Basil, the camera, and the photo album. All significant points you should be noting down.
People use photos to capture moments that are temporary. You look back in a nostalgic sense and sigh, as time seems to stop and take you back to the good old days. These memories are important, even the ones that you wish you never experienced, it all adds up to who you are now.
There's a quote in the game, that you might recognise if you watched the 2020 Omori trailer. 'These are all our memories together. They're a little sad now, but we should be happy that they happened'. In my opinion, a fabulous quote, because it's true.
However, no matter how much you wish you could turn back time, reality will smack in your face and tell you to finish your English assignment before the due date. All we can do is treasure these memories, and taking photos is one way to do it.
Basil used to take photographs, ones where his friends were unaware of the camera focused on them. Shots of Mari teaching everyone how to make flower crowns, Omori and Kel giving up after countless tries, Aubrey getting watermelon seeds all over her face, Sunny playing his new violin that everyone gave him for Christmas, after he desperately wished to play with Mari.
This is what he loved the most, but it was all gone now. The only thing that remained was a photo album that he protected with his life, his most prized possession.
Change was inevitable, but a photo never changed, it always stayed the same, capturing a moment perfectly, a freeze in time.
If everything remained the same, he wouldn't have to worry about putting together the pieces, and his trust in Sunny would never be broken. But then the accident happened. He didn't know what to do anymore except harbour the secret that he kept hidden away in the folds of his heart.
Sunny wouldn't do that, it was a mistake...Sunny was a good person, right?
Convinced that his friend would never leave him, he buried himself in fake solace, but even that was torn away when Sunny shut himself inside his house and never left for 4 years.
He'd save Sunny, he'd get rid of the thing that haunted him, but it wouldn't work, it would never work, unless he got rid of his own.
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