r/RainyMari

🌸🍇 As salamualykum & peace be upon you everyone ( السلام عليكم ) ~ it’s been a while hasn’t it? Hope everyone is doing well. My little cousins and sis all say hi :).

🤍✿ I don’t have much to say, other than I JUST found out there was a fully completed OMARI mod ( like 5 minutes ago ). I wont be playing it of course, since OMORI is still fresh in our hearts monthes after we beat it. Right now we’re playing Bugfables & Harvest Moon & Megaman together but I really love the OMARI art. I love OMORI fan art. It always makes me smile.

Anyway…see you all soon inshallah :).

Did you know the OG guy called the series "Weekly Rainy Mari Theory" not "Theories", that was pure stupidity, but I guess it's an indicator that it's the new series. Oar-hinge Joe.

Very Simple Edited photos by me

Title: To New Beginnings

Genuinely was wondering after hearing Mewo was in the trailer. Also this is like the most brief clip from the trailer.

(Yes I'm back, been obsessed with splatoon raiders and busy with a buncha stuff as of late lmao)

So, I was going through the old trailers, gifs and screenshots for Rainy Mari, since I wanted to get back into the swing of things after getting done with everything else going on in my personal life, and I remembered how much focus the trailers gave to the Moon at certain points, as well as its relationship to the Sun via that cave drawing I talked about in another thread a while ago.

So, I decided to make a theory based on what we see in Rainy Mari so far, plus what was established in OMORI.

In OMORI, the Moon, more often than not, represents the spirit of Mari, or represents the truth of what had happened to her, in various locations. In the piano room when Sunny meets her spirit and she apologizes to him, the full moon is on full display through the window. In the red room, when Sunny is ascending the staircase of hands in order to beg for OMORIs help in the hikkikomori route, you can actually see a faint shot of the full moon to the right near the start of the stairs. When Basil, on one day left of the Sunny route, is being confronted by Sunny on what they had done, he is seen looking out his window, at the full moon.

With all of this in mind, the Moon in the original game is a big ass double edged sword, being able to represent a reprieve in Sunnys thoughts and trauma when he gets to hear from the ghost of his sister, while also being there whenever his and Basil's minds are at their most frayed. Its both a good and a bad omen depending on the context, and has led Sunny to some good moments and some absolutely horrifying ones... which to be honest, does describe Mari herself in a vague sense for how she was when the recital started drawing near.

Now, what could this all mean for the Moon in Rainy Mari? Well, I think that the Moon is both a representation of everything Mari hates about herself, and a catalyst for the events happening in the mod that force the gang from having fun adventures and making sandwiches, into needing to stop a catastrophe that would eclipse Mariland into perpetual darkness.

I'll step back a bit and analyze some of the other details of the world before we dive into that though.

When we look into Maris headspace in Rainy Mari, we can see that her world is (very obviously) much different than Sunnys was. Its soft and simple, realistic with some fantasy elements mixed in, and (the biggest difference by far) it is constantly daytime. The only times where we see it is night, or dark, is when the gang are exploring caves, or some weird research facility. Everywhere else seems to be in perpetual daylight, not a single hint of the sun dipping by the horizon. I've discussed this in other threads in the past, but it makes sense: Sunny is her sunshine, the light of her life. She would want that light to exist in her mind in every corner, have it shine down on every aspect of her dreamland, and never let it be neglected or forced to set below an invisible horizon. After how neglected Sunny must've felt before his death, Hikiko would make sure that none of his light and kindness would be taken for granted ever again.

So what happens when the Moon is in the equation?

Even outside of all of this context, we all know the Moon is a symbolism for night time. It's seen as the suns opposite, and in some old cultures as its sibling. Despite that, we all also know that the Moon can be seen in daytime depending on its phase, and this is even present in the trailer itself in the 2nd Pic. The Moon is clearly allowed to exist in Hikikos Mariland, and her and Sunny are even admiring it over a nice and beautiful landscape together. Yet, I think this mood over the moon will change very soon in the mod...

As I said earlier, the Moon is both a representation of Mari and the truth, and her good portions and bad portions. Her constant perfectionism is what catalyzed the arguement between her and Sunny, and what eventually caused her death as well. Beyond even that, its presence was felt in Sunny and Basil's worst moments when they confronted their demons head on. Yet it was still Mari, still someone Sunny and his friends loved. His big sister that he cherished with every fiber of his being. No matter how much pain she caused him in her final moments, and how much grief and emptiness her death had left him, he cant seem to bring himself to hate her, or the Moon.

I don't think it'll be a similar case for Hikiko.

We see in the cave drawing in the 1st pic a picture of the sun, and what looks like the moon currently eclipsing it. There's alot to be interpreted here, but I personally think that this drawing is a bad omen. It depicts the moon literally overshadowing the Sun, blocking its light from reaching Mariland, and inevitably causing darkness because of it. When Mari was alive in the main game, her incessant practicing for the recital and brute force training of Sunny had overshadowed his other aspects of his life which contributed to his low self esteem and anger. He was pulled away from spending much time with his friends, he had to work with a tutor which he disliked, and he had this constant pressure put on him to not dissapoint his sister, his parents, or his friends, all because he wanted to play in the recital specifically to BE with his sister more, ever since she started to gradually distance away from Sunny when she started preparing for her life more with cram classes, practicing on the piano, and just generally acting more like a lone wolf adult at the age of 15.

This is what caused everything bad to happen in their lives, and what caused Mari to die by Sunnys hands, though if you're a believer of the "Sunny dies via suicide" theory for Rainy Mari like I am, then you'll assume that Mari has even more of an obligation to devote herself to Sunny in her dreams, like how I discussed earlier with what the sun and sunlight represents. And the moon is a direct enemy in this.

The moon, Mari, is the thing that took Sunny away from herself in the real world. Mari doesnt see any goodness and positive traits in such a vile object. It was the thing that eclipsed her Sunny from the world, beating him over the head over and over again just for a stupid recital, a recital that he took just to be together with her, until it pushed him past the breaking point. The only obligations Mari could have in the real world, such as college and careers, is only done for the sake of what is left of her family, her mom and dad. She doesnt do it out of the desire to prove to the world who she is anymore, its all just going through the motions. Shes truly dead inside, and the only lively part of herself to exist, is Hikiko, when she gets to be by her little brothers side.

This next part is going to lead into more unverified evidence and pure speculation, though I think it would make for an interesting plot.

I think, instead of a "Basil disappears and the gang has to find him" plot, the gang in Rainy Mari, in their quest for Sunnys perfect sandwich, and dealing with increasingly and highly unusual aggression in the local wildlife (possibly evident by the dog "Kiba" in the trailer growling at Hikiko in the 2025 trailer), the gang find buttermilk, and after finding her lost and frightened Mr. Chives, she tries to get to the bottom of why most of the creatures of the land are starting to become scared and aggressive.

She then explores the cave with the gang as they help her reach deeper and deeper inside, until they find the cave drawing. Buttermilk possibly sees some kind of prophecy written next to it about a world ending event regarding a terrifying, never ending solar eclipse. It would block the suns beautiful and warm light from ever reaching anyone again, and the world would be thrust into chaos as everyone is overcome with rage and terror. The only ones that seem to be capable of stopping it (as graciously taken up by Hikiko) are Hikiko and her friends. That will begin their journey across Mariland in hopes of finding the cause behind the solar eclipse, and either stopping it from happening, or even (in a pure Hikiko route) getting rid of the wretched moon entirely, so it could never hurt the sun again.

It would also tie in with the plant in Hikikos bright room. Other theories had been made by other great users here, and the one I'm subscribed to is the theory that it represents Maris care for the real world. Hikiko does not want it to grow, since her "care" is what caused her to hurt her brother and their friends beyond forgiveness. Its a vanta black plant, and grows in an "opposite" way: it thrives in the darkness, and cant grow in constant sunlight. Hikiko keeps it in a place suspended above the clouds, in direct, constant sunlight, so that its growth is suspended as much as possible.

In a more direct way, Mari is suspending her love for her real life friends, by having her headspace substitute for that love instead. If Mari starts reconnecting with her friends in the real world, her real life self gets some of her energy and life back, the Moon in Mariland grows stronger, and her love for her real life friends would literally have to "overshadow" her love for her fake brother in her dreams, since you can't live in two realities at once like that, and Hikiko wouldnt let anything at all happen to her Sunny, no matter what it cost at the end of it all...

Ze Orange Joe. Also to the guy that posted Moon/Eclipse theory, thank you for the inspiration.