♥♥ Awesome icons. I like how Walter's hair looks ... slightly messy in that first picture. And I understand that other things come up -- summer's not just free time anymore. u_u

Shirley didn't ever "die." She was drained by the Nerifes Cannon -- and because of her age and sealed powers, she went into a catatonic state after one charge of the cannon. Walter's dad broke onto the bridge (he's a freaking superman like Senel) and escaped with the dying Shirley. He managed to send her down a river pouring out into the ocean before he was killed.

Since Nerifes is such a wonderfully confusing god, there's no way of knowing how it would react if it was "given" its dying Merines. Nerifes can't do much without an agent, so instead it suspends Shirley -- she won't die, but Nerifes can't heal her. And that's the way she's been for two years. =\