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Tear Jerker / Bravely Default II

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  • After defeating Lily and snapping her out of her brainwashing, she completely breaks down crying in her husband's arms (if Roddy was saved first), or Elvis' (should she be saved first), as she remembers that her daughter Mona is dead.
  • The first bad ending in which Gloria sacrifices her life to power the Crystals enough so they can seal the Nexus away for the next 200 years. However, she had to deceive her friends and especially Seth about the details of her plan to do so, and can only feebly apologize for hurting them before she passes away in Seth's arms. The last scene has the surviving three gaze into the sea (as Gloria's Elemental Motif is water), unable to appreciate the beauty of the world as they are still mourning the loss of their friend. Even worse is that with the end of Gloria and the Musan royal family, the Nexus will break free again and this time there's no way to seal it again with the Crystals.
  • The second bad ending in which Mag Mell pays the price for the Heroes attempting to find a way to stop the Night's Nexus without Gloria dying. The battle goes awry as they're unable to nullify the Nexus's Resurrective Immortality, forcing Esmerelda and the fairies to sacrifice themselves by taking Mag Mell outside the local space-time fabric and freezing it in time forever. Though everyone encourages Adelle to leave her home behind and find happiness among humans, she reveals that she's been secretly suffering from crippling guilt for not stopping Edna before she turned evil and the subsequent horrors that fell onto Excillant afterwards, and decides to stay out of a misguided sense that she doesn't deserve to be happy anymore and must be punished in Edna's place. Like Gloria before her, she tricks the other three into leaving without her before she and Elvis exchange a tearful Anguished Declaration of Love as she's separated from her friends forever. The last scene is Elvis placing flowers on her makeshift grave and what appears to Adelle from the other side of the barrier watching over him, so close yet so far from each other.
  • There's a brief moment too in the Golden Ending. After going through hell and witnessing the previous two bad endings, the Heroes with the player's help finally manage to defeat the Nexus for good without anyone dying... until they wake up on the beach with Seth nowhere in sight. The three then desperately start searching and calling out for Seth to no avail, and Gloria can only fall to her knees in despair that despite their best efforts, one of their dear friends still had to die, especially since this all happened because Seth wanted to save Gloria from her fate. It quickly turns back to heartwarming though when the Wind Crystal revives Seth back from death for good, and the four of them are reunited for good.

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