Line #2 PlayingWith/TakingTheVeil


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character (AlwaysFemale) becomes a nun.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** Alice trains and takes vows to become a (Catholic) nun.
4	** Mei becomes a (Buddhist) nun.
5	* '''Exaggerated''': Although ostensibly [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholic]], Alice trains and becomes ordained as a priest, even though in RealLife, the Catholic Church does not ordain women as priests.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Alice goes to the convent as a guest for a time.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Alice feels that she has received TheCall to be a nun.
9	** [[RunawayFiancee Alice is trying to escape an impending]] ArrangedMarriage, or [[DomesticAbuse an abusive marriage]] already in effect.
10	** Alice has been [[RapeAsDrama raped]], and in her society is considered DefiledForever; becoming a nun gives her some dignity back.
11	** Alice is considered [[RebelliousPrincess "troublesome,"]] and her family has her LockedAwayInAMonastery.
12	** In Alice's society, women aren't ordinarily given a real education, which is something she wants.
13	** Alice has been divorced or widowed, and this is seen as more respectable than remarrying in her society, and also gives her some security in a world where there isn't a real retirement plan.
14	** Alice doesn't want to be married off to some guy she neither knows nor loves, and doesn't want to risk DeathByChildbirth (or [[ChildrenAreAWaste isn't interested in having children at all]]), but the only alternative to marriage and being used as a BabyFactory that's open to women in her society is becoming a nun.
15	** Alice is dedicated by her parents as a nun, in order to give thanks to their god(s), or as a form of penance. In other words, it's a less violent/more symbolic version of a VirginSacrifice.
16	* '''Inverted''': Sister [[invoked]]MarySue decides that being a nun isn't all she thought it would be (or she wishes to marry), or is in the midst of a CrisisOfFaith and so decides to leave the convent.
17	* '''Gender Inverted''': Bob becomes a monk or a priest.
18	* '''Subverted''':
19	** Alice becomes not a nun, but a {{Miko}}. She's not InItForLife, she can eventually marry, and she can own property.
20	** Alice is only hiding in the convent in disguise, to escape her DomesticAbuser, or perhaps as a spy.
21	* '''Double Subverted''':
22	** In a setting where NunsAreMikos.
23	** But then decides that she likes it there, and that she'd like to [[BecomingTheMask be a nun for real]].
24	* '''Parodied''':
25	** Alice becomes one of those NaughtyNuns, or is just NunTooHoly.
26	** Alice is becoming an OldMaid, and decides to just quit the dating scene forever by becoming a nun.
27	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
28	* '''Averted''':
29	** Alice does not become a nun.
30	** There are no nuns or monks InUniverse.
31	* '''Enforced''': RuleOfDrama
32	* '''Lampshaded''':
33	** "Dating sucks! Maybe I should just quit while I'm ahead and become a nun!"
34	** "{{God}} has called me to become his servant. It's time for me to join this community that will allow me to live in prayer, meditation and virtue as I would like to."
35	* '''Invoked''':
36	** Alice ponders [[NowWhat what to do with her life]], and considers becoming a nun.
37	** Alice experiences TheCall to be a nun.
38	* '''Exploited''': Alice, a spy, hides out in a convent.
39	* '''Defied''':
40	** Alice decides that she wants to own her own property, and to eventually marry and/or have sex, and so decides that being a nun just isn't for her.
41	** RefusalOfTheCall.
42	** The abbess or Mother Superior denies Alice entry into the convent, or even refuses to take her on as a novice or postulant, because she can see that Alice isn't in it because she ''genuinely'' feels called to be a nun.
43	* '''Discussed''': ???
44	* '''Conversed''': ???
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50	%%* '''Implied''': ???
51	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
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53	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
54	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / TakingTheVeil