Someone reviewed this segment and I just thought I'd address his/her 'concerns'. This review stated that 'for a story that's supposed to have so much meaning..'. I'd just like to clarify that the only reason I'm putting up this information is not to suggest that there is a lot of meaning behind this story, but just so that when I get around to putting up the next chapter, my readers who get my humor will understand some of the things that Yoshiko (and others) make reference to. Please understand that if I intending this to have meaning, it wouldn't be full of insanity and randomness. Thanks.

Some of you were wondering who all these people I've brought in are, where they're from, exactly how they fit into the story. So I decided that, before I put up the next section, I should tell you, as I make references to their pasts, or at least Yoshiko's past. Here goes. I'll start with Yoshiko, who was my first Gundam Wing character that I ever made and you'll notice that a) her story is a lot longer than everyone else's and b) she is kind of a Mary-sue.

Yoshiko Satoshi

She grew up with Duo and is about the same age as he is (15 in the series and 16 in Endless Waltz). Solo (if you've read/watched Episode Zero) and Duo were her best friends. She met them when she was around five or so. Her father was a high ranking official in the army and he vanished during a war when she was really little. Her mother was murdered when she was five and she was forced onto the street. When she was around seven, she was kidnapped by the Barton foundation, the same group who raised Heero. They trained her to be an assassin, using her bad memories to get her to do whatever they told her. She completely forgot her past with Duo and Solo and only remembered the deaths of her parents. When Operation Meteor came into effect, she was stationed on Earth to help and report on the progress. However, as soon as she saw Duo again, her entire mental framework shattered (she became insane, to a point). She attempted to kill herself in the war depicted at the end of the series by detonating her mobile suit. (She had a model that she built herself, so it was one of a kind…) Unfortunately for her, the attempt failed and she woke up in a small colony about a week later, very badly injured. For the next year, she recovered and rebuilt her mobile suit. She made it back to Earth just as the war against the Barton foundation was ending. (She spent the rest of her life regretting that she didn't get to kill Dekim Barton herself) She regained her sanity, except for that part of her that gets out of hand whenever she's on a sugar high. She and Duo dated for awhile when they were seventeen and eighteen. When she was around twenty, she got really mad at Duo because he didn't realize that she still liked him and he started going out with Hilde, hence her immense dislike of Hilde. She ran away and returned to the colony where she and Duo had grown up. There, she met a young woman who was also having trouble with depression. They became good friends and lived together for some time. Yoshiko had contact with Heero for the year she lived there, but refused to talk to Duo until he figured out why she was so mad at him. Some members of the Barton foundation who were still alive found out where she was and in an attempt to kill her killed the woman who she had befriended (don't have a name for her yet) instead. Yoshiko snapped again and killed one of the men. He turned out to be her father, who had joined the Barton foundation after he thought that his wife and child were dead. (For some reason he thought they had a good cause…) Yoshiko managed to escape from police and asked Heero to come and take her home. By this time, Duo and Hilde had broken up, because he realized why she was mad, but didn't say anything. This is about where 'Life in General' picks up, only two years later, when they're about 23.

Clare Devayn

Clare's story is simpler than Yoshiko's. During the war depicted in Endless Waltz, Clare was living on the new colony – L3X18999. After the war, she was working to help restore everything on the colony and she met Quatre. They hooked up soon after and that's where 'Life in General' picks up.

Alley Jamesson

Alley is just a traveler from Canada. During the war, she was busy doing peace protests on random colonies. She finally settled on L3X18999 (Where they're living now) in an old drug dealer's house after the war. She met many people who lived on the streets. I will introduce one of them in a forthcoming chapter. Alley was out for a walk when she met Trowa. This is where her part in 'Life in General' starts.

So, there you have it. I hope that helps those of you that were wondering about them. (Yes, I KNOW Yoshiko is a mary-suish character) Yoshiko is the character I created as I was watching the last three episodes of Gundam Wing and Endless Waltz in all the endless times I watched them, so naturally, she's going to be that way.