Spoilers for Monika vs Thanos ahead. Read at your own risk:
TL;DR: TonyStark69420 is fake, this project is metafiction, and Monika is the one modifying the fight script.
Hey, everyone!
I’ve been slowly dropping more and more obvious hints that the death battle that I’m doing isn’t what it seems to be, only for them to… fall on deaf ears. I just can’t believe that nobody has caught onto what I’m doing yet, because I’ve tried to be incredibly obvious.
So, you know what? I’m going to just confess. I’m tired of all this hate mail.
TonyStark69420 isn’t a real person. The whole “Oh, I’m making a new version of this death battle” thing was just an excuse for me to publish the latest chapter. They’re not versions. They’re chapters.
My entire goal of writing this death battle was to make Monika actually break the fourth wall. Basically, the idea was, I was going to pit her against an insanely biased author who just wanted to see his character win, and have the two of them fight it out on the paper.
And of course I wanted to document each chapter of the battle, so I had to show various stages of revision. I wanted to show how Monika was modifying the script, the things she tried, and their outcomes.
The style and tone changes/inconsistencies represented Monika modifying the story. I wanted Monika’s revisions to the story to stick out, so I made them quote style, which contrasted to the story’s script style.
Wiz and Boomstick were out of character because that’s what Monika does. She manipulates the characters’ minds and personality traits. She amplifies their bad sides to make them less appealing.
Everybody is complaining about how “Monika isn’t fighting back”, but they’re ignoring the answer that’s staring them in the face. Like, I don’t get it. Monika is a seemingly innocent figure who manipulates the script behind the scenes to get her way. And then, you see her “not fighting back”, and you see a broken script, and you don’t put two and two together?
The entire point of this whole project was to show everyone how powerful Monika really was, by translating her abilities of manipulating a video game into manipulating the death battle fight script itself (and the author’s mind, of course, because that’s basically the equivalent of the game files). I just wanted to capture some of the spirit of Doki Doki Literature Club.
Yeah, TonyStark69420 is a character. He’s a stereotypical Marvel fan, and he was meant to be the epitome of bias. And the original plan was for Monika to delete him and take over his brain.
So… yeah.
If there’s an actual appetite for the last few versions (basically, the ones where Monika erases everyone and takes over the author’s brain), I guess I’ll continue to release them.
If not, IDK. I’ll move to Reddit or ao3 or something.
— The real author