Line #7 TearJerker/Roommates


1	''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' is a CerebusRollercoaster under the surface. This happens when the [[MoodWhiplash drama hits]].
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3	* Generally speaking most ''[[{{Heartwarming/Roommates}} Heartwarming]]'' moments in the series also double as this, because of the high probably of someone's [[DysfunctionJunction traumatic back story, psychological problems etc.]] playing part in it.
4	* Javert's nightmare about his suicide [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=73#/d1sj6hj here]].
5	* Jareth's {{backstory}} revealed in the ''Kid!Jareth arc''. (He never had one in canon.) "[[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-130-Falling-182290121 It's only]] [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-131-Flying-183095398 forever]]... [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-132-Faerie-Tale-184751085 It's not long]] [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-133-Forsaken-184751515 at all]]..." [[spoiler:LonelyRichKid up to eleven with parents form the SupernaturalElite in the middle of a DivorceAssetsConflict from hell, which finally [[SolomonDivorce leaves him with his mother]] who is [[CardCarryingVillain Evil with a capital E]].]]
6	* Each and every page where a character contemplates [[YouCantFightFate the futility of fighting his story]].
7	** Dark!Jareth: When Sarah [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-172-Villainy-217830784 doesn't see it]], so even his last desperate attempt failed. Yeah. This guy is creepy and dangerous.
8	* Spoiler from Zombieland: [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4el1bp It's bound to shed tears.]] [[spoiler:Talahassee visits his son's grave and we learn why he moved to the 'verse: He [[InvokedTrope tried to use]] the NobodyCanDie / DeathIsCheap nature of the comic to bring him back. [[SubvertedTrope It didn't work]]. DeathByOriginStory is final.]]
9	* The ''Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On'' arc is full of it:
10	** The Erlkönig's thoughts on [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-Such-Stuff-as-Dreams-Are-Made-On-26-298641590 the nature of his people]].
11	--->'''Erlkönig''': [[AC:We ruin all we touch. What is much, we devour. What is beautiful, we mar. What is living... We strangle. What is innocent... We shatter. We want, but cannot hold. We seem, but cannot be. We take, but giving... Giving... That is our undoing.]]
12	** On [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-106-Third-Tier-161332286 this page]], James' pain is PlayedForLaughs. But in [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-Such-Stuff-As-Dreams-Are-Made-On-37-303868006 the Dreams arc]], it's a full-blown tearjerker.
13	** James' whole CooldownHug / HeroicSacrifice action (and Jareth's reaction to it) is also ''[[{{Heartwarming/Roommates}} heartwarming]]'' and ''[[{{Awesome/Roommates}} awesome]]''... Again demonstrating Ashe's outstanding talent for creating mixed emotions and MoodWhiplash.
14	** The revelation that Jareth's realm is of "The Unwanted" (his Mother's realm is Winter and his Father's is Summer). Someone give this guy another hug.
15	** In another flashback, the Erlkönig had given young Jareth one last speech before being banished.
16	--->'''Erlkönig''': [[AC:Fight for the ending you want. Somewhere, someone will feel the same and believe. Then, even if you lose, even if you die... You will live. You will live on in dreams. It is the only way to escape. And you must escape. Or there is no hope for any of us.]]
17	** The end quote.
18	---> '''Jareth''': Do you know how some families fight and shout and curse at each other but at the end of they day they're still your family and you're with them to the end of the world because you love them and they love you?
19	---> '''Sarah''': Well, yeah...
20	---> '''Jareth''': My family isn't like that.
21	* What the [[NightmareFuel/{{Roommates}} Shadow Child]]'s [[spoiler:aka Disbelief]] ImNotAfraidOfYou / TheReasonYouSuckSpeech attacks [[MindRape do]] to the cast. (As a direct example James got flashbacks about his [[AbusiveParents Father]] and [[DespairEventHorizon second movie]] which results in HeroicBSOD / AngstComa)
22	** [[spoiler: Javert 'beating' the child (through sort of understanding him) and winning the hunt...namely due to how depressed he looks at the end of the page.]]
23	*** Note how he does this [[spoiler:after acknowledging to the kid that sometimes he wishes he wasn't the cynical one]] while he normally seems fine to be considered TheCynic.
24	* After the wild hunt, Jareth thanks his roommates for not calling him out in front of the other hunters and essentially asks who wants to give him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for the trouble he caused first. Even if it turns into a CMOH, it hurts to see how Jareth is clearly still beating himself up over the Dark!Jareth thing and maybe doesn't realize how much his friends do care. [[spoiler: It may help that Javert of all people is the one who forgives him.]]
25	* [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist James and Javert]] clinging to the fact they're not 'really evil characters'.
26	* On "King's War" pg 24 the Erlkönig clearly wants to offer comfort to his injured son, but is terrified that in [[spoiler: Jareth's]] injured state he will only hurt him further. The poor Fey looks like he's about to ''cry.'' [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Thankfully Mrs. N will have none of that.]]
27	* Glinda's reason for attacking the Goblin Kingdom in the King's War is because Jareth made James regent and she still sees James as his canon, glory-seeking, antagonsitic self and declares his only contributions to his own canon to be his futile chase after Sparrow and his betrayal at the end of the second movie that endangered everyone. Up until now James has had the least troubles over his own canon, but it's still getting thrown in his face. ''Ouch''.
28	* [[spoiler:Socks]] the Champion's death.
29	** Even worse, after Glinda is talked down the Conclave reveals they did not intervene because "no wrong" had yet been done. James clearly has the above death in mind when he screams "NO WRONG? ''NO WRONG''?"
30	** Let's not forget those last two words in the arc: [[spoiler:"You're welcome."]]
31	* After spending the day helping him recover, Sara starts to drift off on a depowered Jareth's shoulder. He quickly rouses her a bit, explaining to her what's going on so she doesn't wake up and think he's manipulated her into this somehow. She replies, sleepily, that since he doesn't have his magic right now she knows she can "sleep safe." The stricken look on his face [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-458-Safe-490019701 speaks volumes.]]
32	* Story [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased everyone's memories of the King's War Arc.]] Which means they forgot about Sock's death. And yet James still ended up crying without knowing ''why''.]]
33	* [[Film/IronMan Tony's]] reaction when he figures out that [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]] has taken out all of [[ArtificialIntelligence his AIs]].]] His [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-509-Update-564433557 attempt to contact them]] and the reference to what happened to [[spoiler:Jarvis]] in Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron makes it heartbreaking.

Context TearJerker / Roommates