Basic Trope: A child who holds a sunny disposition on life and sweet demeanor.
- Straight: Six-year-old Alice is a playful little kid who's fascinated over the brightest of sights, incredibly kind-hearted, and Constantly Curious.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice expresses fascination over every little thing, even the most natural of concepts.
- Every character in the work is, or was, like this.
- Alice has a very optimistic outlook until the very second she turns 18, at which point she becomes jaded to reality.
- Downplayed:
- At times, Alice acts sweet and childish, but is otherwise reserved and calm.
- Alice only reacts with curiosity to adult topics.
- Alice is a happy 15-year-old.
- Justified:
- Children's frontal lobes aren't yet fully developed, so expect them to be very playful and optimistic.
- Alice has not had a conventional upbringing to comprehend everyday concepts.
- Inverted:
- Alice experienced a tragedy that granted her a pair of Jade-Colored Glasses earlier than warranted.
- Alice becomes a Genki Girl past her childhood years, at which point she was a cynic.
- Alice, despite being a Six-year-old is cynical, aggressive, cold and serious.
- Subverted:
- Alice is an Enfant Terrible who plays the role of a Deliberately Cute Child.
- Alice is a Creepy Child...
- Double Subverted:
- This was caused by Demonic Possession and the real Alice is sweet.
- She is only "creepy" because (by virtue of her youthful innocence) she is able to experience and perceive the supernatural in a way that adults and teens cannot.
- Parodied: This trope is played by an adult, teen, or more mature child in an attempt to mock their cheerfulness.
- Zig Zagged: Alice's optimism is ambiguous — the narrator certainty thinks she's a Deliberately Cute Child, but he's an Unreliable Narrator and very paranoid, so you can't be sure.
- Averted: Alice is no more blessed than the adult characters.
- Enforced: "The Moral Guardians will hurt us if we don't make Alice cheerful".
- Lampshaded: "Alice is so full of glee and wonder."
- Invoked: Carol ensures that Alice stay cheerful by sheltering her from the world's cynicism.
- Defied:
- Carol exposes Alice to mature topics at an early age so that she won't come off as an inconvenience with her persistent cheerfulness.
- "You expect me to be constantly happy just because i'm Six-years-old? You must be brain-dead because i'm not that type of child!"
- Exploited: Alice deliberately acts sweet in order to manipulate adults.
- Discussed: "Alice is so innocent, we can't let her do that at such a young age."
- Implied: Alice's parents say she's an innocent little girl, but that's never been shown on-screen.
- Deconstructed: Bob knows that Alice is a cynical adult in a child's body, but no one takes him seriously since it looks like he's just picking on an innocent child.
- Reconstructed: Alice is found to be disturbingly antisocial. She's not considered truly responsible because she's a child and she's successfully rehabilitated through therapy.
- Played For Laughs: Alice is naïve to the adult conversations she's trying to get in on.
- Played For Drama: Alice must be an optimistic child in a Crapsack World.
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