Basic Trope: A deity character is portrayed as divinely attractive.
- Straight: Alyss is a Love Goddess and, surprising no one, stunningly beautiful.
- Exaggerated:
- Every single god and goddess in the work is blindingly gorgeous or handsome.
- Alyss' appearance changes based on whoever perceives her, and she looks to everyone like the most attractive thing they can imagine.
- Alyss' body is absurdly erotic, with enormous breasts, a gigantic rear, and an hourglass figure that should be physically impossible.
- Alyss' nude body is so searingly beautiful, that it can blind or incinerate people who look directly at her. She has some ability to consciously reduce this power, but witnesses still experience... side effects.
- Alyss walks around in the nude all the time, as she finds clothing to be a silly mortal extravagance. Given her proportions and her divine beauty, this all but guarantees that men who speak to her are virtually incapable of maintaining eye contact with her for any length of time. She somehow maintains good cheer with men and doesn't even seem bothered, while they uncontrollably talk directly to her huge breasts.
- Alyss is the latest in a long line of inheritors of the Love Goddess title, and discovers that not only is the outfit absolutely nothing at all, she's not allowed to cover herself. Understandably, she's not thrilled about this. She dryly reminds other characters that her eyes are up here, she hates it whenever she's summoned by a cleric before a temple of leering priests, and she smites anyone who gets too handsy.
- Downplayed: Alyss is reasonably good-looking.
- Justified:
- Alyss is a Love Goddess, and thus the physical manifestation of desire. So it makes sense.
- As Alyss is a Love Goddess, she draws divine power from how attractive she is, so she's incentivized to look as good as possible at all times.
- Inverted: Alyss is repulsively, unimaginably horrible to look at.
- Gender-Inverted: Bob is the God of Handsomeness, and is a cosmic stud accordingly.
- Subverted:
- Alyss is wrapped in enchanted shawls, so no one can see what she looks like.
- Alyss looks incredibly plain, despite her divinity.
- Double Subverted:
- Alyss removes the shawls when she's alone. Big shock, she's beautiful.
- Alyss is the exception, though. All the other gods and goddesses are incredibly beautiful.
- Parodied: Bob is warned that Alyss is so attractive, that even inanimate things are drawn towards her. She is so attractive, that the forces of the cosmos are literally held together on a molecular level by her ability to attract. Bob takes a deep breath, and enters her chamber. It turns out Alyss is a talking magnet.
- Zig-Zagged: Some gods and goddesses in Alyss' pantheon are searingly beautiful, others aren't. Alyss is a Love Goddess, so that certainly helps.
- Averted: You never get to actually see the gods themselves, in the work.
- Enforced: "We need Fanservice in this world run by the gods. Let's make one of them super hot!"
- Lampshaded: "You ever notice how all the sculptures of Alyss are crazy beautiful? I mean, I'm not complaining. Beats the alternative."
- Invoked: The Maker of the pantheon realizes devotees only listen to deities that are hot. To give Alyss a boost, he transforms her into becoming stunningly beautiful.
- Exploited:
- Alyss finds it achingly simple to get things she wants from gods. Other goddesses can be trickier.
- In a divinely literal case of I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!, Alyss can overcome the free will of mortals by exposing her breasts. The onlooker is so consumed with lust, that they have no choice but to follow her next command. She doesn't really like doing it, as it's a form of Mind Control, but she can't deny its utility when she needs a nonviolent way to make mortals stand down. Or get free jewelry at the bazaar. Or convince masons to repair her temples. Or...
- Other gods appear in the dreams of mortals that they want as avatars, and attempt to recruit them with promises of wealth, or glory, or valor. Alyss appears in the dreams of her chosen mortals, and recruits them with... her winsome personality.
- Defied: Someone asks Alyss if she's the Love Goddess, why doesn't she make herself look more attractive. Alyss explains that it's not worth the constant magic drain.
- Discussed: "Let us summon Alyss, so that we may gaze upon her. We like the gazing."
- Conversed: "So Alyss is this cosmically hot goddess, now." "In her own way, she already was."
- Implied: Alyss is never shown in the work, but we meet clerics and oracles who have seen her. They mention that she has big, bountiful... blessings.
- Deconstructed:
- People flock to the worship of Alyss, solely based on her beauty.
- The other gods don't respect Alyss much, as they think of her as a Brainless Beauty.
- Reconstructed:
- Alyss only blesses the prayers of those who are virtuous.
- Alyss outmaneuvers the other gods' machinations despite their condescension, with a great deal of planning, forethought, and yeah, okay, sometimes her "blessings" don't hurt.
- Played for Laughs:
- Alyss can only do so much to help the heroes from afar, but if they ask nicely, she might appear to them momentarily in the mortal realm to show them her blessings, wrap them in her warmth, or help them transcend temporarily to a higher plane. She is nothing if not a gracious goddess.
- It becomes clear that the heroes cannot succeed in their quest without the blessings of the other gods in the pantheon, besides Alyss. They ask Alyss what could they do to gain the gods' support, and Alyss tells them that she will persuade the gods, with a knowing wink. When the gods pledge their support to the heroes the next day, the heroes ask Alyss what she did.
Alyss: Why, I stayed up all night, persuading them with my most persuasive positions. ... All at once. ... Without a break. ... In the Celestial Fountain. ... I think I need a nap.- Clerics who worship Alyss know a bizarre array of spells, such as "Mammicus Giganticus," "Glutteus Shakeus," and "Garmentus Unbindus." Female party members point out their lack of healing or protective spells, but male party members never see any problem with it, for some reason.
- Played for Drama:
- The existence of love in the world is predicated on Alyss being hot. After being struck by a foul curse, Alyss' beauty begins to fade, and the heroes need to find a way to stop it before all love is extinguished.
Return to the altar of the Hot God, and gaze upon their, er, blessings.
