Summary[]
Appearance[]
Monika has extensively long coral brown hair that she keeps tied up in a high ponytail tied back with a large white bow, curled slightly at the ends. Like the other female characters, she has two prominent strands of hair beside her bangs that reach slightly past her chest. Her eyes are emerald green. She is considered to be the second tallest character, behind Yuri or the protagonist, by Japanese standards.
She wears the standard female school uniform consisting of a warm gray blazer fully buttoned and untucked, brown sweater vest, white shirt fully buttoned and tucked, red ribbon, dark blue pleated skirt, black thigh-high socks and white uwabaki slippers with pink tips.
Personality[]
The other characters describe Monika as intelligent, confident, and athletic. She is not as talkative as the other girls, but it is hinted that this is not by choice. Monika is also known to be highly popular, which makes the protagonist admire her. She is always depicted as mature and hardworking, with a serene, compassionate expression on her face.
Monika had previously been a part of the Debate Club but left due to all the inner politics and drama, highlighting a desire for order, freedom of topics and friendliness. The Literature Club, which she founded after leaving the Debate Club, is very important to her. She aspires for the Literature Club to be a place to showcase and grow everyone's passion for literature. She also has a passion for piano, which she practices frequently after school.
Monika was originally a very considerate and kind person who was always thinking about the needs of other people. She openly displays care and concern for her club mates, praising each member's writing style and even comparing them to famous authors and poets. However, it is later revealed that at some time before the start of the game, she underwent an epiphany which made her discover that she was in a game and also 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 time with her during the scene in Act 1 where the player has to choose a girl to help for the festival.
In desperation, Monika begins trying to make the other girls unlikable by altering their traits, as she only had the ability to edit variables within the game and did not want to delete/kill the other girls right away because of her lingering attachment to them. She starts with Sayori as she viewed her as the largest threat because she was the main character's childhood friend. Monika's alterations backfire because Sayori's increased depression level causes her to confess her love to the main character in an attempt to find happiness, then commit suicide the next day, regardless of the choice the player made. Monika then decides to delete Sayori's character file because "she is the one who's making this so difficult."
From Act 2 onward, she becomes even more manipulative than before. As the time goes by, she resents more and more having no romantic role in the game, as that meant there was no happy ending coded for her. She also makes her infatuation with the player more obvious and urges them to spend more time with her. Her desire and ambition lead her to become obsessive in this goal, highlighted by the fact that all of her poems are about the player or her epiphany. She also starts to disregard the other characters and amplifies their traits due to the fact of them not being "real". Ultimately, Monika's attempt to make 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 order to be able to spend time with the player alone in Act 3, creating her own "happy ending."
Despite Monika's upbeat attitude in the Literature Club, it becomes increasingly obvious that she is actually sad and lonely, as a result of being aware that her whole world is just a simulation. The worst part is that she can't even achieve what is considered "happiness", since her route can never be completed. She is fixated on obtaining the love of the player because they're the only "real" thing in her life. Monika's actions are also motivated by her desire to escape the torture she endures whenever someone quits the game, as when that happens Monika is trapped in a hellish void of noise, lights, colors, and screams, unable to move or even think. This is mentioned during Monika's Talk in Act 3.
After deleting Yuri and Natsuki's files, Act 3 will happen, where she creates a world for her and the player, she will explain her motivations about her love towards the player. She will state that the main character does not exist, and that she only loves the player themselves. She will also explain how she amplified the other girl's undesirable traits to make them less likely to confess their love towards the protagonist. This includes Sayori's depression, Yuri's obsessiveness, and Natsuki's harshness. Monika will open the poem mini-game once more, except only distorted words of Monika's name are available, and only Monika's sticker sprite is present, with a loud ambience playing in the background. The background is now red with black glitches, different from the original desk background during the mini-game. After giving the poem to Monika, she will believe that the player wrote the poem specifically for her, and she calls the player sweet.
At this point 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. It is shown that nothing about Monika's apparent kindness and politeness is an act, and she even offers the player some genuinely good advice from time to time.
If the player then decides to delete Monika's character file, she will immediately vanish, and search for her file in a panic. When she finds out the player deleted her, she will be mad at the player and tell them that they "completely, truly make me sick." After a small pause, Monika tells the player that she still loves them. She will then feel the weight of her actions, realize the horrible things she has done to the other girls, and state that even though she knew they were not real people, she still saw them as her friends. Monika 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 for the rest of the game, until the final 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 main character and herself. Monika will then delete Sayori's file, 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 song "Your Reality" will play while the credits roll, which is inferred to be the song Monika wrote for the player. The game's CGs will be deleted during the credits, and a bittersweet letter from Monika will be shown, thanking the player for joining the Literature Club. The game will now be rendered unplayable until it is re-installed or the "firstrun" file is deleted.
If the good ending is achieved by playing through every girl's run via the save and load feature, Sayori will thank the player for spending time with all of the girls. Monika will still delete the game, but the CG's will not be deleted, and a letter from Dan Salvato thanking the player for playing his game will show instead.
Powers and Stats[]
Tier: 10-A | Likely Low 2-C | At Least Low 1-A, higher with Existence Erasure
Name: Monika, Monika.chr, Monitor Kernel Access, President of the Club, lilmonix3
Origin: Doki Doki Literature Club!
Gender: Female
Age: 18 (Born September 22nd)
Classification: Sentient Video Game Character, President of the Literature Club, Yandere
Powers and Abilities:
Acrobatics (Says to be an Athlete), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Is Aware she is a Video Game), Emotional Manipulation (Made Sayori depressed), Inorganic Physiology (Type 2; Is a computer file), Social Influencing (Is considered to be a very popular girl), Sound Manipulation (Made music appear out of nowhere when she was erased)
All previous, Superhuman Strength & Durability, Mind Manipulation & Memory Manipulation (Controlled the minds of Yuri and Natsuki, made Natsuki forget the events of a previous day), Madness Manipulation (Type 3; Slowly drove Yuri insane and made her commit suicide), Biological Manipulation (Removed Natsuki's face and made her vomit), Acausality (Type 1; Unaffected by time resets. Is unbound by time, being unaffected by time being sped up, time being paused, and time no longer existing), Plot Manipulation (Has control of what happens in the game and can freely manipulate the events of the game), Time Manipulation & Time Stop (Can stop and speed up time), Resistance to Clairvoyance (Can see events that occur across the entire game world, such as the resurrection of characters through adding their files back, can see into the real world and whether one is recording or not), Information Manipulation & Data Manipulation (Can manipulate the information and data of the entire game world)
All Previous, Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Cosmic Awareness (Is aware of the real world and that the game has "infinite choices"), Reality Warping & Technopathy (Is able to bend and warp the game world at will), Existence Erasure & Conceptual Manipulation (Can delete the files of characters, destroyed the entire game several times on a conceptual level), Non-Corporeal & Nonexistent Physiology (Type 2; Can still exist and effect the game world, even when her file was erased), Resurrection (Of others and likely herself), Immortality (Types 1, 3, 4, & 5; Constantly implies that she can live for an eternity. Can still exist after her file was erased, implied that she can resurrect herself), Regeneration (High-Godly; Can be assumed she came back after having her file deleted since she continues to post on her Twitter account to this very day), Plot Manipulation (Has control of what happens in the game and can freely manipulate the events of the game), Power Nullification (Made the player unable to load any save files and effect time), Body Control (Can corrupt her face), Corruption (Type 3; Her control over the game corrupted multiple parts of the game, including the characters), Teleportation, Total Event Collapse & Destruction (Can erase the game itself and has done it multiple times), Immortality Negation & Regeneration Negation, Resistance to Plot Manipulation, Time Manipulation, & Reality Warping/Technopathy/Corruption (Can recover from the corruption caused by her control over the game), Nigh-Omniscience
Attack Potency: Athlete Level (Is Described to be an Athlete) | Likely Universe Level+ (Should have Infinite Power for Manipulation Others) | At Least Low Outerverse Level (Destroyed the Narrative of the game, including all Concepts, Laws, Principles, Duality, Platonicies and even Dimensionality), far higher with Existece Erasure
Speed: Maybe Athletic Human (Is Described to be an Athlete) | Athletic Human (Same Speed as before) | Irrelevant (Destroyed the Narrative of the game, Including Speed Itself)
Lifting Strength: Athletic Human (Is Described to be an Athlete) | Athletic Human (Same Lift as before) | Irrelevant (Lift a Piano, who interferes in the Script, who Transcend the Logic of the Narrative, including all Concepts, Laws, Principles, Duality, Platonicies and even Dimensionality)
Striking Strength: Athlete Level (Is Described to be an Athlete) | Likely Universe Level+ (Should have Infinite Power for Manipulation Others) | At Least Low Outerverse Level (Destroyed the Narrative of the game, including all Concepts, Laws, Principles, Duality, Platonicies and even Dimensionality), far higher with Existece Erasure
Durability: Athlete Level | Likely Universe Level+ | At Least Low Outerverse Level, far higher with Existece Erasure
Stamina: Athlete Level (Is Described to be an Athlete) | Athlete Level (Same Stamina As Before) | Irrelevant (Goes until everything on the end)
Range: Standart Meele Range | Kilometers (Effect the Entire School) | Low Outerverse Level (Shows Effect the full Cosmology)
Standard Equipment: Pen
Intelligence: Above Average (Shows to be good at School) | Gifted (Is the head of the literature club. Gained knowledge of the world outside of the game, learned how to manipulate the game despite not being very familiar on the working of computers) | Nigh-Omniscient (Knows out of her own verse)
Weaknesses: She has limited control over the game at first, only being capable of slightly affecting beings, though by the end of the game she can manipulate and even destroy the script at will.
Key: Act 1 | Act 2 Before she Delete Yuri & Natsuki | Act 2 During & After she Delete Yuri & Natsuki
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