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[silvkatt]

Okay I just wanted to tell you: you've probably heard this OneShot song, right?

(it's OneShot, trust me)

I was listening to this earlier and I found these in the comment section of the video, they are not mine and they are several years old, but I think you should read them...

Pretty

Life is pretty.

But in the same way, Our world is corrupted.

We see the waves of heat In front of our faces.

We feel death every day Looming forward.

Closer.

We hear the deadly noises It’s crooked and backwards Getting

louder,

Louder,

LOUDER.

We scream into nothingness

We are glitches in the system

Our life is made of machines

The tears rolling down our faces

Are those just memories?

We see, hear, and feel everything Why?

“Is everything we love fake?”

You’ll always hear me say

Life is pretty bad.

Backwards:

Life is pretty bad.

You'll always hear me say,

"Is everything we love fake?"

Why?

We see, hear, and feel everything.

Are those just memories?

The tears rolling down our faces.

Our life is made of machines.

We are glitches in the system.

We scream into nothingness.

LOUDER

Louder

getting louder.

It's crooked and backwards.

We hear the deadly noises.

Closer.

Looming forward.

We feel death every day.

In front of our faces.

We see the waves of heat.

Our world is corrupted.

But in the same way, life is pretty.

what they read: Bad pretty is life

And:

Say me hear always you'll:

"Fake love we everything is?"

Why?

Everything feel and, hear, see we.

Memories just those are?

Faces our down rolling tears the.

Machines of made is life our.

System the in glitches are we.

Nothingness into scream we.

LOUDER

Louder

louder getting.

Backwards and crooked it's.

Noises deadly the hear we.

Closer.

Forward looming.

Day every death feel we.

Faces our of front in.

Heat of waves the see we.

Corrupted is world our.

Way same the in but,

pretty is life

I just wanted to share these with you because it felt... well... felt very much like something Monika would write. The song and these poems, for me, seem to embody the way Monika feels about her world:

"Nothing is real"

The thing about Oneshot, however, is that it combats with this, and has us think about how truly "real" things and people are in those sorts of worlds. That was my original reason for the AU we are working on, the different POV's. Monika could learn from this journey just how real her world truly was, and this will probably happen at the climax of the story.

But also, this is simultaneously why I love these two games, and also what makes them tragic. They both have very underlying "Is it truly real?" messages, and Monika's answer is no. But Niko's answer is yes. That is the reason behind this AU, the real sadness and bittersweet beauty of this knowledge that both Niko and Monika possess.

I hope you understand, thank you for reading ❤

EATING THIS UWAAAAAAA.

Dw I understand. I think there could also be parallels to how both games ended. Oneshot ended in a happy end where the world got saved in the end, TWM realizes that they can still fix everything, and Niko gets to go home. DDLC, while there is an optional good ending if you do all routes, only Monika is left suffering and not wanting to come back.

I also think that Monika could also learn from TWM since both are basically sentient AI suffering from the crushing realization of the reality of their world. With Monika having console access and TWM being essentially the game itself, I think they both have something in common as basically being a god of their world. The dread of everything simply being a simulation… yeah.

Maybe TWM eventually communicates with Monika in private to learn more about her world and what happened to it. Or maybe Player tells TWM what happened though I think TWM would rather prefer to listen from Monika herself on what happened.

UDIEJSJWJS god i love this au crossover idea so much, I may make more doodles of it sometime.

[silvkatt]

Fic is out! (you can find a link on my account ❤)

This is just a piece of art I did for it 😊

Yaayyyyyy more Oneshot x DDLC content is great :DDDD

Genuinely hoping to see the fic continue cuz I wanna see where this goes. Goodluck!!

I should doodle more of that crossover but my mind keeps bouncing around like a dvd screensaver on 100x speed 😭

[silvkatt]

Alright, I hope this is okay, I want to tell you the basic story for my DDLC x Oneshot AU. (You are in for a rant I hope you're ready)

It would start in after both the main stories of DDLC and OneShot are finished, and it takes place not long after the end of DDLC, but two years after Oneshot (and I head cannon Niko is 10 in the og game, so they are 12 at this point)

So the first bit is where Niko can still come to the world of their adventure a la dreams and visit the people there (like in the pancake episode) but Niko has learned how to step out of that world and find thing in the files and in the computer itself, (Sorta like Monika, but Niko doesn't mess with the files/code or anything like that, and I hope that doesn't seem too far-fetched )

But on that computer, Niko finds the DDLC game files and finds that the game is somehow corrupted and "missing", but the character files inside that. Niko feels awful for them, of course but finds out that there used to be one other character and is missing. "Because no one deserves an ending like that" Niko would say, so they look in every corner possible until, eventually, they find Monika. (I know she got deleted but look, she was still able to control and do things to the game after she got deleted, so she still had to be somewhere right? (although this would also just be for the plot but-))

Niko then puts the dokis files in the oneshot files, thus bringing them into Niko's world and, in Niko's eyes saving them. The four girls would wake up in the same house Niko woke up in, very confused of course. But when Sayori sees Monika, she full-on tries to attack her in a fit of rage and tears. (remember, Sayori is now self-aware too.)

Before Sayori can actually hurt Monika, Niko shows up and stops her, then introduces herself and the world the girls have been brought too. Niko tells them that the girls would have died if it wasn't for them (which isn't far from the truth) and decides to take the four girls to the refuge, Where they will be safe.

They agree, and begin their way to the refuge. The entire way their, however, Sayori barely speaks to Monika (or to anyone, but Monika most of all) and you can tell that she is holding a HUGE amount of resentment directed at Monika. Meanwhile Natsuki and Yuri seem carefree compared to them, remarking on the beauty of this world but still questioning a lot of things. Meanwhile Niko tries to speak indirectly to Monika (and Sayori) about things that Yuri and Natuski wouldn't quite... understand, and Monika repeatedly brushes it off, but is getting more and more anxious every time. Meanwhile Niko is figuring out that Monika does know what Niko is talking about, but is pretending not to. (Sayori scoffs at Monika at one point, but doesn't say anything)

They make their way to the refuge, where they girls meet Prototype, Cedric, and Rue. This is when Monika and Sayori get into an argument about what Monika did, and Monika still tries to apologize, but Sayori doesn't believe her. Niko catches them mid-argument, and knows now that they did know what Niko was talking about: about their worlds being games. I think Niko would then show them all the things that they had learned on their journey, about how "real" their worlds truly were. (because they may have both known about their worlds being games, but they had... very different perspectives on it.) Monika would then realize how much she looked like a villain afterwards (as if she didn't feel awful already)

Sorry about the long comment, and that's all I have for the story of this au so far, but if you did get this far, thank you for listening, and let me know if there is anything you want to add or change.❤

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I imagine that The World Machine (will abbreviate as TWM) had a hand at giving Niko that ability to explore the player’s computer. They trust that the player keep them away from anything potentially unsafe in their computer.

I could see some tension between Sayori and Monika, especially if this takes place after the normal ending. Not as a full blown fight to be honest. Maybe Sayori also somewhat understood what Monika went through since as the new club president, she remembers everything she did. But also, she still dislikes Monika for what she has done. Sayori would definitely have some internal conflict on her reaction to Monika’s actions for sure.

Niko doesn’t really know what exactly Monika has done (and honestly, for their sake please I don’t want to expose the poor kid to the horrors) but I feel like TWM eventually tells Niko that she has done terrible things on a similar destructive scale as themselves. What Niko does with the vague knowledge of what Monika did, who knows.

As for Monika’s and also Sayori’s console access, TWM definitely blocked access for both of them (for the time being) for Oneshot, mainly because it’d definitely be a mess for poor TWM to clean up if they messed up the game’s code. Monika and Sayori could still look into the game’s code though.

Also I’d really like for TWM and Monika to interact sometime. Maybe using the computers? They could probably communicate using txt files.

Could keep chatting in discord or tumblr messages if you want. My discord username is nekovo with a Furina pfp btw.