Monika

**Monika** is a Goddess and the poster girl Of the Doki Saga She is the President of the Literature Club and is it’s Universe driving force, directing club members to write poems until the club festival, which enables and develops them.

She is a character in a dating simulator game, who gains self-awareness and the ability to manipulate the reality of the game itself. Motivated by her jealousy of the other characters for having a more dominant romantic role with the player and by a desire to escape the mental torture she endures within the void when the game is turned off, she manipulates the game's programming in an attempt to romance the player themselves. Then she Finally reunites with Collin.

## 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 girl, behind Yuri, by Japanese standards.

She wears the standard issue 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 God’s 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 Trilogy, she underwent an epiphany which made her discover that she was in a Simulation and also granted her the ability to edit the Universes variables, changing her attitude towards the other girls because she knew they were not "real".

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 Universe and did not want to 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, Monika's alterations backfire because Sayori's increased depression level causes her to confess her love in an attempt to find happiness, then commit suicide the next day, regardless of the choice Collin. Monika then decides to delete Sayori because "she is the one who's making this so difficult."

From onward, she becomes even more manipulative than before. As the time goes by, she resents more and more having no romantic role in the Universe, as that meant there was no happy ending 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 Collin or her epiphany. She also starts to disregard the other girls 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 alone, 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 because it’s the only "real" thing in her life. Monika's actions are also motivated by her desire to escape the torture she endures, 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.

After deleting Yuri and Natsuki, she creates a world for her and Makio Sono, She will also explain how she amplified the other girl's undesirable traits to make them less likely to confess their love. This includes Sayori's depression, Yuri's obsessiveness, and Natsuki's harshness. Monika will open the poem once more, except only distorted words of Monika's name are available, and only Monika's sticker sprite is present.

## Powers and Abilities

At first glance, Monika may appear to be nothing more but a simple school girl. However, in truth, she is an omnipotent force that is capable of manipulating the entire Universe itself due to her ability to reprogram the Rules. Even after Framey deletes her physical self, she still has access to all of the abilities listed as shown when she deletes Sayori who was just beginning to possess the same abilities. However, she herself notes that she is not particularly good at coding, and thus her powers usually leave glitches in her reality. Her powers include:

* **Superhuman Strength**: Monika is almost as strong as Reggie being able to punch and throw people very far away, an example of which being at the end of Collins Final Destiny where she kicked Reggie into the street below so hard, it resulted in a crater.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Like her friends, she has survived almost all of the abuse her enemies inflict her with.
* **Sub-Zero Temperature Tolerance**: At the end of Collins Final Destiny she appeared in space (which has a fatal temperature) without any protective garments.
* **Vacuum Adaption:** As shown above, Monika shows no signs of pressure when in outer space.
* **Reality Manipulation/Warping**: Monika is able to corrupt the files of her Universe, manipulating reality itself.
* **Plot Manipulation**: Monika can manipulate the story, deciding the events that happen in the Universe by altering variables in other characters. However, her control is not total.
* **Time Manipulation**: Monika is capable of manipulating time itself, as she was able to stop time flowing and reset events.
* **Time Paradox Immunity**: Monika has shown that she is resistant to the timelines resetting, as she is able to remember the existence of people that have been erased.
* **Existence Erasure**: Monika is capable of erasing anyone from time and space by deleting their selfs. She is also able to erase timelines completely.
* **Power Nullification**: Monika was able to prevent the universe from programming.
* **Cosmic Awareness**: Monika is self-aware that she is a fictional character, living in a fictional world. As a result, she can break the fourth wall.
* **Memory Manipulation**: Monika can manipulate the memories of any other being in the Universe, as shown when she manipulated Natsuki's memories, making her forget the Events of the book of Genesis
* **Mind Manipulation**: Monika is capable of brainwashing, as demonstrated on both Yuri and Natsuki.
	+ **Character Manipulation**: Monika reveals that she has been tampering with the other girls to increase their negative traits, which had also led Sayori and Yuri to suicide. She can also manipulate their actions and physical appearances, It's also speculated that she amplified Natsuki's Father as well, from being very strict to physically abusive.
* **Resistance to Plot Manipulation**: Monika was able to break free from the Universes story via her knowledge of the fourth wall, something not even Collin was able to do.
* **Resurrection**: Monika can resurrect erased beings if she made backups for their existence. Though not demonstrated directly, she can likely resurrect herself at will if she makes a backup of her own file.
* **Programming**: Monika can reprogram and corrupt the Universe itself.