you often introduce yourself as being from the Phantom Moon...
you search your Grandmother's house for mysterious pink pendants...
you can't understand how the Stealth Bomber can fly AND stay invisible...
you practice your broad jump until you can make 6 meters...just in case...
you routinely give your height in costa and your weight in piezo...
you buy a 'Nelson' CD just cause those guys kinda look a little like Allen...
you often greet friends by shouting "Vaaaan-samaaaa!" and licking their faces...
you constantly wonder if your life is an illusion or reality...
you wear a pendant and insist that people time you with it while running the 100 meter dash...
you take your car to your mechanic to put in a new energist...
you ask your mechanic where the energist is in your car...
instead of asking for directions you use a map and a pendant to locate your destination...
You wonder if your wings where removed by your parents and you constantly ask the doctor to X-ray your back to prove that you had them...
you answer the question "What do you plan to do with your future?" in surveys with: "To be a legendary guymelef pilot" or "To be one of the great swordspeople of Gaea"...
you go to libraries and ask for the Diary of Leon Schezar...
you go to libraries and ask for the Dryden Fassa Room for rare Gaean books...
you join the track team hoping that Van will suddenly appear and bring you back to Gaea with him...
you cut your hair, dye it light brown, wear green contacts, join the track team and convince all your friends that your new name is Hitomi...
you tell your best friend about your boyfriend, Van...
when you look up in the night sky you swear you can see Gaea...
you start playing tarot cards and wearing pink pendants...
you start singing "Yakusoku..." and "Mystic Eyes" at the top of your voice even if you can't understand a word of Japanese...
you look at the mirror after a few hours of sleep and see Dilandau instead of yourself....
you start labeling your friends with all the characters--and calling them that way....
you frantically search for a pink pendant that swings exactly once per second...
You try to use the power of the pendant to win those oh so important games of hide and seek...
Other words start to sound like Escaflowne - extra baloni, desk-and-phone(y) etc....
you believe that your cat must be related to Merle in SOME way...
you start to suspect everyone of being a shape-changing assassin intent on stealing your soul...
you begin to wonder if your older brother always wears long-sleeved shirts to hide his metallic arm...
you are constantly hunching your shoulders in an attempt to sprout wings...
Everywhere you go, you run as if you were doing the 100 meter dash...
You wish your gloves could glow red in time with music...
You ask pilots where they keep the energists on planes...
You try to move your head to imitate Hitomi's when the feather is superimposed on the intermission screen...
You come up with a theory on how the Earth and the Moon can look so close to each other from Gaea...
Even though you own the soundtrack CDs, you insist on having mp3s of all the songs so that you can hear all of them at once...
You try to synchronize with your car in hopes that it will help you to drive better...
You are sure of Dilandau's gender...
you think your cat seemingly doesn't like your new girlfriend named Hitomi...
you actually *have* a girlfriend named Hitomi...
you can actually sing Yakusoku Wa Iranai and Mystic Eyes in *full English* to the music...
you can actually sing the Escaflowne songs that don't have lyrics at all...
you've made an Escaflowne web site(^_~)...
you look for Gaea in the astrological maps...
you go to the library to look up info on Isaac Newton...
you go into fifth gear on your car in the freeway, thinking of it as "Dragon Mode," and say, "Now let's show them what Honda can really do!"
you misplace a CD and wonder if a column of light took it...
your car breaks down, and you look for the little button on it that'll call Triple A...
Whenever you see a white feather outside, you constantly look up to see if Van is coming back for you...
your little sister runs screaming from the room as soon as you start up your computer...
you sing Yakusoku wa Iranai in japanese during math class (heck, ALL classes)...
your friends also know the songs in japanese from listening to you...
you quote the tv show in japanese, and are only vaguely aware of what you're saying...
for some strange reason, you feel resentful to your boyfriend's cat...
your mother can't figure out your strange obsession with jumping off roofs in front of friends and thinks you're suicidal...
you act even remotely like me...
you take the time to actually read this list...
you have a tarot deck, but can't even remotely use it...
you took the entire day to get the Escaflowne theme song onto your piano so the people who are putting in the secret vault for your diary know what tune to make the keys play...
you had to reconnect while typing what this...
you make yourself a little pink pendant, then give it to your grandmother to give to you...
you get absolutely furious when you find out the Sailor Moon tape your best friend bought was originally Vision of Escaflowne, and the owner taped "Moon R" the movie over it, leaving only the ending theme, and you can't believe what sick person would actually do something like that, how could anyone's taste be that...um, yeah. sorry. Got carried away...
your new high school teacher know you as, "oh yeah, that weird kid who calls herself Dilandau half the time..."
you're ecstatic when you hear the tv show is coming out commercially, then find out the rumor is false and go off looking for blood...
You just KNOW your best friend is hiding something from you about track practice...
you constantly break down in tears because the person at your local video store said, "For the third time in five minutes, We don't carry Escaflowne stuff!!"...
You wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and think "Was it just a dream? A vision?"...
When shopping for a pager, you look for one with enough range to reach you on other planets...
You go to the plastic surgeon and ask him to lengthen your nose...
You begin singing your favorite songs, replacing the lyrics with "Escaflowne, Escaflowne, Escaflowne..."
Your best friend flunks a test and all you can think to say is, "See? You're anxieties created an unhappy outcome!"...
You have no idea why said friend begins to throttle you...
you start talking about Dilandau to your friends like he's real...
You totally agree that Cloud pales in comparison to Vargas in all aspects...
You start signing after your name: "Dragon Slayer elite"...
You develop an insane obsession for fire...
You throw yourself off a cliff hoping to be caught by a winged man...
You pretend that your lost molar is really the Zaiback Fortress Vione...
you and your best friend "INSIST" that Dilandau is in "NO RELATION" to that "BITCH!" Celena...
"ALL" your class folders have every kind of Dilandau Screenshot, Image, Fanart, Sticker, and photo that has been released on the net... ::eyes Sophia Kelly AKA MsAlseides:: ¬.¬
you contact every Anime store within a 62 Mile radius JUST to see if they carry the Wallscroll model number "Z32"...
When the store clerk has no idea what your talking about, you say "Its the one of Hitomi and Van-sama with his wings expanded...duh!". @_@;;;
you and your friend start to have a fight over who is more serious: Zelgadis (from Slayers) or Folken (from Escaflowne).
you spent $35 bucks for the FanSub version of the series only to turn around and buy whole official "Anime Village" Escaflowne series for a $150. @_@;;
you get expelled from school for Quote "Student was disrupting classroom atmoshere because he/she was digging holes in the ground and acting like a MoleMan" Unquote...
your cat jumps onto your lap and yells into your ear "We must save Van-sama!!!"
You draw little wings on your back hoping they will become real and take you to Atlantis...
They turn into real wings...
You start to think you can change sexes just like Dilandau...
You actually start changing sexes at will...
You play with matches, and now no one will invite you over to their house for fear that you'll burn it down...
You start running to school, and a beam of light pulls you into it, sending you somewhere you've never been before.
You start looking at your boyfriend and wondering how he would look with wings and dark hair and start wondering how advanced neural pathway surgery is, just in case they can attach wings.
Your boyfriend considers very seriously setting up an Escaflowne support group at the next A-kon for others like him that have lost their girlfriends to Escaflowne.
Your friends insist that you show up to an AA meeting and introduce yourself as "Hi, my name is (insert name), and I'm an Escaflowneholic.
You think of dressing as Hitomi for Halloween and consider getting a costume and a harness for your boyfriend so that he can go as Van.
You catch yourself almost whispering the name of one of the characters in your boy/girlfriends ear when you're together.
You consider contacting Angel Sword (any connection???) to special order a katana with the Fanelian crest.
you read that they're doing a movie to be released next year and you wonder how you're going to get to Japan.
you install a new battery and insist on putting a few drops of your blood on it, so it will work...
you want to go to Japan, find a Kanzaki Hitomi and slap her for leaving Van...
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