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* In ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'', it's only the power of love that stops Kalas from becoming a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]. I mean, yikes, murdered little brother and grandfather, I'd have snapped too. Also Lyude, especially at the Phantom Goldoba, where all his past insecurities come back to break him down HARD. And then, to an extent, there's Xelha. {{spoiler|She carries the ocean inside her, so when the group finally saves the world, she has to release that ocean back into the world. As in, she must sacrifice herself. She gets better, but still...that must be a huge burden for a 17-year-old young woman.}}

* The schoolteacher [[Complete Monster|Westin Phipps]] assigns you to torture in ''[[City of Heroes]]''.

** Quite frankly, almost all the girls from the Ar Tonelico series have MAJOR issues. There's a reason their suppressed consciousness reacts hostilely (aka, trying to kill) to any signs of attachment or affection. Ar Tonelico 3, however, gives Finnel special mention. The voice acting for her level 9 Dive is just....potent enough to punch a whole through the heart.

* In the ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' series of games, theres Julanar in the second game, a woman who, because she wanted to be a healer, a profession forbidden to women, was exploited and captured and abused by brigands, who she escaped from by running through the desert and pleading to a djinn for help, who did so by [[Baleful Polymorph|turning her into a tree]]. The hero can help her remember her humanity, but it is said that she will not be able to turn back into a human until someone comes along who can love her enough, and that someone is not you. Although later in the series this subplot becomes a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], as after telling someone about her in the third game, you later meet him again in the fifth game, alongside the restored Julanar, who is now his wife.