Owen sprays his face. His face momentarily... *changes*... then settles back to normal. However, during that moment, something has made the girl and/or the bloke start to fancy him above and beyond their inclination to resist.
So maybe... it's a spray of intelligent nano-machines that are programmed to seek out the features of the spray-ee that are most likely to be considered attractive by the onlooker, and draw attention to them. Like make-up, it directs and magnifies the viewer's attention to the things that are most likely to make them *continue to look*, and thereby fall in love/lust.
Compare with the way that people develop huge crushes on actors/actresses etc. whom they've spent a lot of time looking at, wheras if the same people had passed them in the street they might never have got further than thinking "nice smile..." and instantly forgotten them.
So, it's basically an accelerant for the attraction that would eventually happen anyway, *if* you could somehow arrange to spend the necessary amount of time in the person's company with them looking at you properly. But by the same token, if the other person was never going to be attracted to you however well they got to know you (or however long they spent watching your face on a screen), then the spray won't help - making Owen's use of it a bit of a gamble, but at least a huge timesaver.
Isn't Owen's line just before he uses the spray something like "I haven't got time for all this..."?
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Date: 2008-01-28 08:37 pm (UTC)Owen sprays his face. His face momentarily... *changes*... then settles back to normal. However, during that moment, something has made the girl and/or the bloke start to fancy him above and beyond their inclination to resist.
So maybe... it's a spray of intelligent nano-machines that are programmed to seek out the features of the spray-ee that are most likely to be considered attractive by the onlooker, and draw attention to them. Like make-up, it directs and magnifies the viewer's attention to the things that are most likely to make them *continue to look*, and thereby fall in love/lust.
Compare with the way that people develop huge crushes on actors/actresses etc. whom they've spent a lot of time looking at, wheras if the same people had passed them in the street they might never have got further than thinking "nice smile..." and instantly forgotten them.
So, it's basically an accelerant for the attraction that would eventually happen anyway, *if* you could somehow arrange to spend the necessary amount of time in the person's company with them looking at you properly. But by the same token, if the other person was never going to be attracted to you however well they got to know you (or however long they spent watching your face on a screen), then the spray won't help - making Owen's use of it a bit of a gamble, but at least a huge timesaver.
Isn't Owen's line just before he uses the spray something like "I haven't got time for all this..."?