Thoughts on Mewo?

[CalokAndQkourQcuarante]

I always wondered if Mewo was supposed to be a bigger part of the game, like in the real world, but was scrapped in that area because without her it emphasises the fact Sunny's alone in the house.

Because she seems important. She's in White Space, for one thing. The only living being there other than Omori (I don't count the red hands). A place where not even Omori's friends can enter. She even gives you a "hint" on how to wake up after the first Basil's house segment. Considering the whole purpose of White Space is to repress Sunny's consciousness , this seems actively against Omori's wishes (since waking up returns to Sunny's consciousness).

I wonder if this is why you're given the option to kill her in Black Space . Because she's opposing Omori's will in some way, and we probably know the fate of others who've done that, or who know too much. I don't think Omori only hunts down witnesses to the truth. He might also hunt down any sign that Headspace isn't real, and any reminder of the real world.

My theory is that Mewo only entered WS recently before the start of the game's events, as a sign that Sunny's consciousness is starting to peek through (perhaps because of hunger), just as more items in Black Space appear over time as you go through doors. Of course, that doesn't really explain why she's still there on the Omori route, but Sunny's consciousness isn't necessarily COMPLETELY gone.

As for the real world, I have no idea. I can only hope what happened in Black Space wasn't an indication of real life if Sunny saw Mewo as a 'witness' to the truth. I doubt it. Sunny would surely know she wasn't a threat.

More likely, she just left home when the traumatised family likely no longer fed her. Or she was kicked out because she left too many bad memories.

[LV-04 "Leelee"]

I've read a short story where the father took Mewo with him.

[Barikus]

This is a very interesting topic!
I would like to share my thoughts.

Let's start with where the game begins.

"Welcome to White Space."

"You have been living here for as long as you can remember."

This means that Omori has spent his whole life in White Space.
If you look through his journal in his laptop, all the entries are almost identical.
Nothing changes in Omori's life. He spends his time in White Space, or with friends.

Mewo always says "waiting for something to happen?" indicating that Omori (Sunny) doesn't want to change anything to accept the truth and stop hiding in an imaginary world. In order to change his routine and become a little closer to facing the truth, he needed some kind of reason, like Basil's disappearance.

Since Mewo is Mari's cat, she is closely related to Mari herself.
Maybe Sunny kept Mewo for himself in White Space to remember his beloved sister Mari?
Or maybe the cat represents Mari herself.

I remember a picture from Basil's album of Sunny resting in a box with Mewo.
Could this be a reference?
The box may represent that little platform in the White Space in which Omori spends his time.
Here's the description to the picture:

"SUNNY won't leave the box, so KEL put a food bowl inside.
I guess this box will be SUNNY and MEWO's new home."

When Basil disappears, Mewo hints to Omori how to leave White Space...

There is no reliable information about Mewo's disappearance. The room in Black Space, where Omori is asked to cut Mewo, perhaps suggests that Sunny blames himself for the missing Mewo.
By the way, the room looks like a vet room. I've encountered the opinion that Mewo was euthanized after Mari died.

It also reminds me of the very moment when Sunny killed Mari by pushing her down the stairs. Along with this, he broke his violin. After you cut the Mewo, the sound of the violin should play, according to the comment in the game files:

#*When MEWO is cut open, it makes a violin SFX.

What's interesting is that Omori doesn't have to kill Mewo. He can leave the room without doing so. Just as he might not push Mari down the stairs in a fit of rage.

If you choose to cut Mewo, she will disappear from Omori's white Space just as Mari disappeared from Sunny's real world.

Maybe Mewo ran away from home. Going through the game for a good ending, we will see a black cat at the crossroads, running towards Sunny's house, where we will later find the violin.

Interesting fact. There is an unused map in the game called "Mari's Request". It looks like Sunny and Omori fighting in White Space. After Sunny wins, Mewo gets up, approaches Sunny, meows, and then runs off behind the screen.

[gtgiygus]

I feel Mewo symbolic represents happiness. The cat hangs around Sunny in the past, when everything is good. After the "incident", the cat is gone.

At the end of the good route Mewo is shown running back to the family house.
We never see her in the real world of course, but it will take awhile for happiness to come back.

I don't feel the punishment room where you can kill dream Mewo is anything other then shock value.

[CalokAndQkourQcuarante]

Interesting ideas! I didn't know about the violin playing thing, or about the unused event (though this was probably just a way of having Mewo leave since she was in White Space). I'm personally going to hope she just ran away from home rather than... seeing a vet. If she was perfectly healthy, there would surely be no reason to, anyway (or no reason to persuade a vet with).

Whether she did see get euthanised or go missing, I agree that both could potentially make Sunny feel guilty.

I'm not sure Omori would want a reminder of Mari with him, since his intentions are to eliminate any reference to reality. In HIS reality, Headspace, Mari is alive and well, so there would be no need to have something to 'remember' her by. Doing so would bring evidence of Mari's death into HS, and he is completely against that.

I'm not sure if she represents happiness, being in White Space. Unless maybe she was one hope of bringing happiness into a place completely empty of emotions, much like how HS was made to achieve happiness.

As for the short story, is it official?

[LV-04 "Leelee"]

Originally posted by CalokAndQkourQcuarante:

As for the short story, is it official?

Oh, no just a fan made a tumblr post wherein Mari had glowing stars in her room and her father also took them with him, I think he missed one star that Sunny kept.