Shy Blue-Haired Girl/Playing With

Basic Trope: A girl who has blue hair, is shy and demure.
 * Played Straight: Alice, a Shrinking Violet has blue hair.
 * Exaggerated: Alice has ultramarine hair and she is so shy that she is socially dysfunctinal.
 * Justified: Alice has Social Anxiety Disorder or other syndrome causing social withdrawal.
 * Alice hates her hair color and, because of it, doesn't want to show herself.
 * Alice is a Broken Bird.
 * Inverted: Alice has blue hair and has a cheery, outgoing personality.
 * Subverted: Alice has blue hair and is normally very demure. However, when the situation gets rough, she morphs into a badass, foul-mouthed Action Girl.
 * Double Subverted: As she adopts her new, badass, foul-mouthed persona, her hair turns red.
 * Parodied: Alice gets her hair dyed blue and immediately becomes withdrawn afterwards.
 * Deconstructed: Everyone Alice dates assumes that she is this, because of her hair colour. In frustration, Alice dyes her hair red, in order to get people to take her seriously.
 * Reconstructed: Alice dyes her hair red to escape the stereotypying, but finds that the social expectation has gotten to her, and she does indeed still have social anxiety left, no matter what colour she dyes her hair to.
 * Zig Zagged: Alice is blue-haired, but she gets frequent mood swings. She's quiet and shy one moment, and boisterous and loud the next.
 * Averted: Alice hasn't got blue hair or she isn't shy. Or both.
 * Shyness is not dependent on hair's color.
 * Enforced: "We have to make sure the audience knows this character is shy from the get-go. The only way to do that is to make her blue-haired."
 * Lampshaded: "No wonder you have blue hair! You're so shy and quiet!"
 * Invoked: Alice dyes her hair blue in her attempt to become a Yamato Nadeshiko.
 * Exploited:???
 * Conversed: "Gee, it's like hair colour is an index of personality in this show. All the blue-haired girls are shy and withdrawn!"

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