I’ve been meaning to do this one for a while, and as my life is currently boring I will quote David Eddings: “Let’s define our terms.”
There is an ability unique, I believe, to certain people. It works like a switch. It has values of true and false, one and zero, on and off; it can be activated at a moment’s notice. It is a change in perception, originating in the viewer but immediately effective on the viewee. What it is, is this: It is the power pretty girls have to simply, quietly turn off an average boy’s status as fellow human being.
It’s a defense mechanism, really. At the slightest hint that a funny but unfascinating guy is attempting to steer a conversation (awkwardly or not) into flirting territory, the shields go up and he is–like magic!–beneath notice. Upturned noses are unnecessary but common; cold eyes equally so. If the subject of the attack has a sensitive bone in his body, the effect is usually enough to freeze him in his tracks. Even in the event he’s able to keep being funny and momentarily pierce said shields, though, they return a moment later even fiercer than before.
In the vein of Adams and Lloyd, I hereby term this ability: the snorch.
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