*glompback* I've been okay! Just, you know, working. Baking in the dessert. The usual, et cetera. Current obsessions are One Piece, D. Gray-Man, Peter and the Starcatchers, and possibly Merlin. Jury's still out on that one. XD

And okay, yes, admittedly people die all the time in backstory episodes. Just not in the *present*. And that's what's important.

....but I think he really might kill Whitebeard. Scary but true. ^_^