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Tear Jerker / Beyond the Winding Road

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As a Continuation of PandoraHearts, it's not surprising that some things get emotional.

  • Oz's clear terror at the make-or-break moment when his parents find out who he is completely, fearing that they'll reject who he is and think he's crazy, delusional, or simply wrong. It's pretty relatable to anyone who's kept key parts of who they are secret from others.
  • Edith, and pretty much everything about her life previous to Oz and Vincent coming to get her. She was a child born from a one-night stand to an unstable woman who was only given help and support via money and whose family was otherwise entirely unsupportive and neglectful. Edith essentially had to take care of both herself and her mother, while dealing with a town that projected her mother's flaws onto her daughter and a disapproving but heavily controlling extended family that only contacted them once a month to make sure she was getting an education.
  • Beatrix's fear of hurting her children can be this, especially since she's had the hard road of raising Lewis/Oz.
  • Gilbert was utterly emotionally damaged from living through those one hundred years. Oz and Alice were his only hope that the happiness from the past would return after everyone had left him, but once he realizes that the past cannot return (which he knew consciously but still had problems believing emotionally), he breaks pretty badly. It's even more painful for him since Oz Tale and Edith Lyman are very similar to Oz Vessalius and Alice Baskerville, even sharing many of their memories.
  • Oz's very realistic display of identity displacement in Advance VI, coupled with Hedia's equally realistic fear and confusion over not being able to understand him and being afraid of losing him to what she believes is a mental illness.
  • Oz reaction to Anderson's fervent belief that "Oz" (the identity) isn't real but just a delusion due to Oz having DID and his blaming Gilbert for making it worse. Even the realization that changes this behavior is pretty sad, because it's pretty much Andy realizing that Gilbert is just too pathetic to hate.
  • After spending several chapters with him being the straight man in the main cast's increasingly familial dynamic, Vincent's death is barely mentioned, but his absence permeates the next chapter like an ache. Instead of speaking directly about it, Gil and Oz have a quiet moment of small talk and reminiscence on the ferry home, during which Oz, Vincent's frequent Gadfly, makes a joke about doing something to annoy Vincent from beyond the grave. Even though Oz's comment is likely done to make Gil laugh, it also comes across as Oz's way of respecting his short-lived humorous dynamic with Vincent. It's clear both are coming to terms with the loss of Vincent in their own way, and the moment is somehow both incredibly sad and peaceful. At least, until Anderson interrupts.
  • Alice/Edith's stress breakdown after years of caring for her mother, unable to face the idea that she's supposed to focus on herself now without being in control of her mother's care. She also lashes out at Oz while upset, basically saying that he has no right to talk or give advice about taking care of burdens since his family's always been forced to take care of him in the same way.
  • The second bonus chapter is about Ada, from her birth to her eventual death as an old woman, describing her feelings and her experiences from the sidelines of the main story. It's about as emotional as you can expect.
    • The description of the day of her death especially. Just try to read it aloud without choking up.
      After five months of bedridden illness in the family home in Àellerécit, Ada van Wesel died in 1960 at the age of 78, on a day meaningless and of no importance to anyone outside her family. But the day was not meaningless. None of them were.

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