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[[caption-width-right:350:Laura, a [[TheLostLenore Lenore]] that Keith lost 3 times.]]


* [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=594 Laura's]] [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=595 death.]]
* Flora [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer getting snubbed by other tiger keidran for being "domesticated."]] Even telling her she's not a [[NoTrueScotsman "True Tiger."]]
* Keith went through Fire and Water to get back in his peoples good graces again, and nearly lost it all because the son of the man who decided to ruin his life agreed with his father's bastard decisions. It's only Alaric's ThanatosGambit and King Adieliade's ReasonableAuthorityFigure status that keeps it from happening.
* Keith's entire life!
** His dad kills his mother, and then Keith accidentally kills him -- and it's later revealed that his dad was basically framed for his mother's death and he essentially committed suicide on his own son's spear rather than live without her.
** Because his dad was a hero -- and, more importantly, the basitin who actually did murder Keith's mother was one of the highest ranked leaders of the basitin people -- Keith is blamed for the murder and avoids death only by being sent into exile, whilst being cruelly given an impossible task that will never allow him to come home.
** Initially, he gets taken in by a lovely young fox keidran named Laura, and the two actually get engaged, with Keith happy to give up on his insane quest for her... then she gets cold feet and runs away, refusing to talk to him until he is forced away from the village at spearpoint, because she "obviously" doesn't want him around anymore. Only this is later revealed to have been entirely the work of her tribe: they had her drugged and had the poor girl raped, and by the time she had gathered herself together enough to face Keith, he had already been run out of town, resulting in her leaving to find him.
** He then decides he has nothing left but to try and complete his "quest", implicitly hoping it'll get him killed in the trying...only, miraculously, he succeeds! He finds his target, befriends him, and gets him to willingly come back to the Basitin Isles with him. He even, unwittingly, starts to fall in love again, this time with Natani, the FTM transgender wolf keidran.
** And then, when he arrives, in short order, his ex-fiancée tracks him down for a heartfelt reunion in which what actually happened is revealed, he's ordered to murder Natani and he almost does it, then he nearly commits suicide to stop the pain of refusing to follow his orders, his childhood best friend gets killed, his ex-fiancée gets killed, he finds out the truth behind his father's death and is nearly executed by a kangaroo court, and is made an ambassador and then he leaves by his own will, feeling just as out of place there as he did on his journey.
** Leaving the isles, he tries to use magic to come to terms with his fiancée's death and the strain of it almost kills it.
** Narrowly surviving, he and Natani finally sit down and talk about their feelings, coming to the conclusion that they are mutually attracted and start up a relationship... and then, because Natani's idiot brother Zen has gotten himself captured and locked into a magic-nullifyng shackle, the MentalFusion is unbroken and Natani plunges into a weeks-long coma he won't come out of.
** And then the ship is blown up, apparently killing Natani! [[spoiler: He actually came out of his coma and escaped just in time, it turns out]], before they narrowly avoid being arrested. Seriously, you really want to give Keith a hug at this point.
* [[https://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/662/ #662]] ''"Oh, thank you, Keith! That’s all I’ve ever wanted to hear. You have no idea how long I’ve waited. I... just... [[AllJustADream I wish this was how it happened.]]"''
* Mike and Evals splitting ways. It seems [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1044/ Mike seems to really like Evals]] and seems to have some lingering feels for Evals from when he looked like a woman. Mike, however, [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1045/ really just can't bring himself to go with him]] because he can't see himself making friends or even surviving out there.
* Maddy [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1040/ chasing Karen around]], channeling [[Manga/FullMetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] for calling her short? Hilarious. Maddy [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1055/ revealing she's actually been looked down on and denigrated all her life for not inheriting her mother's enormous stature and strength]], and the one field she's good at, infiltration, is [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1056/ regarded as dishonorable]]? Tragic.
* In Maren and Karen's reference sheet, it's revealed why Maren has such a dislike for Keidran and is emotionally distant, their father was murdered by a Keidran servant named Tanlen.
* [[WhamEpisode Page 1105]]: An empty crib is found inside the manor, when Trace and Flora are searching for a way out. The look on Trace's face is heartbreaking.
* The next page reveals that Saria was pregnant with Trace's child and that they went to the cabin to celebrate, only for a wolf thief to come in and kill her.
* Brutus's death in page [[https://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1135/ Page 1135]] after Clovis came all the way to save him, he shows excitement over seeing Clovis come for him and is happy to know that he cares for him, only for his boss to kill him with poison.
* Clovis's reaction to said death is also sad as he is shown shivering over what he's done, convincing himself it was necessary to kill the only person he allowed himself to get attached to.
* Sythe’s angered response to Maren’s supposed death in [[https://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1173/ Page 1173]], though he’s thankfully reassured by Saria that she is still alive, Sythe is visibly devastated over the belief that he’s lost his friend, made even worse with him potentially having feelings for her and that he was so close to saving her.