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| “ | Natsuki... Nobody cares. Why don't you go look for some coins under the vending machine or something? | „ |
| ~ Yuri to Natsuki, as well as her most infamous line. |
| “ | 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 (ゆり) 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.
Biography[]
Yuri is a character in the visual novel, Doki Doki Literature Club!. She is also the Literature Club's vice-president as of Act 2 onwards, as well as one of the main characters of the game. While being introduced as one of the two tritagonists of the game (alongside Natsuki), Monika corrupted her character file to make Yuri romantically less appealing, sabotaging her once gentle crush with the MC to an unhealthy and romantically destructive and obsessive relationship with him as of Act 2. Additionally, both Monika's corruptions and the game's instability is forcing the player to spend time with Yuri more than the other club members.
Although Yuri predominately resembles her counterpart in Act 1 during the first day, the second day is where Yuri's negative traits are virtually shown: when Yuri and Natsuki have their heated argument in Act 2, it escalates from a simple disagreement to a toxic and more intensive argument that ended with Yuri stating something so horrible that Natsuki ran away in tears of fear while Monika takes the protagonist outside during their fight. Upon returning to the classroom, Yuri will repeat: “I didn’t mean it,” and continues to ask the player not to hate her for it and hopes that Natsuki will forgive her tomorrow. In the next day upon the aftermath of the argument, Yuri will attempt to come up with an excuse for the player to spend time with her, but if the player wrote a pair of poems for Natsuki prior to these events, it will change to Yuri telling the player to "not to think about her so much" due to Natsuki being "used to ignored," and practically forces the player to hang out with her at this point. the player continues writing poems for Natsuki more than Yuri, the latter will be triggered to be more hostile towards Natsuki via Monika's corruptions.
Afterwards, while reading with the protagonist, Yuri gets heavily excited and leaves the classroom to get water from the drinking fountain, though in reality, she sneaks off to go cut herself again. When she comes back, she gives the protagonist her poem, which is titled, Wheel. It is made up of several fragmented sentences, which almost all contain vague and unexplained concepts, such as "Exponential gearbox" and "God disproving the existence of God."
On the fourth day, Yuri immediately greets the player through an obsessive manner and plans to hang out with him, only to be confronted by Natsuki, which snaps Yuri back to her senses. While Yuri realizes her erratic behavior and plans to buy Natsuki a new manga for the festival if the player writes more poems for Yuri, writing more poems for Natsuki than Yuri will cause the interaction between the two to change that day and take a darker turn: Natsuki apologizes for being so aggressive the day before and leaving the club, and Yuri responds under Monika's influence, "Nobody cares. Why don't you go look for coins under the vending machines or something?" Natsuki is shocked and furious at first, and while she attempts to lash out at Yuri in retaliation, she instead runs out of the club room, crying in heartbreak. Later, Yuri will obsess over the player's physical poem by breathing into it and asking to take it home. She then offers her poem in excitement, titled mdpnfbo,jrfp, which has blood and yellow waste stains on it and is written in the Damagrafic Script Font, making the poem almost illegible. Most of the words are randomized or not words at all, but the last few sentences detail someone taking pleasure in stabbing a teenage girl to death. Afterward, the screen becomes hazy and dark, and Yuri gets extremely close to the protagonist, stares directly at him 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. She also explains that she has "endowed it with her scent," implying that the yellow stains are urine. She then glitches out and realizes what she has truly done in utter shock, and states that she is going to vomit before leaving the clubroom.
If all three poems are written for Yuri in Act 2, the scene where Yuri is discovered to be cutting herself will happen once more, but then will show Yuri with blank eyes and a glitching sprite. Afterwards, she will be mildly unsettled, mentioning that she had some serious deja-vu. She then will talk about how she is typically despised how she got a little too excited about certain topics that caused her to isolate herself from other people. She then becomes sentient of Monika and asks the player about her, and how she is changing from a sweet girl to more manipulative. Afterwards, she will state that they are finally alone, away from "Monika's slimy tongue" and Natsuki who is a "pathetic child." Then, she will attempt to convince the protagonist to remain with her, and will seem to be overtly excited, with randomly glitching pupils. Monika's sprite will also slowly fade into vision, covering Yuri while her dialogue continues.
Near the climax of the fourth day, a heated quarrel occurs over who the protagonist should help in preparation for the festival. In Act 1, the player was able to choose either Yuri, Natsuki, and Monika. However, in Act 2, the cursor is forcefully moved towards Monika. If the player manages to press Natsuki or Yuri, a white screen will appear, with Yuri's realistic purple eyes staring directly at the player. After a few seconds, the default “choice” screen reappears, but this time, with randomly generated text at the bottom, and the only choice buttons are “Monika,” filling the entire screen top to bottom. If the player selects Monika instead, the game continues traditionally. After said quarrel, and after the player inevitably chooses Monika, Yuri eventually breaks down and begins an obsessive rant on Monika for calling her unreasonable, suggesting Monika that she should kill herself, claiming that it would be "beneficial for her mental health," intimidating Natsuki in the process. Afterward, Yuri ejects Natsuki and Monika from the room, and confesses her love for the protagonist in an obsessive manner.
Yuri eventually becomes self-aware throughout Act 2, recognizes that something is wrong with her and that her comments and behavior are inappropriate (such as when she mentions masturbating to the protagonist's poetry using his pen and acting condescending and rude to the other club members), enough so to feel something bad will happen despite her happiness. She is ultimately unable to control her obsessive outbursts, no matter how hard her efforts are to do so. It reaches a certain point where, after ejecting Monika and Natsuki out of the classroom the day before the festival in Act 2 and confessing her love to the protagonist, she stabs herself to death, regardless of whether the player accepts or rejects her love. She confesses her desire to commit herself virtually to 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. Yuri's body is left decomposing for three days, and is then discovered by Natsuki, who screams at the sight of her corpse, immediately vomits and runs away. When she is discovered by Monika, both Yuri and Natsuki's files are deleted, leading to Act 3.
Personality[]
| “ | Stagnating air is common foreshadowing that something terrible is about to happen. | „ |
| ~ Yuri foreshadowing Sayori's and her own death, as well as her most famous quote. |
While Yuri is introduced as a timid, insecure and slightly condescending, but benevolent, intelligent, mature, generous and eloquent shrinking violet in Act 1, Yuri's love of surrealism seems to be foreshadowing further events of the game, with Yuri's surrealistic eyes and the game's sudden shift to horror after Sayori's suicide, as well as her stating that "stagnating air is common foreshadowing something terrible is about to happen," days before Sayori commits suicide under Monika's influence. Yuri prefers poetry that makes usage of metaphorical symbolism and is entertained in collecting unorthodox ornate knives, which are implied to be intended for self-harm. The detailed summaries of the novel, Portrait of Markov, in the first and second chapter, when also taking the dialogue's scattered references into account, all end up tracing back to her unstable nature and unhinged personality.
During Act 2, however, Monika amplifies Yuri's negative characteristic traits, causing her crush on the protagonist to become a romantically destructive obsession: at one point, Yuri admits that she masturbates herself with the pen she took from him, and her existing hobby involving knife collecting further becomes a love of self-harm, to the point where Monika suggests that Yuri cuts herself due to a fetish. This also causes her to become invasive and condescending to the other club members, asking Natsuki, "Why don't you look for coins under the vending machine?," which causes Natsuki to cry and run away, and suggesting Monika that she should kill herself, claiming that it would be "beneficial for her mental health." In one occasion, Yuri shows a poem to the protagonist with stains of blood and urine-looking waste on it, telling him that she has 'put her scent on it.' Yuri will then glitch and realize what she has truly done and leave the club, stating that she is going to vomit. All in all, Yuri finds herself progressively excitable around the protagonist (which Natsuki becomes concerned of), and begins cutting herself several times when overstimulated. Monika suggests this is potentially for the endorphin rush it provides. According to Yuri's unorthodox description of and reaction to Portrait of Markov in Act 2, it is possible she might derive sexual gratification from blood, knives, or sadomasochism (in simplistic terms, sexual feelings from sadistic and masochistic situations) in general.
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," even though Yuri herself ironically does entact suicide after confessing her love to the player while she lacks mental health in return, along with her aforementioned self-harming habits.
According to Monika, however, Yuri goes through a heavily tragic lifestyle of having constant trouble making and retaining friendships, as she tends to come on too strongly due to her intense desire to be liked. She went through a lifetime of being typically judged and bullied for her appearance and mannerisms, but unlike Natsuki, Yuri seemingly went through her life without even a single friend, thus providing another possible explanation as to the reason she secludes herself to her introverted lifestyle that combines with her self-harm habits, along with her slight condescension and patronization as coping mechanisms to mask her self-doubt. Despite this, once she realizes that what she said is considered rude, Yuri becomes immediately apologetic, repeatedly confessing that she did not mean it.
During Act 3, Monika claims that Yuri is an example of a "yandere," but this is debatable since Yuri never inflicts physical harm on other people, excluding herself.
Appearance[]
Yuri is an attractive and young teenager who expresses both maturity and sophistication throughout all of her performances. She has waist-length dark purple hair that reaches her upper thighs, along with disheveled bangs and a pair of forelocks close to her face. She wears a pair of shiny purple/magenta barrettes, one clipped on each forelock next to her head, though often, only the left barrette is visible to the player. Like Monika and Natsuki, Yuri’s forelocks form arches on top of her head, which slightly resemble cat-looking ears. She has light purple eyes (which are narrower than the other club members' eyes), and she wears a purple barrette on the right side of her head, positioned upon her right prominent strand of hair beside her bangs. She is of above-average height, tied with the protagonist as the tallest character in the Literature Club. Yuri blushes easily and turns away when embarrassed. Her accessories include wearing purple barrettes on both sides of her head, positioned upon a pair of prominent strands of hair beside her bangs.
Yuri has a more mature figure than Sayori, Natsuki, and to a minor extent, Monika. The protagonist describes her movements as surprisingly elegant due to her long legs. As such, Yuri is the most physically developed, supplementing her traits of maturity and insecurity. Yuri prefers sitting on the floor to read because her large bust causes frequent backache that is exacerbated by hunching over when using the desks. According to Natsuki, Yuri began padding her breasts in order to impress the protagonist after he joined the Literature Club, though Yuri denies this.
While attending school, she wears the standard-issue female school uniform consisting of a warm gray blazer extensively buttoned and untucked, brown sweater vest, white shirt slightly unbuttoned at the collar and tucked, red ribbon, dark blue pleated skirt, white knee-high socks and white uwabaki slippers with sky blue tips.
In Act 2, her face often appears scrambled. Her eyes, typically a bright orchid, will widen when she is heavily stimulated, and occasionally turn a duller shade of purple, possessing 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.
Quotes[]
| “ | It's just that this kind of story... It's the kind that challenges you to look at life from a strange new perspective. When horrible things happen, not just because someone wants to be evil... But because the world is full of horrible people, and we're all worthless anyway. Then, suddenlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. | „ |
| ~ Yuri |
| “ | When I let things like books and writing fill my thoughts... my whole body gets incredibly [illegible symbols]. | „ |
| ~ Yuri |
| “ | Yuri: Taking out your own insecurities on others like that...You really act as young as you look, Natsuki. Natsuki: Me? Look who's talking, you wannabe edgy b**ch! Yuri: Edgy...? Sorry that my lifestyle is too much for someone of your mental age to comprehend! Natsuki: See?? Just saying that proves my point! Most people learn to get over themselves after they graduate middle school, you know. Yuri: If you want to prove anything, then stop harassing others with your sickening attitude! You think you can counterbalance your toxic personality just by dressing and acting cute? The only cute thing about you is how hard you try. Natsuki: Whoa, be careful or you might cut yourself on that edge, Yuri. Oh, my bad. You already do, don’t you? Yuri: D-Did you just accuse me of cutting myself?? What the f**k is wrong with your head?! |
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| ~ Yuri arguing with Natsuki. |
| “ | She's fine! She's reading over there, see? Don't think about her so much. She's used to being ignored. Come on, we're going over there. | „ |
| ~ Yuri after the player wrote more poems for Natsuki than her. |
| “ | Who cares about that obnoxious brat? I mean, I like how nice and quiet the club is right now... And I'm just... happy with you here... But still! I'm the Vice President... It's not right for me to ignore my responsibilities like that... Nobody would cry if she killed herself. | „ |
| ~ Yuri dismissing Natsuki after the latter no longer participates in festival planning. |
Trivia[]
- On the second day of the game, Yuri describes the book she lends to the protagonist, "The Portrait of Markov," which also happens to foreshadow the dark events that will happen in the game. However, on the second day of Act 2, her description of the book changes drastically, becoming more and more of a horror novel, much like the game itself.
- Despite possessing a large collection of knives, Yuri stabs herself with a large, simple kitchen knife, rather than an intricate and exotic one, like the one she shows to the protagonist during Act 1. Dan Salvato confirmed in a Reddit AMA that this is an artistic error.
- Yuri's file is written in Base 64. It can be decoded to a story.
- Yuri is known to suffer from frequent backaches:
- 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 revealed to be due to her large breasts.
- Another circumstantial point, according to Natsuki, Yuri began padding her breasts in order to impress the protagonist after he joined the Literature Club, though Yuri denies this. However, this is circumstantial, as Yuri's crush on the protagonist becomes an destructive obsession in Act 2. The jab by Natsuki, though, further alludes to the possible fact that Yuri has trouble making and retaining friends, as she tends to come on too powerfully with her favourite hobbies, due to her intense desire to be liked from other people, including the protagonist, and thus encourages the concept that Yuri used to be judged for her appearance and mannerisms, providing an explanation as to the reason she secludes herself to her introverted lifestyle.
- A piece of evidence leads to the assumption that Yuri is one of the two characters, the other being Monika, to have a voice associated with them, but also be the only character in the game not to have an explicit connection to the individual credited, Jillian Ashcraft. During Yuri's confession to the protagonist in Act 2, "
10-yuri.ogg" would play, which contains giggling and faint breathing from a female representing Yuri's unhinged state of mind. Since the connection between the vocals, Yuri, and Ashcraft are not explicit, it cannot be determined if it was from Ashcraft or a free stock sound effect. - In the "main menu" artwork, Yuri seems to have a pair of right feet. This is likely an artistic error.
- In the scene where Yuri is stabbing herself, the knife’s handle is black, but when the player witnesses her corpse on the ground later on, the handle appears to be brown. This is either an artistic error, or because the handle became covered in dried blood.
- Yuri and Sayori are the only characters to actually die in the game, while everyone else (specifically Natsuki and Monika) were deleted from the game (although, Yuri and Sayori were also deleted from the game after death).
- Coincidentally, both Yuri and Sayori died in the same day of the club festival.
- On the PS5 and PS4 versions of DDLC+, Yuri's death has been slightly altered. When Yuri stabs herself, her blood is replaced with a black, ink-like substance. In the PS5 version, Yuri's blood was censored in her stabbing scene as a result, her blood is black instead of red. However, the following scene with Yuri's corpse remains intact. This was done to satisfy the policies of Sony Interactive Entertainment[1] regarding violence.
External Links[]
- Yuri on the Heroes Wiki
- Yuri on the Doki Doki Literature Club Wiki
References[]
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