History TearJerker / InCryptid

** At one point, the narration mentions that the Aeslin mice had been reciting the catechisms of the God of Early Arrivals and Earlier Departures, a.k.a. Daniel Healy, Alice's deceased older brother, and that Thomas had to explain to them how listening to those stories - which definitely would have included how Daniel had been murdered - were hurting Alice.

* The prologue chapter, in which [[spoiler:the Crossroads finally grabs Thomas, and Mary has to talk down a pregnant Alice before she can go after him through the portal.]]

** After Sarah finally regains the trust of her friends and family after [[spoiler:erasing herself from their memories]], Sarah has to perform another equation to get them all home. She knows she may die in the process, but is willing to do it for her companions and everyone else who got stuck there with them. And then, when she needs more brain processing power, [[spoiler:Artie]] touches her and is reduced to an EmptyShell. [[spoiler:She's able to rebuild his psyche from the bottom up thanks to everyone else's memories, but [[ShipOfTheseus is it really the same Artie?]]]]

** The reason why Angus and Elaine's father were kidnapping the fishfolk babies: Angus wanted the children to have more time on land before the change, and Elaine's father wanted to give her a life away from Gentling after her fishfolk stepmother returned to the sea. Unfortunately, after Elaine learns about her father's role in the kidnappings, she wants nothing more to do with him, and Angus's punishment is to return to the sea and forget what he did.
* "Oh Pretty Bird": The dawning horror of the situation that the town of Whiting, Indiana.
* "Broken Paper Hearts". Alice knows what dead is, and that sometimes people come back as ghosts. But she's only six, and [[spoiler: is completely distraught when it happens to her own mother]]. It also adds a retroactive tearjerker to the times that Seanan has referred to [[spoiler: Frances]] by a long version of the Aeslin title: [[spoiler:the Violent Priestess, Who Never Learned To Be Careful.]]

** After Sarah finally regains the trust of her friends and family after [[spoiler:erasing herself from their memories]], Sarah has to perform another equation to get them all home. She knows she may die in the process, but is willing to do it for her companions and everyone else who got stuck there with them. And then, when she needs more brain processing power, [[spoiler:Artie]] touches her and is reduced to an EmptyShell. [[spoiler:She's able to rebuild his psyche from the bottom up thanks to everyone else's memories, but [[ShipOfTheseus is it really the same Artie?]]

** Antimony asking Sam [[spoiler: to get her Aeslin mice to the airport]] a favor that means she doesn't get to go home or to be with him.

** The reason why Angus and Elaine's father were kidnapping the fishfolk babies: Angus wanted the children to have more time on land before the change, and Elaine's father wanted to give her a life away from Gentling. Unfortunately, after Elaine learns about her father's role in the kidnappings, she wants nothing more to do with him, and Angus's punishment is to return to the sea and forget what he did.

** The general malaise surrounding the town and what happens to people as they get older [[spoiler: and turn into merfolk who forget they ever had human lives]].

** [[spoiler:And to make things worse, the whole thing happens around Alice's first Valentine's Day, with the last paragraph having the coroner's assistants carrying Fran's body out while stepping on the pieces of the valentine that she meant to give to her.]]

* "Jammed": The discovery of the corpse of [[spoiler: Holly go Lightspeed]].

[[AC: The Fran and Jonathan Healy Timeline]]

[[AC: The Price Family Timeline]]

** Fran and Jonathan's newborn gets kidnapped, but they get her back, which leads to a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

** [[spoiler:And to make things worse, the whole thing happens around Alice's first Valentines Day, with the last paragraph having the coroner's assistants carrying Fran's body out while stepping on the pieces of the valentine that she meant to give to her.]]

* "Broken Paper Hearts". Alice knows what dead is, and that sometimes people come back as ghosts. But she's only six, and [[spoiler: is completely distraught when it happens to her own mother]]. It also adds a retroactive tearjerker to the times that Seanan has referred to [[spoiler: Frances]] by a long version of the Aeslin title: [[spoiler: the Violent Priestess, Who Never Learned To Be Careful.]]

* Discount Armageddon:

* Midnight Blue Light Special:

* Pocket Apocalpyse:

* Chaos Choreography:
** Body discovery again - Poppy and Graham. And the subsequent realization that they were not the first. A few chapters later, the fact that [[spoiler: the snake cult]] were able to complete the murder of another pair of dancers despite the best efforts of Verity, Dominic, Alice, Malena, and Pax.

** Body discovery again - Mac and Leanne. And the subsequent realization that they were not the first.

** Mike's guilt when he thinks Verity has died

*** Alex's guilt.

** Fran and Jonathan's newborn gets kidnapped, but they get him back, which leads to a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

* "Broken Paper Hearts". Alice knows what dead is, and that sometimes people come back as ghosts. But she's only six, and [[spoiler: is completely distraught when it happens to her own mother]].

* "IM" Arthur's 's guilt over wanting to talk to Sarah again, and his angst over not having told her how he feels about her.