FNF: A Doki Doki Disaster! (2024)

• Monika

• Sayori

• Natsuki

• Yuri

• MC

“You have to work hard to convince people that you're both fun and worthwhile... I'm confident that we can all really grow this club before we graduate!”
― Monika, Doki Doki Literature Club!

Monika (モニカ Monika) is one of the main characters and main antagonist of the psychological horror visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!, and so, "A Doki Doki Disaster!". She was created by Dan Salvato.

Appearance[]

Monika is depicted as a teenage girl in her early 18's with long, flowing coral brown hair, tied in a ponytail by a white ribbon and with two bangs hanging past her chest.

The rest of her appearance shows the typical outfit of a japanese high school girl, composed of a grey blazer with blue-ish tonalities, with underneath a white shirt. To complete her sophisticated look, there are a tiny bow tie up her chest and a blue skirt.

She also wears brown thigh socks and shoes with a pink tip, unlike the rest of the girls who all wear white socks and shoes with blue tips. On one hand, she holds her trademark heart-shaped pen, while on the other a magenta looking microphone.

Personality[]

Monika stands out from the rest of the girls by acting as the idealized, perfect student and charismatic president of the literature club.

Intelligent, confident, motivated, polite and considerate, she is seen as a natural leader. However, her confidence is put on stake the moment a situation of discomfort comes in, sometimes acting as if she is lost. That's why she will also rely on her close friend and vice-president Sayori for guidance.

As Doki Doki Literature Club progresses, however, we get a better look at Monika's real personality, showing awareness of her surroundings and recognizing the false "reality" of her world being simply a visual novel. Her deep desire to achieve a contact with the real world brings Monika to a deep obsession with the player.

This behaviour made her use her coding abilities to manipulate the game and cause, accidentally, disastrous events to the rest of the club members, such as Sayori's and Yuri's suicide or Natsuki snapping her neck, which eventually ended up with their deletion.

In spite of these actions, Monika immensely regrets deleting them, saying that, despite her friends and the club being nothing but a mere bunch of codes, she still loved them deeply.

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“It's my mission to make everyone happy.”
― Sayori, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!

Sayori (サヨリ Sayori) is one of the five main characters of Doki Doki Literature Club!, the Vice President of the Literature Club and MC's childhood friend and best friend.

Appearance[]

Sayori has coral pink hair, cut chin-length and slightly curled at the ends, with a large red bow accessory on the upper left side of her head. Like the other characters, she has two prominent strands of hair beside her bangs, and her eyes are bright sky blue. She is of short-to-average height.

She wears the standard female school uniform consisting of a warm gray blazer, brown sweater vest, white button-up shirt, red ribbon, dark blue pleated skirt, white knee-high socks and white uwabaki slippers with sky blue tips. Because of her disorganization, Sayori wears the uniform quite lazily; her shirt is misbuttoned and messy at the collar, the blazer she wears is completely unbuttoned and the ribbon around the collar is untied.

Personality[]

Sayori is initially portrayed as the archetype of a Genki Girl, expressing a bubbly and cheery disposition. She is very clumsy, noted for finding ways to accidentally hurt herself or to drop things. Regardless, she is shown to be cunning at times, such as attempting to convince the protagonist to accompany her to get something to eat only to have him buy something for her as she did not actually have much money on hand.

Sayori has been known to obsess over an activity, only to drop it a few days later, as stated by the protagonist during an interaction between the two. This could also be the case with writing poetry, as the protagonist wonders if she might drop it later on, though he also notices that she is a lot more passionate about writing, as she mentions earlier on that it helps her to express and understand her feelings better.

However, it is later revealed that she suffers chronically from depression and works very hard to make the people around her happy to cope with her own sense of worthlessness. She attempts to keep the peace among her friends, as she has had to break up arguments between Yuri and Natsuki in the Literature Club. Monika has noted that her sentiments are necessary to keep a calm and relaxing atmosphere, which is proven by her absence in Act 2.

Sayori is also introduced as the protagonist's best friend. The protagonist seems to view her as an airhead and slightly annoying at the beginning of the game, but immediately shows much more concern for her after Sayori confesses about her depression, despite her not enjoying the attention and worry in the slightest.

Sayori's depression makes her disorganized, and she often "cannot find a reason to get out of bed in the morning", which is why she is usually late for school. Her room is quite messy, and the protagonist has had to help her clean in the past. The protagonist notes how there hasn't been much change in her, and the changes the protagonist notices in her later are due to Monika's interference, amplifying her depression and finally driving her to suicide.

Trivia[]

• Sayori's DDLC character file can be decoded into an .ogg file, which seems to be a recording of high screeching. Running the audio through a spectrograph will reveal a QR code, which leads to the Project Libitina website.
• As also noted in the fan pack booklet, Dan Salvato chose Sayori as the character who inadvertently sets off the horror side of the game largely because he knew it would hit anime fans the hardest, i.e., seeing the archetypal girl who wants everyone to be happy be the one to commit suicide.
• In a livestream celebrating the first anniversary of the game's release, Dan cited the character Yui Hirasawa from K-On! as an inspiration for Sayori's character.

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“I don't know how else to bring this up. But there's been something I've been worried about. Yuri has been acting kind of strange lately…”
― Natsuki's Third Poem (Act 2), Doki Doki Literature Club!

Natsuki (ナツキ Kaju) is one of the five main characters in Doki Doki Literature Club! and one of the three characters for whom the player can write poems to.

Appearance[]

Natsuki has straight pastel pink hair cut around chin length. Her bangs are swept to the right, having two prominent strands of hair beside them. Her accessories consist of a red Japanese-style crossed hairclip, as well as two red ribbons tying two small pigtails on either side of her head, with the rest of her hair let down. Natsuki's eyes are pink, and she is the shortest character in the Literature Club.

While depicted with the usual gray blazer, Natsuki's appearance will start changing with the progress of the songs.First, she will slowly turn into a "glitched" version of herself, which doesn't change her appearance too much, other than making her hair spikier and replace her eyes with dark glitches and blood will start flowing down her cheeks.

Afterwards, due to the overload, Natsuki will start transforming into a much more grotesque and spider-like version of herself officially known as "Monster Natsuki". Here, her limbs will elongate and reach abnormal lengths, her neck will start twisting and she will start crying and drooling more blood.

In her Front Face appearance, Natsuki's hand, other than being covered by blood, will also start grotesquely morphing and slightly resizing so that they could less humane and more monster-like. However, her appearance won't change too much, other than depicting a much longer neck.

In one of the songs, Natsuki will be depicted faceless ("Faceless Natsuki") and eyeless ("Eyeless Natsuki"), with her face, at first, seemingly gone as she tries to sing. With "Eyeless", her appearances changes as her face depicts a suffering Natsuki as her eyes popped out and blood covers her arms and hands.

Personality[]

Natsuki appears to be a brash, blunt, cranky, and seemingly arrogant girl at first, with a cute, softer interior as a result of insecurity, causing Monika to class her as the embodiment of a tsundere. Because of the protagonist's interest in Japanese media, he also recognizes this when interacting with Natsuki early in the game. Her defensive nature is a side-effect of interactions with one of her separate friend groups, and her father likely also plays a part in this.

While she is impulsive and frequently speaks without thinking, Natsuki truly cares about her friends and despite her obvious anger issues, doesn't enjoy fights or arguments with people. Over the course of the game, it is shown that she worries about Yuri, and on one occasion, she gives the protagonist a note asking him to help Yuri, recognizing that there is something wrong with her but fearing that if she spoke out, it would cause more arguments.

Natsuki is very stubborn and has a hard time expressing how she feels and what she wants. When repeatedly challenged, she often becomes awkward, tongue-tied and aggressive. Sometimes she may burst into tears, displaying the much more fragile interior she keeps hidden away from everyone.

Trivia[]

• Natsuki is the only female character whose bangs are swept to her right rather than to the left.
• It is implied that Natsuki has an abusive father, ranging from medium emotional abuse in Act 1 to extreme physical abuse after Monika begins fiddling with the code in Act 2.
• Natsuki prefers to stay at the Literature Club rather than at her home and is visibly worried about fading into the background if more people were to join the club, even asking Monika to let her know in advance if a new member joins.
• Natsuki implies that her father finds manga childish and fears what would happen if he caught her reading it.
• The father wants her home no later than a specific time.
• Monika's alterations to Natsuki's negative traits in Act 2 intensify her father's abusiveness, evident by Natsuki's bolded "My dad would beat the sh*t out of me if he saw this" comment and Monika's "guess" that Natsuki's father does not give her money for lunch as she departs to school, resulting in her malnutrition and small stature.
  • Related, Natsuki passes out in the Literature Club room, prompting Monika to give her a protein bar, saying it happens often enough to have Monika keep one in her bag in case it happens again.
  • Natsuki's insecurity being the fuel to her tsundere archetype and boastful attempts at superiority, as she looks for approval and jeers from others without being laughed or mocked at, a common symptom for victims of child abuse.

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“You must be willing to open up to your readers, exposing your vulnerabilities and showing even the deepest reaches of your heart.”
― Yuri, Doki Doki Literature Club!

Yuri (百合 Yuri) is one of the five main characters in Doki Doki Literature Club! and one of the three characters for whom the player can write poems to.

Appearance[]

Yuri has extensively long, straight, dark purple hair and light purple eyes, and she wears purple barrettes on both sides of her head, positioned upon two prominent strands of hair beside her bangs.

She wears the standard female uniform consisting of a warm gray blazer, brown sweater vest, white shirt slightly unbuttoned at the collar, red ribbon, dark blue pleated skirt, white knee-high socks, and white uwabaki slippers with sky blue tips.

Personality[]

Yuri is portrayed throughout the majority of the game as being shy, generous, polite, mature and eloquent. She shows a great deal of passion when discussing topics she is interested in, although she is also very insecure, awkward, and has a tendency to act slightly condescending and patronizing to mask her self-doubt. Her facade of passivity and level-headed nature occasionally breaks however, as Yuri argues passionately and aggressively with Natsuki over their differing opinions on writing styles.

As stated by the protagonist, Yuri tends to think before she speaks as to avoid any conflict with her clubmates, as it has been shown repeatedly that when she blurts out whatever is on the top of her head, Yuri can sometimes be quite rude or upset the person she is interacting with. Because of this, she has a deep desire to be liked by others and is afraid to speak her mind on matters as she believes it will make her seem unlikable.

Because of her passionate and slightly obsessive nature, Yuri can come on strongly when talking about things she enjoys, steering the flow of conversation and bombarding any other participants in said conversation. This becomes much more evident once her obsessive behavior is amplified in Act 2, causing her to hoard the protagonist to herself and snapping at anyone who attempts to get in her way or take the protagonist away from her.

Yuri is the "shrinking violet" (a term to describe a character who prefers to blend in with the scenery than to attract unwanted attention) or "dandere" of the club members due to her constant apologetic nature. The attribution is also because of being shy to discussions beyond her category of interest, her interests being literature, horror, and general surrealism which she examines and articulates expertly, encouraging others to follow as well.

Trivia[]

• Yuri's version of the song "Okay, Everyone!" features a significantly different tone compared to the rest of the Literature Club's; it features a harp and cello to symbolize her sophisticated nature and poetic style. Her version is also noticeably more withdrawn, also reflecting her shrinking violet personality.
• In the main menu artwork in DDLC, Yuri seems to have two right feet. This is likely an artistic error.

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“Will I really be happy spending every day after school in a literature club? Perhaps I'll have the chance to grow closer to one of these girls…”
― MC, Doki Doki Literature Club!

The "Main Character" is the protagonist of Doki Doki Literature Club! and a side character in Doki Doki Takeover. Due to the fact he is given a name by the player, the protagonist does not have a canon name.

Appearance[]

He wears the standard male school uniform consisting of a warm gray blazer, brown sweater vest, white shirt, red necktie, dark blue pants, white or gray socks and white uwabaki slippers with sky blue tips.

Personality[]

Not much of the protagonist's personality is known, as he is meant to be a blank slate or self-insert for the player. However, it has been mentioned that his interests include anime and he doesn't have many friends, meaning he likely isolates a lot.

He does seem to go with whatever anyone else says (regardless of whether he wants to or not) and attempts to remain in good standing with his clubmates in the Literature Club in order to develop a potentially romantic relationship with any of them.