I have never had that combination of circumstances come up, so can't comment from experience, but thinking about writing, it sounds like two desirable things are warring with each other. You want a compelling backdrop for your romance (hence !danger!), but you also want to signal the attractiveness of the character (hence can't-concentrate). But yeah, you're completely undercutting the compellingness of the scene if all thoughts of the danger fly out the window.
I *do* think, from what people have told me, that in very intensely dangerous and scary moments, you can have what would seem to be inappropriate thoughts flash through your mind, and I do imagine you might *notice* and even reflect for a moment on someone's good looks. But if, in the scene, the person completely gets distracted from the danger, that seems hard to believe.
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Date: 2014-04-12 05:18 pm (UTC)I *do* think, from what people have told me, that in very intensely dangerous and scary moments, you can have what would seem to be inappropriate thoughts flash through your mind, and I do imagine you might *notice* and even reflect for a moment on someone's good looks. But if, in the scene, the person completely gets distracted from the danger, that seems hard to believe.