Mari

MARI is a major supporting character in OMORI.

PROFILE

APPEARANCE

A girl with long, straight hair and bangs. In the DREAM WORLD, she has purple hair and eyes. She wears what looks like a variation of a Japanese seifuku.

In the REAL WORLD, MARI had black hair, black eyes, and wore a purple jacket or sweater over a white dress. She wore purple shoes.

As a spirit, MARI looks slightly older than her appearance in the DREAM WORLD. Similar to OMORI, she is completely black and white, and her eyes are sometimes depicted as white. She wears a long, white dress.

PERSONALITY

She's often spoken of as being kind and gentle and plays a sisterly role in the friend group with SUNNY, HERO, KEL, AUBREY, and BASIL.

Her first appearance shows she has a mischievous side, poking fun at KEL and AUBREY's mannerisms and afterward teasing HERO. Later in the game, it is also revealed she would pull pranks on HERO especially, such as putting bugs in his school desk. It is implied that she and Hero were in a relationship

It is also shown that she was a perfectionist, spending hours at a time practicing the same piano piece over and over again.

STORY

BACKGROUND

MARI was born to unnamed parents more than 16 years before the main game. At some point, her parents had her little brother, SUNNY. The two grew up in FARAWAY next to KEL's family. She used to play softball before suffering from a permanent knee injury.

Mari and Hero were a couple prior to her death, this is shown in Basil's photo album. Prior to the events of the game, MARI would spend a lot of time practicing the piano and taking college prep classes. Because of this, she would spend less time with her younger brother, SUNNY. In an attempt to spend more time with his sister, SUNNY picked up the violin again and the both of them would practice together often for an upcoming recital.

On the day of the recital, MARI and SUNNY had an argument due to MARI's perfectionism, which resulted in him accidentally pushing her down the stairs, killing her. Initially in denial, Sunny and Basil carried her to bed, believing she was unconscious.

BASIL, after realizing she was dead, came up with the plan to frame her death as a suicide. Stepping back into the house, both of them looked back at her corpse to see one of her eyes looking directly at them, traumatizing the children and haunting them in the form of SOMETHING.

Though SUNNY and BASIL knew the truth, everyone else was under the impression that MARI had committed suicide and blamed themselves for her death. As a result, their previously tight-knit friend group fell apart.