1 | '''Basic Trope''': Children whose parent(s) love them, but are too busy to spend time with them. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice, a LonelyRichKid, has parents who are continuously trying to spend time with her, but are too busy to do so. This disappoints Alice. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice's parents are so busy, that Alice doubts that they even love her. They forgot her birthday, didn't come to the science fair, and don't even speak to her at home... |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice's parents are busy, but still find some (little) time to spend once in a while. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Alice's parents are busy, and don't understand that Alice needs more than money to be happy. |
7 | ** Or, Alice's parents are poor and constantly work so they can scrape together enough money to feed, clothe and educate her. |
8 | ** Her parents are {{Workaholic}}s and their behavior borderlines on ParentalNeglect, so Alice's concerns are pretty much real. |
9 | ** Dad is at the front lines, keeping emperor Evulz at bay and, by extension, keeping not just Alice, but all her school friends safe.[[note]]not that Alice, as young as she is, can understand that.[[/note]] |
10 | * '''Inverted''': |
11 | ** Alice's parents continuously try to spend time with her, but Alice is too busy hanging out with her friends and boyfriend. |
12 | ** Or, Alice's parents ''hate'' her, but they hang out so much together to a ridiculous extent, that people think that they're a happy family. |
13 | ** Alice's parents prioritize her over practically everything else - including work. Alice expresses concern with this. |
14 | * '''Subverted''': Turns out her parents realized their mistakes and starts cutting off their work for awhile. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': Unfortunately, a more important and urgent job comes in - and they had to leave. |
16 | * '''Parodied''': Alice's parents are so busy, they didn't know where Alice is 80% of the time; and they also didn't know that Alice had run away months ago to her friend's house - and her parents thought Lisa, the girl next door was their daughter. |
17 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice spends a lot of time with her parents on some occasion, sometimes they hardly see Alice at all. |
18 | * '''Averted''': Alice's parents, although busy, spends a healthy time with Alice. |
19 | * '''Enforced''': The creators wanted a tragic back story for Alice, who is a rich girl. |
20 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Why are you two never around for me when I need it?!" |
21 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
22 | * '''Exploited''': |
23 | ** Alice realizes that her parents are too occupied with work to notice her, so she started doing things... that she shouldn't be doing. |
24 | ** On the other hand, it makes WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld a little easier to keep secret, whether it's Alice herself doing the world-saving or helping her friend Bob as a SecretKeeper. |
25 | * '''Defied''': Alice tries to make her parents be there for her, or vice-versa. |
26 | * '''Discussed''': "Back then, my parents were always talking with their phones to even look at me..." |
27 | * '''Conversed''': "Alice's parents are so busy, huh? When will they ever learn?" |
28 | * '''Deconstructed''': Alice's life began to spiral out of control, and she began to use drugs and skip school. After recovering, she soon became a workaholic herself, repeating the cycle. Her parents, now old and retired, regrets never being there for her - who now has nearly no time for ''them''. |
29 | ** Alice confronts her parents over their workaholic tendencies and they rather bitterly point out that working eighty hours a week and hardly spending time with their daughter wasn't exactly how they imagined living life either. |
30 | * '''Reconstructed''': Alice vows to never be like her parents; and she did become a good parent later on. |
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32 | Back to WhenYouComingHomeDad, and you better hang around for a while. |
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34 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
35 | %% |
36 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
37 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
38 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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