DDLC Theories

The Characters Problems Part 3

Okay, next subject!

Natsuki's problem,

Abuse

Hooray!

Let me tell you, there aren't a lot of convenient places for jokes when talking about depression and abuse.

I had this whole joke about Sayori getting "hung up" on others, but that's low-hanging

*No-pun-intended*

And is definitely some dark humor.

Anyway, let's talk abour Natsuki. Natsuki has parental issues. Her mom is either dead or abadoned her, or doesn't live with her anymore.

Her father is her primary guardian, and is likely an alcoholic douchenozzle who is either abusivr or neglectful depending on whether he's home or not.

We can see this come to light during Natsuki's writing, specifically in her Things I Like About Papa poem.

By reading between the lines it's very obvious that Natsuki is abused by her father when he is home or just completely neglected, not given enough to eat, not cared at all, when he isn't home.

With one or both parents having essentially abandoned her, Natsuki is likely dealing with a lot of trauma, self esteem issues, and abandonment issues.

When your parents essentially don't give a shit about you, it is quite easy to take that feeling to heart, to make it seem like they don't care about you because you aren't worth being cared about.

This can be detrimental to Natsuki's self esteem and at the same time make it extremely hard for her to trust people.

Hence, her rather brash personality until we get to know her better.

Natsuki's independence and rudeness is a mental line of defense.

She doesn't know who can be trusted and who can't because the two people she is able to trust have failed her. Those feelings of being abandoned by her parents add onto her inability to trust people.

It gives her the inherent idea that anyone who gets close to her may leave her and she'll be hurt by them, which explains why even when we do get close to Natsuki, she will only put her guard down for a second before finding a way to break intimacy and close off from us.

In some ways it's made Natsuki independent, like her ability to cook, but this skill is essentially something she learned out of necessity, and judging by how good her homemade cupcakes are, I'd gather she's been taking care of herself for a long time.

So is there hope to help Natsuki?

Yes, but what she really needs is trust that isn't broken, and she needs to know that her parents aren't how people generally are, they're the outliers.

Some parent's mess up their kids up by babying them too much, worrying about them too much, not letting them fail, or any number of other ways.

But Natsuki's parents really failed to be parents, she's never truly beem cared for. By finding people who do care for her she'll begin to mend.

Of course, having a rampant AI breaking the game and killing people kinda throws more trust issues into the mix instead of less.

(You think?)

But the main issue is that Natsuki has learned not to rely on anyone, so her problems are hers and hers alone.

Her friends don't know, the school doesn't know, nothing is changing in her life because she's been taught to close herself off from the world, to trust no one.

And that lesson is going to plague her and keep her from changing her life, from speaking out, from getting help.

*sighs* I hope I can be on Natsuki's side when she needs it. But in reality, I can't. Also sorry for the short chapter! I'll make it up for you guys by making another part.

Well, we're finished with Natsuki.

Now, onto the next part!

I will see you....

In the flipside!