User:ASBusinessMagnet/Whose Mind is This? answers

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#1: Just us.
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The answer: Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

The clues:


 * 1) Let's face it, you can actually guess this one before her emotions even start speaking. "This one's from a visual novel..." I have to distinguish visual novels from literature, video games and anime/manga, as they're simply their own genre, but then, the only visual novel worth its dough and known by a mainstream audience is DDLC, and within DDLC, the only character with a catchphrase "Just [character name]." is Monika. If you're a visual novel fan, you might know more, but if you're not, it's not much of a game. (Both DDLC and Whose Mind is This?, that is.)
 * 2) They speak Japanese. DDLC takes place in a faux-Japanese setting (but then again, so do pretty much all visual novels).
 * 3) They mention the festival; it's a big thing for the Literature Club members to prepare for, but as Monika is the only truly sentient and self-aware member of the bunch, she doesn't see the point in hanging out with pre-programmed people, so she deletes them.
 * 4) Come on, I think the part about deleting people spells it out if what I outlined under number 1 doesn't.
 * 5) It uses the "Joy plans" scene and I think I have codified that one pretty well, with the mastermind of absurd plans being Joy. Regardless, I still think Monika's lead (even if she's just the one with the most console time and not the actual leader) would be Joy, as Monika generally appears confident and cheerful, though not as much as Sayori.
 * 6) "Our true love" and, later, "our chosen one" = the player.
 * 7) DDLC is coded in Ren'Py, which is basically a Python game engine specifically meant for visual novels. On the other hand, "os" is one of the libraries that comes with standard Python, which allows for manipulation of files on the system (and yes, when you download DDLC, there is actually a "characters" folder around).
 * 8) Disgust is essentially ordered to steal those sweet cupcakes.
 * 9) Again, Joy refers to herself as "just Joy", as an obvious nod to "just Monika" perpetuated in the game.
 * 10) In Act 3, immediately after this scene, Monika only gets one face (not counting her recording jumpscare), which looks happy. If you get Monika After Story, she gets more expressive, but I don't think that matters much, since I'm covering the vanilla game anyway.
 * 11) The conversation topics: w:c:doki-doki-literature-club:Monika's Talk
 * 12) Anger is expressing the things Monika wants to express with her poems, but because he's an emotion, it just comes much more naturally to him.
 * 13) In Inside Out proper, during Joy and Sadness's trip, Sadness is the one to fall head-over-heels for the Imaginary Boyfriend. In addition, Mom's Sadness is also a bit of a sweetheart, so I think there's a pretty good track record of Sadness being associated with love. (Emotions)
 * 14) 2029 is a year constantly circlejerked by the DDLC fandom. Basically, based on Ray Kurzweil's predictions about AI, they have decided that this is the year where an AI you can actually have a conversation with will become real, and of course, someone will code some of those AIs to behave as DDLC characters, also known as the Dokis.
 * 15) * UPDATE 2018-09-26: Everything the DDLC fandom knows about 2029: https://www.reddit.com/r/2029Theory/ The actual summary is not that there will be AIs indistinguishable from humans, but that there will be a virtual reality indistinguishable from the physical reality, with the AIs as a basic, necessary part of it.
 * 16) Two commands and a restart are basically exactly what happens at the "meanwhile, on the outside" scene.

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