Infatuation in short LARPs

Question for discussion among my LARPing friends:

How do you play infatuation, especially in younger characters, in a 4 hour LARP?

In Celebration, I was a high school junior who had a crush on half the female cast. I remember vividly how I handled that in real life, but it was almost entirely internal, or approaching the objects of affection in very oblique ways. Not the sort of thing that gets easily noticed in 4 *weeks*, much less hours.

I can do the visbly-blush-and-stammer thing when a "target" player walks by, but, just as in real life, the girls don't ever seem to actually notice. Is there some method I'm just not seeing to convey the emotion, short of extreme self-parody? Or is the right answer to just embrace extreme self-parody?

Comments? Suggestions?

Infatuation in short LARPs

Question for discussion among my LARPing friends:

How do you play infatuation, especially in younger characters, in a 4 hour LARP?

In Celebration, I was a high school junior who had a crush on half the female cast. I remember vividly how I handled that in real life, but it was almost entirely internal, or approaching the objects of affection in very oblique ways. Not the sort of thing that gets easily noticed in 4 *weeks*, much less hours.

I can do the visbly-blush-and-stammer thing when a "target" player walks by, but, just as in real life, the girls don't ever seem to actually notice. Is there some method I'm just not seeing to convey the emotion, short of extreme self-parody? Or is the right answer to just embrace extreme self-parody?

Comments? Suggestions?