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Since: May, 2014
4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
25th Feb, 2019 02:25:08 PM
Regular Replacement Love Interest
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Do we have this one?
Other than Nice Guy, I Want My Beloved to Be Happy and (possibly) Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest, what other tropes fit this situation:
Bob has been friends with Alice (a Nice Girl Girly Girl who is the person he Has a Type for) for a long time and likes her, when he tells her he wants to date her, she doesn't return his feelings. Instead of becoming a Stalker with a Crush or Dogged Nice Guy, Bob dates Rebecca, an Identical Stranger to Alice with very similar personality traits and behaviors to Alice. Rebecca is similar, but not quite a carbon copy of Alice.
Are there any tropes for the Identical Stranger and being a carbon-copy of Alice?
As for out-of-universe tropes, Rebecca was originally intended to be in the role that Alice is now in, and she's substantially similar enough as a character. Since she's not replacing Alice in the work, it's not Suspiciously Similar Substitute, but is there another trope?
Edited by Merseyuser1