Because I figured it was about time I had one so yeah.

1. Contact info!
lightsarestars on AIM
lofmanythings@gmail.com
You're welcome to friend my OOC journal at umbralpilot but I only post in Hebrew.

2. How's my driving?. Critique goes here. So long as it's constructive - i.e. please tell me in as many words what I'm doing wrong rather than just "ur doin it wrong lol" - I'll take anything. Seriously. Out with it. I believe in talking about problems.

3. Permissions:
A. Can't break no fourth wall. He's an OC. Too bad.
B. Romance: Saul is in fact taken. YES I KNOW WTF. So even if he was available before, too late! Snapped up! Hee!
C. Fighting: Anytime, anywhere, anyone.
D. Maiming/disfigurement/oh shit deaded: Not principally opposed to the idea, but not casually. Permanent effects should mean something. If there's a good plot with it, by all means, but only with coordination and plotting out in advance please.

4. ( Explanation of Saul's crazy-ass lightning-shooty powers goes here. )

5. Plotting. Yes please. All the time.

Thank you kindly, everyone!

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Go on, I'm listening.

[The PCD switches on with a fizz, placed on a table in the kitchen of Saul's small riverside house. Saul is sitting by an open window, looking distinctly better than he had last time around, and also looking totally blissed out. He leans out of the window, holding onto a long pole and staring outside eagerly.

A moment later he hauls in the catch - a large cooking pot tied to the edge of the pole, now containing a respectable amount of steaming hot lasagna. With a great bright smile, he sets it down on the table next to a bottle already full of the red wine that rained earlier, and settles into a chair, rubbing his hands together in satisfaction.]

Perfection. Wherever it comes from, they have a fine cook.

[He notices the recording then, but just smiles at it as he switches it off.]

Tags: event: om nom nom, food matters, lasagna!, not secretly italian, small pieces of home, the animus love me, the good life

[The feed clicks on to a view blurred by heavy rain. In the not-so-far background towers the wall of the Inner City. The figure that peers down at the PCD, shaking the device, is at first shadowed and difficult to make out. A few hard taps later, however, the view clears.

Saul grins at the camera. It's a bit of a shaky grin - he looks exhausted, underfed and somewhat battered, generally the worse for wear. But there's a scary sort of light in those eyes. He looks very pleased with himself.]

Ah - still working. Good, good.

[He chuckles very softly, glancing back at the wall, then again at the device.]

Well, then - doma Bao. I'll be seeing you, I believe.

[That said, Saul's hand drops to his side, affording a brief view of him standing, braced against a building wall, head tilted back and eyes and mouth open to the rain, before he starts moving - slow and stiff but purposeful - and the feed switches off.]

( [Private to Carmen//difficult to hack] )

Tags: carmen what have you done, evil lives on, invictus, or is it?, rolling with the punches, unexpectedly messed up

[The feed clicks on to the sounds of shuffling, furniture being shifted, and after a moment, the crackling of a new fire. When Saul speaks, his voice is just a little bit ragged - just enough so that he doesn't sound quite like his usual smooth self]

It's been longer than I suppose, hasn't it? What is the date?

Blast... I'm so tired.


( Private to Carmen//hard to hack )

( Private to Alphonse//viewable by Kakashi and Carmen, hard to hack )

Tags: brittle things, doing the impossible, or is it?, shit-stirring, someone has to die, unexpectedly messed up

Well, this is something of a problem. Was this Itachi irreplacable, dome Madara? It might be wise of us, as a group, to have a drill in place for such occurence, especially with no telling what may happen if he returns.

Tags: captain samaren, new world old tricks, shit-stirring, team evil, zomg ninjas

Bandwagon blah blah blah relationships meme comment for evilulz. I'll do one for Jojo later this week methinks.

ALSO DISCLAIMER. Some of these may surprise you. Saul categorizes people, um, differently.


Positive:

Yachiru: He'd like to think that it's only by the Animus' will that he's attached to her, but Saul does find himself genuinely liking the Pink Terror. She reminds him of himself as a child just a little wee bit with the whole killing things ten times your size thing... he'd gladly teach her everything he knows. Well. Almost everything.

Carmen: ... oh boy. He likes her? He's confused by her? He admires her for every possible thing? He thinks she's completely out of line as a woman? He's spazzing like an infatuated fourteen years old? What the hell? Carmen is definitely the most important person to Saul in the city, and his mind is made up about taking their relationship further. But that doesn't mean he isn't at a complete loss here.

Kenpachi: Hell yeah, Saul's kind of man, even though he doesn't have much to go on. He's just waiting for a good chance to bash heads with him, and he likes to think that they'll both enjoy it. If it's a good fight, Kenpachi might make it into the list of people to destroy; in the meantime Saul just enjoys watching him.

Unohana: Difficult, difficult... Saul admires her, passionately, he thinks she's absolutely phenomenal. And so he wants her dead. He wants to break her until she can't ever mend again - but it's because she amazes him. Even when he resents her kindness, he doesn't hate her - what he plans to do to her is more a tribute than anything else. Oh god he's such a creep.

Zexion: A highly intriguing man, whom Saul knows better than to think he understands. He appreciates Zexion's practicality, his abilities and his general contribution to Team Evil, and is perfectly happy to help him or hold conversations with him, but he views them as coming from two essentially different worlds and thus doesn't consider him anything beyond an ally. Since he doesn't view him as a fighter, he also doesn't consider him a target.

Neutral:

Kanzeon: Her antics amuse him, probably because he has no real idea who and what she is and thinks she's real full of hot air. That's also why he doesn't really mind her having been in his head and is glad to carry on conversations. But he hasn't acknowledged her as a person yet.

Vincent: Saul knows very little about him, except having fought him one time, that he is more powerful than he usually seems. That's already a point of interest - he's on the list of possible challenges to look into.

Allelujah: On the one hand, a scary pervert (hey, this is Saul, not me); on the other hand, well-spoken, polite and not stupid. Saul isn't yet sure what to make of him, but he doesn't feel any particular animosity there.

Gojyo: Saul regards Gojyo the same way he regards any man who has enough strength to bother looking twice at: a target, someone to break, no more and no less. It's a completely impersonal emotion, moreso even since Gojyo tried to make it personal. He neither likes nor dislikes him, he'll just see him undone.

Londo: There's a vague sense of kinship there still, that isn't entirely going away, because Londo is another one of those very rare people who have spoken about their homes on the network and this buys him a lot of points in Saul's book. So there's interest there, of a personal sort even, that can be nurtured into a real meeting of minds. It remains to see if Saul would bother with that nurturing.

Ginia: Unfortunately for Ginia, she's a woman who tries to fight, which immediately earns Saul's contempt. She does sort of balance it out some since, as an important community figure, she makes a good target - and since he thought it was a great joke when she moth'ed him, so he gives her some credit. Under other circumstances, there might've been at least an amicable acquintance there, in a patronizing sort of way; now, she's mostly someone to hurt to get at other people. Although it remains to be seen how things would develop as she forms new ties.

Itachi: They've had little contact, and Saul only has vague memories of Itachi being in his head during the Dreamscape event, but then Itachi is just the sort of man Saul notices and judges quickly. He's seen such men before with their self-possession and their demons, and they made him some of his finer challenges. He doesn't know Itachi's power, and so hasn't yet decided if he's worth breaking, but given the opportunity he probably won't be able to resist it. He doesn't think of Itachi as a person at all, only as something that might be worth destroying.


Negative:

Goku: Saul didn't particularly acknoledge Goku as a person before their more recent fight. Now he's just slightly pissed that the monkey bonked him on the head and made him lose his cool. THERE WILL BE BLOOD mmkay. Which is rather more than Saul grants most of his targets.

Kurotsuchi: LOL WHAT A FREAK. Normally, Saul respects and likes scientists; but Mayuri happens to work with diseases, which is the one thing that will not fly with him. He's intensely distrustful of the man - much more than he lets on - and wishes he'd have a reason to kill him already without annoying Carmen. In person, he thinks he's a sensible, intelligent man, and if he just stuck to poisosn and dissection they'd get along just swell. But since the villains' event and Kurotsuchi's virus, Saul is just biding his time.

Tags: ooc

I know some of you must be wondering. For what it's worth, this storm is not my doing.

Tags: event: dark and stormy night, my bad rep let me show you it, or is it?, saul is very honest, thunder and lightning

[The feed clicks on to the pretty, colorful pattern of dozens of shards of glass, in various colors, all scattered on a table. Saul sits next to the table, playing with the glinting pieces, making them clink and gleam. Deeply thoughtful, he moves between toying with the glass and making notes on sheet of paper, a list maybe. He muses out loud]

The tools, though... where do I find the tools? There is no 'makeshift' in this art...

[He sketches something quick on the paper, then looks at the PCD.]

Are there men in this city who can work metal?

Tags: a man of many talents, craftsiness, in times of peace, small pieces of home, traditions

[The feed is switched on by a random crackling of electricity, the origin of which is soon revealed. The place is Unohana's clinic, one of the rooms; the video shows Saul sitting next to a bed, tattered and wounded, his head in his hands. He doesn't look percisely sad or broken, more tired - and focusd. There's a very faint buzz in the air around him, like static electricity, giving the air in the room a soft eerie low.

In the bed lies Carmen's body - if only she'd been breathing, she'd have looked asleep. But of course, she isn't.

Saul speaks very quietly.]

Spirits of this land, powers of this world... I've kept true. I have stayed my blade when you wished me to, I have always spoken in your favor. My fortune is yours to decide.

We've only just begun to understand each other. Don't take her... not yet.

[The prayer spoken, he lets his hands drop to his sides, and leans back in the chair, eyes closed, calm now.]

Tags: carmen what have you done, event aftermath, faith, not secretly a good guy, the powers of this world, unexpectedly messed up

So, doma Sumeragi, dome Mollari... and you, little one. It seems we were predesetined to some familiarity, mm?

I'm not sure how, mind, but it's unwise to deny the spirits what they are due. I shall attempt to act towards you as they seem to wish I do, but I've never had a family in the proper sense, so you'd have to forgive me my ignorance.

Tags: event aftermath, obedience, okay what, rolling with the punches, the powers of this world