Line #4 PlayingWith/TheBeautifulElite


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2	'''Basic Trope''': The characters are part of an exclusive circle of rich, beautiful, and sophisticated people.
3	* '''Straight''': Trevelyan Academy is a private boarding school full of rich and glamorous students. Head Girl Rosamond is an eighteen-year-old diplomat's daughter and amateur model who likes holding lavish parties for her friends on the weekends.
4	* '''Exaggerated''': ???
5	* '''Downplayed''': Trevelyan Academy is a public school that lets in anyone, but it's in a pretty middle-class area and has a lot of well-off students consequently. Most of the characters are conventionally pretty, but are insecure about their braces, pimples, or glasses.
6	* '''Justified''':
7	** Rich people have more money to spend on things like makeup, skin care, hairdressing, clothes, and plastic surgery. Therefore, the students at Trevelyan Academy have no problem keeping stylish.
8	** As the students already have rich parents, they don't need to worry about planning for their future, studying, or getting a part-time job. Being able to keep stress down and take life easy imbues them with an inner glow.
9	** The rich and powerful get to set the standards for what is considered beautiful; however they look is automatically glamourized by society.
10	** Trevelyan Academy is specifically a school for aspiring models.
11	* '''Inverted''': [[SuckySchool Trevelyan Academy's rival school Cromwell High is an underfunded school in a rough area. Most of the students have poor parents who can't afford to buy them any of the latest fashions.]] The Head Boy [[BarbaricBully Flash]] [[BrooklynRage Young]] is a thirteen-year-old businesswoman's younger brother (both their parents are dead) and often uses a SecretIdentity as [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Eugene]] [[SharpDressedMan Thompson]] to participate in professional boxing matches that he would otherwise not be able to participate in because of the fact that Flash is a minor. Normally, Flash would try and make an attempt at hiding his identity as Eugene Thompson from others, but not in Cromwell, because the people have a mass case of SecretIdentityApathy. As a result, Flash openly makes it a statement that he'll be journeying through his boxing career as Eugene Thompson in an attempt to SaveOurStudents.
12	* '''Subverted''':
13	** Rosamond is revealed to be at Trevelyan Academy on a full scholarship; she goes home at the end of the day to a trailer where her and her mother live in debt.
14	** Rosamond takes off her makeup at the end of the day to reveal she has been severely burned by a freak accident.
15	* '''Double Subverted''':
16	** She might live in a trailer with her mother, but her dad is still loaded.
17	** The burns fade over time, restoring her glamorous looks.
18	* '''Parodied''': ???
19	* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
20	* '''Averted''': ???
21	* '''Enforced''': The producers want to portray an idealized version of teen life, so they [[DawsonCasting hire glamorous actors in their 20s and 30s to play awkward sixteen year olds.]]
22	* '''Lampshaded''': Flash snarls, "Those snooty, haughty fucks should be knocked down a thousand pegs. Better if I do it myself."
23	* '''Invoked''': ???
24	* '''Exploited''': ???
25	* '''Defied''': Fearing the students may become conceited, Principal Greyson implements a very unfashionable school uniform, bans makeup and jewelry, and encourages all the students to volunteer for soup kitchens.
26	* '''Discussed''': ???
27	* '''Conversed''': ???
28	* '''Implied''': A job fair aimed at students of Trevelyan Academy has no blue-collar job representatives, no vocational training representatives and no military recruiters. Indeed, the only job representatives seen there are those for modeling agencies.
29	* '''Deconstructed''':
30	** Trevelyan Academy becomes infamous for its elitism, and is stereotyped as a nursery for spoilt, vacuous socialites. When alumni put the school on their resume, it's more likely to disenchant an employer than impress them.
31	** The pressure of being glamorous all the time causes Rosamond to [[WeightWoe develop an eating disorder]].
32	* '''Reconstructed''':
33	** The [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections]] the alumni make at Trevelyan Academy help them get cushy jobs either way.
34	** Rosamond eventually manages to cool the eating disorder naturally, because she's an elite student.
35	* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
36	* '''Played for Drama''':
37	** When her friends find out Rosamond is here on a scholarship, they shun her. She becomes depressed and drops out.
38	** When Rosamond gets alopecia and finds her hair falling out in clumps, she loses her popularity and realizes people only valued her for her looks.
39	* '''Played for Horror''': Trevelyan Academy is revealed to be run by eugenicists dedicated to preparing a generation of elites to take over the world.
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