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- Or rather, it will always make her die, which almost always requires her making a contract. Imagine just how many times Homura would have to live that month if this is true...
- Another possibility is suggested in episode 10, when he notes that moving world lines feels the same as when he was delirious with a fever. This troper is no medical expert himself, but maybe instead of paranoid delusions, the earlier fever evolved into some life-long illness with occasional dissociation and false memories.
- This is pretty thoroughly debunked in the sequel which has other viewpoint characters, things happening when he's not around and scenes from the past and future. Trying to dismiss everything as delusions gets into It Was All A Dream territory.
- And it really does turn off when someone touches it?
- Im dead sure that he is, and that It really turns off, at least in the anime nobody has touched his phone after Cristina at ep 2, so we dont have any proof that his phone is juts a normal one.
- It'd be nice if that were true, but I have to reject that. In the VN you actually use the phone yourself, and you can see that the phone was off the whole time before Kurisu took it. It didn't turn off when Kurisu touched it, it was already off.
- Unless Hououin Kyouma actually did acknowledge the fourth wall within the show as he experimented with Alpacaman. Therefore, it's not out of question that the phone doesn't have technological countermeasures against the reader as well.
- Now that is a mad scientist worthy of the title!
- Im dead sure that he is, and that It really turns off, at least in the anime nobody has touched his phone after Cristina at ep 2, so we dont have any proof that his phone is juts a normal one.
- Confirmed!
- In the Visual Novel, his Inner Monologue reads "Unfortunately, I am heterosexual." That said...
- As it was a flashback to Okabe telling off some creeps who were harassing Ruka, I interpreted that line more as, "You can dress how you want and look like whatever you want and those guys shouldn't be picking on you for it, no matter what gender you are," rather than Okabe saying he's attracted to Ruka no matter what. His Big Brother Instinct extends to more than just Mayuri, apparently.
- Kurigohan is a dish made with rice (gohan) and Japanese chestnuts (kuri).
- The Kamehameha part, though, pretty much confirms that it's a double meaning.
- Confirmed, except for the forgetting bit. There's no evidence that he is ever actually delusional or insane - at least, not in the main story. He's just fantasizing.
- It's rather unusual that, for a seventeen-year-old male, Ruka has just about no secondary male characteristics.
- Save for the reproductive organs, Ruka is almost exactly the same when after the genderbend.
- Said genderbend was induced congenitally, when Ruka was already conceived.
- Getting into extended text conversations reveals that Ruka's gender issues are a bit more complicated that straightforward mtf. Namely, his parents raised him as a girl◊, which he's very◊ ambivalent◊ about.
Now, I think it's safe to say that you can't switch out a Y chromosome for an X in utero, much less via text message-mandated diet change - That's the joke, after all. What you can do is virilise genitals of an XX fetus during early prenatal development via excessive androgen exposure, such as in higher concentrations in maternal blood. Incidentally, such genital virilization itself happens independently of hormonal effects on gender identity or sexual orientation that are suspected to occur in the second trimester. Also incidentally, the types of androgens and progestins implicated in virilization are used on beef cattle to boost muscle growth.
Of course, hormone concentrations in meat are pretty damn small and very highly unlikely to cause such a major change (congenital adrenal hyperplasia is usually the culprit in XX virilization via hormones), but it makes a lot more sense than magically transforming a Y chromosome to an X with a pager.
- Also, there have been many cases of intersex infants being assigned one gender at birth, sometimes without telling them there was ever an option. If this was the case with Ruka, then sending a text back advising mom to change her diet wouldn't have any effect at all on genetics, but it might result in subtle changes in the resulting newborn's appearance, as well as the parents' perception of that appearance, that might influence WHICH gender was chosen. Then again intersex births may be handled differently in Japan.
In the Beta Timeline, INGSOC has lesser control but still governs a dystopian government. Dr. Nakabachi sells the time machine paper to Russia, which will be later be known as Eurasia. Suzuha lives in Eastasia where an ideology roughly translated as death worship is promoted. It is said in the book the the ideology is essentially the same as INGSOC.
But wait the book was set in 1984? Well the main character Winston said that he isn't even certain of the date and it may just be 1984, it could be actually 1985, 1999 or 2036. INGSOC just says its 1984 therefore its true.
- Okabe is tortured in one timeline by the Inner Party in some timelines. He was sent to Room 101 and was tortured and mind raped. His worst fear, a video of seeig both Kurisu and Mayuri dying is repeated all over again until he finally loves Big Brother.
- Altenatively, SERN were just a simple research facility, like our CERN. but in World War III, some time travelers, possibly the Valkyries, jumps into the past and convinced/bought SERN and turn it into a secret time travel re-research facility, with them becoming the Committee of 300. The Jellyman Reports are them failing to reverse engineer their time machines because they don't have the exact blueprints with them.
Hououin Kyouma would have nothing of it. A world without free will is a world not worth living for. He sabotaged the LHC and accelerated it to its utter limits. Hououin Kyouma, diving into the LHC, was reduced into subatomic particles...
...Meanwhile in the year 2010, a crackpot in Japan named Okabe Rintarou teamed up with Daru and decided to invent a Time Machine "IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!" Okabe made a Time Machine out of a microwave, and so he did. Beyond the quantum limits of Space and Time, Hououin Kyouma's consciousness was bonded to Okabe's neural patterns, creating the Mad Scientist persona he would become so famous for. Here did he discover that CERN is still planning towards world domination, which culminates in the assassination of Makise Kurisu by the hands of her own father.
But why would Hououin Kyouma, the brilliant Scientist, ever infiltrate the brain of a random Japanese loser who thinks himself as a Mad Scientist? PRECISELY. By maintaining the persona of Okabe Rintarou, his presence can be masked by Okabe's ridiculous theatrics. Everyone considers Okabe a delusional fool. This is what Hououin Kyouma would say: Just as planned. When everyone knows Okabe was an idiot, he is the perfect hiding spot. Hououin Kyouma, under the guise of Okabe Rintarou, can work with all of the freedom he could be afforded.
In CERN's dystopia, it is obvious that the leader of La Résistance is Hououin Kyouma. It was he who sent Suzuha aka John Titor back to the past to undo the 1984-esque horror of the future, and warn us of what was to happen if CERN had its monopoly on Time Travel (Yes, John Titor is Real, and he's a girl). What is more surprising is that when Okabe was traumatised by Kurisu's death, a more confident version of himself shows up from the initially-blurred message. Instead of a pathetic loser, this Messenger was a Magnificent Bastard, a true Megalomaniac, who have manipulated all causality for the sake of fucking CERN up its ass, and opening the Steins Gate to save Kurisu. The Messenger is not Okabe himself... it is Hououin Kyouma, the former CERN scientist who converted into becoming the Lord of Chaos, the Mad Scientist Übermensch who shall bring down CERN to its knees. El, Psy, Congroo.
In this World, Kyouma, in the form of Okabe, fought the good fight against CERN. Due to his time travel shenanigans, CERN is rendered utterly impotent. But Kyouma, due to his respect for free will, allowed Okabe to have his own life, an opportunity for Normalcy, even if he himself disappeared from the timeline, only remaining in Okabe's imagination. Hououin Kyouma, despite being a Megalomaniac, was grateful enough to allow Okabe to live a happy life with Makise Kurisu; after all, what matters is that CERN's global power is destroyed!
