Monika

Monika is an AI created by Erice and Cas in order to construct the killing game, that they also competed in. She is much like Almakuma in the fact that she is a robot used for ruling the killing game, however Almakuma is a robot and she just is a program. She is incredibly smart, to the point, she can infer what choices everyone is going to make and rule accordingly.

Monika's first real debut was the epilogue of Danganlaserzone, however she appeared in Doki Doki Literature Club before that. She played an unreachable girlfriend to try and obtain. Unlike her friends Sayori, Natsuki and Yuri, she didn't have a path that the player had a choice to actually take . She became self aware and had to program a route to allow the player to get to her. However, in the process of this rewriting she killed Yuri and Sayori and deleted Natsuki.

She had written many pomes to Erice and Cas and Matilda before she started helping them with their killing game.

## **Ace Attorney Sprite Gallery**

SmilingThinkingNormalConfidentLaughingGlitchedJust Monika
## **Appearance**

Monika has long coral brown hair that she keeps in a ponytail tied back with a large white bow. She also has bangs and two long strands of hair next to her face. Her eyes are emerald green; Act 3 shows tiny dots in what is supposed to be her colored pupils already surrounding the iris.

She wears the typical school uniform, which is a warm grayblazer over a brown sweater-vest, and underneath that a white-collared shirt, topped off with a red ribbon. She also wears a dark-blue skirt, black thigh-high socks, and white uwabaki slippers with a pink tip, which are in stark contrast to the rest of the cast's white knee-socks and blue-tipped slippers. She is believed to be the second-tallest character, behind Yuri. However in Danganlaserzone 5pm the game, she is one of the shortest as in real life she is shorter than when she's a program.

## **Pesonality**

Monika is noted by the other characters to be smart, confident and athletic. She is not as talkative as the other girls, but this is implied to not be through choice. Monika is also known to be popular, which causes the protagonist to have an admiration for her. She always has a calm, gentle expression and is portrayed as mature and hard-working.

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 it to be a place to showcase and grow everyone's passion for literature.

Monika was originally a very considerate and kind person who was always thinking about 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 did not consider them as being "real". She begins taking drastic measures when the other girls prevented the player from being able to spend time with her in the scene in Act 1 where the player has to choose a girl to help for the festival, as that is the first menu where she was actually available as an option to select.

In desperation, Monika begins trying to make 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 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.

    From Act 2 onward, she shows a much more manipulative personality. It is revealed that Monika was self-aware all along and resented 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 her 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 really sad and lonely, as a result of being aware that her whole world is just a simulation; a simulation in which she can't even achieve what is considered "happiness" (i.e. having her route completed). She is fixated on obtaining the love of 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 Sayori's and Yuri's undesirable traits (e.g. Sayori's depression and Yuri's obsessiveness) to make them less likely to confess their love toward the player. Monika will open the poem minigame once more, except only distorted words of Monika's game is available, and only Monika's sticker sprite is present, with a loud ambience playing in the background. The background is now red with 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, 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 file, she will immediately vanish, and search for her file in a panic. When she finds out the player deleted her, she becomes angry and the player and tell them that "You 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, 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 he/she 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, 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 will play, which is inferred to be the song Monika wrote for the player. The game's CGs will be deleted, 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 special ending is achieved, 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.

## **Monika's Poems**

***Hole in Wall***

It couldn't have been me.

See, the direction the spackle protrudes.

A noisy neighbor? An angry boyfriend? I'll never know. I wasn't home.

I peer inside for a clue.

No! I can't see. I reel, blind, like a film left out in the sun.

But it's too late. My retinas.

Already scorched with a permanent copy of the meaningless image.

It's just a little hole. It wasn't too bright.

It was too deep.

Stretching forever into everything.

A hole of infinite choices.

I realize now, that I wasn't looking in.

I was looking out.

And he, on the other side, was looking in.

### ***Save Me***

The colors, they won't stop.

Bright, beautiful colors

Flashing, expanding, piercing

Red, green, blue

An endless

cacophony

Of meaningless

noise

The noise, it won't stop.

Violent, grating waveforms

Squeaking, screeching, piercing

Sine, cosine, tangent

Like playing a chalkboard on a turntable

Like playing a vinyl on a pizza crust

An endless

poem

Of meaningless

Load Me

### ***The Lady who Knows Everything***

An old tale tells of a lady who wanders Earth.

The Lady who Knows Everything.

A beautiful lady who has found every answer,

All meaning,

All purpose,

And all that was ever sought.

And here I am,

a feather

Lost adrift the sky, victim of the currents of the wind.

Day after day, I search.

I search with little hope, knowing legends don't exist.

But when all else has failed me,

When all others have turned away,

The legend is all that remains – the last dim star glimmering in the twilit sky.

Until one day, the wind ceases to blow.

I fall.

And I fall and fall, and fall even more.

Gentle as a feather.

A dry quill, expressionless.

But a hand catches me, between the thumb and forefinger.

The hand of a beautiful lady.

I look at her eyes and find no end to her gaze.

The Lady who Knows Everything knows what I am thinking.

Before I can speak, she responds in a hollow voice.

"I have found every answer, all of which amount to nothing.

There is no meaning.

There is no purpose.

And we seek only the impossible.

I am not your legend.

Your legend does not exist."

And with a breath, she blows me back afloat, and I pick up a gust of wind.

***Hole in Wall (2)***

But he wasn't looking at me.

Confused, I frantically glance at my surroundings.

But my burned eyes can no longer see color.

Are there others in this room? Are they talking?

Or are they simply poems on flat sheets of paper,

The sound of frantic scrawling playing tricks on my ears?

The room begins to crinkle.

Closing in on me.

The air I breathe dissipate before it reaches my lungs.

I panic. There must be a way out.

It's right there. He's right there.

Swallowing my fears, I brandish my pen.

### ***Save Me (2)***

The colors, they won't

Bright, bea t ful c l rs

Flash ng, exp nd ng, piercing

Red, green, blue

An ndless

CACOPHONY

Of meaningless

noise

The noise, it won't STOP.

Viol nt, grating w vef rms

Sq e king, screech ng, piercing

SINE, COSINE, TANGENT

Like play ng a ch lkboard on a t rntable

Like playing a KNIFE on a BREATHING RIBCAGE

n ndl ss

p m

Of m n ngl ss

Delete Her

### ***Happy End***

Pen in hand, I find my strength.

The courage endowed upon me by my one and only love.

Together, let us dismantle this crumbling world

And write a novel of our own fantasies.

With a flick of her pen, the lost finds her way.

In a world of infinite choices, behold this special day.

After all,

Not all good times must come to an end

She also writes a very solemn letter to the at the end of the game, this letter is what sparks the idea that if she had someone or somewhere to find happiness that she could then prove useful to them. So Cas and Erice decide to invite her to join the preparation of a killing game, and she agreed.

## **Monika's songs:**

### **Your reality**

[Intro]

"C-Can you...

Can you hear me?

Uh...

Can you hear me?

Uh, can you hear me?

Hi, it's me

Um...

So you know how I've been like, practicing piano and stuff?

I'm not really any good at it yet

Like, at all

But, I wrote you a song, and I was kinda hoping that I could show it to you 'cause I worked really, really hard on it

So... Yeah!"

[Verse 1]

Every day, I imagine a future where I can be with you

In my hand is a pen that will write a poem of me and you

The ink flows down into a dark puddle

Just move your hand - write the way into his heart!

But in this world of infinite choices

What will it take just to find that special day?

What will it take just to find that special day?

[Verse 2]

Have I found everybody a fun assignment to do today?

When you're here, everything that we do is fun for them anyway

When I can't even read my own feelings

What good are words when a smile says it all?

And if this world won't write me an ending

What will it take just for me to have it all?

[Verse 3]

Does my pen only write bitter words for those who are dear to me?

Is it love if I take you, or is it love if I set you free?

The ink flows down into a dark puddle

How can I write love into reality?

If I can't hear the sound of your heartbeat

What do you call love in your reality?

And in your reality, if I don't know how to love you

I'll leave you be

### **Just Monika**

: Welcome to our meeting!

(Yuri): Are you into reading?

(Sayori): No need for being coy!

(Monika): We'll improve your uptake!

(Natsuki): Have a friggin' cupcake and must you bring a boy?

(Monika): Time to write some poems!

Don't be scared to show 'em! The festival's days away!

(Natsuki): You could help with baking!

(Yuri): Or with banner making!

(Sayori): And I'll walk home alone today...

: Maybe we're friends... maybe we're more...

How could he love a simple girl next door?

I'm just not the type he's looking for!

(Monika): Hey, Sayori, you doing okay?

(Sayori): I'm having a difficult day...

(Monika): I'd say! You seem pretty lonely!

(Nate): I wish I could make her grin...

All she wants are things back the way they've been.

(Monika): She's depressed and stressed and she's

Feeling blue... so I don't want Sayori hanging around you!

: JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA!

JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA! JUST JUST MONIKA!

: Manga is my passion. Don't you dare be bashin'!

The writing's got finesse!

Maybe you should borrow these until

Tomorrow... Were you looking up my dress?

(Yuri): Let's go read a story!

(Nate): What about Sayori?

(Monika): Let's talk about me instead!

I've been learning piano!

And I sing soprano! And I can't get you out of my head!

Can't look away... can't help but blush...

Where did I get this overwhelming crush?

It's sharp as a knife and twice the rush!

(Natsuki) Yo!

There's something I think you should know! I've never seen Yuri so-

(Yuri):-sAnE aNd cHiLL ANd sTiLL kinda sweaty...

And I don't mind cutting to the chase:

I'm in love with you and you're gorgeous face!

(Monika): That's a sentiment I can't allow!

So my dear friend Yuri is getting the point now!

: JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA!

JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA! JUST MONIKA! JUST JUST MONIKA!

: Could you have guessed? Maybe you knew? Natsuki is next,

I'm deleting her too!

We don't need cupcakes or poems or tea. I only need you to love me!

: Hey... there's no one else in our way...

So look at me and just say, right here, my dear that you love me!

And we'll sit here 'till the end of time 'cause I've earned this and

You're finally mine!

And I'm sorry what you've had to see but it

No longer matters, 'cause now you belong to me!

: Forever. Forever. FOREVER.

FOREVER. FOREVER FOREVER. FOREVER. FOREVER!

: JUST SAYORI! JUST SAYORI! JUST SAYORI!

JUST SAYORI! JUST SAYORI! JUST SAYORI! JUST SAYORI! JUST SAYORI!