What moment in the story made you cry and is unforgettable?

[Eldoria]

Two moments that made me cry and will probably stay with me for the rest of my life are:

Spoiler: Moments made me cry

First, when Sam carried Frodo on Mount Doom. I could feel Frodo's weight on Sam's shoulders.

Second, Kaori's confession letter to Arima after her funeral, too heartbreaking, tragic, and humane.

What about you? What moment in the story made you cry and is unforgettable?

 

[pangmida]

The ending of Stephen King’s Green Mile, both book and movie. Sobbed like a baby.

The character Ushio in Clannad: After Story. So many moments made me cry like a mf.

The C-drama Empresses in the Palace also made me cry hard.

The ending of Train to Busan. Cried again.

When 001 was eliminated in Squid Game Season 1. ? I want my tears back.

…and many more. I cry easily okay ??

 

[Avarice_Of_The_Seven]

I think I cried while reading many stories. As for unforgettable... Well... I forgot.

I've read too many stories at this point and while only 5-10 names come to my mind at the moment, the actual number is much larger. It's just that I don't hear those names often so the memories of those stories rarely resurface iny mind.

And, I won't mention only the stories that come to my mind at the moment cuz I know better than to be biased. That unforgettable aspect of those names in my mind is because I've seen them being mentioned often so I can just easily recall them.

I am human, after all. If I have too many unforgettable memories then the less frequent once will be buried beneath the more frequently recalled memories. I am not a computer that can just short data between Forgettable and Unforgettable folders.

 

[Eldoria]

I think I cried while reading many stories. As for unforgettable... Well... I forgot.

I've read too many stories at this point and while only 5-10 names come to my mind at the moment, the actual number is much larger. It's just that I don't hear those names often so the memories of those stories rarely resurface iny mind.

And, I won't mention only the stories that come to my mind at the moment cuz I know better than to be biased. That unforgettable aspect of those names in my mind is because I've seen them being mentioned often so I can just easily recall them.

I am human, after all. If I have too many unforgettable memories then the less frequent once will be buried beneath the more frequently recalled memories. I am not a computer that can just short data between Forgettable and Unforgettable folders.

Well, this thread isn't meant to discuss cognitive biases... it's meant to celebrate high-quality works that can make readers cry and remember them.

This thread is meant to appreciate works of fiction, not to mock them for any reason.

 

[Avarice_Of_The_Seven]

Well, this thread isn't meant to discuss cognitive biases... it's meant to celebrate high-quality works that can make readers cry and remember them.

And I'm saying that there are too many.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

Hmmmmm, let's see. There's:

1. Sadie in the climax of Stephen King's 11/22/63, which absolutely crushed me.

2. The climax in Harlan Coben's Home, where Patrick attempts to kill himself in front of his mother.

3. Misuzu when she dies at the end of the Air anime film.

 

[Avarice_Of_The_Seven]

This thread is meant to appreciate works of fiction, not to mock them for any reason.

I don't think I'm mocking any story. If you felt that then you must have misinterpreted my words.
All I said was that I liked a lot of stories and still consider them good even though I can't remember them immediately.

 

[Exiled_From_Earth]

I have a lot, but these are the ones that still stick with me the most:

Spoiler: In "The Witcher" Book Series

In the final novel "The Lady of the Lake," the final two-hundred pages or so were an emotional roller coaster for me. The entire sequence of each member of Geralt's Hansa slowly dying or sacrificing themselves one by one was brutal. The scene where Cahir recalls the moment he decided to be a knight as a child, right before he dies, did a number on me especially. But the part that had me full-on sobbing was when Geralt, Yen, and Ciri finally all reunite and walk down the steps of Vilgefortz's castle, all while fighting back his remaining forces and not knowing if they're going to even make it out alive. It's the one time in a story that I've ever happy cried while still being incredibly scared of what may happen to the characters I was reading about.

Spoiler: In "A Song of Ice and Fire" Book Series

The last few chapters of the third book in the series "Storm of Swords" were very difficult for me to get through, since every POV character is pretty much in the worst possible position and emotional state they could be in. Both Jon and Arya grappling with the fact that they may be the last members of the Stark family as far as they know was tearjerking enough, but poor Sansa got stuck up in the Eyrie with Littlefinger! Her final chapter not only put a hole in my chest, but the slow realization that this girl was going to be trapped with that manipulative asshole was dreadful. The entire sequence and escalation of Sansa building the snow replica of Winterfell, only for Robin to trample it, Lysa later interrogating her and accusing her of being in love with Littlefinger and then the scum of a man himself swooping in (not just to save her!) but to push Lysa out of the moon door and confirm that he had planned to kill her this whole time and that he had always been in love with Sansa's mother this whole time! I wasn't just crying, I was on the edge of my seat by the time that chapter ended because so many emotions and thoughts were running through my head.

Spoiler: In "Transfomers More than Meets the Eye" Comic series

In the first few issues of the comic, there's a lot of implications and hints toward Chromedome and Rewind's romantic relationship, but it's only after Rewind is killed by Overlord that you realize just how close the two were. Chromedome watching the message left behind by Rewind of stitched together footage that ends with the simple act of Rewind holding up the camera and saying "I love you," broke me then and still lives rent-free in my head. The fact that it was only after his death that the reader gets full confirmation of Rewind's feelings for Chromedome and vice versa was brilliantly tragic and made me reevaluate their whole relationship and further twisted the knife that was Rewind's death. One of the few times that what came after a character's death hit harder for me than the death itself.

 

[unlaumy]

One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novel
For me, it's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Although there isn't a particular 'tear-jerking' scene, but the decay, unavoidable suffering, and futility of struggles are just too much. A constant tragedy. There were so many times when I had to put down the book and calm myself down from having a breakdown.

My Broken Mariko, a manga
There's also a manga that my friend recommended me once: My Broken Mariko. It's about a young woman who finds that her best friend has committed a suicide. The unfairness of you having to continue despite the grief. So many wishes and dreams, you put your hope for happiness and none the suffering that's now to your future, and there comes the realization that they won't ever come into reality. It was sad from the beginning to the end.

I don't think I'm mocking any story. If you felt that then you must have misinterpreted my words.
All I said was that I liked a lot of stories and still consider them good even though I can't remember them immediately.

And, I won't mention only the stories that come to my mind at the moment cuz I know better than to be biased. That unforgettable aspect of those names in my mind is because I've seen them being mentioned often so I can just easily recall them.

I am human, after all. If I have too many unforgettable memories then the less frequent once will be buried beneath the more frequently recalled memories. I am not a computer that can just short data between Forgettable and Unforgettable folders.

I believe Eldoria meant nothing about mocking stories, rather that the ones that come up to your mind right now are also valid, even though you believe there are more deserving stories despite them being forgotten.

 

[Envylope]

The ending of Stephen King’s Green Mile, both book and movie. Sobbed like a baby.

The character Ushio in Clannad: After Story. So many moments made me cry like a mf.

The C-drama Empresses in the Palace also made me cry hard.

The ending of Train to Busan. Cried again.

When 001 was eliminated in Squid Game Season 1. ? I want my tears back.

…and many more. I cry easily okay ??

Same, I am a crier when I read. Normally, I don't cry much at all, but when I read it happens all the time.

 

[pangmida]

Same, I am a crier when I read. Normally, I don't cry much at all, but when I read it happens all the time.

Me spending my life building a nonchalant persona only to cave at emotional fiction

 

[Zagaroth]

Of course I draw a blank when trying to recall a specific moment.

But I know what types of scenes tend to make me tear up the most. The painfully sweet ones. Those moments of tender joy that sharply contrast something else previous in a person's life.

I recall Beware of Chicken having several of these. Oh, the latest chapter had a bit of this actually. 'Misty eyed' would be accurate, I did not tear up a lot, but it was there. "Book Bound Bunny" is another one that hits for me; she just is so sweet and cute, and her joy and wonder when she learns something new that enables her to improve her life feel so very sincere.

 

[AstreiaNyx]

There are two:

It was a oneshot jap manga about a young daughter supporting her father as he prepared to remarry. I read this… maybe 20 years ago. By the end, we learned that both the mother and daughter had died and it was the daughter’s ghost watching over her father, hoping he would move on and live his life. When he remarried, she felt happy and finally managed to let go.

The 2nd one I just finished last week, so the memory is still fresh. Jingxiu’s sacrifice in the baihe Long-Awaited Feelings was truly touching.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

1) Saito's death in Zero no Tsukaima.
2) Charge of the Rohirrim.
3) Holo and Lawrence, when they found out Yoitsu is already gone, in Spice and Wolf.
4) Reading Hachiko's story.

Not cried, but I read alot of works that made me feel empty inside, and longing for more.

 

[melchi]

Forget which ep, but there is a character in gunslinger girl that is aging out and she doesn't take it well, feels like she's being thrown away.

 

[Naravelt]

Legend of Legaia on PSX. An old game from when I was a kid.

The ending is a lie. The heroes celebrate their victory, then the starting village gets attacked by the reborn villain fused with an abomination. Everyone dies and turns into abominations. That is where the true final section actually begins.

I still remember how shocked and sad my brother and I were when we played it. That was almost 20 years ago.


The more recent one I remember is an anime from around 2012 called Fafner of the Azure: Exodus. It’s basically a slaughterhouse anime where characters die left and right in gruesome ways.

But the saddest part is the mother character. First, her real daughter dies. Then she adopts a daughter, who also dies. Finally, the last one, a boy, dies in a tragic way too. The adopted daughter still hits the hardest for me. She was a brainwashed soldier from the prequel who eventually came to love her adoptive mother and her friends. Even the dog she took care of was gone when she died.

 

[GutterRatt]

When Jiraiya (Pervy Sage) died in Naruto. This hit me harder than when Asuma died.

 

[Xanderx]

As a doomed Yaoi reader i cry all the time bruh ?????

 

[Zinless]

I believe the ending of the Chimera Ant arc in Hunter x Hunter was my first exposure to sadness from a show.

Though many other scenes have since toppled that in how much they make me bawl my tears out, that ending always stuck to me.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Several hit me hard over the years - I tend to be a bit emotional when I read.
Only concrete example I have, though, is one I wrote (and posted an early draft of in a thread here - not sure if I added it to MyStubs or not), which would probably be cheating.

Edit: Just checked, and I did not. I know what I posted in the Discussions and Tips area under Authors was a single chapter draft, that wound up split between two consecutive chapters when I finally got to it.