#different perspective

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Sprouted Influence is an Omori AU of which the perspective is shifted from Omori and Sunny to a unique Sprout Mole and a friendly Forest Bunny in Headspace. It is mostly a perspective shift, and most of the main lore and events in Omori stay the same! With few exceptions to give the AU a driving factor, explaination, and to conceptualise concepts we don’t see in the game, as we typically only play as a very specific character in the actual game in Headspace.

I was inspired when I was thinking about what the Blackspace creatures may have seen during their time in their dark part of Headspace, and it since extended to Headspace itself. Sprout Moles and Bunnies are the main reoccurring enemies in Headspace too, so I thought they would do amazingly as a duo of protagonists. It was also partly from when I thought about how Sprout Bunnies came to be…

I haven’t seen an AU like this before within Omori, and I think it could be a great idea to ponder on the more hidden aspects of Headspace and Blackspace we don’t get to see due to being who it revolves arounds in the actual game. It is such a good opportunity for extra lore, and to give Headspace more depth, for what it was to everyone and everything else truly living within it.

Sometimes it's hard. I KNOW things will be good. I KNOW things will work out somehow. I KNOW good things are right there for me to grab. But knowing and feeling sometimes don't match up. It FEELS like they are right there behind that door. at the end of this hallway

It doesn't seem that far away. In fact, it looks like if I reach out, I'll be able to touch the doorknob with ease. But as I start walking, I'm not making way. Like one of those hallways in dreams No matter how far I walk or run or even crawl I never seem to get to that fucking door. As I sit down and rest for a bit My back against the wall, catching my breath My eye catches a window that wasn't there before. Or maybe it was, but I was too focused on the door that I didn't notice.

he has the popcorn and foam hand with "JOJO" printed on it out, he's cheering when jotaro saves koichi and beats kira to a pulp in that one scene-

this all leaves him feeling very conflicted, of course- PFFF

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 ooooooo that’s a fun idea

What if Pucci ends up starting out of just general curiosity. After all, what was the life of the great Jotaro Kujo like? Perhaps he even tries using it to get some insight on Jolyne....... only to not find very much

This naturally sparks his interest. It's my headcanon that not only do the discs contain memories, but the emotions and thoughts attached to said memories. And as far as Pucci could tell in the few memories Jotaro did have with his daughter and wife, one of the most prevalent emotions was a feeling of endless love and devotion undercut by an almost suffocating anxiousness and a fear of danger

And the idea is almost laughable at first. After all, what could the great Jotaro Kujo, easily one of the most well known Stand Users in the whole community and arguably one of the strongest, possibly be so terrified of?

So he decides to go back to the beginning. To when Star first awoke and Jotaro first made contact with this world of Stands

The first two days were relatively expected but still a bit surprising. Jotaro naturally had no idea what was going on and reacted with fear, confusion and anger, eventually locking himself in a jail cell. Pucci couldn't exactly blame him for that, a Stand of Star's caliber would naturally be frightening to someone who wouldn't even know what a Stand was

But then Jotaro tries to shoot himself and this IMMEDIATELY draws Pucci's attention back with newfound interest

So he watches some more. He watches Joseph explain their family's history, Kakyoin attacking him only to save the boy from his apparent mind control, his mother getting sick and becoming his motive to kill Dio (and oh that last one strikes a chord in Pucci)

And after the first couple days and fights he grows to respect Jotaro, and even feels a tad sympathetic. He's still upset, but now he understands where Jotaro was coming from

.......but then it goes on and beneath all the power, he sees how much they all cared for each other. Every spike of terror and anger Jotaro felt when his friends were put in harms way Pucci feels like his own, he learns their jokes and laughs and voices, feels how the cold exterior Jotaro puts up fell away a bit with every day that went on.

And above all else, he sees how much Jotaro sacrifices for them. Pucci had known Jotaro was the self sacrificial type, it was the whole basis of his plan to lure him to Green Dolphin, but seeing it from this perspective? It hits differently. It hits differently seeing Jotaro throw himself off a ship to save a child he just met, hits differently seeing Jotaro taking blow after blow and not retaliating because it would hurt his grandfather, hits differently seeing him go off into the desert in search of the enemy alone to buy his friends time to escape

It hits differently when in the end, he faces Dio alone and stops his heart with his own hands

And Pucci feels something upon the deaths of Avdol and Iggy and Kakyoin and nearly Joseph. It's so strange, he thinks, to mourn people who died nearly three decades ago, but he does because now he knows them. They're no longer simply names Dio had mentioned in passing, they are living, breathing, feeling people

And as he continues he gets to see just how little Jotaro has had time to care for himself. How every action he took would have ripples, that his mere presence could bring danger to those he cared about, and how this led him to isolate and distance himself at the cost of his relationships and how in the end it STILL WASN'T ENOUGH

And Pucci is left conflicted. The perfect image he held of Dio was now thoroughly shattered, and Jotaro isn't the man he thought he was.