Puppy Love/Playing With

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• Basic Trope: Two children characters are in love with each other.
• Played Straight: Alice and Bob are in 3rd grade and fall in love.
• Exaggerated: Alice and Bob are in 3rd grade and are already a Beta Couple, possibly with a Childhood Marriage Promise.
  • Alice and Bob are under twelve months old and in love.
• Justified: Alice and Bob really are in love.
  • Alice and Bob are Free-Range Children who behave more like miniature teenagers or adults.
• Inverted: Alice and Bob are still afraid of cooties.
  • Alice and Bob are adults or teens in love.
  • Alice and Bob are adults or teens who can't stand one another.
  • December-December Romance
• Subverted: Alice has a Precocious Crush on Bob, but he doesn't notice her, and her Girl Posse warns her about cooties.
• Double Subverted: But she gets up the courage to give him a sweet valentine, and finds out he likes her, too.
• Deconstructed: Kids are not usually ready to handle all the emotional ups and downs of relationships.
• Reconstructed: But somehow it works, and Alice and Bob have a strong relationship. They may even get married when they grow up.
• Parodied: Alice and Bob are perpetually holding hands and surrounded by Love Bubbles.
  • Alice and Bob have what appears to be a make-believe wedding, only it's a real (and legally-binding) one.
• Averted: Alice and Bob are just friends, casual acquaintances, or even enemies or rivals. Nothing more, nothing less.
• Lampshaded: "Aww...how sweet! She just gave him a kiss!"
• Enforced: The writers of a show that Tastes Like Diabetes
• Invoked: ???
• Defied: Alice and Bob are too concerned about cooties to even speak to one another, let alone share that Sacred First Kiss. At least in the meantime.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Played For Laughs: Alice's father doesn't happy with the relationship. He use various Over the Top method to break the couple, alway backfire hilariously.
• Played For Drama: Bob is unaware that his brother is Lolicon who has some vile fantasy since he learned that Bob has girlfriend. One day, Alice come to his home while Bob is out, and his brother just invite her in...

--- I probably should still be in my "girls equal cooties" phase, but...you're nice. Let's go back to Puppy Love instead, and maybe put in a Childhood Marriage Promise while we're at it.