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Gared & Cotter

Gared’s entire arc is about losing home after home. He loses his family, gets sent away from House Forrester, ends up at the Wall, then has to desert that too because the North Grove matters more than his vows. Cotter, who is secretly a wildling, breaks him out of his cell and ends up leaving the Wall with him and they flee into the wilds. Gared can defend Cotter, keep his secrets, save him in fights, tend his wounds, and decide how to handle his death. Cotter can go from untrustworthy thief to the guy who risks himself to free Gared and follows him into the frozen wilderness. 

There’s also something really good about the Forrester boy and the wildling boy finding each other on the wrong side of every institution. The Watch doesn’t fit either of them. The world south of the Wall has already failed both of them. For a while, it’s just Gared, Cotter, the North, and the insane hope that they might find something worth all this suffering.

When Cotter dies for Gared, he asks him to take care of his little sister Sylvi, which is huge because he's never trusted anyone enough to tell anyone she exists before let alone trust them with her safety.

Serval & Kaban

After accidentally startling an amnestic girl in a game of "hunter and prey," the exuberant Serval realizes that, in the land of humanoid animals, the freshly named Kaban doesn't know where she hails from. While Serval guides her through the savanna, Kaban is quick to note that she is quite pitiful compared to other animals. But Serval assures her that she is talented, just not in the way that other animals are, and offers to stay by her side until they can uncover her identity.

The two spend the rest of their journey befriending the many colorful denizens of Japari Park and learning more about the history of its derelict attractions until the abrupt discovery that Kaban is a 'human'. No one seems to recall what humans are, only that they left the archipelago a long time ago. Still, Kaban is determined to find her habitat and Serval remains steadfast in accompanying her even at the potential cost of losing her friend once she finds a home.

When it turns out that the disappearance of humans was tied to their previously inconsequential encounters with the carnivorous and highly territorial slimes known as ceruleans, Kaban, much less meek than before, offers to rid her new friends of the one that has been terrorizing the park the most. This goes wrong, and she ends up sacrificing herself to protect Serval, thanking her friend for believing in her even though she failed to return the favor.

"Serval-chan. I look useless at a glance. I didn't even know why I was born. But you accepted me. You've looked out for me all this time. Thank you. Be well."

Serval is shocked and nevertheless returns in vain to save her, and when that fails, the denizens of Japari Park, whom Kaban thought so fondly of, suddenly arrive to help Serval accomplish their original plan. After a close call, they rescue her. Kaban insists that humanity can wait, but Serval rebuilds the boat that was destroyed during the fight, and the two set sail for the mainland.