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Tear Jerker / Fate/strange Fake

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  • False Caster wonders why his old mentor Charles Nodier did not make it into the Throne of Heroes even though he did.
  • Flat's flashbacks where his parents didn't want him and repeatedly tried to kill him because they thought he was some kind of monster. When he moved to the Clock Tower, the teachers and students shunned him, to the point he had to use magic on himself to fake a smile. Fortunately, he met Lord El-Melloi II, who finally accepted him.
  • In chapter 15.2 we see the process how True Archer (Heracles) is twisted into Alcides, which is shown when his master makes him remember everyone he has met, flashing back to how the average person treated him as a monster then seeing his wife telling him that he shouldn't hate himself for his strength as she knows he'll do great things with it, only for True Archer to say he failed. He then remembers throwing a soldier into the flames as he remembers he killed his child the same way which makes True Archer fall in sorrow.
  • True Rider admits that though True Archer killed her in life, he was a man she admired or maybe even loved. She is heartbroken to discover he has become a Fallen Hero who is willing to kill children and even refuses to use his most famous name. She resolves herself to kill him.
  • Tine screams her heart out when Gilgamesh gets shot with Hydra venom arrows by True Archer and then impaled through the stomach by True Berserker.
  • Ayaka has a dream of Saber's childhood. Even when he was a child, he was good at everything he did, but this made everyone resent him and refuse to be his friend.
  • Tine and Enkidu retrieve Gilgamesh and try to heal him, but it doesn't seem to be working. Eventually, Enkidu gives up and tells Tine to accept Gilgamesh's death, but she screams that she has to save him. The Wolf has to persuade Enkidu to keep helping.
    • In a flashback, when Enkidu met Tine, they matter of factly say Gilgamesh's condition is incurable, causing her to call them out on discarding their friend so easily. they say she is too young to understand but they and Gilgamesh have already accepted death long ago. Tine already spent two Command Spells to try to heal Gilgamesh, but they didn't do anything.
  • The story of the Master of False Rider, little Tsubaki Kuruoka, is quite simply heartbreaking. Strung along by the callous appearance of love and devotion from her parents: who only ever saw her as their prized test subject to create a great magus. Poor kid was infected by magical bacteria that left her comatose and wandering alone in a dream world for years. She’s been comatose for so long that most of the hospital staff has given up on her recovery (aside from Dr. Amelia Levitt) and her parents couldn’t care less since her condition won’t keep her from developing a womb and giving birth to children that they can make use of instead. All the while, she’s left to cry because she’s lonely, and believes she’s failing her disgusting excuses for parents. She finally finds a companion in False Rider, who is devoted to protecting her and making her happy, but is still a living personification of disease and death with no sense of right and wrong and her position as a Master leads so many people to pursue her. It’s frankly a miracle she's still as cheerful and innocent as she is.
  • When Flat gets killed by a sniper right in front of Saber and Ayaka, even as Saber gets her out of there, she irrationally thinks it is her fault and laments not being able to save him, even though there is nothing she could have done.
  • Thia Escardos's relationship with Flat. Despite being an entity created for the express purpose of subjecting its host to a Split-Personality Takeover, Flat didn't try to eliminate him, and instead treated him like a friend, to the point of seeking out ways to give him his own body. When he dies and Thia surfaces, he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against his killers, which he at first tries to paint as rational Killing in Self-Defense before admitting he does it to avenge Flat. He has numerous thoughts about missing Flat, like being saddened at one of his attacks almost destroying Hollywood when Flat loved movies or wondering what would Flat do in regards to Ishtar. He is even jealous that False Berserker mixed his soul with Flat's, something he could not do.
  • Watcher's Asclepius form wishes he was solid and not a shadow so that he could treat Tsubaki.
  • Sigma mentions a story about one of his fellow child soldiers, a little girl designated Tau. She was told that if she did well in her magecraft training, the ones controlling them would give her a new mommy and daddy. Back in the present, Sigma notes they were obviously lying, Tau failed and was presumably killed. Even worse is that his memory of Tau’s face (or that of her replacement) reminds him of Tsubaki…

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