Infatuation in short LARPs
Jan. 20th, 2004 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayQuestion 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?
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?
Don't go it alone
Date: 2004-01-21 03:58 pm (UTC)I was in a remarkably similar game situation not that long ago (I was a teenage science geek with no skills around women but still wanted to go to the prom) and I forced the situation by leaning on my character's friends for help. I let them know that I was interested in female character X and they took it as their quest to help me get a date with her. They helped maneuver events so that she and I were forced together (partially with the help of her character's friends) and then then goaded me into actually speaking to her. Of course, since my character was the classic nerd stereotype, I intentionally fumbled the conversation, stammered like an idiot, and then ran away in shame. I'm pretty sure she got the point that I liked her. :-)
Remember, your fellow LARPers are there to help create the overall story as well as their own characters' stories. If you let them know you need help, other players can often find ways to come through for you.