Ben Rokuhara

Ben Rokuhara is one of the main 6 characters found in The Literature Club: Something Different. He's the leader, president and one of the founders of the Literature Club. He's Mia's main love interest in the Ben Ending, the side character in the Mario, Luigi, Jonathan, and Marcus endings, and the main antagonist of the Bad Ending. He's also takes the original role of Monika from DDLC.

## Appearance

Ben is usually depicted with brown hair, black ovals for eyes, a black mustache, and a school uniform with a "B" on it on the left and a pocket with 2 pens on the right of his school uniform. According to @NintenBen98, Ben might conceptually have brown eyes. His school uniform consist of a gray blazer, fully buttoned, and untucked, a brown sweater vest underneath, a red ribbon on the top, and dark blue jeans.

Casually, Ben typically wears a standard oversized black t-shirt with some gray sweatpants.

## Personality

Ben is usually depicted as an intelligent, laid-back, smart, sometimes funny, confident person. Ben also can apparently speak Latin as he sometimes speaks to himself in Latin. He isn't as talkative as Mario or Jonathan but this is probably because he's an ambivert. Ben is also known to be underrated, not really being seen at school, which usually means he's by himself. However, Ben is usually depicted as mature and hardworking and he always tries his best to make the Literature Club a exciting, fun, and inviting place. Ben also deeply cares about the club members and tries his best to make them all happy. Ben also has a slight love interest for Mia but it's not an obsession and if Mia likes someone else, he'll understand. In the beginning, Mia finds Ben uncomfortable to be around until Ben proves himself that he's a good person and Mia then decides to be close friends with him.

Ben founded the Literature Club during his 1st semester of 9th grade with Mario Mizuno and his cousin, Monika Rokuhara since they all had a passion for literature. However, due to an argument between Monika and Ben, Monika ultimately left the Literature Club out of anger, and created her own club, the Debate Club. Ever since then, Ben and Monika have an ongoing rivalry and Ben considers Monika "annoying". Ben and Monika also apparently live together and because of that, Ben tries to be nice to her, despite their differences.

Ben is interested in writing stories and poems, which he usually does in the club and shares with the rest of the members during meetings. He is also a fan of video games and usually likes to play RPG games such as Undertale and Pokemon Fire Red. Ben is also a fan of horror and listens to horror literature sometimes. However, Ben usually likes to make poems and has a ton of poems he's made throughout his career in the Literature Club. Ben also likes to play acoustic guitar but only to play songs he really enjoys such as video game themes or riffs from popular songs.

## Role (Mario, Jonathan, Luigi, and Marcus Ending)

(Note: this is conceptually his role in these endings and we don't know for sure since @NintenBen98 hasn't finished the story yet.)

Ben doesn't really have much of a role in these endings since they usually focus on other characters but he does end up being good friends with Mia and they end up being very close friends. Ben in these endings is seen as a relaxed individual with the understanding that Mia likes someone else but still puts in the effort to be her freind. Ben even helps Mia with a few of her poems for the club. In all these endings, Ben goes out with Ruriko Chibana instead after they've become best friends.

## Role (Ben Ending)

In the Ben ending, Ben is the main love interest of Mia after they both become friends, Ben also has a crush on Mia at this time. The Two of them become really good friends and spend numerous nights hanging out either at Ben's house or Mia's house. Ben ends up helping and collaborating with Mia's poems a lot due to this. During the 5th week of Mia being at the Literature Club, Ben confesses his love over Mia, not expecting her to accept. Mia, accepts the confession and confesses herself.

Ben, shocked by this, ends up agreeing to be her boyfriend and the two start dating. During the dates Ben will take her out to eat, show her his hobbies, as well as give more backstory and lore surrounding Ben. Ben and Mia end up being a couple and they spend most of their time hanging out and enjoying the happiness that their world has to offer. Ben even teaches Mia some guitar riffs.

## Role (Bad Ending)

(Note: this is conceptually the bad ending and we don't know for sure since @NintenBen98 hasn't finished the story yet.)

In the Bad Ending, 5 weeks after Mia joins the Literature Club, Ben wraps up things in the Literature Club when he sees a book in the courtyard called "Mundus tuus falsum est" which is Latin for "your world is false". Ben, intrigued by the book, picks it up and begin to reads it, here he is told that his reality is fake and that everyone (except him and Mia) are all fake and don't actually exist. This drives Ben to the point of insanity as he starts to become more and more unhinged knowing that his reality is fiction. Ben then also starts to develop and obsession with Mia since she's the only person besides him that is actually real.

In the beginning, Ben didn't want to exactly kill the other members due to his deep caring for them, however, with each passing day, he slowly becomes more and more unhinged, he also soon realizes that Mia would rather spend time with the other club members than with him. This enrages Ben inside, knowing that they are fake and that he won't be able to spend his time with Mia and he'll just be a background character in the story.

Ben then has enough, and decides to end the lives of the Literature Club members, he starts with Mario due to the fact that he is Mia's childhood friend. Ben then edits his bio, which makes Mario's schizophrenia worse that it already was, making voices in his head tell him to commit suicide repeatedly. Mario, despite his best attempts to ignore it and be positive, slowly has his mental state deteriorated because of this as, out of desperation, he confesses his love to Mia to try and find anything positive still left in his life, Mia ultimately rejects Mario's confession, which makes Mario even more depressed as the schizophrenic nightmares and hallucinations get continuously worse. Until one day, Mario has finally reached a breaking point, he hangs himself with a noose before then realizing his mistake, but it's too late, Ben then comes into Mario's room via window and stabs his neck to the wall as he is then, ultimately dead. Ben then erases Mario's character and bio after Mia finds out Mario is dead, stating that he's, "getting in the way."

After this, Ben becomes more manipulative, always keeping Mia after the Literature Club ends just to "check up on her". Mia is usually more quiet now since Mario has died, so she doesn't really say much. As time goes by, Ben resents as he gets more and more unhinged from realizing that there might not be a happy ending written for him, which makes him go more insane.

Ben then decides to edit Luigi's bio, which makes Luigi extremely fearful and paranoid, usually staying in the club rather than going home. Ben then tells Luigi that he can trust him and ultimately, Luigi decides to trust him as he isn't able to talk to anyone besides Ben.

Ultimately, Ben then decides to change Marcus's bio, which accidentally makes Marcus more obsessive over Mia the more his mind deteriorated, until one day when Marcus decides to commit suicide with one of his daggers due to him become fully unhinged. After this, Mia starts to become more fearful since all her friends are dying. 2 days after Marcus commits suicide, Ben finds his corpse in the Literature Club room and erases him from reality.

Ben then decides to edit Jonathan's bio, which makes Jonathan's pyromania worse to a lethal level. On the same day, Ben then asks Jonathan if he can "hang over" at his house. Jonathan, being friends with Ben and not knowing his true nature decides to agree despite the trauma he feels due to 2 of his friends commited suicide. When Ben gets to his house, he first acts all kind and empathetic towards Jonathan until nighttime, where Ben lures Jonathan outside and then he persuades Jonathan to burn himself with a lighter. Jonathan then first tries to deny the offer but after Ben says he will feel "Indescribable Pleasure" He then decides to do it, he takes the lighter and ends up burning himself, he then realizes his mistake and tries to put out the fire but it's too late, the fire engulfs him, completely killing him. Mia ends up seeing this all happen as Ben then erases Jonathan's bio, making him as well, gone from reality.

Luigi also saw Ben killing Jonathan, this enrages Luigi since Jonathan used to be his best friend, the next day after the club is over, he decides to confronts Ben and then learns about his true nature, about how Ben killed all the members and that Luigi was next. Luigi then starts becoming more and more fearful as he sobs uncontrollably, begging Ben to not kill him, but Ben who is too deep in his madness now just decides to snap Luigi's neck, as Luigi screams in agony, he then as well dies. Ben then erases him as well, finishing his job and finally being able to have his "happy ending" as he keeps Mia in an empty classroom for all of eternity.

Despite Ben always seeming insane and unable to think, he is just in fact very sad and lonely since he's aware his whole world is just a simulation. He is always fixated on getting Mia for himself because she's the only "real thing" in his life. Ben, due to his insanity also has almost every single one of his dreams being nothing more than just a collage of voices and screams as well as flashing lights in his head. Ben will then, admit his love towards Mia and also explain everything he did after he found the book, Ben will also have the book on him at all times.

Ben will then make a bunch of small talk with Mia, talking about many topics from video games, to the meaning of life, to theories on why he is in a fake reality, etc. Mia is completely shocked at this and gets upset at Ben for killing all of her friends, including the friends she loved dearly. Ben, having no empathy whatsoever simply just states that "they're better off not existing".

After a while of small talk, chatting, and arguing, Mia then is able to snatch the book from Ben, which makes Ben go completely mad and tries to get the book back, not even caring if he hurted Mia in the process, his eyes become large and black with a black tears coming out of them and his smile becoming wide and creepy as he chases after Mia. Mia then ends up erasing Ben's profile, which makes Ben immediately disappear before he has the chance to strike her.