Tear Jerker / Heart of the Woods

• The way Morgan is completely used to the fact that she's essentially a pariah in Eysenfeld is really tragic. When she asks Tara and Maddie about what the townsfolk had to say about her, she assures them that she's used to them talking badly about her.
  Morgan: Hey, you two don't need another assistant back where you live or anything, right?
  Tara: Uhhhh.
  Morgan: [smiling wanly] Just kidding.
• Seeing the normally stoic Maddie break down and cry the morning after the expedition to the church, since Tara gave her the cold shoulder all morning and got into an argument with her the only time they spoke that day. Maddie recognizes that she hasn't always been fair to Tara, especially with her skepticism about Eysenfeld, but she's clearly hurt by the conflict with her best friend.
• The art book's description of the cabin, which seems cozy at first, but after Evelyn tries to intimidate Madison and Tara into leaving, starts becoming "a contributor to Maddie's homesickness and regret." It's easy to see why Madison is lonely, especially after her fight with Tara.
• Tara's backstory, in which the process of transitioning cost her all of her friends besides Madison. It's undoubtedly part of the reason why she takes Madison deciding to walk away from Taranormal as hard as she does.
• Pictured is Madison breaking down in tears as she realizes that she froze to death at the end of Chapter 2, and being confronted with what it means. She fears she'll never be able to see her family again, and won't be able to reconcile with Tara.
• Tara recording a video in which she talks about Madison's disappearance. In the space of a couple minutes, she goes from joking about almost getting eaten by a bear to threatening to make Evelyn pay for her crimes, to begging Evelyn to give Maddie back, to saying she doesn't care if she finds anything on her trip as long as Maddie gets back.
• Morgan's utter despair after Evelyn uses her to destroy the ancestral tree, then engages in some Evil Gloating about how Morgan is doomed to become Evelyn's next body. It's especially poignant if you choose, "There's nothing we can do."
  Morgan: My mom learned things. My real mom. Her mom did, too, and her grandmother and her great-grandmother. Did that save any of them? Everything I've looked over, everything the two of us have studied, and I've only learned one thing for sure. I know I'm going to die the same way they did.
• If you think about it, the fact that Evelyn acknowledges that the real Evelyn, the woman whose body she's possessing, also tried to defy her like Morgan did. Before The Moonsick One possessed Evelyn, she was probably a decent person, and might have become a good mother to Morgan, but now, she's gone, thanks to a megalomaniacal fairy that has ruined countless lives over the years.
• In Abigail's first POV scene, you can see that she feels rather guilty about being happy to have Madison around, as well as for lying to Madison about there being a chance for her to return to life so that Madison doesn't lose hope entirely.
• Abigail telling the story of how her sister Helena didn't hesitate to let Abigail be sacrificed in her place, and their parents were just as willing to let it happen, which meant Abigail was betrayed by those closest to her.
  Abigail: If death looms over you for long enough, it corrupts everything. Even love.
• Abigail's reaction to finding the little deer she befriended brutally maimed, a victim of Evelyn's destruction of the ancestral tree. The voice acting patch makes it even more heartbreaking.
• During Morgan's conversation with Abby, she mentions that she "thought of... a lot of different ways to make sure (Evelyn) couldn't hurt (her) anymore," which vaguely implies that she was contemplating suicide at various points in her life.
• Morgan's past as a pariah in the village, which gets worse after the other townspeople realize she's a lesbian. Just when she starts coming to terms with that, Evelyn abducts Tara to steal her body.
  Morgan: IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ME!
• Both of the bad endings are this, albeit also bittersweet.
  • In the "Sacrifice" ending, Morgan sacrifices herself. Geladura becomes Fairy Queen and restores Madison and Abigail to life, but Tara is an emotional wreck. In the immediate aftermath of Tara's Heroic Sacrifice, she's screaming and desperately trying to pull Morgan out of the lake, while Madison stops her despite being no happier about the outcome.
  • Also from this ending, Tara can't help but feel jealous that Madison got to go home with the woman she loves, while Morgan died, and feels guilty about being jealous of her friend.
  • Morgan's final thoughts before her Heroic Sacrifice, in which she imagines what a life with Tara would have been like, but concludes that it wasn't meant to be.
  • The ending also indicates that Madison still feels traumatized from her experiences, wondering whether Evelyn will come back to attack her.
  • The "Freedom," ending, in which Geladura sacrifices herself to defeat Evelyn results in Morgan and Tara surviving, but Madison is still the Fairy Queen and she and Abigail disappear from Tara and Madison's view forever. Tara breaks the news to Madison's family, who apparently stop speaking with her, and Tara and Madison's pet BT wonders when Madison will ever get home. Tara also apparently stops working on Taranormal and moves out of the house where she and Madison used to live, since there's too many bad memories there.
  • In both endings, one of the characters who survived- Madison and Morgan, respectively- blames herself for the other's death.
• The artbook mention a planned fourth ending, in which Morgan takes Madison's place as Fairy Queen. Tara doesn't take it well when the fairies hold Madison to her promise or Morgan chooses to take her place, since one way or another, she's losing someone important to her.

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