History Characters / DokiDokiLiteratureClub

* ClosetGeek: He really likes anime and manga, but is conscious that people could look down on him for this. When Yuri asks what books he reads, he is embarrassed that he can only answer with “manga". Later, when Natsuki says that she likes manga, he is reluctant to tell her how much he likes it until he's sure that she's as into it as him. At one point he even bemoans how difficult it is to find friends that won't judge a person’s nerdy hobbies, much less ones that share them.

* NiceGuy: He's generally very nice to the girls in his dialogue, and is considerate of their feelings.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:Of all the girls, Monika is the only one with an awareness of her status as a video game character, and that awareness also comes with the ability (crudely) modify the game's scripts. That ability, coupled with her repeated failure to fully break out of her role as a supporting character in the game's narrative, ultimately leads to her apocalyptic obsession with the player.]]

The player character, a generic Japanese highscool student with typical otaku interests. His introduction into the Literature Club is what drives the story. [[HelloInsertNamehere You decide his name]].

* ClosetGeek: He really likes anime and manga, but is conscious that people could look down on him for this. When Yuri asks what books he reads, he is embarrassed that he can only answer with “manga". Later, when Natsuki says that she likes manga, he is relucant to tell her how much he likes it until he's sure that she's as into it as him. At one point he even bemoans how difficult it is to find friends that won't judge a person’s nerdy hobbies, much less ones that share them.

* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:Tells Natsuki to "shut the fuck up" near the start of Act Two, and asks her to kill herself not long adter. As the act progresses, it's more like ClusterFBomb.]]

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide:]] [[spoiler:Sayori hangs herself on the morning of the festival on the first playthrough, regardless of how you respond to her confession.]]

* [[spoiler:GoodbyeCruelWorld]]: [[spoiler:Her final poem is essentially a suicide note:]]

* [[spoiler:WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity]]: [[spoiler:As with Monika, it's implied that being president of the Literature Club in Act Four gives her a certain degree of awareness of her status as video game character, as well as the ability to modify the game itself. The result drives her to an unhealthy obsession with the player.]]

* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler:Literally.]] [[spoiler:She's the only one not to have a serious mental breakdown, and even secretly implores you in one of her poems to tell Yuri to seek help for her mental condition.]]

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Monika will MindRape, manipulate, and flat-out delete other girls from the game, just to make sure she has you all to herself.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Yuri's knife collection isn't just an odd character trait. [[spoiler:It's what she uses to self harm and later kill herself with.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Monika tells the protagonist to make sure to save at important decisions, then wonders who she's talking to. [[spoiler:The fourth wall practically falls apart after Yuri's death.]]

* HopelessWithTech: Downplayed. [[spoiler: Though she DOES get the hang of it, a lot of the edits she's making to the game's coding are very obviously unstable and, in the case of editing text, very clumsily written in both formatting AND staying within the character of whoever she's editing.]]

[[spoiler:* DrivenToSuicide:]] [[spoiler:Sayori hangs herself on the morning of the festival on the first playthrough, regardless of how you respond to her confession.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Sayori hangs herself on the morning of the festival on the first playthrough, regardless of how you respond to her confession.]]

* PrecisionF-Strike: [[spoiler:Tells Natsuki to "shut the fuck up" near the start of Act Two, and asks her to kill herself not long adter. As the act progresses, it becomes a series of ClusterF-Strikes]]

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:She's a {{Yandere}}, but not for the player character. She's one for ''you''.]]
* GoGetterGirl: She's framed as a hard working girl who used to be in the Debate Club before starting her own, and she always arrives somewhat late due to just finishing piano practice.

* MindRape: [[spoiler:She alters the other girls' personalities so that their worst traits are exaggerated, resulting in SanitySlippage. This is so that it'll be difficult for them to confess, and that the player will find them unappealing.]]

* HeavySleeper: Sayori is often late to school because she sleeps in. [[spoiler:It's because she's so depressed it's too hard for her to get out of bed in the morning.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: She's feisty, she's [[BrutalHonesty blunt]], and she clearly has a crush on the protagonist.

* CovertPervert: [[spoiler:She says some perverted things as she undergoes SanitySlippage, even saying through distorted text that she masturbates using the pen the player character dropped. Monika also suggests she self-harms out of a bizarre sexual fetish. However, since Monika is both responsible for the MindRape and wants you to stay away from the other girls, she could be deliberately trying to make her look worse.]]

* {{Unperson}}: [[spoiler: After you restart the game after her suicide, it plays out without her in it.]]

* MindRape: [[spoiler:She alter's the other girls' personalities so that their worst traits are exaggerated, resulting in SanitySlippage. This is so that it'll be difficult for them to confess, and that the player will find them unappealing.]]

!!Natsumi

* CoolBigSis: Monika is the club's President, and is cool, calm and mature. She gives the player advice on how to improve as a writer, helps break up disputes, and even seems to play ShipperOnDeck. [[spoiler:While this is what she's programmed to be, it turns out she hates her status as a side character who only exists to help out the player and doesn't even have a route of her own. She does seem to be fond of the club after all, but she's frustrated enough with her situation to pull a Hostile Show Takeover so that she could romance the player. Not the player character, the ''player''.]]

* Self-Harm: [[spoiler:Yuri is revealed to have a habit of cutting herself. It's unclear if this was going to be part of her route to begin with or if it's Monika's influence. Though, Monika does try to tell the player to stop pursuing her because they're "enabling" her by being a trigger for it.]]

* CoolBigSis: Monika is the club's President, and is cool, calm and mature. She gives the player advice on how to improve as a writer, helps break up disputes, and even seems to play Shipper on Deck. [[spoiler:While this is what she's programmed to be, it turns out she hates her status as a side character who only exists to help out the player and doesn't even have a route of her own. She does seem to be fond of the club after all, but she's frustrated enough with her situation to pull a Hostile Show Takeover so that she could romance the player. Not the player character, the ''player''.]]