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* '''Justified''': Adults are far more prepared to fight off an undead attack than children.

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Adults are far more prepared to fight off an undead attack than children. children.
** In this setting, certain undead beings are RidiculouslyAliveUndead and are therefore able to reproduce.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': On the team of heroes Alice looks like a child but is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and has supernatural powers, so tends to alternate between being a PrecociousChild, WiseBeyondTheirYears, and a PintSizedPowerhouse. She switches between them in the same scene because the jarring contrast shocks newcomers while those who have gotten to know her are just amused.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': On the team of heroes Alice looks like a child but is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and has supernatural powers, so tends to alternate between being a PrecociousChild, AdorablyPrecociousChild, a CreepyChild, WiseBeyondTheirYears, and a PintSizedPowerhouse. She switches between them in the same scene because the jarring contrast shocks newcomers while those who have gotten to know her are just amused.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': On the team of heroes Alice looks like a child but is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and has supernatural powers, so tends to alternate between being a PrecociousChild, WiseBeyondTheirYears, and a PintSizedPowerhouse. She switches between them in the same scene because the jarring contrast shocks newcomers while those who have gotten to know her are just amused.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice [[ChildrenAreInnocent remains as sweet and innocent]] as she looks, and simply does not understand why she often gets so ''[[HorrorHunger hungry]]''.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Drama''':
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Alice [[ChildrenAreInnocent remains as sweet and innocent]] as she looks, and simply does not understand why she often gets so ''[[HorrorHunger hungry]]''. hungry]]''.
** Alice finds that, even disregarding the whole undead vampire aspect, NotGrowingUpSucks for several reasons. It weighs on her adolescent mind.
* '''Played For Horror''': Alice was [[KidsAreCruel a bully and a brat]] before being turned, and now has supernatural powers to get her selfish way and has no real incentive to play nice with other kids or listen to grown-ups.
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** The vampire curse cannot affect children

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** The vampire curse cannot affect childrenchildren.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice the vampire got turned on the cusp of her thirteenth birthday and is forever stuck in her tweens.

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Alice the vampire got turned on the cusp of her thirteenth birthday and is forever stuck in her tweens. tweens.
** Alice the vampire was turned into one at an early age or born as one, and ''can'' age, but she ages slowly.



** The vampire curse cannot effect children

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** The vampire curse cannot effect affect children



* '''Exploited''': Alice [[MuggingTheMonster preys on those who think she'll be an easy victim]].

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Alice [[MuggingTheMonster preys on those who think she'll be an easy victim]].



* '''Defied''': The combined blessings of Persephone and [[DontFearTheReaper Hades]] mean that grabbing a kid is a good way to be instantly turned into a pile of ash as sure as a noon-time hike.

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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
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The combined blessings of Persephone and [[DontFearTheReaper Hades]] mean that grabbing a kid is a good way to be instantly turned into a pile of ash as sure as a noon-time hike.hike.
** Draco refuses to turn children into vampires because he knows they'll be stuck like that forever.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice [[ChildrenAreInnocent remains as sweet and innocent]] as she looks, and simply does not understand why she often gets so ''[[HorrorHunger hungry]]''.
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* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???The combined blessings of Persephone and [[DontFearTheReaper Hades]] mean that grabbing a kid is a good way to be instantly turned into a pile of ash as sure as a noon-time hike.

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* '''ZigZagged''': ???

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* '''ZigZagged''': ???Alice was considered an adult when she was turned but not by modern standards. Compounding things she also suffered from delayed puberty when alive due to malnutrition.


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** Alice's sire Draco keeps young children as minions as vampire hunters are more likely to hesitate.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice the ten-year-old is an immortal child.

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Alice the ten-year-old is an immortal child. child.
** Alice is turned into a vampire when she's a ninety-year-old great-grandmother.
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* '''Parodied''': Vampire Alice is [[HarmlessVillain too harmless]] to be taken seriously by anyone, and she ''hates'' it.

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* '''Parodied''': Vampire Alice is too cute and [[HarmlessVillain too harmless]] to be taken seriously by anyone, and she ''hates'' it.
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* '''Subverted''': Alice the vampire is a shapeshifter who is seen taking on a childish form.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...because it's her ShapeshifterDefaultForm.

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* '''Subverted''': Alice the vampire is a shapeshifter who is first seen taking on in a childish form.
form, but she's not stuck with it.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...though it is her ShapeshifterDefaultForm, because it's her ShapeshifterDefaultForm.she was turned at that age.

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* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Subverted''': ???
Alice the vampire is a shapeshifter who is seen taking on a childish form.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
Subverted''': ...because it's her ShapeshifterDefaultForm.
* '''Parodied''': ???Vampire Alice is [[HarmlessVillain too harmless]] to be taken seriously by anyone, and she ''hates'' it.



* '''Averted''': No undead creatures appear in the story.

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* '''Averted''': No undead creatures appear in '''Averted''':
** The vampire curse cannot effect children
** The vampire virus [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty remains dormant until
the story. carrier grows up]].



* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Alice [[MuggingTheMonster preys on those who think she'll be an easy victim]].
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'''Basic Trope''': A child that happens to be an undead creature (e.g., zombie, mummy, Frankenstein's monster).
* '''Straight''': Alice the vampire got turned when she was ten years old and is frozen at that point of growth.
* '''Exaggerated''': Adults and teenagers cannot become undead, only kids.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice the vampire got turned on the cusp of her thirteenth birthday and is forever stuck in her tweens.
* '''Justified''': Adults are far more prepared to fight off an undead attack than children.
* '''Inverted''': Alice the ten-year-old is an immortal child.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''ZigZagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': No undead creatures appear in the story.
* '''Enforced''': The author hates the ImprobableInfantSurvival trope.
* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Bob''': That's gotta be the sickest thing I've ever seen...a kid vampire.
* '''Invoked''': Dracone the vampire goes out of his way to turn kids.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': Bob the vampire hunter staggers out of the room carrying a stake in one hand and a battered teddy bear in the other.
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