Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club)

"Why don't you go look for some coins under the vending machines or something?"

- Yuri, to Natsuki

"Who cares about that obnoxious brat? Nobody would cry if she killed herself."

- Yuri, telling the main character that nobody would cry if Natsuki committed suicide

"I'm being unreasonable? Ahahaha! Monika, I can't believe how delusional and self-important you are! Pulling ___ 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, to Monika

Yuri is the secondary antagonist of the 2017 visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!. She replaced Sayori as the Vice-President in Act 2 after she was deleted by Monika during the end of Act 1.

While Yuri may have been a caring individual in Act 1, her personality shifts to that of an obsessive yandere as a result of Monika tampering with the game's code.

Appearance
Throughout Act 1, Yuri is noted to be extremely beautiful. She has purple hair and wears the same school uniform as the other three girls. Outside of school, she wears a turtleneck sweater.

In Act 2, her face often appears scrambled. Her eyes, usually a bright orchid, will widen when she's highly stimulated, and sometimes turn a duller shade of purple, taking on a hyperrealistic appearance and moving independently of the rest of her sprite.

One of her early Act 2 glitches gives her a "dragon" form, where her hair is black, her uniform blouse bright red, and her eyes a darker red with slit pupils.

Personality
Though usually very shy and overly apologetic, Yuri can be very talkative and enthusiastic when it comes to her favourite subjects. For this reason, Yuri has trouble making and keeping friends, as she tends to come on too strongly. Yuri eats lunch alone at school, but claims she has company in the characters in her books. To that end, Monika warns the player that they may have trouble pursuing her, as Yuri probably has a fictional boyfriend.

In Act 2, Monika amplifies Yuri's obsessive tendencies in order to make her seem less attractive to the player. Afterwards, Yuri finds herself increasingly excitable around the main character, and several times begins cutting herself. Monika suggests she may do this for the endorphin rush it provides. It's also possible she may derive sexual gratification from blood, knives, or sadomasochism (sexual feelings from sadistic and masochistic situations) in general.

Throughout Act 2, Yuri sometimes becomes self-aware, recognising that something is happening to her and that her comments and behaviour may be inappropriate, such as when she mentions masturbating to the main character's poetry using his pen, but is ultimately unable to control her obsessive outbursts. After pushing Monika and Natsuki out of the classroom in the final chapter of Act 2, she confesses her desire to be with the protagonist and stabs herself to death after her confession and the response after from feeling either too excited or from not being able to handle her rejection.

During Act 3, Monika claims that Yuri is an example of the yandere character archetype.

List of villainous acts

 * Bullied Natsuki on numerous occasions, even referring to her as an "obnoxious brat" and saying that nobody would cry if she killed herself.
 * Told Natsuki to "look for coins under the vending machine".
 * Told Monika that killing herself would be beneficial to her mental health.

Trivia

 * On the second day of the game, Yuri describes the book she lends to the protagonist, which also happens to foreshadow the dark events that will happen in the game.
 * Yuri suffers from frequent back pains. The protagonist assumes the cause to be her "bad reading posture." Previous conversations with Yuri, as well as her awkwardness leading up to his assumption, imply that it is due to her large breasts.