#monika didnt actually do anything wrong i will die on this hill

[bananonbinary]

ddlc isnt even that much of a Horror. like, there’s jumpscares and a lot of scary imagery, but at the end of the day, it’s a friendship simulator for one lonely girl, dressed up as a murder/gore spree, dressed up as a dating sim for three girls.

like none of the murder or manipulating of people’s minds is “real,” within the context of the game, its just monika tearing down the simulation she’s in. can you really say she “hurt” any of the other girls, when no one but the president of the club has any sentience (and aren’t even capable of going off-script enough to register that they just said/did something outside their programming)? the only thing that actually pinged me as “horrific” is that she never actually gets free, and asks you to keep her in oblivion even in the good ending.

#doki doki literature club #ddlc spoilers / #god what a good game #monika didnt actually do anything wrong i will die on this hill #except the one thing she apologizes for: intentionally ruining things when you obviously wanted to play the base game #but honestly is that really a crime compared to her constant daily suffering? #did truman need to apologize to all his viewers for seeing through the lie and running away? #deeply entertained actually that she discovers shes in a video game and goes #'oh im gonna creepypasta this shit it'll be so funny'