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Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
8th Sep, 2019 02:05:00 PM
Children Are Innocent covers the "children are incredibly trusting, often oblivious to the potential dangers around them, and have an incomplete Theory of Mind
"note portion.
Innocent Inaccurate is closely related, when said innocence causes them to horribly misinterpret people and situations.
Edited by Scorpion451
4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
8th Sep, 2019 03:14:20 PM
^ What does separate innocence from Lack of Empathy, then? :O
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Hyoroemon
Since: Aug, 2013
13th Jul, 2020 06:24:42 PM
@ 4tell0life4: being redundant
WarJay77
(Troper Knight)
13th Jul, 2020 06:27:16 PM
Man this is...months old...
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
A figure of innocence, most often a child or a naive teenager is able to see or hear a paranormal entity. Whenever an adult (usually the protagonist) asks them what it is that they perceive, the child answers vaguely, and refers to "them" or "they". Even if the adult stresses the importance of the situation, the child never gets to the details and in some way "assumes" that the adult knows what they're talking about.
I've gotten quite close with tropes like "The creepy child", "Nightmare Fuel color book" and "Invisible to adults" and "I see dead people", but I feel like it differs in the sense that the child never recognizes the urgency the adult expresses, and is instead vague and aloof to the gravity of the situation. Also, the child is weirdly calm in the light of horrible things happening around him/her.
"Don't you see, Mommy? they're trying to help us!"