Living Forever Is Awesome/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A person is made immortal... and really enjoys it.

  • Straight: Rachel is made immortal, and considers it the best thing that ever happened to her.
  • Exaggerated: Rachel throws a never-ending party specifically to show off how awesome she thinks being immortal is.
  • Justified: Rachel is an optimistic person... and why shouldn't she be? She's got literally the entire future and all the unknown wonders and adventures it contains ahead of her to look forward to. There's no Age Without Youth, and there is a community of similarly happy immortal people who won't die on you.
  • Inverted: Who Wants to Live Forever?.
  • Subverted: Rachel enjoys her immortality initially. But after a few centuries, boredom begins to kick in. Eventually, she's angsting continuously about Who Wants to Live Forever?.
  • Double Subverted: After a few more centuries, she's bored of angsting and finds something less depressing and more fulfilling to do. She really is just that cheerful about it.
  • Parodied: Rachel is her universe's Butt Monkey du jour. In the face of countless indignities which never can never kill her, she continues to be endlessly happy and optimistic.
    • Rachel is a Genki Girl thrill seeker who regularly does incredibly stupid and dangerous stunts just because she can.
  • Deconstructed: Rachel's good cheer is in fact a Stepford Smiler cover she uses to keep her sane; otherwise, the horror of living forever would drive her mad as she witnesses the death of all her loved ones, and is left lonely despite the the number of people she meets.
    • Rachel's attitude quickly changed once the downsides start kicking in. She eventually becomes confused and depressed when she finally realizes the mistake she has made.
  • Reconstructed: Rachel's immortality brings dark patches, but on the whole she still manages to roll with the punches and for the most part enjoy her life.
    • Time heals all wounds, and Rachel has all the time in the world. over the years, she learns how to deal with the downsides, and the immortality blues become just a part of the learning curve.
  • Zig Zagged: Rachel rapidly swings between living up her immortality and endless Wangsting about how much it sucks.
  • Averted: Rachel treats living forever like she treats living normally: a span of time that has to be given purpose and meaning, not good or bad in and of itself.
  • Enforced: The writer finds wangsty immortals to be boring and hackneyed; "Really, in centuries of history they wouldn't find anything worth living for?"
  • Lampshaded: "Wow, Rachel, being made immortal certainly perked you up."
  • Invoked: Rachel is deliberately chosen to be made immortal because the being that grants this boon knows that her innate sense of optimism and good cheer would enable her to cope with it easier than someone else.
  • Defied: Rachel fears becoming a giggling immortal with no concept of life, death, or time, so she purposely experiences everything life throws at her, good and bad, without flinching.
  • Discussed: "Immortality really is the best anti-depressant imaginable."
  • Conversed: "I don't like to think what she'll be like after she sees her great grand children die. Not because it'll make her sad or callous, but because she'll be happy again in no time at all."
    • "But that doesn't mean she doesn't still cherish their memories, just that she's eventually able to move on like any of us -- what's she supposed to do, spent eternity wallowing in angst over the memories over people who died hundreds or thousands of years beforehand? Would they want her to live like that?"

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