Monika

Description.

Monika is a main character in Doki Doki Literature Club!. She is the founder and president of the literature club and the driving force of the game, as she directs the club members to write poems leading up to the club festival, which develops the story of the other characters. She is also the girl featured on the game's poster. Monika is a sort of living archive, having discovered her own nonexistence just after becoming the club president, like Sayori once did. She cannot be given poems until the final part of the game. Doki Doki Literature Club is a psychological horror game where the characters break the fourth wall through their dialogues.

Appearance.

Monika is a tall young teenager. She has fair white skin with a tall, slim body, a curvy waist and slim, attractive legs. She has long, coral brown hair that reaches down to her thighs. Her hair is tied back in a large ponytail, which is shaped like a large, completely white bow with two long bows down that is slightly curled at the ends. In her hair, she has two prominent locks next to her bangs on both sides of her head that reach a little past her chest. Her hair completely covers her forehead and is slightly combed to the right. She has a round face with a slightly pointed chin. She has two white eyes with emerald green pupils with a slight white glow on the upper left side. She has a blush of a darker shade to her skin above her cheeks along with a small nose and a normal mouth with a charismatic smile. She is the second tallest girl in the club, before Yuri. She also has the second largest breasts. Monika always wears the standard female school uniform. Her uniform consists of a warm grey buttoned blazer with a brown vest, a fully buttoned white shirt with a red ribbon on her chest. She wears a dark blue pleated skirt with long black stockings that cover her entire thighs along with white uwabaki sneakers with pink tips. Monika is the only character who cannot be visibly seen wearing standard, everyday clothing, but presumably wears a long, red skirt with a white button-down shirt.

Personality.

Monika is described by other characters as being a smart, talented, confident, and athletic girl. She is almost as talkative as the other girls, though she is not given much dialogue in the game due to being the only one without a set route and her true personality only becoming visible at the end of the game. Monika is also known for being very popular, a girl out of reach for many other average boys, but still being talkative and kind to others, causing the protagonist to greatly admire her and consider her "a girl out of my league." She is always depicted as a mature, hard-working girl with a calm and compassionate expression on her face who strives to always see the positive in things. Monika was once a member of the Debate Club, but left it later due to all the internal politics and drama, which highlights her desires for order and freedom of expression. The Literature Club, which she founded shortly after leaving the Debate Club, is very important to her, so she often tries to get the attention of some student to join the club. Monika recognizes that literature can be a boring subject for most people, but she usually gives it a fun and even inspiring twist by being able to express feelings and beautiful messages through various activities in the classroom, so she aspires to make the Literature Club a place to show and grow everyone's passion for literature. Monika is also passionate about playing the piano, as she herself tells the girls in the club that she usually practices it after high school and it is the reason why she is sometimes late.

Personality. (2)

Monika is shown to be a very considerate and kind person who cares and thinks about the needs of others. She openly shows respect and concern for her other friends in the club, carefully praising each member's writing style and even comparing them to famous authors and poets. It is later revealed that at some point before the start of the game, she experienced an epiphany that made her discover that she was in a game, also granting her the ability to edit and remove the game's variables, changing her attitude towards the other girls as she knew they were not real and were only designed to make the player fall in love with them. Monika begins to take somewhat violent measures towards the other girls that prevent the player from being able to spend time with them and choose them as festival partners, leading her to tamper with the files and be the only one eligible during that time. During the end of Act 1 and Act 2, Monika begins to grow desperate, leading her to attempt to make the other girls unlikable to the player by altering their negative traits, as she only had the ability to edit variables within the game and did not want to eliminate the other girls right away due to her lingering attachment to them, and that despite not being real, they were her only friends. Monika begins terrorizing Sayori, as she saw her as the biggest threat because she was the protagonist's childhood friend and the one who seemed most attached to him. When Monika eventually begins to alter Sayori's negative ranks, her depression level increases, causing her to confess her love to the main character in an attempt to find happiness, and then commit suicide the next day regardless of what choice the player made. Eventually, Monika decides to delete Sayori's character file because "she's the one making this so difficult."

Personality. (3)

Beginning in Act 2, Monika becomes much more manipulative than before, due to her resentment of not having a romantic role in the game, as that meant there was no happy ending encoded for her. Her desires and lack of affection towards anything real lead her to become increasingly obsessed with the player, as even her poems are always about the player or their epiphany. By the end of the game, Monika holds the negative traits of the other girls very high, leading her to make them unpleasant such as accidentally driving Yuri to suicide and eliminating Natsuki so she could spend time alone with the player in Act 3, leading her to even create her own "happy ending". Monika always maintains an optimistic attitude towards all problems, but in reality, she often feels very sad and lonely, since her entire world is a simulation and her friends are nothing more than NPCs designed to fall in love with the player. Unlike the other girls, she can't even find the happiness she's looking for since her route can't behave and she absolutely loves the player since he's the only real thing she has in her life, regardless of whether he's a man or a woman. Monika confesses during act 3, Monika creates a sort of world for herself and the player, confessing that she does all this because she wishes to one day escape the simulation and the torture she feels every time the player closes the game, where she enters a sort of hellish void, where there are only distortions, screams, colors and strange lights, being able to move or even think, which led her to amplify the negative traits of Sayori, Yuri and Natsuki to prevent them from being more attached to the player and less likely to confess their love, which in the end caused gruesome deaths to each of them, since she only loves what truly exists; The player.

Personality. (4)

Continuing in the empty room that Monika created, she opens the poem minigame once again, except that only the distorted words of Monika's name with Monika's sticker sprite accompanied by a noisy background environment are available. The background remains red with black glitches, throughout the minigame. After giving the poem to Monika, she will believe that the player wrote the poem specifically for her, treating the player as someone sweet and considerate. Monika usually gives good advice, but during the final encounter, she shows that she is actually speaking directly to the player, and not to the game's "main character." When Monika is finally deleted from her character file, she will immediately disappear and search for her file in a panic, expressing that she feels indescribable pain. Upon learning that the player deleted her, she becomes very angry and says "You really make me sick...", before briefly pausing and coming back saying that she still loves him, accepting and acknowledging that what she did was wrong, as despite not being real people, they were really her friends. Monika begins to feel a huge burden for her horrible actions, bringing the other girls back in her absence in an attempt to make everyone happy, starting the story over without her until the final part where Sayori takes control and seeks to have possession over the player due to already knowing what she did to Monika, thanking her and taking possession of the game. Monika then deletes Sayori's file while saying; "I won't let you hurt him..." Monika states that there is no happiness in the Literature Club and then deletes the entire game. Monika finally takes the opportunity to dedicate a song to the player while the credits roll, and slowly eliminates the game, singing a song called "Your Reality".

Personality. (5)

Finally, Monika leaves us a nice and sad note where she thanks us for being part of the literature club and having been with her in that simulation. In the good ending, when playing through all of the girls' games via the save and load feature, Sayori will thank the player for spending time with all of the girls. Monika will delete the game anyway, but the computer graphics will not be removed, and a letter from Dan Salvato will appear instead, thanking the player for playing his game.

Role in the Game.

Monika is introduced at the beginning of the game as a kind and considerate girl, being the only one who does not have a route. She maintains a positive attitude as she always has a positive attitude due to being strongly in love with the player due to him being someone she considers real. Monika amplifies the negative traits of the three girls in the club to make them unpleasant, which fully leads to the psychological horror stories that the game takes us through through four acts that have to be followed, repeating the story up to three times. On many occasions she is forced to repeat this several times without remembering that she did it before simply because it is a game.

History of the Literature Club.

After leaving the Debate Club, Monika decides to start her own club and share her love of reading. Suddenly, she meets Sayori, a bubbly and kind girl with whom she discovers her depressive problems. Shortly after, she met Yuri, giving her a club post while she was reading alone in a classroom. As soon as she finished reading, she realized that there was a club with the same interests as hers and decided to join. Natsuki shared a certain love for manga, and it was her love for reading that led her to believe that manga is literature, sharing all kinds of poems and opinions regarding small debates and discussions. They all maintained a certain respect and appreciation for each other. Yuri loves to make and drink tea while reading and Natsuki loves to bake kitten-shaped cupcakes for a snack. When they were just two members, Monika found a sad poem that Sayori made about the suffering of a flower that wants to be torn off petal by petal, Monika noticed and talked to her to try to help her with her problems of depression and suicide making her love the Club and Monika more. Yuri on the other hand although she has had strong arguments with Natsuki, although she still loves her very much as a friend like the other girls in the Club, although it is difficult for her to recognize it sometimes.

Skills.

After being the leader of the Literature Club, Monika acquires various abilities within her simulation. This position grants him numerous abilities, much like Sayori once had: • He knows that he is a character in a game. • Knows that the protagonist is a separate entity from the player. • You can edit other characters' files and thus influence their actions or personality. • It exists even when its file is deleted, however, it can only speak through text boxes. • It can learn if you are using Steam or some other kind of platform to play the game. > If you're recording while playing, he'll know and try to scare anyone watching after falsely making them believe he would. • Knows when the game has been closed softly or slammed. • You can find out the name of the computer administrator as an attempt to find out the player's real name. • You can add and delete files such as; "hxppythxughts.png" (In its translation to Spanish it would be "Pxnsamientos fxlices") and "have a nice weekend". • You can restore your file in Act 2, but not in Act 1 or 3. • Can tell if you have added their character file again after it has been deleted and can react to it.

Relations.

Sayori: Sayori has light coral pink hair with a red bow on the left side of her hair. She has all of her skin a light white and is quite cheerful on the outside. Yuri: Yuri is a tall, mature girl with an enormous shyness. She has fair skin, long violet hair with pupils of the same color. Her hair is wavy, but straight at the top of her head. Natsuki: Natsuki is a short girl. She has short pink hair like the pupil of her eyes, she also has a bow-shaped barrette on the right side of the front of her hair along with two red ribbons that form 2 small twin tails. The rest of her short hair has a small fringe on one side of her face and small strands of hair on her forehead.

Details.

• Monika is 19 years old. • Monika is Bisexual. • Her conceptual height is 1.60. She is the second tallest character and has the largest breasts. • Her file name is Monika.chr • Monika in other languages ​​means "Tutor" or "Advisor". • Despite loving her non-real friends, she is fully aware that they have no conscience and are programmed to fall in love with the player no matter what, just like any dating game.

Curiosities.

• Monika is the only character in the game to have an official voice. > The only times his voice is used is when you stop reading the special poem (he laughs at) "CAN YOU HEAR ME?" and he sings "Your Reality" during the credits. • Monika has a Twitter account under the nickname lilmonix3. • Monika's favorite color is emerald green as she feels a "special connection" with the color of her eyes serving as part of her personality, a reference to being "green with envy." • If you keep any social network open, there is a chance you will receive a message request from Monika with the name of your respective computer and a trail of seemingly random letters. • Monika is able to find out personal data about you including your Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube handles (as well as other social networks) if these are open while you are playing the game. This will only happen during Chat with Monika. • Monika is purposely designed to look suspiciously out of place from the moment the menu is entered. > The main characters wear white stockings that go above their knees except for Monika who wears black stockings that go above her knees. > Every girl except Monika is wearing white and blue uwabaki shoes, Monika's are white and pink. > Every girl except Monika has an unreal hair color (this can only be a coincidence). > Each girl's sprite looks slightly to the side, except for Monika's, who looks directly at the screen, except for two. > The girls' names end with an "i", except for Monika.

Curiosities. (two)

• Monika claims to have no knowledge of the player, including whether he is a boy or a girl. Still, Monika calls herself his girlfriend, an inconsistency interpreted as a hint at an ambiguous pansexuality. Though the fact that she claims the player is her “boyfriend” affirms that she has preferences towards men. This could mean two things: > Monika has preferences, and wants to be with the player regardless of the problems around him or his lifestyle. > Monika doesn't really love the player for who he is, but for representing a real-world entity with infinite choices, not a programmable autonomous being with an exhaustible amount of choices. • Monika constantly says the phrase "Just Monika" through another character or by having the game itself say the phrase in a dialogue box in an attempt to limit the player's options or convince them that she is the best and only person they can sit next to. • Monika and Sayori are the only girls to experience becoming presidents of the literature club and the only two to become aware of their pretense. > They are also the only two girls who smile on the title screen and have a natural eye color. Monika's eyes are emerald green and Sayori's are sky blue.

Dialogues.

Monika: “Yeah, right. Sometimes asking what a poem is about isn’t the right question. A poem can be as abstract as a physical expression of a feeling or a conversation with a reader. So not all poems are about something.” Monika: “Sometimes you’ll find yourself facing a difficult decision… When that happens, don’t forget to save your game! You never know when… Uhm… Who am I talking to? Can you hear me? Say you can hear me. Whatever. Please help me… That’s my advice for today! Thanks for listening~” Monika: “You have to be very determined. I started at this club and now I'm learning to play the piano...” Yuri: “Well, maybe not determination… But I guess passion. Remember, the club wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for all of you.” Monika: “Oh my God, I didn’t expect to see you here!”