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- "Noel's Theme ~ The Last Travel ~"
, "Yeul's Theme", "Ruined Hometown" and "Eclipse". - The entire Pacos Amethyst and Rubrite boss fight. You hear Yeul's warnings, an alternative form of "Yeul's Theme" plays the whole time, the Pacoses are only fighting you to protect Etro, and if you kill one of the two, the live one risks its turn reviving the other.
- The message left by Serah in New Bodhum, which is strongly implied to be her reflection on the events of the story after her death.
- The normal ending has the above-mentioned death of Serah, which, though foreshadowed, happens suddenly and hits hard. All her visions of the future were involuntary and ended up killing her. Serah's promises are also now made hollow, and she's the main character! What's worse is that Noel asked her twice if she was okay beforehand, and both her responses reassured him. Seeing Hope come and find her dead makes it worse.
- What really makes this scene so crushing is Noel's reaction. He immediately realizes what's happening and grabs Serah's shoulders, frantically begging for her to snap out of the vision, then pulls her limp body into his arms and screams her name in agony. Imagine how the poor guy must have felt! He tried so hard to save this girl who had become a trusted friend - to finally defy destiny and create a better future - only for all his efforts to be in vain as he witnessed her suffer the same tragic fate as Yeul. Noel cradles Serah in his lap afterwards and caresses her face in silent mourning as he explains what happened to Hope in a voice that is utterly broken.
- This is bad enough, but the ending of Lightning's DLC really nails it down, where we see her reaction to it: First unbelieving horror, then uncontrollable weeping as it finally sinks in there's nothing she can do. This is then followed by Serah's spirit reassuring Lightning that it'll be okay, before tearfully pleading for her sister not to forget her. Lightning proceeds to essentially sacrifice herself in order to preserve Serah's memory - setting up the threequel - amidst a monologue delivered in a breaking voice but expressionless face.
- When you reflect back on Lightning's journey and include her story in Duodecim, the tragedy just hits a point because she has basically become a pawn for the gods, and welcomes it. She goes from the woman who defies pre-destined fate to a woman pulling all stops to adhere to the whims of a goddess, even if it means transcending humanity and destroying every chance she has of becoming an ordinary human being again.
- Having to watch Snow disappear. Serah tries to hold onto him and yells that she can't keep losing him, and then finds out that he is a l'Cie again.
- Noel's farewell to Caius after he dies is surprisingly touching, all things considered.
- When Yeul dies in Yaschas Massif 1X AF and Caius can only watch. His asking how many times he has to watch her die is just heartbreaking.
- The death of Yeul in Noel's own timeline. It was her fifteenth birthday and Noel had planned to celebrate it with her and Caius, the last people left on Gran Pulse. Instead, Caius leaves for good and shortly afterward Yeul dies in Noel's arms after getting her last vision. Yeul says that she knew it was coming and thought she was ready. As she lays dying she realizes that she wasn't ready after all and really wanted to spend more time with Noel. The fact that she is peacefully smiling anyway makes the whole scene that much harder to watch.
- The follow-up makes it even worse as Noel is completely alone now; the girl he cared so much about died and his mentor abandoned him. He wanders the desolate wasteland of Gran Pulse alone and when he's about to get sucked into the Historia Crux, battered and broken, he thinks he's dying...and part of him welcomes it. And when Serah dies, he's gone and lost everything again. The first person he makes an emotional connection with after everything that happened with Yeul and Caius and she goes and dies too. Poor guy just can't catch a break.
- Paradox Ending 8: A Giant Mistake is a Bolivian Army Ending. Serah and Noel are last seen charging one of the many giants to save the future and then their weapons are seen on a giant's head. This implies they died in the struggle.
- Just a small one: if you look around the graveyard in Bresha Ruins 300 AF, one of the graves has a tattered soft toy beside it. That'll be a child's grave - some cemeteries in Real Life allow mourners to leave mementos by graves, and children often get toys.
- A Yeul in the past decided to break her own rules and laws by using her powers to seal away Ugallu in the Void Beyond to protect her home from its rampage, but in turn created a paradox that swallows innocent people in Yaschas Massif 1XX, with the Rubies of Grief being the only thing that is left of them, containing their grief and anguish. A well-intended act to save her home causes more grief further down the line, and in the end, Paddra will eventually fall anyway. Yeul's Ruby of Grief could only watch as people got swallowed one by one, reminding her of her sin.
- One of the Rubies of Grief is a young woman, Marie, who lost her sister, Millie, to the paradox after an argument and soon after got consumed herself, still demanding that the paradox give back her sister and wanting to apologize to her. Imagine the grief of their parents losing two of their children. Not only that, Marie is implied to be married or getting married, as her sister wants to give her a wedding gift, which means there is someone out there missing their significant other also.
