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{{Theme infobox
|composer=[[Dan Salvato]]
|file=[[File:Your Reality.ogg]]<br>"Your Reality" from ''[[Doki Doki Literature Club!]]''
|key=[[Wikipedia:C major|C major]]
|bpm=103
|first_appearance=''[[Doki Doki Literature Club!]]'' (2017)
|latest_appearance=''[[Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!]]'' (2021)
}}
{{more media|Instrumental and Poems are Forever audio clips}}
{{quote|Um, so <u>{{hover|you|Referring to the player and not the protagonist}}</u> know how I've been, like...practicing piano? And stuff? And-I'm not really any good at it. Like, at all. But, I wrote you a song... And I was kinda hoping that I could show it to you. 'Cause I worked...really hard on it. So, yeah!|[[Monika]]|[[Doki Doki Literature Club!]]}}
<nowiki>"</nowiki>'''Your Reality'''<nowiki>"</nowiki> (also known as <nowiki>"</nowiki>'''Your Reality (Credits)'''<nowiki>"</nowiki><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAL4WMpBNs0 Official YouTube upload of "Your Reality" by Team Salvato]</ref>) is a song that plays at the end of ''[[Doki Doki Literature Club!]]''. The song is a rendition of the game's central theme, played on a piano with vocals by [[Jillian Ashcraft.]] In-universe, it is written by [[Monika]] and is about how much she loves the player. The song is alluded to earlier, with Monika mentioning how she has been practicing piano. Notably, the lyrics regarding the pen and the ink are also alluded to earlier in one of Monika's Writing Tips of the Day. It appears at the end of the game when Monika intervenes and loads the song through a command prompt. Curiously, the song in the command line is "ddlc.ogg", the game's title theme, rather than its actual name, "'''credits.ogg'''". The song reprises its role during ''Doki Doki Literature Club!''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s remake, ''[[Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!]]''.

While not included in the original game, a cover of "Your Reality" known as "'''Poems are Forever'''" is included on the ''[[DDLC Fan Pack]]'' as bonus track and on [[Team Salvato]]'s YouTube channel, composed by Shoji. It is an upbeat techno track and features the first two lyrics of the original song, as well as Monika's lines from the ending, such as "Can you hear me?" and "So, yeah!"

== Composition ==
"Your Reality" is a piano rendition of the central theme from ''Doki Doki Literature Club!''. While mainly played on a piano, it uses a guitar after the first verse. A [[Wikipedia:Mandolin|mandolin]] also plays halfway through alongside a ukulele. 

== Lyrics ==
{{more images|section=yes|Include screenshots from the original game of the first lyrics which are written.}}
<blockquote>
''Every day, [[Monika|I]] imagine a future where I can be with you<br>''
''In my hand is a pen that will write a poem of me and you<br>''
''The ink flows down into a dark puddle<br>''
''Just move your hand, write the way into [[Protagonist |his]] heart!<br>''
''But in this world of infinite choices<br>''
''What will it take just to find that special day?<br>''
''What will it take just to find that special day?<br>''

''Have I found <u>{{hover|everybody|Sayori, Natsuki, and Yuri, and possibly the protagonist}}</u> a fun assignment to do today?<br>''
''When you're here, everything that we do is fun for them anyway<br>''
''When I can't even read my own feelings<br>''
''What good are words when a smile says it all?<br>''
''And if this [[Doki Doki Literature Club!|world]] won't write me an ending<br>''
''What will it take just for me to have it all?<br>''

''Does my pen only write bitter words for those who are dear to me?<br>''
''Is it love if I take you, or is it love if I set you free?<br>''
''The ink flows down into a dark puddle<br>''
''How can I write love into reality?<br>''
''If I can't hear the sound of your heartbeat<br>''
''What do you call love in your reality?<br>''
''And in your reality, if I don't know how to love you<br>''
''I'll leave you be<br>''
</blockquote>

== List of ''Doki Doki Literature Club!'' appearances ==

=== Games ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Game
!Year
!Type
!Title
!Credits
|-
|''[[Doki Doki Literature Club!]]''
|2017
|Original
|"Your Reality (Credits)"
|rowspan=2|[[Dan Salvato]] (composer),<br>[[Jillian Ashcraft]] (singer)
|-
| ''[[Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!]]''
| 2021
|Past arrangement
| "Your Reality"
|}

=== Albums   ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Album 
!Year
!Type
!Title
!Credits
|-
|rowspan=3|''[[DDLC Fan Pack]]''
|rowspan=3|2017
|Original
|"Your Reality"{{ref needed|Need to know the actual name.}}
|Dan Salvato (composer),<br>Jillian Ashcraft (singer)
|-
|Arrangement
|"Poems are Forever"
|shoji
|-
|Past arrangement
|"Your Reality" (no vocals){{ref needed|Need to know the actual name.}}
|Dan Salvato
|}

== External links  ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAL4WMpBNs0 Official YouTube upload of "Your Reality" by Team Salvato]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb9nWs3rkBA Official YouTube upload of "Poems are Forever"]

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