Talk:Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram/@comment-117.254.109.94-20150724220453/@comment-7888499-20150805183754

Each of the characters in Steins;Gate represents a different form of loneliness. I think that is why different people connect more with different characters and why some of the conversations on this wiki can get heated. -Not that this is one of those.-

I was surprised to find myself crying a bit at the end of Moeka's story, too, but that didn't mean that I've been any less struck by Nae's. It's a "different strokes for different folks" kind of thing, I believe.

If I remember correctly Moeka's route in the original VN was axed, because they wanted the audience to see her more as the enemy for the balance of the story. However, they have since explored "Moeka's route" in DramaCD Gamma, Darling of Loving Vows, her story in Phenogram, and the short stories that accompanied the movie, Shouninkyoumei no Pardon and Shouninkyoumei no Souvenir.

Moeka does show hesitation and mental instability during the shooting scene in the original VN, but it is indeed less than in the Phenogram story. That fits the fact that the creators wanted us to see her more as a representative of the enemy, but it should also be kept in mind that in the 0.337…% world line she probably had less contact with the Labmems. I don't think that FB ordered her to do the same level of infiltration as in her Phenogram story -I could be wrong, though-.

The purpose of Moeka's story in Phenogram is to show us how closer contact with the LabMems would have shook her, right? I think it is basically the closest to what "Moeka's route" would have been if it had been included in the original VN only with Mayuri and Kurisu filling the roll that Okabe would have.

I'm not going to say that it is perfect, however. Compared to some of the other stories in Phenogram, I think that if Moeka is not a character that one particularly likes -or even if she is-, it might be a little hard to be caught up in the story. There was, as the poster above mentioned, a lot of "sentimentality", but her struggles in her story in Phenogram are very believable and fitting to her character if you have seen/read/heard her in all of the other spin-off material that focuses on her.

Personally, I think I like her stories in the Gamma dramaCD and Darling better, and I am still trying to get over the mind-blowing feeling of hearing how she talked in the "Three Contrapasso About the Abduction". XD