Fictional Stories you're emotionally attached to

[Karifean]

What are some of the fictional stories (from any medium) that really got you emotionally invested in them and affected you in ways most stories don't? Stories you built up an emotional attachment towards?

For me, there are quite a few, but the one that stands out above all is Clannad. I got to know it in mid-October and up till now, it hasn't gone out of my mind, and it doesn't seem like it has any intention to do so anytime soon. I choke up every time I watch any of 4 particular scenes near the end, without fail.

I love this kind of story and would like have more such connections, and thus I would like you to share with me, storylines you have an emotional attachment to.

[Sephiroth]

Almost all Final Fantasys, especially VII, XIII and IX, Nier Gestalt and Kingdom Hearts.

Non-video game stories exist many for me.

[Shlup]

The Little Mermaid because I'm a mermaid princess, duh.

I don't know, man. There are a lot of stories I really like but I'm not sure if that meets your criteria for "emotionally attached."

[Miriel]

I'm pretty sure I cried more when I saw Leslie and Ben get engaged on Parks & Rec than I did for any person I've known in my real life. It felt like my best friends were getting engaged.

But I tend to get emotionally attached pretty easily.

[Madame Adequate]

The crew of Babylon 5.

[noxious.sunshine]

Uhm....

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Housseini is one I'm very attached to emotionally.

And the movie "Everybody's Fine" with Robert DeNiro, Kate Beckinsale, and Drew Barrymore- it pretty much describes my family exactly. Even more so now since my mom passed away. My ex and I watched it and I literally bawled my eyes out nonstop through the entire thing. Ugh. Even typing this and thinking about it makes me teary. I tried to get my parents to watch it a few years ago- my dad made it through the first like 30 minutes and told us to turn it off.

I'm sure there's others, I just can't think of them right now. Well, other than my mom and dad's little love story. ^_^

[Pumpkin]

A lot of characters from the Final Fantasy and Suikoden series. I get invested in a lot of their stories.

Data from Star Trek.

[Ayen]

Uncovered starring Kate Beckinsale got me pretty emotionally invested in the story, one of the first movies in a long time to get me invested in such a way and its premise was something I initially would have been indifferent to. Kate Beckinsale was my only reason to watch going in.

Game of Thrones did something that few shows can do, make me question my morally.

[Black Magic Shopkeeper]

Nier Gestalt

oh god I can feel the tears coming...

for me it would be final fantasy legend (aka saga) even IF it didn't have much of a story (It mostly just introduced me into rpgs which I'm grateful for), final fantasy IX, DEFINITELY Nier, and now Drakengard 3 in the games department...

In the anime department, Slayers is always at the top of my list-- but there's also Kaiba, Angel's Egg, and Tokyo Godfathers...

Only Culdcept rests in the manga department as most effective story. Najaran was a brave character that girls should look up to as a role model. It's a real pity Culdcept never got an anime...

And still the single most emotionally inspirational piece of literature for me is the short-story, Eyes of Amber, by Joan D Vinge.
One of these days I want to thank her for writing such a story as that...

[Sephiroth]

Actually Silent Hill is also pretty touching everytime.

[Jiro]

I get super invested in everything.

It's a horrible existence.

[Shorty]

Like Jiro, I find myself invested in many things, and I become emotionally affected by many things. I find myself crying or nearly crying at nearly every damn new movie I see lately.

I have a strong attachment to Ender's Game, but that attachment is mostly sentiment. Speaker for the Dead is something else, though, and mirrors the broken home, broken family, broken everything that I experienced for so long in my pre-teen and teenage years. There are so many characters to emotionally invest in, and I invest in each and every one of them.

I'm sure there are many more things, but that is what comes to mind first.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

BBC's Sherlock. I cried during the latest episode.

Uuuuhm.
Firefly/Serenity
Harry Potter
Merlin (the fable, I've heard so many variations and stories I love it so much)

[I Took the Red Pill]

Walter Hartwell White

[Yamaneko]

The Bible.