Kel

KEL is one of the main three deuteragonists that join OMORI's party in OMORI. When, tagging KEL as the leader, he gains the ability to throw his ball from certain platforms to hit objects otherwise inaccessible to the party.

PROFILE

APPEARANCE

In OMORI's DREAM WORLD, KEL wears a colorful tank top covered in multicolored squares. Like the others in the party, he does not wear socks or shoes and his hair and eyes are purple.

In the real world, KEL has brown hair and olive skin. He wears a basketball shirt.

PERSONALITY

KEL is very competitive by nature, always wanting to win games or races. He regularly argues with Aubrey. Even though he is loud and likes to annoy his friends, he genuinely cares about and protects them.

BACKGROUND

KEL was born to unnamed parents. He has an older brother named HERO and a younger sister named SALLY.

Since they were children, KEL and his family lived directly besides SUNNY's HOUSE. He, SUNNY, MARI, HERO, AUBREY, and BASIL were close friends and spent much of their time together. After the death of MARI, the group drifted apart and his brother left for college.

STORY

NORMAL ROUTE

DAY 1

Kel is the one to initially coax Sunny out of leaving his house, possibly for the first time in four years. Him and Sunny explore Faraway, eventually becoming motivated to help Basil to seems to be bullied by Aubrey and The Hooligans, the former of which has stolen Basil's Photo Album. They have a confrontation with Aubrey at the Church and are able to retrieve the Photo Album after they see her throwing it away. They return the album to Basil and have dinner with him before returning home that night.

DAY 2

The second day is spent with Kel and Sunny preparing for Hero's return home from college, gathering up various items and returning them to Kel's mom. Afterward, Kel and Sunny are approached by Polly who tells them that Basil has gone missing and asking them to find him for her. They go to the park, where they can hear Basil yelling for help from their secret hideout area that they used to visit before Mari's death. They enter the area to find Basil seemingly being tormented by Aubrey and The Hooligans. The Hooligans fight Kel and Sunny, and regardless of the outcome decide to leave. Kel berates Aubrey for bullying Basil and enraged Aubrey pushes Basil into the lake. Sunny dives in to save Basil, but is unable to swim, being saved by Hero who came after Kel's mom told him what happened. Kel, Sunny, and Hero take Basil back to his house. Afterward, Kel, Sunny, and Hero go to Kel's house for dinner and Kel and Hero decide to spend the night at Sunny's house so that he is less lonely.

DAY 3

On Day 3, Kel and Hero wake up before Sunny and do all of his chores for him. The three eat breakfast, and Kel answers a knock at the door, furious to see that it is Kim, one of The Hooligans. Kim states that she is worried because Aubrey won't leave her house, so the three head into Aubrey's house to see what is wrong. They go to Aubrey's room, where Kel and Aubrey argue until Hero intervenes and Mediates. The two apologize to each other, and Aubrey adds the missing photos of Mari back into the Photo Album. Aubrey joins the party and the group go to Basil's house, where Polly tells them he is visiting his grandmother at the hospital. The group visit their old treehouse and reminisce. That evening, they return to Basil's house to find that Basil has locked himself in his room. They decide to sleep over and talk to him in the morning.

SKILLS

SKILL	DESCRIPTION	SOURCE
ANNOY	Makes a friend or foe ANGRY. Costs 5 JUICE.	BASIC
GUARD	Acts first, reducing damage taken for 1 turn. Costs 0 JUICE.	BASIC
REBOUND	Deals damage to all foes. Costs 15 JUICE.	LEVEL 4
RUN N' GUN	KEL does an attack based on his SPEED instead of his ATTACK. Costs 15 JUICE.	LEVEL 9
CURVEBALL	Makes a foe feel a random EMOTION. Deals extra damage to foes with EMOTION. Costs 20 JUICE.	LEVEL 10
RICOCHET	Deals damage to a foe 3 times. Costs 30 JUICE.	LEVEL 16
MEGAPHONE	Makes all friends ANGRY. Costs 45 JUICE.	LEVEL 20
CAN'T CATCH ME	Attracts attention and reduces all foes' HIT RATE for the turn. Costs 50 JUICE.	LEVEL 21
RALLY	KEL becomes HAPPY. KEL'S friends recover some ENERGY and JUICE. Costs 50 JUICE.	LEVEL 26
COMEBACK	Makes KEL HAPPY. If SAD was removed, KEL gains FLEX. Costs 25 JUICE.	LEVEL 29
TICKLE	All attacks on a foe will hit right in the HEART next turn. Costs 55 JUICE.	LEVEL 30
FLEX	KEL deals more damage next turn and increases HIT RATE for his next attack. Costs 10 JUICE	PLUTO
JUICE ME	Heals a lot of JUICE to a friend, but also hurts the friend. Costs 10 JUICE	COCONUT
SNOWBALL	Makes a foe SAD. Also deals big damage to SAD foes. Costs 20 JUICE	SNOWBALL

TRIVIA

It's entirely possible that KEL's name was going to be different during production, as evidenced by older development screenshots where his name is read as KELSEY.