Fractal Androgynous

Events in this chapter

1. Okabe Explains the Rewritten Birth and the Cost of Undoing It to Luka

   Okabe tells the female Luka that a D-Mail changed the outcome of her birth and that restoring the IBN 5100 requires undoing the life she now knows.

   Mid-August 2010 · α World Line After Undoing Faris’s D-Mail
2. Okabe Goes on a Date with the Female Luka

   Okabe fulfills his promise and dates Luka, forcing both of them to face their feelings on this world line and the life that is about to be undone.

   Mid-August 2010 (after reconstruction) · α World Line After Undoing Faris’s D-Mail
3. Okabe Time Leaps and Approaches the Date Differently

   The first date fails because Okabe relies too heavily on a manual. He time leaps and tries again, accompanying Luka in the way they normally relate to each other.

   Mid-August 2010 (after a time leap) · α World Line After Undoing Faris’s D-Mail
4. Luka Recalls the IBN 5100 Locker Clue

   Luka remembers that on another world line she moved the IBN 5100 at Okabe’s request and temporarily placed it in a station locker.

   Mid-August 2010 · α World Line After Undoing Faris’s D-Mail
5. Mayuri Still Dies after the D-Mail Is Not Undone

   Okabe preserves Luka’s life as a woman, so the world line remains within the Alpha Attractor Field. Mayuri still dies during Comic Market.

   Mid-August 2010 (Luka branch) · α World Line After Undoing Faris’s D-Mail
6. Luka Time Leaps to before Comic Market

   Luka uses the Time Leap Machine to return to a point when Mayuri is still alive and joins Okabe in fulfilling their promise to attend Comic Market.

   Mid-August 2010 (returning to before Comic Market) · α World Line After Undoing Faris’s D-Mail
7. Link of Corruption and Rebirth

   Okabe chooses not to send the undo D-Mail, accepts the convergent death of Mayuri, and preserves his life with Luka on this world line.

   Mid-August 2010 / later · α World Line After Undoing Faris’s D-Mail
8. Send the D-Mail That Undoes Luka's Wish

   Luka agrees to send a cancellation message into the past, restoring the original outcome of her birth and preventing the IBN 5100 from being damaged in the childhood accident.

   Mid-August 2010 (reconstruction) · α World Line After Undoing Faris’s D-Mail / α World Line After Undoing Luka’s D-Mail

Audit findings

• CompressedResolved

  Explaining the truth, redoing the date, the coin-locker clue, Mayuri’s death, and Luka’s time leap were compressed into a single date and ending.

  Separate the reversal requirement, emotional choices, object clue, and ending consequences.

  Eight chapter events now exist, and the ending no longer omits Mayuri’s death or the Comic Market action.