Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette/Playing With

Basic Trope: An eerie character with dark hair and pale skin.

• Straight: Elvira, the eerie girl, has black hair and extremely fair skin, providing visual contrast.
• Exaggerated: Elvira has Shiny Midnight Black hair, no colour to her skin at all, and haggard, sunken eyes.
• Justified:
  • Elvira is allergic to light or simply doesn't tan.
  • Alternately, she's a Hikikomori.
  • Or anemic.
• Inverted: Darkskinned Blonde.
• Subverted:
  • It's revealed Elvira dyes her hair black and uses pale foundation.
  • Despite her eerie appearance, Elvira is an upbeat Perky Goth.
  • Elvira's pale skin and black hair makes her look beautiful instead of eerie.
• Double Subverted:
  • But the makeup is to enhance her naturally fair skin tone, and her hair is dark brown rather than black.
  • Under her Perky Goth exterior, though, Elvira's got a lot of dark secrets she's hiding.
• Parodied: Every time Elvira meets new people, they are horrified and think she's a ghost or a vampire.
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ???
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Elvira doesn't have dark hair or pale skin.
• Enforced: "We need to make our Strange Girl look creepy. That black-hair-and-pale-skin combo always works."
• Lampshaded: Elvira's friend Bob says, "Elvira, you look like a vampire. It's really kinda creepy."
• Invoked: Elvira is a Goth and deliberately goes for this look.
• Defied: Elvira doesn't want to creep people out, so she dyes her hair blonde and visits the beach regularly.
• Discussed: 'Man, look at that chick there. It's creepy how pale her skin is next to her black hair, isn't it?'
• Conversed: "Elvira, don't you know that if you were an anime character, you'd be the creepy girl who ends up murdering her friends? That's why people keep avoiding you."
• Exploited: Elvira deliberately goes for this look because looking eerie helps her manipulate others.

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