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- The joy and relief shared by Anonymous and Catie when they reunite after the shipwreck. Right off the bat, it’s clear how close these two are and how much they mean to each other, (even if Anon does try his best to backpedal and play it cool).
- When Anon finally makes it back into town, Cornelia doesn’t hesitate to rush up and give him a great big hug. They may not be traveling together this time around, but they’re still True Companions from the first game’s adventure.
- Early in the game, Cornelia gives you a way to receive emails, and promises to keep in touch. True to her word, she sends you several wholesome messages throughout your journey. At certain points, you also get thank-you letters from some of the people you’ve helped.
- One of the Inbox missions involves helping an old man reunite with his estranged daughter, who has become a fighter in the Battle Arena. After finishing the quest, you can go back and find them at the place where it began – a stream in the woods they used to visit when the daughter was a child. They’re both so glad to be bonding again after all the long years they spent apart.
- Another example of Anonymous showing concern for Catie - during the party sidequest, after Catie leaves to invite the neighbors, Anon sends her an email to ask if everything is alright, saying he noticed her slip out without telling anyone, and offering to play a prank on the other party guests if it’ll cheer her back up.
- Deep in the haunted woods, there’s a cabin with a bed and a sign asking visitors to sleep. If you do, then a strange creature will be standing nearby when you wake up. Surely this sounds like nightmare fuel, right? Nope – it turns out the creature is completely harmless, and really does just want to give weary travelers a place to rest.
- The inn in /x/ is inhabited by ghosts, who are trapped there by a wraithlike figure lurking outside. If you fight the wraith when it calls to you during the night, instead of ignoring it as you’re told, then everyone will be gone when you wake up the next morning. You freed their souls, allowing them to finally pass on.
- In one quest, the party must pass a test before entering the 4chan code room. The test in question? Making a Triforce
. Everyone can do it effortlessly… except for Til, who never learned the trick. Instead of making fun of her for it, like you’d expect, Anonymous goes back to help her without a hint of judgement. That tiny gesture marks the start of a big shift in their relationship from then on. - All of the initial support conversations are sweet in some way, but especially Catie’s talk with Eddie about idealism and forgiveness.
- The secret café date with Tyalie, added in the February 7th update. In it, she tells Catie that despite her enthusiasm, it’s hard to trust new people who may not like or accept her; but she’s ready to trust Catie, and can’t wait to keep traveling the world by her side.
- It gets doubly heartwarming when you realize she isn’t talking to Catie at all in that scene – she’s talking to you. The person she was so excited to meet, and whom she’s decided to trust with her life from now on? That’s you, the player of her game.
- Many of the endgame interactions between the party members fall here, showing just how much these misfits have come to value and trust each other during their journey together.
- Til and Tyalie have a discussion about Shipping, in which Tyalie lets slip her crush on Catie. Rather than tease her about it, Til reassures Tyalie that her secret is safe. In the same scene, the two girls make plans to hang out and read fanfics together after their adventure is over.
- Til breaking Anonymous out of his Heroic BSoD with just the right mixture of sympathy and snark.
- Pretty soon after that, a starstruck little girl asks if Anon is really a famous hacker. Anon replies by spawning in a pet bunny for her to play with. When it gets right down to it, the guy’s not so bad.
- Another Anon and Catie moment: when she wakes up from her coma, he’s right there by her side. The two spend a minute consoling each other over the things they learned in the First Internet, each insisting that the other shouldn’t blame themselves for what happened in a previous life.
- As the airship leaves Tumblr, there’s a brief shot of Anon and Til holding hands, comforting each other as they fly into the unknown.
- Walking around town during the normal ending leads to plenty of small, heartwarming moments. Nearly everyone you’ve met throughout the game is there, enjoying the new day you’ve won for them, and they all express thanks in their own ways.
- If you cleared the Deep Web, several of the lost kids will be there too, confirming that you did end up saving them after all. Even Luna survived, and she’s back in human form to boot!
- Signboard, of all possible characters, ends up giving one of the sweetest congratulations of all:Signboard:: You did good, kid. I'm impressed. You've sure come a long way from that seasick girl on the ship, asking me about status effects. I'm sure you'll do great things. It's written on a sign, so it must be true!
- Tyalie’s entire speech about endings dances a line between this and bittersweet, and hits home for anyone who’s ever grown attached to a fictional world.Tyalie: Endings always make me super sad, even if they're supposed to be happy ones. When you meet someone special, you don't want to let them go. You want to keep being a part of their life, even after the story ends. When the credits roll, it hurts; because there's so much more you wanted to say. So much more you wish could've happened... I know this just sounds like my typical silly rambling; but what I'm trying to say is... Well... Thanks for being special to me, Catie.
- Irci thanks you for helping Til find her bravery, and marvels at the change her sister has gone through in such a short time away from home.
- If you found the Wayward Spark, you can trigger a hidden scene by using it on Arianna’s scrap pile. The A.I. wakes up just long enough to witness the sky for the first time, unblocked by the Firewall or STORM’s rainclouds. As she fades away, she thanks you for giving her a chance, however brief, to see the kind of beauty she missed out on in life.
- The Beach Episode in the epilogue is extremely heartwarming. After everything these characters have been through, it’s so nice to see them just relaxing and enjoying a vacation together. Til’s reaction to being outside barefoot for the first time is pretty cute, too, as is Cornelia’s fascination with the little clam-bots living in the sand.
- Remember the girl who wanted to open her own souvenir shop? The one who seemingly got left behind on the Wayback Machine? You can find her in the epilogue, perfectly safe and working as an apprentice at a skybound trading post.
- Amelie’s letter to the player is strangely sweet, in its own way. She’s basically asking you to live your life to the fullest, and not give into despair and loneliness like she did. At the end, she says that no matter what happens, you’ll have someone who loves you waiting for you when it’s over. Aww…?
- The final support scenes are mainly Tearjerker material, but Anonymous’ is surprisingly sweet. He and Catie briefly ponder what their lives would’ve been like if they’d never met… and swiftly decide that it would’ve sucked, and that they wouldn’t trade each other’s friendship for anything. Shift’s scene is also quite adorable, and mainly involves him and Catie reminiscing about Neopets.
- Arianna’s big anti-Breaking Speech just before the true final battle. Even Catie, Ms. “see the good in everyone” herself, is struck dumb by how much the former nihilist has changed.
- The entirety of the best ending’s "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue. Everyone ends up exactly where they’re meant to be: Anonymous and Til start dating, Eddie and Arianna open their own library, Shift becomes king, Tyalie masters the local arcade (and waves goodbye to the player), Shrimp and Cornelia enjoy the fairgrounds, and Catie is finally able to retire from adventuring. Even Boxxyfan gets to be reunited with his family… in the most humiliating way possible, of course.
- The normal ending takes care of the staff, art, and music credits, so what does that leave for the True Ending? Oh, just the names of every single person who was ever even slightly active in Catie Wayne’s fan community. It’s a very touching gesture, perfectly memorializing ten long years of internet history.
