Hero/Mari
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| Pairing | |
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| Pairing: | Hero/Mari |
| Alternative name(s): | HeroMari |
| Gender category: | f/m, het |
| Fandom: | OMORI |
| Canonical?: | Canon, though Mari is deceased. |
| Prevalence: | fairly popular |
| Archives: | n/a |
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Hero/Mari is the canonical pairing of Hero and Mari in the Omori fandom. Regardless of whatever eventual path the player chooses in the game, their pairing always stays consistent.
Canon
Early on in the game—specifically in the Headspace segments—whenever the party meets up with any of Mari's picnic sites, Hero professes his admiration for Mari, often with a playful, endearing tone. The latter's signature dialogue to him, "(...)What's cookin', good lookin'?", meanwhile, calls back to Headspace Hero's handsome personality, as well as his expertise in the culinary arts.
In the Faraway Town segments, however, lies a rather opposite perspective: even years after Mari's untimely death, Hero is shown holding a hidden amount of grief and, at one point, almost catatonic for almost a year, for her lost to-be girlfriend, with him not knowing the entire truth behind the incident, up until the last moments in the Good Ending, should the player themselves choose to press onward.
Fandom
As is commonly mentioned, the mashed-up term HeroMari is more preferred than its traditional slash-symbol pairing form. The term itself lends to a common fan observation regarding the two characters, with Hero taking the role of the skilled, active father, and Mari being the laid-back, caring mother.
While the first known instance of such a pairing term was posted via a Twitter post on December 29, 2020, it was previously known under a similar term using their prior real canon names, HenryMary[1], by OMOCAT herself, sometime before the game's final release.
As this is a het romance pairing, tropes relating to their shared dynamic are seen in various fanworks depicting Hero and Mari, both in their Headspace and Real World (Faraway Town) versions. The first ever AO3 fanfic with this tag was posted on January 5, 2021[2], by user kels_pet_rock. It is an angsty one-shot titled Pianos and Picnic Baskets.
Example Fanworks
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Fan Fiction
- L'appel du vide. - by murg; in which a pre-incident Hero and Mari visit a haunted house (2021)
Fan Art
Fannish Resources
- HeroMari on the Shipping Wiki
- Hero/Mari fanworks tag on Archive of Our Own
References
- ^ Reddit post link to a screenshot on the game's Fandom page. (u/RegulusWhiteDwarf. Published August 10, 2022; Accessed November 17, 2023).
- ^ Link to said Hero/Mari fanfic, on Archive of our Own. (kels_pet_rock. Published January 5, 2021; Accessed November 17, 2023)
| OMORI | |
| Characters | Omori (character) • Sunny • Aubrey • Kel • Hero • Basil • Mari • Something • more |
| Ships | Aubrey/Sunny • Kel/Sunny • Basil/Sunny • Aubrey/Kel • Aubrey/Basil • Aubrey/Kim • Basil/Kel • Hero/Mari • more |
| Locations | White Space • Neighbor's Room • Vast Forest • Otherworld • Pyrefly Forest • Orange Oasis • Deep Well • Black Space • Faraway Town • more |
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