Say It with Hearts/Playing With

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Basic Trope: The heart symbol (♥) in a sentence indicates a Squeeish and/or a sing-song tone to the voice ♥

  • Straight: When Alice is excited, her sentence ends with ♥
  • Exaggerated: Alice ♥ liberally ♥ sprinkles ♥ her ♥ sentence ♥ with ♥
  • Downplayed: During a chapter involving ♥kittens♥, some of Alice’s sentence ends with ♥ She doesn’t do that in any other chapter ♥
  • Justified: Alice is a Genki Girl
  • Inverted: When Alice is sad, angry, or frightened –anytime except when she’s excited— her sentence ends with ♥
  • Subverted: Alice’s sentences end with ♥, to indicate the Brown Note aspect of her voice, her being a Humanoid Abomination
  • Double Subverted: Hey, even a Humanoid Abomination can be genuinely excited ♥
  • Parodied: The tall, muscular, husky-voiced Manly Gay Bob ends his sentence with ♥ [1]
  • Zig Zagged: ??? ♥
  • Averted: Even at her happiest, Alice never used a heart symbol.
  • Enforced: ??? ♥
  • Lampshaded: “Stop the ♥ already!”
  • Invoked: Alice liberally sprinkles her sentence with ♥, believing that it will make her cute like in ShoujoManga
  • Exploited: The Alpha Bitch Betty then thrash her in front of everyone ♥

Betty: ‘‘You are a♥fucking♥creep♥’’

  • Defied: Bob rips the ♥ from Alice’s speech bubble and promptly stomps on it. Alice never does it again.
  • Discussed: ??? ♥
  • Conversed: ??? ♥

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  1. If some people find him genuinely cute, those people aren’t in the intended audience.