User blog:AustinDR/PG Removal: Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club)

While I know that she isn't under the PG category, just thought I should go ahead and make a blog about her in the likelihood that some would try to contest it.

What is the work?
Doki Doki Literature Club is a 2017 metaphysical psychological horror game under the guise of a romance simulator. In it, you play as the childhood friend of Sayori who invites you to join the Literature Club. In the club, you meet three more girls: Yuri, Natsuki, and Monika, the club president. While it initially seems that your objective is to romance the three girls, metaphorical s*** hits the fan when Sayori reveals that she was suffering from depression and her suicide marks the drastic change that reveals the dark underbelly of the game.

Why She Doesn't Qualify
For the most part, Sayori could be seen as selfless. Despite having depression, Sayori - in her mind - still tried to make everyone else's lives better even if she was suffering mentally herself. Which she does by putting on a bubbly, energetic façade. So admiration standard and goodness factor are pretty good there.

However, Sayori fails the "corrupting factors" side of the criteria. There are two endings that I should mention. If you were to delete Monika in Act 3 where Monika is revealed to be the mastermind behind everything, she uses her powers to resurrect the game, the difference being that she wasn't in it, and the role of the club president goes to Sayori. The game starts off normally...until Sayori gets you alone and thanks you for getting rid of Monika. From there, Sayori had become aware of her position in a visual novel, and starts to delete the game until it was you and her in one room. Monika then has to intervene and deletes Sayori and the game permanently. So if any of the girls became the club president, they would gain self-awareness and reality warping abilities and thus turn evil.

The other ending. Say if you were to delete Monika in the beginning of the game. I mean if you get rid of Monika firstly, then none of the bad things in the game happen, right? Wrong. Instead, Sayori greets you in the game's beginning, but then gains self-awareness anyway and in a panic, deletes the game and Yuri and Natsuki. The only thing you see of Sayori is a negative of Sayori's hanging body.