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**In retrospect, some drama CD's explore this a little; as funny as it is at points, one particular part of ''Sekimen Hissi no Gossip'' has Kurisu going off about how cold-hearted Okabe is for not keeping contact with her for nearly a year. She believes he still keeps up the chuunibyou nonsense without caring about her feelings at all. It becomes clear to Moeka and Faris that she is indeed in love, despite her repeated denials. It's actually quite sad when you break it down.
* After Suzuha explains the circumstances surrounding Okabe's disappearance, the latter is shocked to learn that Kurisu time leapt. Learning from his own experience, he becomes majorly concerned about the potential mental damage she'll suffer from just trying to save him, to the point where he practically begs her not to do so for her sake. Kurisu defiantly tries to persuade him to accept her help, going so far as saying his disappearance will be like he never lived to begin with; to her, this is worse than not remembering him. You can feel the desperation in her voice as she pleads with him, even stating that she can't live without him.
**Also, notice how Suzuha becomes completely silent during this scene? Once Okabe realises that Kurisu had time leapt, she doesn't say a word or interject at all...almost as if she'd seen first hand the damage excessive time leaping can do to a person, and thus
*The night before Okabe disappears, Kurisu begs him one last time to allow her to help him, but he simply refuses and accepts his fate, assuring her that she has the other Lab Members by her side. Then she retorts with this line:
** '''Kurisu:''' ''<tearfully> "Idiot! Can't you tell when a girl is trying to say that friends aren't always enough?!"''
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** When one of her messages echoes her description of the protagonist for her novel (about no one needing her), Okabe asks if this is the case here, too... only to realise she actually felt this way. This leads him to take her hand to stop her from deleting her messages, and asking her directly why she keeps running away from everyone. She finally opens up and reveals that everyone around told her she was an "unwanted child" to the point she believed them; because of this, she had attempted to end her own life at one point, feeling no one needed her, that she'd be better off invisible to everyone, so she couldn't disappoint them, she wouldn't be a burden.
** The cherry on top though is after Moeka gives her confession, Okabe reassures her that she is worth a damn, and that people do care about her, including Mr. Tennouji, the other Lab Mems, and himself. Having finally heard the words she had wanted to hear for the first time in her life, she just breaks down entirely, and Saori Goto's voice acting during this scene only makes this scene even more heart wrenching. Even this troper was fighting back tears during this scene.
*Faris eventually opens up to Okabe about her past, revealing that she allowed people, adults in particular, to get close to her, only to betray her the first chance they get. As a result, she developed trust issues growing up, and was scared of losing the friends she has because, in her mind, she won't know what to do if the other lab mems just disappeared from her life. That is until Okabe reassures her that they aren't going anywhere, and tells her to simply have faith in them.
**Faris has another [[Cry Cute]] moment in Suzuha's route when her attempts to charm Daru fall on death ears. She doesn't hide her emotions this time though, she is genuinely heartbroken that her charms were just brushed off so coldly, and it takes some reaffirming from both Okabe and Suzuha just to calm her down.
*Why was Mayuri crying as she spoke to Okabe while he was asleep? We eventually learn that her family was moving away from Tokyo on the 20th of August, and memories of past events where she felt lonely without him resurface. Learning this himself causes Okabe to almost have a Heroic BSOD when he realises just how much Mayuri meant to him, and he was about to lose her.
**As Okabe delivers his Love Confession at the cemetery, Mayuri confesses that she developed a sense of inferiority when Kurisu first joined the lab; she became saddened by how close Okabe and Kurisu had become, and started to believe she was being replaced. It is only when Okabe reaffirms that she is the one he loves the most that she regrets feeling the way she did.
=== ''Linear Bounded Phenogram'' ===
* Okabe's masquerading as "Alpaca Man" stops being funny once we learn that he had been putting on this act to cope with Mayuri's death in the current world line. Even after time had passed, he isn't over her passing, and used the "Alpaca Man" persona as a means to avoid facing that reality.
* Kurisu speaking to her dad on the phone, in tears, and blubbering incoherently as she begs and pleads for his help despite their strained relationship. In her own words, she was a babbling mess for another 20 minutes before she was able to form another coherent sentence.
* Ruka spent her entire story blaming herself for Mayuri's death on the 15th, feeling that her choice to become a girl via D-mail was the cause behind the latter's fate.
** As if her description of what happened that day wasn't bad enough, we get to witness that fateful day for ourselves. This scene will no doubt strike too close to home for anyone who has survived, or lost loved ones to a heart attack. The fact that Mayuri just collapses out of nowhere so suddenly makes it worse.
** The CG of Mayuri suffering from a heart attack definitely qualifies, but also overlaps as [[Steins;Gate/Nightmare Fuel|Nightmare Fuel]].
** Daru's rant towards Okabe's non-reaction to Mayuri's death. It is genuine anger of full display, but at the same time, he doesn't realise that Okabe isn't acting this way out of malice, rather because he has had to relive the moment of Mayuri's death over and over to the point where he simply became numb to it.
* Moeka spends the majority of her story at war with herself over whether to side with the Lab Mems or her contact, FB. Her loyalty to each side is frequently being tested, driven by her fear of being abandoned (again) no matter who she sides with.
** Kurisu's tearful show of gratitude when Moeka saves her from being mowed down by a speeding car.
** The Lab Mems crying over Moeka as she slowly dies from the [[Taking the Bullet|gunshot wounds she sustained protecting her new friends]], just before she has Okabe send a D-Mail on her behalf.
* The truth about why the death of Mayuri's grandma hit her so hard: Mayuri had promised to spent the day with her grandmother, but she instead went to ComiMa with her friends, leaving her grandma alone the day she died. Mayuri had blamed herself for it since then, feeling that she had broken her promise.
** Her decision to rewrite this part of her life isn't any better though, as while she did get to spent one final day with her grandma, Mayuri still ended up in a world line in which the lab wasn't formed, and she had lost contact with Okabe for years before they finally reunited.
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