Fragile Flower: Difference between revisions

Ah, Alice. She's beautiful, but she always looks really sad. On the inside she's really just one insult away from bursting into tears.

 

 

There may be a few reasons for a fragile flower's behavior. They might just be super sensitive by nature. There might have been something in their past such as emotional abuse from peers that caused them to be this way. Most characters who know the fragile flower are careful not to upset them when talking. Other more [[Jerkass]] characters will most likely try to make them cry, in which case the fragile flower may eventually force themselves to become desensitized towards insults. Most often female, though it can be a male in order to be [[Played for Laughs]].

 

Compare [[The Ingenue]] and [[Shrinking Violet]].

 

* Mikuru in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' takes this to satirical lengths.

* Nazuna in ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''. She has a heck lack of confidence.

{{quote|'''Abe''': And stop sniveling, it looks like I'm bullying you.}}

* Princess Shirahoshi from ''[[One Piece]]'' doesn't just ''look'' like she would burst into tears from something trivial like being awakened from a nap—she actually does. She has an excuse though, having watched her mother die and then forced to spend 10 years locked up in a tower due to death threats in the form of giant flying axes that can home in on her. She gets a little better after making some friends, though.

** Meanwhile, Lua Klein could be considered a subversion. She ''looks'' a lot like this type of character, but is in reality a completely-insane, borderline [[Emotionless Girl|emotionless]] masochist.

* Shuuichi Nitori from ''[[Wandering Son]]''. He used to cry a lot, but has gotten over that. Nowadays he mopes and lets things go to his head.

* Hinako from ''[[Bitter Virgin]]''. [[Parental Incest|With]] [[Teen Pregnancy|good]] [[The Woobie|reason.]]

* Yayoi in ''[[Smile Pretty Cure]]'' is described in the first episode as a crybaby whose tears start flowing with even the smallest nudge. She's also seen crying when she uses her Cure powers during the opening.

 

 

* ''[[The Closer]]'': Despite being a tough [[Action Girl]], our heroine is always one blink away from tearing up.

* Tess in [[The BBC]]'s 2008 adaptation of ''[[Tess of the D'Urbervilles]]'', as played by Gemma Arterton.

* A [[Take Our Word for It]] male example in ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'', when Helen dates a man who cries when she mentions her dead dog; she becomes disillusioned when she realizes he cries at everything. "We went to a Marx Brothers film and he was crying because Harpo couldn't talk."

 

* Mélisande in Maurice Maeterlinck's play ''Pelléas and Mélisande''.

* [[Hamlet]] in Shakespeare's play has been played this way, in a production starring Kevin Kline in the title role. While no one can fault Kline's talent as an actor, both the number of times he bursts into tears during the production and his reputation as a comic actor makes it unintentionally comic (at least to this viewer).

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Neimi of [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones]] is pegged a crybaby right from the start. Being childhood friends with [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Colm]] doesn't help much. {{spoiler|Amusingly subverting in their final support conversation, where he hears he howling and asks why, rattling off a long list of reasons. Neimi tells him she's in a good mood and just had something in her eye this time, much to his consternation.}}

 

* Hanami in ''[[Tasakeru]]'', as part of her general [[Flower Motifs|flower motif]], can be overly sensitive at times.

 

* Amy Wong and Dr. Zoidberg in ''[[Futurama]]'' temporarily turn into Fragile Flowers in a [[Played for Laughs|one-shot joke]]:

{{quote|'''Bender:''' Man, I guess it's harder than I thought to make someone cry.

''(Zoidberg runs away crying)''

'''Bender:''' That is a good idea. I'll go call her. }}

 

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