Line #5 TearJerker/StoryOfSeasons2014


1	* [[spoiler:[[WhamEpisode Eda's death]]. In fall of your first year, she starts complaining about her aches and pains, and throughout the entire season she stops visiting town and attending festivals. When winter arrives, she dies. Seeing the cheeky, energetic grandmother who helped you get started slowly and quietly succumb to illness is both shocking and depressing, especially since there's [[RealitySubtext nothing you can do about it]].]]
2	** Notably, it's also [[spoiler:the first death of an NPC in the series [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife since Nina]].]] And as the main page notes, if you've never played a ''Harvest Moon'' game and came into this one blind, it hits extra hard because you have ''no'' idea it's coming.
3	** And afterward, [[spoiler:you become the owner of her farm -- where her headstone sits quietly by the river, perpetually decorated in flowers. You can visit it by walking up and pressing the A button. "Eda... I'm taking good care of your farmland."]] Sob.
4	** If you somehow manage to speed-romance someone and get into a ring-committed relationship, Eda will tell you she hopes to meet your child someday. But since you can't marry before year two at the earliest (since Dessie has to come and tell you about blue feathers) [[Eda dies long before you can have a child, meaning she'll never get to meet them]].
5	* Breaking up with your LoveInterest is always various shades of sad. The winners are Fritz, who looks like a kicked puppy as he wishes you well and says he's used to being broken up with, and Lillie, who sadly says she knew she wasn't good enough for you and thanks you for being her FirstLove.
6	** Lillie's is especially tear-jerking, as the poor thing thinks she did something wrong and that's why you've been ignoring her. And the worst part? The break-up options for everyone else are "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin I want to break up]]". For ''her'', though, it's "[[VideoGameCrueltyPotential I don't love you anymore."]] [[WhatTheHellHero You essentially let her believe something's wrong with her before dumping her in the cruelest way possible.]] YouBastard.
7	** Nadi's line to you post break up can basically be a punch to the gut because he doesn't appear to hold you breaking up with him against you, and instead asks for you to be happy with someone else... while basically putting himself down. [[BrutallyHonest Considering]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality the]] [[HatesSmallTalk person]] Nadi normally is, this coming from him makes it more heartbreaking.
8	--->'''Nadi:''' You should find a better man next time. Not some loser like me... Best of luck in the hunt...
9	* Less jarring, but still quite sad, is little Melanie's face in the "Playing Cupid" scripted event when she tells you that she wants her dad to get married. If you see Nadi's first flower event beforehand, where he talks about how she must be lonely since there are so few children to play with her, it's even more heart-wrenching.
10	--> '''Melanie:''' ...I'd really like a mommy.
11	* Angela's pink flower event in itself is this. The sad part comes when Veronica starts speaking about the time Angela caught a cold, a little while after her husband passed away and she took over the guild. When she came home much later that night, she found Angela passed out at the table with a dinner set out... because it was Veronica's birthday and, despite her illness, Angela not only worked to make the food, but even tried to stay up waiting for her to come home. The fact that Veronica blames herself for why Angela kept hiding her illness (so as not to bother her) can be both heartbreaking and hitting a bit too close to home for some players.
12	-->'''Veronica:''' But did I? No, yet again, I did not. Truly, I am a failure as a mother.

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