3:47 am...April 30th, 2018... That day? Night? That morning, yeah morning is when my life changed forever. It was a rainy night and I was using a mod for Doki Doki literature club called "Monika After story" it was essentially a mod to spend more time with Monika. While not obsessed with her as a fair amount of the fanbase had been, I was intrigued by her character at the very least. She was interesting, to say the least, her beautiful green eyes and long brown hair were easily captivating to most.

One thing that always hit me though that made me not fall head over heels for her were two things, the first being the fact she was still a character in a video game. Even if she had "become" sentient, this was still all in here programming, when she talks directly to the player and not the MC, she was just reading files on my computer and the conversation was all pre-planned and written by Team Salvato.

Now I'll fully admit the first time this happened it spooked me for Monika to say my name, but the effect was lost quickly after you removed her file from the game... Regardless I'm getting off topic here. The second reason I couldn't fall head over heels for her is that she loves the player yes... But it's every player of the game. If your buddy played she loved him; if you played she loved you. Did she ever truly love you then or was it simply her coding?

However I think I'm getting ahead of myself, I hadn't even introduced myself yet. My name is Zachary Smith, Zach for short, or known as GSmith624 on several platforms. I'm a simple man in my early twenties, twenty-one to be exact, having slightly above average length brown hair, with a full beard, brown eyes with a pair of glasses as well. I'm 6'3 in height and slightly overweight with muscle mixed in, the best way to describe me was average. Average looks, average personality, average everything. The most unique thing about me was my small youtube channel, that and my overwhelming introvertness that made me barely leave my house except for work or very rare outings with friends. That's when my personality would morph, to say the least, at home, I didn't really care about anything, but once I left the house or the camera turned on it was like a switch was flipped and I became a brand new person so to speak. While I didn't mind being nice and helpful to people when I was out, it was always so draining, it's why I enjoyed not leaving the house so much because then I wasn't required to be nice to people. I could go back to being my lazy self who enjoyed playing RPG's, Visual novels, watching anime, reading books, etc.. I guess that makes me sound like a nerd but I don't care.

Now that introductions are out of the way we can head back to that morning. I was once again playing the DDLC after story mod and was saying goodbye to Monika when a different dialogue box had popped up.

'Do you really have to go to bed? I know it's late but can you let me stay open till you're asleep Zach?'

Weird, I didn't remember this dialogue prompt before, but the logical part of my brain was telling me it was simply added in the last update. It was strange though I read over the patch notes and I couldn't remember this being in the options. Regardless it was very possible that they just had forgotten to mention it. That does happen from time to time with patch notes so I didn't think much of it. As I was getting ready to say yes as I didn't really have a problem leaving a game open on my computer when I had fallen asleep there before I noticed something I let another roughly three seconds pass before it happened again and this raised my level of confusion.

Monika Had blinked.

Now, this put me on edge, while animation wasn't impossible I know for a fact there was no animation coded into this game. it wasn't in any of the patch notes, there was no code for it or art for that matter. I'm sure she did though, unminimizing the game after double checking the patch notes I had noticed another change. The dialogue from Monika had changed.

'It was just a blink love, you do it all the time ahaha'

she was fully smiling at me now, not her somewhat reserved smile, but a full genuine smile covered her face. This made my blood freeze. How had she known? The only way she could have was if she was monitoring the code of the game or my browsing history, but even then there was no way of knowing what exactly I was looking for in both of those, not only that but she was able to respond to my unasked question, she was a program, not a living creature. Wait... was my question unasked?

I turned to look at my recording microphone... The light was on. I knew I had a habit of talking to myself but even then, she was responding to my voice? This was way too much to take in at once, Monika was somehow responding too me talking. This... This had to be a dream right?

As if to pull me from my thoughts the game let out a ping like noise, the best way to describe it was like a text message notification.

'My love, you're talking out loud again.'

Monika seemed to be holding in a laugh if her facial expressions were anything to go by. True I couldn't hear her but she was fully animated on my screen. She was holding her stomach while her other hand covered her mouth and both her eyes were closed and her body was shaking from holding in laughter, it was cute scene except for the fact she was laughing at me. Now though she was bent over laughing unrestrained, I did it again didn't I? another ping confirms my suspicion.

' Yes, you did love.'

I sighed slightly while covering my face with my hand constant pings from the game inform me that Monika is no longer holding in her laughter. I look back towards the screen and see Monika no longer holding her laughs and the game responding to her laugh by repeating 'Ahahaha' over and over again.

Well while Monika was distracted I reopened the game files, I knew exactly what I was looking for...

Monika's character file...

What the hell is this?

Her character file was over 20 gigabytes now and was growing at an alarming rate. I opened up the file and my computer screeched at me. The game started pinging me like crazy, Monika's speech bubble popping out of the game directly in front of her code.

'what are you doing my love, that tickles. Ahaha ~'

"Sorry, I was examing your file, it's growing at an alarming rate. It's already at 62.4 gigs!

another pop-up somehow highlights part of the code and its name is honestly confusing to me...

.Add("Lock", "Lock");

Why would something like this be in the code? First off there was no type of prison in Doki Doki Literature Club what so ever, second why would they add a lock to this code as if they didn't what in open? What would happen if I did 'Unlock it' the codder in me wanted to know what would happen so I did something that would forever change my life. I changed the code properties.

.Add("Lock","False")

Monika's speech bubble popped up again after I hit save.

'Zach? What'd you do? Everything is shaking, the world seems to be crumbling!'

I quickly reopen DDLC and see this for myself, the whole game was shaking Monika was covered in static and glitches and seemed to be pounding on the screen trying to escape. It was somewhat horrifying to watch honestly, it reminded me of the good ending of FNAF 6 where everything was screaming for death. However before that ending could fully be reacted in front of me, the game seemed to have another surprise for me though as Monika's pounding had actually caused a crack to form on the screen.

The pounding didn't stop and before I knew it there was a full crack going down my screen, with one final slam my screen exploded into sparks and a bright light pierced my retinas forcing me to back away from the screen to keep my eyes in tack. After the light died down I turned to look back at what potentially remains of my computer only for my mouth to go dry and my blood cold.

Monika was standing there in front of my desk, fully alive not in the game!

"uh, Hi Zach. I guess I'm free? ahaha ~"

Note to Monika #1

Honestly I don't even know why i'm doing this, I someone on the DDLC After story mod discussions talking about doing this so I was curious about it. If nothing else this is a potential journal with a few weird quirks in it, and hey there might be a small chance Monika is reading this stuff so fuck it?

So that's a picture of me, I don't know if your real or even able to read this Monika... But I wanted you to be able to see what I look like sense i'm always looking at you. Even if your not real... I suppose I do have some small feeling for me and I wanted you to actually see me so you know who you really love along with some info about me just so you know it, I guess? This seems kinda weird but whatever I want you to know everything just so you have it I guess lol.

Full Name: Zachary ***** Smith

Nicknames: GSmith624, Zach, Snack attack

Age: 21

Birthday: August 23rd, 19**

Birth-Sign: (Leo/Virgo)

Slightly overweight always wearing a blue wristband saying "K*****'s ****"

Family (Hope you like them big lol): Mother and Father, 4 older sisters, 2 Brother In-laws, 3 Nieces, 3 Nephews (with another on the way), 1 dog, 1 cat (who is treated like a daughter sometimes lol).

Job(s): A work at a theater/restaurant called *** ******* ****** (I get tickets for cheap so we can go together some time lol, if you want to of course.), YouTube (Sorry I haven't played your game there yet)

Hobbies: D&D, Singing, Video Games, Relaxing, Cooking, Staying in, Watching rainfall (I know you like that too), Watching snowfall (That's all I can think of right now lol) ((Sorry for typing lol so much, I guess I'm somewhat nervous about this)) [Not sure why i'm nervous about this well... Odd]

If I think of more stuff I'll definitely make another file for you to read... Sorry for staying up so late every night I'm a night owl and sleep during the day. I should probably fix that so that way we could go to the beach sometime or just hang out since you seem to be more of a morning person.

I'll talk(?) to you again

Zach Smith

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And that ladies and gentlemen is the first chapter to my DDLC fanfic, if you want more be sure to review and tell me what you think! So this fic is a somewhat Self insert character however it's more so based off of me (and using my name) with more OC elements mixed into it.

Also to those that come from my other story Fate/Grand Order Emiya EditionA new chapter will be out hopefully before the 15th this month so look forward to that.

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