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** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends' (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction.[[note]]This applies to the MC as well; in Act 4 he voluntarily goes join the Literature Club.[[/note]] This can be supported by the fact that, unlike in the bonus ending where Monika is deleted early, Sayori seems to have a decent (okay, comparatively decent) handle on her situation, making it entirely possible that she had been goofing around with files before the "route" even started.
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** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends' (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction.[[note]]This applies to the MC as well; in Act 4 4, he voluntarily goes to join the Literature Club.[[/note]] This can be supported by the fact that, unlike in the bonus ending where Monika is deleted early, Sayori seems to have a decent (okay, comparatively decent) handle on her situation, making it entirely possible that she had been goofing around with files before the "route" even started.
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** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction.[[note]]This applies to the MC as well; in Act 4 he voluntarily goes join the Literature Club.[[/note]] This can be supported by the fact that, unlike in the bonus ending where Monika is deleted early, Sayori seems to have a decent (okay, comparatively decent) handle on her situation, making it entirely possible that she had been goofing around with files before the "route" even started.
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** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends friends' (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction.[[note]]This applies to the MC as well; in Act 4 he voluntarily goes join the Literature Club.[[/note]] This can be supported by the fact that, unlike in the bonus ending where Monika is deleted early, Sayori seems to have a decent (okay, comparatively decent) handle on her situation, making it entirely possible that she had been goofing around with files before the "route" even started.
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** Another possibility: Yuri had shown glimpses of being aware of her deteriorating mental state, so maybe she regained control of herself in her last moments and stabbed herself in order to save you from her?
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* If you choose to have the player character either confess that he loves Sayori or admit they're better as friends, does he truly mean either one, or is he trying to comfort a depressed neighbor and save her?
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* If you choose to have the player character either confess that he loves Sayori or admit they're better as friends, does he truly mean either one, or is he trying to comfort a depressed neighbor and save her?her? Or, for another interpretation of the "better as friends" response, does he love her but feel that saying that as this point could only make her specific issues worse?
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** Meta Possibility number 4: The game was [[ChristmasRushed hap-hazardly]] created to be your average visual novel dating sim, and, in an attempt to make the game less one-note, the developers gave the girls these traits to make them less [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]] without really looking into how these traits would affect them realistically. After all from Monika's Date with the player we know that she took research into a lot of real-life subjects (like depression) which also explains why she would know what impact these implications would have on the girls.
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** Meta Possibility number 4: The in-universe game was [[ChristmasRushed hap-hazardly]] created to be your average visual novel dating sim, and, in an attempt to make the game less one-note, the developers gave the girls these traits to make them less [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]] without really looking into how these traits would affect them realistically. After all from Monika's Date with the player we know that she took research into a lot of real-life subjects (like depression) which also explains why she would know what impact these implications would have on the girls.
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With a plot this [[MindScrew complex]] and this [[InterfaceScrew meta]], there are [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation many different ways]] that what the game shows you can be viewed.
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With a plot this [[MindScrew complex]] and this [[InterfaceScrew meta]], there are [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation many different ways]] that what [[VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub the game shows shows]] you can be viewed.
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* Were Sayori's suicidal levels of depression, Natsuki's {{tsundere}} nature and [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]], and Yuri's NightmareFetishist and [[SelfHarm self-harming]] tendencies always part of their original characters that Monika simply dialed up as time went on, or did Monika make those traits up wholesale? The fact that none of them seem to be present after Monika's deletion (Yuri and Natsuki actually get along, Natsuki's tsundere tendencies are more dialed back, and Sayori mentions actually waking up on time for multiple days in a row) suggests the latter...
** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories (where no one has meta-awareness) support the former interpretation that these traits were part of their characters to begin with, and it's only later on that Monika began amplifying them. [[note]]In the Side Stories, Sayori has depression (albeit seemingly it's not as debilitating here) and Natsuki is a tsundere (but that seems to be due to a toxic friend group) who clashes with Yuri.[[/note]]
*** The situations with Natsuki's father and Yuri's self-harm are slightly more complicated. They ''might or might not'' exist, as they're not brought up at all in Side Stories. If they do exist, they don't seem to be severe enough to leak into their school life.
** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction. This can be supported by the fact that, unlike in the bonus ending where Monika is deleted early, Sayori seems to have a decent (okay, comparatively decent) handle on her situation, making it entirely possible that she had been goofing around with files before the "route" even started.
** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories (where no one has meta-awareness) support the former interpretation that these traits were part of their characters to begin with, and it's only later on that Monika began amplifying them. [[note]]In the Side Stories, Sayori has depression (albeit seemingly it's not as debilitating here) and Natsuki is a tsundere (but that seems to be due to a toxic friend group) who clashes with Yuri.[[/note]]
*** The situations with Natsuki's father and Yuri's self-harm are slightly more complicated. They ''might or might not'' exist, as they're not brought up at all in Side Stories. If they do exist, they don't seem to be severe enough to leak into their school life.
** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction. This can be supported by the fact that, unlike in the bonus ending where Monika is deleted early, Sayori seems to have a decent (okay, comparatively decent) handle on her situation, making it entirely possible that she had been goofing around with files before the "route" even started.
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* Were Sayori's suicidal levels of depression, Natsuki's {{tsundere}} nature and [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]], and Yuri's NightmareFetishist and [[SelfHarm self-harming]] tendencies always part of their original characters that Monika simply dialed up as time went on, or did Monika make those traits up wholesale? The fact that none of them seem to be present after Monika's deletion (Yuri and Natsuki actually get along, Natsuki's tsundere tendencies are more dialed back, Yuri does not mention having an interest in horror, and Sayori mentions actually waking up on time for multiple days in a row) suggests the latter...
** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories (whereno one has meta-awareness) Monika doesn't have meta-awareness and the girls are their "unaltered" selves) sort of support the former interpretation that these traits were part of their characters to begin with, and it's only later on that Monika began amplifying them. [[note]]In the Side Stories, both possibilities. In them, Sayori has depression (albeit seemingly (although it's not as debilitating here) here and doesn't really come up after the first story) and Natsuki is a tsundere (but who clashes with Yuri (however, that seems to be due is attributed to a toxic friend group) who clashes with Yuri.[[/note]]
*** Thegroup). On the other hand, the situations with Natsuki's father and Yuri's self-harm are slightly more complicated. They ''might or might not'' exist, as they're not brought up at all in Side Stories. If they do exist, they One can argue that those traits either don't seem to be exist here or are not severe enough to leak into their school life.
** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction. [[note]]This applies to the MC as well; in Act 4 he voluntarily goes join the Literature Club.[[/note]] This can be supported by the fact that, unlike in the bonus ending where Monika is deleted early, Sayori seems to have a decent (okay, comparatively decent) handle on her situation, making it entirely possible that she had been goofing around with files before the "route" even started.
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** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction.
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* Does Monika genuinely believe the other characters are just code and not as real as her or is that just something she says to reassure the player and herself?
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* Does Monika genuinely believe the other characters are [[JustAMachine just code and not as real as her her]] or is that just something she says to reassure the player and herself?player? Or maybe to reassure ''herself''?
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* There is a more disturbing interpretation of Sayori's suicide: The "official" version (that is, what ''Monika'' claims happened in Act 3's dialogue) says the blood on Sayori's hands came from her final struggle to free herself from the rope after she changed her mind too late, or after her survival instincts kicked in. However, it has also been suggested that Monika's influence drove Sayori to hang herself, and Monika ''withdrew her influence at the last second'', leaving a "normal", panicking Sayori struggling to escape her demise - hence explaining the bloody hands. It should be noted that Monika suddenly withdrawing her influence does happen at least once in the game (after Yuri gives you her third poem in Act 2).
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** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories show "normal" Monika.
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** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories show "normal" Monika. It's pretty well summed up by the scene in the game where she says she appears confident because she has to but that doesn't mean she always feels that way.
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** Is the actual ''truth'' about everyone else really relevant to Monika's ''personality'' if she saw things in a certain way anyway?
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** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories (where no one has meta-awareness) support the former interpretation that these traits were part of their characters to begin with, and it's only later on that Monika began amplifying them. [[note]]In the Side Stories, the girls are more in line with their early Act 1 selves: Sayori has depression (albeit seemingly it's not as debilitating here) and Natsuki is a tsundere (but that's due to a toxic friend group) who clashes with Yuri. The situations with Natsuki's father and Yuri's self-harm ''might'' exist, but do not seem to be severe enough to leak into their school life, as they're not brought up - like in Act 1 of DDLC.[[/note]]
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** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories (where no one has meta-awareness) support the former interpretation that these traits were part of their characters to begin with, and it's only later on that Monika began amplifying them. [[note]]In the Side Stories, the girls are more in line with their early Act 1 selves: Sayori has depression (albeit seemingly it's not as debilitating here) and Natsuki is a tsundere (but that's that seems to be due to a toxic friend group) who clashes with Yuri. Yuri.[[/note]]
*** The situations with Natsuki's father and Yuri's self-harm''might'' are slightly more complicated. They ''might or might not'' exist, but do as they're not brought up at all in Side Stories. If they do exist, they don't seem to be severe enough to leak into their school life, as they're not brought up - like in Act 1 of DDLC.[[/note]]life.
*** The situations with Natsuki's father and Yuri's self-harm
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** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories (where no one has meta-awareness) support the former interpretation that the Act 1 versions of the girls are largely unmodified; Sayori has depression (albeit seemingly it's not as debilitating here) and Natsuki is tsundere (but it's due to a toxic friend group) while the situations with Natsuki's father and Yuri's self-harm do not seem to be severe enough to leak into their school life.
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** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories (where no one has meta-awareness) support the former interpretation that these traits were part of their characters to begin with, and it's only later on that Monika began amplifying them. [[note]]In the Act 1 versions of Side Stories, the girls are largely unmodified; more in line with their early Act 1 selves: Sayori has depression (albeit seemingly it's not as debilitating here) and Natsuki is a tsundere (but it's that's due to a toxic friend group) while the who clashes with Yuri. The situations with Natsuki's father and Yuri's self-harm ''might'' exist, but do not seem to be severe enough to leak into their school life.life, as they're not brought up - like in Act 1 of DDLC.[[/note]]
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* Do the girls have free will or not? Monika is convinced they don't (and therefore that they aren't ''real'', like her), but that might be her misinterpreting the situation because only the head of the Literature Club has full meta-awareness. The fact that the girls can have both unscripted reactions to events (vomiting, for instance) and flashes of self-awareness about their changing selves (Natsuki's plea to the player to help Yuri, and Yuri noting a feeling of deja vu) imply at least a portion of freedom within their personalities.
** ''DDLC+'' suggests this: While only main-game Monika has meta-awareness and elevated permissions, all the girls are AIs, none of them are preprogrammed scripts. This would explain their reactions.
** ''DDLC+'' suggests this: While only main-game Monika has meta-awareness and elevated permissions, all the girls are AIs, none of them are preprogrammed scripts. This would explain their reactions.
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* Do the girls have free will or not? Monika is convinced they don't (and therefore that they aren't ''real'', like her), but that might be her misinterpreting the situation because only the head of the Literature Club has full meta-awareness. The fact that the girls can have both unscripted reactions to events (vomiting, for instance) events[[note]]Natsuki's plea of help to the MC, her puking at finding Yuri's corpse, and Yuri telling Monika to kill herself (something Monika confirms shocked even her)[[/note]] and flashes of self-awareness about their changing selves (Natsuki's plea to the player to help Yuri, and selves[[note]]Sayori's Get out of my Head poem, Yuri noting a her heartbeat and feeling of deja vu) vu, and going to vomit once she realizes what she's doing[[/note]] imply at least a portion of freedom within their personalities.
** ''DDLC+'' suggeststhis: the following: While only main-game Monika has meta-awareness and elevated permissions, all the girls are AIs, none of them are preprogrammed scripts. This would explain their reactions.reactions, and how Monika can seemingly "boost" certain specific traits they have.
** ''DDLC+'' suggests
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* Do the girls have free will or not? Monika is convinced they don't (and therefore that they aren't ''real'', like her), but that might be her misinterpreting the situation because only the head of the Literature Club has full meta-awareness. The fact that the girls can have both unscripted reactions to events (vomiting, for instance) and flashes of self-awareness about their changing selves imply at least a portion of freedom within their personalities.
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* Do the girls have free will or not? Monika is convinced they don't (and therefore that they aren't ''real'', like her), but that might be her misinterpreting the situation because only the head of the Literature Club has full meta-awareness. The fact that the girls can have both unscripted reactions to events (vomiting, for instance) and flashes of self-awareness about their changing selves (Natsuki's plea to the player to help Yuri, and Yuri noting a feeling of deja vu) imply at least a portion of freedom within their personalities.personalities.
** ''DDLC+'' suggests this: While only main-game Monika has meta-awareness and elevated permissions, all the girls are AIs, none of them are preprogrammed scripts. This would explain their reactions.
** ''DDLC+'' suggests this: While only main-game Monika has meta-awareness and elevated permissions, all the girls are AIs, none of them are preprogrammed scripts. This would explain their reactions.
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** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories show "normal" Monika.
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** The ''DDLC+'' Side Stories (where no one has meta-awareness) support the former interpretation that the Act 1 versions of the girls are largely unmodified; Sayori has depression (albeit seemingly it's not as debilitating here) and Natsuki is tsundere (but it's due to a toxic friend group) while the situations with Natsuki's father and Yuri's self-harm do not seem to be severe enough to leak into their school life.
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* Which version of Monika is behind [[https://twitter.com/lilmonix3 her unironically cute and endearing Twitter]] CharacterBlog? Is it the BitchInSheepsClothing Monika from Acts 1 and 2 putting on her usual facade? Or is it the redeemed Monika from Acts 3-4 expressing genuine enjoyment for the literature club -- and possibly longing for her former friends who she is no longer able to interact with directly? Or is it from before she became aware to begin with? One of the emails in ''DDLC+'' suggests that it's the Monika from the new Side Stories, since she isn't aware that she's a simulated charcter in them.
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* Which version of Monika is behind [[https://twitter.com/lilmonix3 her unironically cute and endearing Twitter]] CharacterBlog? Is it the BitchInSheepsClothing Monika from Acts 1 and 2 putting on her usual facade? Or is it the redeemed Monika from Acts 3-4 expressing genuine enjoyment for the literature club -- and possibly longing for her former friends who she is no longer able to interact with directly? Or is it from before she became aware to begin with? One of the emails in ''DDLC+'' suggests that it's the Monika from the new Side Stories, since she isn't aware that she's a simulated charcter character in them.
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* Which version of Monika is behind [[https://twitter.com/lilmonix3 her unironically cute and endearing Twitter]] CharacterBlog? Is it the BitchInSheepsClothing Monika from Acts 1 and 2 putting on her usual facade? Or is it the redeemed Monika from Acts 3-4 expressing genuine enjoyment for the literature club -- and possibly longing for her former friends who she is no longer able to interact with directly? Or is it from before she became aware to begin with?
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* Which version of Monika is behind [[https://twitter.com/lilmonix3 her unironically cute and endearing Twitter]] CharacterBlog? Is it the BitchInSheepsClothing Monika from Acts 1 and 2 putting on her usual facade? Or is it the redeemed Monika from Acts 3-4 expressing genuine enjoyment for the literature club -- and possibly longing for her former friends who she is no longer able to interact with directly? Or is it from before she became aware to begin with?with? One of the emails in ''DDLC+'' suggests that it's the Monika from the new Side Stories, since she isn't aware that she's a simulated charcter in them.
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* Which version of Monika is behind [[https://twitter.com/lilmonix3 her unironically cute and endearing Twitter]] CharacterBlog? Is it the BitchInSheepsClothing Monika from Acts 1 and 2 putting on her usual facade? Or is it the redeemed Monika from Acts 3-4 expressing genuine enjoyment for the literature club -- and possibly longing for her former friends who she is no longer able to interact with directly?
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* Which version of Monika is behind [[https://twitter.com/lilmonix3 her unironically cute and endearing Twitter]] CharacterBlog? Is it the BitchInSheepsClothing Monika from Acts 1 and 2 putting on her usual facade? Or is it the redeemed Monika from Acts 3-4 expressing genuine enjoyment for the literature club -- and possibly longing for her former friends who she is no longer able to interact with directly?directly? Or is it from before she became aware to begin with?
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With a plot this [[MindScrew complex]] and this [[InterfaceScrew meta]], there are [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation many different ways]] the story and its characters can be viewed.
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With a plot this [[MindScrew complex]] and this [[InterfaceScrew meta]], there are [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation many different ways]] that what the story and its characters game shows you can be viewed.
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* Were Sayori's suicidal levels of depression, Natsuki's {{tsundere}} nature and [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]], and Yuri's NightmareFetishist and [[SelfHarm self-harming]] tendencies always part of their original characters that Monika simply dialed up as time went on, or did Monika make those traits up wholesale? The fact that none of them seem to be present after Monika's deletion (Yuri and Natsuki actually get along, Natsuki's tsundere tendencies are more dialed back, and Sayori mentions actually waking up on time for multiple days in a row) suggests the latter...
** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction. This can be supported by the fact that, unlike in the bonus ending where Monika is deleted early, Sayori seems to have a decent (okay, comparatively decent) handle on her situation, making it entirely possible that she had been goofing around with files before the "route" even started.
** Possibility number 3: Sayori, who doesn't seem the type to try and turn her friends into someone they're not, saw the CharacterDevelopment that the player unlocked during each girl's route (Yuri becomes less shy; Natsuki becomes less defensive) and simply wrote it back into their starting personalities. But then of course, as Sayori herself notes, that's the game pretty much finished...
** Meta Possibility number 4: The game was [[ChristmasRushed hap-hazardly]] created to be your average visual novel dating sim, and, in an attempt to make the game less one-note, the developers gave the girls these traits to make them less [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]] without really looking into how these traits would affect them realistically. After all from Monika's Date with the player we know that she took research into a lot of real-life subjects (like depression) which also explains why she would know what impact these implications would have on the girls.
* Is Monika a tragic figure trapped with the knowledge that she's a fictional character in a romance game that goes out of its way to railroad the player away from spending time with her, or just a creepy self-aware yandere who ended up corrupting and killing everyone with the justification that they're not real people, even though she's just as "real" as any of them? Instances like Sayori gaining the same medium awareness whenever she holds the club president position and Yuri's awareness of her own increasing corruption as Monika rewrites her contradict her attempts at justifying the dehumanization of her co-stars.
* Does Monika genuinely believe the other characters are just code and not as real as her or is that just something she says to reassure the player and herself?
* Which version of Monika is behind [[https://twitter.com/lilmonix3 her unironically cute and endearing Twitter]] CharacterBlog? Is it the BitchInSheepsClothing Monika from Acts 1 and 2 putting on her usual facade? Or is it the redeemed Monika from Acts 3-4 expressing genuine enjoyment for the literature club -- and possibly longing for her former friends who she is no longer able to interact with directly?
* Is Yuri's suicide after her confession just a result of her being crazy (she stabs herself to death even if you say yes) or does she have a final moment of (sort of) lucidity and decide to just put herself out of her misery? Monika provides a third possible explanation: she claims that Yuri self-harms because of a sexual fetish, and says that the player character should stay away from her due to him being a trigger, which would also explain why she stabs herself even after you accept her confession; however, since Monika wants you all to herself, she has all the reason to lie to make Yuri look bad. The facts that all the gobbledegook Yuri's corpse spouts for the weekend is actually in Monika's perspective (check the history) and Monika treats you spending the weekend with that corpse as an accidental result of her "script" suggest her responsibility.
* If you choose to have the player character either confess that he loves Sayori or admit they're better as friends, does he truly mean either one, or is he trying to comfort a depressed neighbor and save her?
* Do the girls have free will or not? Monika is convinced they don't (and therefore that they aren't ''real'', like her), but that might be her misinterpreting the situation because only the head of the Literature Club has full meta-awareness. The fact that the girls can have both unscripted reactions to events (vomiting, for instance) and flashes of self-awareness about their changing selves imply at least a portion of freedom within their personalities.
* How much of Monika was actually pre-programmed and how much of herself did she change to appeal to the player? ''Did'' she even change herself to appeal to the player? Think about it: Monika is introduced as being the most popular girl in class, as well "smart, beautiful and athletic". She's also sweet and polite to everyone, and the player character doesn't notice any "bad" flaws with her. At least some of these traits people would find attractive. Considering that Monika was able to change the personality traits of the other girls, it seems likely she would have changed herself to be more appealing.
* In one conversation, Yuri starts to explain to the protagonist that she has back problems because of her large bust, but trails off in embarrassment before she can admit that's the reason. At that point, the protagonist jumps in and suggests her back problems are due to bad posture. So, was he [[InnocentInaccurate genuinely clueless]] about what Yuri was getting at, or did he realize and provide his own explanation to spare her some embarrassment?
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* Were Sayori's suicidal levels of depression, Natsuki's {{tsundere}} nature and [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]], and Yuri's NightmareFetishist and [[SelfHarm self-harming]] tendencies always part of their original characters that Monika simply dialed up as time went on, or did Monika make those traits up wholesale? The fact that none of them seem to be present after Monika's deletion (Yuri and Natsuki actually get along, Natsuki's tsundere tendencies are more dialed back, and Sayori mentions actually waking up on time for multiple days in a row) suggests the latter...
** Another possible interpretation is that Sayori is the one responsible for their changes in personality. Considering the fact that one of Sayori's defining motivations is her desire to make everyone happy, it is strikingly in character for her to try and remove or downplay the parts of her friends (and her own) personalities that make their lives difficult or cause friction. This can be supported by the fact that, unlike in the bonus ending where Monika is deleted early, Sayori seems to have a decent (okay, comparatively decent) handle on her situation, making it entirely possible that she had been goofing around with files before the "route" even started.
** Possibility number 3: Sayori, who doesn't seem the type to try and turn her friends into someone they're not, saw the CharacterDevelopment that the player unlocked during each girl's route (Yuri becomes less shy; Natsuki becomes less defensive) and simply wrote it back into their starting personalities. But then of course, as Sayori herself notes, that's the game pretty much finished...
** Meta Possibility number 4: The game was [[ChristmasRushed hap-hazardly]] created to be your average visual novel dating sim, and, in an attempt to make the game less one-note, the developers gave the girls these traits to make them less [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]] without really looking into how these traits would affect them realistically. After all from Monika's Date with the player we know that she took research into a lot of real-life subjects (like depression) which also explains why she would know what impact these implications would have on the girls.
* Is Monika a tragic figure trapped with the knowledge that she's a fictional character in a romance game that goes out of its way to railroad the player away from spending time with her, or just a creepy self-aware yandere who ended up corrupting and killing everyone with the justification that they're not real people, even though she's just as "real" as any of them? Instances like Sayori gaining the same medium awareness whenever she holds the club president position and Yuri's awareness of her own increasing corruption as Monika rewrites her contradict her attempts at justifying the dehumanization of her co-stars.
* Does Monika genuinely believe the other characters are just code and not as real as her or is that just something she says to reassure the player and herself?
* Which version of Monika is behind [[https://twitter.com/lilmonix3 her unironically cute and endearing Twitter]] CharacterBlog? Is it the BitchInSheepsClothing Monika from Acts 1 and 2 putting on her usual facade? Or is it the redeemed Monika from Acts 3-4 expressing genuine enjoyment for the literature club -- and possibly longing for her former friends who she is no longer able to interact with directly?
* Is Yuri's suicide after her confession just a result of her being crazy (she stabs herself to death even if you say yes) or does she have a final moment of (sort of) lucidity and decide to just put herself out of her misery? Monika provides a third possible explanation: she claims that Yuri self-harms because of a sexual fetish, and says that the player character should stay away from her due to him being a trigger, which would also explain why she stabs herself even after you accept her confession; however, since Monika wants you all to herself, she has all the reason to lie to make Yuri look bad. The facts that all the gobbledegook Yuri's corpse spouts for the weekend is actually in Monika's perspective (check the history) and Monika treats you spending the weekend with that corpse as an accidental result of her "script" suggest her responsibility.
* If you choose to have the player character either confess that he loves Sayori or admit they're better as friends, does he truly mean either one, or is he trying to comfort a depressed neighbor and save her?
* Do the girls have free will or not? Monika is convinced they don't (and therefore that they aren't ''real'', like her), but that might be her misinterpreting the situation because only the head of the Literature Club has full meta-awareness. The fact that the girls can have both unscripted reactions to events (vomiting, for instance) and flashes of self-awareness about their changing selves imply at least a portion of freedom within their personalities.
* How much of Monika was actually pre-programmed and how much of herself did she change to appeal to the player? ''Did'' she even change herself to appeal to the player? Think about it: Monika is introduced as being the most popular girl in class, as well "smart, beautiful and athletic". She's also sweet and polite to everyone, and the player character doesn't notice any "bad" flaws with her. At least some of these traits people would find attractive. Considering that Monika was able to change the personality traits of the other girls, it seems likely she would have changed herself to be more appealing.
* In one conversation, Yuri starts to explain to the protagonist that she has back problems because of her large bust, but trails off in embarrassment before she can admit that's the reason. At that point, the protagonist jumps in and suggests her back problems are due to bad posture. So, was he [[InnocentInaccurate genuinely clueless]] about what Yuri was getting at, or did he realize and provide his own explanation to spare her some embarrassment?
