Basic Trope: Braces that are inconvenient and/or ugly.
- Straight: Bethy wears blatant braces with a headgear.
- Exaggerated: Bethy's braces look less like actual braces and more like the Reverse Bear Trap from Saw.
- Downplayed: Bethy's braces are obvious, but are not exaggeratedly detailed.
- Justified:
- The setting takes place in a time period where braces like these were more common.
- The braces are part of the reconstructive surgery that Bethy undertook.
- As the old Dutch saying goes "A soft healer makes for stinking wounds" and this doctor isn't about to let Bethy suffer that.
- Inverted: Bethy's braces are actually very cute looking and helps her Endearingly Dorky Bespectacled Cutie look.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Braces are portrayed as normal.
- Nobody has braces.
- Enforced:
- The author had nasty experience when wearing braces and portrays it as such.
- Written-In Infirmity.
- Lampshaded: "Bethy, your braces look terrible."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Bethy quickly sees the design of the braces and turns down the offer to wear them.
- A company is tasked with creating braces with such a design, but rejects the initial version and invests more funding in research so they can create more discreet designs.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why are braces in fiction always so horrible?"
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