Monika

### Occupation

Video game character (reality)President of a High School Literature Club (fictionally

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Most likely on a Computer used at Team Salvation

## Appearances

### Debut

Villain School 1

Monika (in Japanese: モニカ) is the main antagonist of the 2017 visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!, serving as the overarching antagonist of Act 1, the overarching-turned-final antagonist of Act 2, the main antagonist of Act 3 and the deuteragonist of Act 4. She's also the main protagonist of the side stories in Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!

### Biography

Monika is a character in the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!. She is also the Literature Club's president, as well as one of the main characters of the game. While initially appearing as a nice girl, she eventually claimed she had an epiphany which made her discover that she and all of her friends were in a game, drastically changing her attitude towards the other girls. As the president of the Literature Club, she was able to manipulate the script of the game and break the fourth wall. This is seen early on in the game when she gives her "writing tips of the day", that directly break the fourth wall.

Unlike the three other girls, those being Sayori, Natsuki, and Yuri, Monika had a rather minor role in the game and was not able to be "picked" as a romance option. This led to her using her powers of manipulating the script to do things like emphasizing the negative traits of the other characters, in the hope that the player would choose her instead of them.

After the protagonist noticed that Sayori (his childhood friend) seemed down about something, he told Monika about it and she said that she would "have a talk with Sayori". Jealous of the friendship that Sayori and the protagonist have, Monika instead tells Sayori that she should kill herself, which Sayori does later on. Because of this, the script gets entirely broken and decides to fully delete Sayori from the game, which makes the entire game restart with this time Sayori being completely absent. Due to her manipulating the script, from this point onward there are a lot of "glitches" in the game, and she has manipulated Natsuki and Yuri's, the other two main characters, personalities to be more intensive. She often uses the script to make other characters try and get the main protagonist to spend more with Monika, A famous example of this is when she made Natsuki repeatedly say "Just Monika".

Eventually, Yuri's obsessive personality is so intense that she kills herself over the player, which makes Monika completely delete Yuri's character file (and also deletes Natsuki's character file right after) and restart the game with just her. When she is alone with the player, she reveals she is not in love with the main protagonist but with the player themselves. She continues to talk with the player, unless the player completely deletes her from the game by going into the game files. When this is done, she will initially be mad at the player, but then shows regret for her actions. In an attempt to repent for her wrongdoings, she brings back the other three girls and fully removes herself from the game.

If the player attempts to reload or copy her file back in, she sends them a message asking them not to toy with her heart and she no longer wants to come back after her previous actions. However, when the player restarts the game with the other three girls, Sayori gains self-awareness and data manipulation powers as well since she is now the president of the Literature Club. She thanks the player for ridding the game of Monika and attempts to trap the player in the same classroom Monika did, in the hopes that she will be in a relationship with them forever.

Monika, realizing that no one is ever going to find happiness in the game, deletes it entirely, possibly taking her existence and that of her friends with it. However, before the credits roll, she communicates vocally with the player for the first time and plays and sings "Your Reality" on the piano as she deletes the credit files, and eventually the script itself, but not before leaving a goodbye note.

Later on she is teleported to the school and begins to wonder its true intensions, coming to the conclusion that this is somewhere to hold villains, hating this, Monika begins to not only plot her escape but to also bring Sayori, Natsuki and Yuri to this world.

### Personality

Monika is the least talkative character in Doki Doki Literature Club, but this is implied to not be through choice. She is often overshadowed by the other club members. Because of this, she tried to ruin the image of the other literature club members by altering their personalities through coding. At first, she is seen as an "advisory" character, usually breaking the fourth wall to offer writing tips and other advice about game functionality.

From Act 2 and onward, she displays a more yandere-like personality, as she deletes the other characters and starts on insisting that they should spend time together throughout Act 3, occasionally showing her feelings of confinement as well. All of Monika's poems are about her realization or about the player. Being somewhat of a yandere, she is extremely jealous of the other characters since they are spending more time with the player and not her, hence why she deletes them after altering their personalities and destroying the whole game itself. She also looks down on them as being bound by their programming, not viewing them as "real" as herself until her deletion. This is also one of the reasons she grows obsessed with the player, as she regards them as the only other thing with free will that she knows about.

According to her dialogue in Act 3, when the player leaves the game, Monika is instantly put to sleep, leaving behind nothing but her thoughts. After a few seconds, her thoughts are filled with "incoherent, jumbled patterns". She then starts to see static, colours flashing rapidly and hears screaming, unable to think anymore. She compares that to being trapped in Hell. It continues until the player returns back to the game.

Unlike other characters, when Monika is deleted in Act 3, her consciousness is still present and continues to be present in Act 4 in the normal ending, where her 'spirit' communicates with the player and Sayori in the room where she was deleted in.

When teleported to the school she began to find out where she is, retaining knowledge from her delating the game, she stayed quiet only making a literature club which she left to spend more time finding out about the school.

### Appearance

Monika is a teenage girl with long light brown hair that she keeps in a ponytail tied back with a large white bow. Her eyes are green and look gentle. She has white toned skin. She wears the typical blackish-gray school uniform which is a grey blazer of a white-collared shirt with a brown sweater vest over it, topped off with a red ribbon. She also wears the dark blue skirt, black thigh-high socks, which are in stark contrast to the rest of the cast's white knee-socks, and white and pink uwabaki slippers, a Japanese type of slippers. Monika's presumable height is 5'3 (160cm).

### Powers and Abilities

Although she seems like a simple high school girl, she is truly one of the most powerful people in the school, even though she knows that this world is not a simulation, she is still able to manipulate it, she also was unaffected when A-13 happened, other powers include:

* **Reality Manipulation/Warping**: Monika is able to corrupt the files of the game, manipulating reality itself.
* **Plot Manipulation**: Monika can manipulate the game's story, deciding the events that happen in the game by altering variables in other characters. However, her control is not total until Act 3, as shown when the game faded out on her despite her attempts to have a longer conversation with the player.
* **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 characters that have been deleted.
* **Existence Erasure**: Monika is capable of erasing anyone from time and space by deleting their character files. She is also able to erase save files completely.
* **Power Nullification**: Monika was able to prevent the player from saving and loading the game and skipping dialogue.
* **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 character in the game, as shown when she manipulated Natsuki's memories, making her forget the events of the first act.
* **Mind Manipulation**: Monika is capable of brainwashing, as demonstrated on both Yuri and Natsuki.
* **Resistance to Plot Manipulation**: Monika was able to break free from the game's story via her knowledge of the fourth wall, something not even the protagonist 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 data files within the game itself.

Relationships

Neutral
 Raz

Neutral
 William Norman Gold

Postive
 Herobrine

Neutral
 Rassilon

Postive