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* RobotClown: As Eleanor is some form of Circus Baby.
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* BodyHorror: Sarah's entire body is [[SculptedPhysique replaced with scrapyard garbage]] over the course of a few nights [[ParanoiaFuel without her knowledge]], leading to her ''falling apart'' into a pile of metal when she loses the necklace Eleanor gave her.]]

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* BodyHorror: Sarah's entire body is [[SculptedPhysique replaced with scrapyard garbage]] over the course of a few nights [[ParanoiaFuel without her knowledge]], leading to her ''falling apart'' into a pile of metal when she loses the necklace Eleanor gave her.]]
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* IconicItem: Eleanor's necklace, which she apparently uses on all her victims.
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* KillAndReplace: Eleanor steals Sarah's looks. The original story implies that something about ripping her party part is what enabled her to do this (as she tells Sarah that she made Eleanor's dreams come true), though later epilogues would [[spoiler:establish that Eleanor can simply shift into whoever she wants]].

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* KillAndReplace: Eleanor steals Sarah's looks. The original story implies that something about ripping her party part body apart is what enabled her to do this (as she tells Sarah that she made Eleanor's dreams come true), though later epilogues would [[spoiler:establish that Eleanor can simply shift into whoever she wants]].
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* TeensLoveShopping: The Beautifuls' favorite activity, which they drag Sarah along to.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep, my sweet Sarah...''']]

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[[Recap/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrightsIntoThePit Into the Pit]] | '''To Be Beautiful''' | [[Recap/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrightsCountTheWays Count the Ways]]-]]]]]

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* LadyInRed: Eleanor, in Circus Baby's classic red tank and skirt. (Though the graphic novel [[AdaptationalAppearanceChange has her in lighter colors]].)

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The second short story of the ''Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights'' series. Eleanor would later return in Recap/FazbearFrightsTheStitchwraithStingers, and the story would be adapted into the Graphic Novel collection in 2022.

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The second short story of the ''Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights'' series. Eleanor would later return in Recap/FazbearFrightsTheStitchwraithStingers, [[Recap/FazbearFrightsTheStitchwraithStingers the Stitchwraith Stingers]], and the story would be adapted into the Graphic Novel collection in 2022.
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[[Recap/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrightsIntoThePit Into the Pit]] | '''To Be Beautiful''' | [[Recap/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrightsCountTheWays Count the Ways]]-]]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep, my sweet Sarah...''']]

-> "I made your wish come true, Sarah. And in return... well, you certainly made ''my'' wishes come true."

Insecure and anxious, teenage Sarah desperately wants to be noticed and loved in her cliquey high school. Obsessed with improving her appearance, she neglects herself and her best friend, Abby, who just wants her to be happy, and instead idolizes the popular girls at school, who she calls the Beautifuls. After [[MyHairCameOutGreen a failed attempt to bleach her hair]], Sarah encounters an abandoned animatronic doll on the walk home from school. Bringing her home and fixing her up, she turns on and identifies itself as Eleanor. Claiming to just be grateful for the repair, Eleanor says that she'll grant Sarah's wish, so long as Sarah wears a very special necklace and never, ever takes it off. Every day, Sarah wakes up a little more conventionally attractive. She's overjoyed with her new life, not questioning ''how'', exactly, Eleanor is doing this to her, and what the doll's true motives are...

The second short story of the ''Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights'' series. Eleanor would later return in Recap/FazbearFrightsTheStitchwraithStingers, and the story would be adapted into the Graphic Novel collection in 2022.

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!!Tropes related to “To Be Beautiful”:
* ACupAngst: Sarah starts the story bemoaning her lack of "curves." One of the changes Eleanor makes at night is giving her larger breasts, which gives her attention from the boys at school.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Abby is considered childish at school for still being into "cartoons and horses."
* AlphaBitch: Lydia.
* AmbiguousRobots: Eleanor sure seems to be a robot when Sarah is dragging her around and fixing her up. The epilogues later imply that she's some sort of Agony-monster.
* AndIMustScream: Sarah ends the story reduced to a pile of scrap metal, unable to feel or presumably even think.
* AppearanceAngst: Sarah hates every part of her body: her hair, her nose, and her weight are the main things she brings up, but she also says she dreams about having surgery to fix her smile.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Well, less "be careful what you wish for" and more "be a bit more suspicious of who says they'll grant your wish."
* BodyHorror: Sarah's entire body is [[SculptedPhysique replaced with scrapyard garbage]] over the course of a few nights [[ParanoiaFuel without her knowledge]], leading to her ''falling apart'' into a pile of metal when she loses the necklace Eleanor gave her.]]
* TheCassandra: Abby, who is [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] and keeps telling Sarah that she looks fine the way she is, and that striving for popularity isn't going to end well.
* DisappearedDad: Sarah's father [[ParentalAbandonment left the family]] some time before the events of the story, only keeping in touch via holiday postcards and the like.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Eleanor is supposedly just the MonsterOfTheWeek for this short, until she starts popping up more in the Epilogues, and it becomes clear she's had a hand in a lot more stories than just this one.
* DownerEnding: Sarah falls for Eleanor's manipulations hook, line, and sinker, and ultimately collapses into a lifeless pile of scrap metal after finding out that she wasn't ugly at all. [[KarmaHoudini Eleanor, meanwhile, gets away scot-free after taking Sarah's identity.]]
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Sarah thinks that she would be more beautiful and attractive should she go blonde like Lydia. Early in the story, she saves up her money for bleach and dye, only to fail to read the instructions and end up with green hair that her mother has to pay to be cut and re-dyed.
* EvilRedhead: Eleanor, as well as BetaBitch Jillian, who's supposedly a FieryRedhead.
* {{Expy}}: Sarah continuously compares herself to "Mrs. Mix-and-Match," a parody of Mrs. Potato Head.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Sarah drags the broken Eleanor out of a car in a junkyard and spends an afternoon fixing her up. To repay her, Eleanor pretends to be her "fairy godmother," while secretly ripping apart her body for her own uses.
* ForcedTransformation: When Sarah's necklace falls off and she is unable to put it back on, she can't stop herself from turning into a pile of metal parts.
* AFriendInNeed: When Sarah begins turning into metal, Abby's the only one who even tries to help her.
* TheGhost: Sarah apparently has a brother who's off at college.
* GirlPosse: The "Beautifuls," as Sarah calls them: led by Lydia, along with Jillian, Tabitha and Emma. They later invite Sarah to join them once they think she's pretty and rich.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Sarah has a plush [[ContinuityCameo Freddy Fazbear]] which she hugs in excitement as she tells Eleanor about her date.
* {{Glamour}}: Eleanor's medallion creates an illusion for the wearer and everyone around them, leading Sarah to believe that she was changing into her ideal self while in reality, Eleanor was ripping her apart. Eleanor later uses a similar pendant-button to disguise herself as the real Sarah.
* GrandTheftMe: Eleanor steals Sarah's original appearance after leaving her for dead in her garage.
* HappinessRealizedTooLate: Sarah's just starting to get her confidence back when the necklace falls off. Then, when Eleanor takes Sarah's form, she realizes that she was never that ugly at all.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: Sarah’s motivation. Says it all in the title of the story! She ends up getting what she wanted, but at a terrible price...
* IronicNurseryTune: To put Sarah into a deep enough sleep to slice her up, Eleanor sings her a lullaby, ending with the promise that "all your dreams will come true."
* JackassGenie: Sarah wishes to be beautiful. So Eleanor cuts off her limbs and replaces them with fake ones.
* KillAndReplace: Eleanor steals Sarah's looks. The original story implies that something about ripping her party part is what enabled her to do this (as she tells Sarah that she made Eleanor's dreams come true), though later epilogues would [[spoiler:establish that Eleanor can simply shift into whoever she wants]].
* LadyInRed: Eleanor, in Circus Baby's classic red tank and skirt. (Though the graphic novel [[AdaptationalAppearanceChange has her in lighter colors]].)
* LyingByOmission: Sarah's outfit ''was'' from New York. She got it at a thrift store, but it was originally from New York.
* MakeupIsEvil: It's implied that Sarah's mom doesn't want her wearing makeup at all, as Sarah only got permission to put a little bit on at her last birthday.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Was the necklace that Eleanor gave Sarah actually supernatural, or was it some form of [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheTwistedOnes illusion disc]]?
* MockMillionaire: Sarah pretends that her family is rich in order to fit in with the Beautifuls.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Eleanor.
* MyHairCameOutGreen: Played completely straight, as Sarah's failed attempt to make herself blonde turns her hair a sick green.
* MysteriousPast: Even including the Epilogues' lore, how exactly did Eleanor end up in that junkyard? We'll never know!
* NerdGlasses: on Abby.
* NoFullNameGiven: Most of the characters in this short don't get surnames.
* {{Objectshifting}}: Sarah collapses into a pile of scrap metal when she loses her heart pendant in "To Be Beautiful."
* OnlyFriend: Abby and Sarah to each other, since they were little kids.
* PopularIsEvil: All of the Beautifuls are vain and materialistic, and mock people of lower income with no mercy.
* PutOnABus: As Sarah dies, Eleanor skips off in her body to do who-knows-what. The epilogues later tell us what she was up to following this.
* RichBitch: All of the Beautifuls, in contrast to [[WorkingClassHero struggling Sarah]].
* RobotClown: As Eleanor is some form of Circus Baby.
* RobotGirl: Probably the franchise's closest use of this trope yet: the scrapped illustration shows that, unlike the cartoonish Circus Baby and the more-blatantly-robotic Ballora, Eleanor's proportions are much closer to a real human being (the main exception being her grotesquely extended metal neck).
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Eleanor.
* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: Sarah has a crush on the most popular guy in school, Mason Blair. He doesn't give her the time of day until she begins to look different.
* SmallTownBoredom: Lydia encourages Sarah to agree with her that their town is incredibly boring.
* StereotypicalNerd: Abby is a glasses-wearing, science-loving geek who loves cartoons and doesn't care about her appearance.
* TransformationHorror: Sarah's transformation into a pile of parts is described slowly and painfully, describing to the reader how horrifying the experience would be, right before Sarah finds her own body parts cut up in a closet.
* TraumaticHaircut: After a failed dye-job, Sarah's hair has to be re-dyed and cut to prevent her from going to school with green hair. This just makes her more depressed.
* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Abby starkly tries to remind Sarah that while the Beautifuls are popular, they're shallow and cruel, while Abby is a nice person who genuinely likes herself and treasures her friendship with Sarah. Sarah doesn't listen until it's too late.
* UnnamedParent: Sarah's Mother is only referred to as "Sarah's Mom."
* UnwillingRoboticisation: As well as ''unknowing,'' as Sarah is turned into scrap metal in her sleep.
* UselessBystanderParent: Sarah's mother does nothing to stop her daughter's budging eating disorder and rampant self-image issues, only blandly suggesting she eat more and moving on when Sarah blows her off. She doesn't try to talk to Sarah about why she tried to dye her hair, either, only saying she should have just let Sarah go to school with her failed makeover. After Sarah starts becoming prettier, she fails to notice the sudden changes as anything more than her daughter aging. She tries to imply to Sarah that she doesn't like her new friends and prefers Abby, but still lets her daughter go out with them.
* WeightWoe: Sarah starts the story convinced she's overweight, refusing to eat anything but basic salad in hopes of losing a few pounds. Her ideal beautiful body is skinnier.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sarah's new boyfriend doesn't appear at the end of the story, leaving it unknown how he would have reacted to seeing his new girlfriend turn into metal, or if he was actually interested in her or just liked her for her new appearance.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Disguising herself as a harmless animatronic doll, Eleanor is secretly a killer robot who [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation knows how to pretend]].
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