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.
- Alice the vampire was turned into one at an early age or born as one, and can age, but she ages slowly.
- Justified:
- Adults are far more prepared to fight off an undead attack than children.
- In this setting, certain undead beings are Ridiculously Alive Undead and are therefore able to reproduce.
- Inverted:
- Alice the ten-year-old is an immortal child.
- Alice is turned into a vampire when she's a ninety-year-old great-grandmother.
- Subverted: Alice the vampire is a shapeshifter who is first seen in a childish form, but she's not stuck with it.
- Double Subverted: ...though it is her Shapeshifter Default Form, because she was turned at that age.
- Parodied: Vampire Alice is too cute and harmless to be taken seriously by anyone, and she hates it.
- Zig-Zagged: 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.
- Averted:
- The vampire curse cannot affect children.
- The vampire virus remains dormant until the carrier grows up.
- Enforced: The author hates the Improbable Infant Survival 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:
- Alice preys on those who think she'll be an easy victim.
- Alice's sire Draco keeps young children as minions as vampire hunters are more likely to hesitate.
- Defied:
- The combined blessings of Persephone and 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.
- Draco refuses to turn children into vampires because he knows they'll be stuck like that forever.
- 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.
- Played For Laughs: On the team of heroes Alice looks like a child but is Really 700 Years Old and has supernatural powers, so tends to alternate between being a Adorably Precocious Child, a Creepy Child, Wise Beyond Their Years, and a Pint-Sized Powerhouse. 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.
- Played For Drama:
- Alice remains as sweet and innocent as she looks, and simply does not understand why she often gets so hungry.
- Alice finds that, even disregarding the whole undead vampire aspect, Not Growing Up Sucks for several reasons. It weighs on her adolescent mind.
- Played For Horror: Alice was 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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