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100 Signs of SoA:L Obsession

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100 Signs You Might Be Obssessed with Skies of Arcadia:Legends

1. You frequently wear a goggle over one eye and/or carry a pirate cutlass in public, for no special reason whatsoever.
2. You actually are one of the few that realise that it's technically a GOGGLE that Vyse wears and not an EYEPATCH, and you actually bother to make that distinction when talking about SoA:L.
3. You remember which eye he wears it on, right off the top of your head, WITHOUT looking at the box, the game, a picture, or any other reference.
4. You start referring to your house as either "Pirate Island" or "Crescent Isle".
5. You paint a baseball silver, draw a happy little face on it with a permanent marker, name it Cupil, and carry it everywhere with you.
6. When someone makes you mad, you shout "Get 'em!" or "Go, Cupil!" and throw said baseball at the person's head.
7. You call the bad/poor/ghetto section of your city (and/or any other city you might happen to visit) Lower City.
8. Anytime it's storming outside, you start pretending to be in Valua.
9. When you look up and see those big walls of clouds in the sky, such as the kind made by the edge of a large cold front, you always refer to them as sky rifts.
10. If you're in the car, and realise you're headed towards a particularly dark one of these cloud patches, you say something like "DARK RIFT, DEAD AHEAD!" or "Vyse...I think that Rift looks a little worse than some of the others...o.o".
11. You visit Spain, or some other Spanish-speaking place, and wonder why the sky isn't perpetually somewhat-darkened.
12. You realise that there are *technically* no Spanish-speaking places in SoAL, and you still paid enough attention get the reference in #11.
13. When you watch Star Wars and you see the Death Star moving into range to fire on the rebel base, you shout "OH NO! RAMIREZ IS AWAKENING ZELOS!"
14. You carry around little shards of green glass and expect them to heal you.
15. When they don't, you get angry and threaten to have them sent to the Coliseum, nevermind that they're only inanimate objects, anyway.
16. When you spray someone during a waterfight, you always shout "WEVLI!", "WEVLES!", "WEVLUM", or "WEVLEN!", depending on how much water you fire at them, and how powerful your water gun is.
17. The same goes for using a lighter, matches, blow torch, or any other heat source and shouting "PYRI!", "PYRES!", "PYRUM!", or "PYRULEN!"
18. You try to Increm yourself before a fight at school.
19. When you lose said fight, you go home, build a massive monster-like sculpture out of very shiny aluminum foil, wear it to school the next day, and then confront the person from the day before, while shouting "Zelos will feast on your SOUL!"
20. During or right before a difficult task, such as a test at school, you always loudly shout "Moons, Give Me Strength!"
21. You even shout "Moons, Give Me Strength!" when sitting on the toilet, straining to take a colossal dump.
22. You do #21 in a public bathroom, and don't care that people can hear you.
23. You refer to your car as the Albatross, Little Jack, Delphinus, Claudia, or any other ship name from the game.
24. You attach a giant pirate flag and/or sail to the top of your car, not caring that you're probably going to get pulled over for it.
25. When you're stuck in traffic, you roll down the car window, shout "HARPOON CANNON, FIRE!" (or "MOONSTONE CANNON, FIRE!"), and throw all your old trash at the car in front of you as hard as you can.
26. You go so far as to also try to actually ADD a giant harpoon cannon to the roof of your car.
27. You actually suceed at #26, and the harpoon cannon actually works properly.
28. Everytime it's foggy, you start looking around for Rhaknam.
29. Everytime you mention whales in any way, you  feel obligated to talk in your best Drachma voice.
30. You get hair gel and actually try to make your ponytails/braids stick out like Aika's do.
31. You want to impersonate Ramirez SO badly that you go to every store within a 100-mile radius looking for silvery hair dye. When you can't find it, you make your own.
32. You don't care when your homemade dye makes your hair fall out and severely chemical-burns your scalp. Instead, you're more worried about "how you can make the formula better NEXT TIME"...
33. You actually create your OWN S-Moves and try to perform them in a real fight. When you get your butt kicked, you wonder why it didn't work...
34. You and three of your friends actually try to perform Prophecy. Repeatedly. All Afternoon. You only quit when someone points out that you guys "might not be at the point in the game to learn that move yet..."
35. When you get furious about something, you spend the next 10+ minutes repeatedly pounding your fist on the floor, just because Ramirez does...>.>
36. You actually dress up in De Loco-style clothes on a regular basis, and don't care about it when you go in public and people hassle you and throw things at your head...>.>;
37. You purposely cut off your own arm so you can get a big, crazy artificial one like Drachma has.
38. You honestly, seriously attempt to use a raw tuna fish out of the grocery store meat department as a cutlass.
39. You see a guy starting up a big, yellow drilling machine type of construction equipment alongside the road, and you immediately shout "OH NO! TOO LATE! YELIGAR IS AWAKENING! O_O"
40. You watch Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and you try to ask Fawkes the Phoenix whether or not he "happens to be related to Bluheim in any way".
41. When you play Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and upon meeting Nabooru, you shout   ">=( BELLEZA, I KNOW THAT'S YOU UNDER THAT COSTUME!", and make Link start wildly/violently/spastically swinging his sword at her, all while you repeatedly scream "Cutlass Fury!" over and over and over...and over...
42. You refer to all camels, horses, and any other rideable animals or items, including bikes, motorcycles, and those little handicapped-people motorized shopping carts at the grocery store, as dhabus.
43. When you and some other people get stuck in an elevator and are wondering what to do, you immediately suggest "running up the rail to get back to Dangral Island".
44. You walk into a hotel and wonder why the lobby doesn't contain a circular floor panel with a spinning, blue holographic anchor hovering over it.
45.You're on a raised catwalk type of walkway, and you suddenly get the idea that you should be able to walk on the underside of it, as well.
46. You've used "...but teacher, Cupil ate my homework because he thought it was a Cham, and I didn't have a Chom to make him throw it back up!" as an excuse for not doing your homework.
47. When you're mad at someone, you have a tendency to sit in your room at your desk and talk to yourself for extended periods of time about how you want to "see Vyse's brains gush out his HEAD!"
48. You always call your dad "Captain", even after he gets so tired of it that he threatens to ground you if you don't quit.
49. When a flock of birds flies over your car, you lean half your body out the side window thinking you're going to catch five sky sardis and trade them for an abirik cham.
50. Even after you plastered yourself on a stop sign and had to go to the emergency room, you didn't learn your lesson about "fishing" out of the car window...
51. You go to Asia, steal an airplane, and try to fly it out of the atmosphere.
52. You have become thoroughly convinced that a lost city of mages is buried under Antartica.
53. You've become SO convinced, that when you talk about it, other people are almost inclined to believe you.
54. You suddenly can't tell the difference between liquid water and clouds, and/or the sky and the ocean.
55. The above has become such a serious problem, that you start looking out the window for exotic sea life while on an airplane and don't see anything at all abnormal about what you're doing.
56. You see a giant turtle at the zoo, and your first reaction to it is to lean over the railing into the creature's pen and shout "GRRR DAMN YOU AND YOUR STEELSKIN, TORTIGAR!" while shaking your fist angrily.
57. You have a tendency to say "Where there is light...there is darkness..." while flicking the light switch on and off over and over and OVER...and over...
58. If the floor doesn't make that little klink-klink noise when you walk on it, you know that something's wrong...
59. When you hear the song "Butterfly" from DDR, you instantly think of the Enrique-and-Moegi relationship in the game.
60. You want to get out of a test at school, so you run up to the principal right before class and warn him/her that "Valua's going to attack Nasrad!", thinking that'll get school canceled for the rest of the day.
61. You do #61 so convincingly well that the test actually gets canceled and they evacuate the school due to the sudden, major threat.
62. When you're trying to park your car in an extremely crowded parking lot, and you and another car are circling around competing for a space, you want to try options like "Try to get behind them and take them by surprise!" and "Move in closer to attack!"
63. You actually could have *sworn* you saw a couple of those choices pop up in the air in front of you or on your dashboard while you were driving...>.>
64. For a random, split second, you suddenly realise that you can't remember what it means to "buy" something.
65. You've broken into the middle of a major football stadium through the sewer system, under the delusion that you have to rescue your friends from being executed at halftime.
66. Every time you get into an argument with your mom and/or she's really angry at you for something, you start calling her Teodora behind her back.
67. Anytime you encounter a total pervert-type in real life, you secretly refer to them as "Admiral Vigoro".
68. You suddenly realise that your school gets off for Snow Days, but NOT "Rains of Destruction Days", and this makes you royally ticked.
69. The above angers you so much that you actually file a very lengthy (not to mention quite threatening in nature) complaint with the public school system.
70. When the school system laughs at your complaint and calls you a looney, you get so enraged that you actually attempt to call down the Rains of Destruction on them (but not before you finish pounding your fist on the floor for the next ten minutes...), to show them exactly why they SHOULD have listened to you.
71. You accidentally drop something of yours in the dirt, mud, or sand, and are afraid to pull it back out, in case you disturb a giant, bioluminescent ray.
72. You jump in a large mud puddle in your best clothes and start digging around wildly. When people ask you what the hell you're doing, you shout at them ">=( SHUT UP, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M LOOKING FOR VELORIUM!?"
73. Anytime you get even remotely near a snack item you like, you start making loud, obnoxious and very CONTINUOUS chirping noises...>.>
74. When you get REALLY REALLY close to said snack item, you start hanging your tongue out and trying to use it to point to the food...all while STILL making that horrible chirping sound...
75. You eat the thing, even AFTER you've drooled bucketloads of spit all over it while attempting #74.
76. You go to a restaurant or fast food place and try to order kabal skewers.
77. You refer to all dogs as huskra.
78. Whenever you find a statue that seems to be motioning or pointing with its hands, you immediately head off in the direction it's pointing in to look for a giant bird pattern on the ground.
79. When this never works, no matter how many times you try it, you mow a great bird pattern into your OWN lawn, hoping that if you hang out on or near it long enough, you'll find Rixis.
80. You've decided to name the local, dirty, creepy old homeless bum "Robinson".
81. You actually buy a shiny crystal and try to implant it in the back of your hand.
82. When you end up in the hospital (again) and the doctor asks what the hell happened to your hand, you calmly explain what you were doing in #81, as if it's perfectly normal, becaue *surely* people try to implant crystals in the backs of their hands all the time...
83. You believe that if you drive your car into a tornado, you'll automatically be in Asia when you come out.
84. When you have a serious problem, you tie a message to a red balloon and release it into the sky (or wait...is it the ocean?) outside, thinking that Quetya will send warriors to save you.
85. If you see a circle on the floor, you're afraid to step on it, in case it sends you back to the entrance of the building you're in, wasting loads of your time.
86. When you're outside somewhere, you find a huge, dark chunk of asphault that used to be part of an old, worn-down street. Your first reaction is to take pictures and video, and run off to the nearest store, where you excitedly report finding the Black Moonstone.
87. When the store refuses to pay you for your new discovery, you sue them, and are fully confident that you'll actually win.
88. You continually feed fish to a random bird, in hopes that soon, it'll throw up some random valuable item or a lot of money.
89. You still believe it, despite the fact that this would be physcially impossible, as you're expecting the bird to throw up items that are several times its size.
90. You hear the song Lunar Lament by Demons and Wizards, and you immediately think of the darker side of the story...>.>
91. You didn't know this song existed, but just upon hearing the title, you go crazy trying to find a copy of it, because it makes you think of SoA:L.
92. You have a very, very favorite character who you try to copy in every single way possible, including modeling your life after theirs.
93. You even go so far as to file for a name change.
94. You actually start to literally believe you're the character.
95. You have several SoA:L RP characters, and you spend half the time trying to figure out which of them your real self is most like.
96. You spend the OTHER half of your time trying to decide what real, canon SoA:L character your real self is most like.
97. You frequently go into excessively vivid SoA:L imagination/daydream sequences, some based on the actual game, and some based on RPs, fics, quiz results, or some other such items.
98. These occasionally become so vivid and deadly-serious and you get so into them that you actually start to half believe the thing in the moment (in that "actor getting WAY too into their role" sort of way), scare or creep yourself out in some way.
99. You think about SoA:L more than you think about your real life.
100. As far as you're concerned, SoA:L *IS* your real life.
WARNING! POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR SKIES OF ARCADIA/SKIES OF ARCADIA: LEGENDS!

A little something I felt obligated to make last night at 1:30 in the morning...>.>

I felt like Skies of Aracadia: Legends more than deserved one of these, because if a thing can distract me from the HP books almost 100%, it must be worthwhile.

...and lord knows, I've made *several* HP lists...>.>

NOTE: Yes, I know that it was originally released on Dreamcast back in about 1998 as just Skies of Arcadia, but I always call it by the Legends title, as I never had a Dreamcast (haha, I wonder WHY...), and didn't discover the game at all until about mid-2004, when I got it for Nintendo Gamecube.
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