#mystic messenger april fools dlc

[kiichikonoes]

space wife

[killjoy-prince]

Spaceship thoughts

[mysticqueer]

does this count as bisexual representation

[xelasrecords]

This is some ELITE squabble between Jumin and Zen (making Zen eat cat food is going too far Jumin please)

[cloudcountry]

i love that jihyun's kiss cg shows up JUST as i got tired of jumin's route...he knows me so well C: Beloved

[linhmiu201]

Playing April Fools DLC for the first time and I found a gem lol Jumin's so cute.

[lilias300yearhusband]

Ugh fictional game character becoming sentient and falling in love with the player despite the fact they can never be together is so good. I’m such a sucker for the amount of angst it has.

[outofcontextcheritz]

He's shy.

WHAT!? 🙈

[annbourbon]

Cheritzverse Timeline~

* This is only to show the dates and the way all this is linked (the information is already established through these games, so I'm only keeping track of what they say but not if the game is in a different Timeline, or Space, for more on this topic please check out my Beyond The Planets post.

If anyone has different ideas, is welcomed to share those by reblogging it. Screenshots and evidence will be necessary to be credited.

2006 -

2008 ~ Before Dandelion Events

♡ Heejung moves from Seoul to Busan

2009

2010 ~ Beginnings of Mint Eye

♡ Sally (Rika's dog) dies here or beginnings of 2011

♡ During June's Route (set around 2013) is said the RFA is still a work in progress. But we know Mint Eye started before. While this is a little theory I have... what if Mint Eye starts when you're dating Zen (remember Rika was a fan of Zen? Just saying~)

♡ It's usually said that the first years of any kind of project are hard~ and we see Mint Eye believers starting to gather power throughout The Ssum. Which is why I have settled Mint Eye beginnings around this time. Still need to decide the actual date though.

♡ Check the first year of Mystic Messenger Timeline. Come back.

♡ Possible beginnings of 2011 or lasts months of 2010 but the Dr Cus was kidnapped. According to JJ, 2 years before~ although considering Henri's timeline, it's not necessarily here. But from here till the end of 2011 at least. If you can find more clues~ it'd be very helpful. You're gonna be credited ofc.

2011 ~ 2013: The Ssum & Nameless (In Between)

* I believe The Ssum events start a bit before The Ssum.

2011

♡ It is said during Mystic Messenger that Zen has been without a girlfriend for 5 years. And to add to it: The Ssum (Teo route) says that Zen was your ex boyfriend.

If we take Mystic Messenger and The Ssum work together, Zen definitely was our ex boyfriend before Mystic Messenger. For those who don't understand why he doesn't remember us, it's implied during Epiphany (Zen's DLC, April Fools Day) that he was trapped inside.

Then several chat rooms and calls during Casual and Deep Story suggest that Zen does remember but only certain parts and that he only remembers everything by the time MC has picked a LI which makes it impossible for him to butt in, so instead he tries to steer things in the right direction for us to have a happy ending. An example of this~ a call with Zen before things started to get serious with Jumin, said that he dreamt of us being trapped inside a cage.

♡ Possible beginnings of 2011 or lasts months of 2010 but the Dr Cus was kidnapped. According to JJ, 2 years before~ although considering Henri's timeline, it's not necessarily here. But from here till the end of 2011 at least. If you can find more clues~ it'd be very helpful. You're gonna be credited ofc.

2011 ~ 2012 Dandelion Events

♡ Heejung's father escaped with an artist, and young woman. Dandelion.

♡ Rika meets V.

♡ Unsure if it's during 2011 or 2012 but~ Rika and V engagement.

♡ Nameless Events

2013 ~ The Ssum Events

Check The Ssum Timeline

♡ Jaehee barely started to work for Jumin during this TL (2013, around June or July) and Elizabeth the 3rd escaped for Teo to take care of her during one day. I believe that even though it's implied that Jumin Han was the owner, he was not yet officially the owner of the cat.

Theory: However, the more I think about these events, this escape seems to be part of some training Elizabeth the 3rd received from part of Mint Eye. I saw a post here on Tumblr (wish I could find it) saying that Elizabeth the 3rd might have been abducted and lured with a whistle. But what if in addition to that, she was trained too? While it's difficult to train cats, it's not entirely impossible. I think part of it also explains why she was so easy to capture if she bonded with Saeran and Rika first.

* Teo Route starts at least some months or weeks before we see Jaehee, this settles the story beginnings of 2013. Remember Jaehee said she had been working for Jumin 2 years and a half in 2016. For continuity issues, I would settle Teo Route around November or December 2012 and Jaehee something around beginnings of 2013, giving enough time to Harry's route. June and Henri need to be play together:

Teo entire route [beginnings of 2013]

Harry till day 200 [2013 till 2014]

June season 1 (30 days) ~ Harry Day 230

Henri s1 and June s2 ft. Harry Day 260

*There might be a time where you're dating Teo and Harry at the same time, even the options suggest it as a choice. This can be why the Angel confronts you about it.

♡ Mint Eye makes several attempts to drag Teo.

^^;; please don't mind my wall~ i'm painting behind and that's why it looks a bit weird. Now let's make a close up~

♡ During June's Route (set around 2013) is said the RFA is still a work in progress. But we know Mint Eye started before.

Yes. I put the same text twice. It helps to create an idea of when things are happening.

♡ Slightly mentioning Unicorn Drugs because I'm working on tracking the drugs they give to us or to the LIs.

Theories on why probably June's wasn't mentioned before:

1. His condition and S.Korean society around these topics. Best example of this? Rika and Saeran. Not confirmed but implied during June's Route, when he goes to the wedding.

2. Possible death.

3. On a more cheerful note, he probably is still alive but people don't talk about him because of how that affects Jumin Han and Chairman Han reputation. And of course, the C&R. Confirmed: June is an illegitimate son. Carolyn had it out of wedlock, had an affair with June's dad. And went to Chairman Han to ask for help. The nerve of this woman 😳

Take it with grain of salt but ^^;; June's father was a singer?

♡ Heejung's father escaped with an artist, and young woman. Dandelion.

♡ Carolyn (Jumin's and June's mom) was said to be an artist, singer? She had an affair with June's father, abandoned Jumin's and Chairman Han, tried to make June look like he was Chairman's son but ended up divorcing him and marrying June's dad. The Ssum.

In the end I don't think any of these events are mutually exclusive but inclusive. And if things don't make sense yet, don't worry, I'm covering a relationship chart soon~

So, Harry knows Seven. June and Jumin are half-brothers. June and Henri know each other. Henri hates Jumin but works for him lol and Henri's dad works for Chairman Han. Yeah all this is connected in a way or another.

To understand why I'm talking about Another Story as Part 1 and Part 2~ you guys need to check out my Mystic Messenger TL.

BTW~ I'm suspecting a connection between Harry (since his parents are basically bullies and kind of gangsta and laundering money through art~) V, Jumin and Rika. All through The Muse collection.

Like I said to @cherrychipheart once, looking at the background of Dandelion, I could see some V pictures behind the gallery where Heejung works. So this is a personal theory I have but~ I believe that The Ssum is the story of MC before disappearing, cause she's being captured for Mint Eye. TBH after playing Dandelion I have trust issues with every character within the Cheritzverse lol

And I have yet to finish it ╥﹏╥

There's a full moon behind Saeran and MC pic too~

How come the Angel has chosen the moon as his symbol? And why Harry placed a moon on his profile picture right after we broke up? Does anyone remembers the Angel call before that day? He was basically calling us and being all scary in a similar style to Unknown. Does any of this sounds more like The Wizard than Unknown? Because it does to me. But that's for another topic. Yes, I'm already onto "The Angel" and working full time on it.

2016 ~ Mystic Messenger Timeline

♡ 2016 includes Casual and Deep as whole. But remember the events in Jumin's trigger Saeran's AE and Saeyoung's route too. That proposal to MC was too public for the twins.

* Because of time travel, Mystic Messenger is a non linear story, which means you need to pick upon clues here and there to understand where the timeline goes. The other games have a similar issue but not as pronounced as this.

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*Notes: I already ran out of space for images so if any other thing or piece of information is dropped, I'll create a second part, however this should cover the basics. Also, if additional info comes up~ i'll update it!

Other Notes:

♡ Harry and Teo Spoilers

[kusukixcrystal]

Zen & Rika are Trapped in The MM World Part 2

Now that I established all of the 4th wall breaks and references to previous Cheritz games, we can now get into Zen, Rika and the April Fool’s DLC in more detail, and how all of this ties together.

Let’s start by discussing these references. I think they are also diegetic, like the 4th wall breaks. If MM is a pocket universe created by Saeyoung and V, then of course they would know about the events of Dandelion and Nameless. Why? Because those events inspired them to create the MM pocket universe. They saw The Wizard host these games and meddle in the lives of mortals. He not only accumulates a lot of power by hosting these games but also ends up with Heejung in the end. I talked about how I think V wants to be with Rika, paralleling The Wizard and Heejung’s situation.

What Saeyoung gets out of this is 2 things: 

1. Creating a ‘videogame/pocket universe’ because he enjoys it.

2. Get more memories to fuel his power by getting the MC/player to play through the routes.

I can imagine Saeyoung throwing in references to Dandelion and Nameless as a homage to his inspiration for creating this pocket universe, just like how game developers irl reference their own inspirations/previous works. This is really meta, I know. It’s amazing.

The laws of how this pocket universe seems to work are like a videogame. People are machines/AI/robots. They have to follow a set algorithm/script. The only way we can interact with the characters is through the messenger and VN scenes that only show certain locations. 

This is how I interpret all of the weirdness in Mystic Messenger, while also connecting it to information we have about wizards.

Rika is Trapped:

I discussed in a follow-up to my Saeran/Ray Another Story post that Rika may actually be trapped in the MM pocket universe too, along with Zen. Though in her case, she finds out this truth and seems to want to get it out. I suggested that this is part of why she created Mint Eye, to get away from V and find a way out of the pocket universe. 

1. Rika was the one who told Yoosung that everyone in the RFA are machines in the CS common route bad ending. I talked way more about this in the Saeran/Ray follow-up post.

2. Let’s elaborate on Jumin’s story:

This friend that Jumin is talking about is Rika. For her to want Jumin to read this book, that coincidentally is about the origins of Nameless... I have a feeling that she knows this book’s contents are based on actual events, and that she wants to tell Jumin the truth of their universe, but had to start small.

On that note, Jaehee, Yoosung, and Jumin all seem to understand on some level that their world is fabricated. This is extremely evident in the April Fool’s DLC.

Zen is Trapped:

Here we go. This one is gonna have way too many screenshots:

I can not understate how bonkers this DLC is when it comes to the deeper lore of this game. It took the bad endings, 4th wall breaks, and references, and blows it all out of the water. It feels like all of it has led up to this: a scenario in which Zen realizes he is living in a pocket universe. This crack started in the CS common route bad ending, but we don’t actually see him believe Yoosung.

In this DLC it is Zen’s birthday, and he found himself unable to leave the RFA chat and remains logged in the entire day. I believe that this is because the messenger is the main way characters can communicate in this pocket universe, and if characters are not on screen then they... might be in stasis? Or something similar? In any case, keeping Zen in the chat like this forces him to exist and remain present the entire time.

In the screenshots above, Jaehee clearly understands something that Zen doesn’t. She gives him hints on how to ‘become like them’. In this DLC everyone is an inanimate object: 707 is cardboard, Yoosung is an omelet, Jumin is a cat, and Jaehee is a coffee maker. She doesn’t directly spell it out for him. If Zen does what she says, and acts as bizarre as them, essentially blending into the ‘normal’ of this world, then he turns into an inanimate object too in a bad ending. Can you see the double meaning here? This is a microcosm of what living in the usual (CS, DS, AS) MM pocket universe is like. Act like everyone else. If you don’t, it can lead to suffering (see CS common route bad ending).

Let's ask. Why is this DLC so bizarre anyway? Why did the laws of the pocket universe change? Well, our answer is from dear old Saeyoung the wizard.

This is what he does at the end of the DLC if you get the good ending, where Zen ‘wakes up from his dream’ and has his B-day party. We literally witness Saeyoung state that he needs to change the messenger back to normal. He talks about it in terms of doing magic as a wizard.

Anyway, let’s get back to Zen being trapped. The following screenshots is Zen realizing that he is in a pocket universe. Buckle in it's a doozy:

I mentioned in the past how I think Zen is a prince from Grass. I bring up multiple possibilities for how he got to the MM universe, and I think the most likely one is that he was trapped here, whether he wanted to be here originally or not. He seems to have either been here since he was a child, or his childhood memories were fabricated by Saeyoung. In any case, this dream he had when he was younger may have potentially been him seeing the future. Because he had it when he was younger, it may be further back in the timeline from what we play through in the MM routes. So, seeing us, the real us beyond the screen is predicting the future. It predicted that Zen will find out that we are an entity in another dimension/universe. 

I talk about MC and the player interchangeably, and that’s not an accident. I mentioned in a past post that I believe that this time around, we the player are the MC. The avatar with the long brown hair we see in pictures throughout the game is just a vessel for us to interact with the MM pocket universe. This is why she is a blank slate with little personality outside of predetermined options. This is why the MC this time has no personality while in Dandelion and Nameless, Eri and Heejung were fully fleshed-out characters.

I talked in more detail about how we, the player, have been established as an in-universe character way back in Nameless, too.

This doesn’t sound good... this sounds like a man who has fallen into despair. Zen says he has come to terms with it, but he also told us to "use me". He is trapped here, but hey, at least he has some entity in another dimension/universe that he can talk to. Even if that entity is restricted with limited dialogue options! At least a real person knows he’s there, and he asks us to come and see him any time... 

Mystic Messenger’s hidden story is messed up. 

It’s probably a better outcome to get the good ending in this DLC, where Zen celebrates his birthday with the RFA, his fellow prisoners (if Yoosung is to be believed about them being real people at some point). Maybe ignorance is bliss in this case?

Now let’s think about why Saeyoung or V would want Zen to be here. Maybe both Rika AND Zen made a desperate wish. Maybe Zen made this wish to either V or Saeyoung, not The Wizard from Dandelion. 

Perhaps Zen wanted to get away from Grass, for reasons I mentioned in my previous posts? And they technically grant it by sending him here to the MM pocket universe. His memories of Grass may have been the price for this wish, thus why he doesn’t remember his old life as a prince.

As for Rika she probably still led a tragic life, not dissimilar to her backstory from RAS. It seems like she made this desperate wish to a wizard we have never seen before. We even SEE this happen with her in V’s after ending, where Rika is seen in a dimension eerily similar to where The Wizard and other wizards are known to reside.

The background is a sea of stars. They aren’t identical but keep in mind that Dandelion was made in 2012, and V after the story was made in like 2018. In RAS we see this location again, along with it we hear a song from Dandelion play called “Ra rochu ra no so - In a Frozen Dream”.

It’s the same song. The wizard speaking to Rika has a female voice and seems to be much gentler. I think that besides V and Saeyoung there are definitely way more wizards involved in all of this.

TL;DR: Mystic Messenger is a pocket universe created by Saeyoung and V. Their goal differs. V wants to be with Rika and Saeyoung wants memories/fun. Rika and Zen both had desperate wishes. Zen to leave Grass and Rika to realize she is the sun. Zen made his wish to either V or Saeyoung, and they grant it by sending him to the MM universe. Rika made it to an unknown wizard but is whisked away by V because he became obsessed with her. He tries to become her ‘sun’. This doesn’t work out.

[kristsingto]

i’m having a really great time out of revisiting mystic messenger years later (been around since 2016). there are massive writing problems in pretty much all of it that i acknowledge and explore but honestly, it’s just a really fun game and the characters are charming and likable. one part of its appeal to me is probably just that it’s really funny.

but beneath the humor of it all I feel like a big part of why mysme humor feels so right to me is that it feels realistic and appeals to specifically me on a deeper level. as someone who grew up spending more time joking with friends in chat rooms than in real life, mysme feels very familiar as a format and is able to feel like a real group of friends to me moreso than most other stories going for this feeling. i also notice, of course, that another reason for this is that i can suspend my disbelief more because they aren’t simply visual novel characters. it’s textboxes, so I don’t quite have to constantly remember how non-physical these characters are.

perhaps it’s this feeling that made that one april fools dlc’s bad ending hit me so hard. the idea of my favorite realizing he and i are in different dimensions so seriously still really hurts to think about. it’s fun.

anyhow, i’m still collecting information (i forgot most of my original playthroughs and am just getting around to v’s route) so take everything i say with a grain of salt. i’m enjoying getting to know this deeply flawed character and revisiting this format of storytelling in both its virtues and vices, as well as learning more about the lore i never got around to. also, zen’s calls still make me feel like a dumb smitten preteen obsessed with this game, so, ahaha.

[undistortedworld]

god people do not talk about the mysmes april fools dlc enough. everytime i think about it i get uncontrollable laughter agkgksj how is mystic messenger a real game 2016 was a strange time

[shatcey]

𝕊𝕋𝔸ℝ𝕋 ℙ𝔸𝔾𝔼

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[cloudcountry]

time to post route stuff!!! im gonna start with mystic messenger since ive been playing the april fools dlc and this shit is WILD (and mildly unnerving)

SGAIVXISBDJ I LOVE MAKING EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS CHATROOM A THIRD WHEEL. YGYS WISH YOU WERE ME ND ZEN RIGHT NOW

SO GLAD HE PLAYED ALONG AJDVIWVSOSB THIS WAS SO FUNNY YO ME I WAS GIGGLING AND KICKING MY FEET

picking out ketchup for a date is so weird but yk what it's domestic and for that i'll take it.

for context i asked what the hell a "corrugating medium" was and seven was like AAAAA INAPPROPRIATE so i looked up corrugating medium and this popped up

thank you random reddit user!!!

seven is so cute BUT I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THE OWO FACE IS MYSTIC MESSENGER

I LOVE HOW ZEN WAS IMMEDIATELY LIKE "seven. give me the address. Now."

SEVEN WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT EVEN MEAN

STOP BREKAING THE FOURTH WALL

WHAT THE FUCK!?!3?"!)$!$)?@?@!?#?$!?@?$?#?#?$

HEGEHEHEEHHEHEH GOVGPING AND KICKING MY FEET ILL BE YOUR ANGEL ANYDAY BABYGIRL

AWWWW SEVENNNNNN IM GONNA CRY SHSHSHHSGDHDHCHHFJDJD THIS QSS SO SWEET IM SMILING LIKE A GOOBER

THEYRE SO CUTE I LOVE THEM I LIVE THEM I LIVE THEM DHSNSHSJSJDJJSHSKISHJJDDJERNEDDUNDJDDJJF

ZNEBNZNENNZNNENNZNENZN NB,NENE BDKXHDHJXDNHDRBJDYSXCJDXHHSSUHSGJDNDHX I LOVE HIM SO FUCKING MUCH COME HERE IM GONNNA PLANT A BIG SMOOCH ON UR MOUTH

AADAHODBFGRHRHFFJDFKFDXUUWIFHBDHUXJSUXNFHFJDV GISHDHEJCDGDKWJDH ZEB XBJDJDJJFHBFBBDJDHJSUDYVJJFGKDJJ AAAAAAA ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️‼️♥️♥️‼️♥️‼️♥️♥️‼️♥️‼️♥️♥️‼️♥️‼️♥️‼️♥️‼️♥️♥️‼️♥️‼️✨🤸✨♥️🤸✨🤸♥️🤸♥️♥️🤸♥️🤸♥️🤸♥️🤸♥️♥️🤸♥️🤸♥️🤸♥️♥️🤸♥️🤸💋🤸💋🤸💋💋🤸💋🤸💋💋🤸💋🤸💋🤸💋💋🤸💋🤸💋💋🤸🏎️🤸🏎️🤸💋🤸💋🤸💋💋🤸💋🤸♥️♥️‼️🤸‼️♥️‼️🤸‼️💋💋💋‼️💋‼️💋💋‼️♥️♥️🤸💋♥️‼️💋✨💋✨💋♥️💋🏎️♥️🏎️♥️💋♥️💋🏎️♥️💋♥️🏎️♥️🏎️♥️💋💋♥️💋♥️💋♥️💋💋♥️💋♥️💋♥️💋♥️💋♥️💋💋🎶✨‼️💋✨💌😈💌💌✨✨‼️🎶💋‼️💋‼️💋‼️💋‼️💋💋‼️💋‼️💋‼️

[smol-grey-tea]

Hey check this out!! I'm replaying Mystic Messenger's April Fool's dlc rn and saw this!!

It's not rly a reference specifically to Harry, just to a horse mask but

Cheritz's 2 previous games were also referenced by name in this dlc. So is the mention of the horse mask possibly a reference to Ssum? Maybe!! ^^

Sorry guys I’m leaving TEO for Harry Choi sdfghjkklll -Mod Kai

[candycutter13]

The kind of omelet Yoosung should strive for.