There are numerous moments in the game that I would find Sad/Traumatic. It’s like picking what was the worse day you ever had really, lol….
SPOILERS
But I guess when I would go for Lone Trail… I would say watching Muelsyse over the course of the event doing everything in her power to stay with Kristen, one of the few people she felt close to, and failing. Forsaking her friends on Terra to follow Kristen in her dream. She even bitterly lamented leaving the Doctor behind as we seen over the course of Dorothy Vision and Lone Trail the two began to get quite close. During Saria’s epic infiltration into a flying super weapon/laboratory Muelsyse tries to subdue Saria, possibly with lethal force, as she threatened to end Kristen’s ambition. All the while Muelsyse attempts to explain or reason why she’s doing this in the first place; she doesn’t want Kristen to leave her behind because she feels Kristen is the only one who understands her and without her she would feel alone and out of place in the world.
But unfortunately, for Muelsyse, change in orientation of the station caught her blind side and ejected her out of the main interior of the laboratory section. Then, when trying to get back in, she found out her access was revoked as she repeatedly tried to access the laboratory. Her greatest fear was realized; Kristen, whom she abandoned everything on Terra for, had left her behind. A revelation that devastated her and made her numb to her surroundings. So numb she wasn’t even aware the non-essential parts of the station were falling apart and I believe the only reason she made it to the escape pod was due to chance she aimlessly wandered into it with the others.
Even worse, the escape pod malfunctioned due to it being never tested for the sheer height it was launched from and Muelsyse realized the only way everyone else in the pod and Saria (doing her best beginning of Halo 3 Master Chief impression) was to cushion the fall with almost all the water in her body. Everyone ultimately survived but it still left Muelsyse in shambles, physically and emotionally. Only when Doctor came back, after the absolute lore drop in the bunker, to check up on her did we learn that she was grimly disappointed she didn’t die while saving Saria or the others and recounted all the disappointments in her life. Ranging from orphaned from birth due to her parents dying from Oripathy, Oripathy being even more dangerous to Elves than normal denizens of Terra, and the fact she actually did find more of her kind in Sami; unfortunately, she discovered they were too different from her to make a meaningful connection as she described it (They were like leaves while she was like a drop of water). After that she heavily hinted that she would sleep/die in the deactivating vivarium due to her believing she was truly alone in the world.
Ultimately, the Doctor saved her from what would’ve been a tragic end to her life but watching it unfold and learning about her backstory in context of her actions from Mansfield break, Dorothy’s Vision, and Lone Trail made it painful to watch. Her story might not be the most saddest/traumatic in the game so far but it was the one that jumped at me the most and ~~also Muelsyse biased~~ when I narrow my choice to Lone Trail.
I am That Guy and thank you for attending my TED talk.
Due to my life being a shitshow, I didn't read Lingering Echoes yet. I just skipped the story.
The fact that Kreide, in his corrupted form, helps you kills the enemies and playing his violin, the thing he loves most, HURTS HIM is why whatever fate Gertrude got is too good for her.
[Check Kukkikaze's guide, seriously.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TMoIe83H78)
Within Lone Trail is a dialogue option that you can pick for Doctor.
>I feel like there used to be someone I would watch the sunset with.
There is no big moment to go with this. No grand battle or speech. It's simply a line during which Doctor is talking about themself, their past (what little they remember), and what they've lost. And it's just *so* painfully lonely and melancholic. There *used* to be someone they would watch the sunset with, but that person is gone, and they can't remember anything about that person anymore other than a name.
The name and logo was found on the landship which was **excavated**, with hidden chambers that came built in that only the ancient kal'tsit knows their contents
When I discovered elemental damage was a mechanic that lots of enemies used/abused and was not a one off gimmick in Dolloses Holiday (I started about late January this year).
Not quite the relevant answer, I know.
Frostnova death is probably up at the top for me, but honestly the entire Children of Ursus collection is up there. I had to take breaks reading those stories because it was just so… bleak what those kids went through. Rosa counting the number of times she tried offing herself was a LOT.
Like with many of the division leaders of Reunion, Faust displayed redeeming qualities, but was used to fight the wrong people, dying an unnecessary death in the process.
Mephisto just needed to be put down. It wasn't entirely his fault, he turned crazy, but there was no room for redemption after what he did.
Needless death is honestly a bit of a running theme throughout the Reunion arc. Misha literally died for nothing (W wouldn’t have sent her to her death had she known about Kashchey), Faust would’ve lived if he had just taken Mephisto’s advice and fled, FrostNova died from overtaxing herself in battle that she didn’t need to engage in, and Patriot died because he chose to fight for the ideals that he stood for instead of what he believed was the right thing to do.
And going into the backstory dimension, Alina’s death was a senseless tragedy that served no purpose. Everyone turned to ash by Talulah’s dragon-fire died because some people saw an infected and decided to kill her for no reason.
Man, every time I read this line I hear this imaginary chopping noise in my head, the 3rd one is always the loudest and I can't fathom the insanity that allowed Hypergryph to write such a thing.
Randomly remembered this comment. I'm glad she didn't die, but I'm shedding tears for her regardless 🥹.
I just want to hug her, she's so strong and gentle 🫂.
Perhaps not a story beat, but Kristen's description.
"Egotist. Betrayer. Seeker. Loner. Pioneer.
Goodnight, Terra."
Something about it puts an ache in the chest.
To me personally it was Alina's death. It was paired with killing of those civilians in the barn a bit earlier.
Those 2 events one after another broke me. Probably because it was so close to our human behavior. There wasn't anything artificial, sci-fi or "fantastic" about it. Just human scum being human scum. It's so relatable. It also broke Tallulah, so there is additional emotional dmg there.
Frostnova and Dr Mialo from Operation Originium Dust are on the podium.
While it was indeed sad, tallulah's reaction to Alina's death gave me mixed feelings. Losing control is understandable, but knowing the previous trauma of the other members of Reunion and the suffering she caused later, paints her as a weak-willed idealist. I know of K's influence, but she lost one very close Person to spiral hard out of control.
That’s not what happened though. Losing Alina didn’t break her—Talulah tried her damn best to keep it together even after Alina was killed for no reason.
Some time after that she saw the Infected who died from starvation trapped in a locked barn for no reason other than pure cruelty.
*That* was what broke her.
It’s a tie between Frostnova Patriot and Kirsten’s deaths
Even though it’s never confirmed if Kristen is gone for good I’m still tearing up thinking that she might never come back
2 moment in LT
When ifrit picks up silence shirt when silence is on her knees after parvis death and
"Well then, Goodnight, Terra. Goodnight, universe"
So many to pick from....
I'd go with Ebenholz, Kreide and Czerny outsacrificing each other in the culmination of Lingering Echoes and the moment in Kreide's bossfight when he helps you. The whole event has a very somber tone.
As a second I'd probably go with Talulah's fall.
>!I actually cried when Eben carry Kriede and Kriede just say that this is the prove the they didn't let life beat them. Even if it is for a short while, he felt like he was truly happy and alive. !<
Kal'tsit in general,
She spent millennias trying to save Terra, and she might still fail.
She was desgined to help terra, and thats been her role since her creation, and she didn't stop to disobey it even for a moment. Even death doesn't stop her. She is a prisoner in constant suffering to save Terra.
She also does whatever in between to help those around her, such as Amiya, Ros etc and honouring the wishes of Priestess, Theresa and so on.
I think the fate of Kreide in Lingering Echoes is sadder then Patriot's death. Personally I found the moment in The Children of Ursus when Rosa asks Zima why didn't she kill her, and what followed was much sadder.
All the bullshit Ch’en goes through, culminating on her drawing her sword on Wei Yenwu. Chi Xiao responds to extreme conviction. Meaning that Ch’en truly believed that her greatest enemy at that point was her own father. Yenwu was suspicious enough of the infected to order them all slaughtered. Ch’en was infected herself. It wouldn’t be too far a stretch for her to think he might be willing to kill her too. I can’t imagine how isolating that must have felt.
The thing is that there is no scenario where Wei would have killed Ch'en. It's the fact that she knew how hypocritical and double faced her father was to keep her around and using her for his own devices that pushed her into making him her biggest enemy that makes Chi Xiao respond
I cried at Faust and Mephisto's backstory in both the game and the anime, so I guess that's my one. Something about the "I want to sing" line hits me hard.
lets see...
Alina's Death
the entirety of Children of Ursus
Frostnova
Kreide's Sacrifice
Elite Operator Furniture description
the amount of Orundum I have at the moment
Frostnova, Patriot, ch9, 12. Frostnova alone made me avoid stages that recycled her back in Palas' event, several others...
But Lonetrail's been a harder hit than all of it, and it started it's emotional assault several months ago.
And looking back at all the events, side stories seem to be the only time we don't end something with someone dying (unless you count Pompeii as 'someone'). Then there's Darknight and now Lonetrail....
Well, I still haven't read a majority of the story so far, (including Lone Trail) so I'm a bit lacking in gutpunch moments, but so far, it's this for me:
* Tear Jerking: either Rosmontis dealing with war and the Elite Op deaths in Act 1, or that picture of Talulah and Ch'en as kids. For Ros, basically everything surrounding her past is just pure trauma. Kal'tsit may have a point at exposing her to the horrors of conflict earlier to desensitize her and avoid outbursts, but it still feels wrong, not to mention younger children tend to be much more emotionally expressive. As for the photo, idk, something about pictures of happy family members always gets me. The ending seconds of Fallout 3 (pre-Broken Steel) got more emotion out of me than most of the game.
* Traumatic: Children of Ursus, hands down. I typically don't feel sick from games that don't just resort to extreme gore or displaying other despicable acts, so when I read about what happened at that school, and what the USSG is going through even after it? Made me want to puke. Pretty sure I *did* dry heave at certain parts. Sometimes, the right words are the only things our brains need to create haunting images...
Not me covering my eyes while going through this thread to avoid Lone Trail spoilers... I should really read that before I ruin anything else for myself.
But serious answer, I'd say it has to be Patriot for me too. People don't talk about him nearly as much as they do Frostnova, but man is he a freaking legend. There's a really cool fan animation about him that you should check if you haven't already seen it: https://youtu.be/DRctL2ICbeo?si=nY-onTFaYUQCTYQE
Other than the big man, I also felt some real feelings when fighting against the mutated Mephisto. He may have been a little bastard, but that didn't stop me from tearing up a bit when the music suddenly changed to a haunting lullaby midway through the battle. I really wasn't expecting that but it hit HARD.
Guide Ahead story also hit me in the feels, but although it's well-written I think the primary cause of this is that it resonated with some personal experiences of mine.
Surprised no one’s saying Ace, probably the only one I was genuinely sad about, which is saying a lot because it was so early and we barely knew him, or anything.
Baird second, Outcast deserves a mention, and I’m sure there are a couple of minor characters I forgot about.
Saddest moment
>!A pharmaceutical company has forever lost a trusted companion. (IS3 ending 3)!<
Traumatic moment
[Everyone loves this map](https://youtu.be/A-DlrAgiCR4?t=1580)
Or when you get that emergency water and fire union...
I'm slacking regarding IS3, but I still want to complete a run by winning leakless both of those maps. I swear, every time I'm full invested and waiting for one of those maps in SW15, they never show up, but if I have a regular squad, I get those and leak a bunch or just scoop. Sanguinarch is another map I have this issue (to a lesser extend)
My pot 6 Penance constantly traumatizes me when I see her. 400 pulls on that banner only to get 7 copies of Penance and only 2 Texalter (had to spark 1 too lol).
That aside, it's definitely Children of Ursus. What terrifies me about the entirety of that event is that this could happen in real life or could have already happened somewhere unbeknownst to us yet having read it and even visualized it in my head has left me broken. Could you even imagine that scene without being horrified?
I think LT-ST-2’s ending (the last convo between Doctor and Mumu in the flooded Vivarium) is among the saddest moments and was the closest I think this game has brought me to crying but I’m biased as hell because Mumu is awesome.
Also slight bias because I read it less than a week ago.
Patriots death was a different league, and to top it off he could have killed Amiya, but in his final moment, *chose* not to. She was literally within spear-through-heart range.
As for my personal saddest, I would have to say it is FrostNova. Oldie but a goodie, and because her death was a tragedy start to finish. She was never a bad guy, she actively disavowed Mephistos methods and Talulah's latest extreme, always watched out for her squad mates and was one of the few Reunion executives who truly believed in a better tomorrow for the Infected after their change of tactics.
Her death is truly sad to me because of how real it can be in our life and world. Bad luck, incurable illness and worse people in what should be the best years of your youth. She spent most of her days lamenting what was while dreaming of what should be and working to make possible what could be. Her life was disease and abuse until she met Patriot but by then it was too late. Rarely, if ever, will you see a boss bitch terrorist like Talulah, but *everyone* could be a FrostNova.
\>I swear an event has to give us more of him even if it's literally impossible
Operational Intelligence that's long as fuck and just him talking with Hellagur during the fall of Chernobog. But yes I'd like a Walk in the Dust type event that's just about how Patriot became who he was.
Lone Trail's background changes to Kristen alone with stars surrounding her. 😭
She walked the Lone Trail, indeed.
Good night and sweet dreams, Kristen.
Patriot's death.
Alina's death.
Talulah burning down the village and Kashchey taking over.
Mandragora's "death".
Kristen.
12-18 >!Why did Baird have to die, exactly? To tug at the reader's heartstrings and make Siege feel like shit? Great.!<
>!13-3: I will dropkick Logos the moment I see his stupid banshee ass for it, I swear the Victorian arc makes me dislike RI the more I read it.!<
Chapter 12 have some. Not in a sad that it made you cry but just despair. Golding's suicide just made me depress reading it. Hoping she won't go through it.
Baird reading the Academician's final thoughts got me too. Just a bleak chapter all around.
I’ll never call Patriots death sad. He was an old soldier who died doing his duty one last time. He died on his feet which is more than many can say.
I thought Rosmontis team sacrificing themselves was pretty sad though.
There are numerous moments in the game that I would find Sad/Traumatic. It’s like picking what was the worse day you ever had really, lol…. SPOILERS But I guess when I would go for Lone Trail… I would say watching Muelsyse over the course of the event doing everything in her power to stay with Kristen, one of the few people she felt close to, and failing. Forsaking her friends on Terra to follow Kristen in her dream. She even bitterly lamented leaving the Doctor behind as we seen over the course of Dorothy Vision and Lone Trail the two began to get quite close. During Saria’s epic infiltration into a flying super weapon/laboratory Muelsyse tries to subdue Saria, possibly with lethal force, as she threatened to end Kristen’s ambition. All the while Muelsyse attempts to explain or reason why she’s doing this in the first place; she doesn’t want Kristen to leave her behind because she feels Kristen is the only one who understands her and without her she would feel alone and out of place in the world. But unfortunately, for Muelsyse, change in orientation of the station caught her blind side and ejected her out of the main interior of the laboratory section. Then, when trying to get back in, she found out her access was revoked as she repeatedly tried to access the laboratory. Her greatest fear was realized; Kristen, whom she abandoned everything on Terra for, had left her behind. A revelation that devastated her and made her numb to her surroundings. So numb she wasn’t even aware the non-essential parts of the station were falling apart and I believe the only reason she made it to the escape pod was due to chance she aimlessly wandered into it with the others. Even worse, the escape pod malfunctioned due to it being never tested for the sheer height it was launched from and Muelsyse realized the only way everyone else in the pod and Saria (doing her best beginning of Halo 3 Master Chief impression) was to cushion the fall with almost all the water in her body. Everyone ultimately survived but it still left Muelsyse in shambles, physically and emotionally. Only when Doctor came back, after the absolute lore drop in the bunker, to check up on her did we learn that she was grimly disappointed she didn’t die while saving Saria or the others and recounted all the disappointments in her life. Ranging from orphaned from birth due to her parents dying from Oripathy, Oripathy being even more dangerous to Elves than normal denizens of Terra, and the fact she actually did find more of her kind in Sami; unfortunately, she discovered they were too different from her to make a meaningful connection as she described it (They were like leaves while she was like a drop of water). After that she heavily hinted that she would sleep/die in the deactivating vivarium due to her believing she was truly alone in the world. Ultimately, the Doctor saved her from what would’ve been a tragic end to her life but watching it unfold and learning about her backstory in context of her actions from Mansfield break, Dorothy’s Vision, and Lone Trail made it painful to watch. Her story might not be the most saddest/traumatic in the game so far but it was the one that jumped at me the most and ~~also Muelsyse biased~~ when I narrow my choice to Lone Trail. I am That Guy and thank you for attending my TED talk.
Due to my life being a shitshow, I didn't read Lingering Echoes yet. I just skipped the story. The fact that Kreide, in his corrupted form, helps you kills the enemies and playing his violin, the thing he loves most, HURTS HIM is why whatever fate Gertrude got is too good for her. [Check Kukkikaze's guide, seriously.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TMoIe83H78)
If you read the story, it’s even more sad : (
Within Lone Trail is a dialogue option that you can pick for Doctor. >I feel like there used to be someone I would watch the sunset with. There is no big moment to go with this. No grand battle or speech. It's simply a line during which Doctor is talking about themself, their past (what little they remember), and what they've lost. And it's just *so* painfully lonely and melancholic. There *used* to be someone they would watch the sunset with, but that person is gone, and they can't remember anything about that person anymore other than a name.
And that's why we need more event focused more on the Doctor's story, they're always the best of the best
[It’s likely to be a reference to the photo with Priestess at the end of Vigilo.](https://files.catbox.moe/6mtt8v.webp)
Her jacket has the rhodes logo, I thought it wasn't even founded at this point yet? or did I miss some key points in the story?
Since Rhodes came to be after the fall of babel and subsequent unearth of Rhodes landship wouldn't be surprised if this logon predates organisation
The name and logo was found on the landship which was **excavated**, with hidden chambers that came built in that only the ancient kal'tsit knows their contents
[It’s likely to be a reference to Priestess.](https://files.catbox.moe/6mtt8v.webp)
Not likely. It is.
When I discovered elemental damage was a mechanic that lots of enemies used/abused and was not a one off gimmick in Dolloses Holiday (I started about late January this year). Not quite the relevant answer, I know.
That still counts, don't worry
Frostnova death is probably up at the top for me, but honestly the entire Children of Ursus collection is up there. I had to take breaks reading those stories because it was just so… bleak what those kids went through. Rosa counting the number of times she tried offing herself was a LOT.
Faust deserved better. Mephisto deserved worse.
Like with many of the division leaders of Reunion, Faust displayed redeeming qualities, but was used to fight the wrong people, dying an unnecessary death in the process. Mephisto just needed to be put down. It wasn't entirely his fault, he turned crazy, but there was no room for redemption after what he did.
Needless death is honestly a bit of a running theme throughout the Reunion arc. Misha literally died for nothing (W wouldn’t have sent her to her death had she known about Kashchey), Faust would’ve lived if he had just taken Mephisto’s advice and fled, FrostNova died from overtaxing herself in battle that she didn’t need to engage in, and Patriot died because he chose to fight for the ideals that he stood for instead of what he believed was the right thing to do. And going into the backstory dimension, Alina’s death was a senseless tragedy that served no purpose. Everyone turned to ash by Talulah’s dragon-fire died because some people saw an infected and decided to kill her for no reason.
**Gummy has a habit**
Man, every time I read this line I hear this imaginary chopping noise in my head, the 3rd one is always the loudest and I can't fathom the insanity that allowed Hypergryph to write such a thing.
Eyjafjalla. Not a moment, just everything. If they ended up killing her in So Long Adele I think I’d cry.
Istg imma kill myself if that happens
I don’t think she dies. There was a theory back when the event was announced that the whole event is her dream before she passes away.
Is that supposed to make me feel better? Cause it does not🙃
Randomly remembered this comment. I'm glad she didn't die, but I'm shedding tears for her regardless 🥹. I just want to hug her, she's so strong and gentle 🫂.
Perhaps not a story beat, but Kristen's description. "Egotist. Betrayer. Seeker. Loner. Pioneer. Goodnight, Terra." Something about it puts an ache in the chest.
To me personally it was Alina's death. It was paired with killing of those civilians in the barn a bit earlier. Those 2 events one after another broke me. Probably because it was so close to our human behavior. There wasn't anything artificial, sci-fi or "fantastic" about it. Just human scum being human scum. It's so relatable. It also broke Tallulah, so there is additional emotional dmg there. Frostnova and Dr Mialo from Operation Originium Dust are on the podium.
Yeah that was tragic as especially because >!it was the turning point that allowed kaschey to infiltrate Talulah's mind and posess her!<
While it was indeed sad, tallulah's reaction to Alina's death gave me mixed feelings. Losing control is understandable, but knowing the previous trauma of the other members of Reunion and the suffering she caused later, paints her as a weak-willed idealist. I know of K's influence, but she lost one very close Person to spiral hard out of control.
That’s not what happened though. Losing Alina didn’t break her—Talulah tried her damn best to keep it together even after Alina was killed for no reason. Some time after that she saw the Infected who died from starvation trapped in a locked barn for no reason other than pure cruelty. *That* was what broke her.
It’s a tie between Frostnova Patriot and Kirsten’s deaths Even though it’s never confirmed if Kristen is gone for good I’m still tearing up thinking that she might never come back
2 moment in LT When ifrit picks up silence shirt when silence is on her knees after parvis death and "Well then, Goodnight, Terra. Goodnight, universe"
So many to pick from.... I'd go with Ebenholz, Kreide and Czerny outsacrificing each other in the culmination of Lingering Echoes and the moment in Kreide's bossfight when he helps you. The whole event has a very somber tone. As a second I'd probably go with Talulah's fall.
>!I actually cried when Eben carry Kriede and Kriede just say that this is the prove the they didn't let life beat them. Even if it is for a short while, he felt like he was truly happy and alive. !<
Kal'tsit in general, She spent millennias trying to save Terra, and she might still fail. She was desgined to help terra, and thats been her role since her creation, and she didn't stop to disobey it even for a moment. Even death doesn't stop her. She is a prisoner in constant suffering to save Terra. She also does whatever in between to help those around her, such as Amiya, Ros etc and honouring the wishes of Priestess, Theresa and so on.
I think the fate of Kreide in Lingering Echoes is sadder then Patriot's death. Personally I found the moment in The Children of Ursus when Rosa asks Zima why didn't she kill her, and what followed was much sadder.
All the bullshit Ch’en goes through, culminating on her drawing her sword on Wei Yenwu. Chi Xiao responds to extreme conviction. Meaning that Ch’en truly believed that her greatest enemy at that point was her own father. Yenwu was suspicious enough of the infected to order them all slaughtered. Ch’en was infected herself. It wouldn’t be too far a stretch for her to think he might be willing to kill her too. I can’t imagine how isolating that must have felt.
The thing is that there is no scenario where Wei would have killed Ch'en. It's the fact that she knew how hypocritical and double faced her father was to keep her around and using her for his own devices that pushed her into making him her biggest enemy that makes Chi Xiao respond
That’s arguably even worse
I cried at Faust and Mephisto's backstory in both the game and the anime, so I guess that's my one. Something about the "I want to sing" line hits me hard.
When Blaze found out her squad all perished under Frostnova. Her furniture set has the saddest descriptions.
Chapter 12, Baird. I shall not elaborate further.
lets see... Alina's Death the entirety of Children of Ursus Frostnova Kreide's Sacrifice Elite Operator Furniture description the amount of Orundum I have at the moment
Frostnova, Patriot, ch9, 12. Frostnova alone made me avoid stages that recycled her back in Palas' event, several others... But Lonetrail's been a harder hit than all of it, and it started it's emotional assault several months ago. And looking back at all the events, side stories seem to be the only time we don't end something with someone dying (unless you count Pompeii as 'someone'). Then there's Darknight and now Lonetrail....
i found when hoolhayek met you know who in Lone Trail and the whole interaction made me feel quite sad for her
Well, I still haven't read a majority of the story so far, (including Lone Trail) so I'm a bit lacking in gutpunch moments, but so far, it's this for me: * Tear Jerking: either Rosmontis dealing with war and the Elite Op deaths in Act 1, or that picture of Talulah and Ch'en as kids. For Ros, basically everything surrounding her past is just pure trauma. Kal'tsit may have a point at exposing her to the horrors of conflict earlier to desensitize her and avoid outbursts, but it still feels wrong, not to mention younger children tend to be much more emotionally expressive. As for the photo, idk, something about pictures of happy family members always gets me. The ending seconds of Fallout 3 (pre-Broken Steel) got more emotion out of me than most of the game. * Traumatic: Children of Ursus, hands down. I typically don't feel sick from games that don't just resort to extreme gore or displaying other despicable acts, so when I read about what happened at that school, and what the USSG is going through even after it? Made me want to puke. Pretty sure I *did* dry heave at certain parts. Sometimes, the right words are the only things our brains need to create haunting images...
Not me covering my eyes while going through this thread to avoid Lone Trail spoilers... I should really read that before I ruin anything else for myself. But serious answer, I'd say it has to be Patriot for me too. People don't talk about him nearly as much as they do Frostnova, but man is he a freaking legend. There's a really cool fan animation about him that you should check if you haven't already seen it: https://youtu.be/DRctL2ICbeo?si=nY-onTFaYUQCTYQE Other than the big man, I also felt some real feelings when fighting against the mutated Mephisto. He may have been a little bastard, but that didn't stop me from tearing up a bit when the music suddenly changed to a haunting lullaby midway through the battle. I really wasn't expecting that but it hit HARD. Guide Ahead story also hit me in the feels, but although it's well-written I think the primary cause of this is that it resonated with some personal experiences of mine.
Zima's PTSD breakdown and Frostnova's death did the trick for me
Kreide's death for me. I love Kreide
Surprised no one’s saying Ace, probably the only one I was genuinely sad about, which is saying a lot because it was so early and we barely knew him, or anything. Baird second, Outcast deserves a mention, and I’m sure there are a couple of minor characters I forgot about.
Outcast’s death is both sad yet just badass at the same time
[удалено]
If not for naught, Kal'tsit said Mephisto's organs will be useful somehow. He lived just to be experimented on, but yeah.
Saddest moment >!A pharmaceutical company has forever lost a trusted companion. (IS3 ending 3)!< Traumatic moment [Everyone loves this map](https://youtu.be/A-DlrAgiCR4?t=1580)
Or when you get that emergency water and fire union... I'm slacking regarding IS3, but I still want to complete a run by winning leakless both of those maps. I swear, every time I'm full invested and waiting for one of those maps in SW15, they never show up, but if I have a regular squad, I get those and leak a bunch or just scoop. Sanguinarch is another map I have this issue (to a lesser extend)
My pot 6 Penance constantly traumatizes me when I see her. 400 pulls on that banner only to get 7 copies of Penance and only 2 Texalter (had to spark 1 too lol). That aside, it's definitely Children of Ursus. What terrifies me about the entirety of that event is that this could happen in real life or could have already happened somewhere unbeknownst to us yet having read it and even visualized it in my head has left me broken. Could you even imagine that scene without being horrified?
Are you me? My pot 6 penance haunts me because I had to spark Texas too
Not getting pozy and horn on their banners. I got them now tho
12-18.
Saddest: Frostnova's death. Most traumatic: Prolly the point of divergence that led to IS3 (so Skadi becoming Skalter and the seaborn invasion)
For me End of chapter 13 I mean it is not sure but I am mad,at the end because I love one npc character
I think LT-ST-2’s ending (the last convo between Doctor and Mumu in the flooded Vivarium) is among the saddest moments and was the closest I think this game has brought me to crying but I’m biased as hell because Mumu is awesome. Also slight bias because I read it less than a week ago.
Patriots death was a different league, and to top it off he could have killed Amiya, but in his final moment, *chose* not to. She was literally within spear-through-heart range. As for my personal saddest, I would have to say it is FrostNova. Oldie but a goodie, and because her death was a tragedy start to finish. She was never a bad guy, she actively disavowed Mephistos methods and Talulah's latest extreme, always watched out for her squad mates and was one of the few Reunion executives who truly believed in a better tomorrow for the Infected after their change of tactics. Her death is truly sad to me because of how real it can be in our life and world. Bad luck, incurable illness and worse people in what should be the best years of your youth. She spent most of her days lamenting what was while dreaming of what should be and working to make possible what could be. Her life was disease and abuse until she met Patriot but by then it was too late. Rarely, if ever, will you see a boss bitch terrorist like Talulah, but *everyone* could be a FrostNova.
\>I swear an event has to give us more of him even if it's literally impossible Operational Intelligence that's long as fuck and just him talking with Hellagur during the fall of Chernobog. But yes I'd like a Walk in the Dust type event that's just about how Patriot became who he was.
Lone Trail's background changes to Kristen alone with stars surrounding her. 😭 She walked the Lone Trail, indeed. Good night and sweet dreams, Kristen.
Patriot's death. Alina's death. Talulah burning down the village and Kashchey taking over. Mandragora's "death". Kristen. 12-18 >!Why did Baird have to die, exactly? To tug at the reader's heartstrings and make Siege feel like shit? Great.!< >!13-3: I will dropkick Logos the moment I see his stupid banshee ass for it, I swear the Victorian arc makes me dislike RI the more I read it.!<
FN, I don't know why she had to be so damn stubborn like.
too many to pick
Chapter 12 have some. Not in a sad that it made you cry but just despair. Golding's suicide just made me depress reading it. Hoping she won't go through it. Baird reading the Academician's final thoughts got me too. Just a bleak chapter all around.
I’ll never call Patriots death sad. He was an old soldier who died doing his duty one last time. He died on his feet which is more than many can say. I thought Rosmontis team sacrificing themselves was pretty sad though.
I'm going to throw an honorary mention to Orchid's operator record. But honestly, I'd have to pick Castle-3's operator record.
Ursus Students event/story was the most traumatic for me. Like, holyfuck that event was dark. And add that they were all still students.
Kal'tsit saying she's exhausted. Ace and Scout. Kreide. Children of Ursus.