Basic Trope: A character with a freakish appearance befriends or falls in love with a blind person.
- Straight: Alice, a monster girl (and not a cute one), dates Bob, who's blind.
- Exaggerated: Every friendship and romance in the show is between a monstrous-looking person and a blind person.
- Downplayed: Alice has a mild disfigurement, and Bob is partially sighted.
- Justified: Alice is a gorgon and would turn any sighted person to stone.
- Inverted: Alice is So Beautiful, It's a Curse, and dates Bob because he likes her for more than her looks.
- Subverted:
- Monster girl Alice is dating blind Bob, so this trope seems to be in play, but it turns out he loved her even before he lost his sight.
- Alice thinks Bob won't care that she's a monster because of his blindness, but her growling voice scares him away.
- Double Subverted:
- He always had poor vision though.
- He learns to get past it.
- Parodied: Alice does things like shed her scales in bed and accidentally bite Bob's lips with her fangs. He still doesn't notice she's a monster.
- Zig Zagged: Alice's first Love Interest was a blind man, but he left her the second he learned she was a monster girl. Her next lover is also blind, but he either never realizes or doesn't care that she's a monster.
- Averted:
- Bob is sighted and knows Alice is a monster, but is attracted to her anyway.
- Alice isn't a monster and Bob isn't blind.
- Lampshaded: "Bob's the only one who sees me for who I am."
- Enforced: The author wants to teach An Aesop that True Beauty Is on the Inside.
- Invoked: Alice deliberately seeks out blind people as friends or lovers because she believes they're the only people who'd accept her.
- Defied: Alice feels like this trope is a form of deception, and as such tries to find seeing people who will still accept her.
- Implied: We only see Alice from behind, and everyone except Bob finds her unnerving.
- Discussed: "I wonder if Bob would still love me if he weren't blind."
- Conversed: "I know this is meant to be sweet and all, but when you think about it, it's like the writers are saying you'd have to be blind to love some people. And that it's ok to lie. And that disabled folks are inherently better than everyone else."
- Deconstructed:
- Just because Bob is blind, that doesn't necessarily make him immune to Fantastic Racism, and when he finds out Alice is a monster, he either leaves or treats her badly.
- Alice, who thinks only a blind person could love her, goes for Bob because of his condition. However, they're a terrible match, and end up going through a Differing Priorities Breakup. Plus, Bob is annoyed that she lied to him, and calls her on her hypocrisy—she doesn't want to be defined by her appearance, but she went and defined him by his disability more than his personality traits.
- Reconstructed: Bob empathises with Alice, not because he doesn't have to look at her, but because he knows what it's like to experience discrimination.
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