Florence Nightingale Effect/Playing With

Basic Trope: Someone brought another back to health. Romance Ensured.

• Straight: Alice tended to Bob's wound. Either Bob or Alice fell in love with the other.
• Exaggerated: Alice and Bob have never looked at each other before. Alice tended to Bob's cut finger, and before she's even finished they're rolling around on the floor.
• Downplayed: Alice tended to Bob's injuries for months. Eventually, they fell in love with each other.
• Justified: Alice is the only person Bob encountered who actually cared for him.
• Inverted:
  • Alice tended to Bob's wound. Bob hates her for making him feel weak.
  • Alice and Bob are in a relationship, but when he falls ill he finds her unsympathetic and uncaring, and breaks up with her shortly afterwards.
• Subverted: Alice tended to Bob's wound. When Bob fell in love with Alice, she tells him that that happens a lot, and it doesn't mean anything.
• Double Subverted: But as time goes on Alice realises she's in love with bob, too.
• Parodied: Bob's wound worsened because Alice is actually a terrible nurse. He just couldn't bear to send her away.
• Zig Zagged: Alice and Bob have a Will They or Won't They? relationship, she worrying about her professional ethics and he wondering if he's really in love or just infatuated with a fantasy.
• Averted: Alice tended to Bob's wound. Bob was thankful, but did not show any signs of infatuation.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "Guys fall in love with nurses all the time, dude."
• Invoked: Alice went into nursing for the romantic possibilities.
• Exploited: Alice knows Bob is interested in her, so starts caring for him in the hopes that the proximity and intimate environment will make something happen.
• Defied: "Do you know how many patients have fallen in love with me? 23. This morning."
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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