Moeka Kiryu

Moeka Kiryū (桐生萌郁, Kiryū Moeka) is a tall girl that Rintarō bumps into in Akihabara. She is on a search for the IBN 5100 personal computer.

Appearance
Moeka's physical features include pale toned skin, chestnut brown hair and a tall and skinny profile. Her outfit consists of a white button up top with black arm cutouts, a black belt with a checkered buckle, a short black skirt, and black heels.

Personality
Moeka is extremely shy, her preferred form of communication being via text messaging even if the person she is "talking" to is right in front of her. As such, she is very protective of her phone and becomes agitated if someone tries to take it from her hands.

Moeka seemed more or less interested in Rintarou, calling him Okabe-kun, and constantly sends him emails as attempts to talk to him, though this is unclear if she wants his company or simply because she has been ordered to. Her habit of constantly spamming his mailbox with lengthy SMS's made Rintarou ignore them, much to her dismay.

In the Gamma worldline, Moeka can talk normally without using mails, though she says she's not good with conversations.

In one of the drama CDs, Moeka narrates a message she sent and sounds like a completely different person.

Moeka can apparently type and send SMS's at the speed of normal speech, which leads to Rintarou calling her "Shining Finger".

Background
Moeka's past is a mystery, though it's hinted in Darling of Loving Vows that her parents didn't want to have her and often said to Moeka that she's an unwanted child, it's speculated that or they abandoned her or died.

Moeka fell into a deep depression for hating the world, and thinking she didn't had a reason to live, Moeka decided to kill herself. At that moment she received a mail from the enigmatic FB, changing her life forever. Seeing FB as the person that gave her life meaning, as FB often acted like a mother towards Moeka, speaking about Moeka's worries and stuff that troubled her, she devoted every waking moment to carrying out her given orders, developing a dependancy on FB and the mails provided. While she is capable of carrying out atrocities for acceptance, Moeka strives to be loved and has the potential to be a good person if led in the right direction.

Her blind devotion to FB is fruitless, however, as she was considered no more than a pawn on SERN's board and is "expendable".

Plot
Rintarou first encountered Moeka around the RadioKaikan building when he was revisiting the "satellite crash site". Moeka took a few pictures of him, which irritated him; despite his orders her to stop, she persisted. Rintarou then offered to exchange e-mails under the condition that she stopped. She immediately began sending him text messages before leaving. Moeka was apparently a reporter for a magazine called Arc Rewrite, according to her introduction.

After floods of text messages, Moeka visits Rintarou's lab and demands to see the IBN5100 (as she was the one who suggested it to him). Without asking, she attempted to carry the computer away (before crumbling under the box's weight). Rintarou reluctantly dubs her "Lab Member 005" to prevent her from leaking the IBN's secret. She also requests to send a D-mail in order to prevent herself from buying a new phone. After the Future Gadget Lab perfected the time-leaping mechanism, a team of Rounders, led by Moeka, storms the lab and holds its members at gunpoint. She ordered them to hand over the IBN, while shooting and killing Mayuri Shiina for being "expendable", causing Rintarou to panic. She points her gun at him and prepares to shoot, but Suzuha Amane rushed in and took out the whole Rounder squad, and entered a standoff with Moeka in quick succession, giving Rintarou his chance to time-leap back in time to prevent the attack.

Rintarou tracked her down and attempted to force her to abandon her assault, but was captured by her Rounders. The group then proceeds to breach into the lab and kills Mayuri, again, prompting Rintarou to leap into the past.

Mayuri continues dying ether shot by Moeka or other reasons such as heart attack, hit by a train and shot by other Rounders.

As Rintarou discover that to stop Mayuri death he has to cancel every D-Mail sent, he visited her house to revert her D-mail and convince her to cancel the attack, only to find police officers around her apartment; she had hanged herself. He time-leaped again, and returned to her house at night. Moeka seemed catatonic, mumbling to herself while typing uncontrollably. Rintarou attempted to wrest the phone from her hand, causing her to violently revolt. He successfully sent a D-mail to the past, but nothing changes (as the phone Moeka convinced her past self to change did not appear). After pinning her to the ground, telling Moeka both about her imminent death and FB had most likely betrayed her, she told Rintarou the story of FB and how they became a mother figure for her. Rintarou also figured out that Moeka actually D-mailed herself the location of the IBN. Realizing that a D-mail from FB's phone could cancel Moeka's, Rintarou decided to hunt for FB by staking out the IBN drop-off point. After Moeka joined the stakeout, the two pursued the IBN and witnessed it being passed along by different people, one such person being Rintatou's landlord, Yuugo Tennouji. The two visited Yuugo while Kurisu waits outside his house. While Rintarou confronted Yuugo about his secret identity, he called Moeka "M4" a codename that FB had given her. Pulling a gun on Moeka, Yuugo admitted that he was FB, pretending to be a woman to appeal to Moeka's insecurity; he also informs the two that Rounders who locate an IBN 5100 are slated for death. Yuugo instead proceeds to kill himself to, much to Moeka and Rintarou's despair.

In retrospect, Rintarou believed that Yuugo cared about Moeka's well-being, and spared her life in a last-resort effort to protect her. Unfortunately, Moeka's death in that world-line was guaranteed, but this time around, it was Nae who killed Moeka; Nae then warned Rintarou that she will kill him in 2025. As Moeka dies, she apologized to Rintarou for Mayuri's death, believing that her death is her punishment for killing Mayuri in another world-line; And that Rintarou is right to hate her, as she would kill to protect the place she belongs. (FB's care for her) Reminding himself that Moeka did not kill Mayuri in this timeline, Rintarou forgives Moeka as she dies, then sends the cancellation D-mail (unless the player decides to wait it out, in which case Rintarou time-leaps so he can interrogate Nae about his death in 2025).

In the anime (a different world-line than in the visual novel), Yuugo takes Rintarou, Moeka and Kurisu to an empty construction lot. Yuugo instead decides to kill Moeka before killing himself.

Moeka is not seen or heard of anymore after her death. After 1% divergence was reached (true ending), Moeka can be seen at the CRT shop, working for Yuugo as an employee.

Quotes

 * "Look, even if we were enemies in the world you were before, right now I'm your ally. Even if the whole world turned against you, I would continue to be your ally." -Moeka to Okabe in Gamma worldline.


 * "The "me" that you are talking about is also a different me, now I only want to help you." -Moeka to Okabe when he accused her of betraying him.


 * "Did I do something wrong? I'll fix it, I promise. Just don't abandon me. I'll do anything for you, FB!" -Moeka desperate when FB stopped sending mails to her and replying to her mails.


 * "I was always told that I am an unwanted child... over and over... that's why I truly believed that I wasn't needed!" -Moeka to Okabe in Hiyoku Renri no Darling.


 * "I had nothing except FB... The only place I belonged... I would do anything to protect it, you're right to hate me..." -Moeka to Okabe


 * "I killed... someone... precious... to you... so this... is my punishment... I'm sorry..." -Moeka's last words.

Trivia

 * Moeka has her own route in the spin-off Steins;Gate: Hiyoku Renri no Darling, which even further displays her interest in Rintarou.
 * The nickname "Shining Finger" is the ultimate attack of Shining Gundam in G Gundam.
 * Originally, the creators had a Moeka route in mind but in order for the player to feel closer to the protagonists, Moeka was made to be a character the players would feel antagonism against, so they dropped the Moeka's route idea.
 * Moeka can kill anyone if she's ordered to, though she hesitated when she killed Mayuri.
 * The Drama CD, Steins;Gate Gamma Hyde of the Dark Dimension, is considered by fans to be her route that never existed within the Visual Novel.
 * Moeka's novel.png Steins;Gate Hiyoku Renri no Darling, Moeka writes a novel called "My Rainbow". The story is about a girl who is traumatized about not having a reason to live and not being needed by anyone, but she meets a boy at her part-time job that changes her life. Little by little, she starts realizing that she is important and starts to live a brighter life.