Shotacon/Playing With

Basic Trope: An adult (usually but not always a woman) in a relationship with an underage boy.
 * Played Straight: Bob is 10 years old and in a relationship with Alice, who is 20.
 * Exaggerated: Bob is 8 years old and Alice is a Christmas Cake.
 * Up to Eleven: Bob is 2 and Alice is Really Seven Hundred Years Old.
 * Bob is a toddler and Alice is a Cool Old Lady.
 * Bob was just Born as an Adult and Alice is over 9000 years old.
 * Downplayed: Bob is 12 years old coming to 13 and Alice is 15 years old.
 * Justified: Bob is the resident Kidanova, and just happens to have a thing for older women.
 * Or, it's really a Precocious Crush he has on his teacher.
 * Inverted: Precocious Crush
 * Gender Inverted: Lolicon
 * Subverted: Bob is Older Than He Looks
 * Bob is actually aging backwards and so grows younger with age, while Alice ages normally.
 * Double Subverted: ...Because Bob was moved ahead several grades and Alice is older than she looks.
 * Parodied: Alice carries Bob down the isle because he is barely old enough to walk.
 * or: Alice is only one year older than Bob, but everyone still calls her a Shotacon.
 * Deconstructed: First of all, it would be considered illegal in today's day and age, and secondly, the emotional and mental maturity required to be in a relationship is perhaps too much for a young, un(der)developed boy, and not to mention the possibility that Alice could be manipulating him...
 * Reconstructed: Bob is Wise Beyond His Years, and the two of them don't care about societal customs.
 * Averted: Bob only dates women or girls who are his age or around his age.
 * Bob is Asexuality and more importantly, a-romantic.
 * Zig-Zagged: Bob dates girls in a variety of different ages.
 * Lampshaded: "Seriously, Bob? She's old enough to be your mom!"
 * Enforced: The work in question has this setup as part of Author Appeal, hence why there would be a Token Shota on the team.
 * Defied: Alice acknowledges that Bob is attractive, but holds off from making a move on him until he is of reasonable age.
 * Discussed: "Isn't Bob a little young to be even interested in girls? Let alone older women?"
 * Conversed: "Isn't Alice a little old to be even considering Bob? He's hardly into puberty for Pete sakes!"
 * Played for Laughs: Bob's reputation as someone who Likes Older Women is something of a Running Gag, and he's made advances on everyone from his teacher to the female lead protagonist.
 * Or, Alice's attraction to younger boys has lead her to receive the nickname "Shota-gal!"
 * Played for Drama: Alice is really The Vamp playing on Bob's lack of maturity/experience in dating girls, and all she really wants is to use him.
 * Alternatively: Alice genuinely loves Bob, but Bob is too immature to handle (or even care about) a relationship, and has no idea why this "nice lady" is behaving this way.

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