Poor Omi He Is Traumatized - Tumblr Posts
Do you think that seeing a successful world dominating Jack in Time After Time affected how Omi sees Jack? Has it made him more wary of being around/befriending Jack, having seen how ruthless he has the potential to become, or will Omi double down in the hopes that turning Jack good will prevent that? Or whatever take you have on it, of course.
Those deaths were extremely graphic, more than anything Omi had ever seen.
Omi watched Clay be cook and eviscerated by lasers, watched Kimiko be ripped apart by blade-like appendages, and watched Raimundo be crushed underfoot. All on Jack's orders. It filled him with enough hopelessness and guilt for this whole turn of events that Omi was prepared to just stand there and die himself, too.
Initially, I think Omi was just trying to suppress this as a future that, as long as he succeeded in his mission with Chase, everything would be fixed and everyone would be good and safe and happy, he could essentially compartmentalize the bad future as a bad dream. (And he definitely has nightmares of it often.) It was too visceral for him to think about too directly without just flaring up his urge to let himself die again.
But I think, after the mission is over and they're back in their timeline, and Omi comes to terms with everything he really just witnessed and experienced, Dojo and Chase's words help Omi turn that pain into the sort of resolve you mention.
"The future can always be changed."
Just as all this has made Omi more determined than ever to carve out a future for himself and Chase to be together through any means necessary, Omi will also take that philosophy and want to carve out a future where Jack doesn't grow into that.
He's wanted to be something of a mentor for Jack for a while, but after he gets back from that future, I think Omi will take that self-appointed role even more seriously.
After all, Omi also saw a timeline where Jack lives with the monks and sacrificed himself to let them get away and fix things. The world is a complex place, and sometimes destiny is out of one's own control. After all this, Omi's more than determined to see if he can be the one to place destiny in his hands, then.
He certainly wouldn't give up on wanting to reach Jack or on believing in the goodness in him, just like he didn't give up on wanting to be with Chase after watching what Chase made of the world in Finding Omi.
The nightmares of that dark future Jack will persist, but Omi's actually pretty good at suppressing what he wants to suppress.