History VisualNovel / MysticMessenger

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** Another Story confirms that V's blue hair is natural and that he inherited the trait from his mother.
** Seven's [[spoiler:and Saeran's]] bright red hair is a downplayed example. Natural red hair would just be an ImplausibleHairColor for someone of Korean descent, but that scarlet hue does not exist anywhere in reality.

* TakeThatScrappy: [[spoiler:Many players cheered when Saeran [[TheDogBitesBack fought back]] [[ShutUpHannibal against Rika's emotional abuse and manipulations]] at day 10 of his route]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the Valentine's DLC, the PlayerCharacter and Jaehee [[spoiler:get [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar locked in a storage closet and come out of it at the end]]]].

** Jaehee serves this role in her route. While you do have the option to pursue her and get closer to her, you don't have the option to actually romance her, and her route basically ends with the two being "gal-pals." This is because in South Korea, [[HeteronormativeCrusader works portraying homosexual relationships]] [[MediaWatchdog are often banned]] [[HideYourLesbians or censored.]] Jaehee's feelings toward the protagonist being relegated to subtext was Cheritz's way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar. The Christmas DLC and Valentine's Day After Ending have addressed these issues, however and made it explicit that she has romantic feelings for the player.

** Near the end of V's route, [[spoiler: Saeran [[DrivenToSuicide blows up Mint Eye's hideout while he's still inside]] because he doesn't think he has a future without Rika. There's no way to avert this, not even in the good ending]].

* {{Bishonen}}: [[TheCutie Yoosung]], [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Zen]], and [[{{Adorkable}} Seven]].
** [[{{Bishonen}} Biseinen]]: [[TallDarkAndSnarky Jumin]] and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair V]] are twenty-seven and have a more mature look.

* {{Adorkable}}: They all have their moments, but Yoosung probably stands out, especially when Seven is teasing him ("Pass Out After Drinking Coffee Syndrome", for example...). Jumin probably counts too, [[CutenessProximity as soon as cats are involved]].

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** Jaehee serves this role in her route. While you do have the option to pursue her and get closer to her, you don't have the option to actually romance her, and her route basically ends with the two being "gal-pals." This is because in South Korea, [[HeteronormativeCrusader works portraying homosexual relationships]] [[MediaWatchdog are often banned]] [[HideYourLesbians or censored.]] Jaehee's feelings toward the protagonist being relegated to subtext was Cheritz's way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar. The Christmas DLC and Valentine's Day After Ending have addressed these issues, however and made it explicit that she has romantic feelings for the player.]]
** In V's route, this role can go to [[spoiler:''Rika'', of all people. In one of the bad endings, you can promise to love her darkness, and the corresponding CG is an AlmostKiss ''in her bed,'' complete with a very creepy love confession.

** Jaehee serves this role in her route. While you do have the option to pursue her and get closer to her, you don't have the option to actually romance her, and her route basically ends with the two being "gal-pals." This is because in South Korea, [[HeteronormativeCrusader works portraying homosexual relationships]] [[MediaWatchdog are often banned]] [[HideYourLesbians or censored.]] Jaehee's feelings toward the protagonist being relegated to subtext was Cheritz's way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar. The Christmas DLC and Valentine's Day After Ending have addressed these issues, however and made it explicit that she has romantic feelings for the player.

* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Seven tries to pull this with you during the majority of his route, ignoring you and speaking to you cruelly in an attempt to push you away for your own sake because he thinks he's too dangerous to be with you and that you would be better off with someone else.

* Yandere: Yoosung has the capability of becoming this during his route if you don't encourage him to think of you as someone separate from Rika and instead coax him into projecting her onto you. Seven even lampshades this during the first few days of his route, saying that you should watch out lest he becomes yandere, even using that specific word.

** [[spoiler:Rika. Mentally ill, abused and hated by her adoptive parents, and completely incapable of coping with death. She came to the conclusion that the only way to eliminate suffering was to brainwash and torture people into following her twisted plans for world peace]].
** Caused by the above, [[spoiler:Unknown/Saeran. After a truly horrifying childhood, he got a brief HopeSpot when his twin (Seven/Saeyoung) left him in the care of V and Rika, only to have Rika drug him and twist his mind until he became convinced that Saeyoung and V had caused all of the pain in his life. By the time of the story, he's completely unhinged and [[MoreThanMindControl devoted to the idea of Rika's utopia]]]].

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Most often done by Seven. There are instances where he outright mentions other characters' routes (and even refers to them as such,) and during Jaehee's route, he mentions that he didn't expect you to go with her route, before quickly backtracking and trying to change the subject. Surprisingly, towards the end of Seven's route, Jumin will lean on it during a midnight chat, telling the player to go to bed early instead of playing the game this late. When playing Jumin's route, it is possible to ask a freaking out Zen what kind of genre he enjoys to which he will mention that it doesn't work out with "this game's" rating.

* BittersweetEnding: The secret/true ending. [[spoiler:Mint Eye is shut down, Saeyoung is able to save Saeran and Rika might finally get the therapy she needs, but V is dead, Rika nearly mute and the truth behind the creation of Mint Eye can never be known by anyone outside of Saeyoung, Jumin, and Jaehee due to what might happen if Saeyoung and Saeran's father finds out about their existence.]]
** Near the end of V's route, [[spoiler:Saeran [[DrivenToSuicide blows up Mint Eye's hideout while he's still inside]] because he doesn't think he has a future without Rika. There's no way to avert this, not even in the good ending]].
** In the good ending of Ray's route,[[spoiler:Saeran left Mint Eye with the protagonist together and his father's attempted kidnapping of Saeyoung was exposed to public, depriving him of a chance at politics. But Saeyoung and Vanderwood is missing and V stayed in Mint Eye for Rika in exchange of Saeran's freedom. But even so, Saeran has hope that he can find Saeyoung again]].

** The most unnerving example comes during the bad end of the Common Story, if you don't get enough hearts with anyone in particular to advance onto their route. Yoosung asks if everyone else is aware that they're all robots, only capable of saying pre-programmed things. He says that he figured it out long ago, that they all used to be people but later became robots, and that Seven and V are the only ones with free will, but says that the player can't find out. It deviates completely off every other fourth wall break, which are light-hearted and funny, and turns straight into NightmareFuel.

** Jaehee serves this role in her route, though it's debatable if [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians she really is]]. While you do have the option to pursue her and get closer to her, you don't have the option to actually romance her, and her route basically ends with the two being "gal-pals". This is because in South Korea, [[HeteronormativeCrusader works portraying homosexual relationships]] [[MediaWatchdog are often banned]] [[HideYourLesbians or censored.]] Jaehee's feelings toward the protagonist being relegated to subtext was Cheritz's way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar. The Christmas DLC and Valentine's Day After Ending have addressed these issues, however.
** In V's route, this role can go to [[spoiler:''Rika'', of all people. In one of the bad endings, you can promise to love her darkness, and the corresponding CG is an AlmostKiss ''in her bed'', complete with [[{{Yandere}} very creepy]] LoveConfession]].
* {{God}}: You can invite him to your party. If you do, Yoosung says he'd like to [[MundaneUtility ask God to make him number 1 on LOLOL]].
* GoldenEnding: Each character has one, along with a normal one and several bad ones. The bad endings delve into AlignmentBasedEndings territory, since they're determined by your reactions towards other characters. (eg choosing to be supportive or not) The only difference between how to get the Normal End and Good End is how many guests you get, although the endings are wildly different.
* GuideDangIt: Most of the time, the right answer to emails is somewhat obvious if you know something about the topic (For example whether a game should be published on "Scheam" or "Metube"), but a few seem a bit counter-intuitive (Like the one with the astronomy club). Special mention goes to Longcat, where the first choice you have is between "Meowmeow" and "Meowmeow,", though of course you could simply [[SaveScumming save right before answering]]... Although after the update, this might be one of the things viewed as "game abuse" that might get your account banned.

** A very unnerving one comes during the bad end of the Common Story, if you don't get enough hearts with anyone in particular to advance onto their route. Yoosung begins saying that he knows that they're all in a video game, and that Seven and V are the only ones with any free will.
* BrokenPedestal: All the RFA members start out with unconditional trust in V and nothing but good memories of Rika. By the end of every route, most of these members' trust in them have been shaken or even outright shattered with the discovery of how much they've been hiding, including [[spoiler:a bomb in Rika's apartment that could kill the player if activated, Rika's mental illness, V not being in contact when members' lives are in jeopardy, and Rika being the leader of a religious cult that brainwashed Seven's brother]].

* AllMenArePerverts: With the exception of V, all of the men in RFA get very...flustered when the protagonist flirts with them a little ''too'' well in their respective routes. The degree and amount of subtlety depends on the character. There's also Zen, who will vehemently insist that this trope is true in every single route (including ''his own''), the very second the protagonist is alone with a male character.

* BoyMeetsGirl: V first meets Rika when she was busy admiring one of his photos at his exhibition and quickly becomes attracted to her innocent nature (boy meets girl). He loses her when she dies before the events of the game, [[spoiler:though, it's eventually revealed that he loses her to her destructive nature and her will to leave him and establish Mint Eye on her own]] (boy loses girl). Later, [[spoiler:V continues to prove his affection for her, and is only able to momentarily get her to see a moment of clarity when he is killed]] (boy gets girl again).

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Seven does this on a few occasions. He's the most GenreSavvy character in the game. The player also occassionally has the option to casually mention how everything is a game. Surprisingly, towards the end of Seven's route, Jumin will lean on it during a midnight chat, telling the player to go to bed early instead of playing ''the game'' this late. When playing Jumin's route, it is possible to ask a freaking out Zen what kind of genre he enjoys to which he will mention that it doesn't work out with ''this games'' rating.

** [[{{Bishonen}} Biseinen]]: [[TallDarkAndSnarky Jumin]] and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair V]] are twenty-six and have a more mature look.

The story starts with the player downloading a mobile app apparently used for chatting with cute boys. After [[HelloInsertNameHere putting in her name]] and choosing a profile picture, she is contacted by a person simply called "Unknown". Unknown then asks them to go to a specific location and enter an apartment to which they give them the number code.

Once inside of the apartment, the chat with Unknown disappears, and instead the player will be able to see some other people chatting before they notice you. After confirming that the player isn't dangerous, they'll be asked to join an organization called the Rika Fundraising Association (RFA), which used to host fundraising parties until the [[DrivenToSuicide tragic suicide]] of it’s founder Rika. The player is then asked to fill the role of the deceased Rika, conversing with potential guests and trying to persuade them to come to the party.

* NonStandardGameOver: In the prologue, when you first arrive at Rika's apartment, you're given the option to tell Unknown that you don't see a password lock on the door. Insisting that there isn't one causes [[spoiler:Unknown to lose his patience and accuse you of lying. [[ParanoiaFuel It turns out that he's been at the apartment watching you the entire time]], and since his plan didn't work out, he decides to kidnap and brainwash you.]]

Once inside of the apartment, the chat with Unknown disappears, and instead the player will be able to see some other people chatting before they notice you. After confirming that the player isn't dangerous, they'll be asked to join an organization called RFA, which used to host fundraising parties until the death of one of the members. The player is then asked to fill the role of said deceased member, conversing with potential guests and trying to persuade them to come to the party.

* ABoyAndHisX: Jumin and his cat Elizabeth the 3rd.

* CuteMachine: Seven designs a RoboDog and RoboCat. Both diffuse tense moments during his route with a bit of cuteness.

* BrokenPedestal: All the RFA members start out with unconditional trust in V and nothing but good memories of Rika. By the end of every route, most of these members' trust in them have been shaken or even outright shattered with the discovery of how much they've been hiding, including [[spoiler:a bomb in Rika's apartment that could kill the MC if activated, Rika's mental illness, V not being in contact when members' lives are in jeopardy, and Rika being the leader of a religious cult that brainwashed Seven's brother]].
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: While all routes in the game have some element of this, Seven’s route stands out after Day 4. After the route’s first game branch, Seven [[spoiler:downright pushes away the MC and tells the MC to stay away from him.]] To obtain Seven’s Good Ending, the MC selects choices that are kind and persistent in their pursuit of Seven, allowing him to [[TheConfidant confide in the MC]] about his DarkAndTroubledPast.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: While all routes in the game have some element of this, Seven’s route stands out after Day 4. After the route’s first game branch, Seven [[spoiler:downright pushes away the MC and tells the MC to stay away from him.]] To obtain Seven’s Good Ending, the MC selects choices that are kind and persistent in their pursuit of Seven.