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... Look. Basil was so shojo-protag in this manga & photobomb always gives me minor yuri vibes despite being a het ship, soooo

So a WHILE back; we saw a post an a tumblr-esc site that roughly went;

Pairings of characters that the fandom thinks are either siblings or dating
*insert photo list of ships here*

On that list, Sunflower/Sunny X Basil from OMORI was included.

We don't know when we saw this, we might've not even been into OMORI back then. So we assume the post was made early on when OMORI was just released cause, otherwise I'd have to say

"WTF are you talking about OP? Nobody views Sunflower as sibling-esc!"

The only fic on AO3 that we found that portrays Sunny & Basil as siblings, was a joke/crack-fic about how Hero adopted the entire main cast post-good ending, it was even joked about in-universe. And while it wasn't the case back then, Sunflower now is the 2nd most popular pairing on AO3 (and with how anti-allied the fandom is, I doubt anyone views them as both).

You know what OMORI ship DOES fit that descriptions though?

Photobomb/Aubrey X Basil.

I have seen on AO3 both fanfic that portrays Photobomb as either romantic or sibling-esc. The tags "Polly adopts Aubrey" & "Aubrey and Basil are Siblings" are not common, but are canonical & used.

The reason I think about this is cause I remember watching a video of some cinderella-based movie, & the reviewer called the teenaged protagonist moving in with her boyfriend's family as "pseudo-incestious". Which, okay those 2 are clearly meant to be late-teens, calm down. But I wonder if in a fic, Aubrey dating Basil while moving in with him would be viewed as "pseudo-incestous". I personally wouldn't think it like that, because they're both likely 16 in-game, and after the good ending they'd would likely need time to come to grips with the truth & become friends again, meaning they could be 17-18 when they would start dating &/or Aubrey moving in. Which at that point who should actually care???

So I have a bunch of plot bunnies, but here's one I actually have started an outline on.

Basically; it's an OMORI × Hollow Knight fic, specifically an OMORI main cast in the first wave of the infection. The POV character will be Aubrey cause of several reasons. It will follow Aubrey from making friends to having 3 friends disappear for 2 reasons which is really one reason, aka, the Infection. It will likely be largely a pale/QPR Photobomb fic with a bittersweet/unhappy ending.

This will likely also be a multichapter fic, since it spans a large amount of time in semi-detail. So likely this will take a while before I finish writing it. Then again; it takes a while for me to write anything ._.