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| “ | I'm being unreasonable? Ahahaha! Monika, I can't believe how delusional and self-important you are! Pulling [player's name] away from me every single time you're not included in something. Are you jealous? Crazy? Or maybe you just hate yourself so much that you take it out on others? Here's a suggestion. Have you considered killing yourself? It would be beneficial for your mental health. | „ |
| ~ Yuri's villainous breakdown to Monika. |
Yuri is the secondary antagonist of the 2017 visual novel, Doki Doki Literature Club!. Yuri is a shy and sophisticated shrinking violet who serves as one of the five members of the Literature Club, later replacing Sayori as the Vice-President in Act 2 onwards after she was deleted by Monika in Act 1.
Yuri joined the Literature Club out of her interest in fantasy and psychological horror novels. As of Act 2, she became the game's secondary antagonist, although she was introduced as one of the two tritagonists in Act 1, alongside Natsuki. In Act 2, Yuri is the Literature Club's psychotic and twisted vice-president who is full-on romantically obsessive towards the protagonist and behaves condescending towards the other club members who interfere with her attempts to steal the protagonist all to herself, such as Natsuki and the club president, Monika.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Villainous?[]
- In general circumstances, Yuri is the Literature Club's sadomasochistic, juvenile, twisted and heavily perverted vice-president whose once gentle crush with the MC turns into an unhealthy and romantically destructive relationship, and has a heavily condescending and invasive attitude towards those that interfere with Yuri hanging out with the protagonist, such as especially Natsuki and Monika.
- Yuri bullied and harassed Natsuki on numerous occasions through the most unforgivable methods possible, which negatively affected her relationship with Natsuki in several moments:
- During Yuri and Natsuki's heated argument in Act 2, it escalates from a basic disagreement to a toxic and intensive argument that ended with Yuri remarking something so horrible and unforgiving to Natsuki that the latter left the Literature Club in horror and ran away in tears of heartbreak.
- If the protagonist writes more poems for Natsuki than Yuri, the latter will nonetheless force the protagonist to spend more time with her than Natsuki, ordering the protagonist through corrupted and dark dialogue to "not think about her so much" because she is "used to being ignored," and Yuri practically drags the protagonist to spend time with her.
- While Yuri and the protagonist discuss what to perform about Natsuki not desiring to participate in the festival, Yuri abruptly dismisses Natsuki, heavily sadistically asking, "Who cares about that obnoxious brat?" and that "nobody would cry if she killed herself."
- During the day of the festival planning, if the protagonist were to write more poems for Natsuki than Yuri, the interaction between Yuri and Natsuki changes and takes a darker turn: Natsuki apologizes for being so aggressive the day before and leaving the club upon confronting Yuri for the latter's suspicious behavior. Yuri, on the other hand, sadistically remarks that "nobody cares," asking to "look for some coins under the vending machines," which both foreshadows that Natsuki's father does not give her lunch money and traces back to Natsuki's famous poem, "Things I Like About Papa," combining it all to foreshadow the abusive nature of Natsuki's father. This horrid line virtually upsets and causes Natsuki to silently burst into tears, and outright prompts her to just leave the Literature Club out of heartbreak. Nonetheless, the latter still ultimately forgives Yuri later on though, as she gradually became aware of Monika's interference towards the aforementioned instances above.
- She boasts a perverted and twisted obsession around the protagonist on multiple occasions: while she is reading with the protagonist, she becomes infatuated, prompting Yuri herself and the protagonist to lock hands and she ends dragging him into a closet to force him to touch her, more specifically through her heart, all while glaring at the protagonist through a heavily frightening look with a pair of hyperrealistic and intimidating eyeballs.
- She stole the protagonist’s pen, and Yuri likely masturbated herself with it, willingly confessing to him that she desired to do so to it since he made contact with it. Furthermore, Yuri made inappropriate contact with the protagonist's poem through obsessing over it physically by breathing into it and asking to take it home. She then offers her poem out of sheer obsession, titled mdpnfbo,jrfp, which has blood and yellow stains on it, making the poem almost illegible. Most of the words are picked out of random or not words at all, but the last few sentences detail someone taking pleasure in stabbing a teenage girl to death. Afterwards, Yuri gets heavily close, stares directly at the protagonist with frighteningly realistic eyes, and asks if he likes it. She tries to explain what the poem is about, but spouts random letters and characters instead. Additionally, what makes this even more heinous and disturbing is that she also explains that she has "endowed it with her scent," implying that the yellow stains on the poem are urine.
- Yuri aggressively and brutally protested with Monika and Natsuki during a heated quarrel over who the protagonist should assist in preparation for the festival, which especially includes suggesting Monika that she should kill herself, claiming it would be beneficial to her mental health.
- Yuri can also be quite hypocritical, as she suggested Monika that she should kill herself, claiming that it would be "beneficial for her mental health," (as mentioned before) even though Yuri herself ironically does enact suicide after confessing her love to the player while she lacks mental health in return, along with her self-harming habits to supplement this.
- She sadmasochistically laughed while stabbing herself multiple times in front of the protagonist (whether or not he accepts her love confession), all while having an expression of insane happiness through her moments of suicide, traumatizing him heavily.
Why She Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- As her worst actions were all done out of Monika's manipulations, Yuri fails the heinous standards to her, who drives Yuri into insanity via hacking her character life, turns Natsuki's father into an even more neglectful parent that is even above physically abusing her daughter, and enforces Sayori's suicide.
- Yuri suffers from impaired moral agency, since she is nothing more than a video game program, whose codes have been altered by Monika to amplify her obsessive and negative characteristic traits, which essentially makes her a villain by proxy.
- She is a heavily morally grey character, as while her actions in the story of Act 2 were undoubtedly heinous, Yuri boasts a genuine care for her friends, even Monika and her best friend, Natsuki (despite getting heated with the latter during the majority of Act 2). More specifically, she worries about how Monika slowly switches from a considerable and selfless leader to a more manipulative stalker throughout the course of the game, and she worries about how assertive Natsuki can be, even regretting that she made Natsuki burst into tears upon the aftermath of their heated argument. More than that, she opens up to the protagonist with overall romantic and affectionate feelings for him.
- Yuri is far too tragic, mentally ill, and a scapegoat to be considered a full-on qualified NPE, as she was once a good girl prior to Act 2 and was driven to sheer madness after Monika tampered with her code, forcing her negative traits to overpower her positive ones, such as her timidity and insecurity being almost virtually overlapped by her obsession. This eventually concluded with Yuri eventually committing suicide by stabbing herself to death since she cannot handle nor control her own feelings past that point, succumbing to a slow and painful death as a result of Monika amplifying her obsession.
- Furthermore, what makes this even more tragic is that Yuri makes visible expressions while muttering incomprehensible speech moments after stabbing herself, suggesting that she is still alive and did not die immediately, in spite of her fatal injuries, making her death all the more gruesome.
External links[]
- Yuri on the Villains Wiki
- Yuri on the Heroes Wiki
- Yuri on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
- Yuri on the Love Exalted Wiki
- Yuri on the Doki Doki Literature Club Wiki
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