#ill be posting an analysis of the hikikomori routes ending soon so follow if you're interested in that!

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[analysis] i would love to talk about the second black space with you all and how it contrasts to the first black space (omori spoilers ahead)

tw for suicide, hanging, and knives,

full analysis under the cut! i think it’s worth a read, reblogs are very appreciated.

the first black space is very confrontational, a bit abstract, and very disturbing. it has some terrifying imagery of suicide, hanging bodies, knives, and many other things; all of these being the root of sunny’s trauma. the black space basically spells out what trauma sunny has yet also has a layer of ambiguity, it doesn't spell it out like "the truth" segment, but it does if you look and analyze it hard enough. 

this heavily contrasts the black space 2. the black space 2 is filled with disturbing imagery, yes, but it seems like a more repressed black space. i was actually surprised how much less scary the black space 2 was, call me weird all you want for saying that, but i think that was intentional. 

the black space has locations dedicated to tormenting sunny with the memories that are slipping into their escapism world, such as rooms like the pain area, the backyard area, and the punishment area. these areas have very obvious meaning to both sunny who lived their meaning and re-players. 

in contrast though, the black space 2 has many new yet slightly familiar locations, such as forests, docks, yards, etc that upon replaying after knowing the truth, still hold an ambiguous meaning. 

the black space 2 is a physical manifestation of what happened when sunny had repressed their feelings and trauma and indulged too much into their escapism reality. the black space 2 is a bit less confrontational because unlike the route you find the black space in, the black space 2 is found after ignoring everything and living in your own little world. 

the imagery in the black space 2 is exactly what someone who only played the hikikiomori route would see; and exactly what sunny, who has repressed all their memories and all their emotions, would see. they wouldn’t see imagery of hints of a truth they never fought to pursue, they will only see glimpses of already long gone and long buried memories.  

in the black space 2, there is a door you can find at the end of a red maze that leads to multiple descending rooms with a ladder in each one. someone warns you not to go, but if you go anyways and you make it to the bottom floor, you will see a barely recognizable hanging black haired girl with a long distorted face in the darkness.

this segment physically show’s that sunny has buried the truth 20 stories down, and considering the only way to leave this room is to stab yourself, they would rather die than confront what they did. 

the black space is sunny’s suppressed trauma leaking into their world of escapism; while the black space 2 is suppressing that trauma even further until the very end, never accepting it, and never moving on - which is exactly what the sunny route and the hikikomori route strived to portray.

#omori #analysis #omori analysis #hikikomori route #sunny route #but hey #dont think this suppression of trauma fully worked in the end #ill be posting an analysis of the hikikomori routes ending soon so follow if you're interested in that! #tw #suicide #knives #hanging #my analysis