Gaining
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A Mii will do a very happy dance in their apartment after gaining a sweetheart, complete with fireworks and celebratory music (the music is different depending on the gender of the Mii).
Source: Video Game / Tomodachi Life - Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell plays this for laughs: Its Multiple Endings run the whole gamut of "happy": from Johnny (re)gaining personal happiness, gaining immense power, securing his friends' happiness, to hitting the Reset Button on the entire franchise.
Source: Esoteric Happy Ending - Even after she is recognized as one of the school's elite, she isn't happy because Melissa is also gaining popularity thanks to her combat prowess.
Source: Attention Whore / Web Comics
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Happy and Gaining. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/gaining/happy
Gaining & Happy. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/gaining/happy>.
Happy or Gaining. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/gaining/happy.
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