Rintaro Okabe

> The universe has a beginning, but no end. — Infinite. The stars, too, have a beginning, but their own power leads to their destruction. — Finite. History dictates that it is the wise who are most foolish. One could call this a final warning from God, to those who can still resist.
>
> - Okabe Rintaro

**Rintaro Okabe** (岡部 倫太郎, *Okabe Rintarō*?), often nicknamed **Okarin** (オカリン) or **Hououin Kyouma** (鳳凰院 凶真, *Hōōin Kyōma*), is a self-proclaimed insane mad scientist. He lives in Ikebukuro, where he was neighbours with his childhood friend Mayuri Shiina, but moved into the Future Gadget Lab over the summer of 2018. He is also the Main Protagonist of Code Geass: The Gate of Steiner, A Secondary Protagonist in Code Geass: Akito The Saviour and Code Geass: Principality of Oceania and also one of the Primary Protagonists of both Code Geass: Lelouch of The Evangelion R2 and Code Geass: The End of The Evangelion.

He is also the Main Antagonist in the Spin-Off Dystopian Series: Steins;Gate: Worst Case Scenario.

Not to be confused with 'Canon Okabe'.

## Rintaro Okabe

* Movies
* R2
* End of Evangelion/Vestroia Reborn

## Character Information

### Aliases

Hououin Kyouma
Okarin

### Relatives

Akemi Okabe (Mother)
Issain Hououin (Father) (See: Kaijhun Satan)
Kurisu Makise (Wife)
Issain Makise (Son)
Karasu Okabe (Daughter)

### Affiliation

* Future Gadget Lab
* Britannian Empire
	+ Britannian Military
	+ Knights of The Round
* Earth Defense Force
	+ Future Gadget Technologies

### Occupation

Scientist
Knightmare Pilot
Member of The Committee of 300 (Divergence 2%)
Leader of The Committee of 300 (Divergence 7%)
Waiter (Divergence 3%)
Knight of The Round
Chairman of Dr. Pepper Co.
CEO of Future Gadget Technologies

### Title(s)

Founder of The Future Gadget Lab
Knight of Six
Chairman of Dr. P!

### Knightmare Frames

Steiner
Tengen Toppa Hououin Kyouma

### Other Name(s)

Okarin (By Mayuri Shiina)
Hououin Kyouma (By Himself)

## Biographical Information

### Age

18 (Movies)
20 - 23 (L.o.t.T)
23 - 29 (R2 First Half)
31 - 37 (R2 Second Half)
41 (E.o.E)

### Date of Birth

December 14th 1991 A.D (Original Worldlines)
December 14th 1999 a.t.b (Main Series)

### Power Level

7 (Movies)
21 (R2 First Half)
210,000 (R2 Second Half)
100,249,000 (E.o.E)
100,249,000 - 3,672,000,000 (VR)

## Physical Description

### Hair Colour

Black
Dark Green (E.o.E)

## Appearance

Okabe is a lanky young man, with a square jaw and bony cheeks. His short black hair (Long Green Hair in R2) is swept back. He has a small amount of stubble on his chin and cheeks. His eyes are brownish-gold.

Rintaro often wears a long white lab coat, over a plain white T-shirt (light gray in the anime), and khaki-colored slacks. The breast pocket of his lab coat has a red pen sticking out, and around his slacks he wears a black military-style canvas belt, with a gold-colored buckle. He has dark socks and wears green slippers when inside the lab.

During R2, he is more professionally-dressed compared to his Movies counterpart, donning a black dress-shirt, blazer, and slacks held by a black belt with a metal buckle. His hair is more neatly combed, likely to follow university standards. He no longer wears his signature lab coat.

## Personality

Rintaro is initially portrayed to have a severe case of Chuunibyou with eccentric and sometimes Tsundere tendencies. As a self-proclaimed insane mad scientist, he often makes grand and long-winded declarations instead of getting to the point which annoys Kurisu.

He usually gives off the impression of being delusional and paranoid. He would talk to himself on the phone especially when he can't get his way and engages in fits of maniacal laughter.

He likes to pose as an agent working against a certain "Organization" which he suggests is always after him, as he believes this gives him a cool and mysterious aura. Ironically, this false organization would materialize in the form of SERN, Stratfo, DURPA, Russian Intelligence and, eventually, Britannia. Despite claiming to be wary of spies sent by the "Organization", his loud behavior and lack of filter during normal conversations led several "outsider" characters to unwittingly overhear and find out about the nature of the lab experiments. Over the course of the story, he is forced to "induct" several characters as lab members so he could share "confidential" information about the full extent of his experiments.

Being melodramatic, he likes to introduce himself by his "true name" **"Hououin Kyouma"**. People usually ignore this alias and instead address him by his actual name or by 'Okarin' (his nickname), much to his chagrin. He is slightly hypocritical as he calls Kurisu a number of names that irritate her to varying degrees. On the other hand, there are some who like his nicknames such as Luka Urushibara with the name **"Lukako"** (るかこ, *Rukako*), which affectionately alludes to his feminine nature.

Rintaro is socially inept and has poor social skills that Kurisu considers the childlike Mayuri to be normal by comparison. Although very intelligent, Okabe is also shown to be quite naive; when Kurisu sent him a D-Mail saying that he was an airhead, he bought her claim that it was a compliment, only realizing later that it essentially meant his head was full of air.

He lacks management skills and has no sense of priority often rushing headlong into things and cutting off others when conversations do not go his way. This is very evident in his first time leap where instead of telling everyone clearly about what happened and what would happen and coming up with a good plan of action, he kept everyone else in the dark by brushing off their questions of concern and started running around the city to look for Mayuri. For someone prone to using others to achieve his goals, up until that point he has always kept others away and never confide in them when it matters the most.

He does not care about anyone he considers as an outsider and blatantly ignores the messages, opinions and feelings of others which he considers irrelevant to the experiment. Nevertheless, he is not hesitant to lend a helping hand to people whom he had never met, as shown in his first encounter with Luka.

Rintaro is very forceful when it comes to proving a point as seen when he assaulted Luka in order to prove that Luka was a boy dressed up as a girl. He is never seen as remorseful for this and instead declared his punishment as "torture". He also once reduced Kurisu to tears by yelling at her for calling him 'Okabe' instead of 'Hououin Kyouma' but was baffled at her reaction.

It is later revealed that his 'mad scientist' persona is largely a façade he wears in order to make life interesting for Mayuri as well as a coping mechanism for embarassing or stresssful situations and he tends to drop it if the situation becomes serious. There are several occasions that the anime displays what goes on in his mind, portraying him as rational and possessing better situational awareness.

He has seemed to develop feelings for Kurisu, along with Faris, Luka, and Mayuri, although these are determined depending on the route chosen in the visual novel. However, he openly displays his affections for Kurisu near the end of the story, regardless of the route chosen.

## Abilities

### Reading Steiner

**Reading Steiner** is a term coined by Okabe, referencing the ability for people to remember their Memories from Previous Worldlines but not Current Worldlines. It is later found out that 'Reading Steiner' is the correct and actual term for it when the Ability is mentioned by King Zenoheld and G.A.T.E.

### Geass

Okabe's Geass, (Named: Steins;Leap) acts similar to Shamna's Geass. It allows his consciousness to jump back in time without use of the Time-Leap Machine. It also eventually grows to have a secret secondary function... in which.. Temporarily, Okabe can use his Geass to give anyone the ability of Reading Steiner; This Ability only lasts for a single Worldline Jump/Time-Based Ability from any Geass.

### Demonic Magic

Okabe is a Half-Demon and Son of Lord Satan himself. As such, he can use all Bloodline Abilities from all Demon Noble Houses as well as the House of Satan's Signature 'Blood Manipulation' Abilities. Though, he has never actually used these powers until R2.. of which he and Lelouch both discover together that he is not as Human as he once thought through Lelouch 'unsealing' his powers.

### Immortality Through Longevity

Due to being Half-Demon; Rintaro is Immortal via Longevity and cannot die via Natural Causes. He can, however, still be repelled by Holy Symbols and other Angelic Items.

### Demonic Oppression

Due to also being a Half-Demon, Okabe's Sheer Presence can weaken Angels and God, making them and their A.T. Fields weaker. This seems to also have a small effect on Iblis seen in The End of The Evangelion.

## Succession and Precedence

### Knight of Six

**Preceeded by Villetta Nu**

**Succeeded by N/A**