Saeran Choi

personally

Saeran, is very aggressive, arrogant and demeaning; the complete opposite of the old Saeran's delicate and gentle self before his induction to Mint Eye. This Saeran also has no qualms about being a brute to V and other believers, forcing the elixir on them and openly degrading the MC with insults and ridicule. In his own route, he resorts to starving her (reminiscent of his own mother's torture) and mocking her in the chatroom. Despite Mint Eye's manipulation having a hand in shaping his personality for the worse, he admits violence comforts him outside of the cult even after being weaned out of drugs, however, he's shown to have deep remorse over these bad actions after his anger subsides and is capable of improving to be a less harmful person, slowly becoming the warm person he used to be. As a young child, Saeran was described to be a kind and gentle soul, and was the smallest of the two twins. Due to his gentler and forgiving demeanor, his own abusive mother was more toxically possessive of him and tied him up so he could never go outside or be taken by kidnappers. Sadly due to this, it made Saeran more exposed to her drunken rages which made him bear more of her abuse, and thus develop a weaker constitution and more depressive state, which worried his own brother immensely who desperately sought for a way to rescue him. Saeran's demeanor changes to be that of a very loving boyfriend towards the MC. He fills her with compliments, sees her as his salvation and guiding light and stubbornly wants to do what it takes to sacrifice himself for her (and by extension his brother). In bad ends, it's shown he easily puts her own happiness above his to the point he foregoes his own wishes and wellbeing to make her happy. As for his brother, he regains his love for him back, claiming he always nurtured affection for him in the corner of his heart even when he was blinded by rage due to Rika's lies.

appearance

Saeran has white hair, though his natural hair is a vermilion colour; the ends of his hair are frosted pink, which are thought to be the faded colour of his red hair. His eyes are a mint colour, though his original eye colour is a gold colour, sharing the same eye colour as his twin brother. Saeran is 173 cm and weighs 130 lbs, and can be seen wearing a red tank top paired with a large, leather jacket as well as wearing a black choker around his neck and a spiked bracelet donned on his right wrist. At certain points in the story, he will wear a black mask to hide his identity that covers the lower half of his face. He also wears his leather jacket off on his right shoulder, showing the Mint Eye symbol that is tattooed on his upper arm with a half moon motif just below it.

history

Saeran, along with Saeyoung(708/luciel), is the illegitimate son of a high-ranking politician. Shortly after birth, their alcoholic mother exploited their identities by forcing their father to pay hush money. During his childhood years, he and Saeyoung were abused by their mother, but he received the brunt of it due to becoming ill more often than his twin and, being "weaker", he could not attend church when Saeyoung did. His fondest memories were of eating ice cream and sneaking out of his room to see the sky for the first time with Saeyoung. Saeyoung dedicated himself to freeing his brother as well as himself by learning how to hack from a textbook. Unfortunately, as Saeyoung's ability to hack grew to a professional level, Saeran was left behind, as his twin was offered a promising job by V that would free him and his brother, but with the price of not telling Saeran where he was going. After Saeyoung's disappearance, Saeran was more vulnerable than before, his mental state extremely fragile, and his mother's abuse became more vicious than ever. Under V's promise to Saeyoung to protect Saeran, he and Rika then paid a visit to his house, making a compromise with his mother to let him attend church school, or else they would expose her abusive behavior. One day, after Rika took a picture of Saeran to send to Saeyoung, she gave him a textbook on hacking, asking him to keep it a secret and believing in his potential. Shortly after her "suicide", two years before the events of Casual Story & Deep Story, Rika kidnapped and recruited Saeran into Mint Eye, where he was forced to take numerous substances and brainwashed into believing that Saeyoung had purposefully abandoned him because he was a burden. As Saeran devoted himself to Mint Eye, he had his right arm tattooed with its logo.

relationship with V

At first, Saeran and V were initially close with one another, with V deciding to take him under his wing with Rika. Together, the two treated Saeran as family and gave him the much needed love he craved all his childhood under his alcoholic, abusive mother's thumb, with Saeran seeing them as his own family after Saeyoung left Saeran to go work as a secret agent in order to work for a better future for the two of them away from their mother and their father. It is unknown when exactly Saeran turned against V, but eventually he grew to hold a deep hatred towards the older man as a result of Rika becoming more manipulative and warping Saeran's mind and brainwashing him to hate not only V, but the rest of the RFA, especially 707. V is deeply regretful that he had not noticed Rika manipulating Saeran and that he had allowed Saeran to become the person that he was, deciding ultimately to keep everything a secret from 707, as he believed it would be too painful for 707 to bear. Eventually, so great is Rika's brainwashing and Saeran's hatred of V, that in 707's Secret ending, he ends up shooting and killing V as a result of an emotional breakdown. During Another Story, even as 'Ray', Saeran holds a great deal of contempt towards V and tells the MC not to trust him, with the MC being able to comment that its strange how much he hates his own creations (as she was under the impression that the RFA was a game app talking with AIs). Throughout V's route, Ray/Saeran tells the MC how much he hates V, saying he is a hypocrite and a liar, going so far as to even send defaced pictures of V and Rika to the other members' houses. In V's route, V continues to hide Saeran's true identity from 707 as he does not want 707 to be in pain over what has happened to his brother. In V's AE, V rescues Saeran/Ray from the Mint Eye explosion Ray caused nurses him back to health and rehabilitates him for a while (6 months in Judgement Ending or 2 years in the Forgive Ending)

relationship with saeyoung/luciel/707

707/Saeyoung is revealed to Saeran/Unknown's older, twin brother; the two were illegitimate children due to being born out of wedlock to their mother and their father, who was a presidential candidate when they were younger. As a result of their status as illegitimate children, their mother would often blackmail their father with revealing everything to the public unless he would supply her a constant flow of money. Saeyoung tried to protect Saeran as best as he could as their mother was an abusive alcoholic who would beat the two of them up, but seemed to favour beating Saeran most of all as he was weaker than Saeyoung and was more likely to fall ill than his older brother. The two appeared to be very close in their childhood, feeling as if they only had each other and had to look out for one another in order to survive; because of their hopeless situation at home, Saeyoung took it upon himself to try and better their future and began to teach himself how to code and to hack, hoping that learning to do so would allow him to get a job and that they could both escape their abusive home life. Eventually, Saeyoung would meet Rika and V at church where they would convince him to join them, but only on the condition that Saeran would be left behind. Despite the difficult decision, Saeyoung left Saeran under the impression that he would be protected by Rika and V, and left to work as a secret agent where he ended up giving up his identity as Saeyoung Choi to protect Saeran. Saeran would eventually begin to see Saeyoung's decision as abandonment, becoming resentful of being left at home with his mother and Rika began to manipulate Saeran and fed into his growing hatred for his brother, eventually leading Saeran to becoming her most faithful follower at Mint Eye, all the while she told Saeyoung that Saeran was safe and sending him old photos to prove her statements. they reconcile after saeyoung saves him and now saeran lives with his brother as he slowly recovers.

facts

Albeit Saeran is slightly smaller and slender, he's the genetically identical twin brother of Seven[1][2]. Saeran's hair and eye color used to be the same as his brother until he was inducted to Mint Eye. Zen and Jaehee claim his hair is bleached after first meeting him. However, it's uncertain if he bleached it himself as he never mentions doing so in the game or in his diary[3]. Since his hair turns white right after his cleansing in Mint Eye is complete[4], it's possible it lost its color due to the trauma of the torture he went through. In one of Jaehee’s voicemails in Ray’s After Ending, she states that it is indeed dyed. At the end of the second secret ending, it's back to its original color. In a promotional postcard of the Special Believer's package where Seven is side-hugging him, his hair is also back to the red color. It's unclear if the mint color of his eyes was a side-effect of the drugs (or elixir) used by Mint Eye or if he's wearing colored contacts. According to Saeran's diary, Rika picked Ray's clothes. Despite not being directly stated, much like his twin brother, Saeran doesn't drink alcoholic beverages or smoke, since there are no mentions of him ever doing so. The cigarette he asks for in the first secret ending is actually a trick to steal Vanderwood's phone to contact Mint Eye's headquarters. No indications of him smoking exist throughout the game or the special packages. It's heavily implied both twins don't drink or smoke because it reminds them of their abusive mother. Despite Saeran having a sweet tooth, Ray confesses he doesn't like Dr. Pepper, partially because it reminds him of Seven but also because soft drinks give him headaches. he suffers from depression, clearly stating that he wants to die and even tries to kill himself before being stopped by Saeyoung.