- Basic: A child finds it especially sad when they have their first experience with death.
- Straight: Little Annabeth's pet dog Bob dies. Annabeth is very sad about it.
- Exaggerated:
- The death of Bob sends Annabeth into a grief spiral she will never recover from.
- Annabeth's whole family dies. She's very sad.
- Annabeth accidentally kills her sister.
- Annabeth was forced to kill someone.
- Downplayed
- After Bob dies, Annabeth cries a little and asks her parents a bunch of questions about death.
- Annabeth witnesses a death on television, rather than in real life.
- Justified:
- Annabeth is still very young and has no idea what's going on.
- Annabeth's sister Emma dies. She was only a year or two older than Annabeth, and it was unexpected, so Annabeth understands it even less.
- Annabeth witnesses a death on television, rather than in real life.
- Subverted: It looks like Annabeth is sad, but actually she's not disrupted at all and is only modeling after what people do when their dog dies in movies.
- Double Subverted: but turns out she is actually very sad and doesn't know how to express it.
- Parodied:
- Annabeth loses her sock puppet at the laundromat. In-universe it's treated as seriously as a death.
- Annabeth becomes a five-year-old emo because Bob died.
- Bob KEEPS dying.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob comes back as a ghost. He's able to talk now, and teaches her the Aesop about how it's a difficult thing to lose someone you care about, even grown-ups usually have a problem with it, and how it's okay to be upset. Because she had the chance to say goodbye that most don't get, Annabeth, while still understandably sad, is at least better able to cope after he has to go again, knowing that he still loves her even now.
- Averted:
- Annabeth does not have her first experience with death until she is an adult.
- Annabeth is not especially sad.
- Inverted: Because Annabeth doesn't understand death, she is not disrupted in the slightest when Bob dies because she thinks he'll come back.
- Lampshaded: "My poor daughter. This is her first time dealing with death, and she's inconsolable now."
- Discussed: "Annabeth's reacting exactly like all fictional children do when their dog dies."
- Played For Drama: Annabeth's mother Fatima is the main character, and she is despondent because she doesn't know how to make Annabeth happy again.
Go back to Death Is a Sad Thing...I'll just sit and cry over my dog...Mommy says he's DEAD.
