Player

Player Name: Fey
Other Characters (if any): N/A

Character

Character Name: Basil
Character Age: 17
Canon: OMORI
Canon Point: Post the True Ending. He kind of learnt from Sunny he shared the truth and that's where everything kind of went black, not a surprise considering he was hospitalized.
CRAU (if any): N/A
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History: Wiki here. I do suggest checking this page for trigger warnings, though, since Basil comes with a L O T of them.
Personality: OMORI SPOILERS HEAVY

Basil is, generally speaking, a very sweet boy. He loves plants, he loves flowers, he loves taking pictures and hes a genuine caretaker in many ways- but he's also very, very broken inside. If possible I'd rather split the personality in two sections: what people see and the turmoil inside him that does bring Basil to a very unfortunate fate in most endings.

What we see of Basil comes from three specific, tragic days of his life and what's basically... well, memories of him from Sunny and his interpretation of Basil in his own mind (Headspace). Basil is caring by nature, a bit shy and genuinely humble, often praising others and pushing himself down

He's caring, he's humble, and he has a strong passion for plants and flowers, taking care of them with love. He knows plenty about the language of flowers, the properties of plants and he's the kind of person who'd rather enjoy himself a good book (He canonically loves reading) with some herbal tea over a party, even if he loved spending time with his small group of friends.

He is mostly quiet, staying often in the background, and he is really good at hiding his own problems and worries unless he really trusts someone. Then... he may end up oversharing. Which may be an issue, because that's also when he starts growing unhealthy levels of attachment but we'll tackle that later.

Basil is overall a strong person, even if we see him in his worst days so we may get the opposite impression on first impact, and he is a protector ready to help those he loves no matter if he gets hurt in the process... but, sadly, there's a lot 'wrong' with him.

I wrote a bit about it in the permissions page so I'd like that to be a trigger warning on the matter, is possible. Basil has massive abandonment issues, hallucinations, depression and one his mind sets on a delusion, it's actually a bit difficult for him to step away from it. He'll put other people on pedestals while putting himself down, and sometimes this 'others are perfect, unlike me' can snowball into very dangerous territories. The most blatant example we have in game is his relationship with Sunny which is... complicated at best.

Basil straight up ends up setting up a fake suicide to 'protect' Sunny, he ends up convincing himself that it cannot possibly be Sunny's fault if Mari died and ends up covering for it any lying for four years, because Sunny is his 'best friend' and he 'would never'.  The obsession with sunny, which is something I'd love to work around  (to heal from it) rp wise, can be tied with a few things in their childhood:

1) sunny was 'safe' and listened, something he probably didn't have/couldn't have because he couldn't worry grandma and his parents were pretty much gone regardless. (Even when Grandma gets sick and is bedridden/close to death, they merely hire someone, Polly, to watch over her and their son instead of, you know, visiting.)

2) He may have some kind of heavy delusions and the fear of losing his friends got him to 'protect' sunny, with his isolation feeding into delusions over delusions where both he and sunny are victims of a monster no one knows about so they SHOULD stick together, right? It's painfully ironic how his fear of losing what he had ended up costing him everything.

3) He seems to have hold into the idea of 'when sunny comes out, we'll fix things' something that didn't happen until three days left and then his world breaks. sunny is leaving. Sunny even abandons him in the bathroom. Everything crashes.

He's surprisingly good at putting up a front, considering no one really seemed to know he had issues beside Sunny when they were kids, and the only reason we see the mask slip and how traumatized Basil is- it's because we meet him as everything is falling apart around him. His grandma is dying, Sunny is leaving for good (and, from his point of view, leaving him with a monster), Aubrey has been actively hostile toward him. he loses his flower pin after falling into a lake (a present from grandma)- everything is horrible and he snaps. But what people forget is that he kept it together for years, fighting a battle in silence, without telling anyone about anything and doing his best to protect Sunny, at least from his point of view. Even the 'ending' is an attempts of Basil to protect. He'll do all in his power to help those he cares about... hiding as much as possible his own pain.

Anxiety is a big issue for Basil. He has little levels of self-care, but he'll get nervous if others risk to get hurt. He'll take the blame for things he didn't do so others don't get hurt in the process, he'll actively choose to be hated instead of having others he loves be the target of negative feelings, but that doesn't mean this kind of things gloss all over him. He has a high base level of anxiety that rarely leaves him and when it reaches very high levels he may see things that aren't even there or have his own mind clouded with delusions.

He will still smile, he'll still do his best to be 'happy' in front of others, but he may also lock himself away and isolate himself if his stress levels get too high- which may culminate with him 'snapping'. This will not be anything against someone else, but his delusions and visions may make him do stupid things when that happens- like during the final battle where he 'attacks' Sunny with shears, trying to 'save him' from Something (the monster he believed pushed Mari down the staircase, the one he blamed for everything). He wanted to help, he ended up hospitalizing Sunny and making him lose an eye.

Overall things... are complicated. But on a surface level he'll mostly appear calm, composed and possibly cheerful as long as he manages.
 

- Headcanon territory - (Aka things that have a very loose relevance in canon but I still enjoy the idea)

• He is mostly vegetarian: We know his favorite food is Tofu and it's somehow fitting for him to approach a mostly vegetarian lifestyle, especially if he's ever forced to provide his own proteins. With his knowledge of plants, he'll easily be able to follow a relatively healthy and complete diet with a moderate amount of animal proteins in it.
• He loves spiders and bugs: We only really see it in Sunny's headspace, but he has a whole little speech about how spiders are friends, not foes (before being devoured alive by them. Thanks, Sunny.), and he seemed happy during their bug catching exploration if we read the picture description about it- I like to imagine that, being a gardener/florist, Basil knows a whole lot about the whole natural cycle and appreciates greatly the 'little soldiers' that protect his flowers from actual pests.
• After waking up in the hospital, not only he got the secret UwU moment with Sunny (which has a lot to unpack: Sunny canonically mentions not liking to smile but he does, there and Basil smiles back... even if he just literally hacked away Sunny's eye. The relief of the other still being there seems to bring a whole new level of 'messed up' to their friendship) but he also got to figure out the truth from him. I'd love to pick him taking the cut picture from his reaction to the truth as 'canon' (Here), aka: Basil knows he messed up, how badly, that there (probably) was no monster hiding in the shadows and pushing Mari and it's basically a new starting point for him, after the horror of what he did initially sunk in.

Initial Game Plan: Well, he will think he deserved to die. Unlike others, he may not settle to get his life back or whatever, but to help others during their path. He will need time to adjust, though, and at least some minimal level of social net before he starts being 'useful' (at least in his own mind)

RP Interests: Friendships. God, Basil needs friends so badly, even if he'll fully believe he doesn't deserve them AT ALL. He may keep things superficial in the beginning, too, not really sharing much about himself and mostly talking about plants and other things, but he needs... not to feel lonely. He dealt with that for four years, it'd be healing for him to have people around to care about and who care about him.

Mentors: he's a teen. He has an embarrassing amount of knowledge when it comes to gardening but there's a lot that he still needs to learn about life, so that would be so welcome.

For now I'm not searching, for the first month, negative CR because he comes from a very difficult time of his life, but I'll be more than open about them once he's a tiny bit more stable.

Preferred Job: From the proper list?  Physician, farmer or apprentice (he's still only 17).

Florist, Herbalist, farmer, anything related to healing with plants would be FANTASTIC. I'd love for him to mentor under someone in the medical field, especially, and maybe open a little corner for himself where to sell herbal teas- but that's in the VERY long run when he saved enough brass to do anything with it!

NSFW-friendly?: No. Even if he was to 'grow up' into an adult (he's currently 17), i'm not even currently looking for shipping with him at the moment (too much healing to be had) so it's a big no.


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