The Most Dangerous Thing Is To Love

I've been thinking a bit about stories like "Alice in Wonderland" & "Yume Nikki", stories that aren't stories.

To my understanding; both of these media were made without a plot in mind. The experiance you were supposed to get from them was nonesense. And both sucseed in this; "Alice in Wonderland" is in a way better of for being a "it's all a dream" story, cause otherwise it would've only been whimsy & frustration. "Yume Nikki" has a diffrent tone from "Alice", but still ends up going the same, only the unclearity of it's a dream or not helps the tone.

But

people still try to get logical stories from them.

From grimdark theories to fluffy fanfic; people try to grab the looks and/or symbolism that exists in these media and make a story with plot out of it.

I just, am fasinated with how much people like to tell stories. How much people love making refrences or allusions to things they enjoy. And it makes me wonder if when the 2 intersect, with a story without plot;

At what point is the original story lost in the new covering?

Here's my old DeviantArt post about my Basil Headcanon

Here's the decription with some typos fixed:

I'm aro-spec; I get to make the aro headcannons!!!

short answer: IDK man, I just think it's neat!

long answer: I thought it be great to have a aro headcannon where the aro character cared a lot for his friends (not that loveless aros are bad! they're great!). The more I thought about it the more it felt like a non-loveless-aro story. Basil is seemingly (at least emotionally) abandoned by his parents & mainly taken care of by his grandmother, and it's implied that he has trouble making friends. After Mari's death he is basically abandoned by all his friends (including the one he did a awfull thing for). While OMORI doesn't deal with amatonormativity, it is based on the IRL world, does likely having amatonormativity. Amatonormativity doesn't place high value on friendships, and by extension, the hurt of friendship break ups. Basil seemingly had to deal with the loss of all his friends to grief all while likely dealing with the trauma of not having his parents, thus worsing his already existing attachment issues. While he is not my favorite character, I do think he is intressting and, in my opinion, he´s made more intressting as an aro person.

even shorter answer: aro feels go brrr

more thoughts below;
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Shitty analysis of both Omori & my thoughts on him under the cut
(also obvi, but spoilers for OMORI, the game)
(note: have not consumed the game in a while, things might be inaccurate):

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So I was scrolling & clicking through Pintrest, cause, IDK pretty drawings & pictures & such. And I saw a image that roughly said according to my piss poor memory that only glanced at it:

"Character A & Character B are (either equally good characters or love intrests), you guys are just invested in hating A & loving B"

Now; I'm not going to say which fandom this was from, cause I don't want to argue how I view these characters. But B was a more popular character in my expiercence than A. It is something notable that A was a girl and B a boy (because in my expierence; fandom can just be like that). But in my expierence on AO3 (mostly looking up B x character C stuff ngl), A isn't really hated if you ignore the 5 yandere fics (note that this fandom is a game, with a fem & masc player-character. With the yandere fics being seemingly exculsive to the masc character. BTW the fem player-character is a lot more popular). But overall; A seems to be a liked character.

I don't want to say too much on if A is underrated, cause I don't really interact with the fandom anymore (or any), but I will say that that she does need more attention from me specifically.

This might be rich coming from an semi-ironic Jekyll & Hyde musical fan & unironic ¨The Glass Scientists¨ fan, but I'll die on this hill.

So for those who haven't watched the OSP video on Jekyll & Hyde (+ didn't read or understand the original book): the two were the same person, NOT a split personality. The OSP video's comment section kept comparing Hyde to Jekyll's shitposting account and/or an addiction allegory and I think that's accurate.

Now, maybe it's just me, but ¨dude who uses a magical disguise to free himself in a bad way only for it to bite him in the ass badly¨ is more interesting than ¨good dude VS evil 2nd personality¨. + It wouldn't unnecessarily feed into the idea that people with Dissociative Identity Disorder have an evil personality that will do bad things. Not that it can't happen, but to my knowledge it's an overplayed & harmful trope.

I'd think if the split-personality idea that stuck to the Jekyll&Hyde concept wasn't a thing; it'd be a very popular villain idea. I mean a man who uses strange science to transform into a new look to do bad things? That's villain shit!

Even if you wanna make Jekyll/Hyde a good guy or just morally grey, it's possible to twist it into something angsty. Like ¨this man felt so trapped in his life that he felt that he needed to be somebody else¨ and/or simply just make the bad things he wants to do not actually awful. You could focus on the self-destructive part of the story & the tragedy of it.

There's even 3 options for something modernized already there:
- evil/morally-grey magical girl/guardian AU
- straight up the alt-account thing
- & sketchy Vtuber

I just kind of find it sad that the actual twist of the book was lost in translation. But that's just what kinda happens to old stories.

For OMORI content I mostly go on AO3, and a thing I've noticed is that very few fics even acknowledge that Aubrey is, in the canon of the game, christian.

To me: It's one thing to not go deep into that, It's another to imply that she's not religious (which I've seen in a couple of fics).

Now I'm not christian myself, I grew up with such an upbringing but I've been basically atheist since my early teenage years so I don't usually count myself as such (especially cause I have as of now little clue what the general teachings are). But I am interested in others' spiritual believes and how it affects them & I am a little disappointed how little people seem to care how her religion might have affected/informed Aubrey's decisions/thought-prosses.

Now it doesn't come up too much in-game I will admit, but from what we hear it has affected Aubrey a lot. Besides bullying Basil because of a misunderstanding she coped with Mari's death by going to church for the past 4 years; in my opinion, she wouldn't have done that if she didn't genuinely belief to some degree in christianity. She goes to church after getting attacked with a knife, so to me that strengthens this idea that the church is important to Aubrey.

Of course, we see in-game that her relationship with the people she shares that religion with isn't the most positive: Besides her preacher who she calls names (for no reason given in canon to my knowledge), the other church-goers are very against her being in the church for being a delinquent (no one but the preacher seemingly noticing she might be troubled). So I can see why others would make it that Aubrey had mixed or even negative feelings about it after the fight in the church. But just because Aubrey isn't well-liked in her church wouldn't stop her from believing in Christ. She wouldn't necessarily stop believing just because others are douchbags, she might just do more private study afterward or something similar.

I'm not saying she's super-religious or whatever, she likely isn't, I just kinda wished more fics would acknowledge Aubrey's spiritual beliefs when/if they came up.