Creepy Child
Basic Information
A Creepy Child is a an apparent child which is… off somehow. Maybe its appearance is somewhere in the Uncanny Valley, but usually it just acts in a way no normal child that age would act. Maybe it is too knowing, or maybe it giggles about all the wrong things. For these reasons, Creepy Children frequently show up in the Horror genre.
See Also
- Ambiguous Innocence
- Changeling
- Children Are Innocent
- Creepy Doll
- Doppelganger
- Emotionless Girl
- Enfant Terrible
- Evil Orphan
- Horror Tropes
- Ironic Nursery Tune
- Oracular Urchin
- Psychopathic Manchild
- Robot Girl
- Subverted Innocence
- Strange Girl
- Troubling Unchildhood Behavior
- Undead Child
- Youngster
- Villain
- Waif Prophet
- Wise Beyond Their Years
- Woman In White
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Game and Story Use
- Creepy Children make useful antagonists for the player characters, as they might well hesitate before using lethal force on them - and then, it might be too late.
- And even if they don't have a problem with using lethal force on children, they might want to consider how this looks to bystanders. Either way, other approaches might be in order…
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