Painting the Medium/Playing With

Basic Trope: Using metafictional devices in unconventional ways to convey specific details.
 * Straight: The mischievous demon Itzazti always talks in red text.
 * Exaggerated: Everyone has his own text color.
 * Downplayed: Itzazti speaks in italics.
 * Justified: Itzazti's voice is particularly distinctive, and red text is the best way of representing that.
 * Inverted: Everyone talks in red text, while Itzazti only speaks in the 'normal' color.
 * Subverted: In one scene, Itzazti speaks up... and his text is the same color as anybody else's.
 * Double Subverted: ...because Itzazti wasn't the one who spoke; someone else had just cut in. When Itzazti objects to being interrupted, his text is as red as always.
 * Parodied: Leslie notices Itzazti always uses non-standard font and wonders why.
 * Or, he suddenly notices that he stopped using it for a while.
 * Deconstructed: Itzazti disguises himself and attempts to infiltrate the hero's party, but the Medium Aware Leslie notices his brightly colored text and the jig is up almost instantly.
 * Reconstructed: Itzazti tries again later. This time, his text is a significantly darker shade of red (he's making a greater effort to disguise his voice), and although it still has a visible tint of red, Leslie doesn't notice a thing.
 * Zig Zagged: Depending on author's mood, Itzazti may or may not have the colorful dialog.
 * Averted: Everyone's text has the same color and font when speaking.
 * Enforced: "We need to make sure the viewers know Itzazi's a demon! Let's make him talk in red!"
 * Lampshaded: "And what the hell is with my voice? This bright red text makes me stick out like a sore thumb!"
 * Invoked: Itzazi decided he wanted to speak in red text.
 * Defied: Itzazi originally spoke in Red, but then he didn't like that, so then he spoke like everyone else.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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