Heartwarming / Felidae

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• Francis' interactions with Felicity. So adorable, it's no wonder the two of them are shipped.
• "I swear... whoever murdered Felicity... is going to pay. YOU HEAR THAT, YOU BASTARD!? I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU PAY!"
• In the novel, Isaiah is lured out of the catacombs and gets adopted by a bartender.
• Doubling as a Moment of Awesome, Bluebeard goes out of his way protecting Francis by talking down a gigantic cat.
  Francis: Sounds like me like you're back tracking a little, aren't 'cha?
  Bluebeard: You don't say. And what makes you think so?
  Francis: Well... You told them I'm your friend.
  Bluebeard: [grunts]
• In the novel, Francis spends a good chunk of the story talking about how he sees Gustav as a well-meaning but hapless oaf with no prospects or meaningful future, referring to him with a mix condescension and exasperation. But when he reflects on how he's the only one keeping Gustav company on Christmas and how Gustav's few human friends are more like friendly acquaintances he sees infrequently, Francis says this:
  Francis: And I? Well, I wasn't a human being and so wasn't in a position to satisfy Gustav's emotional needs. And yet (if I may venture this sentimental confession on this sentimental day), I was the only living being in the world who really did love him. That's right, I loved that fool, that overripe watermelon in human form, that talking hippo, that cosmic twit, that all-around failure, that self-satisfied bourgeois pig, that hack author, that fat-headed lump of hopelessness, that conglomeration of inferior atoms, that dead loss—and if anyone laid a finger on him, he'd find out what my scalpel-tipped claws are like!

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