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Examples of this in Video Games and Visual Novels

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  • In Ghost Trick, Yomiel's fiancee tries to invoke this trope by killing herself after Yomiel dies. This is one of the largest causes for Yomiel's Start of Darkness.
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 I'm coming for you, Yomiel...

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  • While exploring in Bioshock, you can find the remains of a couple who committed suicide together lying in their bed. Listening to the nearby audio diary, you find out why: their daughter Masha, given up to an orphanage when they could no longer provide for her, has been turned into a Little Sister.
  • In the fourth game in the Quest for Glory series, when you tell the old man Nikolai that you saw his wife's ghost in the woods at night, he will leave town and try to look for her. The next time you go out into the woods at night, you see them both as ghosts, and they thank you for reuniting them.
  • The "In Water" ending of Silent Hill 2. It's not actually shown, but it is very heavily implied that James puts his dead wife's body in his car and then drives into Toluca Lake, drowning himself so that they can be together again.
  • Aeris and Zack in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII.
  • Lenne and Shuyin from Final Fantasy X 2. Both got shot to death and died by each other's side. Their spirits did not end up together...at least, not until Yuna reunites them.
  • Heartbreaking aversion with Aribeth in Neverwinter Nights. You find her in Hordes of the Underdark, trapped in the betrayer's circle of Hell, being psychologically tortured by her realization that she never really loved Fenthick in life.
  • Mask of the Betrayer has an interesting take on this in one of its more bitterweet endings for female PCs: If you choose to stay on the Fugue Plane (the underworld, more or less) in order to bind the spirit eater there, Flat Earth Atheist Gann will go as far as pledging his soul to the God of the Dead so that you won't have to be alone there. Neither of you are dead, just in Hell.
  • Similar example on BioWare's part was a Dummied Out (but easily restored) female-only ending for Knights of the Old Republic. If the female Player Character has completed the Romance Sidequest with Carth, but chosen the Dark Side, he shows up at the Star Forge to make a last-ditch plea for you to turn on Bastila and die on the Star Forge with him.
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: If the player pushes the first-person-view button after shooting and killing the Boss, Naked Snake will see the ghostly apparitions of the Boss and her old lover, the Sorrow, standing together, watching over him. It's probably one of the very few comforts to take in the game's Downer Ending.
    • The Last Days of Foxhound goes one step further and occasionally shows The Sorrow and The Boss happily together in the spirit world.
  • Fire Emblem has the potential for multiple cases of this if you're not careful with your units, and the writers for the death quotes damn well knew it.
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 Matthew: Leila...

Isadora: Harken... Where are you? I... I can't see anything...

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  • A straight example, however, comes from Fire Emblem 7: Blazing Sword, from the most surprising of places. If the right conditions are fulfilled, the backstory of Big Bad Nergal is revealed, including his romance and marriage to a dragon in the village of Arcadia. After his death in the finale, a still image is shown of the two reunited.
    • In the Crimson Flower path of Three Houses, if Dedue Molinaro is defeated before he can turn into a Demonic Beast, he and his liege Dimitri Alexandre Blaidydd will die peacefully in each other's arms upon the latter's defeat.
    • In Fire Emblem: Engage, Griss and Zephia of all people get an entire cutscene of this, talking about their painful backstories and why they allied with Sombron, and how despite none of them knowing how to behave like one, the Four Hounds were the closest thing to family any of them had. Griss more or less gives Zephia a love confession before she passes, then he follows her moments later. The final shot of them pans out to show them holding hands.
  • Alice and Decus from Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World. Though Decus was annoying and Alice was plain evil, you can't help but feel for the pair, especially if you know their backstory.
  • Sora and Takeshi in Ever 17 for Sora's ending are both trapped in HIMMEL together after Takeshi refused to escape without her. This means that this route doesn't really 'fit' into the same sort of story mold as the other routes and especially not the true end, but yeah.
  • Maxim and Selan of the Lufia series. In Fortress of Doom, it's seen that the couple die side by side at the end of prologue. However, in the Sequel/Prequel Rise of the Sinistrals/Curse of the Sinistrals, it's revealed that Maxim (and Selan in DS) continues to stop the island from falling on his town before dying from using too much power.
  • The Bailey Twins, Crystal and Amber in Dead Rising 2. Once one of them is dead, the other will proceed to stab herself, as she will 'never be complete again'.
  • In The Curse of Monkey Island, one of the game's puzzles involves reuniting two dead lovers (a ghost and a skeleton, respectively). When the heartbroken ghost discovers that her lover had never intended to abandon her, their spirits are shown reuniting and then vanishing happily together.
  • The Shadow Hearts series contains several examples, especially in its canon endings:
    • Most notably, Yuri and Alice. After spending Shadow Hearts: Covenant mourning his dead lover, series hero Yuri tells her spirit that he will soon return to her and never leave again. At the end of the game, he commits suicide by allowing himself to be impaled. In his mind, Alice's soul is seen descending from the sky while his is finally released from its curse. The two souls embrace, and then disappear together.
    • Lady and Killer. In Shadow Hearts: From the New World, heartless villain Lady displays her first sign of emotion when the party kills her partner, Killer. After she is defeated in turn, she crawls over to Killer's body and embraces it, whereupon both bodies are lifted into the air, share a tender moment, and then disappear together.
    • James and Elaine. In Koudelka, James sacrifices his life to confront the monstrous Elaine, screaming, "I have always loved you!" Their bodies are lifted up and consumed by light. As the screen fades to black, you hear Elaine's voice whisper, "Let's go, James. Let's go home. I have such fond memories of those days."
  • In the second ending of Nie R, after killing The Shadowlord/Gestalt Nier, he appears in a white void with all the other boss shades and Gestalt Yonah.
    • The Masked King's dying words are that he's going to meet with Fyra again.
  • In Chapter 4 of Eternal Darkness, Chandra is not only killed by a jealous mistress but explicitly cursed to be with a man only in death. She persuades Karim to join her in guarding a MacGuffin indefinitely, then seals the deal with a Kiss of Death.
  • Fate:Grand Order:
    • The Story versions of Ozymandias and Nitocris do this in the Camelot Singularity, after Ozymandias launches a massive Suicide Attack on Camelot itself
    • In the Scandinavia Lostbelt, the Story versions of Sigurd and Brynhild also perish together after they go Battle Couple mode and give the killing blow to the Arc Villain Surtr together.
  • The Walking Dead:
    • If Clementine kills Kenny at the end of Season 2, she can comfort Kenny by saying he can finally reunite with Katjaa and Duck.
    • In the season 3 ending where Gabe dies, Kate laments that they let him die under their watch like Mariana, but they're at least together in death.
    • In season 4 episode 4, while being devoured, Minerva tries to lure Tenn into joining her so that they can be together with Sophie and their parents in the afterlife, and dies with a smile if she succeeds.

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