7 Innocent NPCs You Doomed By Doing the 'Right' Thing

‘60 hours in and just about to reach balders gate!’ Ok speed runner!

Assassin's Creed Odyssey was another; that plague family that everybody on the island wanted to kill. If you spared them and go back later, you find out they went on to infect the whole island and everybody died.

In red dead redemption there's a side quest where an npc asks for a bunch of feathers, and possibly some other things. They're all over the place and takes a while to get, but the payoff is great. He builds wings and jumps off the cliff and plummets to his death immediately. Worth it!

How about Witcher 3? "No im not going to let this tree devil out to cause mayhem, wait..where did the kids go?"

“I’m sure he’s doing his best!” Well, to be fair, that particular hanar was indoctrinated and was trying to disable the planetary defenses for the hanar home world so the reapers could invade it, so I think calling him a big stupid jellyfish was more than warranted 😂

The ghost of a dead woman in Witcher 3. If you didn't figure out that she was a plague bringer before giving her a wonderful reunion with her still living boyfriend, congrats! You've unleashed a plague upon the town

It's worth noting with Yenna that she's like, the last person on the list of characters that Orin will kidnap, she's basically there to make sure that Orin has someone to nap just in case all her other options (your companions) aren't available because they're either dead or in your party. And even if Yenne does get kidnapped, you can still save her (though not her cat, sadly), assuming you don't both the skill checks to do so. Also, if Yenna doesn't get kidnapped, she will actually cook for you. You can buy soup from her in camp. Another example of characters that get screwed by you doing the right thing is Arabella's parents, who give you a locket that lets you cast Dancing Lights as a reward for saving their kid. However, the very next place you find Arabella is a place where you literally die if you don't have a light source, and her parents are dead.

One thing that tricked me in that 'Tenpenny Tower' quest on my first playthrough is that one of Three Dog's lines is making a case to Tenpenny to let the ghouls live there, thus further leading the player to believe that letting the ghouls move in is the 'morally correct' option.

Fallout: New Vegas lets you accidentally get an outpost full of innocent doctors (and their bodyguards) slaughtered by the Brotherhood of Steel if you try to help Veronica in her companion quest by letting her try to join the Followers of the Apocalypse (arguably the most benevolent faction in the entire Fallout series) after she becomes disillusioned with the Brotherhood's (downright suicidal) isolationism. The Brotherhood, paranoid that Veronica had shared Brotherhood secrets with them (she hadn't), kills them all, and then tries to kill her, as well as you for helping her.

In Windwaker, Mila and her father are wealthy snobs until she gets kidnapped and her dad pays Tetra everything to rescue her; by the time you have rescued her, they've become a poor family. On the other hand, Maggie and her father are poor until she also gets kidnapped. When you rescue her, she returns with Skull Necklaces which make her family rich instead. But she is still unhappy, because now she is in love with a Moblin.

In the Outer Worlds, there's a character on Byzantium, I don't remember her name but she wants you to help her make clothing out of monster parts. If you help her gather what she needs, at the end of the quest she's been killed by Byzantium security guards.

I don't know if I would count "hiring hot-air balloon under false pretenses so you can't scout a state prison in preparation for breaking out a felon" as the right thing (except for loyalty's sake), but I guess to each his own.

In Dragon Age Inquisition, when you go to Crestwood you can encounter an Elf being protected by two Grey Wardens. When you talk to her, she tells you something along the lines of wanting to join the order of the Grey Wardens. There's a dialogue option you can choose that encourages her to join the Grey Wardens. Further down the quest in which The Inquisition is trying to prevent Corypheus from manipulating the Grey Wardens, you'll find that the same Elf you talked to in Crestwood will become a sacrifice by Warden-Commander Clarel. One of the few small choices that caught me off guard and bit me in my ass moments.

Chocolat in Tales of Symphonia. Our mishandling of our role as the good guys got first her grandmother, then her mother killed (and obliterated her hometown for good measure). There's even a sidequest to reflect on what you've done through not knowing better.

Roy Philips enraged me like nothing else, back in the day. I had worked very hard to get them into that tower, and when I came back, much later, I was horrified. Obviously murdered and fully dismembered Roy with a shotgun. After that, his followers turn hostile, even if you sneak-attacked him to death. Wish I could've brought the nuke over from Megaton and more definitively ended the Tenpenny Tower saga.

That Yenna thing escalated incredibly fast

Witcher 3, siding with the Crones, or releasing the spirit in the Tree. Both results in innocent people getting killed; either the children eaten by the Crones, or an entire village wiped out by the Spirit and the Baron's wife dying.

In Dragon Age Origins one of the Dalish in the Brecilian forest will ask you to look for his wife. If you do, she's become a werewolf and forces you to kill her after speaking with her. Worse, the forest section can end with the werewolf-curse being broken, so she would have been fine.

Bloodborne, enough said (Alright, for me specifically the little girl in Yharnam. If you try to send her to Oedon Chapel she will get killed by a pig. Same if you are honest about her parents demise. Sending her to Iosefka gets her experimented on. I decided the right thing for me to do is to ignore her, leaving her to go mad just like the rest of Yharnam - ah, right, such a thing as a good ending is a rare occurrence in a FromSoftware game)

Also with Hyetta, she's not even alive. She's some spirit that has possessed that corpse of Irinia... So it gets more twisted and sad really. Weather she knows this or not at first. It's true.