Sugar and Ice Personality/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character is cold and distant sometimes and warm and friendly at other times.
 * Straight: Annie is cold and aloof towards people when she first meets them, but as they get to know her, she warms up and become more friendly with them.
 * Exaggerated: Annie is absolutely icy towards people she meets but becomes way too attached to them when they get to know her.
 * Downplayed: Annie is cool, but friendly towards people she meets, and as she gets to know them, she warms up a bit.
 * Justified: Annie is suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.
 * Alternately, Annie had a painful past, and while trying to hide it, she overcompensates.
 * Inverted: Annie is very friendly towards people she meets, but when they get to know her, she becomes very cold.
 * Subverted: Annie seems to be warming up to Jason, but then she goes back to being an Ice Queen, saying she only needed him to get to the MacGuffin.
 * Double Subverted: ...Then she admits she was joking and goes back to being warm and friendly.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Deconstructed: Annie's icy exterior pushes people away and leaves her utterly friendless.
 * Reconstructed: Because she repels people with her cold exterior, her friends are all accepting sorts, and actually the kind of person she'd like to be friends with.
 * Zig Zagged:For some people, Annie is warm right off the bat, while others have to get her to warm up to them, and yet others only ever see the icy side.
 * Averted: Annie either is an out and out Ice Queen or always friendly and nice.
 * Enforced: "People aren't really connecting to Annie. Let's have her demonstrate that she isn't just an ice queen and she actually does have a warm side.
 * Lampshaded: "Well, of course the ice queen would have a heart of gold."
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: Drew, knowing about Annie's warm side, purposefully gets close to her, so he might have a chance of becoming her Love Interest.
 * Defied: Annie chooses never to let her warm side show.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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