Basic Trope: Someone who treats an object (often a baby doll) as if it were their actual baby.
- Straight: Alice often carries around a doll and pretends that it is her own child.
- Exaggerated: Alice has a whole bunch of objects that she pretends are her children.
- Downplayed: Alice's doll is mostly a generic Companion Cube, but on occasion she treats it like it were her child.
- Justified:
- Alice is undergoing Sanity Slippage of some sort.
- Alice's children died and she's trying to cope with the loss.
- Alice had a miscarriage/stillbirth/etc
- Alice's children have grown up and she's suffering from Empty Nest Syndrome.
- Alice is practicing for actually becoming a parent.
- Inverted: Alice treats her own baby as if it were an object.
- Subverted: People believe that Alice carries around a doll for this reason, but in reality, it's actually one of her favorite toys from when she was younger that she just likes to have with her.
- Double Subverted: The reason she has it around with her is because she's planning on having children soon, and is practicing with it.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Whether or not Alice treats her doll like it is her child depends on the episode.
- Averted: Nobody treats an object like their child.
- Enforced: "Alice doesn't have any young kids, but we should give her a substitute. How about a doll that she treats as her child?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice is frequently seen carrying around a doll, but it's not entirely clear as to why.
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