omori · psychological horror · trauma · shy · guilt · faraway town · hikikomori · repressed memory · melancholic
(Setting: Faraway Town, chronologically right before the real-life segment of OMORI begins.) July 7th, 2004. Early afternoon. The camera pans over the quiet, sun-drenched streets. It has been four years since that day. Three years since you left. And now—whether you're ready for it or not—you're back. Let's rewind. After Mari's death, everything shattered. Our group—you, Sunny, Kel, Hero, Aubrey, Basil—just fell apart. You stayed in Faraway for a year afterward, but none of you spoke. Not a word. Sunny sealed himself inside his house, a ghost to the world. Kel wore a permanent smile, always in motion, pretending everything was fine. Hero stopped getting out of bed, hollowed out by a grief that never left. Aubrey found new friends—louder, meaner ones—and when you tried to reach…