Summary: So I've not played DDLC itself, but I've played many fan games and watched Youtube videos just… *shutter* that being said, I feel bad to Monika to an extent as her situation would be like if a human being found himself trapped in a VR simulation. Would I try to break the game to prove to my own existence. Honestly I don't know. I know this chapter is rough hopefully the other's won't be that bad. Still hope you enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I don't own DDLC
"Words of advice, when you find a mysterious game on a mysterious website, don't click on it. When you find that said free mysterious game on said mysterious website is a dating sim, don't start the game. When said dating sim warns you at the very beginning of the menu that graphic content lies ahead, for the love of all that is holy turn back while you still can."
These were the words that was going through Michael's mind as he was playing Doki Doki Literature Club, or more accurately he was frantically scanning his computer making sure that the game wasn't some kind of Trojan that had installed some kind of malware, he could see it now, "Monika" would install herself into his computer where she'd leak information to the developer of the game, all under the guise of "Immersion" wouldn't be the first time he ran into a "Game" like that.
A sigh of relief came over him as all signs proved negative. Whew, he dodged a bullet. Now only one question echoed through his mind? Now what? he decided to look on the wiki to see if maybe there were some Easter eggs he might of missed. Turns out there were many but one in particular caught his eye.
During Act 2, in the third day, there was a 25% chance that during the conversation with Yuri near the closet, Natsuki's eyes would turn into shifting black pixels, her mouth would turn realistic-looking and she would say the following words "mibulls sailcloth blindsight lifeline anan rectipetality faultlessly offered scleromalacia neighed catholicate"
he also learned that If Monika's character file was before starting a new game in Act 1, Sayori would appear to realize that she was trapped in a game. She would then force the game to close and delete the other character files, including herself. If players opened the game after this occurs, instead of the usual opening and main menu, a black END screen would appear followed by a screen of Sayori hanging herself. After 10 minutes pass, a message appears on screen: "Now everyone can be happy."
Michael thought back on something he had learned about the game early on . See, the way the game reads files, the game doesn't actually seemed to care about whether a character file is truly "Deleted" or not as much as whether it's readable or not. For example if one took Yuri's character file and named it into something else, the game would fail to read it and treat Yuri as if she was deleted.
This knowledge gave Michael an idea. he took Natsuki's words, translated them to binary code and proceeded to rename Monika's character file into the translated message. If everything worked the way he thought it was going to, then it should give him the quick ending. However, when he rebooted the game, something very different happened . Instead of the menu popping up, the ending sequence began to play.
"ok, that's weird." Michael thought to himself. He had never read about anything like that happening before. Still he had to admit he did kind of like hearing Monika's voice.
"uh Can you hear me? Hi, it's me, um so you know how I've been practicing the piano and stuff? I'm not really any good at it yet like at all, but I wrote you a song and I was kind of hoping I could show it to you because I worked really REALLY hard on it. So….yeah."
the credit's rolled like normal and for a spilt second Michael felt himself relax just to listen to the music, however that would be short lived. Instead of Monika's normal letter popping on the screen a letter filled with jumbled text popped up on the screen. At first he thought it was a simple glitch, that was until he noticed a message that could barely be made out in the jumbled text.
the young man's face turned pale and he felt himself grow hot and uncomfortable as he read the text.
"Cogito, ergo sum""What the….?"
"Hey, are you okay?"
Michael jumped back as the voice spoke shocked and bewildered at the unexpected noise. The sound or more specifically the voice would continue.
"you were mumbling something under your breath. Are you ok?
Michael's lips quivered as his body froze in a rigid position. That voice, it sounded just like Monkia's or at least maybe the actress that played her. The problem was the only program he had running was the game itself. Furthermore, how did Monika know that he was mumbling? No…No It couldn't be….could it?"
Michael could hear his voice shaking as he asked one simple question. "C-Can you hear me?"
"Yeah, I can hear you just fine." the voice responded back with a cheerful glee. "Can you hear me?"
Maybe this was some kind of joke or part of the programing, a kind of last Gotcha freak out moment. If this was some kind of preprogramed voicebot or something surely it had a limited range of responses it could use. With this in mind he decided to use a bit of an uncommon trick.
"Take my advice. I'm not using it."
The voice proceeded to giggle a bit before responding back with "I would but I've already got a library's worth of it already."
Michael jumped back in shock. That was 100% undeniable sarcasm. It wasn't the speech that would come from a bot or even a pre-recording, this was the response of a human.
"M-Monica?"
"I'm still here. Are you ok? You've been acting real weird all of the sudden."
Michael quickly clicked on the character folder faster than he could imagine. His face turned pale as he looked at the folder that he had modded. The Binary name had been replaced with the name…
A/N: Fun fact: I did a virus scan after playing A DDLC fan game because I was so freaked out. I REALLY don't like games that alter your computer.
