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Basic Trope: A trio of women who represent three different types of femininity (one who represents the "Child", one who represents the "Seductress" and one who represents the "Wife").

  • Straight: Evie is an innocent-minded, playful and prudish young woman, Evette is a gorgeous but alluring tease and Evelyn is a wise, smart and level-headed Happily Married Proper Lady.
  • Exaggerated: Evie is a Sickeningly Sweet ditzy invokedoptimistic Cloud Cuckoolander who is One of the Kids and sees everything as a game that must be played. Evette is a busty Shameless Ms. Fanservice Proud Beauty who can get any man OR woman to lose their train of thought by flaunting and exploiting her own good looks, feminine charms and curvy body. Team Mom Evelyn is a highly-knowledgable and all-loving Angelic Beauty who is a Friend to All Living Things and children, is there to help anyone in need and presents herself as a calm, elegant and responsible individual who can handle any situation with great maturity and resilience, but shouldn't be crossed with.
  • Downplayed: Evie is the Tagalong Kid who doesn’t do much, Evette merely gets a lot of Male Gaze (which she is completely oblivious about) and Evelyn is the Only Sane Man.
  • Justified:
    • Evie works as a preschool to kindergarten teacher where she is just as playful and kind as her students, Evette is a Femme Fatale Spy where her beauty and moral ambiguity are her best weapons, and Evelyn is a caring, smart Housewife and loving mother of three where she acts as The Heart of her family.
    • During their childhoods, Evie's family greatly encouraged her sweet, gentle nature as well as her overactive imagination and naivety, Evette was raised by and took after a Single Mom Stripper in terms of femininity and Evelyn comes from a highly-civilized family who had raised her to be sensible, understanding and wifelike.
  • Inverted: Evie is cynical and gloomy, Evette is a Reluctant Fanservice Girl who feels burdened by her beauty and Evelyn is uncaring, foolish and irresponsible.
  • Gender-Inverted:
  • Subverted:
    • Evie dresses the most cutesy and innocently, Evette dresses the most provocatively and Evelyn dresses the most modest and maturely...... but they are actual more similar to each other than meets the eye.
    • See Inverted, plus they have to act in their opposite ways due to marketing reason.
  • Double Subverted:
  • Parodied:
    • Whenever the girls are having lunch, Evie eats very messily and childishly, Evette eats quite suggestively and Evelyn eats gracefully and with high-manners as if she were dining with royalty.
    • Each woman has their own Leitmotif: Evette's is a Sexophone beat, Evie's is a fluttery tune and Evelyn's is the Wedding March.
  • Zig-Zagged: Evie, Evette and Evelyn change roles Depending on the Writer.
  • Averted: Evie, Evette and Evelyn have all been shown to be feminine, but they have little-to-no personality that shows how they differentiate from each other.
  • Enforced: The writers wanted write three female characters who are feminine in their own special way.
  • Lampshaded: "Evelyn is so brilliant, I can definitely see her going places with that wisdom and capability of hers. Evette is smoking hot but she constantly plays hard to get and Evie is such a sweetheart, she’s like the little sister I always wanted. I didn't know there was different ways of being feminine."
  • Invoked: The innocent Evie, the sexually-driven Evette and the sensible Evelyn decide to come together to form this dynamic.
  • Exploited: Evie's cheerful demeanor ends up getting her kidnapped, Evelyn as the smart one comes up with the plans to save her and it is up Evette to act as the Femme Fatale to trick the kidnapper(s).
  • Defied: The three refuse to be around any other girl who doesn’t act and behave in the same way as them.
  • Discussed: "There needs to be three women who contrast with one another. There should be one who is sexy and tempting, one who acts mature and down-to-earth and one who has the sweet, innocent persona of a child."
  • Conversed:"Huh, don't think I've ever seen something like this."
  • Play For Horror: All of the girls are horrible people: Evie is a bratty Psychopathic Womanchild, Evette is a Predatory Prostitute who can get away from her several rape crimes, and Evelyn is a Wicked Cultured noblewoman or the queen.

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