Characters / Doki Doki Literature Girls

Main characters

Monika

Recreated the world the original game was set in initially to prove to Sayori that there was no happiness in the Literature Club. However, she slowly realizes the error of her ways and redeems herself. Is currently the girlfriend of Sayori.

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• Anti-Hero: While she commits actions more out of altruism than she did in the canon series, she does have moments where she would relapse into using her reality-warping powers such as when she is forced to delete a car that would've killed her and Sayori.
• The Atoner: Is deeply remorseful for the actions she had committed in the canon game. When she's by herself, she would convict herself being under the assumption that no matter what she does, it would never erase her misdeeds.
• Back from the Dead: Sayori reboots the game in order to bring Monika back after she had deleted herself.
• Broken Pedestal: A few times such as when Natsuki and Yuri found out about their reality, and when she pushes a Not Allowed to Grow Up loop onto them without their consent.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Due in part because of her existence in the original game, she can relapse to being clingy with Sayori despite Sayori's reassurance.
• Comedic Sociopathy: While she does maintain the promise she made to Sayori, she does often joke around with deleting things such as her piano teacher.
• Heel–Face Turn: Through Character Development, Monika becomes a better person than she was.
• Jerkass: The Friendship arc has Monika beginning to act cruelly to Ako. Though she had gradually grown out of this overtime, with her at best being able to tolerate Ako (while still being suspicious, of course).
• Lack of Empathy: In some instances, Monika still has issues with putting other people's feelings into account, but it is by far an improvement than before, all things considered.
• Lethal Chef: Has shown that she isn't especially skilled at cookery.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Contemplated using the "delete button" on Ako out of fear that Sayori might leave her.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Genuinely felt guilty for deleting the world. Also felt awful for keeping the truth from Natsuki and Yuri under the belief that they would be better off not knowing.
  • Feels terrible at withholding the fact that she made a time loop from the other girls, with Sayori being the only one aware of this.
• "Not So Different" Remark: To Ako. Much like with her, Monika was designed to love someone that they could never attain (for Monika it was the player, whereas, for Ako, it's Sayori). Monika lacked much concern for anyone else, whereas Ako originally had no personality. And lastly, they both grow gradually clingy (and suffocating) over Sayori.
• Official Couple: With Sayori.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: With Ako. Though some of it is the result of her paranoia.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: As of the Friendship arc.
• Villain Protagonist: Starts off as one, still initially believing that Natsuki and Yuri aren't real and only bringing them and the world back in order to prove Sayori wrong and prove her own point that there's no happiness to be found in the Literature Club. She ultimately slips away from this trope and becomes more of an Anti-Hero as she realizes that she was wrong and grows to care about her fellow club members.
• Vegetarian Hero: Monika turns out to be vegetarian when Sayori throws a barbeque. It's also brought up when She tries to show Sayori how good vegan food is (of course, it doesn't go well).
• Yandere: Dangerously relapsing into that same behavior from the original game. This time, she is painfully terrified of the prospect of Sayori leaving her, and is willing to ensure that it never happens.

Sayori

After the deletion of the original game, Sayori forces Monika to recreate the setting as a bet to prove to Monika that happiness could be found in the Literature Club. Is currently her girlfriend.

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• All-Loving Hero: Loves her girlfriend, loves her friends.
• Character Development: She pesters Monika into bringing the world back, and despite her self-loathing, she swallows her pride and professes to Monika.
• Fatal Flaw: Her emotional savviness and desire for everyone to get along ends up biting her hard in the Friendship arc, where she chooses to ignore Ako's budding feelings for her, desperate to avoid having to break her heart, until Ako's misinterpretations go too far and lead to a huge fight.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Felt guilty for leading Ako on by thinking that she was an important part of the original game.
• Official Couple: With Monika.
• Straight Man: To Monika.
• Was Too Hard on Her: Seems to have this reaction towards her best friend Ako after she stormed out of the latter's house, furious at being called "cruel" for all her attempts to be a good friend, leaving the latter in desperate tears.

Yuri

Having become reborn thanks to Monika bringing the game back, Yuri is just as timid as her canon self, but is working to fix that character flaw with her friends' assistance. Is in a relationship with Natsuki.

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• Official Couple: With Natsuki.
• Opposites Attract: Despite her morbid interests, she ends up falling for Natsuki as well as comes to appreciate her simplistic style of writing.
• Shrinking Violet: Carries this from her canon self. However, she is working to improve that.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Takes the news of learning Monika made a time loop where they never progressed as well as one would think.

The Perfect Yuri

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A "maxed up" version of Yuri created out of Yuri's desperation to be "perfect." The main difference between the two is her hair which was transformed into blue upon increasing her stats.

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• Arc Villain: Of the Perfect Yuri arc.
• Ax-Crazy: Tried to drive the real Yuri to suicide, and continuously berates her to the point she wishes a hitman would finish her off.
• Big Bad: Of the Perfect Yuri story arc. She is created when Yuri increased the stats in her character files to a perfect ten.
• Canon Foreigner: She was created specifically for this fan comic.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She is very unhinged.
• Death Seeker: Implies she is this when she finds out Monika was holding a crucial secret from them.
• Faux Affably Evil: She would go from comforting Yuri one moment to either mocking or bullying her, or not-so-subtly telling her that she should off herself.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Aside from Yuri, the other girls become aware of her existence in the Beach Episode arc and quickly grow annoyed with her and her insults. Natsuki sends her away through an extreme Suplex Finisher.
• Heel–Face Turn: While still very much a troll, the Perfect Yuri does assist the girls and admits to genuinely loving Yuri in spite of her flaws.
• I Shall Taunt You: She mainly taunts the OG!Yuri, but in the events of the Beach Episode arc, she tosses out insults towards the other members of the Literature Club.
• Jekyll & Hyde: The "Mr. Hyde" to Yuri's Dr. Jekyll. She even nearly drives her to commit suicide.
• Jerkass: Critiques the OG!Yuri for being imperfect and that she would never be a conductive member of society.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Despite her ill intents, she has been proven correct on some occasions such as with Yuri's needing to have more time to relax, otherwise she would break down easily.
• Kick the Dog: Her specialty.
• Lack of Empathy: Largely for the real Yuri and extends towards others. In the Beach Episode, she even contemplates whether she should prioritize ice cream over Natsuki when she found herself up to her head in the sand.
• Laughably Evil: Her pessimistic views on life often elicit dark humor from her.
• Ms. Fanservice: Her casual attire consists of a yellow dress with a slit for the legs.
  • As per usual, her beach attire is also rather revealing.
• The Sociopath: Lacks empathy towards her host and others. Her first appearance consists of her trying to be perfect selfishly.
• Spell My Name with a "The": The Perfect Yuri.
• Troll: Loves to push Yuri in any way she saw fit.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Is greatly displeased when she learns that Monika had created a time loop running on Not Allowed to Grow Up.

Natsuki

The same manga-loving Tsundere she was in the original game, Natsuki is currently in a relationship with Yuri.

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• Adaptational Gender Identity: She is a transgender girl here, and it ties into her aggression and treatment at both home and school.
• Berserk Button: Never insult her friends.
• Break the Cutie: Natsuki is slowly made to realize the reality of her world in the aptly named "Natsuki's Despair" arc.
• Costume Evolution: Starting in the Friendship arc, the sleeves of her casual outfit are edited to resemble the Transgender Pride Flag.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Reacts in shock at punching Monika when she overheard her revealing the reality of their world.
• Official Couple: With Yuri.
• Opposites Attract: Falls for Yuri despite their different interests and writing styles.
• Tomboy: Actually plays into her being a transgirl in this version. In one arc, she is seen skateboarding due to a doctor's recommendation, and in another, she is strong enough to lift Yuri to give The Perfect Yuri a Suplex Finisher.
• True Companions: Would rather not have the clubroom back than let anyone insult her friends.
• When She Smiles: Can be pretty adorable when she is truly happy.

Ako

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A former NPC who befriends Sayori while she was at the library.

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• But Now I Must Go: Variation. When the decision is made to end the comic, she decides to leave and explore other worlds.
• Canon Foreigner: Exists outside of the original visual novel.
• Character Development: Reconstructed. Went from a generic NPC to a fully sapient character with her own needs and wants, and decides to explore other worlds in order to continue growing and expanding her horizons.
• Deadpan Snarker: As her appearances progressed, her personality gradually developed into this type of humor.
• Flat Character: In-Universe, she's initially just another generic, nameless NPC who has two traits, Drawing a single picture and hanging out in a library, and literally nothing else, just like the other in-game extras. However, Sayori takes a liking to her and ends up indirectly influencing her to become more than that, starting off with her expanding her drawing skills and finally receiving both a name and a character sprite.
• I Just Want to Be Special: She wants there to be some purpose in her life after she had evolved from being a background character.

• Innocently Insensitive: Can feel like this whenever she'd be speaking her mind. One example of this is when she called Natsuki a weeb for reading the manga.
• Limited Wardrobe: In-Universe, her only clothes are her school uniform. Sayori points out that nobody wears that in summer, and takes her to buy some casual clothes.
• Meaningful Name: "Girl A", a bland and generic name for an (initially) utterly forgettable background character.
• Nonstandard Character Design: Stark white skin, and drawn in Yui's own style instead of trying to mimic Satchely's in any way.
• "Not So Different" Remark: To Monika. Much like Monika, Ako is gradually becoming possessive over Sayori.
• NPC: Starts out as one. All she ever does is sit in the library and draw two flowers and a cat. When Sayori suggests her to draw something else or to get out of the library, she's completely baffled, because being in the library and draw two flowers and a cat is what she does.
• Shrinking Violet: Has shades of this. It would appear that one of her fears is to know that not only was she not real, but that she otherwise has no purpose. Sayori unfortunately decides to push the notion that she was special.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: With Monika over Sayori's affections.
• The Stoic: By default. Comes with starting out as a flat NPC whose purpose is to say some lines and draw a picture, that can be found in the Library. Her feelings, thoughts, and emotions have to grow from literally nothing because she wasn't supposed to have any.
• Walk The Multiverse: Leaves the game when the comic ends to go on an odyssey to various worlds so as to expand her horizons and develop herself further as a person.
• Wingding Eyes: Her eyes sometimes gain red hearts in them when she's feeling flustered and her attraction to Sayori is starting to overwhelm her.

Error-chan/Anthy

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A mysterious new character that had appeared in the most recent storyline. Much like Ako, she is two-dimensionally rendered. If she is truly malicious is yet to be seen.

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• Ambiguously Evil: Given her Slasher Smile and grizzly features, it seems pretty apparent that she is bad. However, at most, Anthy had given Natsuki helpful advice and she asked to borrow her house phone to call her father without threatening her. But at the same time, she is last seen doing a Kubrick Stare when Natsuki asks her to play video games with her. She also warns Natsuki about how "she is not supposed to grow attached to anyone." Ultimately is shown to be a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.
  • Apocalypse reveals the reason behind this: as a antivirus program, Anthy's main objective is to detect any heavy drainages of data. However, it is made apparent that she does not like her job at all.
• Ambiguously Human: Aside from her Scary Teeth, she seems relatively "human."
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of antivirus software in general.
• Arc Villain: Of Apocalypse.
• Ax-Crazy: Constantly trying to rationalize her actions as being for the "greater good," Anthy gradually made herself insane.
• Big Bad:Of the Apocalypse arc.
• Big Eater: Makes sense as she is an antivirus program after all.
• Canon Foreigner: Only exists in this continuity.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Her debut strip is her making bizarre statements. For instance, she would refer to Sayori and Monika as "bow" and "ponytail" respectively, and she was surprised to learn that no one in the literature club actually went by the name Doki Doki Literature Club, seemingly not understanding it as merely the name of the game. This also could potentially be her way of throwing off any suspicions from the girls, but only time will tell.
• Daddy Issues: Claims to have this with her own father, but it could be plausible that she is merely saying that to appeal to Natsuki who had an awful father in the original game.
• Extreme Omnivore: She eats an album that Natsuki allows her to borrow.
  • Also decides to eat Yuri's house in the Apocalypse arc so she wouldn't have anywhere else to run to. By the end of the arc, she had nearly eaten everything in the game's setting.
• Fashion Dissonance: Her outfit consists of a turtlenecked leotard, a low hanging red skirt, and a red tie. Whether she is evil, Pandering to the Base, or just eccentric is still to be seen.
• Heel–Face Turn: is given another chance at the end of her arc.
• Foil:
  • To Monika. Much like how Monika was initially created to desire a route but couldn't receive one except through extreme measures, Anthy was created to protect computers from viruses and delete programs using up too much data. As the Darkness arc climaxed, it is made clear that Anthy hates her job and tries to justify it in the only way she knew how.
  • To Ako. Ako was initially an NPC who had only one function but evolved to become her own character. Anthy, on the other hand, is also an "outsider" to the game but did not have anyone to make her realize that she was more than her programming.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: While who she works for is still wholly unclear, Anthy is planning something of which is still unclear. Given her comments on death and restarting of life, it can only end badly...
• Knight of Cerebus: Anthy quickly becomes this considering how she is nearly on the same level as Monika is. Makes sense as she is an antivirus program meaning that she is practically a Physical God.
• Meaningful Name: Anthy as in antivirus program.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Her defining characteristics.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Much like Ako, her design is not meant to mimic the cast from the original game.
• Perpetual Smiler: She's always smiling. Too bad is of the slasher kind.
• Reality Warper: She is first seen observing Monika and Sayori from a literal rip in the world.
• Riddle for the Ages: Who is she? Where did she come from? Was she somehow made in a similar facet to Ako? More importantly, how does she know the girls' physical traits, and how did she become self-aware to know that she is communicating with video game characters? Finally averted at the end of The Apocalypse arc.
• Scary Teeth: Her most noticeable feature is her huge, shark-like teeth.
• Slasher Smile: Her default expression.
• The Spook: Thus far, nothing is known about Anthy other than she works for someone she refers to as her "Dad." It is also uncertain how she knows a good bit about Monika, though she refers to her as "Ponytail" rather than by her actual name. She is also aware that she is in a game without being told she was.
  • Apocalypse reveals her as an anti-virus software program that was sent to delete the game due to it overusing data.
• Tragic Villain: As an anti-virus software program, it is her task to protect the computer from viruses. However, she makes it abundantly clear that she hates her job to the point that she tries to bottle her grief to keep herself running.
• Villainous Breakdown: Gradually loses her composure the more the girls defy the inevitable and started to resort to push the girls' buttons when they stand up to her.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Apocalypse reveals that she is actually an antivirus program who entered the game due to her noticing that it was taking up a lot of data.
• Would Hurt a Child: Apocalypse suggests that she had done this prior to another game.

Avalon

• Didn't Think This Through: She erases the remaining Literature Club members with her third eye when they made her angry.
• Genius Loci: Anthy figures this out thanks to a risky gambit by Natsuki. Avalon is an avatar of the physical computer that contains Doki Doki Literature Club, allowing her to shapeshift and erase data by using the third eye under her bangs. Subverted in that she is also an avatar of the fans’ desire to see DDLG continue, and ruthlessly creates conflict, even if it may alienate fans, to keep the comic going.
• Greater-Scope Villain: There’s no scope greater than fighting the very facilitator of your world, right?
• Mirror Character: The way that Avalon treats the lives of the girls as trivial was very much done in the same fashion as Monika: before being redeemed and coming to cherish her friends, she increased their negative traits and then deleted them outright and used the "they're just programs" excuse to not feel bad about what she had done.

Secondary characters

The Player

The enigmatic player of the original visual novel. Deleted the original game when Monika deleted the other girls and rewrote the world. After leaving, Monika is goaded into recreating the world.

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• Big Bad: Potentially of the webcomic itself.
• The Ghost: Plays no crucial role to the webcomic, though is mentioned in passing a few time by the characters.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Of The Apocalypse arc. After all, he/she/whomever was the one who brought Anthy into the game.
• No Name Given: Justified as "the Player" is the default name for a gamer.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Deleted Monika after being made to witness the horrors of Doki Doki Literature Club!.