The full emotional journey someone undergoes when something truly stunning upends their worldview or expectations — from the initial shock, through the denial and over-analysis phase, to eventual acceptance or a permanent shift in perspective. A shook arc isn't just being surprised; it's the complete character development that follows an event too significant to simply move past. People reference each other's shook arcs retrospectively: 'remember when you found out [x] and you had your whole shook arc for two weeks?'
Finding out her favorite author had actually been her English teacher's pseudonym sent her through a complete shook arc she's still not fully out of.
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