Heartwarming / Down to Dust

• Socorro and Cheque's friendship.
• Things go to to hell immediately after that, but the fact that the dead Riveras were willing to adopt Cheque and treat him as one of their own.
• At the beginning of the fic, Héctor understably resents Ernesto and wants to see him suffer and bring him to justice. It's after seeing Socorro and Cheque's strong friendship (which parallels his own with Ernesto in the past) that he realizes he can't come to fully hate his former best friend.
• Cheque becoming friends with Ernesto. Yes, Ernesto initially sees him as a pawn for his revenge against the Rivera family once he finds out he's friends with Socorro, but he comes to genuinely care about him. Doubly so knowing that they're related.
• Mixing with Tear Jerker, when Héctor calls Ernesto out on his selfish behavior and how he framed himself as the victim for so many years, Ernesto refuses to listen at first....It's only after Héctor says he always had faith in him and genuinely believed that Ernesto could become successful on his own that Ernesto starts regretting all he's done, realizing Héctor's murder was pointless.

  Héctor: “I thought you could do it on your own. I was sure you could, I believed it even when you did not. So what if songwriting was not your strong point? You could sing, you could play, you were born to perform. You had everything going for you, and I...I wanted to see you succeed more than anyone else.”

• After returning to the land of the living safely, Miguel (on Socorro's behalf) composes a song named "El Alma sin Voz" (The Soul Without a Voice), which is about Cheque.
• Cheque's motivation for violating the laws to visit Ernesto at the end of the story: he genuinely cares about his great-great grandfather, murderer or not, and refuses to let his only known relative leave him, to hell with what Imelda or anyone else of the Rivera family thinks of it.
• The fact that Héctor is happily living with his family in the land of the death, with Imelda and Coco at his side. He also regains his love for music and if the epilogue chapter is to go by, he's rekindling his friendship with Ernesto. Considering how much he suffered in Coco, it's refreshing to see he's doing so well.

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