Game Theory: Meet The NEW Monika! (Doki Doki Literature Club Plus)

Fun Fact : Ive Laster is a sneaky way of spelling “I’ve Lost Her”, aka an Easter egg hinting that Monika has escaped.

Fun detail: the DDLC+ trailer that was released has the player's name as "Ive".

I think its interesting to note that if Monika is a nurse and not a patient or experiment, and the other 3 are it also loops back to the statement of physical appearances being different than normal humans. Monika has brown hair and green eyes, while the other three have unnatural hair and eye colors possibly caused by them being experiments and Monika being a nurse.

It's amazing the lengths the Project Libitina characters are going to to ascend to a higher plane, meanwhile Monika did it without even trying.

I honestly, never would've thought that DDLC and FNAF would have lores this deep, if it weren't for MatPat

Did you notice how every single character in the game has their hair covering their foreheads where a third eye would be? I'm guessing the twist is they've all had three literal eyes the entire time.

You know the third eye granting violent tendencies sound like it's a metaphor for the experiments being conducted by the team rathen than a literal interpretation. They grant awareness of higher knowledge and that causes the character (in this case Monika) to have an existential crisis and become violent toward her fellow classmates. Metaphorically speaking as she never harms them directly but also is willing to sabotage and destroy their files because she sees them as expendable.

I had a thought, remember the poem Yuri wrote in the 2nd playthrough? The one titled "Wheel"? It might be a stretch but I think there might have been elements in it hinting at this truth; "A rotating wheel" = Machine? "A portal to another world" = The bridge between the Virtual Machines or the VMs and our world "Expanding universe", "Time controlled by slipping cogwheels" = The VMs being simulations "Existence of God", "A prayer written in blood" = Religious imagery "A thread connecting all human eyes" = Third eyes! "God disproving the existence of God" = the research team trying to prove that they themselves live in a simulated reality Just a random thought xD

Everyone's Fanfics and how they expect Monika to be in real life How she actually is: A middle aged man

A funny thing concerning the name "Renier": The verb "renier" in french means "to deny", "to renounce" or "to repudiate" and is often used to talk about abandonning marriage, parenthood or in this case, faith.

12:00 as soon as Matpat said “As soon as Monica said-“ I got an advert that started with someone yelling ”I’M MAKIN’ WAFFLES”

Children: having an average, loving life. Renier: this is not o k i e d o k i

After all this, I can only imagine some people of Team Salvato being like "hey our next game will be so epic, with so much to connect back to DDLC, and so much hidden lor- wait, how people already know almost everything?"

"Oh wow the trailer are attractive . It must be good game. It say horror but nah i think i can handle it." Now:

A theory based purely off observation: I believe Yuri is at least loosely aware of all of this in the second act of base game. Think of how aware she is that she’s acting differently than normal, whereas Sayori, who’s feelings were also altered by monika, didn’t seem to note her depression had gotten worse than normal. Before Yuri confesses her love and subsequently stabs herself, Yuri says something like “I don’t even care if monika’s watching!” which can easily be dismissed as Yuri showing she doesn’t care about monika’s jealousy, but also very possibly signify her awareness of the situation (we know how much DDLC subtly foreshadows). When you mention she reminds you of the character in Portrait of Markov, she isn’t distressed or put off( because she isn’t aware it’s her), whereas she instantly panics in the second act. And one of the freakiest parts of the game- when her eyes become human instead of animated, tying in to the “opening of a third eye” theme.

no joke, this is lowkey the best channel i've ever stopped by in years literally everything i thought about the game has been flipped around and now this game makes SO much more sense thanks The Game Theorists

My thought: this new game is going to be a reverse of DDLC thematically. DDLC was something that looked and seemed upbeat and fun, then took a turn for the horrifying. This new game is going to be a horror show that is invaded by DDLC's Monika (either jumping over from her VM or from the outside via Ive as Mat theorizes here), and turns into a story of how she manages to ACTUALLY wrest a happy ending from this nightmare, not by selfishly changing things for her own benefit but by intervening on behave of the alternate versions of her friends.

Anyone else notice that “Ive Laster” is an anagram for “Evil Stare”? Seems like too unusual a name to be a coincidence, especially with the importance of the third eye…

Headcannon: Monika made the portrait of Markov specifically for Yuri as a clue to vm2

love that literary analysis is so integral in understanding what’s going on