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1	'''Basic Trope''': A character writes in a more unusual medium than ink.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** Alice finds Bob's dying words scrawled on the wall in blood.
4	** Blood Mage Bob, a user of BloodMagic, writes a letter in blood.
5	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob wrote a lengthy essay in blood.
6	* '''Downplayed''':
7	** Bob writes a word [[UnconventionalFoodUsage in tomato sauce]].
8	** Bob scratches a message into the wall with his fingernails.
9	* '''Justified''':
10	** Bob had crucial information to share and no other method at hand of preserving it.
11	** It's part of a dying curse, and scrawling runes in blood is the most important cantrip within the ritual.
12	** Blood Mage Bob finds using his blood to be cheaper than buying pens. It's also cooler.
13	* '''Inverted''':
14	** Due to a [[NoodleIncident magical accident]] involving [[NoodleImplements a small squid and a book of elves in bikinis]], Bob has ink for blood and writes with it when dying.
15	** Bob uses pens and pencils for crazy purposes.
16	* '''Subverted''': The "blood" [[ABloodyMess turns out to be ink from Bob's red pen]].
17	* '''Double Subverted''': And the pen is red because it was filled with blood.
18	* '''Parodied''':
19	** Bob's bloody message is something as inconsequential as his shopping list. And there was a pen right next to him.
20	** Bob literally writes "Couldn't find a pen."
21	** Bob's message is written in an unpleasant bodily secretion, like [[NoseNuggets snot]]!
22	* '''Zig Zagged''': The message jumps repeatedly between writing in blood and ink.
23	* '''Averted''': Bob had a pen and used it.
24	* '''Enforced''': "We need to up the shock value of Bob's death."
25	* '''Lampshaded''':
26	** "Yes, I am writing this in blood."
27	** "Blood magic has more uses than killing, you know."
28	* '''Invoked''': Bob is trying to creep out Alice, so he opens a vein and writes bloodily on the wall.
29	* '''Exploited''': Detective Alice uses the blood sample conveniently placed on the wall and finds it isn't Bob's, allowing her to deduce he faked his death.
30	* '''Defied''': Bob is badly wounded, but [[SkewedPriorities he takes the time to find a conventional pen and paper]].
31	* '''Discussed''': "...and on the wall by his corpse, there was a message written in blood."
32	* '''Conversed''': "If more characters carried pens in their shirt pockets, this sort of thing wouldn't happen."
33	* '''Deconstructed''': Bob died of blood loss before he could finish writing the message.
34	* '''Reconstructed''': But it still gets the point across.
35	* '''Played for Laughs''':
36	** Instead of [[BloodierAndGorier blood]] like the majority of the examples, the medium is something LighterAndSofter that seems rather silly.
37	** The failure to use a pen makes the character seem rather inefficient and unprofessional. Like a college student who hands in his graduate thesis, written in crayon. Or a newspaper columnist who hands a column in to her boss, written in eyeliner.
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