Line #5 TearJerker/ShadowHearts


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4	* From Koudelka, Charlotte, especially if [[RealitySubtext you know about why she was killed]]. She was the daughter of a queen who had an affair behind the king's back. Her illegitimate child was taken from her and executed at a young age, her spirit doomed to wander the earth due to her hatred. When you give her the letters her mother wrote to her, Charlotte is so confused to discover that her mother cared for her and wanted to meet with her so much... but Charlotte died before her mother and the guards didn't let her receive any of those letters. Not only that, but she was ''so'' scared and confused about the fact that she was ''passing on to Heaven!'' Not only that, but also what Koudelka says to her after she passed on.
5	-->'''Koudelka''': Charlotte...How does it feel to know that you're loved?
6	* That above quote takes new meaning when you learn that Koudelka's own mother hated her because she predicted her father's death... but didn't do anything to save him. This led to Koudelka's Roma clan disowning her and her wandering the country, selling herself for a place to stay... It's worse when she says this, as she's [[DrowningMySorrows already drunk at the time]]...
7	** The song that plays during this scene is called 'Dead'... an accurate description of how Koudelka must feel.
8	* Patrick just wanted to resurrect his wife, and ended up making a monster.
9	* James' sacrifice to defeat the Elaine monster.
10	-->'''James:''' (crying) I have always loved you Elaine.
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13	[[folder:Shadow Hearts]]
14	* Yen Yen's death from Li Li's curse in ''Shadow Hearts''. He dies in front of his older brother, who is powerless to help him. Sea Mother's little speech makes it all the sadder;
15	-->'''Sea Mother:''' Spirits in the heavens. Spirits in the heavens. Our proud fisherman will be coming under your care. Please be good to him.
16	** Later repeated when Sea Mother dies while trying to free Li Li from her cursed existence. Alice gives her own speech.
17	-->'''Alice:''' Spirits in the heavens! Spirits in the heavens! Our beloved magic user will be coming under your care. Our ''wonderful, wonderful'' magic user... Please be good to her...\
18	'''Yuri:'''.. yeah, spirits. Be good to her for us, won'tcha? See ya, Sea Mama.
19	** Despite the fact she killed innocent people, Li Li's story was terribly sad. After her beloved father was lost at sea, Li Li sacrificed her voice for his safe return. It worked but Li Li was left with her father's gruff voice and her father, in turn, was left with her soft and dainty voice. Her father never spoke again, and Li Li could no longer bring herself to speak to the love of her life as she was ashamed of her new voice. The Sea Mother told her that the only way to get her beautiful voice back was by killing her father. For several nights Li Li would enter her father's room, ready to kill him, but was unable to bring herself to do it. Then her father went to sea and once again was lost out there. Li Li grieved, both for her father and for the fact she would never get her voice back. Then, one night, her undead father returns to her. It's revealed that he knew Li Li was waiting to kill him, and that he wanted nothing more than her to be happy again, that's even the reason he comes back so she can kill him once and for all. Li Li is unable to, and instead takes her father's undead corpse over her shoulders, and walks into the sea to drown herself with him.
20	* Terry's death is quite the TearJerker despite him being a very minor character. Made even worse when you then have to inform his wife and little girl about what happened to him.
21	* Cardinal Simon endured hundreds of years of abuse and hatred because he had the heretical idea of governing for the masses back during the Nuremburg trials. Even the real Roger Bacon, though his ideas were correct, but ahead of their time.
22	* The bad ending is the canonical one, wherein Alice's life slowly ebbs away on the train at the end of the game, culminating in her falling asleep on her lover's shoulder and never waking up, plus Yuri's PleaseWakeUp reaction.
23	* Master Xiaofang's sudden death is pretty sad, especially as he has the appearance and attitude of a little boy. Master Xifa is devastated by his death and asks for forgiveness shortly before sacrificing himself in order to save Yuri and the others.
24	* Alice, Zhuzhen and Keith having to fight Yuri, who has lost his soul after trying to fuse with the Seraphic Radiance. He's a shell of his former self, with none of the warmth, wit and sarcasm that Yuri was known for. It's especially hard seeing him attack his former allies without remorse.
25	* Halley's entire backstory. His mother was committed to an insane asylum for having special powers, the same magic she shares with Halley himself. However she only allowed herself to be captured so that Halley would be spared. Halley then spent years on the streets of London, trying to look out for other orphans, only to lose friends to the mysterious orphanage where children go in but never come out. Halley is eventually reunited with his mother, only to find that she can no longer stand or even speak due to the torture she underwent. He tries in vain to save her, but his power isn't strong enough. She then gathers up what little power she has left to strike a deal with Bacon; if she goes with him, he'll leave Halley be.
26	** Even worse Halley’s mother is Koudelka, even after everything she went through in her own game the poor woman just can’t catch a break.
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29	[[folder:Shadow Hearts: Covenant]]
30	* ''Covenant'' has a number of tragic antagonists:
31	** Grigori Rasputin saw his Mother Russia suffering and though the only way to protect her was to take over Europe by force.
32	** Nicolai Conrad wanted the love of his life, and to reconcile with his father, and surpass Yuri. He never got any of them, and thanks to the blundering of Dr. Hojo, was taken over by a demon.
33	** Masaji Kato, a minor character from the first game who loses Yoshiko Kawashima, his lover, attempts to make a clone of her through Ouka. When she dies, he completely loses it.
34	* Ouka's [[DiedInYourArmsTonight death]].
35	* "The Oath" scene in Covenant. (When Yuri meets Alice's spirit in his graveyard world.)
36	* Alice's attempted resurrection.
37	* Yuri: [[WhamLine Sorry...I wont' be able to keep that promise]].
38	* Karin counts as one of the series' biggest [[TheWoobie Woobies]]. She joins the army to restore her family's honor, and witnesses her unit get destroyed twice in the attempted occupation of a village. She learns from the psychopath who ordered the second destroying that her family is dead, and said psychopath is stalking her. She falls in love with Yuri, but knows Yuri still loves Alice, and despite her feelings never being reciprocated, she holds onto loving him anyway. Which makes the scene of Alice's attempted resurrection all the more poignant for her. Either it succeeds and Karin is reminded of Yuri's unbreakable bond with Alice, or it fails and Karin and team are forced to kill their friends performing the ritual. The cut-scene ends - with Karin collapsed in front of the laboratory door, sobbing.\
39	And still, still it gets worse for her... As shown at the end of the game, Karin is sent to a point in history where she can be most happy after the battle at the end in time. Even though she won't get Yuri she ends up with most of her memory gone but in-front of Ben Hyuga, Yuri's father, a spitting image of Yuri and a far more traditional hero. Now this seems like a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment\|s}}... at first... until you remember what Yuri said happened to his mother -- she is going to be killed off by Dehuai, shortly after her husband and with Yuri in her arms. Which is ultimately going to be what missed him up so much in-the-first place. Damn, Karin just can't catch a break!
40	* Yuri's confrontation with Foreign Minister Ishimura. The minister first bares his reason for stirring up war in Russia using Nicolai as his tool (he only wanted to protect Japan from the West) before stating that suffering in war is only temporary, which clearly angers Yuri. Yuri is about to unleash his fury when Ishimura's grandson, [[MoralityPet Kosuke]], enters the scene, begging him to leave his grandpa alone. Yuri just pushes Kosuke aside before he finally starts a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Ishimura, all while delivering the following rant.
41	-->'''Yuri''': Don't you DARE beg for his[[note]]Kosuke's[[/note]] life!! What about the people you've sent to KILL in your name?! What about the children whose lives have been snuffed out by your soldiers?! How many parents have begged, just like you, for their children's lives?! They cried and begged and pleaded for their lives! And they were killed anyway. They tried to protect their homes, and they were killed anyway! How many people will you sacrifice for your stupid, petty ambitions?! Protecting them from the West, huh? Well, [[VerbThis protect this]]! Doing it for your country, huh? Well here's what I think of that! I say you did it for yourself! Stupid, arrogant idiot! You should rot in hell! Rot in hell! Rot... in... hell... ''(breaks down and cries)''
42	** Yuri definitely wants to avenge his father's death due to the fact that in the first place, Japan wanted to invade China (as chronicled in the previous game), which forced Dehuai to summon demons to cleanse his country of Japanese filth, which then led to said death. This leads Yuri to nip the problem right in the bud, which is Minister Ishimura; but he soon realizes that the latter is in poor health and only has his grandson to protect him at this point and stops beating him up and instead breaks down, remembering his mother also begging for her life when the demons Dehuai had sent came for her family.
43	* The game has ''two'' tearjerker endings: the bad one, where Yuri loses his soul and all his memories, basically becoming a non-entity under the care of Roger Bacon, and the good one, where he's killed before his soul is finished being devoured.
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47	* Ricardo being forced to kill Edna.
48	* ''From the New World'' has its own share of sympathetic and tragic villains:
49	** Lady. Actually Grace Garland, Johnny's sister, who was killed alongside her brother in a car crash. Their grieving father attempted to bring them back to life using the Emigre Manuscript, but the ritual was botched, forcing Grace to surrender her Will to fully resurrect Johnny at the cost of turning her into an unemotional Malice creature running entirely on instinct.
50	** Killer. All that is known about the man is that he was a serial killer. When we first see him, he's being chased by cops, slowed down by wounds; a lucky run-in with Lady saves his life, as she gives him a Kiss of Malice, healing his wounds and granting him powers. The ruthless and heartless murderer then dedicates himself entirely to Lady, protecting her and doing whatever he believes will make her happy, even if that includes destroying the world, or doing a last stand to stop the party from reaching her before the completion of her plans until he breathes his last.
51	*** And the culmination of their alliance? Killer dies trying to stop the party from reaching Lady, protecting the only person he ever cared about and perhaps the only one who showed him any kindness. Lady tries to revive him with a Kiss of Malice, but it fails. The otherwise unemotional, almost robotic Lady battles the party, experiencing and expressing grief and anger over the loss as best as she can.
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Context TearJerker / ShadowHearts