Monika Before Story

v1.2 (Russian)

v1.0 (English)

**Monika Before Story** is a *Doki Doki Literature Club!* mod featuring the Main Character (MC) as President of the Literature Club, doing away with the psychological horror, since Monika gives up on corrupting the game. Monika is self-aware but doesn't alter the files claiming that she made the game. The MC is free to choose between the 4 girls without being forced to love Monika.

## Characters

* Monika
* Sayori

Monika is the childhood friend of the MC. She's described as the popular girl of the school, leading most of the clubs consecutively. But one day she quits, because of the drama, politics, and in-fighting of the clubs. Debate Club was one club that she led and is also best friends with Sayori.

#### Personality

Monika is described as an athletic, intelligent and beautiful girl, she was leading clubs that contributed to her popularity. Calm, responsible and out-going and is noticeably not as talkative as the other club members. Occasionally she is sad about some of the decision she is taking but decides to hide it but tends to space out because of them, she also pokes fun from others for comic relief. She is self-aware but likes justice and only takes over the game when the player alters the files.

Sayori is the MC's classmate and Monika's best friend.

#### Personality

Sayori is described as a "bundle of sunshine who values happiness the most", despite the previous self, she is spiritually-strong, perky, spunky, hardworking, awkward and outgoing. She doesn't let depression take over her and tends to occasionally laugh awkwardly at some stuff she's embarrassed of and also spaces out when she's alone, she likes literature and is motivated to help.
## Synopsis

**Notice: This section spoils the parts of the mod that aren't influenced by the player's choice.**

Upon entering the game doesn't display discretionary warnings, the music cuts upon entering and there is only Monika in the background, with 5 options: Install Mod, Load Game, Settings, Help and Quit. Upon pressing *"Install Mod",* the game asks the player to enter the name, the game sends MC into the neighborhood where Sayori and MC lives. Some moments later MC sees a girl running toward her. MC immediately recognizes her as Monika *childhood friend and neighbor*, MC says that they used to walk school together but she got too popular and might forget about MC.

Monika shortly appears, out of breath. After MC asks Monika if she *"need to catch her breath or something"*, she suddenly jumps. MC is confused and then proceed to salute Monika and responds back that she is surprised about how much MC changed and also asks if it's really him. While MC walks with Monika to school, he believes that people will be judging them and will believe that Monika has a boyfriend or *something*, Monika responds that he's always too insecure since they were kids and she shouldn't be looked upon as a *goddess* then shortly notices Sayori walking towards them and is described by the MC as *"*The youthful bundle of sunshine who values happiness the most./Always there to cheer people up.*"*

   MC convinces Sayori to come along and Sayori accepts, MC thinks that the start of the day was good as he was *walking with two cute girls*. While they're continuously walking, MC feels nostalgic walking with Monika again, that she grown since middle school and proceeds with describing her as: *"*Monika, the most popular girl---smart, beautiful, athletic. a type of girl being out of her league." Monika asks MC about the Literature Club that he wanted to start and then the story is interrupted.

The screens flickers and background turns black, the dialogue box displays random words continuously, Monika is frozen and a console opens to finish the last phase of installing the mod, after installing the menus and scripts, it proceeds with re-installing the characters with MC starting describing the characters again while the console deletes the characters. The last character, Monika is described as "**MMMMmmmMMMM"**, becomes glitchy, finally being deleted, then is described as: "Monika the passionate and talented girl who never falters in determination!"' -- The console finishes the mod installation and the player receives a warning that the game is unable to restart, getting a total crash with a message instructing to quit and reboot the game. Upon re-opening the game, all the characters appear, the music plays without cutting and the start button is replaced with *New Game*.

## Controversy

On April 3rd, 2021, DDMC sub-Reddit Moderator Braethan made a post of accusations against the mod's author CampinKarl, whom had also been the former lead Moderator of the sub-Reddit. As of April 9th, 2021, the mod's website appears to have been taken down and the mod was also removed from Reddit.

## References

1. ↑ BraethanMusic (April 3, 2021). "Regarding Recent Discord and Staff Related Incidents". *www.reddit.com*. Archived from the original on September 14, 2023. Retrieved May 8, 2021.