History TearJerker / Outlast

* Miles [[StressVomit Stress Vomiting]] after [[spoiler: [[{{Fingore}} getting his fingers chopped off by Trager]]]] is horrible as it is heartbreaking.

---> '''Miles:''' This is the way you die. Ripped to pieces from the inside, watching your marrow scatter on a concrete wall. You've escaped one Hell, Chris Walker. God help me but I somehow hope you didn't find another.

--->'''Miles''' "Billy is dead, the Walrider, the Swarm, whatever it is, unmade with him. Whether I escape or die here, I am free."

* Miles [[StressVomit Stress Vomiting]] after [[spoiler: [[{{Fingore}} getting his fingers chopped off by Trager]]]] is both horrible as it is heartbreaking.

* Chris Walker deserves mention here. A sharp-eared player will hear him occasionally call out in an attempt to coax the player out of hiding, utilizing lines such as, "I'll do it for you, so you won't have to kill yourself," and,"I'll make the pain stop." Rather than being honeyed or sing-song (though it's doubtful he ''could'' sing-song, in his state), his tone of voice suggests that he genuinely believes what he's saying, and that in his mind, the quick (though terrifying and painful) beheading he can give out is a far better alternative to having to endure or falling victim to the horrors of the asylum. Chris' own physical state is equal parts the result of self-multilation caused by heightened anxiety and an adverse physical reaction to the Morphogenic Engine, and he's surrounded by other patients who have suffered just as much ''and more.'' It's not hard to guess that the same soldier trying to protect the outside world is also capable of recognizing that his victims are, in fact, still very frightened, very hurt people.

** Eddie's [[RapeAsBackstory horrible backstory]] makes his first scene in the prologue [[FridgeHorror even worse.]] When the Murkoff workers, two large men are dragging him to the Morphogenic Engine, handling him very roughly (after they've taken off all his clothes save for his underwear, please note) what is he doing? ''Desperately pleading for help and screaming they're going to rape him.''

--> '''Eddie, clutching Waylon's hand:''' We could have been beautiful.

--> '''Eddie''': I knew it was coming. You filthy fucking machines! You fucking machines! No! No, not again! No! No! Jack-booted fucks, I know what you've been doing to me. I know what you've been... Help! Help me! Help me, they're going to rape me! Rape! Rape!

--> ''Lisa, I want you to burn this place and any evidence it ever existed to the ground. Destroy the Murkoff Corporation. Bury it in shame, take away its money, wipe it from history.'' '''''This man thinks he's in love. He thinks the therapy made him better.'''''

--> '''Miles:''' I'm not the only victim here, not by a long shot. I watch a man wait to burn to death, the most painful death imaginable, rather than stay in this place.

* There's no excuse for the crimes Eddie committed as an adult, but no child deserves to go through [[ParetalIncest what his father]] [[RapeAsBackstory and uncle did to him.]]

* There's no excuse for the crimes Eddie committed as an adult, but no child deserves to go through [[RapeAsBackstory what his father and uncle did to him.]]

** Eddie's [[RapeAsBackstory horrible backstory]] makes his first scene in the prologue [[FridgeHorror even worse.]] When the Murkoff workers, two large men are dragging him to the Morphogenic Engine, handling him very roughly (after they've taken off all his clothes save for his underwear, please note) what is he doing? ''Screaming for help and saying they're going to rape him.''

** A smaller, different sort of tearjerker: For all the hideous things he's done to men and women alike, for all the vicious slurs and sexist ideology he spouts, Eddie is a ''genuinely talented man.'' His sketches of various wedding dresses indicate a background in fashion or at the very least art, and since everyone at the asylum either wore a uniform or a modern style pants suit, there's a decent chance he ''made'' his waistcoat from scraps of uniforms stitched together with one of the many sewing machines in the first section of the Male Ward. Though it's only apparent in his most gruesome works, he also seems to have an affinity for ropes and... modern art. And although it's hair-raising to hear when you're trying to outrun him, Eddie's singing voice is very clear and smooth, and would be quite pleasant to listen to under any other circumstances. All of this creative talent and natural ability that would normally (and likely ''did'') attract scores of interested parties - and instead it's all gone to waste and become facets of a single, horrifically ruined man who was likely beyond the point of salvation well before Murkoff ever got their hands on him.

** A smaller, different sort of tearjerker: For all the hideous things he's done to men and women alike, for all the vicious slurs and sexist ideology he spouts, Eddie is a ''genuinely talented man.'' His sketches of various wedding dresses indicate a background in fashion or at the very least art, and since everyone at the asylum either wore a uniform or a modern style pants suit, there's a decent chance he ''made'' his waistcoat from scraps of uniforms stitched together with one of the many sewing machines in the first section of the Male Ward. Though it's only apparent in his most gruesome works, he also seems to have an affinity for ropes and... modern art. All of this creative talent - and it's all gone to waste, because Eddie was broken as a child and stayed broken as an adult.

** Even while being hunted, Waylon seems to recognize that the monster that is The Groom isn't ''entirely'' Eddie's creation, and that Murkoff and their experiments and treatment of him have helped a great deal to exacerbate an already broken mind. In the note Blue Beard's Wives - acquired by ''filming a gymnasium filled with the mutilated corpses of Eddie's past victims,'' '''after having narrowly avoided the same messy mutilation and death,''' - Waylon makes this comment:
--> ''Lisa, I want you to burn this place and any evidence it ever existed to the ground. Destroy the Murkoff Corporation. Bury it in shame, take away its money, wipe it from history.'' '''This man thinks he's in love. He thinks the therapy made him better.'''

** Eddie's [[RapeAsBackstory horrible backstory]] makes his first scene in the prologue [[FridgeHorror even worse.]] When the Murkoff workers are dragging him in, handling him very roughly (after they've taken off all his clothes save for his underwear, please note) what is he doing? ''Screaming for help and saying they're going to rape him.''

** Eddie's [[RapeAsBackstory horrible backstory]] makes his first scene in the prologue [[FridgeHorror even worse.]] When the Murkoff workers are dragging him in, handling him very roughly (after they've taken off all his clothes save for his underwear, please note) what is he doing? ''Crying rape.''

--> '''Eddie:''' We could have been beautiful.