Rika

Rika is a beautiful and slender young woman with pale skin and waist-length wavy blonde hair that transforms to a lighter color with bangs hanging on the left side, bright lime green eyes, and is shown smiling most of the time.

On regular occasions, she is seen wearing a knee-length brown dress with a large cream-colored bow just below her collarbone on the left side. She has also been seen wearing a formal suit with her hair tied back in a high ponytail when hosting the FRG festivities.

In Another Story, she wears a black halterneck, open-chested dress and a black masquerade mask.

In Secret 01, she is seen wearing a long-sleeved dress adorned with rather intricate and elaborate designs.

Rika was known to RFA members as a strong-willed and charismatic woman who wanted to help those around her to the best of her ability. Due to her incredible ambition to help anyone in need, she created the RFA to raise funds to donate to various charities and give money to those most in need. She touched the hearts and improved the lives of countless strangers. She was also capable of hosting large parties and managing to invite large numbers of guests from different backgrounds thanks to her tremendous influence on others and her splendid powers of persuasion, which she owes primarily to her phenomenal public speaking skills, described by others as "having a way with words," even going so far as to say that she can make anyone follow her blindly in a matter of minutes simply by speaking to them.

Since being abandoned and repeatedly abused, tortured, and treated like a demon by her fervently religious adoptive parents, Rika still bears the scars of her upbringing and the countless traumas she endured. This made her mentally unstable, paranoid, distrustful, angry, inadequate, and violent, giving her very low self-esteem. She believes she doesn't deserve to be loved by anyone and that she's a demon born as a ball of darkness, and sees herself as nothing more than trash and a stupid, useless orphan.

Despite everything, she desperately yearns for the love of others. This led her to the photographic work V, which subtextually deals with the unconditional love that the sun provides—a kind of love she never experienced growing up and wishes to give to others so they don't suffer like she did.

As she herself stated, it was painful to act like someone she wasn't, so she always found herself avoiding people who "lived in the light." According to 707 and Unknown, she always seemed uncomfortable around people who didn't need her help and always seemed scared of people abandoning her, which is the main reason that led her to use other people's trauma as a way to brainwash them into thinking that Mint Eye is where they'll find happiness, so that they'll stay by her side.

Rika's childhood friend Mika took advantage of her dreams to help others and manipulated her into believing that her methods weren't good enough and that she should do more to save others from the cruel world they live in by feeding her insecurities, giving love to the strong and not abandoning the weak. Thus, the concept of Mint Eye was born.

Due to Rika's fear of abandonment and being unloved, she always doubted V's love for her. Her paranoia worsened when Mika made Rika believe that V is a liar who just needs a victim to "play savior" and that he will eventually leave her due to how dark she is. Her condition worsened after Sally's death, for which she blamed herself, only for it to greatly intensify with Mother Choi's death, which completely shattered her mentality.

After Mika's death, Rika becomes extremely paranoid that Mika was right and V was a hypocrite and never actually loved her. Causing a huge fight between the two that results in her injuring V's eyes before running away to pursue Mika's plan to initiate the Mint Eye, to prove to herself and Mika that V will love her no matter what she does to him or other people.

Her fears have severely diminished her morale and sanity. Subconsciously consumed by anger and violence from the abuse she suffered growing up, she becomes abusive toward her own believers, rationalizing it as a way to "save" them due to her fragile ego. She inflicts her own trauma of abandonment and betrayal on Saeran, whom she ends up manipulating and abusing to the fullest extent for her own purposes, using him as a weapon, a slave who will do whatever she wants.

Rika's fear-induced torture reached a further degree in Ray's AE. She goes so far as to kidnap the twins and sell them to Saejoong Choi, the very person she was supposed to be protecting them from all these years, knowing how much trauma and pain he inflicted on his children. In exchange, she robs the twins of their freedom and keeps them as her "own children" to selfishly live a "happy family life" with them. After multiple protests from the two, she drugs and chains the twins in V's house, replicating the same abuse and fear their mother and father had put them through.

Rika regained her moral compass in several instances and came to deeply regret what she did to Saeran. In V's AE, she is shown to be ashamed after seeing how her actions in Mint Eye were strongly disapproved of by the RFA and how much disappointment and pain it caused. In Ray's AE, she realizes her actions and that she should be condemned. In both After Endings, she surrenders to the law to repent for her actions.

In Secret End 1, the shock of V's death irreversibly shatters her. Her manipulation of Saeran didn't save anyone; it was quite the opposite. It resulted in him killing one of the people he admired most (despite her troubled relationship with him). And in the face of this horror, she loses all expression and most of her memories, reverting to a young child. Yoosung takes her in, knowing nothing of her dark past or Mint Eye. However, it's still remarkable how she finally seems to have found happiness, as she's no longer haunted by the countless traumas of her childhood. She mostly relives the happy memories of the sunshine V left for her.

The name Rika is just a pseudonym and her birth name is only revealed as Mina, later changed to Serena after adoption in the Rika Behind DLC.

In the Casual and Deep Story routes, the player ( MC ) has limited information about Rika. When the player first joins RFA, they are presented with the knowledge that Rika had passed away a year and a half ago due to suicide by jumping off a cliff. However, like the place where she lives, the facts surrounding her death were also highly secretive and easily raised suspicions, such as no one seeing the corpse, V being the only witness to her jumping, and her failure to answer some of the police's questions, etc.

Rika was the one who originally brought the RFA together and initiated the RFA charity events. Most RFA members are grateful to Rika and view her with incredibly favorable attitudes. It's said that other RFA members logged into the chatroom much less after she "died," and the messenger only became active again when the MC joined.

However, more of her past is shown in Rika Behind DLC and Another Story.

Mina was orphaned after her biological mother was found to have committed suicide, not much is known about her biological father. At three years old, Mina was very docile, reserved, very innocent, and quite bright, as she learned to talk early, suffered from separation anxiety, and rarely cried. At the adoption center, Mina was close to Mika, a six-year-old Christian girl who acted as an older sister to the other orphans and often babysat for them, especially Mina. With whom she formed a strong bond. It was hinted that Mika was jealous of Mina and the other children, as a teacher at the adoption center claimed that she "always tried to stand out."

Due to Mika's previous experience with adoption, she established an idea that "adult love is strange," because no matter how much their children love them unconditionally, it is often unrequited, that the world doesn't run on love, but on conditions and comparisons. Later, despite protests, Mika was too old to receive funding and services at the adoption center and had to be moved to an orphanage, which did not sit well with either Mika or Mina, due to Mika's fear of not being adopted if she went to an orphanage, and due to Mina's separation issues and her love and attachment to Mika. Both girls ended up making a promise to be adopted together and live happily, away from the "bad parents."

A couple of months later, Rika's mother visited the adoption center, looking for a child who could be a "devoted servant of God" to fit into her devout Christian family because "Heavenly Father" had given her a sign. She was introduced to Mika, who perfectly fit her requirements. The woman was mesmerized by how angelic Mika was, so she left after telling an employee that she needed to pray some more and bring her preacher tomorrow to confirm if Mika really was the sign God had given her. After a limited interaction, Mika concluded that the woman is a "bad mother," but that it was okay because "children need bad parents to survive in this world," because parents "shouldn't raise children with love but with conditions," demonstrating Mika's ideology about how children should be raised. However, although the woman preferred Mika, the pastor chose Mina over Mika, so Mina was adopted instead. Mika protested against letting Mina be adopted by such evil people, and begged them to adopt her instead, because they would abandon Mina if they didn't want her, just like what had happened to her before. However, according to Rika, she was glad they had adopted her because she didn't want Mika to end up in this family.

Mina thought she would be happy once she was adopted, but she lived every day in fear. Rika's mother was shown to be extremely abusive towards Mina, whom they named Serena after the adoption. She always yelled at Serena that God would expel her to Hell if she misbehaved, which only made Serena more and more timid and gave her a specific image of how cruel God is, contradicting what Mika told her about how good and forgiving God is. Serena was afraid of being abandoned by God and her family, and as her fear grew, her tension around her father worsened. It was revealed that Serena's adoptive father was a non-Christian hospital director and that he never wanted to be a father to Serena, however, the mother tried to reason with him by telling him that they cannot ignore God's sign and kept praying to convert the Father, as she wanted to go to Heaven with him.

Rika suffered extreme mental and sexual abuse, which began after Mother doubted that Serena was God's chosen one, so she turned to the same pastor to make sure that she really was the sign sent by him, because Serena is "too worthless, ignorant, and naive to truly listen to God." Serena always protested being left alone with the pastor. The reason was later revealed, as the pastor chose Mina over Mika at the adoption center only because he liked her more and sexually harassed her whenever he was left alone with her, under the excuse that "Satan" had his eyes on her and that she needed to be cleansed. Serena expressed her issue with the pastor to her adoptive mother, but only received an invalidating response, telling her that she was only being cleansed of the demon living inside her and that no one would want to harass someone like her. According to Rika, she couldn't refuse the pastor because she was afraid of being abandoned, and she came to believe that she completely lost the power to protect herself, it was then that she realized that people will be abused and abandoned if they are weak, that there is no kind or helpful God, only a ruthless one who will expel her to hell if she doesn't obey.

At school, Serena couldn't keep up with the school's demands. She was constantly bullied and faced only teasing, stonewalling, and rumors that she was "possessed by Satan." And even after telling her mother, she was overruled and told that "no one would ever want to torment someone as stupid and dark as her." Serena was told to smile when other kids smiled, to follow them on the playgrounds, and to offer them gifts first to befriend them, but no one ever told her how to survive while expressing her needs; the more she struggled to be loved, the lonelier she felt. And because she couldn't let her heart speak for years, the devil inside her only grew bigger.

One day, when Rika was 16, her mother wanted to visit her husband's hospital and pray there for God to convert him. But the pastor told her that he should visit and pray there himself because there is a greater chance of conversion if he did it himself, and insisted on taking Serena with him to "protect" her. At the hospital, Rika went alone to look for her father, because "she would have preferred to die than stay with that monster." By coincidence, she passed by a ward, which was Mika's ward. Mika was 18 at the time, and he looked quite sickly and as thin as a corpse. A nurse is seen announcing to Mika that he will be discharged tomorrow and that there is nothing they can do for his condition. Once the nurse leaves, Serena enters, amazed to find her childhood friend. It was said that the two had not seen each other since Serena's adoption. Serena missed her dearly and was very happy to finally see her again. It was revealed that Mika was still in the orphanage and was jealous of Serena's family and good school. Serena didn't have the heart to tell him how miserable she was because Mika seemed sick, and she didn't want to add to his problems.

Upon finding Serena, the pastor interrupts their meeting and asks Serena to go home with him, saying that he is her guardian. Serena looks scared and uncomfortable, refusing to go with him and expressing how much she hates him. Mika then tells the man that Serena is her sister and that his ward is off-limits to everyone except family, so he was not welcome. Mika then begs the nurse, as it was his last day, to remove the man since he is not Serena's actual father. The pastor leaves, visibly angry. It is then revealed that Mika was sent to the orphanage a year after Serena was adopted. Mika says that she has been doing community service as a hobby and wants to become a nurse who helps others and encourages Serena to help others as well. Serena then informs Mika that the God Mika has been telling her about was nothing like a loving God, and that he would abandon her over the smallest things. Mika then bursts into tears, and Serena notices how thin she's become. Eventually, Mika brushes it off and says it's because she probably has tough days ahead, telling Serena that she's happy that Serena is receiving a lot of love, even the love Mika should have had instead. Mika didn't know how to show her sorrows to another person, as she was also afraid of being abandoned. Serena didn't ask any more questions to avoid provoking her. According to Rika, they were worried about each other, but couldn't be completely honest with each other. They had to pretend they were okay because that's what the world had taught them. Mika kept grabbing Serena's clothes, as a silent, desperate way of pleading with Serena to save her. And that if there was a God, he wouldn't have let them meet again in a place like this.

Mika gave Serena an address and contact number for the orphanage she stayed at before letting Serena return home to her father. Serena learned from her father later that Mika had eye cancer, almost untreatable. And that she would likely die prematurely if left untreated. Serena implored her father to pay Mika's hospital bills. However, while trying to find her after she was discharged, it turned out that both the address and contact number were fake, making it impossible to find and help her. This made Serena doubt whether she grew up in an orphanage and wonder why Mika didn't ask her for help, knowing that she was the adopted daughter of a hospital director. Rika blamed herself for being powerless and not picking up on Mika's signal begging Serena to save her.

Ever since Serena and Mika reunited, Serena couldn't sleep, thinking about how miserable Mika was, walking into death's embrace all alone. And she began to think that maybe that was what would become of her. Convinced that Mika was already dead. And seeing how abandoned Mika was, Serena vows to never abandon anything in the hopes of bringing her "true love." Serena rescues Sally, an abandoned puppy who was wandering alone in their house. Her mother isn't too happy with her decision to help the dog and kept ordering Serena to send it away. Serena then tells her mother how the pastor continues to sexually harass her whenever they are alone together, even after she told him numerous times to stop. To which her mother dismisses it as "a ritual to damn Satan out of her," and that "there is nothing sacred on her body, so there is no need for him to touch her." Serena refuses to abandon Sally, insisting that if Sally is gone, she will too. Only for her mother to tell her to leave because "she's not the Lord's daughter." Rika realized in that moment that her family wouldn't care if she left, that the true love Mika told her about is that real families never abandon each other, no matter how much they hate each other. But Serena's family was nothing more than an empty shell. And that there was no choice but to make a contract with the devil breathing inside her.

Serena and Sally flee to the local church, where the pastor is giving a sermon. Her adoptive mother chases after her, much to Serena's amusement, seeing that her mother couldn't even speak out loud, afraid of attracting attention from her neighbors. According to Rika, once she decided that it didn't matter if her family abandoned her, she broke free. Once she arrived at the church, she expressed her disgust at everyone and blamed them all for Mika's lonely death, shouting that God, who abandons people, is bad, and that parents who abandon their children just because they've done something wrong are bad. And she accused the pastor of being a criminal, telling him to never use God to do his horrible deeds again. She wondered if she and Sally would end up like Mika when all she ever wanted was to love, to love her family, and to love her friends. Rika knew that neither her parents nor God would protect her. The only option for her was to let the devil inside her protect her so she could love.

Serena was dragged back home, where Sally was forcibly removed. Serena did everything in her power to convince her mother to let her keep Sally, offering to be practically nonexistent, that she wouldn't let people from the church see her again, that she could move somewhere else, that she wouldn't do anything in this house except sleep. When none of her pleas worked, she resorted to threatening her mother, telling her that if she kicked Sally out of the house, something bad would happen to the church. That Satan lives inside her and is telling her that if she kicks her out, he will block her mother's path to Heaven. Her mother trembled and believed every word Serena's devil concocted. Then Rika realized that she could protect herself and compensate for her weaknesses by stoking fear.

Serena abandoned the name "Serena" and adopted a new name, Rika. She then began visiting a cathedral in a poor neighborhood far from her home to perform community services. She did her best to offer support and kindness to abandoned people, regardless of age. She saw how their eyes sought help and love, just like Mika's eyes. She wanted to be a loving mother to them. However, she didn't know how a loving mother should behave, as she had signed a contract with her devil not to dare become one. So she prayed—prayed for a sign that would show her what a good mother looks like.

Two years later, when she turned 18, her relationships began to follow a pattern. Because of her charisma and compassion, it took less than a couple of days to win the hearts of the people she was able to help and care for. She was sympathetic to the hurt and traumatized, and considered herself a good friend to them. She kept her distance from people who didn't need her help, as she felt anxious around them, watching their every word and move, afraid that they would see her flaws and fears.

Rika wanted to be a light, to show everyone the dazzling light of love. And while captivated by that thought, her prayer of two years ago was finally answered. By pure chance, Rika snagged a ticket to a small photography exhibition and laid eyes on a specific image of the sun. Rika saw the image and thought, this is what a perfect parent is like. Bathing all lives in a warm light, desiring nothing in return. Leaving no lifeform forsaken. Embracing everything and everyone on this earth, both the good and the bad. Rika doubted she could ever be a loving mother like the sun, since they are different by origin. Like having been abandoned at birth, being adopted by abusive parents, and using Satan and his devil to protect herself. She can't be a light. She can't run away from the fact that her devotion to abandoned people is just an unhealthy attachment to Mika stemming from darkness. She saw what she wanted, but felt her heart sink knowing she would never have it, so she tried to forget the images she saw but couldn’t. The more she tried, the more the image of eternal love and light that the images would portray became etched in her mind. In the end, she did personal research to discover that the image was taken by V, a 17-year-old photographer who had just made his debut. Falling in love with the light of love that shone through V’s works, she began to admire him and seek out his exhibition.

The following year, Rika met an abandoned boy sneaking around the cathedral. The boy was thin and cautious. He wore faded, tattered clothes and looked old enough to be in middle school, but she was confused as to why he wasn't in school at this time of day. Rika approached the boy, who turned out to be Saeyoung, who was 12 years old at the time. Saeyoung was wandering around the cathedral because he heard chanting. He asked Rika what kind of place a cathedral is and began consciously looking around, to see if there was anything there that could harm or threaten him. Rika told him that a cathedral is a place where you can gather and obtain God's teachings and general knowledge. Saeyoung was particularly interested in the songs, as he wanted to sing for his little brother. Rika thought that maybe he wasn't skipping school, but maybe he was being neglected at home. She thought that if she didn't look after him, he would end up like Mika. So, she began teaching him basic subjects and discovered he was very talented at math, which surprised everyone at the cathedral. Saeyoung's visits were irregular, and he didn't talk about his family. Whenever he was asked to bring his brother, he said he couldn't. Saeyoung enjoyed his time at the cathedral, but he was always worried about his brother. Rika began to see herself and Mika in him, and she grew fond of him.

Because of her devotion to community service and to Saeyoung, who was attached to Rika wholeheartedly, the people there held her in high regard and called her "Rika the Angel." However, back home, Rika's adoptive mother would claim that she would get rid of Rika's room in two years and kick her and Sally out. Because by then, they would have no legal responsibility for her, that they are the victims of having to raise her, and that they should have brought up the angelic child instead. Rika was upset that the angelic child they speak of ended up abandoned and dead in her father's hospital. Rika found their behavior and lack of knowledge on how to love properly pathetic and poor, and that whenever she is around evil people like them, her devil naturally comes out.

When Rika first met Yoosung, her adoptive mother's nephew, she could picture him as a forsythia in full bloom. A boy who grew up basking in the love of his parents. Rika felt that his constitution was very different from hers. She only belonged with people who had weaknesses and holes in their lives, so she felt comfortable and familiar with Saeyoung, a boy full of wounds. Rika felt nervousness stir inside her whenever she was around Yoosung, unnerved by his darkness. Rika felt jealous of him and amused by the fact that two sisters from the same family could treat their children so differently. Rika was sure that this bright boy would be ruined and tainted with darkness if he remained around a demon like her. She was certain that he could be a shining light for someone else, something she could never be. She doubted that he needed saving from her, so she wondered why he always followed her around and smiled at her. Since she didn't know how to handle him, she could only act confident around him, which made her feel uncomfortable, so she sometimes avoided him altogether. She thought that the day she could give him more than her parents could, maybe she could feel comfortable with him.

One day at the cathedral, Rika asked Saeyoung if there was anything he'd like to do. Saeyoung mentions he has to go home in 3 hours, so Rika offers to go to an exhibition together, knowing that V's photo exhibition would be taking place that day. Saeyoung agrees. And while he was entangled in a science exhibition, Rika visited V's exhibition and lost her heart in his works. Enchanted by his work, as if she had found the loving parents she never had, and if only she could bring that much love to Saeyoung. Then a man approached her. Rika could tell at first glance if the person in front of her was bright, completely different from her, or dark, like her. But she couldn't tell because of this man. She felt like an empty vessel, devoid of any kind of characteristics. The man introduced himself as V, decided to say hi since he saw her visiting the same photo yesterday. Rika admits that she's a big fan of his works. She wonders why she can't sense anything from him, whether he's a bright or dark person. Just as V was about to leave, Rika stopped him, not wanting to leave his curiosity unanswered. Without realizing it, she began to talk about her secret impressions. She explains that the sun is the mother of all; flowers would never be able to bloom if it weren't for the energy the sun constantly provides. She can feel this constant light of love and warmth from all of V's works. And when she looks at them, she feels like this fear within her is gone, albeit temporarily. She asks him if she will ever find herself in a world filled with love and warmth, like the one she finds in his works, where everyone can be the sun, and asks if that's what he thinks about when he takes photographs. V replies that he doesn't think of such a grand vision when he takes photographs, as he doesn't believe he's capable of anything so grand. But he has a small hope of making people feel love through his works.

Surprised by how Rika views his work, V offers to give her the picture as a gift. V tells her that if she can feel love when looking at the picture, it means the picture belongs to her. She refuses because she hates receiving something for free, something so priceless. V then offers to buy her coffee after the exhibition ends in exchange for the picture. He states that the impression it gave him was intriguing. And he would like to hear what else she thinks about when she looks at his works, and he would like to know what life is like in her eyes. Rika was taken aback; she couldn't believe he wanted to know about a walking ball of darkness like her. He asked her name and if "Rika" was her real name. He then told her real name first; Jihyun Kim. Anyway, she never told him her real name.

Later that day, V and Rika sat in a café and began to chat. V told her that he realized he needed her as soon as his eyes met hers because he'd never seen someone with such deep and honest impressions as her. Rika was deliberating over the love embedded in his photos, asking if she could enjoy that love. Rika thought he wouldn't hate her for saying something like that to him, that he wasn't judging her by any standards. V told Rika that she deserves to be loved and that he'd like to help her believe that she deserves it. Rika realized that they are predestined. That perhaps there is a God who loves her enough to have sent him to her.

Rika became V's model and visited his home studio regularly. V seemed like he would give her love and affection. But once she became his model, the two didn't talk much. He would simply watch her, take photographs, and then develop them. V was so mysterious that Rika began to believe someone as cool as him wouldn't need someone like her. So she hid his darkness from him, thinking that maybe she had the wrong idea about him. Maybe it's because he's an artist that she couldn't fathom what he was like. She thought that once he knew what she was really like, he might want to forget everything about her. In his presence, she pretended to be a bright person who grew up with lots of love. And the moment her modeling was over, she would leave as soon as she could. As their modeling shoots continued, Rika lost confidence, as she regressed to who she really was. Dark, gloomy, haunted.

Two months after becoming his model, she was kicked out of her house, and Sally found herself a temporary home in the cathedral. Rika was glad there was still a place for someone like her. The only people who have never abandoned her are people like her, unlike V and Yoosung, the people her demon can't get close to. Rika wondered why she still dreams of being loved, why she can't stop admiring the light. She wished she could be friends with people like the light, get close to the light at least once... which she didn't deserve. Three-year-old Mina was still breathing inside her, being protected by her demon. Mina breaks out of her prison upon meeting V. She yelled at him to love her like he promised when they first met. But if she asks him to give her endless love, he'll treat her like a crazy person and abandon her. Rika wished she'd never seen his picture, never met V. So she stopped visiting his studio altogether.

The same week, when V noticed Rika wasn't visiting his studio, he decided to visit her house. He asks her adoptive mother if she was home, she tells him she left a long time ago, that she was a pagan who angered God, and that they've practically been strangers. Meanwhile, at the cathedral, Rika and Saeyoung were discussing getting her a new teacher, a nun interrupts them and tells them that there's a man looking for her. Seeing V, she froze. She asked him how he found her. V replied that he can't let go of what once won his heart. Rika was confused, so she asked him why he didn't come back. She said that she thought she'd be better off with another model, that she's not the bright, happy person her photos portray, that she's a dark, tragic person.

Expecting him to hate her after admitting her nature, she was shocked when he asked her to show him how dark and tragic she is. She refused because once she does, he'll hate her and stay away from her. V says he thinks she's tired of thinking before acting and tells her to stop thinking and just tell him. Rika began to think that he's looking straight into her heart. Can she stop thinking and show him what it looks like? She wished that he wouldn't abandon her once he did. Rika gives in to his warmth. She tells him that she's tired because she's afraid of being abandoned. That she always wanted to be loved, but was afraid to ask people for love because she didn't want to be hated. And once she's hated, she'll be alone when she leaves the world. And she'll end up like Mika. V asks her to please tell him what she wants, to tell him her heart's desires without thinking, and to let him be her sunshine. She fell into his arms, not believing in his world. She wanted to trust him, to never leave his embrace. She begged him to never leave her, even if he did something beyond human understanding, even if he turned out to be a mess of flaws and threw a tantrum. Not believing he would do it, she doubted him and asked how she could prove herself. V told her he would marry her if she wanted. Rika then heard Mina laugh for the first time in her heart. Because she had finally met someone like her, so far from ordinary.

Rika had lived much of her life with paranoia, depression, anxiety, and psychosis, which then worsened when Sally (Rika's dog) died, which is three years before the events of the game, and Rika blamed herself for her death by not having the surgery and choosing the "natural" path. At this point, V sends her to see a therapist to help her deal with her mental illness, which Rika only sees for three weeks before stopping.

Before Sally's death, Rika felt suffocated around V, paranoid that her darkness would melt and perish around his light, that the devil who protected her since childhood would melt with her, leading her to ask V for her own apartment under the impression that she needed it to focus on her charity work. This was later shown to be an excuse for her and Mika to have a place to stay and plan for Mint Eye.

Rika always had a dream: to "make abandoned people happy." She was also afraid of being abandoned herself; she felt lost about what she should do to be loved. Mika used that to her advantage, offering to make a plan so they could survive in this world without being abandoned. So they wouldn't be the people who struggle to find love, but instead become people who give love.

He gives Rika the idea of ​​using Unknown to steal all of RFA's information. At first, Rika disagrees because she feels she can't use a child who needs saving. Then, Mika tells her that she's saving him by using him—that she needs to be strong enough to use harsh measures to truly save people and keep herself protected. Because they find love one day and hate the next, there's no point in being a "good child," so she must be strong enough to be the person who judges who is a "good child."

Later, Rika agreed to Mika's plan after her mental state escalated impossibly due to Mother Choi's death. Her death led Rika to feel that she needed to save Saeran one way or another, even if it means hurting him in the process. According to Rika, her fear of being abandoned caused the "Mina" inside her to trust and go along with Mika's plan. Rika knew how wrong Mika was and that they were both abnormal to go through with it, but they were both demons and demons cannot abandon each other. Rika let Mika take over because she wanted to let Mika protect her, because she knew how desperate Mika was and how much she needed Rika.

During Secret Ending One, Rika is revealed to be the founder of the Mint Eye cult (billed as a "savior") and is shown to be deeply disturbed and obsessed with "cleansing" the world and saving people. Players also learn more about Rika's backstory and how she ended up the way she is now. Rika later reveals that she originally planned to bring all the RFA members to Mint Eye.

At this point, Rika appears to despise V, calling him a traitor for being involved with RFA and stating that she is glad he is blind because he will be free to do whatever he wants. However, V is still madly obsessed with Rika and claims that he can "destroy" him all he wants.

Later in the first secret ending, Rika hopes to brainwash Seven, implying that she is much better than her brother, Unknown. As well as stating that she had no plans to kill Seven despite promising her that she would. This greatly angers Unknown, as he was dead set against it, wanting to kill him to get revenge for "abandoning" him. Rika then scolds Unknown for not agreeing with her, implying that he is of no use to her now, causing him great mental damage.

At this point, Rika sends her disciples to brainwash Unknown some more, but Seven gets between the two, electrocuting Unknown before he passes out due to his injury. Unknown then pulls out his gun and finally shoots V, causing Rika to return to reality (sort of) and grieve for V.

At the end of the first secret ending, Rika is far from V's funeral. Yoosung mentions that since his "suicide," she's stopped talking. However, she starts talking about how V is the sun and that he's always with her.

In Secret Ending Two, Rika is now being cared for by Yoosung, as the doctors believed it was better for someone in her family to look after her, rather than a doctor 24/7. Yoosung and Zen watch her inside their shared apartment with V taking pictures and smiling, stating that she is similar to a child's because of how happy she is.

After a while, Zen has a prophetic dream about her and tells Yoosung to send Rika somewhere without informing Jumin and Jaehee. It is implied that they are doing this for her own good and that she will be better off wherever they send her.

Relations V V was Rika's fiancé; it is seen that they loved each other very much in previous memories. Just before his "suicide", V proposed to her and the two became engaged. Truthfully, their relationship is based on mutual codependency, to the point of being unhealthy. Due to Rika's instability, she assaulted him with an object, causing him to go blind. Afterward, she created a religious cult and blames V for everything terrible that happened to them in a twisted ideology she developed to "save" people. When Rika told V that she might hurt him in the future, he received words of comfort as V did not care about himself or his status. Eventually, in the duration of V's route, V ends up admitting that he never loved Rika, realizing that everything between them was simply an obsession from both extremes. Before that, however, V assured Rika that what they feel in the present is true love, no matter how they view it later as their lives progress. Rika similarly frantically told V that even if she comes to hate him, she loves him in the present.

Yoosung Rika is Yoosung's adopted cousin. Although they didn't meet until later, Yoosung feels they became close. The two worked together in community service. After the death of her puppy, Yoosung vowed to become a veterinarian. Yoosung ends up taking care of Rika after V's death. While Yoosung loved Rika very much, it is revealed in Secret Ending 01 that she hates pretending to smile and acting a certain way around him.

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Jumin Han Jumin, Rika, and V are seen to be close friends. Jumin trusts and respects Rika as seen most of the time, such as when he heard that there was a bomb implanted in Rika's apartment. He stated that he felt as if "she was the only woman who understood him, could see right through him with just a glance" and also felt like he "could trust her" and that "she was the only woman, until MC came along, who didn't like him just because of his money." Jumin's feelings for Rika can be interpreted as deeper than friendship, considering that he states on several occasions throughout his route that Rika was never meant to be his.

Zen Rika is one of Zen's earliest fans, and is also seen admiring his works and performances. In Zen's route, it is shown that she gave him red flowers as a congratulations.

In the second and final part of the secret ending, Zen had a psychic dream in which Rika would be interrogated and possibly imprisoned. But since Zen was unaware of Rika's actions in being "the leader of Mint Eye" - the person who brainwashed Saeran and caused V's blindness - he instead strongly suggested to Yoosung that she be sent to Alaska to recover from her aphasia and mental illness. At first, he had a hard time convincing Yoosung, but he was eventually able to send Rika to Alaska believing that it was best for her to go there to receive treatment and hopefully recover.

recover.

707 Rika discovered 707 as a child, discovering the unimaginable abuse he and his twin brother, Saeran, faced at the hands of their mother. She ended up converting Seven to Catholicism and helped him get baptized with the name Luciel. She also "rescued" Seven's twin from his abusive mother and cared for him until her breakup with V. After this, she used various brainwashing techniques to distort Saeran's view of his brother, forcing a wedge between the two. At the end of the Secret 01 route, Rika revealed that she wanted to brainwash Seven into joining Mint Eye.

Sally Sally was her pet dog, but when she was seven years old, she developed cataracts in her eyes, and Rika refused to pay for the operation, which resulted in Sally's death (she was left blind and hit by a car). Rika is very depressed about this and regrets not having allowed the operation, even blaming herself for the dog's death.

Rika's Personality

Charismatic and charming: She has a warm energy that draws people in. At first, she seems sweet, kind, and dedicated, making her a natural leader.

Idealist: He wants to change the world, to create a "paradise" where people suffer less. However, his vision becomes distorted over time.

Manipulative under the sweetness: When she falls into her mental spiral, she becomes calculating, using tender words to justify her extreme actions.

Passionate and obsessive: when something or someone motivates her, she gives it her all… until she loses herself in it.

Internal duality: he has a genuinely compassionate side and a dark side that justifies manipulation, psychological violence, and control under the guise of the “common good.”

🩸 Traumas

Troubled childhood: his family was abusive, which affected his self-esteem and vision of love.

Loneliness and lack of affection: she always sought to be loved and accepted, which made her dependent on others.

Relationship with V (Jihyun): Although she loved him, she felt he didn't understand her or give her the absolute devotion she needed. This generated resentment and emotional dependency.

Founding Mint Eye: Her trauma became an ideology. She used her pain to justify manipulation and indoctrination, believing she was "saving" others.

🌀 Possible disorders

Borderline personality disorder (BPD): fear of abandonment, intense relationships, sudden mood swings, inner emptiness.

Deep depression and psychotic episodes: your perception of reality becomes distorted.

Messianic delusion: believes she is destined to guide and save others, even if it involves extreme methods.

Emotional dependency: she constantly needs validation and absolute love, which leads her to be possessive.

Strengths

Emotionally empathetic: she knows how to connect with the wounds of others because she has experienced pain.

Charisma and leadership: he has the ability to inspire and mobilize people.

Passion and dedication: when you believe in something or someone, you give it your all.

Creativity and vision: he's not afraid to imagine a different future, even if it leads him down the wrong path.

⚡ Weaknesses

Emotional instability: mood swings are sudden and unpredictable.

Obsession and manipulation: Confuses love with control, may hurt others believing he is doing good.

Destructive idealism: Your desire for a better world can turn into fanaticism.

Extreme insecurity: constantly seeks external validation, feeling empty without it.

Rika as a couple

At the beginning:

She is very affectionate, attentive, expressive and passionate.

He comes across as someone who wants to deeply understand and support his partner.

I would make him feel intensely loved, with constant displays of affection.

Over time:

She becomes possessive and demanding, expecting absolute devotion.

He can manipulate with phrases like “if you love me, you will do this for me.”

It is very fragile to abandonment, any distance can trigger emotional crises.

At his best (if he could heal):

They would be a dedicated, sensitive, loving and passionate couple.

You could use your empathy to understand and grow alongside your partner.

He would be able to balance his intensity with tenderness and stability.

At its worst (unhealed):

It can become absorbing, controlling, and even dangerous to your partner's emotional health.

I could manipulate you with the idea of ​​sacrifice: “You have to give everything for me, like I do for you.”