@@constellationmaker145 PLEASE STOP YOU’RE EVERYWHERE PLEASE PLEASE STOP DELTARUNE, JOHN LAUREL, OMORI FOR CHRIST’S SAKE PLEASE GET OHT OF MY HEAD ALFIE PLEASE
Funny how she went to church for 4 years and yet the other church goers there were still distant and were assholes to her, what a horrible community and what a cold neighborhood.
As much as I want to grumble about the pastor *not* doing or saying anything to stop this fight... -_- If he had, and just sent them all outside who knows how much worse it could've been without so many witnesses.
For real, I actually liked the pastor cause he was concerned for Aubrey, understood that the church was the only place she could go to when everyone left her. His words made me very happy
@@AmericanDivaa As he said, it seemed like the fight was too important to be stopped. And it actually was, it was Aubrey lashing out 4 years worth of anger and grief towards two people who are treating her like she stole Basil's album for kicks and laughs when she did it because the photos were all ruined and she was trying to fix them.
Aubrey being such a caring and happy person in the dream world made her my favorite character, and seeing her reduced to such a broken and violent state really hurt.
@@kurimiaisukurimu for me she was quite annoying but this is just my opinion and I respect yours. maybe it seemed to me so because I loved Kell and Basil too much and she was in the way and she was annoying to Kell
Funny because I thought Kel was sometimes pretty annoying with how he treats Aubrey. Still love all these kids, but Aubrey's personality is just the perfect blend of caring and outgoing while having a temper.
spoilers MARI's death meant everything, AUBREY felt abandoned by BASIL, KEL and his brother, and even her parents ty for the correction it is now just basil
now that you mentioned it, there's another chilling song called "Anxiety", from Cry of Fear. Spoilers below v yea, you get it in one of the endings where Simon dies.
The guitar is basically the only instrument playing, apart from the percussion. Makes me think it represents Aubrey's mindset, completely alone. The warping of the instruments is likely a representation of her warped personality as a result of her belief that her friends left her behind when she needed them most. Damn good track.
Love and hate how omocat got church gossip right. Love the fact that there's obviously going to be sour apples everywhere, even in a place where you're not supposed to be one. Hate because these are probably the same people who claim to bring peace but just end up causing more chaos.
Exactly accurate to most Christian conservatives nowadays. Key word: Most as there are a few actually good Christian conservatives, namely Scott "Should Not Have Been Cancelled" Cawthon
Actually it also happens on most conservative religion (i don't want to say what it is). In my country, the one who is conservative always had something like in this Aubrry scene, judging and judging all the time even they claim to be a peaceful community, but the fact is upside down... This is so sad..
Hmm yes, when i go to church on sundays, i do always see 3 Teens dealing with the death of one of their teen’s sister who was killed by one of the said teens, by fighting each other.
I love how they depicted Aubrey during this fight. Four frames of a standby animation that change between an angry and sad expression. The music, the art, the animations, every part of this fight shows so much emotion. I really love her sprite.
Yeah, even with her tough outer facade, she is still hurting. Seeing Sunny and Kel probably only pushed that further because she's desperate for things to return to how they were but thinks she's too far gone to accept them as friends
i think my favorite part about this, is this is how Sunny sees the situation, meanwhile Kel is completely oblivious to it. It's crazy how much thought and care went into this game, and i love it so so much.
*Spoilers* I don’t think Aubrey had a crush on Sunny, I think it was only sunny who had a crush on her. In realworld there are no photos or mentions of Aubrey having affection for sunny that I know of. After conversation with Basil about how Sunny always asked to look at photos of Aubrey it’s evident that Sunny does have a crush on her. It is only in headspace do we see Aubrey show her romantic affection for Sunny, which to me seems a part of Sunny’s imagination
@@JoeyAlmonds In the true route there is a couple of implications that Aubrey might've felt the same. In battle, Aubrey always attacks Kel first, and for some reason she attacks Kel with more force than Sunny. And I believe just before they go the treehouse, Aubrey said some lines yoh oftentimes hear between old, mutual crushes.
@@JoeyAlmonds she actually did have a crush on him, it’s implied in the fights in dreamworld, (she can deal stronger damage against enemies after omori gives her the thumbs up, which triggers a heart reaction and then she does effective damage) and she has said several very blatantly romantic remarks towards him. same with basil noticing how sunny acts towards aubrey
@@JoeyAlmonds also in the real world, i believe there’s a scene where sunny sits on the swings with aubrey and they talk together for a bit, i cant remember when or how it’s unlocked but i believe i found a screenshot of thst
One thing I just realized is how instead of the usual black that the outlines take, Aubrey's are a pulsating mixture of reds, pinks, and purples. Unlike in the dream world, there's no simple colored haze that can represent her emotions. Aubrey's feelings in this moment are too complex to be labeled as angry or happy or sad. She's feeling furious because her friends left her when she needed them. She's feeling miserable since the friends she has to face remind her of the past. She's feeling manic and will do anything she can to make them feel the pain she's felt. She's been feeling everything over the past 3 years and now she's finally letting it all out. This moments means everything to her.
@@klatzack2427 oh i didn’t notice, thanks! and i just realized, maybe she didn’t cry because she was a child, maybe she was worried about what her parents might say. it doesn’t seem as though her family is rich
On the final day when aubrey finally joins your team, if you check the pinwheel in the area where all the streets meet you can hear the story for yourself in game :)
@@rachelc.357 it actually makes sense whyd she’d cry over that too, considering she’s from a poor family it’s most likely hard to get shoes with her financial state.
Something I noticed is that in one of Sunny's memories, Aubrey mentions wanting to dye her hair pink, and how Mari wanted to dye her hair purple. Then you go back to the dream world and realize something. Every character in the dream world has purple hair, or some very dark shade of it. The only ones who don't are Basil and Omori. Two characters who have a boss fight, and the ones who have a something. The two who orchestrated the events that led to any of this even happening.
There's something haunting about the emotional emptiness in Sunny's eyes amidst all this - is he sad that Aubrey's been pushed this far? Does he think that she deserves it after how she treated Basil? Does he feel an odd familiarity with her feelings of distress, of hatred? Is he thinking of HEADSPACE Aubrey, and wondering how far off he was from the real version? It's impossible to tell, and his detachment when Kel's frustration and Aubrey's anguish collide just shows how emotionally suppressive he's become over four years. Heck, the entire scene just brings forth how Mari's death has seriously traumatised the three of them and if not, it shows them at their worst. Kel, as kind and bubbly as he can be, took things on a surface and simplistic level, provoking Aubrey and pretty much being the reason why she won't be able to return here after the fight. This is only worsened by the fact that Aubrey was mourning Mari here and was trying to find peace, and from her POV, Kel just showed up, called her a thief and didn't care for her side of the story (the last part being pretty accurate). He's always been dense and has coped by being simplistic, since it makes acting and doing things far easier - it also makes getting people hurt easier, unfortunately. Aubrey after being provoked shows her temperamental, grief-stricken anger to the entire procession, highlighting how without anyone by her side, she's had nowhere to project these feelings of regret, of loss, of sorrow and of frustration. In fact, these two showing up was basically the equivalent of throwing Mentos into a barrel of Coca-Cola; having her two childhood friends show up and fail to grasp her feelings, seeing her as nothing but a villain seriously broke her, and it's why she's lost all restraint in this moment. She's so little to lose at this point, so why not? Why not just let loose if that's all the future holds for her, in a place where no one understands her? And Sunny is left amidst all of this, exhibiting nothing short of apathy, detachment and stillness. He never said a word during the discussion between Aubrey and Kel and may've been able to stop it had he mediated it well enough, but he lacked the will or confidence to do such and stood by while his childhood friends tore into each other, helpless. I honestly do think he feels sadness more than anything at the current moment, as he realises that the fantasy he's been living and reality cannot coexist peacefully, that he's been lying to himself to run away from any of the problems he or the others' might've had, that he's not the only one who's struggling to live after everything that's happened. The fear of losing who you are, paranoia of being alone, frustration for being misunderstood, the emptiness of loneliness. To them, it means everything.
@@wolfroghost That is... actually very true. I do think he probably could've tried something in an attempt to alleviate things, but being mute doesn't really help that.
I saw this as how the whole time they were making Aubrey seem like she didn’t care about anything that happened in the past and she wants to destroy the photo album but she wasn’t trying to get rifle of it because... It meant everything
Why you wouldn't be? it's one of the best build ups to a fight i've ever seen, i think it is what a perfect fight looks like, this is not a fight you are winning, despite the results, you have already lost this.
@@EpsilonLovesSharks I'm pretty sure he was referring to Mari too (she wanted to dye her hair purple before getting murdered by her outrageous brother)
besides sunny and basil, aubrey really had it worse. kel and hero had eachother and their parents, they healed over time. but aubrey had no one. the friend group separated, everyone went their own way, her dad died and her mom didn´t help her. she had to mourn alone for 4 years edit: i wrote audrey instead of aubrey oops
Exactly it's mostly bcs of how oblivious Kell is.. and it's fine to be carefree to a certain point but that's not how Kell was, but he was acting like a righteous person confronting the bullies about hurting Basil while not even understanding the situation and the fact that first off, they didn't touch him and second Aulbrey tried to explain what Basil did to the photos and why he's a creep for Kell to irritate her by acting like a stupid angel defending Basil who's crying just out of anxiety which definitely made her feel like it's useless talking to him bcs of how oblivious he is
they all make me cryyyy so sadddd. aubrey's fight. hero's little piano cut scene. kels cemetery dialogue (made me cry the hardest ahsdabjsaja it hit home) the duet cut scene. the omori fight. basils dialogue in his house. the good and the bad ending. its all so saddddddddddd
sunny literally killed his sister and agreed on basil hanging her aubrey did nothing wrong she felt guilty all that time thinking she did something wrong that made mari kill herself
Am I the only one who really likes the smaller and less noticeable things in the game? Like when you enter the real world and notice all of the characters from the dream world, and the people and things that inspire how the dream world forms, it's like SUNNY can't tell the difference between the two worlds, and how Kel is angry while SUNNY isn't, he's just neutral. It just really shows how much care went into the game.
Pretty sure Sunny is just so emotionally wrecked after Mari's death, and how he spent 4 years cooped up in his own little world...... he feels nothing anymore. His emotions are gone. He doesn't say a word. Basil even mentions the blank look on Sunny's face and starts getting scared right after this fight. Sunny's just a walking shell of a person who's about to unravel entirely. And they start showing you this from the very second Sunny and Kel start walking around during that first day. They REALLY hammer it in with Basil's dialogue though. Ouch.
Yeah I love finding those too! One of my favorites was seeing all the pinwheels around his neighborhood, potentially referencing the pinwheel forest or the other pinwheels in the vast forest
@@paperfrog5509 I think it's the other way around -- the pinwheels (likely placed there by the kids who lived near those places) appear in Headspace because, well... the backyard and its treehouse are some of Sunny's fondest memories... but also bittersweet because Sunny's favorite tree wound up becoming where Mari would later be hung by Basil. Sunny remembers the backyard and all of its trees and he was 12 at the time, it probably felt like a huge forest to a 12 year old and there were pinwheels everywhere because, well, the kids put them there, and that's where the Vast Forest and all of the Pinwheels came from.
In the dream world, Sunny sees Aubrey as a more comical, sweeter person. In the real world, Mari was all she had and that was taken away from her. It's so hard to remember these are characters in a video game.
The entire premise of Christianity is kindness and love. Sometimes that means letting things finish how they're supposed to. He absolutely deserves credit for letting it play out and letting them come back in with Hero to spend time at Mari's grave.
Just a small thing i noticed... Aubrey met the group probably at that one scene in the Final Duet... She was crying...and the others helped comforted her.... And with Mari dead, Sunny shut in, Kel and Hero left, and Basil hid away..... Aubrey got the same problem except with no one to comfort her when she's crying for help again... Man i love this game
Indeed, she was so broke. I can only imagine how she would react if sunny told her the truth right then and there. She would probably kill him if she could.
This theme song really NAILS the point about Aubrey. Those four years made her into a BATTERED girl. (this is depressing, I'm just trying to lighten the mood)
The reason why I love this OST is because it represents Aubrey's mental state at this exact moment. It's a cacophony of dissonant sounds, among which can be heard the same melody, playing over and over again. I can't really pinpoint this, but it has this "I must fight, but why is important and not important at the same time" feel to it. it's almost like Aubrey is pushing herself to fight Sunny and Kel, because she knows she is too far gone for things to go back to the way they were before. Plus, the way this song evolves is really interesting. It starts with this uneasy feeling, then those sound effects are added, making it sound like something, or someone, is wailing endlessly. Considering the fight takes place in the church, Aubrey's safe place, and where she could mourn... her death, and that she most likely won't be able to go back to it. This is It Means Everything. It's the rising anxiety, panic and rage bottled up in a mourning, scared teenager who's been, trying to go away from her past, but at the same time trying to go back to said past, finally reaching the point of no return and bursting out.
I like how her idle animation doesn't look like just a standby animation, it looks like she's heavy breathing, like she's about to go insane. All the rage, all the sadness, all the emptiness, all the loneliness, is all gathering up on her mind and broking her more than she was before. Plus the assholes on the church mocking her. She's about to loose everything, or, she will just stop caring about all that, because she already loose everything. And the song reflects that so perfectly.
Im with the church people on this one, its perfectly normal, if not a bit on the kinder side of reaction. They were fine with her dressing and even bring a damn nail bats into the church, letting her inside if it gave her a peace of mind. Respecting her choice despite who she is and what she brings. But all that respect is lost once she starts fighting with other kids, and swinging her nail bats around... Player perspective knows that we (Sunny and Kel) are the one that escalate it. Still doesnt excuse that she choose to use her nail bats though, I dont see why should they tolerate further. Its a deadly weapon, and she shouldnt have bring one in the first place. It kind of betray the trust of the church people, that she is there for a peace of mind, not swinging around her deadly weapon.
@@DorkyTraits Hm, its been more than a year since I played it. If I remembered it right her attack animation shows a swing, not her sprite, but the effects when she attacks Kel. Heavily implies that she does swing her bat. Or was there an instance where its shown she didnt use her bat?
The first time you wake up and go outside is the craziest experience in the game. The dream world and truth you became accustomed to just falls apart as you explore more and more of faraway. It's the most devastating when you encounter Aubrey, possibly the nicest person you knew in the dream world, and find out she's become this violent and unapproachable person. It just doesn't feel right to go back to the dream world knowing what the real world is actually like.
Fr especially towards the end spoiler fool Where we find out the pictures that were drawn over. Whole time I was like no, no no no this is not what I'm thinking it is, oh god please no
If you ignore Kel the 2nd time he knocks, you are back on the Hikikomori Route. Sunny gave up on the friend group getting back together after that Church Fight. I've heard if you check the Photo Album once you're in the Hikikomori Route, the pics are all markered out. AGAIN. Also, how about that Mari hug as soon as you get to the Headspace Playground? Ooof. Once you know that Mari's gone, the first thing she does when you see her in Headspace is fly across the picnic blanket and wrap her arms around Omori it's... oof.
@@hyphon1377 I started piecing it together from Black Space's BEACH room. Scribbling photos, and along with her quote regarding the album, "keeping it safe', and the key hole secret involving scribbled photos, it was obvious.
@@Lumen_571 but Jesus also told men that having sinful thoughts wasn't the woman's problem, and even told the men to pluck out their own eyes if it bothered them so much.
@@sillycookie not exactly accurate, but your sentiment is correct. Jesus told his followers that whoever lusts over a woman has committed adultery with her in his heart (Matthew 5:28). As for your reference of Jesus telling his followers to sever their limbs or other body parts, that is mostly metaphorical. The heart of the message is that whatever causes you to sin, should be left behind. Obviously a body part doesn't really cause someone to sin, but Jesus is prone to speaking in metaphors.
i know that aubrey dyed her hair because she said she would do it with mari someday, but when i look at their headspace sprites i cant help but think she probably saw mari every time she looked in the mirror. they had almost the exact same hair. when you’re tagged as aubrey in headspace and talk to mari at the savepoints, she mentions how aubrey’s been taking good care of her hair. that kinda feels like it means mari is the one that taught her ways to take care of her hair. her hair must have broken her heart every time she saw it. i think thats the second reason that she dyed it pink.
her personality isn't cooler in the real world, it's sad and damaged, the product of nobody to fall back to when experiencing trauma. contrast it to kel and hero who had a stable family, their ability to cope with grief lead their personalities staying relatively close to how they were originally. i'm sure aubrey herself would get rid of her new 'cool' persona in a heartbeat if it meant being able to go back four years.
@@Kizmmit_ I agree, i have tried several times in life not having somone to fall back to and when you need it. And it can wheigh on you harder than i thought. Unlike aubrey i reacted more like Sunny and became a shut in. I have been it for practically 6 years now.
I like how the game shows such complex emotions by such simplistic means. I mean, these are several frames of a depressed-looking girl and a short music loop, yet it tells so much.
Well there's also the people in the church criticizing her and everything that happened before. There's already context on why kels angry and why they're fighting
Which conflicts with the simplistic combat, and said combat being a simplistic system too. Not to forget how this trait you described isn't really re-used.
This fight broke my heart, the theme, the whispers of the church goers, aubrey feeling so unsafe that she lashes out, I was so reluctant to fight her. In my head I kept seeing that dream version of her, which might as well be a memory of her, and I think Sunny must have been thinking the same thing and it’s just...feels bad man.
Mort Damn dude hell yeah. I mean I know when we meet irl Aubrey she gets framed as a bully, and she is ofc she has some faults, but the church scene...man I felt so shitty bc at that moment she was just someone who was grieving and deeply hurt.
mmmmmm well it's shown people looked down on her in the church, but they were most likely a little scared of her so i think they just let her carry on and go in with one, idk
In one of sunny's memories, aubrey says that she wants pink hair but couldn't because of her dad. the other mention how they never met her parents so did she lose not only mari, but her dad as well?
She wanted to dye her hair pink because of Mari. They made plans to dye their hair each their favorite colors. Mari died before they could dye their hair, and a number of bad things happened. Aubrey’s friends all drifted apart, and her dad left her, which left her in this broken and violent state. She decided to dye her hair pink and go to church regularly so she could stay in touch with Mari. I apologize for any plot elements I may have gotten wrong, and I also apologize for my bad English.
@Rodent I dunno what it is about electric guitar that feels nostalgic. Some people say piano's or violins are nostalgic. Electric guitar screams "childhood" to me, maybe it was because I was born in 1999, most artists I grew up with were garage rock bands? Then the distortion in the music... makes you realize how many memories you've probably lost from your childhood, how all you remember are just bits and pieces, entire years shaved down to minutes. It's bittersweet.
i was emotionally abused by my parents growing up, and it caused me to become an extremely violent and distanced person. so when i got to this part of the game, seeing how aggressive and emotional aubrey had become because of what happened, it absolutely broke me.
The scariest part of this game is seeing yourself in one of the characters. I could see Omori in myself (never Sunny). Shut in, alone, quite, and cannot forgive them self for the past. This game broke me multiple times and I'd only be able to handle it for 40 minutes at a time..
@@Serenity_S3 while you can technically still loop it whit out doing this in editing software (ripping the sound files from the game then looping it), I find the asthetic of the battle menue being present the entire time I listen pleasing. This should be standard practice for all RPG ost uploads tbh.
Personally I like the setting the first day out provides, and shows the ups and downs of characters like Aubrey, Kel, Sunny and Basil are (leaving Hero more to the side for later but getting some info about him if we explore the city). From Aubrey's descent to a violent life as she filled her void after everyone became distant from her and finding out Basil wasn't a very good person with the easy thought of betrayal and using the bullies as her replacement friends (even more morbid when you think she invites all bullies to share similar activities as the group previously did). On the other hand it shown the negative sides of Kel, being a guy so dense and always judging the book by its cover since it's easier for him to cope keeping things as simple as they look and always opting for the easy solution, causing disaster while thinking he was right all along and forcing his righteousness in a very hypocritical manner in front of the others eyes, Basil being someone who is obviously foreshadowed to be hiding something and being awfully possessive of Kel and Sunny's attention once they return but using the premise of secret to antagonize him thinking that maybe he's evil on the inside, questioning his reasoning most of the time. Finally Sunny who we noticed he is so detatched from reality he could be a soon to become psychopath and neither showing much self interest in the situation unless forced by the player to act. This day show that there is no good or evil characters in this story and everything is gray.
The fight at the church is the consequence of all this factors coming together, Sunny and Kel easily depicted as Basil being the victim in all this situation without listening to Aubrey's side on the argument and the constant antagonizing by Kel (Who prefers to keep simple so it's his way of coping with things by not overthinking and taking simple actions) towards her has driven her to snap and start out a fight inside the church, which will mostly end up with her possibly never being allowed in here again (While the preacher feels like Aubrey needs help, the same sentiment is not shared amongst everyone else in the church who heavily wished for her to never come back).
Said in detail, I agree on some things. But I do not agree with the concepts: "good person" "bad person" "gray person". A real person - that's the right thing to do. Bad things don't make you a bad person, and neither do good things. It is more a struggle between the light, which wants the best for man, and the darkness, which wants to consume him. And you can see the darkness filling their minds, severing their friendship, hoping that they won't be able to recover. But, as we can see, in the end everything was fine, a Hero came who defeated the inner darkness and was able to help his friends, they supported Sunny, finally Sunny destroyed SOMETHING, accepted the truth and confessed everything, helped Basil (in the true ending, which I believe is TRUE, sorry for the tautology). It's pretty grim to call people gray. A person remains a person, and he is faced with a choice: light or darkness. Google translate text. It can be bad english
i feel so sorry for Aubrey as she's been forced into being his impulsive and unstable girl after not having any support while grieving for mari so essentially she had nobody so she turned on those she once had without knowing their stories
I feel like this song is a perfect representation of how distraught she must feel. It’s almost as if you can hear the pain and confusion in it. It honestly hurts to hear this song, yet I can’t get enough of it. It makes me so sad to see Aubrey this way... “it means everything”...
Also, i can imagine of Sunny told her the truth in the church, if she had not rejoined her friends while being told the truth i reckon she would murder him right there on the spot if she could. There also the fact that Sunny verry likely has a crush on Aubrey as clearly seen in the dream world, and there are lots of hints in the real world that Aubrey might have felt the same, not only did she losetwo of her friends one who ventured into hes own world and one venturing into nothing, her potential romance died aswell.
What this song/battle is all about: Former Friends fighting each other at the wrong place, in the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. This whole fight is wrong. All three of them are in the wrong. And nobody's going to win regardless of the outcome. This fight is anti-climactic (rightfully so), doesn't solve anything whatsoever, makes it more difficult for the protagonists to achieve their goals (even though they get the book right after this fight by some random luck occurrence). This BGM is just... perfect. The writing for this game... genius.
when i got to this battle i was absolutely in love and heartbroken, i love the church background alot and Aubrey sprites with that threatening pose especially with the theme it sets the tone alot it really feels like you're fighting an old friend that you forgotten
The thing that makes this song for me is the ghostly instrument playing the melody; ESPECIALLY the walkdown at 0:35. It's like angry tears rolling down Aubrey's face as she looses the one place that gave her peace, all because the people who abandoned her suddenly came back. It's like Sunny's heart sinking as the girl he likes tells him flat out that his sister is *_dead_* and that the old Aubrey might as well be too. It's like Mari's spirit, watching powerless as her brother and her best friends beat the stuffing out of each other again and again over accident and lies and misunderstandings. Only a hero could fix this mess.
But in the end, Hero failed to reach out to Basil... only Sunny could, as his best friend and accomplice... (By the way, I think Aubrey's feelings were never reciprocated by Sunny, judging from his follow-up moves in headspace - plus Mari and Basil were much more important to him)
This gives me chills, the music sounds distorted yet beautiful, aubrey is at her breaking point, she hasnt been able to rest for 4 years. I wanna cry, she feels so distant and lonely :(
Before you get upset at Kel for instigating this whole fight and interrupting Aubrey’s mourning, remember that it wasn’t him who walked through the church doors first. Sunny did. He chose to. Wanting so desperately to resolve things, to believe that he could make things better. Shame it went about as well as last time.
Ironic that the churchgoers were calling her a sinner who had no place there. We’re all sinners. If we weren’t, we wouldn’t need the church or our faith to begin with But sadly there’s still too many hypocrites who use their beliefs and religion to bring others down instead of up and it really saddens me Also dang I’m listening to this while typing and it’s making me tense up so much haha. This was such a sad fight
This is sadly true of so many professing "Christians" today. I don't think Omocat was trying to take a jab at Christians in specific, but sadly so many of them act like this. I applaud you for speaking the truth... we are all indeed sinners in need of Christ, and not one of us is any better than the others. Without Him, we're nothing. We're disgusting. Filth. Trash. Dirty Rags. Every single one of us, myself included. But yet, He offers us a way out of that. He reaches His hand down for us to grab so He can pull us out of the dirty pit we've dug ourselves into. And Aubrey came to that church for that, and... instead of trying to talk the kids out of fighting, instead of offering kind words of help to the kids, they acted so high-and-mighty, they judged Aubrey, Sunny and Kel.... even if Sunny and Kel don't fight back, they still get talked about by the other people in church. The church people could have done something to help these kids. Aubrey's house, if you paid attention, is a squalid ugly thing with trash everywhere and gaps in the walls. Where were these church people in her family's time of need? But yet, you see this kind of stuff RL too, people who walk into a church building every Wednesday and Sunday acting so Holy... but yet they don't do much of anything Christ did when He was alive. Christ would have reached out to Aubrey and the others, He would have wept alongside them, and offered to shoulder some of their sorrows. But... these church-goers did nothing. They did worse than nothing, they said hurtful words that wound and sting, the very thing the Bible says not to do.
@@Dhalin It’s really funny how easily people can get swept up in the words and teachings and how it makes them feel yet, extremely ironically, ignore what those same teachings actually are. Like, idk, what the heck did you (not you in particular, speaking in general) think Jesus was dining with sinners, teaching non Jews, rebuking self righteous Pharisees, and helping the sick for? Just to put on a show and make us feel good? Lol no. I mean that could be one reason but everything He did and taught were to be something we could apply to our own lives as His followers. Heck, we call them *teachings* for a reason. So we can *learn* from them. Like (pardon my almost French) did you even effing read the New Testament lol I do think part of it is a religion problem. Like, the concept of a religion. Religion so easily turns it into a set of rules to follow which isn’t bad in of itself, but it can very easily turn faith into “Do this” “Don’t do this” and other such things which then turn into us being hyperfocused on what we did do right, what we didn’t do right, how we did more right than others, how we present ourselves before God better than others, and so on WHICH IS THE VERY THING GOD’S TELLING US NOT TO DO! You get the Pharisees who pride themselves in upholding the law, and look down at those who are “”worse sinners””, and use their authority and status to excuse their own sin. You get bigots who look at one verse in Leviticus and interpret it as “Gays are going to Hell! God hates faggots!” (pardon my actual French) because they think homosexuality is a sin (I personally think it doesn’t apply anymore but regerdless) and homosexuals are much more evil than straights as a result. You get people who ignore the poor and homeless and those who need help because they’re too concerned about outward appearances and their own image to reach out to them. All because (imo) it’s been dumbed down in many areas as a rule book of Dos and Don’ts to follow while ignoring everything that involves love and forgiveness and being an example to others, not one who treats them poorly because they’re not you I mean my freaking goodness The Good Samaritan is all about helping others regardless of who they are. And a Samaritan was intentionally chosen because Samaritans were Gentiles, non-Jews. They were outside Jewish tradition and faith but Christ chose them specifically to say that we should be good to everyone, not just our own “kind” Edit: I think part of this was me unloading a lot of my frustration with religion in general lol sorry about my 95% rant
@@annaalexandra8715 It's not defeatist at all, if you look at it properly. To someone who doesn't hold those beliefs, I understand it sounds like that. It's all about humility, and selflessness. And we do recognize the good in everybody, but yet we also realize what what we call "good" falls way short of what God demands for Heaven. An easy way to try to make an analogy here, is go to someone who is in the lower to middle class. They keep their house reasonably clean, right? They sweep the carpets once a week, they might wash the walls down once every couple months and it's reasonably clean, right? They think they're clean, they're not trashy like someone who is a hoarder who lives in poverty, right? Take that same person and then bring them to a billionare's absolutely spotless mansion and you'll see the sheer difference. That's not to say that the person in the lower to middle class is absolute trash, of course not. However, there's a very clear jump in standards.
Imagine being the church people watching three teens stare at each other for 30 minutes One with a blank look on their face, one with a basketball, and one with a nailed baseball bat
GOD THE FACT THAT THEY MADE FUN OF HER HAIR IS CRUEL SINCE MARI WAS THE ONE WHO SAID THAT SHE WOULD LOOK CUTE ʷᵒʷ Cheese and rice I have never gotten this many like before thank you
i like how the track starts rather “calm” (well, as calm as those instruments can be), and more sounds start getting added to it, as if it were breaking down at the seems and overwhelming itself.
Can you imagine sitting in a church then three teenagers start battling two of which with actual weapons one of which with a basketball of all things and hearing your fellow churchgoers insulting one of these three people exclusively
Man, this gives me the big sad. Sunny and Basil definitely had the roughest time with what happened, and yet, I still feel like Aubrey was the one who broke the most. Maybe because her personality change was the most drastic of the group. And it makes me feel extreeemely f ckin bad
indeed, theres also elements that are ... relatable for me, i bet you have tried it aswell when somone you know changed into a person you could no longer spend time with or see. We just change over time, i mean think about it, how many have you not lost to time as it warped them?
A drastic personality change isn't the only indicator of who broke the most. Aubrey's change was drastic because she was the *strongest*. Basil and Omori were the most brittle and would break immediately from the sheer weight of the truth, so they withdrew as far as they could in a desperate attempt to protect themselves. It seems to everyone like Kel was the least affected, but in a way he had to stay frozen in time, not letting himself grow up and _feel_ the overwhelming despair in the aftermath, because he'd lived his whole life being the easy-going one, so not processing it shallowly was frightening. Hero fell into the despair Kel was scared of falling into. He lost his childlike dreams and first love in one fell swoop. He had to focus on how to live life 'meaningfully' and move on 'meaningfully' because it was the only option he thought he had, even though he didn't get to grieve proportionally to his sorrow. Aubrey was the strong one. Even when she was young and sweet, she was headstrong. She would bend but never break. She would feel deeply over everything, big or small. She never snapped out of despair in favor of lifting the mood of those around her, because in her mind, everyone put their mental states first over everyone else and abandoned her. They all broke equally, but internalized it, directed the energy elsewhere or wouldn't let themselves feel. Aubrey was the only one who bore it all head-on, that's how she ended up this way.
i dont really like the idea of comparing their trauma. who hurt "the most", who broke "the most" they _all_ were in a lot of pain. they just showed it and dealt with it in different ways. thats how real people are. just because someone is not expressive with their pain doesnt mean they dont feel it. and just because someone isnt expressing it in the "right" way, doesnt mean they arent expressing it.
@@bumbabees I mean basil and sunny had the most trauma tho, everyone had to live with mari's death but sunny and basil also had to live with the fact that they killed and staged a suicide of her.
I don't know if someone pointed it out, but the 4-frame-in battle sprite of Aubrey flashes with a orange gradient. The flash is the same as when the Dreamworld's bosses start to focus on one emotion (Sweetheart's colours start to turn into yellow and magenta only when she focus in HAPPY, ECSTATIC and MANIC). I think it's a visual indicator of Aubrey's actual mental state: she only focus on constant anger and hides her true feelings...
This scene was incredibly powerful. You could feel the years of suffering Aubrey endured, feeling abandoned after one of her best friends and role model had committed suicide, with the remainder of her friends drifting away. Now her back is against the wall in the one place she felt she could find just a tiny bit of peace from her grief. I got teary-eyed from how much this song drove home how exasperated she felt at that moment. Omori is probably the one game that has made me legitimately cry not only during it, but afterwards when thinking over the events after beating it.
@@sunflowerstrength Both general and the overly specific ones related to the game. In retrospect, i think that was the worst possible thing to reply to with towards the overly emotional comment.
Bruh, imagine a whole ass MOVIE being made off this game……but if they dont include THIS PARTICULAR SCENE WITH THIS MUSIC, i dont wanna hear a word about it.
I refused to fight back in this battle, and just guarded until I was defeated. It felt right. I refused to deny Aubrey this moment to just express and release everything she was feeling, she deserved that much after so long.
Undertale true pacifist players be like: (But seriously, I hate it that the game is so violent with the encounters. Imo every game should be like Undertale )
@@hackidreemurr I feel like it represents Sunny’s perverted sense of reality, where he’s convinced himself that the way to solve any conflict is through fighting during his Headspace adventures. Which, really bites him during the “gardener” fight.
I’m the final duet, Aubrey is seen missing a shoe and crying on the pavement with her new friends surrounding her. Most likely having lost her favorite pink shoe, the ones her mom had to work so hard for to get for her. She felt alone, but comforted by the new people around her. The small gesture was still small, but it meant everything to her.
The one parishioner who puts down her hair color fills me with an indescribable fury. Aubrey got her hair dyed because she was going to do it with Mari, because Mari thought she would look cute with it. Once Mari was gone, that was all Aubrey had left of her, and that person had the utter gall to criticize her for it.
Jesus was tortured and killed for going against the corrupt religious officials back in his time. Joan Of Arc was tortured and humiliated because of religious reasons as well. There has always been cruel, power hungry people in our religions. We need to call out those hateful people and make a loving world a reality. It's what Jesus wanted so much.
I remember just staring at the screen during this, like this part really hit hard that things aren't how they used to be and their friendship was changed. So many emotions like anger, sadness, bitterness, pain and reminiscing the past
god just something about this whole section of the game its just like... eye opening. ive never felt like i was in a whole new world in a game like this, and seeing the dynamics between the real world and the dreams and how sunny is making up for his actual life. just absolutely beautiful. only game that has ever made me cry. a masterpiece.
It's depressing how the churchgoers remark on how they feel sorry for Aubrey's mother, even though her mother is extremely neglectful and likely cares more about her television than her own daughter.
That's why I can't stand ignorant people irl who make assumptions like that. You'd think they'd have enough sense to try and understand the situation through communication, but alas...
I always say that the bat that Aubrey has used to be Mari's softball bat. It makes in headspace, too, since Mari still has a "bad knee" in headspace, she could have gave the bat to Aubrey after the softball incident and Aubrey was going to give it her back after her knee healed. Mari's knee never healed because she died. Aubrey couldn't give it her back.
A lot of depressing facts in the comments but here's a slightly fun one. Aubrey might not get banned since the pastor remarks how he prolly should scold Sunny and Kel for fighting during a Sermon but noticed that it seemed important, before giving a short tidbit on how he tried to befriend Aubrey whenever he could (and being called mean things by Aubrey).
So, listening to this theme again (I know I already posted on this video once), it just hit me.... you know.... there are two songs playing here at once, kinda. The first 20 seconds keeps looping throughout the entire piece (I'll call A), but then at 20 seconds in, this... other thing starts playing in the background. I'll call that B. A sounds to me like this "LET'S FIGHT!!" emotion but B to me sounds more.... like... some kind of inner pain that's crying out. Half of Aubrey's Mind is wanting to lash out in anger as these two who pissed her off. The other half, the one B is playing for, is the half that has been in total anguish as she was restoring the photo album, the memories are surely fresh in her mind of the friendships she lost and she knows (or rather thinks) that this is The End of the friendship. Kel shows up angry, Sunny slashed her with a knife, and now she whips out a nail bat in church and flies at them and 20 seconds into the fight she realizes.... there's no turning back from this. The friendship she had with these people is _over,_ it's done. Finished. There's no going back, and that part of her mind is crying out in anguish.
Music is a window to the soul. Distorted music fits a distorted soul. She's been distorted by her environment and no one has or is helping her recover. If the people around her didn't push her further into despair. If her dad was there for her. If her mom was there for her (though she needed support as well). If Sunny or Kels had been there for her when she was grieving, if they had stayed together, things could've been like the dream world. Everyone needs emotional support. Aubrey deserved emotional support. Without it this is what happens and Aubrey deserves to be pissed at everyone. She needs real friends: people who will support her. A place where she's not judged and feels safe. A place you feel safe, people you feel safe with, is what means everything.
its so insane to me how different dream world and real word aubreys are from each other. dream world aubrey is sweet,a bit lady like, and cute. real world aubrey is broken,hanging with hooligans and has a nailed bat.
this is an absolutely fantastic song. it just fits the fight so well, the theme of someone's whose life just hurts so much that they tried everything to find companionship.
It’s one of those cases when the longer you think about it the worse it gets, when you realise the weight of this situation no wonder why Sunny completely shut himself out of the real world
@@thesaddestdude3575 Yeah I've always wondered about that, wouldn't the nails just cut someone up a little bit and reduce the impact of the big ol' bat?
@@realtbhandrew Yeah that was what i was thinking! It would require less force to use in order to hurt on somone, but i think lethality could suffer as a result. But i also see alot of people saying how its fair that Sunny has a knife, while a knife is infact WAYYYYYyyy more dangerous than a bat! Don't get me wrong a bat is bad, but a knife is just so much more lethal. And its also alot more difficult to protect against.
This song seems chaotic but it's actually really sad, at least for me because it represents Aubrey’s emotions perfectly. I mean at that moment she was angry, sad, confused, frustrated, etc.
i love that this song sort of sounds like a echo - you shout for someone to reply, to have your feelings known and heard by someone else for it just disappears into the distance, a lost voice in a sea of emptiness.
When I heard this game had finally released I was hesitant to play it because I didn't want the hype to disappoint me, I was extremely good at avoiding all of the spoilers and important details and only barely saw clips/memes occasionally. I wish I had seen spoilers or knew the general story of the game before getting myself into it. I can relate to the story in ways, obviously not as messed up as Sunny's life, but I had a group of friends who I did everything with, and they were my only real group of friends. We had this Gardening club we'd go to where most of the time we'd just get to be taught about life and equality and wholesome stuff like that, occasionally we'd do gardening. I was closest with J and N in the group and would hang out with N literally every single day, we'd never get bored, rarely ever argue, and would support eachother whenever we were sad. At the time, she was dating J. When I was 18, and N and J had been split up for at least 4 months, I asked if she had any intentions of getting back with J, not wanting to screw that up. She promised she didn't, so I asked her out. Because I struggle to realise social norms, I didn't really think it would damage mine and J's relationship so badly, but it did, and we'll come to that later. She wasn't sure if she wanted to risk the friendship but after some thought and agreeing we'd not let anything ruin the friendship, we decided to try. It was nice and I was the happiest I'd ever been, I even slept at her house often and I got a job and was doing really good. Not perfect by a long shot, I was a dick at times and would get stroppy (I was never ever abusive, I just got into moods and would wanna be by myself for awhile over dumb stuff) But then her and J went on trip kinda far away for a weekend with a extracurricular thing, journey to stay in some castle for awhile to learn about history or something like that, and she texted me saying there's something we need to talk about, and she pretty much broke up with me then. I was upset but I figured at least we're still friends, tried to keep on with life. When they returned from the trip she avoided me constantly, wouldn't wanna meet or text, eventually she called me and said "I don't want anything to do with you anymore, we're not friends.". I tried asking why, she didn't have a specific reason. I tried apologising for whatever I might've done, she wouldn't have it, eventually put me on the phone to J who just repeated what she said and hung up. I've talked to her 2-3 times since and it's always been me trying to rekindle the friendship, her agreeing to try, and then never replying, it's clearly forced, and it's clearly not what she wants. At one point in a drunken haze I told her she was my rock, or a god to me, or something like that. That she meant a lot and I didn't know what to do, didn't have anybody to rely on when she dropped me and that I don't understand what I did wrong. After awhile I got mad and just decided to give up since it seemed like she was only trying to be my friend out of pity, but it's been 3-4 years since then and I'm still not sure what to do with myself. We'd even go to job interviews together. I didn't have any meaningful relationship with my family and still don't, so there's this void that I'm still unable to fill. N and J are married now I'm pretty sure, they got engaged literally a week after getting back together and they have no idea about what's going on with me I'm sure, which is okay. Anyways... I played this game and it reminded me of the old gang and I couldn't stop crying at segments like this where they would argue and fight. I finished it today and I'm as lost as I was at the start of these 4 years. I'm sorry for the long post, it's not worded spectacularly and it's probably not a powerful sob story but I've been dealing with it for 4 years and the only friend I've had for those 4 years is really disinterested in hearing me vent about it.
Man I wish i could say something to help, but everything I dan think of is so obvious i bet you already tried. I see this was a year ago and I hope things are better. Best of luck dude, hope you find a new "rock"
@@brianbailey4869 things are a bit better now :) I've got myself into a big community and it's helping distract myself from all the bad times, things aren't as bad as they were a year ago or the year before.
This is a true representation of the mental anguish that we call anxiety to the point where we can't even say I forgive or to the point where we can't say anything to anyone or ourselves so thank you for making a longer version it makes me well question why I even bother having anxiety
Funnily enough, this song right here is how I found the game. It was buried in my recommendations and now it's one of my favorite songs in one of my favorite games.
She did, it's supposed to be Sunny dissociating younger Aubrey from her older self, Sunny had a crush on Aubrey when they were younger, he feels absolutely nothing towards older Aubrey (you can argue he is angry at her for insulting him when they first meet but the game never shows Sunny's reaction towards that), so he is attempting to detach what Aubrey was when she was 12 to what she became here.
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so damn true
@@Serenity_S3 very
holy fucking shit is that Humble C. Webiwabo
@@pkfiremain710 Hinkale L. Wumbolitn
@@naiyamay2356 Dunno what you guys are talking about, it's obviously Honk G. Womblatin
"I kid you not the teenagers just stood in the church staring at eachother non-stop for 30 minutes without blinking."
"While moving at 3 frames per second"
@Neonixx (keeps staring angrily at each other)
@Neonixx AUBREY: we’ve been doing this for thirty minutes i give up *she would proceed to blink*
@@constellationmaker145 PLEASE STOP YOU’RE EVERYWHERE PLEASE PLEASE STOP
DELTARUNE, JOHN LAUREL, OMORI FOR CHRIST’S SAKE
PLEASE GET OHT OF MY HEAD ALFIE PLEASE
@@coolguymandudeD wheezes
It hits hard that the church was her place of mourning for 4 years and after this she can probably never return to it
Funny how she went to church for 4 years and yet the other church goers there were still distant and were assholes to her, what a horrible community and what a cold neighborhood.
@@余翊安-d2y pain.
At least she has her friend back to mourn with everyone.
@@windflier1684 Probably not after the true ending :/
@@余翊安-d2y amen to that
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Welcome, cuptoast
Woah I just wanted to listen to this song again
Didn’t expect you to be here actually
wait have u played omori?? omg
ayy hello crumb!!!! 😎
Sad banger tho 😔
"I normally don't allow fights during sermons but this seemed really important"
Shoutout to that pastor for being the only good person of the normal church goers that day
the pastor is the real mvp
As much as I want to grumble about the pastor *not* doing or saying anything to stop this fight... -_- If he had, and just sent them all outside who knows how much worse it could've been without so many witnesses.
For real, I actually liked the pastor cause he was concerned for Aubrey, understood that the church was the only place she could go to when everyone left her. His words made me very happy
@@AmericanDivaa As he said, it seemed like the fight was too important to be stopped. And it actually was, it was Aubrey lashing out 4 years worth of anger and grief towards two people who are treating her like she stole Basil's album for kicks and laughs when she did it because the photos were all ruined and she was trying to fix them.
Aubrey being such a caring and happy person in the dream world made her my favorite character, and seeing her reduced to such a broken and violent state really hurt.
Somebody really liked Aubrey? o_0 But I agree this arc is beautifully sad
@@ep5265 Why wouldn't you like Aubrey in the Dream World?
@@kurimiaisukurimu for me she was quite annoying
but this is just my opinion and I respect yours. maybe it seemed to me so because I loved Kell and Basil too much and she was in the way
and she was annoying to Kell
@@ep5265 i agree she was annoying and I hate how she was to kel
Funny because I thought Kel was sometimes pretty annoying with how he treats Aubrey. Still love all these kids, but Aubrey's personality is just the perfect blend of caring and outgoing while having a temper.
□□□□’s death meant everything, □□□□□□ felt abandoned by □□□□□, □□□ and his brother, and even her parents.
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MARI's death meant everything, AUBREY felt abandoned by BASIL, KEL and his brother, and even her parents
ty for the correction it is now just basil
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In the game's files this song is called "Anxiety". Holy shit, it's so fitting.
fits. Considering how anxious she gets due to the comments of the church-goers.
wow really?
IDK why but it kinda fits tho, because that's how I feel when I hear this soundtrack.
It's feel weird than the other soundtracks.
now that you mentioned it, there's another chilling song called "Anxiety", from Cry of Fear.
Spoilers below v
yea, you get it in one of the endings where Simon dies.
@@frisolaxod3835
Well we know how disrespectful some Christian conservatives can be lmao
@@goldenhydreigon4727 Tell me about it.
The guitar is basically the only instrument playing, apart from the percussion. Makes me think it represents Aubrey's mindset, completely alone. The warping of the instruments is likely a representation of her warped personality as a result of her belief that her friends left her behind when she needed them most. Damn good track.
THIS GAVE ME GOOSEBUMPS OH MY GOD.
OH WOW
So. If you listen closely, you can hear a distorted "Home for Flowers" I think.
The guitar is not the only instrument playing, but it is the only analog instrument playing.
"The guitar is basically the only instrument playing, apart from the other one"
Love and hate how omocat got church gossip right. Love the fact that there's obviously going to be sour apples everywhere, even in a place where you're not supposed to be one. Hate because these are probably the same people who claim to bring peace but just end up causing more chaos.
Exactly accurate to most Christian conservatives nowadays.
Key word: Most as there are a few actually good Christian conservatives, namely Scott "Should Not Have Been Cancelled" Cawthon
Actually it also happens on most conservative religion (i don't want to say what it is).
In my country, the one who is conservative always had something like in this Aubrry scene, judging and judging all the time even they claim to be a peaceful community, but the fact is upside down...
This is so sad..
it's crazy how omocat did it just right
@@goldenhydreigon4727 true dat
@@iqbalfebri4082 i hate boomers
"I go to church on Sundays"
Church on Sundays:
NAGITO KOMAEDA PN THE NINTENDO DS
Hmm yes, when i go to church on sundays, i do always see 3 Teens dealing with the death of one of their teen’s sister who was killed by one of the said teens, by fighting each other.
as a christian i can conform this
@@ortherner yeah dude
Relatable
I love how they depicted Aubrey during this fight. Four frames of a standby animation that change between an angry and sad expression. The music, the art, the animations, every part of this fight shows so much emotion. I really love her sprite.
Yeah, even with her tough outer facade, she is still hurting. Seeing Sunny and Kel probably only pushed that further because she's desperate for things to return to how they were but thinks she's too far gone to accept them as friends
You're right her animation is amazingly well done, they moved a few pixels between each frame and her expression goes from angry to anguished.
I can't see it. I'm blind :(
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i think my favorite part about this, is this is how Sunny sees the situation, meanwhile Kel is completely oblivious to it. It's crazy how much thought and care went into this game, and i love it so so much.
Imagine having to fight your childhood friend and crush oof that's tuff
*Spoilers*
I don’t think Aubrey had a crush on Sunny, I think it was only sunny who had a crush on her. In realworld there are no photos or mentions of Aubrey having affection for sunny that I know of. After conversation with Basil about how Sunny always asked to look at photos of Aubrey it’s evident that Sunny does have a crush on her. It is only in headspace do we see Aubrey show her romantic affection for Sunny, which to me seems a part of Sunny’s imagination
@@JoeyAlmonds Before sunny's sister died, I do think aubrey had a crush on him
@@JoeyAlmonds In the true route there is a couple of implications that Aubrey might've felt the same.
In battle, Aubrey always attacks Kel first, and for some reason she attacks Kel with more force than Sunny.
And I believe just before they go the treehouse, Aubrey said some lines yoh oftentimes hear between old, mutual crushes.
@@JoeyAlmonds she actually did have a crush on him, it’s implied in the fights in dreamworld, (she can deal stronger damage against enemies after omori gives her the thumbs up, which triggers a heart reaction and then she does effective damage) and she has said several very blatantly romantic remarks towards him. same with basil noticing how sunny acts towards aubrey
@@JoeyAlmonds also in the real world, i believe there’s a scene where sunny sits on the swings with aubrey and they talk together for a bit, i cant remember when or how it’s unlocked but i believe i found a screenshot of thst
One thing I just realized is how instead of the usual black that the outlines take, Aubrey's are a pulsating mixture of reds, pinks, and purples.
Unlike in the dream world, there's no simple colored haze that can represent her emotions.
Aubrey's feelings in this moment are too complex to be labeled as angry or happy or sad.
She's feeling furious because her friends left her when she needed them.
She's feeling miserable since the friends she has to face remind her of the past.
She's feeling manic and will do anything she can to make them feel the pain she's felt.
She's been feeling everything over the past 3 years and now she's finally letting it all out.
This moments means everything to her.
AAAAAHHH NOOOO WAIT THATS ACTUALLY GENIUSSS
Sometimes I think about how in Final Duet, the first scene where Aubrey is introduced is her crying on the pavement.
i always thought it was a scraped knee but looking at the final duet i don’t see anything
@@klatzack2427 oh i didn’t notice, thanks! and i just realized, maybe she didn’t cry because she was a child, maybe she was worried about what her parents might say. it doesn’t seem as though her family is rich
On the final day when aubrey finally joins your team, if you check the pinwheel in the area where all the streets meet you can hear the story for yourself in game :)
@@rachelc.357 it actually makes sense whyd she’d cry over that too, considering she’s from a poor family it’s most likely hard to get shoes with her financial state.
How do you lose a shoe? Does it like slip off into a gutter or something. I can get everything else, phones, wallets, hats. But a shoe?
Something I noticed is that in one of Sunny's memories, Aubrey mentions wanting to dye her hair pink, and how Mari wanted to dye her hair purple.
Then you go back to the dream world and realize something.
Every character in the dream world has purple hair, or some very dark shade of it.
The only ones who don't are Basil and Omori. Two characters who have a boss fight, and the ones who have a something. The two who orchestrated the events that led to any of this even happening.
Please stop I'm crying already
Your kicking me when I'm down
Not to be that person, but basils hair isn’t purple
@@ODogg4511 well Basil is the only friend with light colored hair, and he helped Sunny with..... *That*
@@Yawnford oh yeah that makes sense because sunny and basil have to deal with the something
Except Omori, and guess who doesn't have purple hair? Enemies or bosses.
JESUS CHRIST THE FORESHADOWING
There's something haunting about the emotional emptiness in Sunny's eyes amidst all this - is he sad that Aubrey's been pushed this far? Does he think that she deserves it after how she treated Basil? Does he feel an odd familiarity with her feelings of distress, of hatred? Is he thinking of HEADSPACE Aubrey, and wondering how far off he was from the real version? It's impossible to tell, and his detachment when Kel's frustration and Aubrey's anguish collide just shows how emotionally suppressive he's become over four years.
Heck, the entire scene just brings forth how Mari's death has seriously traumatised the three of them and if not, it shows them at their worst.
Kel, as kind and bubbly as he can be, took things on a surface and simplistic level, provoking Aubrey and pretty much being the reason why she won't be able to return here after the fight. This is only worsened by the fact that Aubrey was mourning Mari here and was trying to find peace, and from her POV, Kel just showed up, called her a thief and didn't care for her side of the story (the last part being pretty accurate). He's always been dense and has coped by being simplistic, since it makes acting and doing things far easier - it also makes getting people hurt easier, unfortunately.
Aubrey after being provoked shows her temperamental, grief-stricken anger to the entire procession, highlighting how without anyone by her side, she's had nowhere to project these feelings of regret, of loss, of sorrow and of frustration. In fact, these two showing up was basically the equivalent of throwing Mentos into a barrel of Coca-Cola; having her two childhood friends show up and fail to grasp her feelings, seeing her as nothing but a villain seriously broke her, and it's why she's lost all restraint in this moment. She's so little to lose at this point, so why not? Why not just let loose if that's all the future holds for her, in a place where no one understands her?
And Sunny is left amidst all of this, exhibiting nothing short of apathy, detachment and stillness. He never said a word during the discussion between Aubrey and Kel and may've been able to stop it had he mediated it well enough, but he lacked the will or confidence to do such and stood by while his childhood friends tore into each other, helpless. I honestly do think he feels sadness more than anything at the current moment, as he realises that the fantasy he's been living and reality cannot coexist peacefully, that he's been lying to himself to run away from any of the problems he or the others' might've had, that he's not the only one who's struggling to live after everything that's happened.
The fear of losing who you are, paranoia of being alone, frustration for being misunderstood, the emptiness of loneliness.
To them, it means everything.
This comment is lowkey making me wanna cry lol.
absolutely wonderful interpretation
@@pigen2693 Thanks :^) just got hit with inspiration while I was listening
I got the message of the comment, but i thought Sunny was selective mute
But damn it hurts so much
@@wolfroghost That is... actually very true. I do think he probably could've tried something in an attempt to alleviate things, but being mute doesn't really help that.
This sounds like all five stages of grief all at once in a beautifully melodic and sad way
it is what aubrey is going through though.
Except there is no acceptance.
Only anger.
Only tears.
Only rage.
Only _me crying because of all of these comments._
i saw a post once comparing all the characters to the five stages of grief once
@@randompromises1038 If she was a singular state she would be anger.
so basically, grief?
even after finishing this game, this one specific fight really stuck with me and im not sure why. what an amazing game.
True
guess you could say it means everything
I saw this as how the whole time they were making Aubrey seem like she didn’t care about anything that happened in the past and she wants to destroy the photo album but she wasn’t trying to get rifle of it because...
It meant everything
Same. It shows how far the group has fallen and its pretty tragic
Why you wouldn't be? it's one of the best build ups to a fight i've ever seen, i think it is what a perfect fight looks like, this is not a fight you are winning, despite the results, you have already lost this.
She really dye her hair to pink, but is lacking a purple friend..
you mean ▯▯▯▯
@@EpsilonLovesSharks Yeah, exactly
@@EpsilonLovesSharks I'm pretty sure he was referring to Mari too (she wanted to dye her hair purple before getting murdered by her outrageous brother)
@@fisheauchocolat9682 LOL
She also dyed her hair pink because it's Kel's least favourite colour.
besides sunny and basil, aubrey really had it worse. kel and hero had eachother and their parents, they healed over time. but aubrey had no one. the friend group separated, everyone went their own way, her dad died and her mom didn´t help her. she had to mourn alone for 4 years
edit: i wrote audrey instead of aubrey oops
When I finally saw the inside of Aubreys house i was like...o h
pain.
Exactly it's mostly bcs of how oblivious Kell is..
and it's fine to be carefree to a certain point but that's not how Kell was, but he was acting like a righteous person confronting the bullies about hurting Basil while not even understanding the situation and the fact that first off, they didn't touch him and second Aulbrey tried to explain what Basil did to the photos and why he's a creep for Kell to irritate her by acting like a stupid angel defending Basil who's crying just out of anxiety which definitely made her feel like it's useless talking to him bcs of how oblivious he is
I genuinely really feel bad for Aubrey I can't imagine having to mourn alone for 4 years
they all make me cryyyy so sadddd. aubrey's fight. hero's little piano cut scene. kels cemetery dialogue (made me cry the hardest ahsdabjsaja it hit home) the duet cut scene. the omori fight. basils dialogue in his house. the good and the bad ending. its all so saddddddddddd
Aubrey: "Sunny is a psychopath with a knife!"
Me: "Says the girl who brings a nailed bat to church."
In the description of her bat it says it's more dangerous/destructive than the steak knife
It's funny because in fight's we don't see her use it.
@@marblemojitomarblejack9874 True. Her bat would do a lot more damage than a knife, all things considered.
@@marblemojitomarblejack9874 Yeah. Aubrey may act like a bully and stuff but I don't think she would try to hurt people *THAT* badly
sunny literally killed his sister and agreed on basil hanging her
aubrey did nothing wrong she felt guilty all that time thinking she did something wrong that made mari kill herself
Am I the only one who really likes the smaller and less noticeable things in the game? Like when you enter the real world and notice all of the characters from the dream world, and the people and things that inspire how the dream world forms, it's like SUNNY can't tell the difference between the two worlds, and how Kel is angry while SUNNY isn't, he's just neutral. It just really shows how much care went into the game.
Pretty sure Sunny is just so emotionally wrecked after Mari's death, and how he spent 4 years cooped up in his own little world...... he feels nothing anymore. His emotions are gone. He doesn't say a word. Basil even mentions the blank look on Sunny's face and starts getting scared right after this fight. Sunny's just a walking shell of a person who's about to unravel entirely. And they start showing you this from the very second Sunny and Kel start walking around during that first day. They REALLY hammer it in with Basil's dialogue though. Ouch.
Yeah I love finding those too! One of my favorites was seeing all the pinwheels around his neighborhood, potentially referencing the pinwheel forest or the other pinwheels in the vast forest
@@paperfrog5509 I think it's the other way around -- the pinwheels (likely placed there by the kids who lived near those places) appear in Headspace because, well... the backyard and its treehouse are some of Sunny's fondest memories... but also bittersweet because Sunny's favorite tree wound up becoming where Mari would later be hung by Basil. Sunny remembers the backyard and all of its trees and he was 12 at the time, it probably felt like a huge forest to a 12 year old and there were pinwheels everywhere because, well, the kids put them there, and that's where the Vast Forest and all of the Pinwheels came from.
In the dream world, Sunny sees Aubrey as a more comical, sweeter person. In the real world, Mari was all she had and that was taken away from her. It's so hard to remember these are characters in a video game.
it never not gets to me how sunny clearly is struggling to live in the real world compared to headspace
Shoutout to the pastor for being an absolute G
ong the pastor deserves credit for this fight
The entire premise of Christianity is kindness and love. Sometimes that means letting things finish how they're supposed to. He absolutely deserves credit for letting it play out and letting them come back in with Hero to spend time at Mari's grave.
Ye he’s a decent guy
@Rusky Sevmor
More importantly, he knows that the church won't be able to give her the peace she needs.
@@ubilwilbur4775 It can but not if they do it by force
This song is actually titled "It Means Everything." (with the period). Because to Aubrey, it still does.
Trueee 👀
she's in her period funniest shit i've read
Just a small thing i noticed...
Aubrey met the group probably at that one scene in the Final Duet...
She was crying...and the others helped comforted her....
And with Mari dead, Sunny shut in, Kel and Hero left, and Basil hid away.....
Aubrey got the same problem except with no one to comfort her when she's crying for help again...
Man i love this game
MAN IM CRYING
dude this captures the “fighting a friend from childhood look how far we’ve all fell” vibe perfectly and it’s sorta heartbreaking
I Love that vibe
got reminded of this comment just moments ago. It does feel really heartbreaking
This theme and her Sprite just radiates pain and anguish
@@KEEsIndex yeah that's why I said that
Ikr
@@KEEsIndex woah
In that moment, Mari wasn’t the only one we mourned for.
Indeed, she was so broke. I can only imagine how she would react if sunny told her the truth right then and there. She would probably kill him if she could.
@@thesaddestdude3575 homerun
@@spoopyshark4964 Oh my god.
deserves more likes... T-T
@@thesaddestdude3575
Or if Basil told her.
This theme song really NAILS the point about Aubrey. Those four years made her into a BATTERED girl.
(this is depressing, I'm just trying to lighten the mood)
You really hit it out of the park with that analysis.
@@amperebat Aubrey really ran to home base after we beat her in the church.
This pun is OFF topic.
@@arurramoon1965 ...And this is why I believe that The Batter is Aubrey's dad.
@@ryanleatigaga7596 Makes sense.
The reason why I love this OST is because it represents Aubrey's mental state at this exact moment.
It's a cacophony of dissonant sounds, among which can be heard the same melody, playing over and over again. I can't really pinpoint this, but it has this "I must fight, but why is important and not important at the same time" feel to it. it's almost like Aubrey is pushing herself to fight Sunny and Kel, because she knows she is too far gone for things to go back to the way they were before. Plus, the way this song evolves is really interesting. It starts with this uneasy feeling, then those sound effects are added, making it sound like something, or someone, is wailing endlessly. Considering the fight takes place in the church, Aubrey's safe place, and where she could mourn... her death, and that she most likely won't be able to go back to it.
This is It Means Everything.
It's the rising anxiety, panic and rage bottled up in a mourning, scared teenager who's been, trying to go away from her past, but at the same time trying to go back to said past, finally reaching the point of no return and bursting out.
@JAMS Dream thanks for the info! I was right to say "most likely" -
fuck you for making me tear up reading this
If you go into the game files this song is called Anxiety. Actuate to your comment lol.
the word "among" ruined this for me
AMOGUS
I like how her idle animation doesn't look like just a standby animation, it looks like she's heavy breathing, like she's about to go insane.
All the rage, all the sadness, all the emptiness, all the loneliness, is all gathering up on her mind and broking her more than she was before. Plus the assholes on the church mocking her.
She's about to loose everything, or, she will just stop caring about all that, because she already loose everything.
And the song reflects that so perfectly.
Most idle animations kind of implying breathing, even The Group's icons have that.
Im with the church people on this one, its perfectly normal, if not a bit on the kinder side of reaction.
They were fine with her dressing and even bring a damn nail bats into the church, letting her inside if it gave her a peace of mind. Respecting her choice despite who she is and what she brings.
But all that respect is lost once she starts fighting with other kids, and swinging her nail bats around...
Player perspective knows that we (Sunny and Kel) are the one that escalate it. Still doesnt excuse that she choose to use her nail bats though, I dont see why should they tolerate further. Its a deadly weapon, and she shouldnt have bring one in the first place. It kind of betray the trust of the church people, that she is there for a peace of mind, not swinging around her deadly weapon.
@@meokayenglish8361the bat is for intimidation, she never uses it
@@DorkyTraits Hm, its been more than a year since I played it. If I remembered it right her attack animation shows a swing, not her sprite, but the effects when she attacks Kel. Heavily implies that she does swing her bat. Or was there an instance where its shown she didnt use her bat?
There are no villains in life. Only people.
thanks for the insight person with a zoomed in Ness as their profile pic
woah now.youre someone i recognize from the discord server
@Night Watcher - KFP operative 'Dark Sun' Dude wasn’t a person, he was a goddamn demon
@@Liuavano5124 Well said, Hemi
"Villain" is a value judgment of a certain group of people with a certain value system.
The first time you wake up and go outside is the craziest experience in the game. The dream world and truth you became accustomed to just falls apart as you explore more and more of faraway. It's the most devastating when you encounter Aubrey, possibly the nicest person you knew in the dream world, and find out she's become this violent and unapproachable person. It just doesn't feel right to go back to the dream world knowing what the real world is actually like.
cöcröch
Fr especially towards the end spoiler fool
Where we find out the pictures that were drawn over. Whole time I was like no, no no no this is not what I'm thinking it is, oh god please no
If you ignore Kel the 2nd time he knocks, you are back on the Hikikomori Route. Sunny gave up on the friend group getting back together after that Church Fight. I've heard if you check the Photo Album once you're in the Hikikomori Route, the pics are all markered out. AGAIN.
Also, how about that Mari hug as soon as you get to the Headspace Playground? Ooof. Once you know that Mari's gone, the first thing she does when you see her in Headspace is fly across the picnic blanket and wrap her arms around Omori it's... oof.
@@hyphon1377
I started piecing it together from Black Space's BEACH room.
Scribbling photos, and along with her quote regarding the album, "keeping it safe', and the key hole secret involving scribbled photos, it was obvious.
RW also has value from simply being valuable for being real.
"Wow, Aubrey is the worst. Why does she want to fight us? We're just trying to be friends aga-*
*Goes inside Aubrey's house*
_"...oh"_
:,(
@@StarryRiver3 How do you visit her house at first day? Knocking? No answer
@@akundaruratkalalupa9710 ok my bad you can't enter her house the first 2 days. The house i visited was kim's house
Yeah her life is hard
as someone who had a shitty childhood , that felt real and hit really hard .
"Look at how she's dressed, and her hair. Shameful."
true: its in a church
Jesus Christ didn't teach people to judge others by appearance. Those theists don't get the spirit of Christianity. (or religions in general)
@@adam17tt there are verses instructing women to dress modestly
@@Lumen_571 but Jesus also told men that having sinful thoughts wasn't the woman's problem, and even told the men to pluck out their own eyes if it bothered them so much.
@@sillycookie not exactly accurate, but your sentiment is correct.
Jesus told his followers that whoever lusts over a woman has committed adultery with her in his heart (Matthew 5:28).
As for your reference of Jesus telling his followers to sever their limbs or other body parts, that is mostly metaphorical. The heart of the message is that whatever causes you to sin, should be left behind. Obviously a body part doesn't really cause someone to sin, but Jesus is prone to speaking in metaphors.
i know that aubrey dyed her hair because she said she would do it with mari someday, but when i look at their headspace sprites i cant help but think she probably saw mari every time she looked in the mirror. they had almost the exact same hair. when you’re tagged as aubrey in headspace and talk to mari at the savepoints, she mentions how aubrey’s been taking good care of her hair. that kinda feels like it means mari is the one that taught her ways to take care of her hair. her hair must have broken her heart every time she saw it. i think thats the second reason that she dyed it pink.
So many brilliant theories omg.......
no stop im already crying
I sincerely love Audrey's design in the real world and her cooler personality too ... but I miss Aubrey sweet and kind
@@duwack7150 i fail to see a Tumblr alert chief
her personality isn't cooler in the real world, it's sad and damaged, the product of nobody to fall back to when experiencing trauma. contrast it to kel and hero who had a stable family, their ability to cope with grief lead their personalities staying relatively close to how they were originally. i'm sure aubrey herself would get rid of her new 'cool' persona in a heartbeat if it meant being able to go back four years.
@@Kizmmit_ I agree, i have tried several times in life not having somone to fall back to and when you need it. And it can wheigh on you harder than i thought. Unlike aubrey i reacted more like Sunny and became a shut in.
I have been it for practically 6 years now.
@GhostyGummy what did they say
Fam who’s Audrey
I like how the game shows such complex emotions by such simplistic means. I mean, these are several frames of a depressed-looking girl and a short music loop, yet it tells so much.
Well there's also the people in the church criticizing her and everything that happened before. There's already context on why kels angry and why they're fighting
Which conflicts with the simplistic combat, and said combat being a simplistic system too.
Not to forget how this trait you described isn't really re-used.
This fight broke my heart, the theme, the whispers of the church goers, aubrey feeling so unsafe that she lashes out, I was so reluctant to fight her. In my head I kept seeing that dream version of her, which might as well be a memory of her, and I think Sunny must have been thinking the same thing and it’s just...feels bad man.
I felt the same. I ended up just taking the hits and it was a valid way to play the fight
Mort Damn dude hell yeah. I mean I know when we meet irl Aubrey she gets framed as a bully, and she is ofc she has some faults, but the church scene...man I felt so shitty bc at that moment she was just someone who was grieving and deeply hurt.
I even blocked the entire fight, tried checking if I could give her Flowers. I didn't want to fight her at all
I literally just kept guarding
Yeah.
I want to know how she managed to sneak her bat in church
IT EVEN HAS NAILS!!!!
@Opecuted ah yes, America being America
mmmmmm well it's shown people looked down on her in the church, but they were most likely a little scared of her so i think they just let her carry on and go in with one, idk
You can carry a bomb in one in any religions churches.
@@uncanny3637 I did not expect you
In one of sunny's memories, aubrey says that she wants pink hair but couldn't because of her dad. the other mention how they never met her parents so did she lose not only mari, but her dad as well?
Yeah, I think her dad left her.
She wanted to dye her hair pink because of Mari. They made plans to dye their hair each their favorite colors. Mari died before they could dye their hair, and a number of bad things happened. Aubrey’s friends all drifted apart, and her dad left her, which left her in this broken and violent state. She decided to dye her hair pink and go to church regularly so she could stay in touch with Mari.
I apologize for any plot elements I may have gotten wrong, and I also apologize for my bad English.
@@lucassworldofletsplays9270 Im also pretty sure its said out loud about her dad once. I think it was the Church goers
@@netherfire50 yeah it was, when they said they felt sorry for her mom
@Dominic Docherty You monster!
This theme broke my heart for some reason.
@Rodent I dunno what it is about electric guitar that feels nostalgic. Some people say piano's or violins are nostalgic. Electric guitar screams "childhood" to me, maybe it was because I was born in 1999, most artists I grew up with were garage rock bands? Then the distortion in the music... makes you realize how many memories you've probably lost from your childhood, how all you remember are just bits and pieces, entire years shaved down to minutes. It's bittersweet.
It just makes my heart feel very heavy lol
i was emotionally abused by my parents growing up, and it caused me to become an extremely violent and distanced person. so when i got to this part of the game, seeing how aggressive and emotional aubrey had become because of what happened, it absolutely broke me.
The scariest part of this game is seeing yourself in one of the characters. I could see Omori in myself (never Sunny). Shut in, alone, quite, and cannot forgive them self for the past. This game broke me multiple times and I'd only be able to handle it for 40 minutes at a time..
...
i like how you just recorded the fight screen for thirty minutes like damn that's dedication
I had to do it this way because the video in OMO CAT's playlist doesn't contain the full track, so it was impossible for me to loop it :)
well this video's a godsend so your efforts are appreciated
@@Serenity_S3 while you can technically still loop it whit out doing this in editing software (ripping the sound files from the game then looping it), I find the asthetic of the battle menue being present the entire time I listen pleasing. This should be standard practice for all RPG ost uploads tbh.
No other way to extended with doing it yourself but you can bear where the cuts are being made to loop it perfectly.
Personally I like the setting the first day out provides, and shows the ups and downs of characters like Aubrey, Kel, Sunny and Basil are (leaving Hero more to the side for later but getting some info about him if we explore the city). From Aubrey's descent to a violent life as she filled her void after everyone became distant from her and finding out Basil wasn't a very good person with the easy thought of betrayal and using the bullies as her replacement friends (even more morbid when you think she invites all bullies to share similar activities as the group previously did). On the other hand it shown the negative sides of Kel, being a guy so dense and always judging the book by its cover since it's easier for him to cope keeping things as simple as they look and always opting for the easy solution, causing disaster while thinking he was right all along and forcing his righteousness in a very hypocritical manner in front of the others eyes, Basil being someone who is obviously foreshadowed to be hiding something and being awfully possessive of Kel and Sunny's attention once they return but using the premise of secret to antagonize him thinking that maybe he's evil on the inside, questioning his reasoning most of the time. Finally Sunny who we noticed he is so detatched from reality he could be a soon to become psychopath and neither showing much self interest in the situation unless forced by the player to act. This day show that there is no good or evil characters in this story and everything is gray.
The fight at the church is the consequence of all this factors coming together, Sunny and Kel easily depicted as Basil being the victim in all this situation without listening to Aubrey's side on the argument and the constant antagonizing by Kel (Who prefers to keep simple so it's his way of coping with things by not overthinking and taking simple actions) towards her has driven her to snap and start out a fight inside the church, which will mostly end up with her possibly never being allowed in here again (While the preacher feels like Aubrey needs help, the same sentiment is not shared amongst everyone else in the church who heavily wished for her to never come back).
Said in detail, I agree on some things. But I do not agree with the concepts: "good person" "bad person" "gray person". A real person - that's the right thing to do. Bad things don't make you a bad person, and neither do good things. It is more a struggle between the light, which wants the best for man, and the darkness, which wants to consume him. And you can see the darkness filling their minds, severing their friendship, hoping that they won't be able to recover. But, as we can see, in the end everything was fine, a Hero came who defeated the inner darkness and was able to help his friends, they supported Sunny, finally Sunny destroyed SOMETHING, accepted the truth and confessed everything, helped Basil (in the true ending, which I believe is TRUE, sorry for the tautology). It's pretty grim to call people gray. A person remains a person, and he is faced with a choice: light or darkness.
Google translate text. It can be bad english
i read "everything is gray" as "everything is gay" can i die now
@@xrainy_daysx9018 do u have stairs XD
@@DimkaDimkin08 y e s
i feel so sorry for Aubrey as she's been forced into being his impulsive and unstable girl after not having any support while grieving for mari so essentially she had nobody so she turned on those she once had without knowing their stories
Depression + Rage = Meltdown
That's the vibe this theme is giving.
I feel like this song is a perfect representation of how distraught she must feel. It’s almost as if you can hear the pain and confusion in it. It honestly hurts to hear this song, yet I can’t get enough of it. It makes me so sad to see Aubrey this way... “it means everything”...
Also, i can imagine of Sunny told her the truth in the church, if she had not rejoined her friends while being told the truth i reckon she would murder him right there on the spot if she could. There also the fact that Sunny verry likely has a crush on Aubrey as clearly seen in the dream world, and there are lots of hints in the real world that Aubrey might have felt the same, not only did she losetwo of her friends one who ventured into hes own world and one venturing into nothing, her potential romance died aswell.
Man, I just really love everything about this game.
What this song/battle is all about: Former Friends fighting each other at the wrong place, in the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. This whole fight is wrong. All three of them are in the wrong. And nobody's going to win regardless of the outcome. This fight is anti-climactic (rightfully so), doesn't solve anything whatsoever, makes it more difficult for the protagonists to achieve their goals (even though they get the book right after this fight by some random luck occurrence). This BGM is just... perfect. The writing for this game... genius.
when i got to this battle i was absolutely in love and heartbroken, i love the church background alot and Aubrey sprites with that threatening pose especially with the theme it sets the tone alot it really feels like you're fighting an old friend that you forgotten
The thing that makes this song for me is the ghostly instrument playing the melody; ESPECIALLY the walkdown at 0:35.
It's like angry tears rolling down Aubrey's face as she looses the one place that gave her peace, all because the people who abandoned her suddenly came back.
It's like Sunny's heart sinking as the girl he likes tells him flat out that his sister is *_dead_* and that the old Aubrey might as well be too.
It's like Mari's spirit, watching powerless as her brother and her best friends beat the stuffing out of each other again and again over accident and lies and misunderstandings.
Only a hero could fix this mess.
But in the end, Hero failed to reach out to Basil... only Sunny could, as his best friend and accomplice...
(By the way, I think Aubrey's feelings were never reciprocated by Sunny, judging from his follow-up moves in headspace - plus Mari and Basil were much more important to him)
I love the small details like Kel being automatically mad..it just makes the game 200% better :D
There weren't many of these details.
ikik two years late, but the fact that you cant change his emotions makes it hurt more
@@kylesimone6140
> Orange Joe
Besides, that's a normal thing, being angry.
@@a.k8185 i tried orange joe, it did not work
@@kylesimone6140yh thats because it's the real world, not the dream world.
This gives me chills, the music sounds distorted yet beautiful, aubrey is at her breaking point, she hasnt been able to rest for 4 years. I wanna cry, she feels so distant and lonely :(
pain. nothing but pain.
a little suffering and anguish as well.
Aubrey isnt holding the bat to beat up kel and sunny with.
She is just scraching her back
Before you get upset at Kel for instigating this whole fight and interrupting Aubrey’s mourning, remember that it wasn’t him who walked through the church doors first.
Sunny did. He chose to. Wanting so desperately to resolve things, to believe that he could make things better.
Shame it went about as well as last time.
As someone who's name is Aubrey, I suffer a little bit when people misspelled it
It took me a while to remember her name, but dang is it widespread.
No need to be so sour about it, Audrey.
@@Ender41948 oh jezus
my name transilated litterly means echo
That kinda sucks that people spell it wrong. Sorry about that auby
Ironic that the churchgoers were calling her a sinner who had no place there. We’re all sinners. If we weren’t, we wouldn’t need the church or our faith to begin with
But sadly there’s still too many hypocrites who use their beliefs and religion to bring others down instead of up and it really saddens me
Also dang I’m listening to this while typing and it’s making me tense up so much haha. This was such a sad fight
If it's any comfort, the priest doesn't think so, since if you wander around in other day, he says that it's a place for *everyone*
@@letsreadtextbook1687 Oh yeah I saw that. I got happy that he didn’t act like the other people
This is sadly true of so many professing "Christians" today. I don't think Omocat was trying to take a jab at Christians in specific, but sadly so many of them act like this. I applaud you for speaking the truth... we are all indeed sinners in need of Christ, and not one of us is any better than the others. Without Him, we're nothing. We're disgusting. Filth. Trash. Dirty Rags. Every single one of us, myself included. But yet, He offers us a way out of that. He reaches His hand down for us to grab so He can pull us out of the dirty pit we've dug ourselves into. And Aubrey came to that church for that, and... instead of trying to talk the kids out of fighting, instead of offering kind words of help to the kids, they acted so high-and-mighty, they judged Aubrey, Sunny and Kel.... even if Sunny and Kel don't fight back, they still get talked about by the other people in church. The church people could have done something to help these kids. Aubrey's house, if you paid attention, is a squalid ugly thing with trash everywhere and gaps in the walls. Where were these church people in her family's time of need?
But yet, you see this kind of stuff RL too, people who walk into a church building every Wednesday and Sunday acting so Holy... but yet they don't do much of anything Christ did when He was alive. Christ would have reached out to Aubrey and the others, He would have wept alongside them, and offered to shoulder some of their sorrows. But... these church-goers did nothing. They did worse than nothing, they said hurtful words that wound and sting, the very thing the Bible says not to do.
@@Dhalin It’s really funny how easily people can get swept up in the words and teachings and how it makes them feel yet, extremely ironically, ignore what those same teachings actually are. Like, idk, what the heck did you (not you in particular, speaking in general) think Jesus was dining with sinners, teaching non Jews, rebuking self righteous Pharisees, and helping the sick for? Just to put on a show and make us feel good? Lol no. I mean that could be one reason but everything He did and taught were to be something we could apply to our own lives as His followers. Heck, we call them *teachings* for a reason. So we can *learn* from them. Like (pardon my almost French) did you even effing read the New Testament lol
I do think part of it is a religion problem. Like, the concept of a religion. Religion so easily turns it into a set of rules to follow which isn’t bad in of itself, but it can very easily turn faith into “Do this” “Don’t do this” and other such things which then turn into us being hyperfocused on what we did do right, what we didn’t do right, how we did more right than others, how we present ourselves before God better than others, and so on WHICH IS THE VERY THING GOD’S TELLING US NOT TO DO! You get the Pharisees who pride themselves in upholding the law, and look down at those who are “”worse sinners””, and use their authority and status to excuse their own sin. You get bigots who look at one verse in Leviticus and interpret it as “Gays are going to Hell! God hates faggots!” (pardon my actual French) because they think homosexuality is a sin (I personally think it doesn’t apply anymore but regerdless) and homosexuals are much more evil than straights as a result. You get people who ignore the poor and homeless and those who need help because they’re too concerned about outward appearances and their own image to reach out to them. All because (imo) it’s been dumbed down in many areas as a rule book of Dos and Don’ts to follow while ignoring everything that involves love and forgiveness and being an example to others, not one who treats them poorly because they’re not you
I mean my freaking goodness The Good Samaritan is all about helping others regardless of who they are. And a Samaritan was intentionally chosen because Samaritans were Gentiles, non-Jews. They were outside Jewish tradition and faith but Christ chose them specifically to say that we should be good to everyone, not just our own “kind”
Edit: I think part of this was me unloading a lot of my frustration with religion in general lol sorry about my 95% rant
@@annaalexandra8715 It's not defeatist at all, if you look at it properly. To someone who doesn't hold those beliefs, I understand it sounds like that.
It's all about humility, and selflessness. And we do recognize the good in everybody, but yet we also realize what what we call "good" falls way short of what God demands for Heaven.
An easy way to try to make an analogy here, is go to someone who is in the lower to middle class. They keep their house reasonably clean, right? They sweep the carpets once a week, they might wash the walls down once every couple months and it's reasonably clean, right? They think they're clean, they're not trashy like someone who is a hoarder who lives in poverty, right?
Take that same person and then bring them to a billionare's absolutely spotless mansion and you'll see the sheer difference.
That's not to say that the person in the lower to middle class is absolute trash, of course not. However, there's a very clear jump in standards.
Imagine being the church people watching three teens stare at each other for 30 minutes
One with a blank look on their face, one with a basketball, and one with a nailed baseball bat
Oh yeah it happens to me
Except it was for 5 minutes and I took my ak47 to finish them off
GOD THE FACT THAT THEY MADE FUN OF HER HAIR IS CRUEL SINCE MARI WAS THE ONE WHO SAID THAT SHE WOULD LOOK CUTE
ʷᵒʷ Cheese and rice I have never gotten this many like before thank you
true. it's a reminder of her
Yes in the dream world everyone’s hair is purple (I think) because Mari wanted to die her hair purple with Aubrey but never got to
@@koxzumi9078 STOP IT,
I WILL CRY LOUDLY
"Maybe if you got rid of that pink yee yee ass haircut you'd get Sunny to like you"
@@lettucebros SHES MY FAVORITE IM CRYING TO
i like how the track starts rather “calm” (well, as calm as those instruments can be), and more sounds start getting added to it, as if it were breaking down at the seems and overwhelming itself.
Can you imagine sitting in a church then three teenagers start battling two of which with actual weapons one of which with a basketball of all things and hearing your fellow churchgoers insulting one of these three people exclusively
To us, it probably means nothing right now.
To her?
Mari’s death means *everything* to Aubrey.
Man, this gives me the big sad. Sunny and Basil definitely had the roughest time with what happened, and yet, I still feel like Aubrey was the one who broke the most. Maybe because her personality change was the most drastic of the group. And it makes me feel extreeemely f ckin bad
indeed, theres also elements that are ... relatable for me, i bet you have tried it aswell when somone you know changed into a person you could no longer spend time with or see. We just change over time, i mean think about it, how many have you not lost to time as it warped them?
A drastic personality change isn't the only indicator of who broke the most. Aubrey's change was drastic because she was the *strongest*.
Basil and Omori were the most brittle and would break immediately from the sheer weight of the truth, so they withdrew as far as they could in a desperate attempt to protect themselves.
It seems to everyone like Kel was the least affected, but in a way he had to stay frozen in time, not letting himself grow up and _feel_ the overwhelming despair in the aftermath, because he'd lived his whole life being the easy-going one, so not processing it shallowly was frightening.
Hero fell into the despair Kel was scared of falling into. He lost his childlike dreams and first love in one fell swoop. He had to focus on how to live life 'meaningfully' and move on 'meaningfully' because it was the only option he thought he had, even though he didn't get to grieve proportionally to his sorrow.
Aubrey was the strong one. Even when she was young and sweet, she was headstrong. She would bend but never break. She would feel deeply over everything, big or small. She never snapped out of despair in favor of lifting the mood of those around her, because in her mind, everyone put their mental states first over everyone else and abandoned her.
They all broke equally, but internalized it, directed the energy elsewhere or wouldn't let themselves feel. Aubrey was the only one who bore it all head-on, that's how she ended up this way.
i dont really like the idea of comparing their trauma. who hurt "the most", who broke "the most"
they _all_ were in a lot of pain. they just showed it and dealt with it in different ways. thats how real people are. just because someone is not expressive with their pain doesnt mean they dont feel it. and just because someone isnt expressing it in the "right" way, doesnt mean they arent expressing it.
@@bumbabees I mean basil and sunny had the most trauma tho, everyone had to live with mari's death but sunny and basil also had to live with the fact that they killed and staged a suicide of her.
I don't know if someone pointed it out, but the 4-frame-in battle sprite of Aubrey flashes with a orange gradient.
The flash is the same as when the Dreamworld's bosses start to focus on one emotion (Sweetheart's colours start to turn into yellow and magenta only when she focus in HAPPY, ECSTATIC and MANIC).
I think it's a visual indicator of Aubrey's actual mental state: she only focus on constant anger and hides her true feelings...
NGL this was the first scene that made me cry. Seeing how broken Aubrey was and how others treated her really broke my heart.
POV: You forgot to say Amen
why have i been seeing you a lot lately
Lol 😆
OH NO THE LIKES!!!
😂
I read this and scrolled back up to see Aubrey's face and it killed me
“I can’t believe she would bring a weapon in here, how uncivilized.”
This scene was incredibly powerful. You could feel the years of suffering Aubrey endured, feeling abandoned after one of her best friends and role model had committed suicide, with the remainder of her friends drifting away. Now her back is against the wall in the one place she felt she could find just a tiny bit of peace from her grief.
I got teary-eyed from how much this song drove home how exasperated she felt at that moment. Omori is probably the one game that has made me legitimately cry not only during it, but afterwards when thinking over the events after beating it.
Until you reflect on the problems.
There's a whole list, some crippling this scene.
@@a.k8185 Problems?
@@sunflowerstrength
Both general and the overly specific ones related to the game.
In retrospect, i think that was the worst possible thing to reply to with towards the overly emotional comment.
Bruh, imagine a whole ass MOVIE being made off this game……but if they dont include THIS PARTICULAR SCENE WITH THIS MUSIC, i dont wanna hear a word about it.
I refused to fight back in this battle, and just guarded until I was defeated. It felt right.
I refused to deny Aubrey this moment to just express and release everything she was feeling, she deserved that much after so long.
Undertale true pacifist players be like:
(But seriously, I hate it that the game is so violent with the encounters. Imo every game should be like Undertale )
@@hackidreemurr I feel like it represents Sunny’s perverted sense of reality, where he’s convinced himself that the way to solve any conflict is through fighting during his Headspace adventures. Which, really bites him during the “gardener” fight.
@@Internet_No_Body Gardener fight? 🤔
@@hackidreemurr Yeah, you know, the fight where you’re up against some half-eaten watermelon that stabs you in the eye with his garden shears?
@@Internet_No_Body Ah okay, got it
Pain
Agony even
Sorrow, if you will
torment, if youre so inclined
Anguish, if i may
This thread is pretty much an accurate summary of what playing the game is like
No better song than this to drive that point home as well
I’m the final duet, Aubrey is seen missing a shoe and crying on the pavement with her new friends surrounding her. Most likely having lost her favorite pink shoe, the ones her mom had to work so hard for to get for her. She felt alone, but comforted by the new people around her. The small gesture was still small, but it meant everything to her.
I'm a Christian. And seeing the people in the church talking to Aubrey like that genuinely hurts me. Jesus did not teach us to judge people like that.
Same
The one parishioner who puts down her hair color fills me with an indescribable fury. Aubrey got her hair dyed because she was going to do it with Mari, because Mari thought she would look cute with it. Once Mari was gone, that was all Aubrey had left of her, and that person had the utter gall to criticize her for it.
I'm mostly agnostic but as someone who studies in a Christian school, I'm just as angry as you
Jesus was tortured and killed for going against the corrupt religious officials back in his time. Joan Of Arc was tortured and humiliated because of religious reasons as well.
There has always been cruel, power hungry people in our religions. We need to call out those hateful people and make a loving world a reality. It's what Jesus wanted so much.
Same
I remember just staring at the screen during this, like this part really hit hard that things aren't how they used to be and their friendship was changed. So many emotions like anger, sadness, bitterness, pain and reminiscing the past
Not to mention the potential romance, there are lots of hints throughout the game and even one in the trailer.
And anxiety
Me, as soon as this fight start: "Where is the GIVE HER A HUG skill??!?!"
She would prob push you away due to how pissed she is
Somewhere in the soundtrack you can heart a distorted white space track. Sunny wants to go to safe place
god just something about this whole section of the game its just like... eye opening. ive never felt like i was in a whole new world in a game like this, and seeing the dynamics between the real world and the dreams and how sunny is making up for his actual life. just absolutely beautiful. only game that has ever made me cry. a masterpiece.
It's depressing how the churchgoers remark on how they feel sorry for Aubrey's mother, even though her mother is extremely neglectful and likely cares more about her television than her own daughter.
That's why I can't stand ignorant people irl who make assumptions like that. You'd think they'd have enough sense to try and understand the situation through communication, but alas...
After a while I can officially play this masterpiece on the piano
Make a video of it!
_Now add a violinist._
@@goldenhydreigon4727 Damn you.
Although I would pay money to see that.
I always say that the bat that Aubrey has used to be Mari's softball bat. It makes in headspace, too, since Mari still has a "bad knee" in headspace, she could have gave the bat to Aubrey after the softball incident and Aubrey was going to give it her back after her knee healed. Mari's knee never healed because she died. Aubrey couldn't give it her back.
A lot of depressing facts in the comments but here's a slightly fun one.
Aubrey might not get banned since the pastor remarks how he prolly should scold Sunny and Kel for fighting during a Sermon but noticed that it seemed important, before giving a short tidbit on how he tried to befriend Aubrey whenever he could (and being called mean things by Aubrey).
Finally a comment that isnt depressing
cöcröch
the pastor is a W
So, listening to this theme again (I know I already posted on this video once), it just hit me.... you know.... there are two songs playing here at once, kinda. The first 20 seconds keeps looping throughout the entire piece (I'll call A), but then at 20 seconds in, this... other thing starts playing in the background. I'll call that B. A sounds to me like this "LET'S FIGHT!!" emotion but B to me sounds more.... like... some kind of inner pain that's crying out. Half of Aubrey's Mind is wanting to lash out in anger as these two who pissed her off. The other half, the one B is playing for, is the half that has been in total anguish as she was restoring the photo album, the memories are surely fresh in her mind of the friendships she lost and she knows (or rather thinks) that this is The End of the friendship. Kel shows up angry, Sunny slashed her with a knife, and now she whips out a nail bat in church and flies at them and 20 seconds into the fight she realizes.... there's no turning back from this. The friendship she had with these people is _over,_ it's done. Finished. There's no going back, and that part of her mind is crying out in anguish.
Music is a window to the soul. Distorted music fits a distorted soul. She's been distorted by her environment and no one has or is helping her recover.
If the people around her didn't push her further into despair. If her dad was there for her. If her mom was there for her (though she needed support as well). If Sunny or Kels had been there for her when she was grieving, if they had stayed together, things could've been like the dream world. Everyone needs emotional support. Aubrey deserved emotional support. Without it this is what happens and Aubrey deserves to be pissed at everyone. She needs real friends: people who will support her. A place where she's not judged and feels safe.
A place you feel safe, people you feel safe with, is what means everything.
its so insane to me how different dream world and real word aubreys are from each other. dream world aubrey is sweet,a bit lady like, and cute. real world aubrey is broken,hanging with hooligans and has a nailed bat.
this is an absolutely fantastic song. it just fits the fight so well, the theme of someone's whose life just hurts so much that they tried everything to find companionship.
Aubrey: "tries to beat the shit out of Sunny"
Sunny dreaming 30 minutes later:
Aubrey: Let's go on an adventure... just the two of us!
It´s the way Sunny is coping with the fact that AUBREY changed so much
It’s one of those cases when the longer you think about it the worse it gets, when you realise the weight of this situation no wonder why Sunny completely shut himself out of the real world
hammers hit hard
*But the therapy bill hits harder*
Come to scandinavia we have free therapy.
And the nailed bat hits even harder
@@realtbhandrew A un-nailed bat might actually be worse though!
@@thesaddestdude3575 Yeah I've always wondered about that, wouldn't the nails just cut someone up a little bit and reduce the impact of the big ol' bat?
@@realtbhandrew Yeah that was what i was thinking! It would require less force to use in order to hurt on somone, but i think lethality could suffer as a result. But i also see alot of people saying how its fair that Sunny has a knife, while a knife is infact WAYYYYYyyy more dangerous than a bat! Don't get me wrong a bat is bad, but a knife is just so much more lethal. And its also alot more difficult to protect against.
This song seems chaotic but it's actually really sad, at least for me because it represents Aubrey’s emotions perfectly.
I mean at that moment she was angry, sad, confused, frustrated, etc.
i love that this song sort of sounds like a echo - you shout for someone to reply, to have your feelings known and heard by someone else for it just disappears into the distance, a lost voice in a sea of emptiness.
When I heard this game had finally released I was hesitant to play it because I didn't want the hype to disappoint me, I was extremely good at avoiding all of the spoilers and important details and only barely saw clips/memes occasionally. I wish I had seen spoilers or knew the general story of the game before getting myself into it.
I can relate to the story in ways, obviously not as messed up as Sunny's life, but I had a group of friends who I did everything with, and they were my only real group of friends. We had this Gardening club we'd go to where most of the time we'd just get to be taught about life and equality and wholesome stuff like that, occasionally we'd do gardening. I was closest with J and N in the group and would hang out with N literally every single day, we'd never get bored, rarely ever argue, and would support eachother whenever we were sad. At the time, she was dating J.
When I was 18, and N and J had been split up for at least 4 months, I asked if she had any intentions of getting back with J, not wanting to screw that up. She promised she didn't, so I asked her out. Because I struggle to realise social norms, I didn't really think it would damage mine and J's relationship so badly, but it did, and we'll come to that later. She wasn't sure if she wanted to risk the friendship but after some thought and agreeing we'd not let anything ruin the friendship, we decided to try. It was nice and I was the happiest I'd ever been, I even slept at her house often and I got a job and was doing really good. Not perfect by a long shot, I was a dick at times and would get stroppy (I was never ever abusive, I just got into moods and would wanna be by myself for awhile over dumb stuff)
But then her and J went on trip kinda far away for a weekend with a extracurricular thing, journey to stay in some castle for awhile to learn about history or something like that, and she texted me saying there's something we need to talk about, and she pretty much broke up with me then. I was upset but I figured at least we're still friends, tried to keep on with life.
When they returned from the trip she avoided me constantly, wouldn't wanna meet or text, eventually she called me and said "I don't want anything to do with you anymore, we're not friends.". I tried asking why, she didn't have a specific reason. I tried apologising for whatever I might've done, she wouldn't have it, eventually put me on the phone to J who just repeated what she said and hung up.
I've talked to her 2-3 times since and it's always been me trying to rekindle the friendship, her agreeing to try, and then never replying, it's clearly forced, and it's clearly not what she wants. At one point in a drunken haze I told her she was my rock, or a god to me, or something like that. That she meant a lot and I didn't know what to do, didn't have anybody to rely on when she dropped me and that I don't understand what I did wrong.
After awhile I got mad and just decided to give up since it seemed like she was only trying to be my friend out of pity, but it's been 3-4 years since then and I'm still not sure what to do with myself. We'd even go to job interviews together. I didn't have any meaningful relationship with my family and still don't, so there's this void that I'm still unable to fill.
N and J are married now I'm pretty sure, they got engaged literally a week after getting back together and they have no idea about what's going on with me I'm sure, which is okay.
Anyways...
I played this game and it reminded me of the old gang and I couldn't stop crying at segments like this where they would argue and fight. I finished it today and I'm as lost as I was at the start of these 4 years.
I'm sorry for the long post, it's not worded spectacularly and it's probably not a powerful sob story but I've been dealing with it for 4 years and the only friend I've had for those 4 years is really disinterested in hearing me vent about it.
Man, I hope you're okay
I wish you the best out there~
@@Serenity_S3 thankyou. I will be, I think I just need to find a new 'rock'.
i kid you not you literally recreated this entire fight in real life and you’re a chad for it
Man I wish i could say something to help, but everything I dan think of is so obvious i bet you already tried. I see this was a year ago and I hope things are better. Best of luck dude, hope you find a new "rock"
@@brianbailey4869 things are a bit better now :) I've got myself into a big community and it's helping distract myself from all the bad times, things aren't as bad as they were a year ago or the year before.
This is a true representation of the mental anguish that we call anxiety to the point where we can't even say I forgive or to the point where we can't say anything to anyone or ourselves so thank you for making a longer version it makes me well question why I even bother having anxiety
You know it's severe when KEL starts the battle actually angry.
Funnily enough, this song right here is how I found the game. It was buried in my recommendations and now it's one of my favorite songs in one of my favorite games.
Hey, 2 years in, still cant get over omori
Potential Soiler ALert:
just noticed the pair of HANGED GIRLS that are hidden in background chandeliers omg
Where? I can't see it
Me neither
Oh crap
@@potatt3782 Top left chandelier
Hmmm...
this ost is crazy good, we're talkin masterpiece level, we're talkin put it on a gold vinyl and ship it out of the solar system good
😂😂😂
Is it just me or did Dream world Aubrey get way more clingy after this fight?
She did, it's supposed to be Sunny dissociating younger Aubrey from her older self, Sunny had a crush on Aubrey when they were younger, he feels absolutely nothing towards older Aubrey (you can argue he is angry at her for insulting him when they first meet but the game never shows Sunny's reaction towards that), so he is attempting to detach what Aubrey was when she was 12 to what she became here.