History Heartwarming / StarWarsTheOldRepublic

** Then if you use your authority as a Republic officer to give him and his family full amnesty for their cooperation, you will later get a message from him that he has purchased a vineyard in the countryside with the intention of living out the rest of his days in peace. With his daughter being so impressed by your heroism that she is considering enlisting in the Republic military.

* On Ord Mantell, when you first walked into the command center in Fort Garnik, a private will approach you and you can engage in some small chat with him. He will approach you again later, this time telling you about how his lieutenant is running a black mail racket against his man, but you are the only person he can think of to turn to, since every other NCO and officer in the base is corrupted. You have the option to help out the private and bring this to your superior's attention. If you do so, the next time you leave the Fort, you will be confronted by said lieutenant, who is very angry at you exposing him and openly threaten to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident arrange an accident when you are out on the field]]. Sometime later, you will get a message from the private, revealing that that right after your conversation with him, the lieutenant went to the barracks and tried to press gang his man into [[UnfriendlyFire fragging you]]. But as the first NCO who actually showed any concern for them in a long time, every single one of the soldiers refused, and finally gathered enough courage to collectively report the lieutenant's behavior to command, resulting in him getting charged with treason and dragged away in front of his cheering man.

** Likewise, throughout her romance arc with a Male Light Side Inquisitor, they repeatedly respect her wishes to take their relationship slowly, has no traces of their usual snark and display more affection towards her than anyone else in the entire game.

** Heck, it's heartwarming if you ''are'' Dark Side and choose the right options. You're a complete and total Blood Knight who ruthlessly manipulates others and cares only for his own power...and his Togruta lover. The voice-acting when he speaks to Ashara is just fantastic, as his tone switches from cruel and mocking to something close to soft and tender.

* If your Light Side the recruitment of Jaena. Her description of you and how you're so merciful despite Sith. Then you have the option to admit it's not easy. The tone of the warrior says that he pretty much knows he is staring death in the face everytime he lets someone go but knows it's the right thing to do.
* Jaena thanking you for sparing her parents in the light side route.

* Another one with some FridgeBrilliance and another side of TearJerker: Senator Grell's will is read, and there is a last-minute addition; the LastRequest to have your Consular train Nadia. Seeing as this guy was so determined to get help for his Force-Sensitive daughter that he was willing to dedicate his life to getting his people and their allies into the Republic, the fact he trusts ''you'' to take care of his daughter is humbling indeed.

* When playing as a female bounty hunter, Torian can be pursued as your love interest. Right before he ask you hand in marriage near the conclusion of the romance side quest, he will say 'I love you' in Mando'a, and you have the option to respond by tell him the same thing, also using Mando'a. This will gain you a massive boost in affection with him. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bra4ixxj4lg&list=PLC4E7F7AAAC7078B1&index=32 Watch here]]

* When playing as a female bounty hunter, Torian can be pursued as your love interest. Right before he ask you hand in marriage near the conclusion of the romance side quest, he will say 'I love you' in Mando, and you have the option to respond by tell him the same thing, also using Mado. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bra4ixxj4lg&list=PLC4E7F7AAAC7078B1&index=32 Watch here]]

** It gets even ''better'' if you take Tharan with you on the last fight and choose the Light Side options. [[spoiler: Syo is badly wounded and crushingly ashamed of what he has done under the First Son's control, but you and Tharan both reassure him that none of this was his fault, and they are still his friends, no matter what]].

* In-universe, performing many of the optional quests as a light-sider qualify as this across classes, but especially the Smuggler. Throughout the Prologue, you're in a race against time to [[spoiler:catch up to Skavak]] and reclaim [[spoiler:your ship]], then in Chapter 1 you're racing to beat him to [[spoiler:Nok Drayen's treasure], and throughout both of these and Chapter 2 you're trying to stay one step ahead of [[spoiler:Rogun the Butcher]]'s Bounty Hunters, who have no qualms about killing you. But that does not stop you from helping out others, from assisting in repairing Coruscant to rescuing a little girl's big brother.

* In-universe, performing many of the optional quests as a light-sider qualify as this across classes, but especially the Smuggler. Throughout the Prologue, you're in a race against time to [[spoiler:catch up to Skavak]] and reclaim [[spoiler:your ship], then in Chapter 1 you're racing to beat him to [[spoiler:Nok Drayen's treasure], and throughout both of these and Chapter 2 you're trying to stay one step ahead of [[spoiler:Rogun the Butcher]]'s Bounty Hunters, who have no qualms about killing you. But that does not stop you from helping out others, from assisting in repairing Coruscant to rescuing a little girl's big brother.

* Proposing to Vette before she has a chance to propose to you has her literally[[hottip:*:(The actual definition of literally, not the "for emphasis" definition)]] jumping with joy. It's so heartwarmingly cute.

* For a male trooper, if you pursue a romantic relationship with Elara, she'll tell you that you are the only person that supported and treated her with any kind of respect since she defected to the Republic. The two of you will end up getting officially married and talk about one day having children together.

* When facing Reneget Vause in an honourable DuelToTheDeath on Hoth, the Light Side route has the Hunter make one of the rules that if they should fall in battle, their companion gets to walk away without harm. Considering that the Trandoshan is threatening to ''eat'' them if they lose, it's rather touching that the Hunter is more worried about Vause harming their friends than themselves.

** Less heartwarming when it is also revealed that Malgus later killed her for being an emotional liability.

* One with a side order of TearJerker: Running the Black Talon, your Imperial crew is trying to hunt down a defector. There's this Padawan that ''can't'' be older than about 16, trying to get the injured old man to safety. When the party closes in, the kid makes a futile LastStand against your party just to try and buy the old man a little extra time. Even from the short exchange, you can tell she and the old man are fond of one another, enough to give her life for him without a shred of regret. The kid's sheer guts and determination to save a traitor old enough to be her grandpa nearly made me quit playing [[BeingEvilSucks Imperials altogether out of disgust.]]
** The Light Sided route makes this both heartwarming and tragic. Despite being on enemy sides, the Imperial has the option to desperately plead for the Padawan to stand aside and point out that ''no-one'' has to die. Your heavy sigh of resignation when she refuses to, says it all. You aren't a [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]], [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten baby-eating]] Imperial thug... you genuinely ''wanted'' to save this poor girl's life, but she let her HonourBeforeReason prevent you from doing so.

* If you bring Lt Iresso with you into the Healer's Temple on Voss during the main quest line, [[spoiler:he'll offer to take your place and let the Mystics siphon his energy instead. Cue him collapsing in pain, but responding to to your voice; if you're romancing him, his sacrifice and your support is particularly sweet.]]
* Nadia Grell's reaction if a male Jedi Consular proposes marriage to her is her jumping and kissing you in what is very similar to [[TheGlomp The Glomp]].

* For a male trooper if you pursue a romantic relationship with Elara. She will tell you that you are the only person that supported and treated her with any kind of respect since she defected to the Republic. The two of you will ended up getting officially married and talk about one day having children together.

* Commander Rylon's whole scene. [[spoiler: First, you kill his captain, who is completely loyal to Rylon, then in his final moments discovers that his commander is actually an Imperial Spy. Then, Rylon starts to talk about how he already knew that Baras was going to kill him eventually, and that he would face his death with honor. The last thing he asks of you before the fight is if his son, who you met earlier faced his destiny (that is decided by you) with his chin up. It's really hard to choose the Dark Side choice. Then you have to fight him, to actually look that he was slain because he was loyal to the Republic. It's a true Tearjerker.]]
** The Light Side route is actually rather heartwarming. [[spoiler: While you still are reluctantly forced to end his life, you can admit that you have come to greatly admire him, offer him to grant his last request, tell him that you spared his son's life (or, alternately, if you ''did'' kill his son, [[ThePowerOfLegacy lie about how he faced his end bravely]]), before finally letting him to die a soldier's death, with his honour and dignity intact.]]

** Male Warriors who turn down the flirt option with Taunt, get the option to hint at their growing attraction towards Vette. Which leads to an amusing exchange between the Warrior and Taunt, which Vette remains completely clueless about.

--> '''Taunt''': Oh you're... I see. *''Laughs''* Well good luck cracking that safe!

* The Light Side route on Tatooine has the Warrior later receive a message from Sharack Breev, who was inspired by your example to let go of her fear and venture beyond the Forbidden Pass. She eventually came across the home of Master Yonlach. [[spoiler: Instead of finding the slaughter she'd expected, she was pleasantly suprised to find the Jedi Master alive and well. They even ended up discussing his bizarre encounter with an unusually ''kind'' Sith.]]

--> '''Inquisitor''': [[ArmourPiercingQuestion Was it worth it?]]

* After one has earned considerable affection from Mako, she can be pursued as a romance option and married. Cue the next day as this Bounty Hunter was rolling about on Belsavis looking for a new base to open a taxi route at, and he reads his mail to see that Mako has sent him one along with a gift. The body of the message reads [[spoiler: "Did you know Czerka Corporation has wedding registries? Well, they do. It was kind of fun to set one up even though no one's going to get us anything on there. Well, almost no one. I saw the best set of shape-conforming blast armor on sale. I think it'll look good on you, so really it's a present for both of us. Love you, big guy.]] Attached to the message was a gift item, which for me was a rank one military gear, fitted all-weather bodysuit. Purple drop, so marginally valuable, but it's not something that you, personally, can use. Not like say, actual armor or anything. But for this ''Mando'ad'', it was very much the thought that counts.

* After gaining enough affection with Kaliyo, she gives you a mission to help her bail a friend out of jail. It turns out that [[spoiler: this friend has a bounty on her head that Kaliyo wants to collect on, all due to a [[DisproportionateRetribution perceived slight]]. If you opt for the LS option and let the girl go, Kaliyo is pissed at you.]] The ''only'' option that doesn't result in a loss of affection is telling her that "You're better than this, Kaliyo." Given she's an AxCrazy anarchist that rivals [[MassEffect2 Jack]] in hating authority, the fact that this gets through to her is oddly touching.
* When Kaliyo suggests marriage in a typically Kaliyo fashion, the agent can agree on the condition that Kaliyo finally admits that she loves him. Cue Kaliyo getting almost adorably flustered before saying she does. Her reassuring return to form immediately afterwards by threatening to do harm unto the agent's person should he tell anyone only adds to the strangely heartwarming nature of the scene.

* Vector gets a lot of these, period. There's his friendship with Lokin, which has the two of them being so reassuringly ''normal'', which is a bit of a feat considering their respective natures. Nevertheless, they plan hiking trips and visits to the opera. At the end of their dialogue based mini-arc, Vector explains the nature of their friendship in a way that resonates with the themes of the Agent's story as a whole: No, he doesn't trust Lokin. Of course the good doctor always has an angle. But you don't have to trust someone to like them and be their friend.

* If you play a Chiss, after completing the Hoth storyline, [[spoiler: Aristocra Saganu contacts the agent to declare him or her a merit adoptive of his family.]] A player [[AllThereInTheManual familiar with the species]] [[spoiler: will recgonize this as a major honor allowing exceptional Chiss to join ruling families, one that will later be given to Grand Admiral Thrawn.]]

* After Kira's past as a Sith comes to light, most Jedi tell her that it's not what she was, but what she chooses to make herself that matters. For example, her Jedi master:

** Seeing Praven and Bengel Morr as devoted followers of the light.

* [[spoiler: Commander Rylon whole scene. First, you kill his captain, who is completely loyal to Rylon, then in his final moments discovers that his commander is actually an Imperial Spy. Then, Rylon starts to talk about how he already knew that Baras was going to kill him eventually, and that he would face his death with honor. The last thing he asks of you before the fight is if his son, who you met earlier faced his destiny (that is decided by you) with his chin up. It's really hard to choose the Dark Side choice. Then you have to fight him, to actually look that he was slain because he was loyal to the Republic. It's a true Tearjerker.]]
** The Light Side route is actually rather heartwarming. [[spoiler: While you still are reluctantly forced to end his life, you can admit that you have come to greatly admire him, offer him to grant his last request, tell him that you spared his son's life, before finally letting him to die a soldier's death, with his honour and dignity intact.]]

** The Light Sided route makes this both heartwarming and tragic. Despite being on enemy sides, the Imperial has the option to desperately plead for the Padawan to stand aside and point out that ''no-one'' has to die, then their heavy sigh of resignation when she refuses to. You aren't a [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]], [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten baby-eating]] Imperial thug... you genuinely ''wanted'' to save this poor girl's life, but her HonourBeforeReason wouldn't let you.