As he aimed his knife, Madotsuki disappeared out of thin air. Omori was surprised as his knife had gone through nothing.
Blulalala.
Omori heard the sound effect and turned around, seeing Madotsuki on top of one of the cubes. She’d gone from a traffic light on her head to dressing in robes with a pale face. A yuki-onna. She raised her hands and a giant snowstorm formed. The flakes appeared lightning fast, and all went down onto Omori, blinding him with the snow. The stoplight was switched to, and activated again. Madotsuki suddenly appeared on the ground level, Omori barely seeing anything in the storm.
However, he still had ears.
Ring-Ring.
Omori recognized a bicycle’s bell. He knew Madotsuki was planning on running a speeding bicycle on him once again, so, as the vehicle approached, he reached for a book. A book on sad poetry. The speeding bicycle came closer to Omori, who wasn’t even looking in her direction. He knew Madotsuki could still hear his voice.
“Life’s but a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
The heated Madotsuki no longer felt angry and fearful. A blue outline surrounded her as she kept peddling, and she started to feel SAD. Omori turned to where he’d heard the bell and saw the source of it going much slower. Slow enough for him to draw his knife and SLICED. The bike’s tire popped, sending it flying. Madotsuki dismounted from the ruined transport and fell onto the ground.
Omori jumped up, knife pointed down, ready to win.
blulalala.
Madotsuki’s head turned into a decayed hand and closed its fingers over its eye, disappearing from the ground. Omori's knife hit the blackness but found nothing underneath. Madotsuki had once again evaded his knife.
A door was pushed open nearby, causing Omori to turn around. A hand-headed Madotsuki was running at him. She used the Medamaude to grab onto the boy and then immediately threw him through the door she came out of.
Omori flew through the door's portal and landed feet first on the ground. Said ground was once again a void, but this time, there were a large number of strange symbols surrounding it. Some almost looked like people. The main sight to see was the doors surrounding the world's strangest floor plan. Some doors were normal, others were odd. But the weirdest thing was Madotsuki appearing out of thin air in the center of The Nexus.
The eye-hand-head tried to slap Omori, but the girl was still sad and therefore slower. He dodged out of the way and then came back in to slash, but at the last second, Madotsuki jumped back from the weapon. She landed next to a sad blue door leading to the snow world. She used her head to grab it and then launched it at Omori like a frisbee, hoping it would hit him and send him away. The dreamer jumped from the floor onto the flying door. He then jumped again, flipping over Madotsuki.
Once he landed, Madotsuki faced him. Before she could attack, he immediately used SHUN, summoning nine of his own small hands towards her. For some reason, Madotsuki suddenly felt incredibly sad to see the hands shunning her. So sad, she took damage. Omori used this as an opening and rushed to STAB.
BAM!
The stab shanked her right in the windowed shirt, launching her away. As the girl was sent flying through the Nexus, she closed her hand on the eye once again, disappearing from the air. She reappeared in the Nexus’ center, bugging Omori immensely. The boy came in to slash her, but (blulalala) her head became a stoplight again. (FLICK) Madotsuki used it to avoid the attack, suddenly appearing far away from Omori. He readied his knife to try again when-
Blulalala.
-Madotsuki had gained cat ears and a tail. This confused the black and white boy.
“Meow.”
The cat lover was suddenly drawn in by Madotsuki’s meow, much like all the creatures in her dreams. He softly walked over and placed his hand over her hair, petting the shut-in. Madotsuki’s sadness disappeared, turning into happiness. Even Omori smiled. And then-
blulalala
-Madotsuki’s head turned into a lamp. Omori was surprised for the third time in a row. She cranked her head back and (THWACK) bashed Omori in the face with her new head. The boy flew far back, breaking through the door to The Dark World. Madotsuki followed him.
Omori was incredibly tired of landing on void floors. This time, he could see absolutely nothing but darkness. Nothing to light up the scene, nothing to fight with. That was until Madotsuki entered, her head being the only bright thing in the room. Omori got up, but she was already there to bash him over the head a second time. The hit sent Omori bouncing off the ground and into the air. Blulalala. Madotsuki dawned a witch costume and summoned a broom. She jumped up and flew into Omori, the tip of the broom carrying him across the dark dimension. She dismounted the broom mid-air and then (SWING) hit Omori with the broom as if it was a bat. The hit sent him through a sinister white gate.
On the other side was a vast wasteland, filled with nothing but strange dead plants and grey skies. Ironically, it was a breath of fresh air next to the blank voids the combatants had been fighting in. But Omori didn’t have a lot of time to enjoy it. He was launched out of the gate to the new land, and his impact with the ground (Thud) took out the last of what he had left. But-
OMORI did not succumb.
The boy got up from the attack, alive. Yet, he was on the verge of losing the fight. It didn’t help when the witch quickly flew out of the gate, upwards so Omori could reach her. Madotsuki landed on the landmark of the Wasteland. A giant staircase that looked like it went up to the clouds. She switched effects (blulalala) to the Umbrella. Upon opening it, rain spilled down from the clouds. Before Omori could step towards the stairs to hit her, Madotsuki quickly took another jump over Omori. As her umbrella carried her through the air (blulalala) the regular girl transformed into a red demon.
Rumble...Rumble.
Omori looked up, noticing the stormy sky was even darker than before. It was a thunderstorm, accompanied with-
CRACKLE!
-Lightning. A giant line of energy came down at lightspeed, targeting the nearly dead boy. As it touched down (CRASH!) Omori dodged the attack. But it was clear the floating girl wouldn’t stop until he was gone from her dreams. (CRACKLE! CRACKLE!) Two more lightning strikes came down onto Omori, but he avoided both.
Madotsuki transformed into a witch and started to fly farther into the sky. Omori saw what she was doing, trying to stay in the air. He knew two things; he couldn’t dodge forever and he had no way to get her down...But he knew someone who could.
The witch-dressed girl flew. She normally wasn’t keen on combat, but she was frightened by the intruder. Once he took control of her dream, who knows what he’d do? However, her fear subsided knowing this threat could be fought. And so long as she kept in the air, she could avoid any of his-TOINK! And just like, a basketball had hit her in the back of her head.
Plop. Madotsuki, her broomstick and her hat had all fallen onto the sand. She quickly shook her head back to consciousness and looked at her opponent...opponents?
(Music: Boss Battle - Kirby Star Allies)
Omori was now joined by 3 additional people, each as oddly coloured as him. The first was an energetic kid who’d just caught his basketball returning to him from the air. “Hey there! I don’t like how you’re treating my friend!” scolded Kel.
The girl, Aubrey, tapped her bat onto her hand. “You should leave. Because if you keep this up, we’ll have a problem!” Madotsuki looked at the friends, all sticking up for her opponent. It made her feel several things. It warmed her heart because it was sweet; it made her sad because she could never have that; it made her angry because they were defending her attacker. Regardless, she didn’t back down, and stood waiting for the next attack.
Hero gave Omori a cookie. He ate it and got back up on his feet, now near full health. The cook looked at the kids in the group. “Everyone be careful,” and then at Madotsuki and tightened his frying pan “we’re gonna have to fight our way out of here.”
The gang rushed at Madotsuki, but as they did, Madotsuki changed effects (blulalala) to Stoplight. Aubrey was on course to hit her in the traffic-lighted face, but in a flash, there was no Madotsuki to hit. All four friends were dumbfounded by her disappearance. Kel turned around, and the other three followed, to see Madotsuki standing behind them. Omori dashed over to slice her, yet she used her time-stop to vanish once again, appearing between the friend group. All the friends swarmed her from each direction, but before they could hit her, Madotsuki’s traffic light changed back to a lamp.
FLASH!
The brightness of the lamp took everyone by surprise as they covered their eyes from the light. Out of random choice, she used her lamp to bash the blinded Kel down. WHAM! The athlete fell from the girl’s hit, and she walked away to continue her fight with the blinded Aubrey. “Kel!” cried his brother. Hero immediately cooked a piece of pizza in the frying pan and fed it to Kel in record time.
“Thanks, bro!” said the healed Kel. He got up and threw his basketball at the running lamp-head. Madotsuki sensed the attack and switched back to Stoplight, time stopping to dodge the ball and appear somewhere else. Instead, (Toink!) the ball hit Aubrey, who became ANGRY.
“Look where you’re throwing!” she complained.
“Why don’t you look where you’re standing! And besides-” Kel stopped and looked towards where Madotsuki had teleported off to and saw his ball ricocheting towards the girl. (CRASH!) The ball hit her light, shattering it. “She’s open! So you can thank me for-”
Kel was interrupted by Aubrey running towards the injured Madotsuki. Once close enough, she reeled her head back, ready for a powerful headbutt. However, when she released her attack (blulalala) she didn’t hit anything. All she did was look down at....a very small Madotsuki. “Aww, that’s actually really cu-” the small Madotsuki jumped away from Aubrey and, out of nowhere, started multiplying. The group now faced seven identical Mini Madotsuki's.
The Madotsuki's split up and ran. Kel threw his ball at them, but the three he was aiming at all dodged and jumped at his face (Wack! Pow! Wham!) hitting it with their tiny bodies and causing him to fall. Two of the Madotsuki’s ran at Aubrey, but the girl swung her bat twice. (SPLAT! SPLATTER!) The enemies were reduced to disappearing puddles of blood from the hits. Meanwhile, Hero was dealing with small problems of his own. He used his pan to smack a jumping Madotsuki away, but it didn’t explode. Instead, the Madotsuki landed and ordered its tiny sisters to stop attacking Omori and fight the healer.
All five remaining Madotsuki's ran at Hero, jumping at him and hurting him from all sides. Omori disliked this behaviour and summoned the strength he had left for a Final Strike. The boy swung his knife several times, each swing catching a new jumping Madotsuki.
SLICESLICESLICESLICESLICESLICE! SLASH!
After his ultimate attack finished, four Madotsuki’s were cut in half, vanishing. There was only one left. She'd been hit, but was still alive. The main Madotsuki. (blulalala) She changed back to her normal form and held onto her chest, breathing heavily. The last attack had left her exhausted. Hero raised his pan over his head, ready to end the fight and knock her out.
GASH!
Madotsuki had turned around lightning quick to stab Hero. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” He screamed, faded from existence itself. “NO!” Screamed Aubrey and Kel, the former immediately rushed over, using her bat to hit Madotsuki right in the head. WHAM! The head of Madotsuki came off. Her body disappeared from existence as her severed head flew past Omori and landed on the sand. And then...the head slowly moved, waddling away from the group. Before the three could rush over to catch her, Madotsuki’s mind activated. And then, out of nowhere, two women with heads like birds appeared.
The Torinigens, as they were called, rushed the group. Aubrey and Kel were face-to-face with one Torinigen each, and once they even touched the children, they were gone. Vanishing to the inescapable areas they wish to send Madotsuki. Omori was now alone with two new enemies...Three, actually. In the ground, a giant sinister red circle formed. And from it grew a giant snake-like creature with a large head. Big Red.
The giant creature unhinged its jaw and rushed down to Omori, attempting to swallow him whole. But the boy quickly jumped away from the monster’s attack. He landed and closed his eyes, using his mind and imagination to beat Madotsuki at the game they were both playing. Before Big Red could try to eat him again, a strange thing happened. Out of the air, Hero’s body started to form again. Followed by Aubrey and Kel reappearing. It was a dream, so they could both affect it after all. They looked at the terrifying Torinigens running at them and the towering monster of Big Red.
They then looked at each other...and smiled.
RELEASE ENERGY!
Aubrey swung her back as many times as she could, hitting each one as hard as possible. Kel’s ball bounced all around the arena, hitting the monsters. Hero used his pan to strike the Torinigens quickly. Omori focused his knife, slashing Big Red as many times as his energy could let him.
BAM!
(Music Stop)
With the attack over, the bird ladies exploded and Big Red fell to the ground, fading away from the dream. Behind the disappearing Red stood Madotsuki, now with a body. She was still tired from seeing the attack on her creations. The gang was starting to feel tired from the attack. Kel stepped up “What are-(huff)-you gonna-(huff)-Ow it hurts to stand.” He said, at his knees.
Hero looked at Madotsuki. “I can heal them, so you should either give up. Or we’ll continue fighting!”
Madotsuki simply used her brain to imagine one more being. From the air, darkness manifested in...a deadpanned blond girl in green. She simply stood there, looking unamused. The group wondered how, after bird ladies and a giant demon, this would be her ace. Then she used her mind to summon a large wooden plank from the ground, with nothing but a light switch. She flicked it once...then again…
FLICKFLICKFLICKFLICKFLICKFLICKFLICKFLICK-
The light of the entire wasteland went out once, (FLICK) then came back on, (FLICK) and then (FLICK) they-
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH
A distorted moan roared through the land. In the place of the blond girl, a black and white entity stood, smiling a disturbing smile. Omori and his friends stood as frightened children to the monster, all afraid of it...Because of the colour...and the distortion...it reminded Omori of...Something.
The memories of the past, of what he did, flooded his mind. It was far too much for him. The dreaming world Madotsuki and Omori shared was corrupted as nothing but blankness and void erupted from Uboa’s spot. It engulfed Madotsuki and turned to the friend group. The sea of void consumed Hero, Kel and Aubrey out of existence. And then...it consumed Omori and the rest of the wasteland into...nothing…
…
WELCOME TO WHITE SPACE.
YOU HAVE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR AS LONG AS YOU CAN REMEMBER.
The eyes of a boy woke up and he started breathing heavily. He looked at the ceiling and the floor he’d found himself in. It was another void, but coloured white this time. Looking at the black and white objects around him, he’d realized this was White Space. The boy then looked at his hand. While pale, the skin wasn’t pitch-white and he wasn’t wearing a tank top. He wasn’t Omori right now; he was the teenage hikikomori: Sunny. He was certain of this theory because the real Omori was beside him, staring blankly at a wall.
Sunny’s time to piece together what had happened was cut short when something irregular happened. His door to Headspace creaked open. It was incredibly rare for someone who wasn’t Omori to open it. Madotsuki stood there and looked at the laptop, sketchbook and sleeping cat. She seemed to take interest in them. However, she looked at the back of Omori and seemed visually frightened by the boy. The fact that Madotsuki had to use her own worst fears to fight him was telling of how she’d felt about Sunny’s alter ego.
She turned her eyes to Sunny. He was one of the few human-looking people she’d seen while sleeping, and his confused face was more approachable than Omori’s blank stare. She gave him a look of sympathy, yet gestured her hand for him to join him outside. She was basically saying to him ‘I don’t like that guy. Can I fight you instead?’ And Sunny nodded his head, getting the message. A violin and its bow manifested into his hands and he walked towards Madotsuki, who’d already left through the door. Before he left, he gave a final look to Omori, who’d started to turn his head to give his signature emotionless look. Sunny turned back and left White Space.
The floor was a hellish red. The walls were a hellish red. Everything was a hellish red. With corners turning every way and halls very claustrophobic, the Red Maze was as terrifying as ever. Madotsuki walked out of the door that had led her to White Space, followed by Sunny. She turned with her knife equipped. Both stared at each other.
(Music: Winds of Madness - Resident Evil 5)
“...”
“...”
SLICE!
The knife of Madotsuki dashed towards Sunny’s now taller chest, but the teen blocked it using his violin. He pushed Madotsuki back, but she came in once again to slice him. He avoided each attempt to cut him by using his bow to catch the swings. He then used the violin to bat Madotsuki in the face, sending her stumbling a few feet back. Sunny got into position and slid the bow across his violin’s strings, making the sound of said instrument. (Zingzingzing!) The magic of the violin transformed into yellow slashes of light that headed to Madotsuki. The first slice was blocked by her knife. The second was lower, but she managed to catch it the same way. The third went towards her head and was faster.
It hit her in the face, blasting her with an energy that felt...odd. Not like a hit from anger, but a hit from acceptance. No matter how hard it was to describe, Madotsuki knew taking hits was a bad idea. After recovering, she changed effects (blulalala) to gain a spirit headband. And, as she did best, vanished from her opponent’s sight. Sunny was no longer surprised by this and turned around...not to find her. So he rushed towards where she’d used to be and found nothing. He went further down the hallway and turned the corner...only to realize that he was now seemingly alone.
But you’re never truly alone in your mind. He quested around the complex battleground, turning corner after corner, and he found nothing...Nothing but distorted noises were starting to fill his ear. He was starting to see the shapes in his eyes. The shapes of the crooked malformed demon that once was the girl everyone loved. The girl he’d taken away from the world...As the world of red seemed to close in on him...he focused. He breathed. He knew it wasn’t as scary as it seemed…
Madotsuki revealed herself on top of the Maze’s wall, looking down at Sunny. She clenched her knife and jumped down towards the boy, but he sensed it coming and raised his violin. Using all he could, he stroked his bow onto the strings and let out a sound, the force of it disrupted Madotsuki’s landing and sent her across the Maze’s corridor, now down. She looked back up at Sunny, who continued to play his instrument. As she approached him to keep fighting, she started to notice something...Red Maze was becoming a lot less...red…
(Music Stop)
The sinister colour was starting to fade from the walls, becoming a mix of blue and green. The tall walls were starting to recede into the ground. Sunny was starting to gain control of his consciousness, taming the wild dreams both had been having. The last of the Red Maze faded as it was replaced. Both children now stood in a field with a calming navy sky and soft green grass. It was beautiful, reminding Madotsuki of the better parts of her dreams. The gardens, the villages. It was...human.
Sunny kept his violin close, ready for Madotsuki’s next attack and determined to win this fight. And so, Madotsuki equipped her last new effect.
(Blulalala).
Dododo-Doot.
It was a flute, in which she’d played a little ditty. Sunny wasn’t expecting this...however…
Zinzinzin-Zing.
He echoed the tune with his violin. Madotsuki played again. Dododo-Doot. Sunny replied Zinzinzin-Zing. The dreamers played their instruments together, each giving a new melody for the other to repeat back. It was...enjoyable. In a vast calming field, it was them enjoying music. A traumatic boy and a tortured girl. This was all a misunderstanding. There was no need to steal control of the dream or to fight the other. They could both enjoy their imaginations as they pleased, separate or together. Madotsuki lost her need to fear her opponent. Sunny felt peace in it all, remembering the time he spent with the sister who he’d murdered-
EEEEEEEEEEUGH!
The memories of that moment hit Sunny like a truck. The blue sky turned a rusty red as Sunny let go of his violin and covered his ears from the distortion. Madotsuki dropped her flute out of shock, looking at Sunny being attacked by his own mind. And then…
“That’s enough.”
(Music: Zero Two Orchestal Arrangement - The Noble Demon - 0:41)
A white hand reached and grabbed Sunny by the back of the neck. The white hand of Omori. Black lines started to form around Sunny and he began to fade away, his existence being transferred into the manifestation. And thus, a lone idea stood in the wake of Madotsuki.
The moment of true peace she’d had in her dreams was stolen away and lost. The evil she saw in Omori was now overflowing. He looked at her with the same haunting stare he gave everyone and drew his knife. Madotsuki now had a reason to fight Omori. Wanting to be smart, she equipped her headband and disappeared. But the manifestion of guilt merely summoned his counter to this: red hands. Fifteen long hands of hell extend in each direction, morphing into fists. One of them managed to strike the invisible Madotsuki, turning her back to normal.
Omori, now knowing Madotsuki’s location, aimed for all hands to grab and erase her. Madotsuki, looking up at the wave of trauma, had different plans. Once more she transformed into a lamp and turned it on. The light blinded Omori, throwing off his hand army. The girl changed back and ran around the hands and towards Omori. Taking her knife, she SHANKED her enemy as hard as she could. Omori could feel himself fading, like he was becoming red and transparent...and yet…
BLAST!
OMORI did not succumb.
Using all the power he could, Omori forced himself to stay solid. The event took so much effort, Madotsuki was blown away by the attack, getting a good distance away from the being. She collected herself and got up, seeing the new Omori in front of him. Covered in red rust, his eyes shrouded in black, he was now the monster.
But this was a fear that could be fought, dodged and harmed. So, Madotsuki performed one last trick. She summoned her umbrella effect and then immediately transformed into her demon form. Omori stood there, with his red hands, ignoring the rain and kept staring at Madotsuki. The girl used all her power and called down the light to strike the demon.
CRACKLE! CRACKLE!
Two lightning strikes came down from the storm. Both directly hit Omori...and neither did a thing. Omori started slowly walking towards his foe. Madotsuki summoned more thunder and lightning. Each bolt hit, sparked a little on Omori, and disappeared, leaving him walking. Even when his health was close to draining…
OMORI will not succumb.
Madotsuki started to walk back...it seemed...nothing was working. He just kept on walking...and then he spoke.
“It’s all your life is, isn’t it? Hiding from the world.”
The rain started to turn the same rusty red everything else was. Madotsuki started to feel the pain of it.
“Hiding in a place where you have no one. No one to appreciate you. No one to help you.”
Madotsuki felt it all. He was trying to erase her. Remove her…
“Hiding from a cruel place using another cruel place. That’s no life. That’s not even hiding.”
She started to cry. She started to shake her head and cry as Omori got closer.
“It would be better to just die.”
…
Chank.
(Music: L's Past - Death Note)
The distortions silently died. The clouds and rain disappeared. The sky regained its colour...Madotsuki dropped her knife. Omori, back to normal, approached her for a final time. The dream warped and the grass behind Madotsuki dug itself down, forming small platform after platform, each descending lower. They were forming stairs…
---
In a world where there was a real sun with a real room in a real location, a real girl raised herself the real bed. The real girl got out of her bed...but was not awake. Keeping her eyes closed, she stumbled to where she knew her door was...her door to the balcony.
---
The two children faced each other. Madotsuki looked down at the knife she’d dropped...He was right. She’d never get any happier. She’d never get the help she needed. She’d never leave her room. There was no more hope. Tears rolled down her face...It was time to do what she’d planned to do from the start.
Omori gently put his hand slightly below her neck and looked at her…
…
Push
Madotsuki fell down the stairs, hitting each one and damaging her body.
---
In the real world, the real Madotsuki extended her arms from on top of her railing...And dropped. Time seemed to slow down as she fell from her apartment...she closed her hands on her chest and braced for the worst, thankful she was asleep for it…
---
After hitting the last step, Madotsuki fell down the pit at the end of the staircase, entering the abyss so she could finish her fall. What laid in the confines of that dark, corrupted dimension was something nobody wished to know...Madotsuki was gone.
Omori blinked at the sight of it all...Using his monstrousness to end someone...Accepting himself as the embodiment of trauma...It was time to wake up.
He pointed his knife towards his chest.
Shank.
KO![]
(Music: My Time Piano Arrangement)
Boomstick: Well that was...disturbing.
Wiz: That did not go as expected.
Boomstick:...I refuse to believe you didn’t see this coming.
Wiz: Well, obviously it was hard to predict anything in this fight. It was an incredibly hard task to even apply VS debating rules.
Boomstick: It's almost like these are horror games about unwell children and not Shonen anime...CHRISTIAN.
Wiz: Trying to figure out the power of these two was the first part. Madotsuki summoning storms outclasses Omori scaling to Aubrey, but that’s outclassed by Omori fighting planets.
Boomstick: But that kind of becomes irrelevant when you realize these are DREAMS. Both Sunny and Madotsuki are responsible for the creation of the worlds they fight in, so it’s safe to say putting numbers on these two was pointless. And trying to measure which dream was bigger would take a metric shit ton of assumptions.
Wiz: So, let’s look at the details and see which dreamer could be the better fighter. First, Omori took it in combat experience with little questioning. He’s seen numerous fights and his abilities were way more focused on combat. You could say that Madotsuki had a more versatile arsenal-
Boomstick: -But not a lot of those would help here. Things like the bicycles or the hand were only really useful for running away from the fight instead of winning it. Invisibility could be countered by the hands and the other moves that target the entire screen and I don’t think you could just hit Omori with a storm to kill him. So the other really useful powers here were the stoplight and the knife.
Wiz: While stopping time is an incredibly useful tool for defence, Madotsuki couldn’t exactly use it for the opposite. She could only ever use one effect at a time. Plus, Omori could just counter it by being faster than Madotsuki could activate it. While she’s shown to be twice the speed of light, Omori can keep up with Pluto and Space Boy, who have been shown to fly through outer space. In fiction, this usually requires speeds far greater than light. This means Omori is, at the very least, around Madotsuki’s speed. And at best, he’s much faster.
Pop-Up: A space traveller does exist in Yume Nikki. However, he’s only ever shown to fly from Earth to Mars; and even in that situation, it was more of his ship crash landing than skilled piloting. Even so, this does not neglect Omori’s other advantages or make Madotsuki faster.
Boomstick: And then there’s the knife. Omori’s speed means he could avoid the knife altogether; but even if he couldn’t, he’s still kind of immortal. It’s been shown plenty of times that Omori can resist death and even come back from it. Even Sunny couldn’t stay down for long in his mirror match, in which neither Sunny nor Omori died despite their HP dropping multiple times.
Pop-Up: Omori is much more of a metaphor than anything else, and shouldn't be compared to actual immortal dream demons like Freddy Krueger. However, for the sake of VS Debating, we decided to take everything at face value. There is a debate on if supernatural elements exist in Omori, but that's fan theory territory.
Wiz: But don’t count Madotsuki out. She’s proven that she can not only survive as nothing but a head, but can’t really be harmed by anything in her dreams. Even in the face of glitches in her dreams, she can still live on from it thanks to waking up. All this because...well...she’s the center of that world. So, it seems neither Omori nor Madotsuki could truly win in the normal sense...However, there is one way the dream avatars could take the victory: Killing the real version of the dreamer.
Boomstick: That...is...fucked up...And also a huge advantage to Sunny. We know jack about Madotsuki’s life outside of the game, but it is safe to say the real Sunny has been in more fights. He has actual weapons and skills for if they ever encountered each other in reality. And if we were to take the ending literally, we know suicide is something Madotsuki is capable of. Omori is skilled at weaponizing sadness in both of his forms, and could talk Sunny into giving up living. So all he had to do was...convince...Madotsuki to...Wiz, let’s never use RPG Maker horror again.
Wiz: Madotsuki was a unique case and certainly interesting to cover, but in the end, both Omori and Sunny had the stats, skills and win conditions to let her rest in peace.
Boomstick: Maybe I’m just mad that ‘Suki is no more, eh?... I need a beer and a shower.
Wiz: The winner is Omori.
Next Time on DEATH BATTLE![]
"And now, we must exchange dialogue for the fight trailer!"
"That sounds fun!"
Q&A[]
Why didn't you use the Yume Nikki manga and novel?
I wanted to keep the fight purely game-focused, mainly because being RPGMaker is a connection the two have. Plus, the novel and manga were not done by Kikiyama, the developer of Yume Nikki who also worked on Dream Diary. Light Novels and Manga differ from the game and themselves so it would just become a mess.
Why didn't you use the Omori Webcomic?
While they were done by Omocat, who developed the Omori game, the webcomic differs from the game greatly. Mainly, Omori and Webcomic Omori come off as very different characters with very different interests, the game came out almost a decade after the Webcomic, and Webcomic Omori is...featless.
Why so few elements from Dream Diary?
I felt like bringing it up in the analysis just for the Dream Diary: Dream Diary joke, the "maybe she's fine" mention and the end clip. The game's pretty different from it's original, and considering that's the style she's most known for, I wanted to focus on that one.
Could Omori really talk Madotsuki into suicide?
He only managed to do it to Sunny thanks to knowing his problems in detail, yes. However, he does have moves like Sad Poem, Shun and Mock which could bring down Madotsuki's self-esteem down by a lot. And even if she was resilient to the point where it wouldn't work...the battle has to end so I'd resort to Sunny pepper spraying her to death. Horrendously out of character but that's Death Battle for you.
Why couldn't they just be friends? Why did Madotsuki have to die?
Both games are known to be scary and sad rather than uplifting, so I wanted to lean into that. Plus, I didn't have a way for Madotsuki to DIE and still become friends with Omori/Sunny like my last fight.
How certain are you with the verdict?
There are many ways to interpret both combatants. If there's any Death Battle I expect to get flack from, it's this one. I am fairly sure Omori/Sunny's combat experience and (possibly) superior speed would be enough to win, along with the win condition that they kill the real Madotsuki. But you may disagree with a lot of that thanks to how these two...were not designed for VS Debating.
Thoughts on both games?
Yume Nikki is a great game, which has influenced the entirety of RPG Maker horror and many other things. I love the atmosphere, the music, the art and the horror of it. It's honestly really good artistic game. I just like Omori better because it has good atmosphere, music, art and horror but also has a story to get invested in. Of course, slapping a story to Yume Nikki would probably dampen why people love it. It's a 9/10 vs a 10/10 for me.
Would you want this to be a real Death Battle?
No.
Trivia[]
-The connections between the two is that they are both knife wielding children from RPG Maker Horror Games, one based off the other. Both have extremely weird and scary dreams they explore and both have shut themselves in away from society due to a tragedy. Both are haunted by black and white beings and the last connection is...have you read the fight? Yes? Ok the last connection is both end their games by throwing themselves off buildings.
-The fight track would be called Prone To Strange Dreams...and would be very hard to describe. It would consist of very unique instruments and would have a horror feel to it, but would generally change entire genres depending on the fight moments. The album cover would be Madotsuki's window design with Something glaring through the glass.
-The fight would likely blend RPGMaker sprites with scenes of Hand-Drawn animation.