Despite being a horrifying story first and foremost, The Unseen Hunt can and does get melancholic frequently.
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- Weiss getting sent to Vale for her "insanity" to be treated, which doesn't sound bad at face value, is solely done by Jacques because he doesn't want his political aspirations jeapordised by her antics. Whilst getting attacked by the Grimm is enough for anyone to be seen as delusional, Weiss getting disowned and cast aside like chaff to the wind is tragic.
- The fate of the Rose family qualifies. Summer was Awakened, and she was killed by Grimm that went on to attack Ruby and Yang. Taiyang forced himself to believe there were attackers, and got killed for his trouble. Ruby herself, however, was dying and crossed over to the Grimm world - and asked the first Grimm she found to look after Yang in her place. The Ruby we know is this Grimm, and her Grimm powers are such that her touch decays everything - organic or otherwise - and therefore floats around the Grimm world unable to contact any other Grimm without killing them.
- Ruby then gets put through the wringer even more after Yang gets killed by the police, going through a severe case of Heroic BSoD.
- Nora's first experience of Cinder's domain was harrowing in every sense of the word, as noted in the Nightmare Fuel page, and watching her go through Break the Cutie is not pleasant.
- The state of affairs two months after Jaune's Pyrrhic Victory. While Vale has recovered and the freaky events have been pinned on Alexander Nikos (when possessed by Cinder), the Arc family has been completely devastated by Jaune's death in the human world, and Pyrrha is now orphaned and scarred for life. As for Jaune himself? He is now stuck in the Grimm world as Leviathan for all eternity, with only Ruby's company to keep him sane throughout the vigil. A Bittersweet Ending in every sense of the trope.
