false smile

When a character is smiling on the outside, but their actions, situation or dialogue imply that they are anything but happy. This usually occurs during moments of shock, the bitter tension between enemies, or the proverbial calm before the storm just before they snap.

This tag is not for hysteric laughter, evil grins, angry glares or yandere. There's already plenty of tags and pools for those.

The following tags are aliased to this tag: fake_smile (learn more).

This tag implicates smile (learn more).