Monika is a fair-skinned 18-year-old[1] adolescent young woman—as described through the eyes of the Protagonist through her introduction, as "beautiful" and "athletic", suggesting she's generally physically fit and well-proportioned compared to the other girls. Her physique is portrayed to be of average stature, being the second/third tallest member of the Literature club right behind Yuri or the Protagonist, with a slender build and an ample bust. Monika has extremely long, glistening coral-brown[3] hair that is perpetually tied up into a high-hoisted ponytail which extends way past her navel and curls somewhat at the ends, kept fastened by a large white ribbon. Her fringe ends at eyebrow height and her face is framed between two chest-length forelocks. Her eyes are calm and sparkly, colored emerald-green. In terms of attire, Monika wears the standard-issue school uniform consisting of a collared white top layered under a knitted mocha-brown vest and fully buttoned periwinkle-gray blazer. Followed along with a pleated blue skirt, long sleek pantyhose thigh-high stockings, and white uwabaki slippers with pastel-pink fronts. At the center of her collar, she has a thin red string wrapped around it, shaped like a bow tie. The other characters describe Monika as intelligent, confident, and athletic. She is not as talkative as the other girls, but it is hinted that this is not by choice. Monika is also known to be highly popular, which makes the protagonist admire her. She is always depicted as mature and hardworking, with a serene, compassionate expression on her face. Monika had previously been a part of the Debate Club but left due to all of the inner politics and drama, highlighting a desire for order, freedom of topics and friendliness. The Literature Club, which she founded after leaving the Debate Club, is very important to her. She aspires for the Literature Club to be a place to showcase and grow everyone's passion for literature. She also has a passion for piano, which she practices frequently after school. Monika was originally a very considerate and kind person who was always thinking about the needs of other people.[4] She openly displays care and concern for her club mates, praising each member's writing style and even comparing them to famous authors and poets. However, it is later revealed that at some time before the start of the game, she underwent an epiphany which made her discover that she was in a game and also granted her the ability to edit the game's variables, changing her attitude towards the other girls because she knew they were not "real". She begins taking drastic measures when the other girls prevented the player from being able to spend time with her. In desperation, Monika begins trying to make the other girls unlikable by altering their traits, as she only had the ability to edit variables within the game and did not want to delete/kill the other girls right away because of her lingering attachment to them. She starts with Sayori as she viewed her as the largest threat because she was the main character's childhood friend. Monika's alterations backfire because Sayori's increased depression level causes her to confess her love to the main character in an attempt to find happiness, then commit suicide the next day, regardless of the choice the player made. Monika then decides to delete Sayori's character file because "she is the one who's making this so difficult." She also makes her infatuation with the player more obvious and urges them to spend more time with her. Her desire and ambition lead her to become obsessive in this goal, highlighted by the fact that all of her poems are about the player or her epiphany. She also starts to disregard the other characters and amplifies their traits due to the fact of them not being "real". Ultimately, Monika's attempt to make the other girls unlikable led to her accidentally driving Yuri to suicide due to alterations to her personality, then finally to her simply deleting Natsuki in order to be able to spend time with the player alone in Act 3, creating her own "happy ending." Despite Monika's upbeat attitude in the Literature Club, it becomes increasingly obvious that she is actually sad and lonely, as a result of being aware that her whole world is just a simulation. The worst part is that she can't even achieve what is considered "happiness", since her route can never be completed. She is fixated on obtaining the love of the player because they're the only "real" thing in her life.