Story Timeline

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This **Timeline** covers the plot of Mystic Messenger.

* Revised Timeline (Rika's Behind Story)
* OS + AS timeline
* Possible initial OS timeline (?)

 * 1993
	+ April 1 - Zen is born.
	+ June 11 - The two identical twins Saeyoung and Saeran are born in secret. Saeyoung is born first.
 * 1996
 * 1998
 * 2000
 * 2005
 * 2006
	+ Rika meets Saeyoung for the first time.
	+ Saeyoung is baptized with the name Luciel. (10 years ago in OS)
		- In this flashback, Luciel mentions V so he had already met him, besides mentioning in an OS chat that he had known V for 10 years.
 * 2007
 * 2008
	+ Rika meets Yoosung for the first time. Yoosung is in 6th grade.
	+ Zen, still in middle school, runs away from home to live on his own.
	+ 15 year-old Zen has his career debut in a play called Cube World.(7 years ago in AS)
 * 2009
	+ **Saeyoung leaves Saeran to join the agency** (6 years ago in AS / 7 years ago in OS)
	+ Vanderwood joins the agency around this year and is put in charge of managing Seven.
 * 2010
	+ Rika meets Jumin for the first time. Begins to plan the creation of the RFA.
 * 2011
 * 2012
	+ Rika meets Zen and gifts him flowers. (4 years ago in OS)
	+ **RFA is founded.** (4 years ago in OS)
		- Official members: V, Rika, Jumin, Saeyoung, Yoosung
	+ **RFA holds its first party.**
	+ December - Charity event (4 years ago in Christmas DLC):
		- Zen is 19 years old. It became legal for him to drink this year.
 * 2013
	+ Sally, Rika's pet dog, dies.
		- Rika's sanity and mental health decays and become self-destructive.
	+ Rika begins therapy sessions after Sally is gone.
	+ Rika clings to the concept of Mint eye more and more. Her relationship with V begins to strain due to her ideologies becoming more dictatorship-like.
	+ Rika gifts a cat to Jumin Han. V names her Elizabeth the 3rd. Jumin Han quickly grows attached to his new pet.
	+ June 11 - **Saeyoung's 20th Birthday.** He receives a floppy disk with Saeran's photographs as a gift. His personality changes from robot-like to the jokester 707. (2 years ago in AS)
	+ Zen has a motorbike accident. V, who was following him, calls an ambulance. He officially joins the RFA to thank V. (2 years ago in AS)
 * 2014
	+ Jaehee begins working for C&R.
	+ **Ms. Choi passes away.** Rika grows increasingly possessive of Saeran and his talents. Ms. Choi notices her son isn't coming back home and assaults Rika. It ends in Rika killing Saeran's mother in self-defense. It's staged as a suicide. (2 years and half ago in OS / 1 year and a half ago in AS)
	+ Saeyoung returns from working and studying aboard from a foreign college.
	+ Jaehee joins the RFA, 6 months after working for C&R.
	+ **Saeran's kidnapped to Mint Eye** and tortured. About 6 months after his mother's death. (1 year ago in AS, 2 years ago in OS)
		- Choi mother is mentioned to still be alive during a flashback by Saeran in 707's route(?)... but Saeran's diary further confirms she was dead by then. Possible retcon in AS.
	+ **The RFA hosts its second party.** Notable events:
		- Jumin Han brings Elizabeth the 3rd to the party. Zen hates it.
		- Seven meets Jaehee for the first time and teases her and asks if she's a robot.
		- Rika and V have an huge fight and disappear in the middle of the party.
 * 2015
	+ Rika disappears. V covers up her disappearance by announcing she committed suicide. (6 months ago in AS / 1 year and 6 months in OS)
	+ Possibly February(?) - Yoosung receives the news of Rika's death at his High School graduation party.
	+ Rika's funeral is held.
	+ Shortly after Rika's "death", Yoosung begins living alone after he's admitted to college. Dyes his hair.
 * 2016
	+ Around August/September(?) or later- In OS, late 2016, **the player joins the RFA,** 1 year and 6 months after Rika's disappearance.
	+ December - OS Christmas DLC

 * 1993
 * 1994
	+ - June 11 - The two identical twins Saeyoung and Saeran are born in secret. Saeyoung is born first.
 * 1996
 * 2006
	+ Rika and V meet at an exhibition and fall in love.
	+ Saeyoung meets Rika, and then V, for the first time.
 * 2007
 * 2009
	+ V advises 15 year-old Saeyoung to leave Saeran behind and join an intelligence agency in order for both siblings to survive their father's threat.
	+ Saeyoung leaves Saeran to join the agency. (7 years ago in OS)
	+ Vanderwood joins the agency around this year and is put in charge of managing Seven.
 * 2012
	+ Rika creates the RFA with V.
	+ RFA has its first party.
 * 2013
	+ Sally dies.
 * 2014
	+ RFA has its second RFA party.
 * 2015
	+ Rika "disappears"
 * 2016
	+ One year and 6 months after Rika's death, in August/September, OS prologue begins...

## List of References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 AS - Ray's Route, Good Ending -
"*ZEN:Ladies and gentlemen, science has already proven their blood affiliation twice during the twins' childhood. Please refer to the image we have here.*
ZEN:When there was no denying that the twins are his children, the prime minister attempted to eradicate all the evidence on a countless basis.

Zen:The first attempt took place 22 years ago when he has just become a governmental official."
2. ↑ AS - V's route, day 9, 10th chat - Rika: We went on a short trip, after the second party, after V and I had a huge fight, I don't know what happened, but I couldn't log in ever since... V deleted all of my data and even blocked my cellphone.
3. ↑ OS - Zen's route, Day 6, 1st vn -
4. ↑ AS - Ray's route, Day 6, vn after the 6th chat -
5. ↑ OS - 707's route, Day 10, last vn - "(10 years ago)" Saeyoung also mentions V being nice to him, so he already met him by then... \*This time stamp was added to the script post Ray's route.
6. ↑ OS - Yoosung's route, Day 5, 5th chat (player must participate) - Saeyoung says he used a computer for the first when he was 14, since it's likely he's using Korean age it's 13, so 10 years ago in OS. Anyway, it only makes sense for him to have used a computer for the first time after meeting Rika.
7. ↑ AS - Ray's route, day 10 -
8. ↑ OS - Yoosung's route, day 5, 11th chat - "Yoosung: I first met her when I was in 6th grade. At a family dinner. / I went to her because I had to satisfy my volunteering requirements in middle school..."
9. ↑ AS - Ray's route, day 10 -
10. ↑ OS - 707's route, day 9, 1st vn - "Saeyoung:Mom's been blackmailing him to reveal the truth and has been getting money from him for fifteen years, so she's worse..." so Saeyoung is at least 15 years old in the flashback scene where V talks about the agency.
11. ↑ AS - Ray's route, Day 5, 1st vn - flashback of Ms. Choi complaining about Saeyoung being missing with a timestamp of "(6 years ago)"
12. ↑ OS - 707's route, day 10, 2nd vn - "707:I won't leave him like I did 7 years ago! Never... I'll never let him go."
13. ↑ OS - 707's route, Secret End 1, episode 4 - "Vanderwood:(...) I've been an agent for 7 years but I have no idea what that was. Where did you learn it?"
14. ↑ OS - 707's route, Secret End 2, episode 2 - "Vanderwood:Listen. I can't believe it. When I first saw him, he was stiff as a rock. He talked like a robot too. He was good at his work, so that was comfortable for me.
Vanderwood;I think that was... when we were abroad? I was a new agent too but they gave me a managing job... I basically had to manage him."
15. ↑ OS - Common Days, Day 1, 3rd chat (player must participate)- "Zen:...It's been five years since I've had a girlfriend."
16. ↑ OS - 707's route - day 9 - vn after the 7th chat - "707:So... she saved these photos on the disc and sent it to me in secret.
707:To congratulate my 20th birthday."
17. ↑ AS - V's AE, episode 3 - "Vanderwood:For more than past 2 years, you've been making friends, enjoying yourself, and getting everything you could in that gross-in-a-good-way association called RFA all thanks to me! You've been snickering, procrastinating, and leaving your room a mess!"
18. ↑ AS - Ray's route, Good End - Flashback with Rika having a fight with Ms. Choi with a "A year and a half ago" timestamp at the beginning.
19. ↑ OS - Zen's route, day 10, 2nd chat (player must participate) - "Seven: It's a security system I installed when Rika used to live there., Seven: Two years ago... at the second RFA party."