Heartwarming / Neopets

• The Plots tend to have many of these. Some highlights include Lord Darigan's Heel–Face Turn, Nabile and Jazan's wedding (as shoehorned as it is), and the endings of The Curse Of Maraqua and The Faeries' Ruins comics.
• One of the most heartwarming arcs is not from any of the plots oddly enough though. Any Pound Chat regular should know the story of Gwen, a blue Uni, who was being transferred between accounts. The transfer was canceled, but Gwen's owner's account had been deactivated, so she was stuck in limbo until the admins got around to solving her problem. Many a PC-er wanted to adopt her, many of which only did so because of her plight. Gwen is now happily adopted, morphed into a Gold Draik, and it's clear her new owner loves her very much. Sadly, Gwen's owner is now frozen.
• Numerous Advent Calendar animations have these if they don't fall under Funny. One in particular (Dec 9 2013) features a class with one sleeping student. Instead of admonishing him, the teacher instead gives him a present…which contains an alarm clock. The smile the teacher gives is quite sweet.
  • And this, with King Altador leaving a lone poinsettia on the base of the Darkest Faerie's old statue in the Hall of Heroes.
    • There is one on Y8 Day 12 that shows several Wockies skating or making snow angels. A Grey Wocky comes by, looking sad of course and being rained on, until a Christmas Wocky covers the pet with an umbrella which causes the Grey Wocky to smile.
    • Jhudora making heart cookies with her PetPet.
• For the 2014 April Fools' Day prank, pets from the pound were randomly distributed among accounts as foster pets for 24 hours. The first thing many users did on April 2^nd? They went right back to the pound to get at least one of them back permanently.
• Some random events involve your pet thanking you for being such a great owner.
  (pet name) says "I just wanted to say that you are the coolest owner!"
• At the 12th day of 2017's Advent Calendar videos, after several years of bitter nemesis-hood, we see MAGAX visit Ghost!Hubrid Nox, who has a gift for him. It's actually sincere, despite the gifts being stored inside a coffin.
  • On the 17th day, it shows that despite Sophie no longer living with the rest of her family, she still takes time to visit them for the holidays. And then a knock comes on the door. Sophie and Bruno recall Krawley, who brought trouble to Neovia in the first place. Turns out it was just Gilly, who hasn't forgotten about them, and the family allows her to join in.
• The Neopedia page for Altador cup commentators Tobias Sigmir and Hovri Sweet gives them a particularly endearing backstory. When they met, Tobias was an established and somewhat cynical sportscaster who thought of Yooyuball as a pitstop on his road to a career in Gormball commentary. He ran into a penniless Hovri begging for money outside the stadium and decided to buy him the meal he assumed he wanted, only to realize that despite his hunger, Hovri just wanted to pay his way in. Tobias treated Hovri to a seat and free hot dogs in the commentator's box and the rest is history.
  All the training and profit in the world can't replace a heartfelt passion for the game, after all. Nowadays, of course, both Tobias and Hovri hold degrees in journalism and have collected many awards for their work on Yooyuball reporting. But they never forget to eat hot dogs together during their first game each year.
• Though Team Shenkuu Altador Cup player Antola Maeir was originally said to have taken a Strange Potion to Hand Wave a mistake by TNT simply forgetting his gender (as was the case with several players), the Neopian Times Editorial staged an interview with him in 2023, and made it no longer a Hand Wave; Antola came out as being canonically and explicitly Transgender, opening up about his experiences, including team captain Mirsha Grelinek standing up for him when he was accused of only doing it to enhance his performance in the ring. In the same interview, he also addressed concerns about the team's new coach Ginia being suspected of only being promoted out of nepotism (due to being the previous coach's daughter and, now, the aforementioned Mirsha Grelinek's girlfriend) by countering that, no, she got the job because she was good at it; Mirsha and Ginia keep professional boundaries on-season, and they both treat the game as Serious Business. He wrapped it up by assuring anyone, in- or out-of-universe, undergoing similar difficulties that Team Shenkuu has their back. With 2023 being a particularly scary time for Neopets's growing LGBT Fanbase, seeing a positive portrayal of a trans man and a lesbian couple like them was a very welcome sight.
• When you create a new pet, you get two free items for them: a Starry Birthday Cupcake in blue, pink, or yellow (introduced in 2014), and a basic-colored Beginners Bandana to wear (introduced in 2021).
  Description of the Beginners Bandana: Welcome to Neopia, little buddy!
• After unlocking the Lab Ray, you can use it on one of your pets once a day for a chance to change their stats, species, color, or gender. Since pets with rare colors are highly valued, a lot of users with Lab Ray access adopt basic-colored pets from the Pound for the purpose of zapping them until they turn into more exotic colors and then sending them back to the Pound in hopes that their new look will be more appealing to potential adopters. Other users do similar things with morphing potions and paint brushes.
• The artwork for Day 10 of the 2023 Advent Calendar showed a variety of non-traditional Neopian families, including a Ruki parent implied to be nonbinary (holding a shirt that says "Best Parent Eva"), a pair of Aisha mothers with their child, Little Timmy with his grandparents, a Vandagyre father in a wheelchair with his wife and child, and a gay Nimmo and Lutari couple with their Lutari child (and it's implied either the child or one of the fathers is deaf), using sign language. The prizes for that day were a Handmade Christmas Card showing the Aisha family ("A handmade card for the best moms!") and a book called Many Kinds of Families ("Not all families look the same, and this should be celebrated!")
• The comic for Day 18 of the 2023 Advent Calendar starts off with various Neopians asking for the Shop Wizard to help them find various items with the Shop Wizard growing more tired in each panel. Come the end, the Shop Wizard hears a knock. When he checks, he finds presents for him laid out by the Neopians he helped along with a sign saying, "Thank you for all your hard work".
• Another entry on the 2023 Advent Calendar is a little Lenny boy who looks back on times he bonded with his older brother, and then makes him a cup that says, "Number 1 Brother".
• In the 2022 Advent Calendar, the Discarded Magical Blue Grundo Plushie of Prosperity, a possibly-sentient plushie known for his sad appearance, received a scarf as a Christmas present. Since then, every December, he has been drawn wearing it.

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