Marriage to a God/Playing With

Basic Trope: A priestess serves as a spiritual "consort" to some deity or other supernatural being.

• Played Straight: Aerith is symbolically married to Bob, the God of Tropes. She serves as his priestess.
• Exaggerated: On religious holidays, Aerith chooses a lucky young man to represent Bob and sleeps with him in a religious ritual.
  • Aerith is a Virgin Sacrifice, the idea being that her soul will be sent to the Great Beyond to be with the gods, and she becomes a lesser goddess herself.
• Inverted: Bob is symbolically married to Aerith the Trope Goddess and serves as her priest.
• Justified: The "god(s)" are actually lesser beings, but still have amazing abilities. Alice was married to one of them because they knew each other very well, and Alice agreed with most or all of the god's ideals.
• Subverted: Aerith is only a Miko in Bob's shrine.
• Double Subverted: But Bob appears to her and tells her she is The Chosen One, and will be his wife.
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied:
• Lampshaded: "You will be the wife of Bob the Trope God..."
• Averted: Aerith is not considered a wife or concubine of Bob, just a priestess.
• Enforced:
• Invoked:
• Defied: Aerith does not want to be married (or sacrificed) to Bob, so she runs away.
• Discussed:
• Conversed:
• Played For Laughs: Bob is the patron god of something ridiculous like toilet plungers.
• Played For Drama: Aerith is a Human Sacrifice

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