Alexis Leskinen is the main antagonist of Steins;Gate 0. He is the renoved professor at the Viktor Chondria University who become the secret agent of Stratfor known as the Professor who will callously experiment on tons of people in order to stop at nothing to obtain the Time Machine to accomplish his own agenda, even if is causes WWIII.
He was voiced by Yōji Ueda in Japanese and Christopher Wehkamp in English.
Appearance[]
Leskinen appears to be a middle-aged Finnish-American man of average build. He has short blond hair, olive green eyes and usually wears a white coat under a brown business suit.
Personality[]
Leskinen first appears as a seemingly friendly man, who seems to be fond of other people to the point of showing tons of affection to him such as hugging Okabe aggressively out of excitement for seeing him again. who also like science and takes his work very seriously. He also has highly childish and mischievous personily, playfully poking fun at them and hyper fixating on any possible romantic implications a situation might have. Although, in reality the real Leskinen is as Okabe describes "a cruel Scientific Fundamentalist who thought nothing of human lives or hearts". He valued people only on the amount of information they could give him and showed no remorse towards the people he experimented. He also viewed all possible friends and attachments as ultimately no big deal compare to his need for information which is how he was able to Brainwash his student Maho and torture his friend Okabe.
While he claims that his actions will prevent WWIII in reality his need for control and information make the conflict even worse. When shown that his plan failed he shows no remorse for causing WWIII and even shows pride in his actions such as brainwashing Kagrai while posing as the "voice of God" and laughs at he people of the city having no idea that war will break out soon.
His anime version is even more immoral and egoistical as he shows pride in being called the "voice of god" takes being called a mad scientist by Okabe as a compliment, and admits the real reason he wants the time machine is just to obtain information about how time travel works openly admitting that not only does he not care that it would cause a time paradox but that he looks forward to seeing the result of destroying the world and time.
Biography[]
Background[]
Alexis Leskinen was an agent of Strategic Focus, also known as Strator who were called the CIA who took care of things behind the scenes including the Gulf and Iraq wars . He believed the human brain and how it is affected by information was the key to accomplishing his organizations goals so he served as a professor at Viktor Chondria University. in 1999 he would meet a young Kagari Shiina who would tell him of events the future including time travel due to being told to by "the voice of God". While Leskinen would originally think she was delusional he would later examine her brain and discover that the God she spoke of was himself from the year 2036.
He would keep her imprisoned for 10 years to run further experiments on. He would end up being the mentor to both Maho Hiyajo and Kurisu Makise. He would end up creating the Amadeus system along with his two students and they would use the memories of Maho and Kurisu as blueprints for the Ai, although unlike his students he planned to use the Ai for militrary purposes alongside his partner Judy Reyes. Later he would discover that the time travel theory from Shouichi Makise paper and would scheme to find away to acess Kurisu's memories to get the full time travel theory for himself.
In the main timeline he would finish the Amadeus project Maho and procced with his plan. In another however the project would be canceled due the interference of a religious cult. Due to this he would upload Kurisu' memories into Kagrai in the hopes to get the information out of her although she would end up escaping from him.
Absolute Zero/Closed Epigraph[]
Leskinen and Maho would head to Japan to give an lecture on their research and Amadeus. There he would see Maho talking to Okabe Rintaro who he would find out was a friend of Kurisu. Learning this he would decide to show Okabe Amadeus Kurisu and make him a test subject for the project as he was hoping that by having Okabe get closer to Kurisu he may be able to acess her memories easier. He would then give Okabe acess to the Amadeus app to make regular contact with the Ai.
Orbital Eclipse[]
Leskinen would later be seen with Reyes as they arrived late to the see the Shrine priestess performance at the Shrine much to both of their disappointment. After that the would leave the Shrine.
Twin Automata[]
In this route Leskinen meets up with Maho after a kiddnaping attmpet on her and claims that the same men that came after her attacked him. He would then suggest they were after the Amadeus acess codes so he suggested they should delete the acess to it then leave Japan. However while they were in the process of accessing Amadeus, Leskinen would be shot and killed by Reyes.
Antiomic Dual/Promised Rinascimento[]
Leskinen is shown talking to Maho and informs her that no one can acess Amadeus other then them and then goes off to talk with Reyes. While not shown again he is heavily implied to be among the Stratfor agents killed by Reyes after they kidnapped Kagrai again.
X-day Protocol[]
In another timeline Okabe comes to tell Leskinen and Maho and tells them he is unable to test Amadeus anymore due to being unable to tell the difference between her and the real Kurisu. Leskinen accepts this but says he will leave the app on his phone just in case he changes his mind. When leaving via the parking lot the three of them are attacked while inside the car by one of the people from the Amdednus conference who nearly shoots Leskinen before they themselves are shot by an unknown party. Later on he along with Maho attend the Future Gadgets Christmas party and is there to see both Okabe and Katsumi Nakase pass out due to changes to the timeline.
Gehenna's Stigma[]
In the timeline where Leskinen discovers Daru's hideout due to Okabe answering the call from Amadeus he alerts Maho that her the lab has been ransacked and the prepare to head back to the United States although he still allows Okabe to serve as an tester for Amadus. Months later he prepares to go on a trip to Japan and talks to Reyes on how Okabe is still hiding something before there convo is interrupted by Maho. Realizing that he can use her to get info out of Okabe he uses his brainwashing technique on Maho and tells her to get the information out of Okabe otherwise he will kill him. Upon arriving at Japan he would gather up everyone suffering from the Encephalitis disease to study for information. He would find out about Reading Steiner and alternate timeline's via brainwashing Katsumi and would learn that Okabe knew about. Eventually he would have Maho coax out the holy story from Okabe including the location of the time Machine. Then he would have her choke Okabe unconcious and deliver him to Strafor's secret headquarters.
Once their Leskinen would reveal that he was an agent of Stratfor with his goal to control the flow of information to humans and that he planned to sell the Time machine data to every nation along with the information on Reading Steiner claiming it would keep the balance of power in the world despite Okabe telling him that the timeline will just keep endlessly changing and that there will be no balance. He also proceed to ignore the sufferrign he cause Maho and Katusumi by brainwashing them saying it was for the greater good and they will survive with only minor mental impairments. He then proceeds to copy Okabe's memories into Amadeus to have a back up and brutally tortures Okabe for information. Despite his claims a war break out's in a city for the time machine between multiple faction and Kagari and Maho successfully rescue Okabe forcing Leskinen to flee. Althought due to his actions World War 3 breaks out and Okabe's spirit is completely broken.
Future Timelines[]
In other future timelines he still serves as an agent of Stratfor under his Professor persona and would seek to destroy the rebel group Valkyrie who seeks to restore the world by brainwashing several members of the organization into spies which resulted in them being turned into vegetables. In most of these timelines he ends up capturing Okabe in 2025 and either killing him due to the torture or driving him completely insane. He would also serve as a PTSD doctor who would use the pretense of treating war orphans to brainwash them with the Voice of God including Kagrai who he would use to give his past self-instructions.
Presage or Recognize/Vega and Altair[]
In the timeline where Okabe doesn't answer his phone things play out similarly as he and Maho return to America only with the difference that Okabe stops being a tester for Amadeus. After once again investigating the Encephalitis disease, Leskinen ends up deleting Amadeus and sends his men to seize the time machine by force and they end up taking Suzuha and Mayuri hostage however they end up getting into a fight with an angry Kagari. While attempting to meet up with his men he meets with Okabe who eventually realizes that he is the one trying to steal the Time Machine for himself. In response to this Leskinen take out a gun and attempts to take Okabe in to brainwash him to find out about the secrets of time travel. Leskinen ends up being distracted by the gunfire on the roof which allows Okabe to tackle Leskinen on the staircase which results in him falling down the stair and hitting his head knocking him unconscious. Later after the Gun fight ends a barely conscious Leskinen declares that Okabe is too late and World War !!! is about to begin. He admits that he was the one responsible for molding Kagari into the person she is today and that she followed instructions from the Voice of God. He would smugly proclaim that this "God" she spoke of was the future version of himself, this confession caused Okabe to proclaim that Leskinen is a "true Mad Scientist". He would then laugh that the people in the city had no idea a World War was about to start before passing out from his head wound. After Okabe Time leaped back in time, he would Confront Leskinen once again who would demand to know where the time machine was before being told by Okabe that it was gone from this world, as Okabe then leaves Leskinen alone.
What happened to him after this is unknown. But it's possible that he was fired from his role as a professor and arrested by the CIA for his crimes.
Anime[]
In the anime things play out mostly the same from the X-day Protocol up to Vega and Altair. The difference being that Leskinen is not severely injured by falling down the stairs and ends up capturing Okabe and friends. He then reveals his plan to fake the destruction of the Time Machine so he can claim it for himself as this is what his future self-told him. Even when warned this could cause a time paradox that could destroy reality by Okabe he simply states he looks forward to seeing it happen. He is stopped by a still-alive Kagari which results in him shooting and killing her which gives Suzuha the chance to kill all of his men and nearly beat him to death only being stopped from doing so by Daru. Once again Okabe time leaps and after realizing that him, Maho and Daru needs to sacrifice Amadeus Kurisu to give Mayuri and Suzuha more chances of survival and does so transferring him into another Beta worldline, he is held up by Gunpoint by Leskinen once again but is saved by Moeka Kiryuu. Leskinen is then forced to watch the Time Machine escape thanks to Okabe, Maho and Daru's sacrifice, his plans foiled once again.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Leskinen's appareance in the Heijikyoukusen no Epigraph manga was modelled after the 13th Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
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