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Monika (モニカ) is the poster girl of Doki Doki Literature Club!. She is one of the 5 members and President of the Literature Club. Monika is the driving strength of the game, instructing the society members to exercise writing poems until the club festival which itself facilitates and develops the characters and story.

Advent

Monika has extensively long coral brown hair that she keeps in a high ponytail tied back with a large white bow, curled slightly at the ends. Like the other characters, she has two prominent strands of hair beside her bangs that accomplish slightly past her chest. Her optics are emerald light-green. She is of boilerplate meridian by Japanese standards, believed to be the second tallest character, behind Yuri or the protagonist.

She wears the standard female person school uniform consisting of a warm greyness^[3] blazer, chocolate-brown sweater vest, white shirt, ruddy ribbon, dark blue pleated skirt, black thigh-high socks and white uwabaki slippers with pink tips.

Personality

Monika is noted by the other characters to be smart, confident and athletic. She is non as talkative as the other girls, just this is implied to non be through choice. Monika is also known to be quite pop, which causes the protagonist to accept an admiration for her. She always has a calm, gentle expression and is portrayed every bit mature and hard-working.

Monika had previously been a part of the Debate Club only left due to all the inner politics and drama, highlighting a want for order, freedom of topics and friendliness. The Literature Club, which she founded later on leaving the Debate Club, is very important to her. She aspires for information technology to be a place to showcase and grow everyone's passion for literature. She likewise has a passion for piano, which she practices oftentimes later school.

Monika was originally a very considerate and kind person who was always thinking about other people.^[4] She openly displays care and concern for her club mates, praising each member's writing style and fifty-fifty comparing them to famous authors and poets. However, it is later revealed that at some fourth dimension before the commencement of the game, she underwent an epiphany which made her discover that she was in a game and likewise granted her the ability to edit the game's variables, changing her attitude towards the other girls because she knew they were not "real". She begins taking drastic measures when the other girls prevented the player from being able to spend fourth dimension with her during the scene in Act 1 where the actor has to cull a daughter to assist for the festival.

In desperation, Monika begins trying to brand the other girls unlikable by altering their traits, as she only had the ability to edit variables in the game and did not want to delete/kill the other girls correct abroad because of her lingering attachment to them. She starts with Sayori as she viewed her equally the largest threat considering she was the main character's childhood friend. Monika'south alterations backfire considering Sayori'southward increased depression level causes her to confess her love to the principal character in an attempt to find happiness, then commit suicide the next day, regardless of the choice the player fabricated. Monika then decides to delete Sayori's grapheme file because "she is the one who's making this then difficult."

From Act two onward, she becomes fifty-fifty more manipulative. As the time goes by, she resents more and more having no romantic function in the game, as that meant there was no happy ending coded for her. She likewise makes her infatuation with the player more obvious and urges them to spend more time with her. Her desire and ambition atomic number 82 her to become obsessive in this goal, highlighted by the fact that all of her poems are about the player or her epiphany. She likewise starts to disregard the other characters and amplifies their traits due to the fact of them not existence "existent". Ultimately, Monika'southward attempt to brand the other girls unlikable led to her accidentally driving Yuri to suicide due to alterations to her personality, then finally to her simply deleting Natsuki in lodge to be able to spend time with the thespian alone in Deed 3, creating her own "happy ending."

Despite Monika's upbeat mental attitude in the Literature Club, it becomes increasingly obvious that she is really sorry and lonely, as a result of beingness aware that her whole world is only a simulation; a simulation in which she can't even reach what is considered "happiness" (i.e. having her route completed). She is fixated on obtaining the love of player because they're the merely "real" thing in her life. Monika's actions are too motivated by her want to escape the torture she endures whenever someone quits the game, every bit when that happens Monika is trapped in a hellish void of noise, lights, colors, and screams, unable to movement or even think. This is mentioned during Monika's Talk in Human action iii.

Subsequently deleting Yuri and Natsuki's files, Act three will happen, where she creates a globe for her and the thespian, she will explain her motivations virtually her dearest towards the player. She will land that the main graphic symbol does not be, and that she but loves the player themselves. She will also explain how she amplified Sayori's and Yuri'southward undesirable traits (east.one thousand. Sayori's low and Yuri's obsessiveness) to make them less likely to confess their love towards the protagonist. Monika will open the poem minigame once more, except only distorted words of Monika'southward name are available, and merely Monika'south sticker sprite is present, with a loud ambience playing in the groundwork. The background is at present crimson with glitches, different from the original desk-bound background during the mini-game. Subsequently giving the poem to Monika, she volition believe that the actor wrote the poem specifically for her, and she calls the player sweet.

At this betoken in the game, the player will be able to read Monika's Talk where she talks directly to the player (albeit in a somewhat nihilistic manner), instead of the protagonist. Information technology is shown that nothing about Monika's apparent kindness and politeness is an act, and she fifty-fifty offers the thespian some genuinely proficient advice from time to time.

If the thespian then decides to delete Monika'due south file, she will immediately vanish, and search for her file in a panic. When she finds out the histrion deleted her, she volition be mad at the player and tell them that they "completely, truly make me sick." After a modest suspension, Monika tells the histrion that she even so loves them. She will so feel the weight of her actions, realize the horrible things she has done to the other girls, and land that fifty-fifty though she knew they were non real, she notwithstanding saw them as her friends. Monika and then restores the game, saying that if she really loves the player, she will bring back what they would have wanted. Monika is then absent-minded for the rest of the game, until the terminal part of the normal ending.

If the normal ending is achieved, Sayori becomes self-aware, and glitches the game back to the room Monika stayed in on Act 3 for only the master character and herself. Monika will then delete Sayori, saying "No...I won't let you hurt him." Monika states that there is no happiness in the Literature Club, and then deletes the entire game. The vocal "Your Reality" will play while the credits whorl, which is inferred to be the song Monika wrote for the histrion. The game'southward CGs volition exist deleted during the credits, and a bloodshot letter from Monika will be shown, thanking the player for joining the Literature Social club. The game will now be rendered unplayable until it is re-installed or the "firstrun" file is deleted.

If the expert ending is achieved, Sayori volition thank the player for spending time with all of the girls. Monika will however delete the game, but the CG's will not be deleted, and a alphabetic character from Dan Salvato thanking the role player for playing his game will bear witness instead.

Abilities

Over the course of the game, it is revealed that Monika is self-enlightened, a upshot of her position as the leader/president of the Literature Club.

This position grants her numerous abilities, listed below:

• Monika is aware that she is a character in a game.
• Monika is aware that the protagonist is a split entity from the player.
• Monika is enlightened when the game has been turned off.
• Monika tin can edit the other character'southward files and thus influence their actions or personality.
• Monika can keep to exist even when her files have been deleted, nonetheless, she will only exist able to speak through text boxes.
• Monika can see if you're using Steam or some other like application to play the game.
• If the player is recording the game while playing, Monika will exist aware of this and attempt to spring-scare anyone watching after falsely leading up to 1.
• Monika tin can learn the name of the administrator on the computer in an attempt to find your real name.
• Monika can delete and add files such every bit "hxppy thxughts.png", "have a nice weekend!" and "iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.txt".
• Monika can find if the player adds her character file back when she resets the game.
• Monika can precede the game's UI (such every bit the dialog box).

Writing Tips of the Twenty-four hours

• "Sometimes when you're writing a verse form - or a story - your brain gets too fixated on a specific point... If you try so hard to brand it perfect, then you'll never make whatever progress. But force yourself to get something downwardly on the paper, and tidy it up afterwards! Another mode to think well-nigh information technology is this: If you go along your pen in the same spot for as well long, y'all'll just get a big nighttime puddle of ink. So just motility your hand, and go with the flow!"
• "Sometimes you'll find yourself facing a hard decision... When that happens, don't forget to salve your game! You never know when yous might change your mind... ..or when something unexpected may happen! Wait...is this tip even about writing? What am I even talking nigh? Ahaha! ...That'south my advice for today! Thanks for listening~"
• "Sometimes you'll observe yourself facing a hard conclusion...when that happens, don't forget to salve your game! You never know when...um... Can you hear me? Tell me you lot can hear me. Anything. "Please help me." ...That'south my communication for today! Thanks for listening~"
• "Sometimes when I talk to people who are impressed by my writing, they say things like 'I could never do that'. It'southward really depressing, you lot know? Equally someone who loves more than anything else to share the joy of exploring your passions... ...it pains me when people call up that beingness good merely comes naturally. That's how it is with everything, non just writing. When you effort something for the first time, y'all're probably going to suck at it. Sometimes, when yous terminate, you feel really proud of information technology and even desire to share it with everyone. But maybe after a few weeks, you come back to it, and you lot realize it was never any good. That happens to me all the time. Information technology can be pretty disheartening to put and so much time and effort into something, and then yous realize it sucks. Simply that tends to happen when you're e'er comparing yourself to the height professionals. When you accomplish for the stars, they're e'er gonna be out of your reach, yous know? The truth is, you have to climb up there, step by footstep. And whenever you lot reach a milestone, first you lot await dorsum and see how far you've gotten... And then yous look ahead and realize how much more than there is to go. So, sometimes it tin can help to set the bar a little lower... Try to detect something you think is pretty good, but not earth-class. And you tin can make that your own personal goal. It'south besides really important to empathize the scope of what y'all're trying to do. If you jump correct into a huge projection and you're even so apprentice, you'll never become it done. Then if we're talking well-nigh writing, a novel might be also much at outset. Why not write some short stories? The corking thing almost short stories is that you can focus on just 1 thing that you lot want to practice right. That goes for small projects in full general - y'all can actually focus on the one or two things. Information technology'south such a good learning experience and stepping stone. Oh, one more thing. Writing isn't something where you lot merely attain into your eye and something beautiful comes out. Merely similar drawing or painting, information technology'due south a skill in itself to larn how to express what you have inside. That means there are methods and guides and basics to it! Reading up on that stuff can be super eye-opening. That sort of planning and organization will really aid preclude you from getting overwhelmed and giving upward. And before you know it... You start sucking less and less. Cypher comes naturally. Our social club, our art, everything - information technology's built on thousands of years of human innovation. So every bit long as you start on that foundation, and take it step by pace... You lot, also, tin can do amazing things."

Quotes

Editor's Notation: If you desire to add a quote to this page, make sure that it comes from an united nations-modded version of the game.

Act i, Solar day ane

As president of the Literature Gild, it's my duty to make the club fun and exciting for anybody!

To exist honest, I can't stand all of the politics around the major clubs. Information technology feels like zip but arguing near the upkeep and publicity and how to gear up for events... I'd much rather take something I personally enjoy and make something special out of it. And if information technology encourages others to get into literature, and then I'yard fulfilling that dream!

Not many people are very interested in putting out all the try to offset something brand new... Specially when it'south something that doesn't grab your attention, similar literature. You have to work hard to convince people that you're both fun and worthwhile. But it makes school events, like the festival, that much more of import. I'm confident that we can all really grow this club before nosotros graduate!

Plus, now that we have a new fellow member, I recall it will assistance u.s.a. all get a trivial more comfortable with each other, and strengthen the bond of the club.

I think with that, we can officially terminate today's meeting on a proficient note.

Human activity 1, Day 2

"Well, I'k non sure if I know how to put information technology... I judge you could say that I had some kind of epiphany recently. It's been influencing my poems a chip."
"An epiphany?"
"Yeah, something like that. I'thou kind of nervous to talk well-nigh deep stuff similar that, because it's kind of coming on strongly... Possibly after everyone is ameliorate friends with each other."
~ Monika discussing the inspiration behind "Pigsty in Wall"

"You sound pretty confident for someone who claims to non exist very good."
"Welll... that's 'crusade I have to sound confident. That doesn't mean I e'er feel that way, you lot know?"
~ Monika on leadership

"Okay, anybody!"
~ Catchphrase

"To be honest... I might come off every bit a good leader, and I can organize things... Only I'thou not very proficient with people... I couldn't even bring myself to interject. As President, that's kind of embarrassing of me. Ahaha..." ~ Revealing her insecurities to the protagonist/player should the actor choose to ask Sayori to arbitrate in Yuri and Natsuki's argument.

Act 1, Day 3

"Ahaha. Sometimes asking what a poem is about isn't the right question. A poem can be as abstruse as a physical expression of a feeling. Or a conversation with the reader. So putting it that way, non every poem is about something."
~ Monika discussing the inspiration behind "Save Me"

"We're the simply ones responsible for the fate of this gild. If we beginning the event and put on a practiced performance... Then information technology will inspire others to do the same! And the more than people who perform, the better we'll be able to show everyone what literature is all about!"
"Yeah! Information technology's nearly expressing your feelings... Existence intimate with yourself... Finding new horizons... And having fun!"
"That'southward right! And information technology's those reasons that we're all in this club today. Don't you lot want to share that with others? To inspire them to discover the same feelings that brought you lot hither in the first place? I know yous do. I know nosotros all do. And if all it takes is standing in forepart of the room for 2 minutes and reciting a poem... Then I know you tin do it!"
~ Monika and Sayori motivating the gild for the festival.

Human action one, Solar day 4

"You must have a lot of decision. Starting this club, and now picking up pianoforte..."
"Well, mayhap non determination... Just I guess passion. Retrieve that the club wouldn't be here if information technology wasn't for all of you."
~ Yuri reflecting on Monika's drive.

"If something bad happens, then it could end up damaging the club, too... And you wouldn't practise that to me...right? Well...you're smart. I'm sure you'll do the right thing."
~ Monika alarm the player about spending fourth dimension with Natsuki.

"I know how much you lot intendance about [Sayori]... It would exist terrible if something bad happened to her, then go on an eye on her. Sayori'south been interim and so much happier ever since you joined the club. What could happen all of a sudden...?...Well, never mind. This really isn't the time to be talking about this..."
~ Monika on Sayori

"Merely think of the club, okay?"
~ Monika asking the player to choose someone also Sayori.

Act 1, Day 6

"Ahaha. You lot should take a little responsibleness for [Sayori], [player]! I mean, specially later on your exchange with her yesterday... You kind of left her hanging this morning, you lot know?"
~ Monika revealing her noesis of Sayori's death.

"Don't worry. I probably know a lot more than you think."
~ Monika farther hinting towards her omniscience.

Act 2, Day two

"Yay, you picked me!"

~ Monika later she forces the protagonist to choice her when choosing between Yuri and Natsuki using a glitch

"Ahaha... Some president I am, correct? I can't fifty-fifty face up my own order members properly... I just wish I was able to be a little more believing sometimes. Merely I never have it in me to put my foot down against others... You understand, right? Anyway... If this makes yous want to spend less time with the others, so that's fine. I'd exist happy to spend time with you instead..."
~ Monika pulling the protagonist abroad from Yuri and Natsuki's statement.

Act 2, Day three

"Natsuki... I don't remember you're looking at it the right way at all. Don't you lot desire to share your passion with equally many people equally yous tin? To inspire them to discover the aforementioned feelings that brought you here in the first place? The Literature Lodge should be a identify where people tin express themselves like they can't do anywhere else. Information technology should exist a place and so intimate that you never want to leave. I know you lot feel that way, also. I know nosotros all do! So that's why nosotros should work hard and put something together for the festival...even if information technology's something pocket-sized!"
~ Monika summarizing the point of the literature club.

"Sometimes it feels similar you and I are the but real people here. You know what I mean? But it'due south weird, because in all the time y'all've been here, we've hardly gotten to spend whatever time together. Ah...I mean... I estimate it'due south technically only been a couple days... Deplorable, I didn't mean to say something weird!"
~ Monika attempting to talk to the player alone before the screen fades to black and the poem minigame starts.

Act 2, Mean solar day 4

"Don't say I didn't warn you lot, [role player]."
~ Monika if the player writes three poems for Yuri. This quote will skip her verse form.

"...Oh...Oh.... Ahahaha! Well, that'south a shame!"
~ Monika finding Yuri'southward corpse.

Trivia

• Monika is purposefully designed to exist suspiciously out of identify from the very moment the menu screen is introduced:
  • Every girl wears white knee-highs except for Monika, who wears black thigh-highs.
  • Every girl except Monika wears white and blue shoes, but Monika's are white and pink.
    • Furthermore on these 2 points, Monika is positioned and so close on the Title Screen that her legs upward to the black thigh-highs don't even make it into the frame and cannot be seen at all, hiding her differences at kickoff. This could exist a course of foreshadowing.
  • Every girls' name except Monika's ends with an "i" and is explicitly the rōmaji anglicization of transcriptions originating in the Japanese language.
  • Every girls' sprites except one of Monika's have them facing slightly side-on. Monika's primarily used sprite has her looking directly forwards at the protagonist.
  • Monika is the just daughter to never be shown outside of school or in a casual outfit. She afterwards states that she knows this and is jealous of the other girls for having them, as well as wishing she could have "worn some cute clothes for you."
  • Monika is the only person to talk to the histrion for a piddling while before reading their verse form. Unlike the other girls who would immediately read the role player's poem afterwards choosing them.
  • Monika is the only grapheme in the game to have her voice connected explicitly to the credited individual for the vocals (Jillian Ashcraft) because of straight dialog presented before and during the credits.
  • While every other character's illustration in the principal menu has them doing a pose of some sort, Monika's illustration has her extending out her hand, this could exist seen every bit a welcoming gesture for new players into her lodge, however information technology could also perhaps be her reaching out to the player.
  • Monika is the only girl to hold a pen in the main card. This could symbolize her being the only girl to be able to write in the game's script.
  • Monika is the just daughter to have a natural hair colour (coral brown) while the other girls have an unnatural hair colour (coral pink, pastel pink, or dark regal)
  • Monika is the merely girl with a white hair accompaniment while the others accept a colored hair accessory. She is also the merely girl with fully tied hair (Sayori and Yuri's hair are loose while Natsuki's hair simply has small sections tied).
  • Information technology has been noted that Monika has a bow accessory similar Sayori, extensively long hair like Yuri, and tied pilus like Natsuki.
• Monika and Sayori, the only girls who experience condign Club President and therefore becoming sentient, are besides the only two girls to smile on the Title Screen and to have a natural eye color; green and blue, respectively.
• Monika's version of the song "Okay, Everyone!" debuts only the piano, plumbing fixtures for her grapheme as she plays the piano.
• Monika is the ane who authored the game's description. This is revealed to the player during Deed iii.
• Monika's altogether is the aforementioned day Doki Doki Literature Guild! was officially released.
• In i of the Special Poems, specifically Special Verse form iv, an unknown writer cuts themselves, saying they empathize how an omitted person feels now subsequently doing it. The writer is implied to be Monika, with the omitted person being Yuri. Dan Salvato later confirms this in the 1st yr anniversary for DDLC, stating: "This verse form was written from the perspective of Monika, because– this is around the fourth dimension where Monika is really starting to experiment with bloodshed in her universe. And, you know, she'southward and then casual virtually the whole thing, because at this bespeak she feels and so discrete from [...] the universe that she's in, that information technology's almost like it doesn't fifty-fifty affair to her anymore. [...] The feeling of her [...] feeling physical pain– or doing that sort of affair to herself– she describes it as exhilarating because it's something that is assuasive her to experience something in this universe that has get so incredibly meaningless to her."
• Monika exhibits some hypocrisy, likewise telling on a sarcastic way, for designating Yuri to be the stereotypical yandere archetype despite showcasing the common deportment a yandere would do, which is to remove competition by whatsoever means necessary and force the player into a situation that they cannot deny to keep them captive by Monika intentionally until the terminate of being. What separates Monika from being an existent yandere all the same is her acceptance of being rejected and allowing the player to live life without her and with the possibility of partnering with another.
• Monika's description of what she experiences when the game is closed is due to deallocation of her retentivity by the operating system. When a program is no longer agile, it frees the memory to be used by other programs, which volition eventually overwrite parts or all of the newly freed memory.
• Monika has a Twitter account under the alias lilmonix3.
• Monika's favorite color is emerald light-green because she feels a "special connection" to the color of her eyes serving as function of her identity, which could be a reference of the expression "green with envy."
• Monika'due south favorite mean solar day of the yr is Valentine'southward Day.^[v]
• Monika is a vegetarian because she wants to contribute to lowering the carbon footprint of the planet, which is commonly caused by meat factories and other industrial markets.
• Although she can find out the device'south ambassador name, she will not reveal this proper noun if the player is recording on certain streaming programs.^{[half dozen]}
  • This does not utilise if the user is running on MacOS or Linux, as the list of programs the game checks for is hard-coded specifically for "exe" files. Every bit these two OSs don't employ "exe" files, the game doesn't detect them.
• Monika states that she does not know much about the player, including if they are a boy or a girl. Despite that, she still calls herself their girlfriend, an inconsistency interpreted as hinting ambiguous bisexuality or pansexuality. She calls the thespian her "boyfriend" in the aforementioned act afterward, yet, another inconsistency conflicting the previously stated and hinting more toward a preference to heterosexuals. This could mean ii things:
  • Monika has preferences, only they are 2nd to beingness the histrion'southward perfect girlfriend no matter the conflicts.
  • Monika'due south interest originates from the fact for what the histrion represents as a real-world entity with infinite choices in life, rather than an autonomous programmable capable of but a finite set. Dan Salvato hints that Monika tries to love the player as they are, and her honey depends if the player loves her or non.^[vii]
• Monika stated that she would have deleted herself if the player had not shown upwards. Before long afterwards, when talking about introverts she says she tin can exist "anything the histrion needs her to be", understands people actually well, and "nothing would make her happier than being the perfect girlfriend for y'all."
• She repeatedly mentions the phrase "But Monika" through another character or past making the game itself omit the phrase via a textbox/dialog box in an endeavour to limit the player's choices or at first convince the thespian Monika is the better person to focus on.
• If Monika'south character file is backed up before the player deletes information technology and adds it back at whatever betoken earlier starting a new game in Deed 4, a text box will pop up when the thespian starts Act four stating that the role player is being roughshod to her and that she does not want to be anymore and will consequently delete her own file after.
  • Despite beingness deleted, if the actor attempts to load a save file from another act, Monika will still announced and prevent the actor from cheating.

References

1. ↑ Monika'southward birthdate the same as game release date, actualization before such appointment only "in beta", and the argument past Dan Salvato on subreddit Discord (now deleted)
2. ↑ Concept tiptop and statement on canon peak
3. ↑ ^{iii.0 3.ane} Satchely (DDLC's character creative person)'due south tweet virtually Monika and Sayori'due south hair colors
4. ↑ "It's not similar Monika is a horrible person. I think she is a very considerate person and is always thinking almost other people. When those people are not real and it's just a game and she's effectively existence tortured by being trapped in the game and she begins taking drastic measures and that what gets to her." -Dan Salvato, twitch.television receiver
5. ↑ Monika tweeting on her favorite day of the year here, here, and here
6. ↑ $ stream_list = ["obs32.exe", "obs64.exe", "obs.exe", "xsplit.core.exe", "livehime.exe", "pandatool.exe", "yymixer.exe", "douyutool.exe", "huomaotool.exe"]
7. ↑ If you are the sort of person who strives to be someone deserving of Monika's love, then that's what she loves virtually you. Just someone who has lost all hope in themselves is the one condemning Monika to her own sad, unfulfilled fantasy. If y'all believe Monika loves you, then y'all've found information technology in you to love yourself a piffling bit, and that'south what she would want more anything.
   – DDLC Reddit AMA

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