Splits
Tears
Tears noun - The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
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Losing the Team Spirit: In Enchanted Parade, after Akko accidentally tears in half Lotte's ancestral music scroll, Lotte gets pissed off and goes her own way, and Akko splits from Sucy too.
Source: Anime / Little Witch Academia -
Swiss Army Tears: According to the story's penultimate cutscene, where The Puppeteer sheds a Single Tear that splits up and revives the five remaining Creators that aid Sackboy.
Source: Video Game / LittleBigPlanet -
You can't actually see tears because of the mask, but in the film version of Watchmen Rorschach is audibly crying when he picks up the cleaver and splits Gerald Grice's head open for killing Blair Roche.
Source: Berserker Tears
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