Tear Jerker / Voyages Of The SS Vanford

• In Bad Boys and Girl Gangs, Kurt finds a Pom plushie labeled "Mr. Skrunky" in Ash's old apartment, with a note attached from the latter's deceased adoptive mother. "This can help you chase all those nasty nightmares away!" Those who are familiar with canon know EXACTLY what kinds of nightmares Ash would've been having as a kid.
• Kurt's Heroic BSoD in chapter 3 of A Guardian's Trails after Juna gets kidnapped. He yells at Fie for not warning them about the Darklings in a scene that, according to the author, was deliberately written to be similar to Juna's famous breakdown scene from Trails of Cold Steel 3.
  Kurt: Protect the citizenry above all else. Isn't that part of the Bracer Guild code? Or is that just a bunch of pretty-sounding words? (grabs Fie and starts shaking her by the shoulders) Bring her back... Please... BRING HER BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!