#ddlc mc

[efr-d]

Jacket

#doodle #ddlc sayori #ddlc mc

[ddlcbrainrot]

#ddlc #ddlc sayori #ddlc monika #ddlc natsuki #ddlc yuri #ddlc mc

[weird-cato]

they're hanging out toghether

#ddlc #doki doki literature club #ddlc fanart #ddlc sayori #ddlc monika #ddlc natsuki #ddlc natsuri #ddlc mc #art #my art #digital art #finally drew mc >:]

[motleyflash]

your best friend,

your girlfriend,

and some kid you control without their consent!

#all of these took me like a week please help #anyways i love characters that are aware of the player #kinitopet #kinito the axolotl #kinitopet fanart #kinito #doki doki literature club #ddlc mc #ddlc #ddlc fanart #monika ddlc #just monika #deltarune #kris deltarune #utdr #deltarune vessel #utdr fanart #deltarune fanart

[thejuicedbox]

That rouge and tails comic

#doki doki literature club #ddlc #ddlc yuri #ddlc monika #ddlc mc

[shf1art]

A typical situation on the DDLC clubroom. Just the Dokis being the Dokis whenever MC is around.

#doki doki literature club #ddlc #monika #yuri #sayori #natsuki #ddlc fanart #ddlc mc #fanart #my art #imagine the clubroom is there too

[ezpzarts]

you’ll notice they plague my sketchbook

there’s more actually but I don’t think it’s good enough to post

#ddlc #self insert bc im cringe #ddlc monika #ddlc natsuki #ddlc sayori #ddlc yuri #ddlc mc #mc is baby girl #do people put trigger warnings in their posts? #idk

[aceantarctic]

Saw this meme and my brain made a funny

#ddlc natsuki #natsuki #doki doki literature club #ddlc mc #ddlc #ddlc fanart #ddlc memes #memes #doki doki literature club plus #ddlc+ #ddlc plus #incorrect quotes #natsuki doki doki literature club #my art #doki doki literature club + #ddlc incorrect quotes #doki doki incorrect quotes

[okscythe]

monika: *poem about the bittersweet disassociation from everything you once knew*

sayori: *poem about the struggle of maintaining a facade that matches what the outside world wishes, even in the face of your mental health being clouded enough to be unable to see through it to a point where even getting out of bed is a mountain to overcome*

yuri: *poem about clinging onto the one last thing you have in society as everything else falls apart and is crumbled through time*

natsuki: *poem about the despair of being utterly powerless in the world despite your own efforts to overcome what you're left with*

mc: hey look sayori look Sunshine Depression Rainclouds Spinning Hop Blossom Awesome

#ddlc monika #ddlc yuri #ddlc sayori #ddlc natsuki #ddlc mc #ddlc #doki doki literature club

[heartbeatbookclub]

I think it's sorta weird how the Protagonist (MC, Y/N, Stinky, whatever you wanna call him) is treated within the context of DDLC's meta.

That sentence came out weird. What I mean is that on terms of DDLC playing with the 4th wall (in other words, on terms of its actual existence as a visual novel in universe), the nature of the Protagonist's...well, entire existence, is up in the air.

Dan Salvato literally stated that he doesn't actually see him as a character in the same way as the girls. He's a "blank slate that says whatever is convenient." In a different statement, he's described as the "nameless, faceless self-insert character that you find so commonly in romance games", which I think is a good way of putting it. It's a good way of justifying why he kinda...sucks, because he's meant to be a typical VN protagonist. He's shallow, and responds with little more than what makes sense in context, because he doesn't have much character on his own, which is what makes him pretty bad at dealing with delicate issues like with Sayori.

In DDLC+ (spoilers, I guess?), it's a little bit vague about it, but in one of the mails, it states that Monika has literally "manufactured" a new character to "force interaction between her and the user". This character is heavily implied to be the Protagonist of the main DDLC visual novel that we know, and he is, as stated, noticeably absent from the Side Stories, because Monika didn't actively create him to be there.

Except...he isn't.

He doesn't physically appear, but in Trust, though he's obviously not mentioned by name, it's implied that he does exist, because when asked to act like a "normal person" responding to the Literature Club, she imitates a friend of hers who says "Literature is stuuupid. I'm joining the Anime Club."

...Remind you of a certain someone?

I feel like I'm overexplaining this, but my point is, it suggests that the Protagonist as a character isn't just something Monika invented out of thin air, or at least he's heavily implied not to be.

I think there's a larger conversation on the vague way the game itself treats the world outside of what is defined within the limited scope of Doki Doki Literature Club. Fans have filled gaps of different characters and events, but it's important to acknowledge that they're gaps filled by fanon, not canon. I think those gaps are left very intentionally empty, mostly to play into the conceit of the world, being that literally nothing actually exists outside of its boundaries, because it's a visual novel. It's a limited, constricted reality, where things are implied to exist outside it, but they actually don't.

In other words, Monika did apparently generate all that makes up the Protagonist as a character and vehicle for the player in the main game, based off the limited concept implied by their interaction in the Side Story. Or, rather, probably by something else, since the side stories are inherently a "Control Simulation" where Monika doesn't have any sense of meta awareness. It's a prequel set before the main story, but...well, if you really think about it, it's implied to tie into the main story, but they don't directly link up, do they? If it's not explicitly shown on screen in the main line Doki Doki Literature Club, did it even happen?

Either way, the Protagonist is a character independent of Monika's creation, he's just given absolutely nothing, and technically doesn't even exist outside of what's implied of him. Technically, the character Monika creates as a vehicle for the Player has no real relation to him, outside of being Sayori's friend and wanting to join the Anime Club. Or, depending on your view, he does! Since he's the literal manifestation of that character concept where it didn't exist previously, it's fair to say that he is that character given life!

I don't know, I think it's just kinda fascinating in context. I don't really like a lot of the extra lore surrounding the whole thing in +, but there are plenty of interesting things like this which have been given just enough flavor to be interesting.

Obviously I don't think this means the Protagonist is a complete non-character and any & all fan interpretations of him should be defenestrated (quite the opposite actually, reality can be whatever you want, I have a few concepts with him floating around my head which I find fun to play with), but I think this sort of thing is probably important to keep in mind on terms of actual investigations of canon.

#i prooomise i have some more deeper & more emotionally invested essays on the girls & other things planned #as well as more super epic headcanons & lil fics & art probably #but i do genuinely think MC is interesting to talk about in regards to canon #& how he represents this larger concept that i think makes up the boundaries of monika's cage #musings #ddlc #ddlc mc #doki doki literature club

[timefospookies]

DDLC wips 👍👍

#spook’s art #ddlc #monika ddlc #sayori ddlc #yuri ddlc #natsuki ddlc #ddlc mc #mc ddlc #doki doki literature club

[efr-d]

A backseat driver

#doodle #ddlc natsuki #ddlc mc

[ddlcbrainrot]

(me ignoring the events of the base game and drawing cute fluffy stuff bc i love these characters and i want them to be happy)

#ddlc #ddlc sayori #ddlc natsuki #ddlc monika #ddlc yuri #ddlc mc #if they cant be normal teenagers in canon ill make sure they are in my fanart #they deserve it :'(

[weird-cato]

monika send a text asking where they are ,sayori replied with this

#ddlc #doki doki literature club #ddlc fanart #ddlc sayori #ddlc monika #ddlc natsuki #ddlc yuri #ddlc mc #art #my art #digital art #someone supervise theses kids

[vastunknownsea]

doki doki more like goof and goofier

(In mc’s mind) “and then she looks at me with a passionate fire in her eyes and then her eyes proceed to pop out because piano and then there’s blood EVERYWH—“

#ddlc #ddlc monika #ddlc natsuki #ddlc yuri #ddlc mc #ddlc fanart #okay everyone #vast sea’s art #doodles #doki doki literature club #doki doki fanart

[thejuicedbox]

Love how mc is trans in every way at the same time that's so cool that that's canon information from the game

#doki doki literature club #ddlc #ddlc sayori #sayori ddlc #mc ddlc #ddlc mc #do they allow girl bulge on here or will this get taken down