Fallout Equestria/Tear Jerker


 * IN the ruins of Manehattan, a corpse is discovered . When a letter from a nearby computer gives context for what happened over 200 years ago... the full weight of the tragedy hits hard.
 * Worse,
 * And when Littlepip delivers  The waterworks come then as well.
 * "All of Equestria Mourns Big Macintosh, Hero of Shattered Hoof Ridge"
 * The story of Stable 29. All the deaths, including the deaths of kids, with backstory so that they're not just meaningless. A pony's kid gets burned to death by plasma and he'd just gotten his cutie mark...Another was getting her stitches out and was planning her daughter's cutecenera...another couple's baby, suffocating in another room because of the fire suppression system. What makes it even worse was because the entire thing was started by another pony getting his colt a bebe gun for his cutecenera party. Something so innocent being devolved into something so horrible...
 * Just think if you missed a shot in the beginning of Fallout 3.
 * The last half of chapter 20.5(Technically Canon) had me bawling like a little girl.
 * Spike. Our favourite dragon goes to sleep for a while, as dragons are wont to do, only to wake up and find out he's lost everything. If your heart doesn't break when he's talking to Littlepip about it, you have no soul.
 * Plus there was the audio recording Littlepip is shown in the sealed off rooms of Tenpony Tower. The memory ends with Spike and Twilight having an argument, and Spike leaves it by basically saying "I'm gonna go take a nap! Come and find me when you're the Twilight I know and love! What makes it even worse is that that particular nap may very well have been the one he had been taking when the megaspells hit, making that possibly the last thing he said to Twilight.
 * In Chapter 37 we find that
 * Chapter 39. Just... Chapter 39.
 * What makes
 * Xenith being
 * A pre-war flashback to the zebra attack on Canterlot, where Fluttershy is flipping out at the zebras turning her megaspells into tools of destruction instead of tools of healing like she hoped they would. The worst part is is that she acknowledges that it's all her fault and that everypony (and zebra) is going to die because of her.
 * Out of all the Mane Cast, Fluttershy comes across as one of the most tragic.
 * The undead schoolfoals and baby dragons in Canterlot. In fact, everything having to do with Canterlot and its environs is a potent combination of Tear Jerker and High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
 * The Memory Orb of shown in chapter 14.