Through His Stomach/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character feeds another because of affectionate feelings.

• Straight: Jane invites John, her crush, over for a home-cooked meal after a rough day at the office.
• Exaggerated: Jane quits her job to work as John's unpaid cook because of his hard work.
  • Jane's cooking is so wonderful, John falls proposes to her after just one bite.
• Justified: Jane is a chef and loves to cook, especially for those she cares about.
• Inverted: Jane reminds John not to eat because she knows he's on a diet.
• Subverted: Jane offers John a box of chocolates, but they turn out to be gags.
  • Jane cooks for John because John pays her to do so, not out of love.
• Double Subverted: Except that's only one of them.
  • But even if John had never hired her, Jane would still be willing to cook for John.
• Parodied: John is morbidly obese because of Jane's supplying him with food.
  • John proposes to Jane solely for her cooking ability.
• Deconstructed: Jane's feeding John is an attempt to make him dependent on her.
  • Jane is so shy, the only way she can express her feelings is though cooking, but John doesn't know that. From his perspective, Jane is just a nice girl who likes to cook for him.
• Reconstructed: But her feelings are genuine, she's just learning to cope with them.
  • One day, Jane gives John a cake with the words "I love you" on it. John immediately realizes why Jane cooked for him, and the two officially become a couple, with Jane still cooking for John.
• Zig Zagged: Jane eats a lot more for John, to gain weight for him.
• Averted: Jane never cooks for John.
• Enforced: "Feeding will show she can cook and her tender heart."
• Lampshaded: "Jane cooked something for John. Think she likes him?"
• Invoked: ???
• Defied: "Just because I like you doesn't mean I'm cooking for you."
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: "Jane seems to really like John. Do you think she'll cook for him?"

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