My Inner Life Adaptations

Please wake up, Link...

My Inner Life is a rather legendarily bad piece of Zelda fanfic, which you can read about in more detail over on its own page. Here, we're going to discuss the various adaptations it's had.

Tropes used in My Inner Life Adaptations include:

The Man Without A Body Dramatic Reading adds examples of:

  • Angrish: There is a wordless outburst of fury during the scene where Jenna gets drunk while pregnant. Seems to be a Berserk Button for him.
  • Deadpan Snarker: After Dalamar's Scottish accent made him somewhat likable, all his dialogue (particularly any reference to Link and Jenna as his friends) is delivered in a very sarcastic tone.
  • DVD Commentary: The annotations, chock full of snarky remarks putting down the author and the story at every opportunity, more or less function as this.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: "Sparkling/Abusive boyfriends? I'm not doing Midnight Sun yet..."
  • Fake Brit, to cover up the Elmuh Fudd Syndwome.
  • He Also Did: A Dramatic Reading of Atlanta Nights. Shameless self-promotion, ahoy!
  • Large Ham. Also Ham and Cheese. The story isn't worth the least bit of effort, but he certainly seems to be having a good time.
  • Larynx Dissonance: Particularly with Jenna and Saria.
  • Leitmotif: In the Dramatic Reading, whenever "the preacher" talks, "Lord I Been Changed" starts playing. Dig that kickass gospel.
    • Also, Dalamar quickly becomes associated with bagpipes, in a Peter and The Wolf sort of way.
  • Milking the Giant Cow: You can't see it, but it's there.
  • Running Gag:
    • References to The Legend of Zelda CDI Games.
    • Every time the word "pleasure" is said, a clip of Matt Berry saying it on Snuff Box is used.
    • Every time the word "water" is said, a clip of Matt Berry saying it as George the Volcano in the infamous ads for Volvic bottled water is used.
      • Once Jenna discovers her elemental powers, the other three elements (Earth, Wind and Fire) get this treatment as well.
    • Every time Jenna thinks about having children with Link, a clip of Bela Lugosi's "Atomic Supermen" speech from Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster is used.
    • Every time Jen says "minuet" when she clearly means "minute", the Minuet of Forest (from Ocarina of Time) starts playing.
    • Whenever Link gives Jenna a gift, the Item Get music from Ocarina of Time plays until she opens it.
    • Every time the monks chant for the Bonding Ceremony, Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling" starts playing.

Oogachokka oogachokka ooga ooga oogachokka...


The MSTs provide examples of:

  • Angrish: Slash falls into this a few times.
  • Author Filibuster: All MST authors stop at some points to rant about how bad something is.
  • The Cameo: All of the sex scenes in Zelda Queen's MST are done by different people.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: Slash's MST.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Ganondorf in Zelda Queen's MST.
  • Heroic BSOD: Suffered by Link in Zelda Queen's MST.
  • Running Gag: "THROUGH!" and "COMMA!" for Zelda Queen, "GET ON WITH IT" for Slash.
  • Sanity Slippage: Slash suffered so much that she had to use her own characters to MST it because she couldn't do it by herself.
  • Schedule Slip: Slash Prower and That Kid In The Basement both suffer from this.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the chapter in which Jenna's baby is blessed, Zelda Queen eats a special brownie to put herself in a coma. She wakes up two chapters later.
    • A more recent take, as done by some of the Ocarina of Time cast, has Zelda herself leave about 2/3s of the way through the disclaimer. Then the riffers have to get up and leave to fight off some Goddamned Bats.
  • Troper Works: All of them.
  • Viewers are Morons: That Kid In The Basement points out that the author seems to think this, since she has to describe things that are common knowledge, like dreams.
  • Wild Mass Guess: Zelda Queen theorizes that the level of character derailment in the fic is proportional to how much Ship Tease there was in the game, as well as that Link's Queen is not a native English speaker and mixed up "eyes" for something like "face".
    • Or that Link's Queen has some connection to Twilight.

TheSims 2 Re-enactment provides examples of:

  • The Abridged Series: Somewhat. It skims over the birth scene and The Reveal of Jenna as a Silverlite, while it skips the sex scenes entirely due to the limitations brought on by software.
  • Recycled Script: It uses the audio from Man Without A Body's dramatic reading.
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