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Raven’s current count: twenty-four
(Which ones they are will not be named! ^^; )

  1. Your family knows who Vincent Valentine is.
  2. You accidentally call your boyfriend/any male friend “Vincent.”
  3. You insist that you no longer want a bed in your room, but a coffin.
  4. You amputate your left arm and replace it with a metal claw.
  5. You regularly sit on top of the roof in a lightning storm and balance yourself there in silent thought.
  6. You’ve already ordered and paid for the wedding invitations and napkins with your and Vincent’s names on them.  This is especially a sign of obsession (and a cry for help) if you are a straight male.
  7. You decide to grow your hair long, dye it black, and wear a red bandanna tied around your forehead all the time.
  8. You immediately snatched the screen name LucreciaValntine the day you heard that your ISP now allows you to use sixteen characters rather than the previous ten before anyone else can get it, BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT MORE THAN ‘THEY’ DO, DAMN IT.
  9. People that you don’t know or have just met start commenting on your Vincent obsession.
  10. You have the action figure ... and the keychain, and the plushie, and the wallpaper, and the...
  11. You don’t like fighting games and you think Ehrgeiz sucks anyway, but you spent your money on it because Vincent is in it.  (With a Sqaresoft-drawn—and therefore official—picture of him as a Turk, to boot!)
  12. You start saying—about way more people than you should be—“Hmm...  He reminds me of Vincent.”
  13. You buy a red cape.
  14. You actually wear a red cape.
  15. You actually wear a red cape without shame.  (The fashion police are right on your heels.)
  16. Friends are starting to groan whenever you mention Vincent.
  17. You make new friends in school and/or work solely based on the fact that they know who Vincent is.  Miraculously, they seem to instantly guess about your Vincent obsession as well (only based on how much you discuss him).
  18. You have an internet shrine...as well as an actual shrine set up in your bedroom (or specially appointed “Vincent Shrine room”)—with candles and all.
  19. You swear that you’re becoming less human.  Often.
  20. You consider a career in science for the possibility that a Vincent-clone might fall madly in love with you.
  21. You find it incredibly hard to draw pictures or write fanfiction if Vincent isn’t involved in it.
  22. You write a list of ways how to know you’re obsessed and post them on the internet—on your internet shrine to Vincent, no less.
  23. Your Senior yearbook quote is something Vincent said, and you even write “– Vincent Valentine –” at the end to give him credit.  [ from Kess Reignheart ]
  24. You hand make a costume of Vincent Valentine, make your hair black, and walk into your first day of high school looking like him.  [ from AnmrfsFn01, who was in the prinipal’s office in ten minutes ]
  25. You get banned from chat rooms because you talk only about Vincent.  [ from Funkym3977 ]
  26. Your family and friends gather to arrange an intervention.
  27. You buy a blow up doll resembling him and refuse to go to sleep unless you’ve got yourself wrapped tightly around him.  (God help the male species if you do this also...  He’s not gay.)  [ from Frosted Midnight ]  (Raven’s note:  Um...god help anyone if they do that...)
  28. You name your pets Vincent if they’re black.  [ from Frosted Midnight ]
  29. You name your black Fresian (big black horse) stallion Chaos and swear he’s got wings of death.  [ from Frosted Midnight ]
  30. You demand your boyfriend to pale out, grow his hair long, dye it black, wear red contacts, and change his name to Vincent.  [ from Frosted Midnight ]
  31. You stalk people who look like Vincent.  [ from Frosted Midnight ]
  32. On October 13 you go on your roof laughing manically screaming, “HELL HATH WRUNG!!!  I AM THE CHILD OF DARKNESS!!!!”  [ from Frosted Midnight ]
  33. You claim to be his daughter / son.  [ from Frosted Midnight ]
  34. Your room is all black with crimson red bed sheets & pillows.  [ from Frosted Midnight ]
  35. You create virus killers for your computer that look like Vincent who also ask you how your day is going & have conversations with you.  [ from Frosted Midnight ]
  36. You make Vincent and Lucrecia skins for The Sims.
  37. You have Vincent wallpaper on your desktop.  (And my does that Pieta pic look pretty! ^^)
  38. You swear that Vincent controls your mind.  [ from C2000ats ]
  39. You begin having dreams about Vincent.  [ from C2000ats ]  (Raven’s note:  What do you mean by “begin”? o.O; )
  40. You warn people not to make you mad becuse you’ll change into Chaos and mutilate them into tiny pieces!  And— ... :: cough. ::  Ahem.  [ from C2000ats ]
  41. You cover one of the walls in your room with Vincent pictures.  [ from C2000ats ]  (Raven’s note:  What do you mean by “one” of the walls? o.O; )
  42. You say and do so much that relates to Vincent that you get your friends obsessed too. O_O  [ from C2000ats ]
  43. You have a locket which displays a picture of Vincent.
  44. When anyone (whether you know them or not) even mentions Vincent, you immediately jump them and scream, “HE’S MINE!!!  STAY AWAY!!  HE’S MINE, I TELL YOU!!!”  [ from TwiGGySlaVe ]
  45. You run a geneology search to see if there really is anyone named “Vincent Valentine.” [ from Frosted Midnight ]
  46. Others that are obsessed with Vincent mutter under thier breath, “God and I thought I was obsessed!”  [ from Nicole ]
  47. You take your hand-made Vincent plushie everyewhere.  [ from Hiru Kurigami ]
  48. You spend $100+ on anything Vincent a week.  [ from Hiru Kurigami ]
  49. You have buried the house in Vincent stuff.  [ from Hiru Kurigami ]
  50. You can type Vincent 100 times in the same amount of time you type your name once.  [ from Hiru Kurigami ]
  51. You only take art lessons to be able to draw Vincent.  [ from Hiru Kurigami ]
  52. If you take piano or any type of instrument you have made over 100 themes for him.  [ from Hiru Kurigami ]
  53. You sleep with your 56...no, 57...plushies of Vincent every night.  [ from Hiru Kurigami ]
  54. You and your boyfriend change your names to Lucrecia and Vincent.  [ from Hiru Kurigami ]
  55. When you doctor a photo of you and your boyfriend making out to look like you and Vincent.  [ from … “Matt”? o.O; ]
  56. You take your hand-made Vincent plushie everywhere.  [ from Zanzou ]
  57. Your family keeps reminding you that Vincent is NOT real.  [ from Megan ]
  58. You create a Vincent layout for your LiveJournal, complete with colorbar, graphical biography, and user pics.  [ from gstrooper51 ]
  59. You attempt to pre-order things featuring Vincent after hearing *rumors* that they are to be created.  [ from gstrooper51 ]
  60. You get a Vincent tattoo.  [ from gstrooper51 ]
  61. You plan to name your first born male child Vincent.  [ from gstrooper51 ]
  62. You wear gold metal boots in public.  [ from gstrooper51 ]
  63. You ask your lover to wear wings as foreplay.  [ from gstrooper51 ]
  64. You hear the voices of Vincent’s limit breaks whispering to you throughout the day...and respond to them...casually.  [ from Sajaru Overdrive ]
  65. You can’t help but stop to think, “What Would Vincent Do? (WWVD)”  [ from Sajaru Overdrive ]
  66. You DO what you think Vincent would do and/or say (WWVD).  [ from Sajaru Overdrive ]
  67. You try to buy/make weapons that Vincent used in the game. o.o  [ from Sajaru Overdrive ]
  68. When you listen to your favorite songs, you imagine that Vincent is singing them.  [ from Sajaru Overdrive ]
  69. You ALWAYS capitalize the V in his name, even in IM conversations where nothing else is capitalized at all, including the word “I.”  [ from D-Chi ]
  70. You name your red and/or black fish after him.  [ from D-Chi ]
  71. You celebrate his birthday by dressing in red and black as a tribute to Vincent.  [ from D-Chi ]
  72. You celebrate his birthday.
  73. You research the meanings and origins of all the variations of his name (Vincenzo, Vincente, etc.).  [ from D-Chi ]  ( Raven’s note:  Um, ::cough:: )
  74. When you first heard that Square intended to make Advent Children (and believed it), you screamed.
  75. You played Dirge of Cerberus the day it came out.
  76. You played Dirge of Cerberus before it came out.
  77. You played Dirge of Cerberus.
  78. ...and you enjoyed it...
  79. ...a lot.
  80. You have a personal video library of all FMVs featuring Vincent.
  81. You search for memory capsules under your bed and on top of street lights, hoping to unlock a secret event clip.
  82. You spend a week straight working on this website, taking breaks only to eat, sleep, use the bathroom, and watch clips of Dirge of Cerberus in both English and Japanese. ¬_¬
  83. You have an account on fanfiction.net and EVERY SINGLE STORY YOU’VE EVERY WRITTEN IS ABOUT VINCENT.  [ from Wacky Linkin ]
  84. Click.
  85. You work on getting a custom made black Motorola RAZR V3... beacuse Vincent has one.  (WITH the Cerberus logo!)  [ from Terra ]
  86. You have your cell-phone full of Vincent-sama pics. XD  [ from myoubi_traeh ]
  87. Anytime anyone writes a fanfic casting Vincent in a bad light you send a devesting virus to their computer while laughing maniacally.  [ from AnzuNy17 ]
  88. You buy the little girls’ Bridal Dream toy just to get the fake marriage licence to write your and Vincent’s names on it.  [ from AnzuNy17 ]
  89. You actually make it to the bottom of this list!  Shame on you, ya loon! o_O
  90. You contribute to this list!!  (You know you want to!  Link below!)

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