Nobody ever sees a ninja, but a ninja sees everything.... Thanks for catching that mistake about the Color Cursor. I replaced that sentence with this:

[quote]After Natsuki's first player-kill, she was forced to live in hiding to avoid any and all contact with players and lived within the wilderness due to her permanently-orange Color Cursor, only sneaking into the nearest town nightly to sleep at an inn in safety. As a result, most of her non-combat skill set is centered on self-sufficiency and survival in the wild, as well as hunting/evasion.[/quote]

I actually had to re-read the SAO wiki page on the Color Cursor a couple of times to see that even a single player-kill caused a permanent orange icon. Personally I think that's a very weird rule for any MMO but what's canon is canon.

The reason I thought that player-kills caused temporary orange status was that at the time I was re-watching the episode where Kirito and Silica are ambushed by Rosalia, Kirito says something along the lines of "I'm a solo player, I don't care about having an orange cursor for a few days". This whole time I thought that he was basically saying that he was only sparing Rosalia's life to honor the wishes of the guild leader character (who wanted her jailed, not slain), not because he was too afraid to kill someone. So I guess thanks for indirectly clearing up that wrong idea too. :)