Infatuation in short LARPs

[alexxkay]

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?

Comments

Anything worth doing

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. I'm not sure if this holds for Larps, but in a short plays, it has to get obvious. Shuffle those feet. Laugh at inappropriate moments. Run to get the door for someone. Make bad attempts to impress people. Step aside when someone walks past you. Get clumsy or hyperactive around someone. Say stupid and inappropriate things. "I'm not in love with you or anything, really, not me, no sir."

There are lots of geek heroes in 80's movies. Take their most hopeless moments and make them yours.