Heartwarming / Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

• At the Telos Academy, the Handmaiden asks the Exile about how feels to be a Force sensitive. If the Exile answers they can only describe his absence, Kreia will describe the latter, but if not, both the Exile and Kreia can give a few luminous clues.
  Handmaiden: Please, I wish to know.
  Exile: Imagine awakening, and hearing the heartbeat of the galaxy for the first time.
  Or: It is like a current that passes through you, and carries you with it to all the places it touches.
  Or: The warmth of the sun without the glare - you can feel its light and its heat, but there is no harshness to it.
  Or: It is so many things, yet you know when you feel it, without question.
  Kreia: It is like a cloud, a mist that drifts from living creature to creature, set in motion by currents and eddies. It is the eye of the storm, the passions of all living things turned into energy, into a chorus. It is the rising swell at the end of life, the promise of new territories and new blood, the call of new mysteries in the dark.
  • It is perhaps ironic that the most beautiful description of the Force comes from a woman who hates it above all else.
• When entering the Sith Tomb, one vision makes you revisit Dxun, the bloodiest part of the Mandalorian Wars, is deeply touching. The path is mined, and you remember this as an unnecessarily, pointless feint where the soldiers died in vain. The commander asks you if they have to charge through, wanting their sacrifice to mean something.
  Exile: Not this time. I'm going up there alone.
  (You destroy all the mines yourself and lead them to victory, saving their lives)
  • It's even more heartwarming (although a bit funny) if you have no demolitions skill or destroy droid ability, meaning you have to set off the mines by walking through them.
• Mira's cutscene, where she opens herself to the Force.
• Likewise, the scene with Atton where he lets go of his anger towards the Jedi and decides to embrace the Force.
  Exile: And at last Atton... awaken.
  • Something else heartwarming in training Atton is the fact that out of all your party members in 2, Atton is the only one who asks to be trained without prompting. With all the others, you offer first. Atton is doing this for not just for himself, but for you. He even tells you that if he's trained to use his powers, he'll be better able to help you along your quest, his exact words being that he'll "buy you some time when disaster comes screaming in."
• Also, teaching Bao-Dur the ways of the Force. Leading up to this he opens up to the Exile, telling that he still harbors anger towards the Mandalorians for the war, and guilt for his own actions. Bao-Dur doesn't sleep because all he dreams about is Malachor V. Him and the Exile agree to teach him the ways of the Jedi to help him let go of the past and find peace.
• In the Darkest Hour, the Jedi Council you spent so much effort trying to help and gather accuses you of being an unintentional, existential threat to the galaxy, only to be wiped out by Darth Traya. Afterwards, as the Exile is contemplating in Kreia's former chambers, Visas or Mical comes to talk to them, and the Exile confides the awful truth. But even in the face of the Council's claims, they refuse to believe it, offering their own perspective:
  "Where they look at you and see the death of the Force, I look at you and see hope for all life."
  • Before everything goes to hell, when Kreia sends the Exile off to meet with the Council (presuming they're alive), she gives a monologue that's very much of the "and now I send my last child off to face the world on their own" variety, that of a mother who is watching the last of her children leave home and enter the world, now without being able to take on their burdens and assisting them.
  • For that matter, Kreia's condemnation of the Council for their refusal to accept the Exile, attempting to cut off their connection to the Force. Her arrival is sheer Mama Bear fierceness, coming after those who are harming her adoptive child, even if it is her revealing herself as the ultimate foe the Exile must face.
  "Step away! S/he has brought truth and you condemn her/him? The arrogance. You will not harm her/him. You will not harm her/him ever again."
• A Light-Side Exile will spare Atris after their duel, moment in which Atris crumbles and admits all she did came inspired by the Exile's own actions, to go to war to save the galaxy against the Jedi Council's will — and for the first time, she admits she understood all along why the Exile did it. The Exile can show comprehension for this and receive it in turn.
  Atris: Once, I was a historian, the chronicler of the Jedi. And when both wars passed me by, I was determined I would not forsake battle again. In some part of me... I knew I had made choices, compromises, but always for the sake of the Republic, of the galaxy. To do what you had done... at times, did not seem so wrong.
  Exile: Everything that occured at Malachor, everything that occured at that war, was because there was no other choice.
  Atris: To fight such a threat... sometimes, one's choices seem narrower than they are, until it seems there is no solid foundation on which to stand. I feel that I understand what drove you to battle. To fight the Mandalorians. It was something you could not turn away from.
• Atris might feel hate and dismay at what Kreia did to the Jedi Order, but even she feels something: Kreia loves the Exile, even more than Atris herself loved the Exile back when the latter left the Jedi Order and Atris couldn't muster the strength to do it too.
  Atris: She is willing to sacrifice herself at heart of that graveyard world for you... A choice others have made in the past. A choice I wished to make. It is because I care for you. And I suspect that you alone hold that place in her heart, where nothing else lives.
• If Revan was set as a light side female, the exile would meet with Carth Onasi near the final mission. And Carth would leave a message which is simply: "Tell her Carth Onasi is waiting for her."
• Even during the final showdown in Trayus, where the orchestrator of the entire game has brought the Exile under threats of dying, Traya reveals that she genuinely loved the Exile. Despite all of her evil plans, her nihilistic philosophy and her callous usage of the Exile for her own schemes, Kreia states she would have killed the entire galaxy only to save them. The Exile was not only all Kreia wished to be, a triumphant and enlightened hero overcoming the destiny the Force set out for them, they were also Kreia's last and best apprentice, the one who was very literally bonded to her heart.
• On a light side run, the fates of several of the Exile's companions as foretold by Traya are heartwarming, if a touch bittersweet.
  • Mira will go on to be a great Jedi Knight, forsaking the hunt in favor of living life, and will ultimately willingly sacrifice herself to save others. Moreover, Traya states that "She will miss you, and think of you often. You, who awakened her to what life is."
  • Visas will return to Katarr, walk its ruined surface once more, and see what she was meant to see at long last, having been redeemed by her relationship with the Exile.
  • The Disciple will leave the galaxy behind and become a member of the Jedi Council, "reluctantly, as all good men do". He will always remember his beloved mentor.
  • The Handmaiden will lay down her arms and take up Atris' mantle, becoming the historian of the Jedi Order.
• If you have the Restored Content installed, just after fighting the Final Boss, the Exile will tell their companions to leave them, that they're free, etc. Then, as they're walking out the door...
  Atton: Need any company? I mean, I'm not doing anything. Besides, if I'm not around to bail you out of trouble, who knows what might happen? [the Exile walks past him] Alright, then! Where are we going again? I mean, because last time, we were heading towards this mining colony on the edge of space, and there was this Sith Lord, and...

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