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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48 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
49 | %% |
50 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
51 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
52 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
53 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
54 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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