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  • In Nico's Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair playthrough, he frequently goes into Cuteness Overload when he sees Gundham's hamsters, especially the "lil' chubby one" as he calls it. He's also saddened when they have to watch Gundham's execution.
  • In Danganronpa 3 Despair Arc #10, Nico starts crying over Chiaki's death scene. The Picky Penguin's comments on that episode are really supportive and sweet, and Nico even takes the time to thank them in the next Despair Arc episode.
  • His reaction to Danganronpa 3 Side: Hope is quite heartwarming.
  • Upon the start of Part 15 of Investigations 2, Nico has some words to say at the beginning addressing the result of the U.S. Presidential Election where he states that people shouldn't have to feel or be afraid of dark times coming.
    • Also in Investigations 2, he adopts a borderline Papa Wolf attitude toward Sebastian Debeste the minute he goes from vaguely lovable Butt-Monkey to "precious cinnamon bun," even going so far as to demand that someone hug the poor kid.
  • His "Draw My Life".
  • In part 12 of Ni no Kuni, the voices in Oliver's head sing "I Believe I Can Fly" together.
  • A strange (but still fitting) example occurs in Council of Voices 6. After finding a secret room filled with waffles, Komaeda falls into despair, violating his forbidden action and causing his bracelet to poison him. Togami, being nearby, grabs a nearby knife and cuts off Komaeda's arm before the poison spreads all the way. Togami then claims to have only done it for himself (His forbidden action is being in a room with a dead body, as well as him being handcuffed with Komaeda holding the key) with Komaeda quickly calling bullshit due to Togami having instinctively used a tourniquet to slow blood loss. As Togami leaves, Komaeda states "there's still hope for [Togami]."
  • When it became clear to Nico that he had been negatively affected by YouTube's ad revenue policy, he felt he had little choice but to start a Patreon. However, he didn't want to lock any of his content behind a paywall, preventing Picky Penguins who were unwilling or unable to pay from getting the full experience. To get around this, there are no reward tiers; patrons can pay as much or as little as they want. Instead, Nico's Patreon is focused on long-term goals for total amount of money donated, with goals including bi-weekly livestreams, prize giveaway contests, and hiring an editor for The Council of Voices, among others. The fan response was overwhelmingly positive, and within hours, hundreds of Picky Penguins had shown their support, donating thousands of dollars per month between them, achieving most of the donation goals in the process.
  • On April 13th 2019, his channel was terminated because of "spam or misleading content". Immediately the community came together to pour out their support for Nico. Nico tried appealing the termination but it didn't work. Amazingly, a software engineer at YouTube was a Picky Penguin and convinced YouTube to restore his channel.
    • Wanna know what makes this even more heartwarming? Back in 2016, during his Danganronpa 3 reaction Nico says that because his channel is so small, he believes that if it were ever terminated by YouTube then it likely wouldn't come back. Guess he was proven wrong.
  • Him going Papa Wolf when Bernadetta reveals how her father treated her is both this and a Crowning Moment of Funny.
  • During the Outlast II livestream on January 4th, 2020, Nico had gotten sick from the chili he ate previously that night. Most of the Picky Penguins in the livestream advise him to end the stream early, worrying on his health. Eventually, without any choice and much persistent, Nico had to end the said livestream early. Despite wanting to carry on for his viewers, the Picky Penguins had sent many "get well soon" messages on his Twitter post, assuring him that all was okay. It got even more heartwarming when Nico responded to these messages thanking them for their concern. This was also mention in one of his latest Fire Emblem Let's Play videos.
  • After learning about Mayumi Matsushita's tragic backstory (the death of her husband, her dementia, and her working hard to support Ota despite all that), Nico vows to never make fun of her again.
  • Instead of his normal, humorous ones, the "and now back to..." for his final episode of Omori is him ad-libbing Mari giving Sunny words of encouragement while a piano plays in the background.
    Mari (Nico): "Sunny. It's okay. It's not as scary as you think. Just breath. And just remember. I'll be right here with you. Always."
  • While it’s played for laughs, Nico’s Flanderization of Squall Leonhart’s desire to see all the Dalmatian puppies from 101 Dalmatians rescued slips into this at times, including when Sora succeeds at getting all of them and Nico envisions Leon buried in a huge cuddle pile of puppies while laughing with joy. Also, when people made art of that exact scenario, he displayed some of it in the video that followed.
  • Before playing, Nico had been very skeptical about enjoying Xenoblade Chronicles 2, delaying its LP for a long time due to his initially poor impressions with the character designs and voice acting, to the point he said he wanted to switch it to Japanese at first, but after playing through it, not only did Nico just enjoy it, he loved it! He loved it so much he named it his Favorite Game of 2022 for its story and characters, beating out its sequel and even Elden Ring! Goes to show how much the game won him over despite the initial bad first impressions.
  • Doubling as funny, but in his playthrough of Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp, Nico's response to seeing his beloved OTP Shuichi and Kaede together again:
    Nico: (as Shuichi) Hey, it's me with my fucking girlfriend. We just got done making out and fucking in the back of my fucking pick-up truck! (as himself) DAMN BOY! And then immediately I'm like "This is the best fucking game in the series".
  • Nico's excitement in Episode 4 of the Tears of the Kingdom playthrough when he sees his horses from the previous game are still in the stables for him to ride can count as well.

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