A poem from DDLC

I found this poem from DDLC pretty interesting!

An old tale tells of a lady who wanders Earth.
The Lady who Knows Everything.
A beautiful lady who has found every answer,
All meaning,
All purpose,
And all that was ever sought.

And here I am,

              a feather

Lost adrift the sky, victim of the currents of the wind.
Day after day, I search.
I search with little hope, knowing legends don't exist.
But when all else has failed me,
When all others have turned away,
The legend is all that remains - the last dim star glimmering in the twilit sky.

Until one day, the wind ceases to blow.

I fall.

And I fall and fall, and fall even more.

Gentle as a feather.

A dry quill, expressionless.

But a hand catches me between the thumb and forefinger.

The hand of a beautiful lady.

I look at her eyes and find no end to her gaze.

The Lady who Knows Everything knows what I am thinking.

Before I can speak, she responds in a hollow voice.
"I have found every answer, all of which amount to nothing.
There is no meaning.
There is no purpose.
And we seek only the impossible.
I am not your legend.
Your legend does not exist."

And with a breath, she blows me back afloat, and I pick up a gust of wind.

This is one of Monika's poems from DDLC, where she talks about how 'The Lady Who Knows Everything' knows the answers to everything, and the meaning and purpose of them all. Monika compares herself to one of the million feathers that float in the winds of curiosity, looking for answers. Others have found their answers, and she hopes to find hers too, despite knowing that legends don't exist. She is aware that she is a character stuck in a video game, and she desperately wants to escape her 2-dimensional world. In hopes of finding The Lady Who Knows Everything, the winds stop blowing, indicating that she has found her answers. But what she learns is not what she wanted to hear. The Lady Who Knows Everything tells Monika that there is no meaning or purpose to her life. If she wanted a different response, she would seek another person who 'has found every answer', because she is not Monika's legend. What Monika is looking for does not exist. This leaves Monika with more questions than she arrived with. But that's my interpretation of the poem. Monika, of course, is programmed to be stuck in the game forever, and accept her fate, which she cannot forcefully change. We've all been there at some point.

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