[A/N] : Hello there, This is my first story. I would appreciate it if you can tell me your opinions about it, keep in mind that this will start a few years before canon, I don't generally like writing SI's but hopefully nothing goes wrong.
Doki Doki Literature Club belongs to Dan Salvato.
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*SPOILERS, BEWARE!*
*IF YOU HAVE NOT FINISHED DDLC, I RECOMMEND FINISHING IT BEFORE READING THIS*
Childhood 1 : Memories
"Wait up!" A cheerful voice shouted, she was panting, indicating that she was out of breathe, she was running after a black-haired kid, rather than stopping and waiting for her, the kid went faster, paying no mind to his panting friend. He excitedly turned around before spreading his arms wide, as if showing off the neighborhood.
"You better hurry up Sayori!" He shouted with glee as his friend grew closer to him but that did not mean he would just allow her to catch up easily. She grew anxious, the weather was not something you should just be carelessly running in. Snow embraced the floor and she soon noticed patches of ice.
"Wait!" The kid hummed before turning around, slowing down so she can somewhat catch up, "Isn't this a little dangerous?" She asked, "What if you -" The kid ignored her ramblings, he sighed at the usual careful nature of his friend.
He tuned her out but she had almost catched up, even if she had told him to be careful that did not stop the sense of excitement of almost catching up to him, soon a smile grew on her face.
Just as soon as he was an arms length away, he started to dash again, tuning out the shoutings of his friend, the weather grew worse, as if a sign of a disaster waiting to happened.
More and more patches of ice appeared and the sense of dread settled in her stomach, The kid didn't even notice that the amount of snow grew less and less and more patches of ice appeared, she had shouted for him but it was too late.
The next thing he knew, he was looking at the sky.
I opened my eyes, my vision flying everywhere, pain shout through the back of my head and I quickly winced in pain, "Qu'est-il arrivé?" I muttered in French, those years learning the language somewhat kicking in, old habits die hard I guess. "Are you alright?!" A hand grabbed me and I held the urge to flinch, the only thing stopping it was the sense of familiarity in the touch, judging by how soft it was, it was a woman, or a girl due to how small it was.
She helped me sat up, I felt some sort of thick liquid sliding down the back of my head but the urge to panic was held in by her touch, it just felt...so comforting, If I were to describe it.
My vision grew worse, dark spots filling in the holes that I can barely see through, I gritted my teeth and soon the dark spots vanished, white greeted my vision and finally the coldness kicked in, I shivered but not before I tightened the scarf around my neck.
I held my head in pain, and soon the memories started coming back, My name is Matthias Willow, but my friends had gotten into the habit of calling me Matter,which lead to awful jokes like 'What's the matter?' but they stopped with a punch or two.
I am- was studying in the university of technological science but I had only started my first term, I had a loving asian mother along with my father, two siblings, a brother and a sister.
My friends described me as a easy-going man but they never knew the real me, everything seemed so...bland to me, nothing excited as much anymore, even the idea of reproduction had seemed bland and tasteless, maybe it was more for others but it was just an act that lasted for 3 to 5 minutes.
"HEY!" The tone of her voice hitting me awake like a slap, "ARE YOU EVEN LISTENIG?!" She sounded furious and an unfamiliar pain stabbed itself in my heart, I didn't know her but I felt like I do.
My vision, now cleared, took her in, she had wavy pink hair and her bright oceanic eyes started at me.
No...no...no...
She stared at me, SAYORI stared at me with eyes filled with tears, her lifeless body flashing through my mind, I set up a mask, like how I always had, she didn't notice the pain my eyes conveyed when I stared at her, how bloody her fingers were at the attempts to break free.
My fury for the main character grew further and further, I didn't know where I got this sense of familiarity with Sayori but I read enough Fanfictions to know my situation, I wasn't an idiot and the way she stared at me indicated that she had a sort of childhood crush on me.
I knew these feelings were brittle and fake, she didn't fall in love with this body I had know taken over, she fell in love with the MC.
I tried to say something but the words stuck itself in my mouth, what was I suppose to say? Words of encouragement? Words of comfortment? Words of assurance?
Fury had danced in her eyes but she had abandoned it when the sound of liquid hitting the snow echoed through the silence that had built up, she looked down and red had greeted her.
She held her mouth in shock before quickly checking the back of my head, I knew she was just a child at this age, judging by how much childhood fat that was still on her face and how everything seemed so large.
"You're bleeding." She choked out, she tried to help me stand up but I had proven to be too heavy for her, the correct procedure should have been checking if the skull was damaged but how should she know that?
Even if I was a little disoriented, I had helped her bring me up to my feet, I am embrassed to admit but I had wobbled a little too much for my liking, I had almost sent both of us tumbling in the ground for goodness sake!
"We should take you to a hoshpital." Her childish slur had came to effect and she had noticed it too, judging by how her cheeks had lighted up, "But mommy said there wasn't any hoshpital nearby." As much as she would of liked to stop the slur, fate was not in her side.
Her second sentence had sent some of my hopes down the drain, but new hope came to take it's place, I just hoped that the injury wasn't deep enough that I would soon be dying from blood lost.
I admit, maybe my look of calmness had freaked her out, "No!" She shouted suddenly, my eyes widened at the sudden shout of fright but that was what she seemed to have intended to do, "Don't fall asleep on me." She seemed to have taken it that I was going to die.
"I'm fine Sayori." I winced at my tone, It wasn't like I was too cold or anything but it had just sounded so...childish.
I gritted my teeth to held back my rage, I hated it.
"No you ain't!" I blinked my eyes, I had almost assumed that she was gonna start cussing, then I remembered, she was like 10.
Ok...I held my head in pain, maybe that blood lost really is doing something.
She was panting when we gotten out of that spot filled with ice, what had I been thinking? running into the particular area, a play of fate perhaps?
I mused, we soon flashed past a few buildings and I was just wondering one thing, 'Where the fuck was everybody?' there was no one in the streets, not a single person.
"S-Sayori." I cursed inwardly, the blood lost is getting to the point where I'm stuttering, I NEVER STUTTERED BEFORE!
My embrassement aside, though you can barely see hints of it aside from a few dusting of pink on my cheeks, she glanced worriedly at me but hummed to let me know she was listening, "Where's everybody?" She blinked with childish curiosity.
She looked around and noticed that no one was around to, a few would play it off that the weather was the reason but judging by the position of the sun, it should only be noon, no one would just stay inside for a whole day, especially when there are kids for playing outside.
"I-..." She hesitated, I blinked, I think I may have broken her, "I don't know Matt." Thank god! She had not called me Matter! She seemed confused on why I had brightned up but that was none of her business.
Finally, we arrived at what was suppose to be our destination I suppose, it was exactly Sayori's house, It looked exactly like what it did in the cutscene, flashes of her body went through my head but I had dismissed it, I had not shook my head like those weird MCs.
Who shakes their head when they're clearing out their thoughts? That's just weird, and more noticeable, if you want to hide it, why show that you were thinking about it?
I finally gathered my thoughts before the situation settled in and a sense of calmness made it's way to my mind.
I could not believe it, I was in motherfucking DDLC, the game where whatever you fucking pick, someone dies, Friendzone or Relationship Sayori, DEAD, Yuri? DEAD, Natsuki? DEA- wait nevermind, Monika deleted her ass.
Even though I'm most probably just an SI in a fanfiction, I don't know If I'm just going to be a side character, I saw the MC on the way here.
Yes, I was not just day dreaming about the weirdness of it all, I was also looking around. He looked exactly like what most fanfictions or fanartist depicted him as, he had moppy brown hair and brown eyes, his face was average.
Frankly, he didn't seem like an anime protaganist, he just seemed like someone you would find in the real world too.
Sayori knocked on the door, my facade almost broke when I heard the door creak at the force she was knocking out, I-Is she the new buffsuki?
I mused before heavy footsteps echoed through the house, please don't be dadyori, please don't be dadyori, please don't be buffdadyori.
The door opened and I instantly get a view full of secondary reproductive organs and I took a sigh of relief, I did not want to meet Sayori's dad, and then find out he was buff all along.
She looked almost like an adult Sayori, she also had pink hair but it had reached all the way to her back, she stared at me with onyx eyes, clearly indicating that Sayori got her oceanic eyes from her father.
She frowned when she saw Sayori carrying me, I wondered what kind of vile thoughts she was having, a growl was building up in my throat but I held it down, it was HER, the one that Sayori needed the most, and the one that wasn't there.
It was always in my mind, maybe, just maybe that if Sayori had her parents, she wouldn't have done it, though most of my anger is still towards the MC, the insensitive prick.
Her glare finally stopped when she noticed I was looking at her with half-closed eyes, worry set on her face and the coldness I had felt for her just increased, I did not want her worry.
She scopped me up from Sayori before she noticed the trail of blood I had dropped, black dots reappeared in my vision, dancing like Oompa Loompas ready to throw me down the chocolate factory.
An idiotic smile grew on my face before darkness embraced me, "Who touched my spaghett." I muttered.
I awoke feeling rested.
Pain woke me up, nevermind then. I had hoped that it was all a dream but I knew it was not, because, I was staring at an unfamiliar familiar ceiling, it was a weird experience, like Deja vu but not Deja vu because you KNOW it actually happened before.
Oh, and I had always wanted to say that line, as cliche as it sounds.
The bandage was wrapped tightly around my head and frankly, it was more uncomfortable than what most MC's make it out to be, how do they not feel it?
I feel like these bandages were trying to mush my head in, and hooray! my first time ever getting bandages wrapped around me.
A groan came from beside me and I didn't need to turn to know who it was, It was probably Sayori and I didn't need to watch anime to find that one out, considering her mom was watching us from the door with a smirk.
I keep note that I was in Sayori's room but I had noticed the absence of a big big cowie, I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little disappointed that Mister Cow was not there.
Her smirk though, it only made me colder, is that how they say it?
She walked to me, obviously adding sway to her hips, the temptation of rolling my eyes were there but I held it in, not gonna let her have such childish satisfaction, she rolled her eyes and this time I couldn't hold in my sense of satisfaction.
She looked at me and it obviously looked like she was waiting for me to say something, she raised her eyebrow and I challenged her with my own, her other joined it's sibling and she smirked.
"Are you not going to say anything?" She obviously wanted me to say 'Thank you.' but I was going to be a slight dick about it, she was a dick about Sayori, so amma be a dick to her.
"Do you know the wey?" A sense of dread settled in my stomach when she just tilted her head, that only meant one thing, she didn't know that meme, and that meant, "MEMES DON'T EXIST!" I shouted out my thoughts accidentally.
Sayori instantly shot up, her saliva dripping on to my arm, I had not noticed but my arm was so sticky that it felt like it was covered in syrup, I showed no signs of disgust, I was used to it, oh and because she looked absolutely adorable!
Sayori gave me a calculative stare through half-liddled eyes and I knew she just a kid but damn did I ever feel flattered.
Sayori's mom stepped a few steps back and I smirked victoriously inwards, "Okay..." She drawled out, "I don't know what these me-mes you are talking about, but your welcome." I fucking growled at this bitch.
But I only did it for a second, I can't believe she just said memes as me-mes, I so desperately wanted to maim her but I guess putting her on top of my 'Hate-kill' list will do for now.
She stayed in place, shocked a little before laughing and exiting the room, "Can you say my name first though?" I didn't know why she asking but I agreed anyway, I opened my mouth to speak but the words were stuck in my throat.
No matter what I tried to say nothing came out, just breathless gasps of air and my eyes widened, her name was in the tip of my tongue but nothing I do would force it out, her eyes looked downcast before sighing, she stepped away and whispered but I'm not dumb and it's not like she whispered-whisper it.
"I knew it."
She exited out and the room grew silent, "Can you give me a hug Sayori?" Her eyes widened in excitement before jumping on me.
Yeah, I needed this.
Oh and the pain of Sayori jumping on me was more painful than what anime depicted it to be.
Sayori's mom leaned on the wall outside the room, one-sided laughter came out of the room and she smiled happily at her daughter's happiness but she took a big wheeze out of her cigar.
That answered everything she needed to know, he didn' t even remember her anymore, Amnesia she would of liked to put it but she saw it, the way he stared at her for just a split second when she opened that door.
A look of recognition but covered by coldness she never seen before, that confirmed it, he KNEW who she was, but not WHO she was, granted, he recognized her as Sayori's mom but that was it.
No connection, no name.
Sayori's mom, Alice, took a deep breath from her cigar before exhaling it.
"Just what happened to you Matthias?"
Chapter End!
Don't get me wrong, this character is based on me but turn that notch to an 11.
My update schedule is not something you should expect on, I usually write a draft about a chapter before going back to it and changing it.
I don't intend to promise anything but somewhat expect either 2 to 3 Chapters a MONTH, I may write more or less depending on how motivated I am.
The first prototype seemed a bit rough and overall too short, this one seemed a little long but I just generally wanna write it into something enjoyable, the first draft of the story was so bland that there was generally little to no character chat at all.
This chapter was to introduce and set in the character Matthias, good at lying, facades that he can instantly put up and overall a little memey, I generally won't write too much memes as most memes I do try and add input to are things I hear not the ones I say.
Most poems you will probably see in this story is from the internet or something, I never really been that good at writing poems and I generally suck at them.
If some of these poems belong to you, please inform me and I will get rid of them right away, I do not own copyright to those poems and I do not mean them as an insult but as respect of privacy.
Do tell me your opinions on this story, It technically isn't my first story but this is the first time I generally tried to edit it.
When you see a Poem that sucks so bad, yeah, that's probably mine, I never really wrote a poem before so forgive me for that.
OC's coming in and a little Spoiler!
Sayori's mom, Alice : She works as a CEO to a company, so she won't have that much time for family bonding, Sayori understands that but that does not mean she does not get sad for it, Sayori's depression isn't generally well explained other than the fact that she had it for a really long time.
Sayori's parents are going to be one of that reasons for her depression, The Father's details are going to be revealed in the next chapter, but that will take awhile, I want to take my writing slow and before I just generally cared about the quantity on how many chapters I can produce rather than it's quality.
Before one of my chapters in an old book, only takes me a day to write, A DAY! No editing whatsoever, I just finish it and don't recheck it for errors or anything, as soon as I write the Chapter End, I just dish it out.
This story is going to be split into what I hope to be, 3 Different Arcs.
The First Arc : Childhood.
Childhood is him putting up with being a child again and how much impact he will have on the future cast of DDLC, I already have a plan for Monika but Natsuki and Yuri are still up for Debate, if you have any suggestions, feel free to add it.
I generally just want this Arc to finish in 6 Chapters or less but looking at it's direction, it may extend to 10 Chapters, we'll see.
The Second Arc : M
I'll leave the title of the Arc blank for now, cause even the title will spoil it but this will give some development to Matthias as a whole, it may seem a little cliche but this Arc should take place for 1 -3 years, depending on how well I can think of the plot.
Possibly 5 Chapters.
After this is :
The Third Arc : Canon.
Finally, the start of the canon, here he will finally face the challenge that is Doki Doki Literature Club, he will have to face, Yanderes, Tsunderes, A DereDere? and finally a... Dense Brick.
Unknown how many chapters I'll write for this, most stories have 12 chapters of just pure canon without any other arcs at all, and they're still not finished.
It may be long or it may be short, the Childhood Arc will set up the interaction for the Third Arc, so some information in the Childhood Arc may be crucial to the Third Arc, *Wink* *Wink*.
Farewell
-WhiteMinkle