Sakurazaki finally gets around to changing her voice mail message.

"Gomen nasai, but, in your efforts to directly contact Setsuna Sakurazaki, you have failed. But you might have a second chance by leaving her a message, as she will probably try to get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you."

And there goes the beep.

Traveling by a private jet for her jobs had spoiled Setsuna; as she landed in Kansai feeling tired and ragged. She stared bleary-eyed at the baggage claim, waiting for her one single suitcase to be vomited out from the conveyor belt.

Perhaps it was just her dull senses; perhaps she had gotten a bit weaker on a few things while at Fandom. Either way, she didn't hear it until it was too late, the slowly building shriek of excitement that rang in her ears as she hit the floor.

"Secchaaaaan!"

Setsuna grunted as she hit the floor and was promptly being nearly molested in a vicious cuddle. "K-K-Konoka-Ojou-sama! //I hardly...think...this is appro--"// No amount of flailing could release Setsuna from the hug of death, but that didn't stop her, red faced, from trying.

//"You're back, Secchan!"// Konoka was relentless. //"You're back, you're back, you're baaaack!"//

Setsuna slowly relaxed; resistance had been futile anyway. She smiled softly, a hand tentatively on Konoka's back. //"Yeah. Yeah, I am..."//


[[ and thus ends Sakurazaki's story in Fandom, and the recent chapters full of time travel and UST await! NFI, NFB due to distance, any parting OOC is certainly love, though. This is most likely my last post with Setsuna ]]

Taking a small pause from the packing of her meager belongings, Setsuna sighed and glanced up, taking a look around the room. It wasn't the room she'd spent most of her time in, but she'd still spent a good amount in it nonetheless back when it was Ranma's, and, after tomorrow, when she finished up her last shift at the post office and then went to catch a taxi to fly back to Japan (normally now, airport and everything, unlike her jobs with the rendezvous spot), she wasn't going to be spending any more time here at all. It was really strange to think about it; it seemed almost transcendent, really. She'd miss it, she really would.

But, as she folded another skirt and laid it carefully down, she realized that it was really just time, and she was glad to be off.

[[ door is closed, although post is open! *draaaaaags out setsuna-exit* ]]

I learned something today.

Running a plot during the night you should be writing a very important, 80% of your grade term paper ---> Still doing the plot, as you're stuck at a computer, and still miraculously being able to get an A-.

Running a plot during the week you're scheduled to work a full week (despite being used to half that) and ending up getting overtime hours in ---> Stuck in a department store for ungodly, clashing shifts and being unable to do anything of any content in the fake world.

So, yeah. The whole Setsuna-demon-thing kind of died with part of my soul this week. Sorry about that. It's death has inspired me to just have Setsuna slip quietly into the night; it's dramatic and emo, just like she is!! She'll leave notes for everyone (with the exception of one person), and I think I'll have her take off early, sometime early next week. The notes may or may not be handwavey; it depends on if I can get the muse going enough, and if I do end up writing them out, her notes don't need to be limited to those people. If you want Set to have written you one, and I didn't, by all means, mod away. All I ask is that you make it good and overdramatic. hehe.

I probably won't be doing much, if anything, with her in these next few days. However, if you'd like to do a last something with her, by all means, I'd love to. It's just that she's being blah when it comes to just general posts and that sort of thing, and will only rise to the occation of something a little more structured.

...I talk a lot. That's all. Just wanted to mention something about it. I feel I've been neglecting her this week, but, really, she'd ready to (finally) make her departure.

( In which an Alchemist learns it's not easy dating a Lesbian Demon ) [[ preplayed with the amazing, wonderful kitty__fetish, because we, lol, thought I wouldn't be around today. But I am! So...room is open to visitors after the event here if'n you'd like to stop by ]] [[ also, most monochromatic preplay ever? ]]

Why, hallo, thar!

So, I'm technically sort of back. I still have a few things to occupy my time a bit this weekend but, after a week away, my addiction to this place has me wanting to camp in front of my computer a lot, so that'll probably happen, heh. But we'll see. Slowly, but surely, I'll be settling my characters back into human forms and setting it straight that no, she didn't blow up a wedding or get eaten by a closet.

And then there's Setsuna. This availability post is also helping as a reminded that, right now, she's nearly full-demon and albino in appearance. Some of this will die away at the end of the plot; some of it will not, and I ask that anyone who's encountering her take this post into consideration.

YAY BACK! *CLINGS TO YOU ALLLLLLLLLL!*

Hi, guys! I have a double whammy info crap post here. First part is about availability, and the second about ooh shiny plottiness! Great reading goodness within!

( Availability, OMG! )

( Mmmmm, exit plottiness )

Okay, so three parts. If you don't read any of that, please read this:

( So what does this mean to you? )

Comments? Questions? OMFG COFFEE/PIE?

Laying down on her bed, arm folded under her head, Setsuna let out a soft sigh. She was staring at the ceiling, trying to think. She felt so...out of sorts lately. She felt...restless, really. She wasn't sure what it was, but it had her worried. She was thinking about Japan more and more lately, feeling like she should be there. There didn't seem to be much for her here anymore.

Well, except for Alphonse. Remembering this, Setsuna frowned at the lines in the ceiling above her. Of course, she loved him. He was her best friend and more. But was he enough to keep her here longer when she was starting to feel that, maybe, her time here was up?

Promptly, she rolled over to the side, hugging her pillow closer to her head, at the other side of the room. Not even Ami-chan really needed her around anymore, really. They would need her in Japan...She closed her eyes to the soft sounds of the music drifting out of her laptop, sighing again.

[[ *pokes at the Setsuna muse* She's been placid lately, trying to get some more oomph to her. Open if you'd like, although I've got to get rest before the week from hell really kicks off in a few hours ]]

Closing up the bar and just narrowly avoiding an encounter with a smaller dinosaur that seemed to be darting around the streets, Setsuna realized that she was infinitely safer heading back to the dorms the same way she'd arrived: by flight. All this flying was going to leave her dead tomorrow, but she spread her wings easily and took off, flying carefully, slowly, sharp eyes on the look-out for any more attacks.


[[ for...oh, hell, they know who they are ]]

Having flown back in and slipping into the dorms her usual way after a handwavey job from the room, Setsuna returned to her room thankfully not looking weathered or worn. She rather liked when the jobs were simple spying and didn't need fighting or killing sometimes. She was, however, determined, going almost immediately to her desk, opening up her laptop, and working on relaying the information back to Kansai before any of it left her memory.


[[ post is open, though door is closed ]]

Mmmm, follow the lemming! For the sake of new players, I have just a few things to say that you should know about my characters:

( Setsuna Sakurazaki )

( Yasutora 'Chad' Sado )

( Tabitha-Ruth 'Turtle' Wexler and A.J. )

That is all. Pie, coffee, and ice cream are all welcome, as I wonder what the heck I'm still doing up.

One other thing, not related to characters, but related to Availability:

( Yay news! )

Setsuna was about two steps to being out the door and ready to head down to the salle for some training when she stopped dead in her tracks. Her shoulders suck and she let out a sigh. That's right. No training today. No training for possibly another week, at the earliest. She looked down at her right arm and glared at the bandages, because it was all that wound's fault, too.

Leaving the door open in the hopes that some distraction might pass by, Setsuna dragged herself over to her bed, plopped down, and then rolled over on her side to start looking through her bookshelf to something to distract her. As it would have it, her attention kept going toward Sun Tsu and Hagakure, but that would only make things worse.

Stupid arm. Stupid promise to take things easy...


[[ door is open; post is open! ]]

The plan had worked out rather nicely, except for one thing. The waiting. Chigusa, out of her monkey suit but with plenty of plushies around her, ready for the attacking if the Sakurazaki girl brought a calvarly, tapped her foot impatiently as she and Tsukuyomi stood in the clearing, waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting. //"Remind me again,"// she said crossly to the girl, //"why we told her to meet us so late?"//

Sitting on the grass, pink skirt spread out around her, Tsukuyomi was cleaning off her blade. She giggled. //"So that I could have some fun with the girl, remember? I'm killing Setsuna-sempai for you; the least you could have done was let me have a little fun with her friend."//

//"This is just as much for you, Tsukuyomi, as it is for me."//

The blonde girl gave a wistful sigh. //"Yes. I've been waiting far too long to cross blades with Setsuna-sempai. ♥ But a Shinmei Ryuu girl knows patience, Chi-chan..."//

Chigusa turned her head toward the girl. //"I think she's waking up...."//


[[ for the Ami-kidnap crew who know who they are. NFB due to distance. ]]

[[ OCD coming all set! ]]

Setsuna had waken up from an amazing sleep. She might have even called it ridiculously comfortable, but she wouldn't, because that would mean that Alphonse had won. And she knew he was the reason for her great sleep; it was most likely helped by the fact that movie watching last night had gone well, and ended on an impossibly adorable note. She smiled a little, lingering just a bit before getting up to get ready for workshops. She'd have to find him to see how he slept....and tease him about falling asleep halfway through.

Finally climbing out of bed, Setsuna realized she must have slept in longer than she thought because she almost always was up before Ami, but Ami was already up. A quick glance toward the clock, however, showed that much later than usual. That was odd. Maybe she was trying to imitate Setsuna's tendency toward morning training? And she left the room in a bit of disarray. Her bed was poorly made and there were clothes on the floor. Ami never left messes...

Yawning, Setsuna opened her dresser and started getting her things together for the day when she thought she heard something in the dresser next to hers. Sounds dressers shouldn't make. Well, this was Fandom, so things like dressers making sounds they shouldn't wouldn't surprise her, but the sound was the kind of sound something that was trapped makes. She did not wish to intrude on Ami's personal property, but if there was something in there...

Setsuna opened up the drawer, and, instantly, there was a monkey jumping up into her face. Not just a monkey. A plushed monkey doll. In one hand, it held a note; in the other, a pair of panties. It let out an excited chittering as it dropped the note at Setsuna's feet, did a few circles around her, and then dashed out the window, waving the undergarments like a victory flag.

All Setsuna could really do was stare for a moment at the dresser, as if uncertain that she'd seen what she saw. But she knew for a fact that she had. She'd seen it before.

"Oh, no," she muttered. "Not the monkeys!"


[[ mostly establishy, but open if you'd like to swing by. ]]

[[ and, yes, this is actually in my canon. manga is freaking weird ]]

Working with Teddy earlier had Setsuna thinking of catching up with a few of her other students to see about their next sessions, giving Karal and Henry calls, and figuring she could just talk to Ami when she caught her in the room again.

And then, in a rather great leap of faith and realizing she had nothing else to do, she decided to get over the strange, unfamiliar girly-squeeing feelings and called the new boyfriend (zomg!) about maybe doing something...something even possibly date-like tonight. And then she had so much excitement held over from that that Setsuna had to just leave a brief message for Konoka-Ojou-sama.

The excited hyper feeling turned promptly into frantic flailing after Rikku called and calling her back didn't help. She ran around her room in circles a little bit before, once calmed enough to do so, knew she had to call Jude out on this. This had made her so spastic that she found herself making a desperate call to Deadpool, too. Which garnered a strange response that called for immediate clarification.


[[ most likely (hopefully, squee!) updated as the day goes on. Possibly just an excuse to finally use this icon. MWA HA HA. post is open, too, if'n you like. ]]

[[ ...and now it's even the right room, too! hehe. ]]

It was a small island, so making sure the coast was clear (with a nice fat paycheck to Deadpool for keeping Yondaime-sensei "occupied") was not a problem. That still did not mean precaution could be thrown to the wind. Crouching down in a nearby bush, Setsuna motioned for Billy to come closer. "We have at least an hour," she whispered. "I enter from above, you enter from ground level. We each get a scroll, flee, and meet again or combine the spoils at class. Sound good?"

[[ for the partner in ninja-ing and possibly maybe a certain not!married couple later. Yondaime's house and Billy modded with permission, yo. ]]

Try as she might, Setsuna could still not shake the very unfortunate...discussion she'd had with Karal yesterday and she knew she couldn't go to Squall's class in a dispondant or upset mood or things would only get worse. So she sat underneath a tree, her eyes closed, her legs tucked underneath her, in an attempt to meditate over the situation and thus free her mind of the oppression of his ignorance. After all, she reminded herself, he couldn't possibly have understood the...depth of his words. It was unfortunate, though, and confusing, because he'd seemed so...understanding before. Non obtrusive. Intelligent.

Setsuna let out a deep breath before slowly drawing it back in again. It was his problem to overcome, not hers. It wasn't even so much the part about women that bothered her; she was accoustomed to criticism like that all the time.

It was the last part that got her. Because no matter how upset Karal's words made her, no matter how ignorant and archaic and close-minded they were up until that point and how he couldn't have possibly known...she knew she was unable to deny her own nature...

Her eyes closed tighter. Quietly, she began to chant under her breath:

//'Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. . . . Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.'....'Believe nothing merely because you have been told it....Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. . . . Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.'....'Believe nothing merely because you have been told it...."//


[[ for vkandis_son, but open if you'd like after him ]]

[[ i'm in and out all day and will disappearing shortly for some errands ]]

With the curtain to her alcove drawn back, Setsuna sat on her bed with her legs folded in front of her. A notebook rested on her knee and she bend over it a little, scribbling things down in small, Japanese script. Occationally, she'd sit up, finger to chin as she thought back; when she'd recall it, she'd go right back to writing. She said she'd record everything she could remember from her short stint as Princess Serenity, after all, and today's weather made it a good time to do so now. Certainly didn't mean she wasn't against distractions, though...


[[ open! cabinmates, visitors, whatever! =D ]]

I feel the need to announce this. Mostly so everyone isn't WTF-ing over a sudden increase of Setsuna Real-Person icons.

For Setsuna's very few omg Real-Person Icons, I was using Korean star (yes, Korean, not Japanese, quiet) Bae Seul Gi, and coming across images of her were few and far between, thus the small amount of icons.

...And then I come across a 46 page image gallery of her.

...And spent all night making new Real-Person icons. WHEEEE. Isn't she awesome?

Apologies to the threads I suddenly dropped out of. Due to a problem with my computer, we lost power in half the apartment. It's back now, but...

Said problem will take about a week or so to fix. We still have a computer, but it will be shared between two of us, so I don't know when I'll be able to access it.

I had a physical blackout this morning when I woke up, and, during the power outage, it really caught up with me. I'm gonna lay low and don't know if I'll be able to be around. Nest will be going up soon, but I can't guarantee any interaction.

Two blackouts of different natures in one day. Go me. XD