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I am writing a sword art online fanfiction involving my own characters. The story is going to take place in the original Sword Art Online during the first ark. As those of you who know what SAO is, there is no magic in the first game. As such, I thought I would make a joke by having one of these two characters wear a wizard hat; however, I am having trouble deciding which one would be more fitting.
Name: Leaf
Backstory: He’s a 15 year old American tourist who went to Japan with his Father; who was on a business trip. While there, he decided he would try the brand new Sword Art Online, virtual reality MMO; and ended up getting trapped in the game like everyone else.
After a year long time skip. He is shown to have become a highly successful thief within the game. His basic MO is to hit his targets with paralysis poison, open a trade window, take their stuff, then drop them off at a “safe spot” near town. Despite being a non-PKer he has an unusually high bounty that even rivals some of the lesser Laughing Coffin members.
Appearance: He is described as being lightly built, with medium length jet black hair and dark brown eyes, and tanned skin.
Personality: He is a complete jackass and even admits to being a narcissist. Throughout the story, he shows a very snarky and sarcastic sense of humor. He is also shown to have very loose morals, and even resorts to using trickery to get ahead within the game.
Combat Abilities: Unlike most players, Leaf has focused his stats on his speed and evasion, rather than actual combat. He has completely maxed out his hiding ability which in combination with a special item; he is even able to hide from characters that have top perception. Preferring ranged abilities over melee, he has invested a large amount of points in his throwing skill; and is especially good with poisoned daggers.
His absolute best ability however, is his alchemy. Leaf spends much of his time running experiments, and trying to perfect different formulas. As a result, he holds a number of gadgets such as; smoke bombs, flash bombs, flammable liquids, poisons, and so on.
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Name: Raisa
Backstory: She is a spunky 17 year old girl, and a major detective sloof. As was one of the top beta testers in the game, she has used her extensive knowledge of the game in order to get ahead of other players. She had initially joined the game along with her younger brother; however, due to her own overconfidence, he had been killed during an ambush by Laughing Coffin. She herself only survived only through the intervention of Kirito who had stumbled upon the event by chance. Since then, she has become a legendary bounty hunter; and has taken it upon herself to hunt down and exterminate as many PKs as she can, especially those affiliated with Laughing Coffin.
Appearance: She is described a medium height teenager, with dark brown hair and bright blue eyes. Her in game attire consists of a blood red armored dress, which along with her weapon of choice, has earned her nicknames such as; the Scarlet Maiden, and the Crimson Reaper.
Personality: She is described as extremely eccentric, and has used her detective level deductive reasoning skills to track down and kill; high ranking members of PK and bandit guilds, on several occasions. What she prides herself most on, however; is her combat abilities, and has even claimed to be the best female player in the game; despite it being well known that she had lost a duel with Asuna from the Knights of Blood.
When first meeting Leaf, she initially had a very low opinion of his abilities. Since then however, she has developed an almost obsessive goal of capturing him; as she considers him the only other player resourceful enough to keep up with her. Leaf has accused her on several occasions of being a tsundere, but she has firmly denied it.
Combat Abilities: Her fight style is described as aggressive and unpredictable. She utilizes a long scythe like pole arm, which she uses to hook and disarm her opponents. Her special attack is what she has dubbed; the “scythe dance”, which makes use of wide ranged spinning motions that allow her to attack and defend at the same time.

Long story short I am an architecture student who is meant to be taking part in a degree show organised by the class of about 30 people. Naturally 6 people approximately took charge and a few people decided not to take part. There are many aspects to the exhibition the main one being a huge a1 lantern with our work printed on. The people who put themselves in charge decided the class would use the most expensive plasticky paper on the market which meant we were to be charged £110 each which was later reduced to 70. Either way I couldn’t afford it so I agreed to help with the corridor part of the exhibition as planned but I wouldn’t have a lantern. Today the website was launched and guess what? I’m not on there :/ I haven’t said anything yet and I don’t intend to as this is not a mistake. As I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t afford the lantern at the time of the printing order I spoke out on several peoples behalves which rubbed a few people up the wrong way. I tried to keep everything Professional but it seems I am dealing with children as this is the response as well as being blanked by certain people whenever I go in to lend a hand.
Today as I was helping, a girl waited till everyone had left the room then whispered to me that there is a photographer coming in this friday before the opening to snap a picture of the group for the newspaper. It is a secret because some people think its ok to decide who is in this picture depending how worthy they are of being in the exhibition. So my problem is I feel left out and upset by it as I think I do deserve to be in it and I have unfair classmates who up until recently I thought were my friends. I want to go to make an unspoken statement but I would feel sooo awkward and uncomfortable to the point where I am questioning is it worth the discomfort? I don’t know. My emotions and thoughts are all over the place. I have yet to find out whether I have been included in the booklets and books as I did all the work for them. I hope this situation makes sense. Its late and I’m tired so the english might be terrible I’m sorry. If anybody can make sense of this and give me their opinion I would be really grateful. Thanks

So I want to start investing in the stock market but have no clue about it. I want to do some research. I am a freshmen in college so my vocabulary isn’t the best. People have suggested I read investing for dummies. Any thoughts?

I work in e-commerce and we have recently discovered that our affiliates are automatically getting paid, even if the payment for the product failed.
Our website hosters who deal with our affiliate marketing are now claiming that we have to manually cancel any commissions on payments that fail (we have never been told this!), but seeing as we never received payment in the first place, surely this isn’t right?
We are now over £10.000 down for sales that never completed and were probably fraudulent! Has anyone had any experience with this as an affiliate merchant? Is there any legal leg for us to stand on as neither our hosters/marketers, nor affiliate company are taking responsibility. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I’ve been at my job for only 7 months and I’ve just lined up an interview for another job tomorrow. I applied for a new job so soon after starting as I have felt unhappy here for reasons I will explain. My issue is that I am now starting to feel guilty about applying for another job after my current boss was so keen to make sure I intended to stay for a longer period of time. I’m worried I’ve been looking at my job in the wrong way.
I want to know if you think I’m making the right decision.
I work in design and I started my job after being made redundant from a job that I did very well in and received high praises when I had to leave. That first job was really tough and stressful in the first year but got a lot better and I grew into the role. My new job was a step up, doing the same thing for a slightly different type of company (much smaller) for much more money. The interview didn’t flow and they did most of the talking and I didn’t feel comfortable with hard business speak and ego gesturing. I chose this job over another job offer because of the money and also because its a prestigious company in my rather niche industry.
It has been a steep and rather overwhelming learning curve and I’ve not enjoyed it as much as I had hoped. The first clue of what was to come was a colleague on my first day telling me she didn’t like it there! As I’m still a junior a lot of things are new to me and I make mistakes which is to be expected but I’ve sometimes found some people slightly passive aggressive/patronising when I’ve asked questions. I also find It weird that its so quite here as I find that intimidating. I’m used to working somewhere where people aren’t so glued to their computers and get up and discuss work. They really communicate with instant messenger. I’ve seen a freelance manager almost fly off the handle a few times when I made mistakes that were otherwise very minor and quick to fix. I’ve found others making mistakes similar to mine but I don’t think it’s the

So I’m 18 and have been in a relationship with my bf for a year now. He is generally a nice popular guy, everybody loves and respects him, he also has a very bright future. However, after a few months of dating he started telling me who I should and shouldn’t see. He will not let me hang out with any guys who are friends and he doesn’t approve of many of my girl friends either. But then he took this ‘control’ to the next level by hitting and punching me one night, and forcing me to do things I didn’t want to do. It was awful. Although I had gone out against his will, to meet friends I never expected that kind of response. After it he wouldn’t let me leave our flat for a week and a bit, so my bruises would heal. I know i must seem so weak for not leaving him. But I’m scared- he keeps telling me how nobody would believe me if I ever told. Also, the only thing I can give him credit for is that he does genuinely love me and I him- that’s the worst thing, because I know how hard I would find life without him and he has always tried to make me feel welcome in his friendship group. So deep down he is a nice guy. Also, the group of friends we hang with would all hate me too if I left/told. I can’t leave because he is all I have and he knows that. Also, he is a pretty powerful guy in terms of influence, so if i did tell, I’m sure he would ensure that he was never affiliated with the allegations anyway.