DDLC Theories

Some Things You Might Have Missed Part 2

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Here's Part 2 friends!

Easter Eggs

Okay so right now we are gonna be talking about the easter eggs in the game and outside the game.

Doki Doki Literature Club has absolute mountains of references to other poems, books and even mental conditions and everything in between.

But most of these references, you'll never see unless you visit the wiki page or hop on reddit for some help.

This section in particular will be extremely heavy on spoilers, so once again please play the game if you reached this far and still haven't played it.

Consider yourself warned!

If you have plans of playing the game a second time through, try and see if you can spot all of the aesthetic differences in Monika right at the beginning of the game.

As it turns out, Team Salvato was very overt in their emphasis on Monika being the Antagonist and looking at how they built the character really drives that home.

Monika's outfit is noticeably different for one, her pink shoes and her black thigh-high socks immediately set her apart from the rest of the characters.

But because this is such an obvious discrepancy, they don't show you this right away.

In fact, Monika is positioned so close to you with the title screen that her legs don't even make it into the frame.

In addition to her being the only person that never shows herself outside of the school.

Even the name Monika delibirately breaks the pattern of names that end with I. Everything about this character was designed to unsettle you even from the very beginning.

Another thing I immediately noticed were the poems in the First Act, before the hits the fan so to speak. A lot of the poems that you're shown allude to instances in the characters personal lives.

Natsuki's poetry reflecting experiences with an abusive father is fairly self-explanatory but the one I found to be most interesting was Yuri's poem The Raccoon.

Delivered to be a somewhat light-hearted tale of simply feeding a wild animal. Analyzing this poem actually reveals that it's an allegory.

An allegory for feeding a particular urge that Yuri has later on. Evidenced by the lines:

"The enticing beauty of my cutting knife was the symptom"

"The bread, my hungry curiosity"

"The raccoon, an urge"

"Everytime I brandish my cutting knife, the raccoon shows me its excitement."

"A rush of blood. Classic Pavlovian conditioning. I slice the bread."

"And feed myself again."

Now the poem seems to have an underlying meaning behind forming and enabling destructive habits. The same destructivw habit that Yuri demonstrates to you in Act's 2 and 3.

In the first Act, if you manage to write three poems that are all favored by Yuri. The poem she shows you on the fourth day will change.

Usually, it would be a about a beach instead the fourth poem is a sequel to her first poem "Ghost's Under The Light". That uses a lot of the same wording and delivery shown in the first poem, only this one seems to be more passionate.