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Tear Jerker / Misfile

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  • In a real world example, the author's post regarding a personal loss on International Transgender Day of Remembrance 2014.
  • When Molly is in the hospital from a car accident and Emily goes to visit her:
    Molly: You were the last person I expected.
    Emily: I could go...
    Molly: No... no, that's not what I meant. I mean ... no one else came, Emily.
  • Hilarious in the moment, but if you think about Cassiel's reaction to being thanked... "Nobody's ever-". Nobody's ever thanked her before? Nobody's ever appreciated anything she's done enough to let her know? Especially since earlier she implies Heaven is a lot bigger on giving people updates about how you feel about them, which is why she was confused that nobody had commented on her being nicer. No wonder she gets so upset when she realizes.
  • How about Emily weeping as she asks Ash not to reverse the misfile because it risks everything they have together, even though she knows how much it hurts Ash to be trapped in the wrong body?
  • In Hell High, we get to see the lightest sin that can get you into Limbo, Hell: "choosing to do something you think is harmful". Not actually being evil, not consciously understanding the full consequences of your actions, but choosing to try something that you have been taught to believe is harmful to others, even if it doesn't actually harm anyone. The main character's mother was a medieval-nobility rebel teenager who was basically indoctrinated to believe that thinking about one's sinful desires was evil, resisted the temptation to sin but kept imagining, and died a horrible death of tuberculosis before she could repent for a sin that doesn't exist in Heaven's filing cabinet. And for that, she was placed in a mediocre hovel, forced to experience death-by-tuberculosis once a year, with the Styx River and reincarnation breathing down her neck.

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