As much fun as Fire Emblem is to play, some of us are obsessed with the series. Here are some sure fire signs that you're playing too much Fire Emblem. Actually, can you really have too much Fire Emblem?

By Dahveed

• You only wear blue.
• You try to befriend people who wear green. You wonder why their clothes don't suddenly turn blue if they become your friend.
• You beat up people who wear red, thinking they are bad guys.
• You go into health stores looking for vulneraries and elixers.
• You try to cast spells by lugging around large textbooks.
• You go into towns, warn people of approaching bandits, and expect to get rewarded with gold or a cool item.
• You carry torches when you go out when it's dark or foggy.
• At a school dance, you expect everyone to move twice as quickly as normal since there are so many dancers.
• When you go horseback riding, you look for knight crests so you can promote to a paladin.
• You barge into people's houses and expect the residents to give you advice.
• While walking, you only take five or six steps at a time, then you wait for everyone else to move.
• When someone mentions Excalibur, you think of magic spells instead of the sword.
• When you are ill, you try sitting in chairs and standing in doorways, and expect to recover slowly.
• You go to the locksmith and ask for door and chest keys.
• You try to put out fires by generating electricity, since FE 9 taught you that thunder is effective against fire.
• You run around freeing animals from the zoo, pet store, animal shelters, etc., because you think you are liberating the Laguz.
• You think simply standing next to the boy/girl you like will cause him/her to like you.
• You run to doors and chairs, thinking you can seize them and win the battle.
• You wonder why duck hunters don't use bows all the time, since bows have a natural advantage over flying units.
• When you study wars in History, you ask your teacher if standard thunder and lightning techniques were used.
• When you lock yourself out of your home, you try to find a weak point in your wall so you can break in.
• You collect statues, thinking they will make you luckier.

By Eltosian from Fire Emblem Online

• When you see a horse, you're looking for wings to become a Pegasus Knight.
• When you see a cat or a bird, you asks if it could transform back to a human.
• You want to learn how to wield a sword, a lance, an axe or a bow.
• When you see a lezard, you wonder if it could transform into a dragon and kill everyone.
• When you see a sword in a japanese/chinese shop, you think it's either the Falchion, the Fuuin no Tsurugi, the Tyrfing, the Mistoltin, the Durandal or the Sieglede(however you spell it) and you do the same thing with lances and axes.
• When you see a green book, you think it's Holsety, Excalibur or RexWind, a red book, you think it's Falafire or Rexflame, a yellow book, you think it's Thorhammer or Rexbolt, a black book, you think it's Loptous or Naglfar(I don't remember the holy weapon's name of SS) and when you see a white book, you think it's Ivaldi or Aureola.
• When you buy a new cat, you call it Lethe(if it's a girl)or Ranulf(if it's a boy).
• When you're falling asleep during class, you ask your friend to use a Restore Staff.
• When you see someone wearing yellow, you think you can control him/her and you start giving the person orders.
• When you want to miss school, you say to your teacher you've been poisonned and you have to find antitoxins by beating up enemies cause they're the one to have them.
• You go to the hospital and ask if you have any holy blood because you want to wield a holy weapon.
• When someone annoys you, you say you challenge him/her to a duel and say you would wear bleu and him/her would wear red.
• When you're fighting, you're trying to land a critical.
• When you go to a bazzar, you think you it's a secret shop and you try to find a member card to be able to buy a Master Seal to promote to a Master Lord.
• When you have a yellow sword, you think it's a Light Sword and you try to cast magic from afar.
• When you see someone injured, you try to use the rescue command.
• You ask your friends their weapon level to know which ones they should use.
• When you're next to someone you know, you start talking to have a C level support conversation.
• When you see someone with a bandanna, you think it's a pirate and you try to attack him/her.
• You walk on your 4 legs because you want to know how it feels to be a laguz cat.
• At the end of a battle, you try to figure out how much experience you've earned.
• When you find a scroll, you start wondering which skill it will give you.
• When you find a jewel, you think it's a DragonStone and you try to transform into a dragon.
• You think you're one of the commando tribe and you try to transform into everyone.(that would be me!)
• You think you're more than a hundred years old.
• When you see an Orb, you think it's the Hoshii no Tama and you think you can become a Starlord and wield Falchion.
• You hide in forests and city to have an avoid bonus.
• You're trying to make fake scars to look tough.
• When you see an old man, you think it's Athos and you ask him to teleport you home because you don't want to walk.
• You learn all the japanese names of all the FE games.
• You ask your oppenent his/her weapon so you can choose the one that's superior to his/hers.
• You've memorized all the texts in all the FE.
• You learned japanese only because you wanted to see the 2 single ever released episodes without subtitles so you can translate them yourself.
• When you go to the beach, you stay at a specific place, thinking you will eventually find a buried item in the sand.
• You think so much about FE you can't concentrate during class and you fail all your exams, but you don't care because you're still thinking about FE.
• You say we must "restart" the "chapter" because you got "killed".
• When you need to go, you say "SUSPEND!" and one of your allies say "Choose resume chapter to continue.".
• You want to go to the desert because you think you'll find Stefan there.
• When you're studying Gods in history, you think about the 12 Crusaders.
• You start calling human beorc and animal laguz.
• When your teacher starts talking about bad Gods or bad guys, you ask if it is Medius, Loputosu, Nergal, Fomortiis or Ashnard.
• During a battle, you think you're a laguz beast and you start growling to paralize your enemy.
• You're making black squares with black chalk sticks to make a battlefield.
• When you enter your class room, you run as fast as you can to seize your chair and say you won the chapter.
• You want to give FE names to your future kids.
• You decide to become a thief so you can find items in the desert with ease.
• You decided to wrote a novel about all the FE.
• When you get hurt with a knife you run to the church to ask a cleric(or sister)to heal you with a Heal Staff.
• You're looking for the outfit of your favorite character to be like him/her.
• When you see a rock on the road, you think it's the Fire Emblem and that you will get controlled by the Demon King.
• When you hear the fire alarm, you think someone is casting Falafire at the school.
• When you're studying blood types in Biologie, you wonder which holy blood you have.
• During your music class, you ask if you could play with an harp instead of a guitar because your dream is to become a legendary bard known throughout the world one day.
• You change your name for a FE one.
• You start wearing your friend's clothes to become a full-fledged commando.
• You think you're living on one of the FE continents.
• When you're at the beach, you bring your cat with you because you want to see if someone will come out of nowhere to study your cat.(Those who got Stefan whould understand!)
• When you see a lion, you think it's King Caineghis and ask for a peace treaty with Gallia.
• You dream about FE every night.
• You try to learn Galdr because you want to communicate with herons.
• When you're about to move, you wonder why you don't see your range's blue and red squares.
• You continue the FE anime on your own.
• You change your hair's style and color to match your favorite character's.
• When you find a ring, you think it's a Guiding Ring so you can class change into a Sage.(or any other promoted magic class.)
• You make a t-shirt and you wrote in the back "I love FE" in the middle of a big heart.
• You try to create a FE game.
• You decorate your car with a FE style.
• On your mp3(if you have one)you only have FE musics.
• When you stop moving, you wonder why you're not turning grey.
• You're looking for the Player's Phase sign to start moving.
• You wonder why there is no battle music when you start a fight.
• You want to do a FE play.
• During a fencing fight, you do the same moves as Eirika.
• You have fun doing support conversations between characters who don't even know each other or aren't from the same "era".(e.g:Lethe and Haar, Heath and Lyn, Soren and Florina, Roy and Priscilla, Chainey and Aless, Leaf and Alm, etc.)
• You ask your parents if you could bring your cat at school because bullies are annoying you and it would be nice to have a laguz cat to defend you.
• You stick wings on your back to look like a Manakete/Hawk/Raven/Heron.
• You steal your parents' credit card, thinking it's a Silver Card and that way you could get a 50% discount on all items.
• You're looking in the "Yellow Pages" to find a good mercenary company.
• Your favorite character is a thief, so you decide to start stealing to survive.
• You buy clothes that match your hair's color, just like the FE characters.(e.g:Kain, Abel, Soren, Ike, Mordecai, Chainey, Misheil, Minerva, Celice, Aless, Fin, etc.)
• When you see a pendant or a medallion, you think it's Lehran Medallion and you start yelling not to buy that or you'll become berserk and start killing everyone.
• You think singing a nice and soothing melody will bring back some things to life.(Serenes Forest, if you see what I mean.)
• You have lots of FE posters in your room.
• On your computer, your wallpaper, your avatar and your banner is from FE.
• When you're tired, you drink 1/3 of a water bottle thinking it's a vulnerary.
• During a battle, when you dodged, you wonder why there was no "Miss!" sign besides you.
• At the end of your fight, you're looking dow to see your exp. gauge.
• When you talk to someone, you wonder why the person talking is not "brighter" than you.(FE9 story conversations)
• When there's a cyclone, you wonder who's casting Tornado non-stop.
• When you enter a fight with a 2 spaces distance, you wonder why there's no "hole" to separate the battle fields.

By Kariudo-kun from Fire Emblem Online

• You are suddenly interested in the field of cryogenics, such that you coud learn more about the elements that compose a Fimbulvetr spell.
• You wonder why the currency you're using isn't Gold.
• You refer to yourself as a beorc.
• You look at an animal expectantly, thinking it will turn into human form.
• You make stat sheets for every person you know.
• You draw too many FE-related fanarts.
• You write too many FE-related fanfics.
• You dress like an FE-character for Halloween.
• You dress like an FE-character even when it's not Halloween.
• Your instant-messaging screenname contains something related to Fire Emblem.

Any ideas not from the staff at FEWW were used with permission from the respective authors.