Doki Doki Literature Club.
If you thought it was all out on the table, you were wrong.
When it comes to Doki Doki Literature Club there's a lot of things that we can talk about.
there's a lot of aspects that have already have been discussed between us, game theory,
and who knows how many other channels.
But at the end of it all there's one topic that nobody's really touched on, a piece of
the puzzle I'd like to address today.
Between the twists and turns that Doki Doki Literature Club gives us, there are the ever
present issues that are happening to these girls, which we, as gamers, completely neglect.
Yuri, Sayori, Natsuki...we learn about what's happening in their lives through their poetry
and dialogue, but because of the way the game is set up, their problems become background
noise to the suspense and horror aspects of the experience.
Who can focus on an abusive father when there's an AI out to kill you!...or love you to death?
And honestly, it's understandable.
Who wants to talk about hard and close to the heart topics when there's a crazy mystery
to be solved?
I can answer that, I do.
For within these hallowed yandere school halls lies a deep unresolved therapy inducing pool
of problems.
Tragic stories told within these girls lives that everybody has let fall by the wayside
in lieu of the larger picture.
Depression, abuse, self harm, these are all things that people deal with on a daily basis
that we've hardly talked about all!
We're focused on the game and the gameplay, on the story and the story line but not what
is happening within the lives of the people that are in the story.
So today let's talk about what we've all been guilty of passing up on, and together
we'll find the message within it that we all could learn.
Join me on a tale of sorrow, on a journey of understanding, on a life lesson that we
can finally begin to actualize through the eyes of Sayori, Natsuki, and Yuri.
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Back to it!
So here's how things are gonna go down: We're going to start off talking about each of these
girls individually, first Sayori, then Natsuki, and finally Yuri.
I want to talk about them as if they were real people because I can guarantee you that
while you may not have the issues that these girls do, somebody who is watching this video
does.
And I want them to know that there is hope, there are people who understand, and there
are ways to process what's happening to them so that they can get help.
And for those of you who don't fall into the categories of being abused, of being depressed,
of inflicting self harm, that doesn't mean that this can't help you too.
It just means this can be important for you to help others.
So hopefully this video can act as a sort of guide for you to show people that they
are gonna be OK and they're not alone.
Plus there's a message to be learned from the examples given in Doki Doki, a lesson
that's good for all of us to know.
I don't know about you but I've felt alone before.
I felt like there was nobody in my life that I could talk to, that could support me.
Fortunately I don't feel that way anymore, but I've felt the need to put on a mask, a
facade, to pretend that everything is alright when in reality your mind feels like a helpless
mess shackled to your own thoughts with no possibility of ever escaping.
I know what Sayori is feeling in these bitter moments when she finally breaks down in front
of us and expresses her true feelings.
Perhaps you do too.
And maybe you don't know how to deal with them, so just like Sayori, it feels easier
to keep them bottled up, worrying about how your emotions would affect others instead
of focusing on what you needed in that moment.
I understand those thoughts all too well.
Those people that Sayori is worried about letting down, that she's worried will be hurt
from her true emotions, they are willing to support her.
That's what friends do.
They support each other through hard times.
Sayori waited too long to express how she really felt.
She let her depression eat away at her mind for too long without the support and love
of others.
Of course part of this effect was sped up due to Monika's tampering, but the reality
of unchecked depression is still there.
Sayori, in an effort to not hurt her friends, ended up bringing herself to suicidal thoughts.
She needed help, and the first step was to reach out.
A step she never took for years.
As someone who has dealt with swirling, chronic, shitty thoughts in the past both within myself
and others, I can clearly see the steps Sayori missed in dealing with hers.
She let them fester, kept them secret, worried about others instead of herself.
This issue of putting other people's perceived needs, not even needs they've actually expressed
to Sayori, is inherently codependent.
She feels that other people need her to be happy, that they are essentially incapable
of happiness without her.
And because of that, she must continually put on a happy face and never confide in her
friends what she truly feels.
The desire to fix other people's problems is one that can unravel your life if you don't
keep it in check.
Are we essentially video game therapy here on Treesicle now?
I dunno.
Regardless, while it can be very rewarding to help people and support others, doing it
at a detriment to your own mental health and putting your own needs second isn't good.
And that's exactly what Sayori is doing.
She's in a fragile state and refuses to put herself before others until it's too late.
Chronic depression might stick around, but it can be controlled and stabilized with the
proper help.
Sayori was never in tune enough with what she needed, we can see her dismay in her writing,
and these unaddressed issues led her down that dark, but preventable path.
Now that we've analyzed Sayori fully, let's go onto the much lighter subject of abuse!
Hooray!
Let me tell you, there aren't a lot of convenient places for jokes when talking about depression
or abuse.
I had this whole joke about Sayori getting "hung up" on others, but that's low-hanging
fruit (no-pun-intended) and is definitely some dark humor.
Anyway, let's talk about Natsuki.
Natsuki has parental issues.
Her mom is either dead or abandoned her, or doesn't live with her anymore.
Her father is her primary guardian, and is likely an alcoholic douchenozzle who is either
abusive or neglectful depending on whether he's home or not.
As we've talked about in previous videos, we can see this come to light during Natsuki's
writing, specifically in her Things I Like About Papa poem.
By reading between the lines it's very obvious that Natsuki is abused by her father when
he is home or just completely neglected, not given enough to eat, not cared for at all,
when he isn't home.
While we did touch on this last time, we didn't go into the effects her father's actions
have on Natsuki.
With one or both parents having essentially abandoned her, Natsuki is likely dealing with
a lot of trauma, self esteem issues, and abandonment issues.
When your parents essentially don't give a shit about you, it is quite easy to take
that feeling to heart, to make it seem like they don't care about you because you aren't
worth being cared about.
This can be detrimental to Natsuki's self esteem and at the same time make it extremely
hard for her to trust people.
Hence her rather brash personality until we get to know her better.
Natsuki's independence and rudeness is a mental line of defense.
She doesn't know who can be trusted and who can't because the two people she is
supposed to be able to trust have failed her.
Those feelings of being abandoned by her parents add onto her inability to trust people.
It gives her the inherent idea that anyone who gets close to her may leave her and she'll
be hurt by them, which explains why even when we do get close to Natsuki, she will only
put her guard down for a second before finding a way to break intimacy and close off from
us.
In some ways it's made Natsuki independent, like in her ability to cook, but this skill
is essentially something she learned out of necessity, and judging by how good her homemade
cupcakes are, I'd gather she's been taking care of herself for a long time.
So is there hope to help Natsuki?
Yes, but what she really needs is trust that isn't broken, and she needs to know that
her parents aren't how people generally are, they're the outliers.
Some parent's mess up their kids up by babying them too much, worrying about them too much,
not letting them fail, or any number of other ways.
But Natsuki's parents REALLY failed to be parents, she's never truly been cared for.
By finding people who do care for her she'll begin to mend.
Of course, having a rampant AI breaking the game and killing people kinda throws more
trust issues into the mix instead of less.
But the main issue is that Natsuki has learned not to rely on anyone, so her problems are
hers and hers alone.
Her friends don't know, the school doesn't know, nothing is changing in her life because
she's been taught to close herself off from the world, to trust no one.
And that lesson is going to plague her and keep her from changing her life, from speaking
out, from getting help.
Now onto Yuri, who is likely going to be the most difficult to analyze despite how obvious
her issues are.
Yuri is a cutter, she harms herself.
And while most of us know that this is something that people do, many of us don't understand
why.
It doesn't make logical sense to hurt yourself right?
It's not the same problem Sayori has, it's not depression, it's not an inability to
feel joy or happiness, it's an entirely different beast altogether.
Cutting is a coping mechanism.
It's a way for the person to get over difficult experiences.
Cutting essentially is providing Yuri an escape from intense feelings and moments.
It often starts as an impulse, just a way to release the pain of one feeling with another.
Have you ever had an injury?
Something that really hurt like maybe you had a bad bruise on your arm or something,
or you just got a shot and it wouldn't stop stinging?
A temporary way that pain can be relieved is by feeling pain somewhere else.
The old joke goes that if you want to get rid of that nagging knee pain, just have your
friend punch you in the stomach!
Your mind can only handle information from so many different receptors, so when a new
intense feeling comes in, it lessens the feelings of others.
I learned this first hand when I had a sprained ankle and then got hit in the balls.
My ankle completely stopped hurting for five minutes.
In Yuri's case, an intense emotion is triggering her desire to cut.
So the first step is finding out what that trigger is, whether its anger, emptiness,
intense feelings about us perhaps, and then learning to use other coping mechanisms when
that trigger arises.
The next step would be to ask for help, tell someone what is going on so that Yuri would
have some support and wouldn't be dealing with these feelings by herself.
Therapists, school counselors, parents, friends, there's tons of people Yuri can turn to
to help her with this issue, but she keeps it to herself, and instead of working on fixing
it, gives into her habit and continually reinforces that cutting is the only way for her to cope
with what she's feeling.
All these girls have their fair share of issues, but there's one overarching solution to
all their problems.
Ask for help.
It's the hardest thing in the world to do, no one wants to admit they need help, no one
wants to believe they're in a place where they aren't in control of their lives.
But it happens.
Talking to other people, letting other people know whats wrong is often portrayed as a sign
of weakness, or as socially unacceptable, but that's not true.
It's the best thing you can do for yourself and for the people who care about you.
These three girls all had issues that, while overwhelming in their lives, had real solutions,
the first step for all of them needed to be asking someone else for help, explaining what
was happening, confiding in someone.
And none but Sayori were able to, and Sayori didn't for years.
That's really the lesson behind Doki Doki Literature Club.
We all have problems, we all have issues, it's a part of life, but no matter how big
or small they may be, the first step to fixing it is talking about it and getting it out
in the open.
Problems thrive in secrecy, but the more people who know about them, the more you create a
support network that helps you for whatever might be going wrong.
So learn from these poor girls.
In my last Doki Doki video I talked about how writing is an incredible outlet to express
yourself and any issues you're having...that is no doubt true and empowering but sometimes
it's best to talk about things to a real-life homo-sapien.
Despite the fact that they are just characters in a video game, their problems represent
things that happen to all of us.
Don't be afraid to talk about what's wrong, don't hide your issues, make them known
to the right people, address those issues, and get the support you need.
And that's my take on the girls in Doki Doki Literature Club, you might have noticed
I left out Monika, and that's because her situation is a little different and I didn't
think it quite fit this video, however if you'd like me to do a similar analysis of
Monika let me know in the comments below or, you can download Amino and tell me directly!
We do respond to pretty much every message, so check it out and say hi if you haven't,
link's in the description.
Also starting Tuesday March 27th I'm gonna start streaming on Twitch!
I'm Grant (if you didn't know) and I'll be streaming with Ryan from the Real Truth
every weekday at 3pm Pacific Time.
Follow us at Twitch.tv/Treesicle...it's gonna be great.
That's all from me today, I'll see you all in the next one.
Bye!
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