Tear Jerker / Ennea Series

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SolarisLupi is known for not pulling punches when it comes to sad moments. When you combine that with an opening scene where most of the characters are dead, you know there will be plenty heart-wrenching scenes.

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Ennea in General

• Hawks's life. His parents were neglectful alcoholics who sold him to the Commission for money. He was kept in isolation throughout his childhood with only remorseless handlers for company and brutal training to look forward to. Before meeting Miruko and Mockingjay, he had no friends and no one he could turn to for help or emotional support. When he started out as a Pro Hero he was so terrified of failure he worked himself to exhaustion and had a nervous breakdown because he thought Miruko was going to punish him for collapsing. He needs a lot of hugs.

For Their Sakes

Chapter One: United

• The opening scene describes Midoriya in a field of ash that used to be a city. During Shigaraki's attack, a little girl disintegrates in Midoriya's arms after he tells her he'd save her and everything would be okay. Ouch.
• Before Todoroki shows up, Midoriya thinks everyone else is dead. He starts screaming and waits (and maybe hopes) for the villains to come and kill him too.
• Over a decade after Eri was rescued from Overhaul, she's still so terrified of him she can't bear to go back in time with the others and wake up in his control again. Midoriya can't ask her to go back to that situation, even with the alternative being erasure from existence.
• The eight time travelers can't do anything to save Eri from Shiragaki when they are sent back in time. She disintegrates in front of them.

Chapter Three: Found (And Lost)

• Whenever Hawks thinks about sharing his problems with others or breaking down, he repeats a phrase that the Commission drilled into him from childhood: "Keep your problems to yourself and your pain off your face. You are a hero. You provide comfort. You do not need it." The Commission raised Hawks to bottle up all his feelings and never turn to others for help with the implication that they made him think he doesn't deserve help. He's genuinely confused when the Voices show disgust at that thinking. Hawks may not realize the implications but the Voices and audience do.

Chapter Four: Bully

• White (Future Todoroki) can't stand hearing anything remotely positive about Endeavor. When Hawks talks about his idol, White retreats so deeply into Hawks' head he can't feel him anymore. Every second White hears Hawks innocently admire a man who abused him is agony to him, but he can't say anything without Hawks becoming aware of Endeavor's private actions and setting off a series of events the Voices can't let happen for the sake of a better future.
• Hawks sees absolutely nothing wrong with Endeavor hurting him because it isn't as bad as what the Commission did to him if he spoke out. He knows that intimidating people is wrong, but it's "okay" because it's him being intimidated. Hawks will leap to the defense of others in that kind of situation, but thinks it's perfectly acceptable for him to be hurt like that.
• After the encounter with Endeavor, Orange (Future Bakugo) snaps that Hawks never should forgive him for what he's done. It's obvious to everyone he's actually talking about himself and his past bullying of Green (Future Deku). Green tries to tell Orange that he changed for the better and is a good person but Orange won't hear it.
• Hawks thinks about his neglectful parents and Pink is brought to tears when she learns they sold him to the Commission. Hawks insists that he wasn't sold, just recruited young and without his consent in exchange for money. He has a heartbreaking moment of realization that he was sold but still denies it and changes the subject.
• Hawks has been unable to go home since he returned because he's been so busy with work. He happily announces he's about to go home for the first time in over a year, only for Miruko to give him a pained look. When he asks if he has a home to go to, she tells him he can room with her. Hawks fails to comprehend what she's said at first until he puts it together that the Commission dropped his lease months ago. Hawks then realizes what that means: he's homeless. He's stunned into silence but forces a smile while "happily" declaring he and Miruko get to be roommates.

Chapter Seven: Someone to Listen

• Future Tokoyami looks at Momo and she sees him accept he's going to die. Then Nomu Jiro rips his throat out.
• Future Nomu Jiro is completely warped from the loving girl she used to be. She blames Momo for her Nomufication and Momo blames herself too. She's so upset by having to relive that memory she can't even talk and flees into Hawks' head.
• Hawks having an existential crisis when he realizes that he has no one he can talk to about his nightmares of Future Tokoyami's death without being seen as crazy. Hawks has no support system and has to face his problems and the burden of stopping the Bad Future all on his own. His realization that only a couple people would genuinely care if he died is heartbreaking.

Chapter Eight: Ready Or Not

• White sees no point in telling Hawks that Endeavor is abusive because he thinks it will compromise their mission. Despite the Voices' insistence they'll change things, he's resigned to letting past Shoto go through what he did because he thinks telling people will only make things worse.

Chapter Nine: Ennea

• Eri spends the whole chapter repeating Overhaul's claims that she's a curse and a weapon to herself while thinking Ennea and Hawks's kind treatment of her is a mistake. She doesn't understand why they want to help her and is heartrendingly confused when Hawks does something as simple as give her his coat because she was cold.
• Eri insists to herself that she deserves what Overhaul does to her while trying to force herself to go back to him so no one will get hurt. She can't make herself do it. She then scolds herself for "being selfish" and putting other people in danger.
• When Hawks asks Eri where her parents are, she hysterically begs him not to send her back. She's clearly terrified he will.
• Eri spends the chapter forcing herself not to cry. She finally begins to cry when Hawks tells her she does not deserve to be hurt and she begs him not to leave her. Becomes heartwarming when he promises he won't.

Chapter Thirteen: The Meeting

• Hawks' continued struggle to cope with the revelation that Endeavor abuses his family. He tries to research the psychology of abusers to get some type of understanding of what his idol is really like, only for the articles to make him feel worse as he sees what a monster Endeavor may be inside.
• To Hawks, being interrogated is as normal and expected as a doctor's appointment. He accepts that it is going to happen and there is nothing he can do to prevent it. He's in complete denial that there is anything wrong about how they treat him (with the implication he thinks he deserves it). Hawks denies that his situation is comparable to Eri's.
• For Shoto's sake, Hawks finds his courage and tries to argue with the Commission President about keeping Endeavor's abusive actions hidden. She silences him immediately and calls him ungrateful trash for questioning her. Silences as in Hawks goes completely mute until she demands he answer her.
• Hawks' reaction to being "released" by Jeanist and Tsukauchi. He keeps asking why they "released" (not rescued) him and becomes more and more terrified when they don't give him a reason to the point where he wonders if it's a trick. He cannot comprehend that they rescued him because they simply wanted to help and believes he has to be "useful" to repay them. He keeps insisting that he can work.
• Hawks fails to see Jeanist and Tsukauchi are angry at the Commission for what they have done and think they're angry at him. He begins mentally going through plans to get them to calm down if they start hurting him. If those fail, he resolves to let them do what they want since there's no point in stopping them.
• Hawks' reactions to the smallest of kind acts from Jeanist shows just how badly the Commission abused him. He's genuinely appreciative when Jeanist doesn't hit him, grab him by the neck, or slam his head into the window for daring to lean against him for support.
• Hawks is so used to being interrogated by the Commission that he knows the exact time it will take for the effects of Amplifier and Pathfinder's Quirks to stop.
• Toshinori blames himself for not seeing how corrupt the Commission is. He wonders how he could be so blind that they could do this right under his nose.

Chapter Nineteen: Demanding Answers (Cause That Always Ends Well)

• Hawks decides to trust Aizawa, takes a leap of faith, and tells him about the Voices and their future... and Aizawa doesn't believe him. Instead he thinks Hawks is brainwashed or delusional and considers sending Hawks to a mental institution for "help". Hawks is crushed and holds back tears as he unsuccessfully tries to convince Aizawa he's telling the truth. He becomes so distraught he drifts and Orange takes over.

Mockingjay: Origin

• Katniss attempts to comfort baby Prim by using her Quirk to speak with their dead father's voice. Her mother slaps her and calls her a demon.
• Katniss meets All Might and realizes he cares about her and Prim more than any other adult has. Before she can beg him not to go (and presumably tell him about their home life) he has to chase after a villain. She has to stop herself from begging him to come back.
• Haymitch lost everything because of an accident that wasn't even his fault. The world that adored him so much turned on him an in instant. He lost his promising career, his friends, his reputation, everything except his alcohol. Years after his fall from grace, he lives alone in an empty house and looks and smells like a homeless man since he does not bother to take care of himself.
• Katniss sings to Rue until she dies in her arms. Finnick is forced to leave Rue's body behind as he carries Katniss away to safety.
• Katniss only avoids being electrocuted because Finnick grabs her. She tries to fight his hold and screams at him to let her die for failing Rue.
• Katniss and Gale's friendship deteriorates after the Capitol contacts them with a sponsorship deal. Katniss knows they can use this to save more people from Quirk Trafficking Rings, while Gale thinks she and Finnick are being sellouts. They have an argument and Katniss realizes Gale never cared about saving people, only bringing down people he thinks deserve it. The former best friends don't speak to each other for years.
• Finnick confesses he's being used by the Capitol as a Sex Slave in exchange for Katniss's safety. He's terrified Katniss will blame him for it. Katniss doesn't blame him. She tells him it's not his fault and convinces him to gather evidence to come forward but before he can do that he's killed by Muttations.
• Prim's death. She'd been putting away fruit and vegetables at her beloved produce stand when she's burned alive, right in front of Katniss.
• Katniss realizes Gale might have been a knowing participant in Prim's death instead of an unwitting pawn. She clings to her good memories of her former friend and can't bear to look at the evidence to see if he truly betrayed her or not.
• Katniss always call Prim's cat "that stupid cat" or "that stupid stray" in her narration. After Prim's death, she calls him by his name (Buttercup) when she leaves him with Haymitch.
• As the one shot proceeds and their relationship deteriorates, Katniss goes from calling her mother "Mom" to "the woman who gave birth to her". She cuts off all ties with Mrs. Everdeen after she fails to go to Prim's funeral.
• Mrs. Everdeen is so caught up in her grief for her long-dead husband she does not attend her younger daughter's funeral.
• As she falls from a building with no way to save herself, Katniss realizes Mrs. Everdeen won't care if she's told her last living daughter died.

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