History Heartwarming / MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy

* Yomen, Vin, and Marsh are all watching Elend prepare his koloss army for the assault on Fadrex. It will be a horrifying slaughter. Vin tells Yomen (and Ruin) that Elend won't attack. She has no proof; as far as Elend knows, both his wife and a lot of resources he needs are in the city. But attacking the city is ''wrong'', so Vin knows he won't do it. She's right.
* Moments later, when Ruin turns the koloss on Elend, Yomen has his men allow Elend's army into the city to help defend against the koloss.

* Vin walks into the palace to confront the Lord Ruler. How does she get past the guards? She could kill them easily, and Kelsier told her on multiple occasions that skaa who serve the Lord Ruler ''know'' what they're doing is wrong. Instead, she uses this to talk them down. One of them, Goradel, leads Elend into the palace later and is a solid background character for the rest of the serious.

--> '''Vin''' You just made one huge final mistake. You shouldn't have killed Elend. You see, he was the only reason I had left to live.

* The end of The Hero of Ages. Also something of a TearJerker. [[spoiler:Vin and Elend did sacrifice themselves to save the world, but they are now TogetherInDeath and the survivors have now a better world to rebuild.]]
* Sazed asking Tindwyl to stay in Luthdael.
* Elend coming to rescue Vin at the end of the first book. Sure, this was before he TookALevelInBadass and as a result [[RescueReversal she wound up saving him]], but it was the thought that counted- especially since Vin spent most of the book thinking that people were inherently untrustworthy. He may not have saved Vin, but together with [[spoiler: the Inquisitor's revelation about Reen]] he just may have saved her faith in humanity. The ensuing scene is extremely heartwarming.
---> '''Vin'''"You came back!"
* TheReveal at the end of book 1 that:[[spoiler: Vin's abusive brother Reen never betrayed her despite his torture by the Steel Inquisition.]]. As [[WordOfGod the author]] notes in the annotations, Reen was not a good person [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes but he did genuinely love Vin]].

* Kelsier's letter to Vin [[spoiler: after his death: ''Farewell. I'll tell Mare about you. She always wanted a daughter.'']]
* My favorite moment of Well of Ascension and one of the best moments in the series: Vin realizing how much of a jerk she had been to her Kandra, trying to get to know him as a person and managing to make him reevaluate his own world view when she empathizes so deeply with him. [[spoiler: In a bit of FridgeBrilliance this also leads to Vin being saved by said Kandra later in the book, despite the huge cost to [=TenSoon=] and the fact that he should not have been loyal to her at all. It's an example of Vin's empathy and compassion coming to the fore, things that she often fails to recognise in herself]]

* Crosses a bit with TearJerker, but [[spoiler: Vin's final lines, right before she [[TakingYouWithMe annihilates both herself and the BigBad, Ruin]]]]
---> '''[[spoiler: Vin]]''' ''You just made one huge final mistake. You shouldn't have [[spoiler: killed Elend.]] You see, he was the only reason I had left to live.''
** Add to that, their being [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]].
** And [[spoiler: Sazed/Harmony leaving a note for Spook, saying that he tried to fix them, but hasn't quite yet figured out how to put souls back, even if he can repair bodies. But he assures Spook that they're okay and happy together in the afterlife.]]
* After spending most of ''The Hero of Ages'' questioning if his research of religions was [[AllForNothing completely pointless]], Sazed [[spoiler:used all of them to repair the world, fully understanding the value of his life's work]].
* Spook's flashback to the time Clubs adopted him, when his father was just shy of killing him. For as much of a curmudgeon as Clubs was, he showed up to save Spook when he needed him most without hesitation.
* Spook [[spoiler:becoming a full Mistborn thanks to Harmony]], and the fact that it's said to be a belated parting gift from Kelsier, along with healing all the damage he did to himself by flaring tin too much, whom Spook had assumed to have completely dismissed him.
** Also, [[spoiler: Kelsier]] telling Spook he considered Spook a friend.
* Heck, [[spoiler: Sazed/Harmony's entire "last message" to Spook. Not only on the personal level, but that Sazed created books containing all the knowledge he'd held as a Keeper, so that the secrets of pre-Lord Ruler humanity ''still'' will not be lost.]]
* Elend joins the Church of the Survivor to get enough votes to stay king. The vote fails, and he is ousted. He ''still'' participates in the Church exactly as he promised, despite multiple people (including his close friend who is a Survivorist preacher) pointing out that he doesn't really need to. Elend doesn't care; [[IGaveMyWord he said he'd participate, so he does]].

* Heck, [[spoiler: Sazed/Harmony's entire "last message" to Spook. Not only on the personal level, but that Sazed created books containing all the knowledge he'd held as a Keeper, so that the secrets of pre-Lord Ruler humanity ''still'' will not be lost.]]

* Elend asking Vin to dance in The Hero of Ages. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he pulls out a book, and then back into this category when it's the same book he was reading when they first met.

* TheReveal at the end of book 1 that:[[spoiler: Vin's abusive brother Reen never betrayed her despite his torture by the Steel Inquisition.]]. As [[WordOfGod the author]] notes in the annotations, Reen was not a good person but he did genuinely love Vin.

* The end of The Hero of Ages. Also something of a TearJerker.

* Spook [[spoiler:becoming a full Mistborn thanks to Harmony]], and the fact that it's said to be a belated parting gift from Kelsier, whom Spook had assumed to have completely dismissed him.

* My favourite moment of Well of Ascension and one of the best moments in the series: Vin realising how much of a jerk she had been to her Kandra, trying to get to know him as a person and managing to make him reevaluate his own world view when she empathises so deeply with him. [[spoiler: In a bit of FridgeBrilliance this also leads to Vin being saved by said Kandra later in the book, despite the huge cost to [=TenSoon=] and the fact that he should not have been loyal to her at all. It's an example of Vin's empathy and compassion coming to the fore, things that she often fails to recognise in herself]]

* Heck, [[spoiler: Sazed/Haromny's entire "last message" to Spook. Not only on the personal level, but that Sazed created books containing all the knowledge he'd held as a Keeper, so that the secrets of pre-Lord Ruler humanity ''still'' will not be lost.]]

* My favourite moment of Well of Ascension and one of the best moments in the series: Vin realising how much of a jerk she had been to her Kandra, trying to get to know him as a person and managing to make him reevaluate his own world view when she empathises so deeply with him. [[spoiler: In a bit of FridgeBrilliance this also leads to Vin being saved by said Kandra later in the book, despite the huge cost to TenSoon and the fact that he should not have been loyal to her at all. It's an example of Vin's empathy and compassion coming to the fore, things that she often fails to recognise in herself]]

* Spook [[spoiler:becoming a full Mistborn thanks to Harmony]], and the fact that it's said to be a belated parting gift from Kelsier, whom Spook had assumed to have completely dismissed him.

* Crosses a bit with TearJerker, but Vin's final lines, right before she [[spoiler: TakingYouWithMe annihilates both herself and the BigBad, Ruin]]
---> '''Vin''' ''You just made one huge final mistake. You shouldn't have killed Elend. You see, he was the only reason I had left to live.''

* Spook [[spoiler:becoming a full Mistborn thanks to Harmony]], and the fact that it's said to be a belated parting gift from Kelsier, who Spook had assumed to have completely dismissed him.

* Spook [[spoiler:becoming a full Mistborn]], and the fact that it's said to be a belated parting gift from Kelsier, who Spook had assumed to have completely dismissed him.

---> '''Vin''' ''You just made one huge final mistake. You shouldn't have killed Elend. You see, he was the only reason I had left to live.''

* Crosses a bit with TearJerker, but Vin's final lines, right before she [[TakingYouWithMe annihilates both herself and the BigBad, Ruin]]

* Elend coming to rescue Vin at the end of the first book. Sure, this was before he took a level of badass and as a result ''she'' wound up saving ''him'', but it was the thought that counted- especially since Vin spent most of the book thinking that people were inherently untrustworthy. He may not have saved Vin, but together with [[spoiler: the Inquisitor's revelation about Reen]] he just may have saved her faith in humanity. The ensuing scene is extremely heartwarming.

* Elend asking Vin to dance in The Hero of Ages. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he pulls out a book, and then back into this category when it's the same book he was reading when they first met.

* Elend asking Vin to dance in The Hero of Ages. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he pulls out a book, and then backing into this category when it's the same book he was reading when they first met.

* Elend asking Vin to dance in The Hero of Ages. Doubles as a {{CrowningMomentOfFunny}} when he pulls out a book, and then backing into this category when it's the same book he was reading when they first met.

* Kelsier's letter to Vin [[spoiler: after his death: ''Farewell. I'll tell Mare about you. She always wanted a daughter.'']]

* [[spoiler: Kelsier's letter to Vin after his death: ''Farewell. I'll tell Mare about you. She always wanted a daughter.'']]

* TheReveal at the end of book 1 that:[[spoiler: Vin's abusive brother Reen never betrayed her despite his torture by the Steel Inquisition.]]. As [[WordOfGod the author]] notes in the annotations, Reen was not a good person but he did genuinely love Vin.