Tear Jerker / The Second Archon War

• Ei gently trying to tell Ami her parents won't be back, after their home was invaded by Parahuman criminals.
• As Venti doesn't understand why Gesselschaft is bad news courtesy of being an interdimensional refugee, Capri and Naomi drag him to the public library for him to read on World War Two and the Holocaust. Cue the cheerful, happy-go-lucky bard breaking down in tears as he learns this country so similar to his beloved Mondstadt would fall so low that it permanently stained their reputation by association.
  • After that, Venti concludes Earth's gods are dead because surely they would have intervened. The other possibility — that Earth's native gods flat-out wouldn't care about preventing millions from being mass-murdered — obviously bothers him a lot.
• After briefly unleashing his true form to destroy Gesselschaft's training camp and lab, Venti immediately assumes Capri and Naomi are too scared of him to stay his friends. For him to act so resigned, it implies it happened more than once to him in the past.
  • Venti's friendship with the two other members of his band are tinged with bitterness by the simple knowledge he's unaging and long-lived, and they are not. As the Anemo Archon quietly admits, it's easier to wander all around the country than watch people you cherish die again and again.
• Ei quietly asks Venti if the loss of Makoto will ever stop hurting one day, and he mournfully answers it won't, hypothesising this is why Erosion happens — after a while, the grief just becomes too much.
• The fact that Cologne's destruction by Behemoth outright gutted the German Protectorate, Heroic capes who didn't perish in the initial assault slowly wasting of various cancers in the aftermath, paving the way for the Nazis to ascend to power again and force the country to backslide in its previous sins.
  • Capri tearfully asking Venti why he couldn't appear to Cologne in their hour of need. Nagasaki cried for salvation, and Raiden Ei answered their prayer, so why was Cologne deemed unworthy of the same miracle?
  • Venti admitting his protective range as an Archon will be limited by frontiers. Even a god needs to pick his battles, because when you try to save everyone, ultimately you will protect no one.
• Dorothy's viewpoint is extremely unsettling, but at the same time, it plainly exposes how utterly broken the woman has been by Gesselschaft torturing and brainwashing her as a Parahuman breathing weapon, to the point she constantly calls herself an ugly monster.
• Tsukuyomi's public apology to Singapore for Japanese war crimes causes a wave of suicides across the country, as dozens of officials decided to honorably repent for their fathers, uncles and other relatives' sins. Kenta's wife outright sobs in her husband's arms as she struggles to reconciliate her kind and sweet grandpa with the kind of sociopathic soldier who would delight in torturing civilians.
• The bits and pieces in Nahida's viewpoint showcasing how young the God of Wisdom actually is, and how utterly starved she is for little things other children would take for granted — getting to hold somebody's hand, playing in the grass outside, and most heartwrenchingly, getting to celebrate her birthday with flowers and candy and people who love her.
• The funeral after the Wisteria Wedding is a rather sad affair. After the death of the Emperor and the rest of the Japanese ruling family, including former Prime Minister Nakamura, the entire nation is in shock, with everyone in the main cast mourning alongside with them. Not even Raiden can hold back her tears, especially for Nakamura, who she respected the most.
  • Even Princess Ami, instead of doing her usual chuuni routine, is just a young girl crying over the grave of the man who became her father figure after the death of her original parents. During her speech, she breaks down often, which makes Raiden comfort her with her hugs.

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