Tear Jerker / Tales of Graces

• Pascal, who is relentlessly cheerful and upbeat for virtually the entire game, winds up being the subject of one when she reunites with her sister in the Fendel lab. After Pascal explains that Fourier's work is dangerous and could potentially annihilate the entire country, a frustrated Fourier completely loses it and tears a strip off her little sister. Pascal, who clearly adores and idolizes Fourier, is devastated by the rebuke, rendered speechless for one of the only times in the game and later reduced to tears when the rest of the party tries to console her.
• Poor Sophie who went through a crisis during the L&L as she realized that she is going to out-live everyone and didn't want to live with that and even begged Pascal to make her human so she doesn't have live through the fact that she will remain mostly the same while everyone she loves die one by one from old age.
• The ending of the Childhood arc. Sophie is dead, Hubert is sent away to be adopted to another family, and Asbel feels like a failure enough that he runs away from home to become a knight despite Cheria pleading to him to not leave and even told him that she would do anything for him to stay.
• A skit in the childhood arc has Asbel innocently tell Cheria she can live with him after he becomes a knight which makes her happy but the skit ends with a darker tone as she starts coughing with Cheria hoping she is able to grow up. While she does get cured at the end of the childhood arc, at the time she was still suffering from her illness that can cut her life short and her growing to adulthood seemed slim, making her dream of living with Asbel seemly just as slim.
• Velanik; a miserable town so broken that the people only have stick housing and barely any heat to survive the brutal Fendelian winters. Can apply to most of Fendel really, that when you see what lies before you. The nature of the town's militaristic nature is a desperate push for victory so that they can move their poorer people out of the lands as well as to hopefully improve their own situation regarding the occasional food struggles. The empire looks amazing upfront; but it's bad at the back end. It's also compounded with a man who while not against diplomacy is also too far thick-headed into dictatorship that he only sees war as the way forward. The conditions of both here and Zavhert throws Asbel's old black and white nature of the conflict between Fendel and Windor into greater perspective.
  Asbel: This is Fendel? This is the brutal nation we've been at war with?
• The beginning of the ending of the Future Arc, when the final Little Queen is still ready to give her life to defeat the party despite being utterly terrified, visibly shaking while unable to even stand upright, and her attacks barely even make Sophie flinch. It turns into a positive one when Sophie invokes Defeat Means Friendship and the two merge.