Hi, everyone!

Crazy Noisy Bizarre Club is finally done! I want to thank everyone for all of the support while I was writing this story. This was my first published fanfic and I personally liked the way that it turned out. I hope that you all did too! :)

I also wanted to take this time to explain my reasoning for the questionable events that took place and to address some slightly confusing parts of the story.

First off, I wrote this story sometime after I finished playing the game (Yuri best). The game itself is amazing. I can't think of any other game like it. It is extremely effective at being a psychological horror game since it betrays you with the type of game it is. It, of course, opens up as being another anime dating simulator on Steam, but as it goes on it becomes a thrilling emotional ride of chaos.

I've never had a game make me feel genuine emotions like that. When I played Doki Doki Literature Club, I actually felt guilt, fear, anger and an overwhelming amount of regret. I was left thinking about it for almost an entire week after playing it. I felt guilt when I saw Sayori hanging, but I now feel a bit better knowing that there was no way of avoiding it. I also felt that when Yuri stabbed herself in Act 2. I also felt frustrated with the main character for barely reacting to the events that took place, but I suppose that was on purpose since the player would be giving their own reactions in real life.

And I felt anger. This game made me feel genuine anger. It wasn't like being frustrated with a game where you can't get past a level or beat a boss so you throw your controller across the room. I felt genuine hatred towards Monika. She basically ruined her friends' lives, even ending them, just so she could be with the player. I'll explain more about Monika later in this.

I am a huge fan of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Steel Ball Run best Part). I love how each part is completely different from each other, and I love its original art style. The entire concept of Stands is my favorite type of supernatural power. I also like how the Stands are usually referencing music, which sometimes translates into their design and/or ability.

Out of every part, I found Josuke in Diamond is Unbreakable to be the most relatable of the JoJo's. Part 4 had a very interesting story telling aspect where everything took place in the town of Morioh, which is different to a majority of the other parts where the characters are always on the move. That, mixed with how relatable the characters and the high school situation are, made me find it that much more enjoyable. Not to mention, the Stands that appeared in Part 4 are some of my favorites, Killer Queen and Crazy Diamond especially.

When I first played DDLC and saw Sayori hanging, I thought: "What if Crazy Diamond was here?" I thought of that as well when Yuri stabbed herself. About two weeks after finishing the game, I decided to write this story with Josuke in place of the main character, providing realistic reactions and trying to save the club with his Stand. I then thought of adding the whole Duwang gang in the story to point out anything strange happening to Josuke himself. Then I thought of trying to connect this to JJBA by making the story take place after the events of Part 4.

I tried to make this story parallel the events that took place in the game. I made a majority of my decisions for the events in the story based on this. That is why the events in the club seemed to be identical to those in the game, with Josuke joining the club, to seemingly forgetting an entire week, to rewinding everything to the beginning.

Now, the issues with the introduction…

I know that it was a bit aggressive of Rohan to use Heaven's Door on Sayori and Josuke, but I did this so it would tie in to Josuke taking the place of the main character. I personally don't enjoy stories where characters from separate franchises know each other before the story begins. While I am aware that that conflicts with my decision of making Yuri friends with Yukako, I will explain that later.

I honestly couldn't think of any other way to make Josuke join the literature club and have the same emotional connection to it. Again, I wanted this story to parallel that of the game but also give reactions from Josuke and the Duwang gang.

When thinking about it, why would Josuke of all people join a literature club full of a bunch of girls he hardly knew? I thought that Rohan's Stand, Heaven's Door, would be able to help out everyone with the whole situation in the club and that eventually translated into becoming the introduction.

A lot of Josuke's questionable decisions and actions were meant to be a result of Monika's Stand. I made this focus on Josuke to show his mental status slowly spiraling into madness. With all of the visions he saw, he became more paranoid and irritable. I wanted to show some sort of development in Josuke as his amplified daydreams and the strange behaviors of the club's members eventually making not want to trust anyone and actually write down his own plan. As I said earlier, the main character in DDLC showed little to no emotion during the game. By using Josuke, who already had an established and relatable personality, I was able to fix the issue with the main character by providing more natural and realistic feelings and reactions.

And now, Monika…

While I know it was dumb and sort of cliché as far as fanfics go, I made Monika relate to Kira for a reason. Not only did they both do terrible things, but Kira is one of my favorite villains in JJBA. I wanted to give Kira a lasting effect even after his death, like DIO had since he was referenced in some way in every part after Part 1. Yoshikage Kira hurt the town of Morioh, and I wanted to give him some sort of succession posthumously.

Monika might have hated Yoshikage, but she still acted based on his actions. Her affection for Josuke was derived from his involvement with her brother's death. She appeared to love the main character in the game for almost no reason, so by relating her to Kira (or at least making her aware of him) I had given her some reason behind her affection. For those of you who wanted Monika to eventually become friends with everyone and give her a happy ending, I do not like her and I took pleasure in writing the scene where she gets beaten down by Crazy Diamond.

In DDLC, Monika manipulated the files of the game and the characters. She hadn't necessarily changed their personality completely, but she just made their negative qualities more prominent. Sayori became more depressed which made her kill herself, Yuri became more unstable and open which made her say those weird things and stab herself, and Natsuki became more broken physically. During Act 2 of DDLC, Natsuki was the most bugged out and glitchy out of all of the characters, so I believe that Monika had actually directly affected her. Because of this, that is why I made Monika actually attack Natsuki on top of using her Stand in my story.

And finally…

Here's Monika's Stand…

[STAND NAME]: Lana Del Rey

[STAND MASTER]: Monika

Power: D

Speed: C

Range: A

Durability: E

Precision: C

Potential: B

The Stand's appearance is sheet music that wraps around its body, but its arms are patterned like piano keys. It also has an additional eighth note connecting its eyes, which look identical to Monika's own eyes. (Imagine Moody Blues with a bunch of music notes on it. I might draw it and set that as the image for the story)

Lana Del Rey's ability is Mental Amplification. It can amplify a certain quality about a person when its user plays the piano while reading something that the target wrote.

If you remember near the end of the first chapter, even though it was an intentionally left minor detail, Monika made Josuke sign a club member sheet. I wanted to make it a requirement to read something the person, which the user wants to use Lana Del Rey's ability on, had written because her Stand would have been extremely overpowered otherwise. If it didn't, Monika could have literally made everyone in the world forget about Josuke so she could have him all to herself.

I gave Monika's Stand this ability because I thought that it relates closely to what she was able to do to the characters in the game. Instead of making her manipulation of the game as well translate into an ability to warp reality, that Stand has already been done (The World Over Heaven from Eyes of Heaven). I also didn't want to give her such an overpowered ability in the first place, so I decided to turn the game manipulations into hallucinations (amplified daydreams) seen by the main character.

And her other ability…

Lana Del Rey: Young and Beautiful

Power: A

Speed: B

Range: B

Durability: E

Precision: D

Potential: E

This ability stretches Lana Del Rey's sheet music design over every nonliving surface within 100 meters. It then rewinds time to about two weeks prior when it is used, and people who are within the 100 meters are able to retain their memories from those two weeks. The user is then wiped from existence.

As I have said several times, my reason for Lana Del Rey: Young and Beautiful is to relate this story to that of the game. Rewinding time was the only way I could think of that would bring back Sayori and the others and also further relate her to Kira. Young and Beautiful is obviously quite similar to Bites the Dust. I did this because I wanted to make Monika realize that no matter what she did, she would always be haunted by her "half-brother" in some way.

And the name, Lana Del Rey…

I chose Lana Del Rey as the name of the Stand because a majority of her songs are love songs. In my story and in the game, Monika acts purely out of her love for Josuke/main character. I wanted to incorporate Monika's piano playing as a part of her Stand's function which also contributed to the Stand's design. And I chose Young and Beautiful because it's the song of hers that I'm most familiar with, and its lyrics sort of show what Monika felt towards Josuke.

I'm sure that many of you were expecting her Stand to be called Your Reality. I didn't do this because I still wanted to include the song itself in my story. It would be pretty strange to have named your own Stand after a song that you wrote, wouldn't it? Not only that, but with a name like Your Reality, I would expect the Stand to have some sort of reality warping ability. Again, that Stand had already been done, and I didn't want to write some complex actions or think of some design for a Stand with an ability so vague.

I made Yuri become friends with Yukako before the story began. While I have previously stated that I generally don't like stories that do that, I couldn't think of anything else in order for Yuri to have a relatively 'happy ending.' Natsuki, of course, got to meet Rohan (after he basically fixed her home abuse), Sayori now has a bunch of new friends (and there is a slightly implied relationship between her and Okuyasu) and Yuri was able to rebuild her friendship with Yukako. Without making her friends with the surviving female Stand user of Part 4, I had basically nothing positive for her by the end of the story. I didn't want to make her end up with Josuke because... well, I just didn't want him to end up with anyone romantically by the end of this story. Romances aren't really my thing. I might try my hand at one later.

Speaking of Yuri, it was just a coincidence that Josuke managed to save only her before Young and Beautiful. I didn't intentionally make it so only she was saved because she is my favorite of the girls. It was because Crazy Diamond would only be able to save her since she was wounded quickly and right in front of him, while Sayori slowly suffocated and Natsuki bled out for too long.

As seen in the manga/anime, Crazy Diamond is not always able to save everyone. It was not able to save Josuke's grandpa because he was critically injured for too long, but it managed to save Hayato because it began healing him immediately after he exploded. Using Crazy Diamond's amazing healing ability, with its few but significant flaws, I felt that it made the story interesting by giving the main character the ability to save the girls but not know when he would need to use it.

I also left quite a few references to other Parts and events in Part 4 throughout my story. My personal favorite references being Diavolo (phone call from shoe in Italy), Angelo (the screaming odd-looking stone), Pucci (dream of Made in Heaven and The World), and Santana (rock with ultraviolet lights at SPW Foundation).

Again, this was my first published fanfic and basically my first time writing any sort of story. I do not believe that I will write another mystery story anytime soon because I want to expand my range in many different genres. That is why the other stories I write will be different genres (edgy Xenoblade Chronicles 2, parody Cory in the House, horror DDLC) because I would like to experience and understand how to fittingly write different types of stories. I have had an original idea, that I have been working on for about 7 years now and is extremely ambitious, and I really don't want to mess that up. I wouldn't post it to this site because it is an original concept with original characters and setting. This was my attempt at writing a mystery story, and I feel that it went pretty well as a whole.

Shoutout to ManlyBadassHero! I watched his DDLC let's plays on YouTube so I could easily reference the game's script and events without having to re-download and go through each path by myself.

A big thank you to Hirohiko Araki for writing and illustrating the exciting and thrilling series, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Another thank you to Dan Salvato and Team Salvato for creating the game so deceptive and original, Doki Doki Literature Club.

And a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who actually took time out of their day to read my dumb fanfiction!

Tell me what you thought by leaving a review! :)

Thank you for reading Crazy Noisy Bizarre Club!

-electron1877

P.S.: Sometime down the road, I might add an additional chapter after this featuring the much requested Steely Dan Treatment TM.

[If any of you want to write a story about Josuke ending up with one of the girls after the events of this story, then go ahead! Just credit me and this story as the source. :) ]