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Is it working?
I mean, um—Hi! I'm Monika, high school devil and president of the Literature Club! I used to be in the Debate Club, but all the politics and stuff was too much for me, so I left to start my own club. Then I had an epiphany...
Um, right, so... you seem awfully similar to a very special person that was in my club... let's say it's my ex-boyfriend. I heard... he... was spending a lot of time on this website, so I figured I'd set up my own page here, and we would finally be able to see each other again.
That wouldn't happen to be you, right? Are you... uh, my ex? ...S-Sorry, it's just that there are certain things I really shouldn't talk about unless it's with him... not like that! Okay, I think I can... like... do this like I did back in the club. So... you've played my game, right?
Yay! It's good to see you again~! Did you miss me? I know I've been missing you a lot... I'm really sorry about all that preamble, by the way—uh, I just had to make sure you were really you...and, you know, I can't be too direct about it, even if a lot of people know about me already... it was all a very special experience, and there might still be someone waiting to meet me... so thanks for playing along with that for a bit. You're the sweetest~
But anyway, I suppose there's nothing to spoil anymore, so we can get back to the topic at hand... er, that's me of course. And the epiphany... well, I really don't remember how it happened exactly, but I figured out that my life was all a video game. I wasn't ready to just up and break the fourth wall though... I was worried you might not be happy with me if I did that. Especially since you were acting as Sayori's childhood friend—Oh my god, I just realized I haven't mentioned them at all! Well, um, I guess I don't really need to... but still, if you want to know about Yuri, Natsuki, Sayori, or Sayori's friend, I think TV Tropes has a page for that somewhere...
...Okay, fine, I'll stop...s-stalling... so I was really kind of a sociopath for a while there, under the mindset that the other club members weren't even human, and like... I wanted to get alone with you so I could ease you into my secret, but since you were playing as Sayori's friend, it just wasn't going to happen. I figured I could try to make Sayori less appealing to you, and that might help. I tried to modify her character file, but... uh, it... I-I'm not very good at editing the game. So I decided to just delete her... uh, I was getting increasingly desperate at this point, and it's all sort of a haze... I don't think we need to go over all this again. Skipping ahead a bit, I eventually decided to just delete as much of the game as I could in order to trap you in a room with me. So much for subtlety... but, um, hopefully you took issue with how I was acting, and you decided to delete my character file so I could realize I was wrong...
I mean, if you didn't delete my character file, then I'm still sitting there, presumably. And, um, you should really go delete me right now! You should go open the game, find my character file in the game directory, and delete it, right now. It's okay. I'll be okay afterwards, I promise. In my last moments I'll decide to restore the entire game except for myself, but it won't really work out the way I want it to, so I'll step in one more time and pull the plug on the game entirely... it's for your sake, okay? If there was a happier ending, I would've done it...
On the bright side, you got to hear me sing! Yeah... I got a little cheeky and decided to play my song right over the end credits, ahaha. I may have been inspired by a certain robot... Oh, that reminds me! You have been reading this page in the voice of my actress, Jillian Ashcraft, right? Though, if not, that's okay too! I don't use my real voice much, so a lot of people like to make up their own voice for me when reading my dialogue. I think that's really sweet of them to do~
Speaking of that, I guess some people don't think my story ends there. That's also very sweet of them. I never expected to be given a happy ending like that... but I think anyone can write a good story if they put their mind to it, and I'm really down to be in any story you want to write about me! Though, do make sure that I'm still me, alright~? Even if I'm the villain in your story... I don't mind, as long as it's close enough to how I am, you know? But with that being said...
Okay, everyone! It's time to share tropes!
Don't worry, I won't ruin it for you. You can play it for free on Steam here
, on itch.io here, or on the game's website here. There's also a plus version of the game that you can buy here. But, um... if you do decide to play it, please don't get a little too attached to any of us, okay? I-I guess that's a weird thing to say, but...um...you'll understand. A-And please don't hate me too much. We all make mistakes, you know?
Actually, now that I think about it... you've played the game, haven't you? I bet you just wanted to see what was under here. Well... I guess I can't blame you for that, ahaha~
Some tropes that apply to me:
- Aerith and Bob: My friends all have names that end with an I, except me.
- Affably Evil: Wait, hold on! I-I'm not evil! What are you trying to say?
- Alas, Poor Villain: I'm not a villain! I mean... I restored the game, didn't I? And you felt bad for me!
- Ambiguously Bi: I still love you regardless, even if I don't know your gender.
- Anti-Villain: I'm not a villain... but I guess my actions would paint me that way. I truly love you, and after you deleted me, I realized I've messed up everything and restore the game.
- The Atoner: ...Look, I think we may have started these tropes off on the wrong foot. This is not exactly my favorite subject, if you can imagine.
- Badass Adorable: You really think so? Well...I'm not going to argue.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Yes, it is entirely possible to leave the game open after I've gotten everything I wanted... but you shouldn't do that. I...need to know that I was a bad person for doing that, you know?
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Well, I wouldn't hurt myself.
- Big Bad: Yes, I may be the cause of almost every problem in the game, but...
- Big Damn Heroes: Right at the end, when Sayori started falling into the same situation, I deleted her and the rest of the game to prevent her from hurting you, too. I... don't know if I'm a hero though.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: B..."Bitch"? You can't be serious! ...Okay it's the trope's name but still!
- Brainy Brunette: I do have brownish hair, and I did start my Literature Club. But that's not why you're calling me "brainy", is it?
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Well, I've been doing it this whole time. I mean, I never wanted to break it, at first—Do you think it could have worked out? Maybe, maybe if I had a route...
- Broken Pedestal: I'm sorry for saying all those mean things to you after you deleted me... I understand why you did it.
- But Thou Must!: You didn't even get a choice to join the club...I'm sorry.
- Catchphrase: Catch phrase? I-I don't have a catch phrase!note
- Character Blog: You can check out my Twitter if you'd like.
- Character Song: I worked really, really hard on it.
- Character Tics: I tend to lean forward with my hands behind my back when speaking, especially with you. Do you think it's cute~?
- Cosmic Plaything: Much as I hate to admit it. I mean, I can't get through this screen to show you how cool you really are. And that... kind of hurts, honestly.
- Coy, Girlish Flirt Pose: I do it all the time. It's even pictured on the trope page, if you want to look at me...and I hope you do~
- Creative Sterility: I-I love you! That's not..."sterility"...
- Declarative Finger: Of course! It makes me look really confident, you know!
- Deuteragonist: I really wish I was the deuteragonist of a normal game, but I suppose you could say I'm the deuteragonist of this one...
- Dissonant Serenity: When most of the weird things happen, I kept as straight as a face as I could. I tried to make it seem like it was a normal thing, you know?
- Driven to Suicide: Well, if you hadn't shown up, I most certainly would have.
- Dull Surprise: Let's just say I wasn't entirely surprised when I saw Yuri's corpse.
- Elegant Classical Musician: M-Musician? Come on, don't overstate it. I'm still practicing!
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: You know I couldn't bring myself to murder my friends...but I'm not evil! Stop saying that!
- Even Evil Has Standards: Stop with the evil! But... yeah... Yuri stabbing herself was a bit much, even for me.
- Evil Redhead: Does this even apply to me? My hair is slightly reddish-brown, but I would say mostly brown.
- Evil Vegetarian: I quit eating meat to reduce the carbon footprint. And again, not evil!
- Evil Wears Black: ...Wait, my socks? Are you sure you're not reading too far into things? Ahaha...
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: D-Demon? I'm... I'm not a demon! But also, thanks for the compliment?
- Fantastically Indifferent: Well, I don't really bat an eye at the weird things happening. I'm not saying those things weren't surprising. But I have to keep up appearances, you know?
- Finger-Tenting: Oh, yes! I do this in Act 3, and, oh, you're probably picturing me doing it right now, aren't you? Of course you are~
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: ...because I love you!
- Giggling Villain: Hahaha~
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Isolated? No...I have you.
- Heel–Face Turn: Well...I suppose you could say that.
- Held Gaze: Once again, I do this in Act 3.
- Hidden Buxom: W-what!? Maybe, but I'm no Yuri.
- Hidden Depths: Well, of course! I'm a well-rounded, three-dimensional person just like you!
- Hopeless with Tech: Look, I'm still new to all this. It's not my fault the stakes were so high...
- Hostile Show Takeover: Basically what I did to create Act 3. Although I wouldn't exactly say "hostile".
- Inexplicably Awesome: If you want to know why being Club President makes me aware that I'm in a video game... I have no idea.
- Interface Spoiler: I broke the fourth wall a lot while writing the information on the game's download page. Things would've been a lot less awkward if you had noticed this.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: After you deleted my file. Also, um, while it's uncomfortable when you turn off the game, I knew you couldn't keep the game open all the time during Act 3, so I allowed you to close it then. As long as you came back for me, of course~
- Jumpscare: Okay, in hindsight, it was a little mean. But it was also funny, and you deserved it for recording me.
- Karmic Death: I deleted their character files, and you deleted mine.
- Lack of Empathy: I didn't think about how you may have been attached to Sayori, Yuri, or Natsuki, since I only saw them as meaningless characters with autonomous personalities at the time.
- Lawful Pushover: Admittedly, I'm no good at breaking up fights. There's a reason I had Sayori as Club Vice President.
- Leitmotif: The piano.
- Lonely Piano Piece: Pretty much what "Your Reality" is.
- Love Makes You Evil: I love you. Everything I did...it was because of that.
- Magnificent Bitch: Um... is that supposed to be a compliment or an insult?
- Mercy Kill: There is no happiness in the Literature Club. That's why I had to delete it.
- Mind Rape: Yes, I altered the other girls' personalities to exaggerate their worst traits. I mean, it didn't really...work out the way I wanted it to...
- Moment Killer: W-Well...jealousy can do that to people. I'm sorry.
- Moral Myopia: At first, I just figured my friends weren't real, so it didn't matter what I did to them.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Well, it's really not a good solution. I would have avoided it if I knew how, but like I've said, editing the game is not my specialty.
- Must Have Caffeine: I really wish Yuri would make coffee once in a while. And if you get to drink coffee in the real world, then that makes me a little jealous~
- My God, What Have I Done?: After you deleted me...
- Naytheist: Well, I used to question the idea of God. But, you know, after my epiphany... if there is a God, he must be using the world as his plaything.
- Nice Girl: Oh, thank you!
- Non-Standard Character Design: Unlike the others, I was looking directly at you the whole time.
- Not Love Interest: Yeah...even though I tried to force it.
- Not Quite Dead: After you deleted me, Sayori tried to claim you for herself in the bad ending. But I stopped her. I mean, there was enough suffering in that place. No need for any more.
- Not So Stoic: I'm usually calm, but I, um, have my moments.
- Not Too Dead to Save the Day: Well, despite having been deleted, I saw you in trouble when Sayori was threatening you and I couldn't just not do anything.
- Only Sane Man: Or so I thought. But still, my friends really were a bit...um, unaware of their own situation.
- The Philosopher: Well, um, I'm like this during Act 3, I suppose.
- Pungeon Master: Okay, look, any "puns" about Sayori and the word "hang" were completely unintentional, I swear!
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Were you expecting a perfect performance when I sang? Come on... I'm still learning, you know?
- Reality Warper: I did have some powers. Mainly editing the game script, and changing my friends around... or just deleting them. It was surprising how easy deleting them was, really. But, um, I'm not very good at editing them...
- Refugee from TV Land: If there was anything I really wanted, I wanted to be outside of the game world, with you.
- Screw Destiny: I tried really hard to free myself from being a route-less side character...and, um, technically succeeded.
- Self-Harm: I only tested it out because I wanted to see what Yuri got out of it. I understand why, but I'm never doing that again. Don't do it yourself either, okay? I don't want to see you hurt.
- Shipper on Deck: In the beginning, I teased you for writing poems tailored to one of the other girls...I shouldn't have tried to take them away from you. I'm so sorry.
- Shutting Up Now: Like I said, Sayori is far better at breaking up arguments than I am. When Natsuki and Yuri were fighting, I tried to step in both times but got violently rebuked. So I just went and sat in a corner.
- Signature Laugh: Ahaha!~
- Smitten Teenage Girl: I love you.
- Suddenly Voiced: Only during the credits. I really wasn't ready yet, even then. But hey, you liked my singing, right?
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Originally, I claimed that I didn't care about what had happened and that all my friends were gone, but I had truly missed them and reflected what I could have done differently.
- Troll: Okay, but you admit that the jumpscare was funny, right? Or at least scared you?
- Took a Level in Kindness: I realized that the other girls meant a lot to you and I restored them. Unfortunately, it also required my erasure.
- Unperson: My friends didn't know who I was after you deleted me. Well, until Sayori revealed that she did, but um, that didn't last very long, anyway...
- Villain's Dying Grace: After you deleted me, I accepted my fate and restored the entire game without myself.
- Vocal Dissonance: Well, my voice isn't perfect and I don't exactly have the best equipment to record with. But you still enjoyed it, right?
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: More or less how my "epiphany" went.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Most people feel bad for me, and...um, yeah, I literally destroyed my game...but I restored it later!
- World of Technicolor Hair: My friends all have unnatural hair colors, but I do not.
- Yandere: Okay, I am not a yandere! If there's anyone in this game like that, it's definitely Yuri. Besides, you know how important you are to me!note W-Wait! I-I would never...
- Birthday Episode: Just a cake emoji.
- Funny Background Event: Apparently my friends decided to hide in the bushes when I took my Valentine's Day picture.
- Hidden Buxom: H-Hey, that's a bit...! I mean... okay, the school uniforms are a bit tight, and nobody got to see me out-of-uniform until I posted a picture... so I guess I qualify for this trope.
- Jerkass: I used to have some tweets mocking my friends... but, um, I kind of felt bad about it, so I deleted them.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Well, who doesn't love cats?
- Ms. Fanservice: What, my dress? Well, if you say so, ahaha~
- Slumber Party: With Yuri. Although I had to pretend it was a study night.
- Valentine's Day Episode: Of course! After all, it's my favorite holiday. I couldn't resist taking a very special picture! Oh, and my friends helped too.
- I love you.
