What if the Rise Turtles were Doki Doki characters?
If I was going to remove the Doki characters from their game and replace them with the rise turtles, who is going to be who? And why?
Today I am going to answer that question that absolutely nobody asked!
After A LOT of thinking I decided to do it like this:
I am going to start by explaining the connections that are the simplest and then building up to the craziest one. Hope you enjoy it!
(Warning: DDLC Spoilers in case you havenât play the game and spoilers for the Rottmnt Series and Movie)
Now, I know what you must be thinking: âoooh, you are just matching these two characters together because they are both purple! Their personalities have nothing to do with each other!â
And to that I say yes, you are right. Their personalities have nothing to do with each other, but if I was going to match these characters just based on personalities no one would fit with nobody because none of them have anything to do with each other.
Instead, I am going to do this based on other, way more interesting, factors.
In Doki Doki, Yuri is one of the most mature and the most intellectual character.
Donnie is also the smartest and most intellectual character in Rise and probably the second most mature (after Raph who is the most)
Donnie, when talking about something that he likes or that he knows a lot about starts to infodump without realizing it, just like Yuri does.
Despite being called the âLiterature Clubâ Yuri is the only character that we see reading A book more than once.
For all we know, Donnie is probably the only character that we know that has read proper books while the other three we only see them reading comics.
Out of the four, Donnie would be the most likely to have a knife collection like Yuri has since he canonically probably enjoys murder and other illegal things (in fiction, ok).
Donnie is canonically autistic and some DDLC fans also think that Yuri might be autistic as well.
And also, because they are both purple characters lol.
If I was going to match the turtles with the Dokies based on just personality traits, Mikey and Natsuki would be the one combo to make the most sense.
Natsuki is someone with a very temperate personality and has a lot of confidence, despite being the smallest of the four, who likes to think that she is a tough boss girl (she is :]).
Mikey also has a temperate personality and despite being the smallest and youngest, he is a tough little guy that has a lot of confidence in himself and others.
Natsuki is the smallest of the four Dokies just like Mikey is the smallest of the four turtles.
Mikey enjoys cooking and Natsuki enjoys baking. These two things are not the same but usually people who know how to bake also know how to cook and people who know how to cook have the chance to possibly know how to bake.
In Doki Doki, Yuri and Natsuki are known to be opposites of each other. Yuri is a well composed shy tall lady who likes real books and claims that manga is not literature, while Natsuki is a short, loud and energetic girl with no shame that defends that manga IS literature.
In Rottmnt, Donnie and Mikey are also kind of the opposites of each other. Donnie is the type of person to think before they act and values rational thinking over emotions, while Mikey usually acts on impulse and values feelings and emotions over cold rational thinking.
All of this also reinforces both Donnie being Yuri and Mikey being Natsuki.
First of all, blue character with blue character. Are we okay with that?
Second, If Mikey and Natsuki are the nÂş1 characters which personalities match the best, Leo and Sayori would be a very very far away second.
Sayori is a supportive person that likes to see everyone succeed, kind of like Leo was at the beginning of the Rise series. She is also someone that likes to play with others and mess with them. The difference is that Sayori does that in a more playful and innocent way while Leo does that in a more invasive and provoking way.
[Trigger Warning for the following text: mention of depression, suicide and suicidal thoughts (you know how DDLC is, donât blame me)]
[The end of the triggers is marked with green text]
During the first act of DDLC, we slowly realize that Sayori suffers from depression, and it doesnât matter what we do or the choices that we make, at the end of the first act, she ends up killing herself.
The main reason for this is that she thinks that she is a burden to everyone and by removing herself from the equation she believes that everyone will finally be able to be happy (which is a really sad reality for a lot of people).
Leo on the other hand, he doesnât suffer from depression but struggles a lot with self esteem and many Rise fans believe that he has an inferiority complex. He believes that he is less than is brothers and he is nothing without them (as shown in the âPortal Jackedâ episode and in other instances).
Also, at the end of the Rottmnt Movie when Leo is the only one between the Krang and the world, he makes a final plan where he uses his teleporting skills to put the Krang inside the prison dimension and teleports himself to hold the krang there. Which would result in Leo being lost forever if it werenât for his brothers that managed to get him out of there.
We know that Leo did this mainly because he wanted to save the world and his family. However, many fans believe that he also did this because, after making too many mistakes that almost cost the lives of his own family and the lives of the entire world, he wanted to remove himself from the equation as well.
Both of these cases are not the same, but they share some similarities.
[End of trigger warnings]
You would probably think that of all the turtles, if someone was going to replace Monika, Donnie would be the best pick. After all he is the one that also knows how to code, is the one that acts more like a psychopath and is not scared of putting his own brothers throw experiments. Perfect pick, right?
Let me tell you why I decided to write this post in the first place.
Raphael is the only character in the entire Rise series that could possibly replace Monika.
In terms of design, in Doki Doki, out of the four characters, Monika is the one that looks the most out of place.
Also, when the designs of the Rise turtles were first revealed, everyone pointed out that Raph was the one that looked the most different and the most out of place of the four.
Nothing too special about this.
We all know that Monika is the president of the Literature Club and the vice president is Sayori. When Monika gets removed from the game at the end of the third act, the fourth act begins. And with no Monika to be president, Sayori takes that role.
Kind of like how, during the series, Raph is always the leader and when he is no longer the leader that role passes on to Leo (who I previously paired with Sayori).
Monika is always saying during the game that she is the president, and that she knows everything because of it. Like how Raph would say that he knows better than his brothers because he is older than them.
Monika is a very mature person. Raph is also the most mature out of the four brothers, especially at the end of the Rise series and during the Rise Movie.
All of this could be some solid evidence to proof my pointâŚ
But itâs nothing compared to the realization that I had a couple of months ago.
We all know that Monika is the only character (at least during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd act) that continuously breaks the fourth wall and that is aware that the fourth wall even exists while the others have no idea.
We all also know that, in the Rottmnt series, there are a lot of instances where we see the characters briefly breaking the fourth wall. Nothing too special about this fact.
However, do you know who is the only character that has a dedicated episode of just them breaking the fourth wall?
In the episode âPizza Pitâ it starts with Raph talking with someone. At the beginning of it, we donât know who it is. He continues doing this throughout the rest of the episode. In the end when he is finishing talking to that someone, Leo asks him âWho are you talking to?â. Raph then looks at us and winks.
He was talking to us, the viewer.
He was the one that was continuously breaking the fourth wall, and his brothers were not even aware of it.
No one could fit the role of Monika better than Raph because no one else has a dedicated episode of them just messing with the fourth wall.
Thank you for reading this.
I will gladly make an ROTTMNT au out of this.
It will be called RotDDLC:
Rise of the Doki Doki Literature Club!