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There's a character in Worm that has this power. People don't think of her as dead, but her power allows her to be immediately forgotten, and exude a SEP field while it's active. Some people are immune to it, but it's kinda awesome.
I was going to write something about a certain character from Luminosity, but it's not important.
What's that?
Never mind, it doesn't matter.
I know who you meant, man, I was setting up an Airplane! joke...
Yeah, OK. Sorry, I've never seen Airplane!.
Now I am going to stop chattering about unimportant nonsense and go off and do something actually interesting.
Magical unnoticeabilty is common in fantasy. Allirea's power in Alicorn's Radiance is very similar to Imp's.
There's a semi-famous short story "Nobody Bothers Gus" by Algis Budrys that runs on this premise. The main character of the old Piers Anthony novel Mute also makes people forget him as soon as they leave his presence.