Yooran

Yooran is the slash ship between Yoosung Kim and Saeran Choi from the Mystic Messenger fandom.

Canon
Saeran, being against the RFA, knows everything about everyone in it. This includes Yoosung. In many of the routes, Yoosung and Saeran are on opposing sides of conflict. Yoosung is normally on Saeyoung's side while Saeran holds a grudge against Saeyoung for "leaving" him. What Saeran has against the RFA and Saeyoung has driven him to do things like torture and injure Yoosung.

Yoosung's Route
Saeyoung and Yoosung infiltrated Mint Eye together. Saeran sees them and Saeyoung asks Yoosung to wait outside. Later, Yoosung tries to stop Saeran from pressing a switch that will detonate a bomb in Rika's apartment. Saeyoung runs off with the switch and Yoosung says he'll catch up with him. Saeran tries to get Yoosung to talk about MC. Saeran then blinds Yoosung in his left eye.

Bad Story Ending 3
After Saeyoung and Yoosung infiltrate Mint Eye, Saeyoung is forced to escape without Yoosung. Though Saeran is mad at Yoosung for messing everything up, he does not blind Yoosung in one eye. He instead holds him hostage as he taunts and threatens him. He considers making Yoosung do what his mom did to him when he didn't listen, tie him up so he had to stand for 24 hours. Saeran continued to think of ways to torture Yoosung.

Another Story
Saeran tells MC that the members of the RFA are simply AI in a game. While talking to MC, Saeran reveals that he sees Yoosung as the character that wants to live tucked in his safe zone while waiting for someone to make decisions for him. When talking about how Yoosung is mourning Rika's death, Saeran questions if Yoosung is sad because of Rika's death or because death is still a mystery to him.

"That character is very unstable. He has no idea who he is or where he wants to go. He's trapped in the thought that somebody has to decide them for him. So that's why he's unstable. He's incapable of making choices for himself. So he lets others choose for him and depend on their choices without any question. But that somebody is no longer with him, so there's no way for him to avoid his fear. And that's why he wants to blame someone else to feel secure. But there's no one for him to really blame. Of course I already have an algorithm ready to save AI Yoosung."

- Saeran about Yoosung in "I Keep Thinking Of You"

Fanon
Yooran has grown in popularity, though it is still overshadowed by Yoosung's ship with Saeran's brother. It's also rivaled by both boys' ships with MC. There has been plenty of fan art of Yooran made by many different people. Though, a lot of fan art was created by koutone9. There are currently 300+ works of the pair on AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

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