Awesome / Get in the Car, Loser!

• Sam overcoming her own self-doubts, turned into an Enemy Without called Deadname, at the end of Chapter III, after a grueling chapter where she was almost entirely isolated from her party.
• The most impressive one, though, belongs to Grace. She throws together her Love Interest, who's just a teaching assistant, an angst-riddled healer who's crushing on her, and a rogue angel defying her own order into a car, steals a Sword of Plot Advancement she's repeatedly told she's not supposed to have, running from the Divine Order and battling Machine Devil cultists who mock her the whole way for thinking she can do something that only a fated male hero can do... and she wins, crushing the Machine Devil almost a decade before he was supposed to be defeated, saving numerous lives in the process! In some ways, it's impossible to overstate what a huge victory this is; even in the present time, Machine Devil cultists were busily sacrificing humans and killing them, ranging from Emily Harmless (Grace's own personal heroine) to numerous others. In the next ten years, they'd have stepped up their efforts, and that would be even before the Machine Devil rose up! Grace averted all of this, and even gets to send her spirit forward to the next hero who will arise, giving her a part of a legacy of heroes!
  • Angela confirms to her that she literally made Fate yield to her, instead of the other way around! Grace didn't just Screw Destiny, she made her ask for more!
  • The second DLC just throws this into even starker contrast- alternate Emily's decision to NOT stop the Devil early led to her society basically suffering an apocalypse. Grace prevented the fall of civilization by being willing to fight.
• Agi of Roses, not just for beating the Machine Devil in the past, but proving to be one of the only people who believe in Grace's quest when he's met, showing that, even though he's over a thousand years old, he's actually less sexist than many of Grace's own contemporaries after an initial period of confusion. He tells Grace to be the hero she wants to be, no matter what anyone says. Values Resonance indeed!
  • Another side moment of awesome: it would be easy in this kind of story to make the past hero a jerk, either to reinforce the Screw Destiny leanings or as a twist, but Get in the Car, Loser! has better writing than that; the high esteem that Agi of Roses is held in isn't unwarranted at all, and he's as good of a man as the player was led to believe.
• The road story from the "Protest Sign" trinket is a Tear Jerker, but it's also an awesome and heart-wrenching piece of worldbuilding about ordinary people standing up for what's right. This is doubly so when you realize that it's the origin of the words Grace invokes when she uses the Sword of Fate, and one of the things that moved Grace to take action and Screw Destiny:
  For weeks, Machine Devil cultists had burned huge bonfires of "degenerate books" across campus. More gathered with each event, with stolen school books they claimed to be "propaganda."
  When the cultists arrived, the East Bank librarians formed a wall of bodies and signs, to keep the students inside safe. The cultists grew frustrated, their bonfire waning without new material. One, Dylan Southwind, hurled a piece of flaming debris at a librarian's banner, but missed.
  Only one person died that day. The librarian Emily Harmless died from severe burns, but the barricade held, and she proved the words on her handmade banner true: " I WON'T FALTER IN THE FACE OF EVIL."