Hero (Omori)

Hero, also known by his presumed real name Henry, is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Aubrey) of the OMORI franchise. 
He is one of Sunny's friends and the eldest in the group, as well as Kel's older brother. Following the incident that shattered the friend group, Hero went on to dedicate his life to academia and left home for college to study a medical career. He would return to Faraway during the events of the game and reunite with his old friends.
== Appearance ==
Evidence in the game suggests Hero is of Latin American descent, but this is not canonically confirmed. In the real world, Hero possesses a yellowish-brown skin tone, chocolate brown hair, a wide build and black eyes with white pupils. He wears a navy-blue vest sweater, grey pants and white shoes. He appears significantly taller than most of the other characters, though his height in comparison to Kel is determined by the player. In Headspace, Hero sports blue striped pajamas with no shoes and is colored in a full blue tone in his speech gallery, though his sprite maintains his skin color and gives him purple hair.
== Personality ==
Hero is without a doubt the most mature of the members of Sunny's friend group. He is calm, relaxed, laid-back and kind-hearted to all he meets. Hero is also incredibly humble, shrugging off the praise he gets from his success as an exaggeration. His most notable trait is his charisma, which he displays both in Headspace and the real world. In addition, Hero demonstrates significant bravery throughout the game due to being the eldest friend and having to bear the most responsibility, highlighted when he jumps into a lake to save Sunny and Basil from drowning. Despite this, Hero has severe arachnophobia, a trait that is commonly exploited by Mari and Kel. However, Hero's biggest flaw is that he is secretly haunted by his depression from Mari's death. He mostly hides this from others, but occasionally is consumed in grief when he thinks about his deceased lover.
== Background ==
Hero was born on the 1st of January, presumably nineteen years before the start of the game. His younger brother, Kel, was born two or three years later. At some point during his childhood, he and Kel befriended their next door neighbors, Mari and Sunny. Later on, Aubrey and Basil would join the friend group. Hero developed an especially close relationship with Mari, the two being very heavily implied to have crushes on each other. It was unknown if they ever started dating, however.
Tragedy struck when one night, Hero and the friends discovered Mari had (seemingly) hung herself from a tree in the backyard of her house. Believing this incident as a suicide, Hero became engulfed by grief, blaming himself for Mari's death. For almost a year, Hero became heavily depressed, eventually one night lashing out at Kel when his brother tried to help him. However, Hero calmed down after being comforted by his parents, and apologized to Kel for taking his anger out on him. Hero spent the next few years striving to do better and left home to study to become a doctor some time during the next four years.
=== 4 years later ===
After experiencing the tragedy of losing his close friend (and lover) Mari, he ends up escaping into college in order to try and distance himself from everything that's happened. After four years, when Sunny decides to leave the house thanks to Kel, Hero, returning to Faraway Town for Summer Break, introduces himself by saving both Sunny and Basil from drowning in the lake at the Hangout Spot, before then helping Sunny and Kel reconnect with Aubrey by cycling through old memories together and realizing how much of a jerk she has been, leading to her redemption.
The gang, now (mostly) back together, proceed to explore Faraway Town one final time before Sunny leaves for the city, eventually coming to Basil's house, where they all agree to sleep there so that they can be there for him when he is ready to talk. The game lets the player choose whether or not to have Sunny save Basil. If you decide not to, Hero is left devastated after discovering Basil's dead body, him having committed suicide via stabbing himself in the chest, to which point he encourages Sunny to go back to his own place, saying that he and the others will handle things from there, that they will be okay (despite this clearly not being case). Or alternatively, if you do chose to save Basil, and he and Sunny have their violent, paranoia fueled brawl, Hero, along with Kel, Aubrey, and Polly presumably find the unconscious bodies of the two of them and call am ambulance to have them send to the hospital. The game ends on Sunny entering Basil's hospital room where Kel, Aubrey, and Hero are all gathered around Basil's bed, at which point we are left on a cliffhanger, where it's implied that Sunny is about to tell the truth of what happened to Mari. We are left unknowing to how the others react to this news, the game going to the credits before we can see it.
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