Persona 3/Tear Jerker

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 * The in Persona 3 is another prime example of a Tear Jerker / Crowning Moment of Awesome / Heroic Sacrifice combination.
 * This troper cried manly tears.
 * The worst part of it is
 * Just to twist the knife a little bit more, the next day, during, two upperclassmen start talking about , claiming he's probably just some punk, and how they don't have time for this, because they need to study for their mock-exams. They then turn to the Protagonist and ask him if they knew him, but then claim that since they're juniors, how could you know this guy. After everything that's happened, this troper really wanted to throttle those two idiots. Shame Junpei didn't get to punch them for it.
 * You're given a few choices to react to these duys. It wasn't hard for me to pick "Shut up."
 * To twist the knife even more, the principal, one of those two upperclassmen? Both of them are voiced by.
 * Persona 3 Portable makes this even more painful. If you play as a female, he has his own Social Link and he becomes even more of a sympathetic character..

"Shinjiro :"
 * This Troper can top all Shinjiro romance social link tear jerker quotes.

"Shinjiro: I just... want it to be normal."
 * This troper broke down during
 * Even before that, rank 9 of Shinjiro's social link: clinging to a few last precious moments of normalcy, trying not very successfully to make sure he has nothing to regret.


 * How did I handle this? I refused to do anything for the next two days. Free time at night? Go straight to bed. Free time after school? Go straight back to the dorm, and go to sleep ASAP. Again.
 * Similarily this troper teared up at the death of And his death is confirmed in FES where it serves as a major plot point.
 * This troper didn't tear up at the death per se, but rather
 * This troper knew when the game described the Protagonist  Tear Jerker material indeed.
 * This Troper didn't begin crying until she listened to Kimi no Kioku (Memories of you)in the credits, as she had looked up the translation days before. That song is truly beautiful and I still cry every time I listen to it.
 * This troper also still breaks out in Manly Tears whenever he hears "Kimi no Kioku". Sometimes, being bilingual is a curse.
 * In this troper's honest opinion, the Let's Play "My Life Is a Goddamn Mess" managed to build upon this, believe it or not. Instead of being a silent protagonist, the main character is a stereotypical Emo Teen, who apparently wasn't that sociable before the events of the game, and always complained that his life was a goddamn mess. However, over the time of the playthrough, he gets more and more happy with his life, due to the Social Links and his Nakama, eventually abandoning his Catch Phrase.

"Akihiko: "... and starting now, we'll never be apart." Mitsuru: "Come what may...we'll always be together." Ken: "From now on...I'll protect you.""
 * This troper, even though she doesn't cry at things often, is not ashamed to say that the scene made her bawl like a wee child for at least half an hour. It would have been longer, but she had to suck it up and walk home. She was still sobbing all the way back. It didn't help that she played the game
 * The "bad" ending is pretty, well, bad in this regard as well.
 * There are even more in the FES re-release, especially if you take a minute to think about it. The worst that sticks out in this troper's mind is the Hermit S-Link epilogue. Having accidentally shown off your cellphone's wallpaper to, the Hermit S-Link, she suitably freaks out, aaaalmost recovers in time to ask you out for dinner, but freaks out and runs away. Ouch.
 * This may in fact be the entire point of The Answer, being an epilogue to the king of all Bittersweet Endings, but particularly breakdown as the epilogue progresses, becoming more and more angry and distant from the rest of the cast, but particularly the new main character,
 * And what about the little girl you befriended, and helped to cope with her parents' divorce? Her last meeting with you, she gives you a toy ring and asks if you'll marry her someday. During the game's epilogue,, you get a letter from her where she's holding you to your promise.
 * This troper never cries at games, yet choked up and started to sob when Yukari watched Although, a lot of this simply struck a nerve because it reminded this troper of her own father...
 * The whole sequence with really tore at This Troper's heart. Also a Crowning Moment of Awesome for both the character and the game in my book.
 * The scene where made this troper cry for a whole fifteen minutes straight. This troper's mother also watched and cried at that scene when she played through it herself.
 * Much moreso than this scene was the follow-up a week or so later, when
 * In FES,
 * This troper sobbed through the entirety of the fight with . She kept waiting for some event dialogue, or anything, really, to stop the battle before it actually ended.
 * This manly troper nearly cried like a baby at the ending, and Aigis's tears. Though their meaning is debatable, I took it as Aigis knowing even as she's saying that her purpose will be to protect him and stay by his side. When a dialogue choice comes up with telling her "it'll be okay", and picking that choice causes the hero to brush his hand across her cheek... excuse me, I've got something in my eye again...
 * Persona 3 Portable adds an even more heartbreaking variation to this scene:
 * Thanks Atlus, you cruel bastards.
 * P3P's New Game Plus endings.


 * Ken also has one as a part of his social link for Portable. In order to re-initiate the S.Link after the events of, Ken asks the heroine to come with him to that spot again.  That event (and the S.Link afterwards) redeemed Ken for this troper.
 * How about his New Game+ ending?
 * Maybe it's just this troper's favoritism towards Ryoji, but normally the whole star-crossed lover routine is used so often it just gets... bland. Actually, I blame it on Yuri Lowenthal's amazing voice acting.  Damn you Atlus, I love you so much but sometimes I just hate your guts for doing these things.
 * Hell, Ryoji's social link in general if you've played the game before/spoiled yourself as to what happens.
 * And because it's worth mentioning here again, Akinari, the Sun Social Link. This troper had to pause and go do some miscellaneous house chores during some parts of the conversation to keep from becoming a depressed ball of gloom.
 * If you max Akinari's S. Link, you can talk with his mother during the two free school days between the final battle and graduation. She sits on the bench at Naganaki Shrine, right where her son sat. Sorry, I have to go grab a tissue now.
 * When you've played the game before or simply know the ending, a lot of very simple things can easily become this. First noticed by this troper in her first playthrough of Portable -- really, any time someone talks about their future with is just heartbreaking. Akihiko's Christmas event in particular comes to mind, where  It brought a few tears.
 * YES. For those who had played the PlayStation 2 version (or looked up spoilers), it felt like a huge punch in the gut.
 * The scene where, is shot and killed. Seeing the so utterly distraught was heartwrenching; and this troper doesn't even favor  that much.
 * Ditto, its made this troper even more sad when reading this while playing Portable:

"Theodore: I... cannot do that. I've told you before... Please, do not torment me with an offer like this... I beg you. Please..."
 * Not sure if a music track counts, but after December 31st and the formally cheerful city theme "Moon's Reaching Stars" is replaced with "Memories of the City" ...it felt just numb to see a town you'd grown to love - and the main character found his best friends there - completely ripped of all enthusiasm. Made this troper all the more glad to get the true ending and  . Especially when you realise the new tune is a leitmotif of Kimi no Kioku, just much, MUCH sadder.
 * Another sad thing about playing as a female is the Emperor Social Link. The female protagonist helps Hidetoshi become a better person, and he realizes that he's fallen for her, but decides not to act on those feelings until he feels he's worthy of her, something he reiterates when you talk to him in March. Ouch.
 * The Answer was very sad, with seeing the struggle the characters were dealing with
 * At times it seems as if they took a bucket of sadness a slathered it all over the story.
 * As if the What's so bad about that?
 * And Akinari. You can't forget Akinari. By the end of his Social Link, you'd be drowning in a lake of your own tears.
 * After completing Theodore's date requests, he'll tell you that he can no longer see you in that fashion, and from then on you'll only interact in the velvet room. His line when you choose the option "Ask Out" under the Talk option brought a giant sword through this troper's heart.

"Male Student at Port Island Station: The people who believe in I mean, they have enough to believe in something, y'know? I don't have that much, man. It's over for me."
 * Additionally, during his final 'date,' though he mentions he'll be punished even further for not breaking it off quickly the implication is he's doing it because continuing the relationship will be worse for you. Watching him be so torn up about it but forcing himself through it for your sake is a heartbreaking chance from his early enigmatic cool or his child-like naivety about the human world.
 * In the last two days before graduation, the lobby, heck, the whole dorm becomes eerily quiet. The game tells you that everyone is probably out enjoying themselves while you're too exhausted from defeating the big bad to go out yourself. This troper interprets this, along with the entire the-whole-universe-has-forgotten-but-you, as the game pointing out that you, the MC, performed a Heroic Sacrifice for these people and yet they don't seem to remember anything. You are truly alone in your suffering for them. At least, until
 * This Troper finds the month of January to be extremely depressing.


 * Bunkichi and Mitsuko, the lively elderly couple who treats you like a grandchild, always giving you snacks and being so happy to see you; it's implied they were essentially alone until the petition to save the tree brought their old friends and their son's friends back into their lives. In the end, despite their age and past tragedies, their son's tree is safe, they're planning on remodeling the bookstore, and they hope the nice young student who helped them so much comes by to visit any time.