Dear Evan Hansen: Doki Doki Literature Club AU
I got into this game not too long ago and I fell in love, and, obviously, being the huge musical fan I am, I automatically began to try and connect it to a musical, and there was a perfect one with exactly five teenagers that deals with dark subjects that I had to do something with.
I wanted to write sort of a vague plot, but I found it was becoming a bit too much like the game so I just decided to write character outlines (with Jared being the first part of the plot)! Plus, it helps to avoid most spoilers, although, there may be vague things, especially to plot points related to the characters that they are sorta based off.
Jared Kleinman (The Main Character)
- He never was never seen as a popular kid or a loser at school; he tended to just sail through school, doing the bare minimum when it came to his social life.
- His mothers had felt that Jared only ever speaking to Evan was a bit worrying, so they recommended that he should join a club, which he didn’t seem to take any interest in. If his parents would try to force it upon him, he would claim that jazz band was a club, and he pointed out that he did take part in the plays and musicals, which eventually made the women back down.
- Of course, when they told Evan about them wanting the boy to join a club, Jared never heard the end of it.
- Every day on the way to school and in class, Evan would try and persuade his friend into joining the literature club.
- Honestly, even though it was Evan, the questioning was getting quite obnoxious.
- Eventually, he agreed to come to the club that Evan was apart of, just so the boy would stop annoying him about it, even if he wasn’t very into reading unless it was a video game or a comicbook.
- What he didn’t expect, though, was to actually find himself actually enjoying it.
- It was dysfunctional, but seeing how so many pretty people put their attention on him, he couldn’t help but find himself falling in love with the club, or, more so the fact that he was the center of attention.
- A lifelong friend of Jared, and, his only friend, for that matter.
- His therapist had recommended that he join a club in order to work on his socialization skills, so, after looking through a list of what the school had to offer and the size of each, he decided that the best place for him was the literature club.
- He isn’t very good with his words, leading him to be laughably unpopular in the student body, but within the group, he is almost a completely different person, actually being able to speak his mind, although still being extremely polite and nice.
- He is the person who keeps everything stable within the literature club.
- Whenever people begin heated arguments, he will try to calm them down, usually with successful results.
- He isn’t on bad terms with anyone, and is quite friendly with even Connor, although he mostly keeps to the girls, due to how he still has a slight fear of the stoner, especially with his cold demeanor.
- Although it can sometimes be a stressful environment, he finds that the literature club is a place where he can express himself with others unlike anywhere else.
- He is quite shy when it comes to sharing his own works, but he can go on about books he’s read for hours.
- The books he reads are mostly romantic, but nonetheless, he still seems quite passionate.
- She is the president of the literature club.
- Many look to her as the best that the school has to offer; being the valedictorian overachiever she is, she demands respect from whoever is in her presence.
- So, her not going to be a president of a large club and instead creating her own stunned most people.
- It never bothered her, though; she liked the challenge of creating her own club from the ground up.
- She seems to always know about events that happen in her clubmates’ lives, even if they haven’t told her, but it’s often waved off as her simply being rather popular in the student body.
- She is well-liked by everyone and tries her best to treat all of her clubmates with an equal amount of respect.
- When Jared appears in the club, she seems to take an instant interest in him but doesn’t talk much to him at first, instead focusing on her responsibilities as the literature club president.
Zoe Murphy (Yuri/Natsuki)
- She serves as the vice president of the literature club and a close friend to Alana.
- She is the youngest of the club, and even though she’s only a year before her clubmates, she is still treated like a child, especially by Alana.
- Unlike the other members of the club, she doesn’t have a huge passion for reading and writing, but she enjoys the socializing portion of it the most.
- She didn’t want Connor to join the club since it was her safe space away from her brother, but their mother forced it upon her and, in exchange, she got presents constantly, with the biggest item being a car.
- Even though Alana always tends to look down upon her, she looks to the girl as a best friend.
- When Jared joined, she became incredibly friendly, even more than she previously had been, and focuses a lot of her attention on the boy and tries to get the boy to only focus on her.
Connor Murphy (Natsuki/Yuri)
- Even if he likes reading, he didn’t choose to join the club.
- After he ran into some legal trouble and his parents bailed him out, they originally severely restricted him, but after that resulted in some disastrous and downright traumatizing results, including a late night trip to the emergency room, they decided that it would be better for the boy to be forced into some more positive environments.
- Including these plans to hopefully make their son’s life better, they decided that he needed to have a better relationship with his sister and make friends.
- Hence, the literature club was the first place they thought would be best for their son.
- It was met with intense backlash, as was all of the things they tried to get Connor to do, but eventually, the boy reluctantly gave in.
- Why, exactly? Well, he caught a cute boy talking to Zoe about it, and when the boy turned to him and meekly asked him if he was part of the club, he couldn’t find it in himself to say no.
- He doesn’t really pay attention in the club; instead, he mostly sits in the corner reading, writing, or playing on his phone until it’s over.
- There are some exceptions to that, of course. He occasionally does talk to the cute boy, Evan, or bickers with Alana and Zoe.
- For the most part, though, he keeps to himself, and usually gets a little hotheaded whenever someone tries to get into his personal space and is often the reason that most fights within the group start.
- When Jared showed up to the literature club, he kept up his defenses as always, not wanting to let himself be open to anyone, especially not a jerk like Jared.
If you want to write or draw something involving this AU, I would love to see it! Just credit me, please! I tried to not put too much detail in the characters, so people can really play with these characters in they wish to do so.
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