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Moeka Kiryuu is the secondary antagonist of the visual novel videogame and anime series Steins;Gate. She is a part-time editor of an unknown newspaper who is eventually revealed to be the leader of a mercenary group and SERN unit known as the Rounders. After several D-mails were sent into the past using the Phonewave, one of which was sent by her, she reveals herself and shoots Mayuri Shiina dead, triggering Okabe's desperate attempt to save her.
Moeka also appears as a supporting protagonist in the sequel Steins;Gate 0, where she helps the Future Gadget Laboratory members attempt to avert World War III but still works for SERN, making her a borderline anti-hero.
She was voiced by Saori Goto in Japanese and Jessica Cavanagh in English.
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Appearance[]
Moeka is a beautiful, elegant, stoic woman. Her physical attributes include pale toned skin, light nut-brown hair, pinky amber eyes and a tall, slender profile. Usually seen with a purple phone and rectangular glasses. Moeka has a stylish sense of fashion, with her outfit consisting of a white button up top with black arm cutouts, a black belt with a checkered buckle, a short black skirt, and black heels. Mayuri even complimented her sense of fashion and expressed desire to convince Moeka to pursue cosplay.
Her Rounder uniform consists of a black jumpsuit, black boots and a black belt. She also ties her hair to make it easier to move.
She is the tallest and the bustiest among all the female characters, standing at 167 cm tall.
Personality[]
Personality wise, Moeka is quiet, absent-minded, reserved, has difficulties interacting with people, and seen to be expressionless most of the time without actually reacting towards anyone or anything, except for certain situations; her preferred form of communication is via text messages even if the person she is "talking" to is right in front of her. Therefore, Moeka is very protective of her phone and becomes agitated if someone tries to take it from her hands.
Never shown to interact with anyone properly, Moeka's maturity has yet to be proportionate with her age, due to a certain turn of events in her past. Thus, Moeka is quite clumsy and the type of person that does not know how to take care of herself.
Via mails, Moeka is a cheerful and charismatic person, contrasting highly with her real-life personality. She constantly use emojis like "(^ ^)", "(T_T)", "(>_<)", "♪" and a variety of others, Moeka also uses some Netspeak expressions like "lmao", "lol" and "orz". Though behaving inexpressive and gloomy in real life, Moeka behaves childish and amusing via mails. Despite this, Moeka does not have confidence, and seems to have an inferiority complex.
At heart, behind her expressionless face, Moeka is just a lonely and extremely fragile girl who desperately wants to be accepted and cherished by someone. As she was neglected (or bullied) by every person she meet, Moeka become depressed, very sick, and with hints of paranoid personality disorder. Although, after FB contacted her and made her feel loved and accepted, Moeka though FB was the only one in the world who was a good and accepting person, due to not having anyone that cared about her; the rest of the world to Moeka was empty, devoid of life, and cruel. Thus, she started isolating herself from people, thinking that FB was the only one that could truly understand her and fearing going through her past again. When her relationship with FB, which meant life to Moeka, required her to kill someone, she killed. By taking another’s life, her life retained meaning. While Moeka is capable of carrying out atrocities for acceptance, she strives to be loved and has the potential to be a good person if led in the right direction. As said in Moeka's image song, "To be Loved". This shows in the Beta world line when Moeka aids Okabe in his search for Kagari and his struggle against Alexis Leskinen and even kills some of his enforcers to protect Okabe and save Mayuri and Suzuha.
In the Gamma world line, Moeka is very different from the Alpha and Beta’s Moeka. She is very responsible, serious, and incredibly perceptive. One could even call her cold-hearted, since she easily killed, with Okarin, two Europol agents. Moeka can also talk normally without using mails, though she says that she is not good with conversations, she apparently has more confidence in herself and is not so devoted to the person that saved her in this world line. However, she constantly worries about Okarin, as he gave her a reason to live, and saved her life various times. She considers FB and Okarin as her family, and though not realising, harbors feelings for Okarin.
In Delta, Moeka is much more friendly, though she is still introvert and depressed. She also shows a lot of creativity, as she managed to write a famous romance novel without any experience on it, however, she implies that she used her and Okarin’s relationship as a base. Moeka is convinced that she is unneeded by everyone, as people always told her that she was an unwanted child, thus making a wall between her and society and not showing anyone her real feelings. However, after Okarin makes an unbreakable bond with her, and break the wall Moeka made between her and people, she smiles more and start showing more of her feelings; She manages to have a normal and happy life, with Okarin and the LabMems by her side (Moeka's route).
Biography[]
Past[]
As her parents did not want to have her, they often abused Moeka physically and mentally. One can speculate that they abandoned her or had an unfortunate death.
Moeka was a constantly bullied social outcast; she desperately tried to make friends and find a place to belong, but failed miserably due to her social paranoia. In 2004, she fell into a deep depression due to hating everything and being hopeless, thinking that she no longer had a reason to live, Moeka decided to commit suicide. She drank several sleeping pills, hoping that she would die, but to no avail. By June 2006, as the pills were not working, her final attempt was to jump off a large building. At that moment, she received a mail from the enigmatic FB recruiting her to the Rounders, a team of mercenaries. While Moeka initially did not believe the offer to be real, she figured that she had nothing to lose and accepted, changing her life forever. As FB often communicated with Moeka and acted as a mother figure towards her, speaking with Moeka about her problems and comforting her, she came to see FB as the person that gave her life meaning and devoted every waking moment to sending mails to them and carrying out their given orders, developing a dependency on FB and their mails. Three months before the start of the series, she was stationed in Nagoya and before that she was in Yokohama. Despite her searching, she had not located a single IBN. Sometime, she started working at Ark Rewrite, an editiorial company that does not actually operate, in Akihabara as a front.
Alpha Attractor Field[]
After the Future Gadget Lab perfected the time-leaping mechanism, a team of Rounders wearing masks, led by Moeka, storms the lab and holds its members at gunpoint. She ordered them to hand over the Time Leap Machine. Mayuri questions Moeka about being a lab member, though this only causes Moeka to points her gun at her. Hesitating and frantically mumbling to herself, Moeka shoots at Mayuri, causing Okabe to panic. She orders Okabe to move away from Mayuri, pointing her gun at him, but Suzuha Amane rushes in and takes out the whole Rounder squad, before pointing a gun at Moeka, resulting in a standoff between the two. These events allow Okabe the opportunity to time-leap back in time in order to prevent Mayuri's death.
In one of the various attempts to save Mayuri, Okabe tracked Moeka down and questions her for the reason of the Lab attack. Moeka answer with three motives: first, they discovered something that they should not. Second, they created a time machine. Third, they wanted to make their findings public. Surprised, Okabe asks if SERN knows this much, with Moeka responding "I receive my orders from FB. FB is... everything to me". The Rounders then capture Okabe, knocking him out. He wakens to find himself in a car being driven by Moeka; she asks him if he is John Titor, to which he replies that he is not. The group then proceeds to breach into the lab to kill Mayuri and capture Kurisu and Itaru Hashida. Okabe pleas for the Rounders' forgiveness, saying that he never wanted to expose SERN, that he will give the time machine to them and never say anything about the time machine to anyone, that it was all a game to them, to spare Mayuri. However, Moeka says that it is too late.
Mayuri continues dying at the same time every day, being either shot by Moeka in the attack, or because of other more random reasons, including being hit by a car, being accidently pushed in front of a train etc.
Moeka's Fate[]
Okabe discovers that in order to stop Mayuri's death, he has to cancel every D-Mail sent. In order to cancel out Moeka's D-mail, he tracks her down and heads to her apartment, only to find out that she had committed suicide by jumping off the roof the night before. Time-leaping again to before Moeka committed suicide, Okabe finds Moeka in the corner of her room, mumbling to herself as she types "FB" over and over again on her phone. Okabe then wrestles the phone away from her, and with Kurise's help sends another D-mail telling Moeka to buy the new phone, expecting that this will move the worldline back towards 1%. After finding himself in the same situation, he finally realizes that Moeka must have sent a different D-mail than the one that she claimed to.
In order to find out the actual contents of the D-mail, he searches through Moeka's phone, and discovers that the actual D-mail sent was about the location of the IBN5100. He then tries to cancel out this D-mail, by sending a D-mail saying that the Shrine was a trap, and that Moeka shouldn't go there. After sending the D-mail however, Okabe finds that he has not time-jumped again. Realizing that the D-mail sent before could only be canceled out by a D-mail from FB's phone, he decides to try to force Moeka to tell him who FB is.
Okabe pins her to the ground, telling Moeka both about her imminent suicide and that FB had most likely abandoned her. Moeka then tells Okabe about FB, and how, after Moeka's childhood, FB became a sort of mother figure to her. Moeka also reveals that she placed the IBN 5100 into a storage locker, planning for other members of SERN to pick it up.
FB's true identity[]
Okabe decides to hunt for FB by staking out the IBN drop-off point. Moeka soon joins the stakeout, and they see the IBN being picked up by a non-descript member of SERN. They then follow the IBN, watching it switch between multiple people, before finally stopping at the house of Okabe's landlord, Yugo Tennouji, for the night before being sent off again. The pair then visit Yugo, and after confronting him with the knowledge that they know that he is part of SERN, he reveals that he is in fact FB herself, pretending to be a woman to appeal to Moeka's insecurity; he also informs the two that Rounders who complete their missions are killed by him. Okabe proceeds to reveal the truth about Hashida Suzu, the woman who took care of Yugo and became a mother figure to him. After he found out the relation Hashida Suzu had to the time machine and the future, he regretted his actions, and committed suicide to protect Nae and Moeka, as he wanted to save the latter.
In retrospect, Okabe believed that Yugo cared about Moeka's well-being, and spared her life in a last-resort effort to protect her. Unfortunately, Moeka's death on that worldline was guaranteed, but this time around, it was Nae Tennouji, Yugo's daughter, who killed her. Her father's death caused her to become vengeful, especially against Okabe and Moeka. She later became the Rounder commander, and killed Okabe in 2025, then time-leaped 15,000 times back to the time of Moeka's death to kill her and warn Okabe of his death.
In the anime, Yugo shoots her before killing himself.
As Moeka dies, she apologizes to Okabe for Mayuri's death, believing that her death is her punishment for killing Mayuri and that Okabe is right to hate her, as she would kill to protect the place she belongs. Reminding himself that Moeka did not kill Mayuri in this timeline, Okabe forgives Moeka as she dies.
Moeka is not seen or heard of anymore after her death on the Alpha worldline.
'Steins;Gate (visual novel)[]
After 1% divergence was reached (true ending), Nae injures herself and Moeka helps her with first aid. Moeka takes Nae back to Yugo's store and Yugo offers her a job. Moeka, not knowing Yugo's identity of FB, accepts.
After Okabe gets released from the hospital, he gives Moeka the lab's pin, saying that it is proof that she is Lab Member 005 and that she can come to the lab whenever she wants. Moeka faintly smiles and thanks Okabe as he goes to the lab.
Egoistic Poriomania[]
Moeka and Yugo are briefly shown, worrying about finances for the shop.
Load Region of Déjà vu[]
Moeka joins the group at the party after Kurisu returns.
Beta Attractor Field[]
Steins;Gate 0 (anime)[]
Moeka first appears when Okabe sees her speaking to Maho.
Faris hires Moeka act as Maho's bodyguard after she is attacked.
Later on, she helps Okabe track down the lab when Kagari Shiina was kept by Stratfo.
Near the end of the game, she and the other rounders help Okabe protect the time machine from Stratfo and DURPA
Absolute Zero[]
Moeka firts appears when Okabe sees her speaking to Maho.
Closed Epigraph[]
After Okabe Suzuha and Daru fail to locate Kagari, Daru contacts Mokea to help search for her. On the Beta Attractor Field, they had met when Moeka tracked him down for a story despite Daru being careful to cover his tracks. As such, he has faith in her tracking skills.
Stray Sheep[]
Later, she reports to Okabe and Suzuha about about Kagari revealing that while she was not able to find her, she discovered that another group was also looking for her.
Presage or Recognize[]
The rounders try to steal Kurisu's laptop from Okabe, Itaru and Maho who had just left Itaru's base, but Russian intelligence intervenes and a crossfire ensues. The laptop is then destroyed and the rounders and Russian intelligence retreat.
Vega and Altair[]
After failing her mission, Moeka is betrayed by SERN and barelly escaped with her life. then found by Kagari Shiina, who tended to her wounds as little as possible to keep her at death's door. After 5 months, Kagari gives her a new phone which she claims came from F.B. with the intent of manipulating her and begins properly treating her injuries.
In the second interation of the confrontation on the rooftop, Moeka fatally shoots Kagari, having seen though her deception.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Moeka would text FB about 10 times per day.
- Mokea only worked for Arc Rewrite for two days, seemingly quitting immediately after learning the location of the IBN.
- Originally, the creators had a Moeka route in mind. But in order for the player to feel closer to the protagonist, Moeka was made to be a character the players would feel antagonism against, so they dropped the idea.
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