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So, it's canon that Suit and Ray didn't know that Rika killed mother Choi- following that logic, we need to assume Unknown doesn't know either.
How do you think he'd react it he somehow found out? Would he feel hurt, angry, or...nothing?
Here's the thing that people may not know in the fandom ten years later. There was a time when some people took a snippet of dialogue from Yoosung's Route as gospel. There's a line of text that seems to imply that Unknown might've been the one to take his mother's life rather than Rika. It's definitely a throwaway line, one that makes you wonder how Unknown came to that conclusion.
Unknown is an unreliable narrator. His memory is fried, and even when he believes he's reclaimed something from his past, he can never know for sure if he's right or wrong. What they did to him when he was taken away from the cathedral cannot be understated. He was systematically beaten down (physically and emotionally) until his reality became the one they wanted him to believe.
I connect Another Story, Casual Story, and Deep Story, mind you. I put the universes together to build the lore when I'm working with anyone. If you do that, you're able to piece together Rika's methodology and the point where she loses herself to apathy. She never planned on being a mother to anyone. Yet she found herself "forced" into that role because she felt obligated to do so. She killed Mother Choi in self-defense, mind you, but it was still the act of taking another person's life.
That was Rika's breaking point.
That was her moment of no return.
That was what cemented her identity as Rika the devil. She saw no way out after that. She couldn't mask her fears by forcing herself to be this angel of goodness all the time to ensure nobody would abandon her the minute they discovered what she went through and the marks it left on her soul. Rika's fears are rooted in abandonment. She is afraid to be left alone.
She lost her parents before she knew them, and as far as she knows, they never wanted her in the first place. She lost Mika, whom she had thought had her best interests at heart, but it became clear that she did not. She lost the security of a warm place to sleep at night when she realized she could no longer weaponize the devil to scare the groomer pastor and her abusive parents away. She lost Sally because she was too afraid (and selfish) to acknowledge the reality of life and death to get her dog the help she needed.
Hers is a life of perpetual denial. She runs away from the truth and does her best to warp things so that things stay the way she wants them. At the cost of the people around her, she would rather choose to play God to ensure nobody abandons her once they learn that she's not the mask she tried to present herself as. The sad thing is that if she were honest with her friends from the start, they would've been there for her.
She couldn't be the good person she thought she needed to be, she couldn't be an angel who would never be abandoned, and she couldn't be the devotee at V's altar because he "failed" her.
V made a promise to Rika to be her God. He promised to protect her from the devil, and to ensure that she never did anything unspeakable to anyone... but him, that is. She saw him as a beacon of hope! All she wanted to do was become him to escape herself. If she could've been him, she wouldn't have had to have been Rika. She could've been V, the shining sun who seemingly has no faults. Her diary in the Mint Eye box has her tracking down information about him non-stop.
She has interviews from classmates, teachers, newspaper clippings, and worse, she's got one of his mother's notes to him! Her admiration of him didn't start out that way, but it increasingly became something like that. It's better to be anyone BUT Rika. V could do no wrong in her eyes; he was everything she wanted.
Until Mother Choi charged at her. Until Jihyun stood behind her and did nothing to stop what happened next. Until she blacked out from fear and woke up with her hands covered in blood that was not her own.
Her God watched her commit the first sin and did nothing. In Rika's eyes, she was not only failed by the Christian God, but by her chosen God, too. She felt guilt as she washed away the blood from her hands. She decided she would HAVE to raise Saeran.
That's the price of killing his mother.
She is filled with contempt over that, too. She blames him, she hates him, and yet, there's a part of Rika that really did care about him. Not as much as she cared about Saeyoung (she built a bond with him that was years in the making before she EVER met Saeran), but... I can't say she hated him from the start. Rika didn't start out hating people. Their bond was doomed, however, simply because of what happened on that night.
The weight of the murder was Rika's point of no return. It was the nail in the coffin. She is the devil they said she was.
Why else would she and Jihyun burn the house down? She doesn't want proof of her actions to exist. She wants to run away from what she's done and live in hiding from accountability. This is why the RAE has her try to pretend things are fine when they're not. She is living in denial because if she were to acknowledge the truth, it would break her into pieces.
That's why she had her meltdown on Day 10. You remember the one where she sobbed on her knees because Saeran told her that she was wrong about the world? When he told her that the only person who had rejected the world was her? When he said that she was only doing all of this because she was too afraid to tell others how she felt? The Visual Novel mode that ended with Rika staring into the void because if he left her, she would never be accepted again?
Ah, yes, that is quite literally a moment of clarity for Rika. She knows what she's done is wrong, and the moment the truth comes to light, she'll never be able to control others the way she wants. She'll never make sure people can't abandon her because they'll have all the facts they need to say, "I want nothing to do with you."
She became a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is why Saeran achieves true peace, and she doesn't. He acknowledged his mistakes and owned up to them. He is willing to face the consequences. It's not until you play the Normal Ending of the RAE that you see Rika own her consequences in full. Had she been HONEST despite her fear, it never would've ended up like this.
Had she and Jihyun asked for help rather than trying to take it on their own, who's to say what might've happened? But that's not the story we get. We see her and Jihyun destroying themselves and the people around them, both intentionally and unintentionally.
This is why Rika treats Ray, Suit Saeran, and Unknown the way she does. Gone is any illusion she tries to sell herself, and instead, we get cruelty in its place. Ray gets the treatment she feels guilted into. She treats him the way Mika talked about treating children, too. She tries to convince herself she's being a good mother to him, but she can't be a good mother while she's ALSO trying to turn him into a weapon.
That's why Ray wasn't meant to last long. I recognize that most people don't have the time or desire to play Rika's Behind Story, but it's one of those things you need to play to understand why she acts and reacts to conflict the way she does.
It's sad that the takeaway most people have from the DLC is "Wow, they make a scapegoat for Rika."
Guys, just because Rika wasn't alone in her actions doesn't mean that she isn't at fault as well. Mika is another aspect of Rika's life. The one that seemingly set things in motion. Rika was ultimately adopted by Yoosung's aunt and uncle because the groomer preacher specifically picked her out of the crowd. Mika didn't want Mina to be adopted by bad parents. She wanted them to be adopted together.
Mika was adopted out once before and returned to the nursery. This rejection became the basis that shaped her life. She saw just how cruel adults could be... promising love and then selfishly taking it away in the next breath. She clung to Mina because Mina was the child who clung to her the tightest.
The only one who didn't abandon her. That's why she fought so hard to stay in the nursery. She wanted them to be together; that way, even if the grown-ups abandoned her, she would still have Mina.
Mika's ideology about how to take care of a child cements how far Rika goes once her friend is dead... She was right, Rika says, because there was no hope for her to find joy. She has to take care of the children the way Mika said. Even if Mika didn't want her to get hurt by those terrible people, she was still hurt in the end.
She became the very "devil" that her adoptive parents and the groomer preacher said she was. But as long as she is the devil, they shouldn't be able to hurt her.
A devil can't be a bad thing if it keeps you safe and sound. That is how she empowered herself, after all. She stood against the congregation of their cult-like Catholic church and proclaimed herself the devil to make sure nobody would lay a disgusting hand on her while Sally defended her. But being a devil means that you're this ugly, cruel, and grotesque thing, too. She doesn't want to be that.
It may keep her safe, but that's not a happy life.
She wanted to be something shiny... an angel. A girl like her can't be an angel, though. Not after she killed someone. So, devil it is. Belief in what Mika said is the only way.
At least that way, being the larger monster means that nobody would be chewed up and spat out again. Mika can be a spark, but Rika is the wildfire who sets things ablaze. She is the one who plans the party, who manipulates wealthy donors to create Mint Eye, she is the one who sits on the throne and pulls the strings, and she is the one dubbed Savior. It does not matter that Mika helped.
She lived in the RFA apartment while Rika did all the dirty work and continued to do said dirty work. Mika definitely pressured Rika to do things, but Rika ultimately made the decision to go through with it. She is complicit in her actions. Tragic backstory or not, for the better part of the story, she is cognizant and aware of her actions, and that shows her guilt plainly.
She told Saeyoung to install that bomb in the apartment on her own. She did everything that followed.
Rika (and Mika) are also projecting her naive self (Serena (her adopted self) and Mina (her youngest self) onto Ray... this is the only thing that'll keep him safe. He can have his moment in the sun, but it'll only last as long as it "needs" to. It can only last as long as Rika can stomach it. She hates what Ray stands for because it's a representation of the angel Rika that won't survive.
The little girl who dreamed of warmth only to be slapped in the face by cruelty. That's what she's trying to reenact. There's a reason why you're meant to notice their narrative foils. V/Rika are the foils to Saeran/MC. You can see where people actively choose to get better, and where they refuse to acknowledge their mistakes. There are patterns to her story that make more sense when you see where she started and where she ended up with the twins.
Rika both wants to shelter Ray and destroy him because she would be too envious if he were beloved and she were damned. There's no way for people like them to be loved. If that were the case, why didn't she find it as a little girl? Why was what Mika said right? That must be the truth. That must be the way of the world.
You can see her resentment building up by the day, and that's why she pressures Suit Saeran to prove that what happened to her could really happen to anyone. She wants to break him the way she was. That's all there is to it. There is nothing that matters in this world but survival of the fittest... kill or be killed. That's the end scenario for people like the two of them. They were born rotten; therefore, they will have no choice but to spoil.
That's what she tried to beat into Suit Saeran until he was dry heaving in the bushes.
It's. All. Projection.
And inevitably, if there is no MC involvement with either one of them, it's no wonder that Unknown is who you end up with. She silenced Ray and Saeran until the only person left was a man who cared about one thing: Revenge. It's worth mentioning that Unknown's plan is simple... and macabre. Kill V and Saeyoung and then kill himself. If he can't get rid of V, that's fine; he'll settle for just getting rid of Saeyoung.
You can't trust anyone.
Why would Rika tell him to trust anyone when all she's ever known is betrayal of the highest nature? That's why the only one he can trust is Rika, and even then, you can tell that Unknown hardly respects what Rika sells him. That's a byproduct of her neglect. She no longer sees Unknown as human by the point we see him in Saeyoung's Route. He's nothing but a nuisance monster she created that she wants nothing to do with.
A constant reminder of her sins that should just be gone already. That is actually why Unknown isn't aware of the bomb in some routes.... and why Rika sends him to the apartment in one of Jumin's Bad Endings to press a "make Saeyoung miserable" button. Ah, yes, press this button that will get rid of him and the MC in one swing.
Make them hate V in all his glory, and then she'll swoop in and become the RFA's God.
Unlike V, she'll be a wonderful God. That's how she thinks, that's how she acts, and that's how she feels.
So, knowing all of this, how do I think Unknown will react to the truth should he ever learn it? Resigned disgust. Unlike GE Saeran, who is in a better place emotionally because he wasn't beaten into apathy for years on end, SE Saeran is made of apathy. He has no energy for anything. All he does is watch the clouds outside of Saeyoung's bunker because he's traded one cage for another, as far as we know. Saejoong is still a huge threat, after all.
He doesn't go away, so they have to continue living in hiding until that's taken care of. Either the old man dies, or something like what happens in the RAE happens to force his hand. That's a living nightmare for him. But he had no choice but to live with Saeyoung. He's trying to make the best of it, but we all know he's tired and alone.
As if he would want to be friends with the RFA. How can you become friends with the people you stalked and harassed? How could you call them your friends when they might always see you as Saeyoung's little brother who "deserves" your pity friendship? He's not going to be cruel to them. He doesn't have the energy to be cruel. But he's not going to play buddy-buddy with Saeyoung's friends.
At least, he might build a friendship with Saeyoung's partner, but that would only be because they all live together. So he would have to get to know them.
He's alive, but he doesn't know what to do with himself because there is only so much he can do with their father on the horizon. He can go to the park, he can get ice cream, and he can watch the clouds. That's a nice existence, and I'm sure he enjoys being able to do that much, but he is still haunted by what happened to him. Even getting into a good therapist and going outside won't help him find peace overnight. He's got a long way to go to feel some semblance of normalcy.
So, what happens when you throw in a wrench and tell him Rika killed his mother?
Of course, Rika killed his mother, he would think. Why not? Why not tell him that she ruined his life even more? Mother Choi was a monster, but she didn't force-feed him drugs until he couldn't breathe. Her emotional and physical neglect was terrifying, but... Rika was in another ballpark. She had doctors (she didn't make the elixir by herself), guards (we see Saeran and Ray restrained more times than I can count), and even more people we don't know about at her disposal.
Saeran was hurt by multiple people because of what Rika did. It makes sense that she could pull off something like that even if he doesn't have all of the details. How would he find out, also? If you apply canon to the situation, Rika was sent away before she could be held accountable by the authorities. She is the only one ALIVE who knows what happened to Mother Choi. Dead men tell no tales. Jihyun is dead... He's the only other person who saw what happened in its totality.
I can see this making him relapse in some ways, too. He might be able to stomach the news at first, but then it would eat away at him. I, for one, personally write SE Saeran being haunted by Jihyun's phantom in every corner when he's alone at night. He has night terrors, he scrubs his hands until they bleed, and he avoids anything that might trigger him like the plague. (I see him avoiding Jumin and Yoosung as a given. Not their fault, but they're a constant reminder of V and Rika.)
Saeran took Jihyun's life out of fear... Rika took Mother Choi's life out of fear, too. He didn't do it intentionally. He held up his weapon to protect himself, and it went off because he panicked. Rika picked up a shard of glass and didn't think about anything but protecting herself.
This isn't going to make SE Saeran sympathetic towards Rika, mind you, but it will make him wonder how she feels about it. Did she think about his Mother whenever she drugged him? Was she haunted by her actions, or did they drive her to hurt him more? Did she blame him for what happened? Did she hate him because of that? He'll never know for sure. I can't see him approaching her the way GE Saeran did, but I can see him struggling with these thoughts for quite some time.
That's the thing at the end of the day. SE Saeran has some remorse, but he'll likely conclude that Rika never had an ounce of remorse in her body.
He's not going to feel NOTHING.
He's going to feel everything, and that's... worse. It was easier when Unknown couldn't feel anything, but now SE Saeran has returned to form and can feel his pain again. I can envision nothing but agony in this regard, and definitely some conflict about what he feels about his mother. He hates Mother Choi; there's no doubt about that. He isn't going to be sympathetic in the way GE Saeran is. Good riddance, he would say.
However, her death wrought more suffering for him. So, even though she died, Saeran couldn't escape his suffering. How can he be relieved that the woman died... when it solved nothing? It's going to bring him back to how he felt when Saeyoung left. It's going to bring back all of his grief, and he's going to have to work through it AGAIN.
