[leaning against the wall of the Ninja Cabin, watching the goings-on of camp]


((Like the other posts, this post is open forever for anyone who wants to talk to Gaara but doesn't see me around.))

[from here]

Yes.

HIMAWARI.

FIYERO.

WHAT IS THIS MADNESS

meaning omg too good too me I swear and Gaara is set for... a long time wow

Tell me your demands~!

Go here and look through random quotes until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.


The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
Lawana Blackwell

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-- within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold

So, at Yaoi Con this year, I bought something that we call The Book. The Book is a Naruto fan artbook by a Chinese artist, and it's absolutely gorgeous. Sasuke gets the majority of the pictures (because he's anything if not pretty), but many other characters show up as well. I've finally gotten around to scanning The Book (because I fail), which was a bit difficult because it's hardcover.

I'd like to ask (perhaps in vain) that these pictures not get posted a bunch of places. Partly because I paid for the book and took a long time to scan it, but mostly because this artist is awesome, The Book is special, and people should buy her stuff. I'm not locking it because it's unreasonable to ask people to friend a character journal, so. HONOR CODE. LISTEN TO YOUR CONSCIENCE. I know most people will never get to see her stuff otherwise, so, that's why I'm putting them up in the first place.

Some of the pics are only partial because they went across two pages, and the scanner simply wasn't big enough!

...And I know the cover says KakaSasu. It lies. That really just means "lots of pics that have Sasuke and Kakashi in them, and one almost-kiss." There are other pairings, too!

( On to the pretty... )

Doing this again, because I failed so hard at my last one and I am determined to complete the thing this time.

Relationship meme for Gaara, Elphaba, Franz, and Washu, go~!

Might as well stick this here early!

If you ever have a problem with how Gaara's being played, and for whatever reason don't want to go to the concrit comm, feel free to hit me here! :D

Character: Gaara
Series: Naruto
Character Age: 15
Canon: Out of all the twisted childhoods of the characters in Naruto, Gaara's is perhaps the worst. Following the series' trend that all of the adults must be fundamentally less intelligent than the children, Gaara's father sacrificed his wife in order to stick a giant demon badger in his son to create a weapon for his village. This little boy grew a bit, and his father went “hoshit, can't control his power” and promptly began ordering assassination attempts. However, because of the fact that the demon in Gaara caused sand to automatically protect him, he never died. He also never slept. Ever. Which unfortunately left him awake to witness the assassination attempts, which are often made in the middle of the night and usually spare their victims the repetitive mental trauma. Such as discovering that the assassin in question was the one person you thought loved you. That sort of thing. So the trauma took its toll, and Gaara grew into a quite disturbed boy who existed only to terrify or kill everybody else, addressed the demon as “mother”, and was sent on a mission with his siblings to help invade Konoha. Because it's always smart to expect the people you mistreat to be completely obedient to you.

While in Konoha, Gaara's mental state deteriorated rapidly, and for a while it seemed as though the demon was going to take him over completely. Then he was exposed to the Power of Naruto, and because you can't exactly ignore Naruto, when trying to kill him fails you can either change your ways, or knock him out and almost kiss him under a waterfall. Gaara chose option one. He turned his life around and even achieved his and Naruto's shared dream - of becoming the leader of their respective villages - by the time he was 15. But he also beat him to having the demon ripped out of him and dying, because apparently his good fortune isn't allowed to last that long. However, he was brought back to life by the belated generosity of the old woman who stuck the demon in him in the first place. At least he can sleep now. Or so we hope. (Note: The link in the app is pretty not-worksafe!)

“Dear deserving victim,

We have enclosed a poem that we hope will be enlightening, and will prepare you for the next stage in what you call a life.

One afternoon a boy had a daymare. It was not
a nightmare, for he never slept. He dreamed
he was walking along the beach of The Lake.

Across the water flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene he noticed two sets of
prints in the sand: one belonging
to him, and the other to
an unidentifiable pockmarked stalker.

He noticed that many times along the path of
his life there were only his set of footprints.

He also noticed that it happened at the very
darkest and ugliest times in his life.

This weirded him out, and he
questioned out loud:
“...”

For you see, this boy was a ninja, and
not a particularly sociable one at that.
But what the ninja had noticed
was that during those turbulent times
in his life, there was only one set of footprints.
He didn't understand why when he would be
most easily caught, he had managed to escape.

The Loudspeaker (which was used to ninja-speak) replied:

“YOU IDIOT, YOU UNSUSPECTING FOOL,
DON'T FLATTER YOURSELF.
DURING YOUR TIMES OF DEGENERATION AND FAILURE,
WHEN YOU SEE ONLY YOUR FOOTPRINTS,
IT WAS THEN THAT MARCY GOT YOU.”

You have been convicted of having various perversions, including the rare practice of sandrape, and we suspect also a bent towards personal enhancement. As a result, your presence is now required at a camp, where we expect you will be rightfully punished by being surrounded by those who have even stranger perversions than yours. So take some time to ponder this question: sand, or tentacles?

To get there, simply follow the prints in the sand.”

...

I don't care to deal with another organization right now, and I don't have time to indulge those with standing grudges, nor wonder what "MARCY" stands for. Especially if you are not even from Sand. If you were, you would have realized that you can't possibly instruct anyone to follow a trail that would be so quickly erased. I have to focus on my people, as they are the only ones in a position to make demands of me.

In the event that this is a joke, it is the least clever one I have ever seen played. I had the impression that jokes needed to be somewhat believable in order to be effective. If it is not one, and you want to pursue any accusations – nonsensical in nature as they might be – you will need to come to me and do so. It might help your case if you found photographs that actually had me in them. Violence was not even mentioned, and I would think that would be someone's main concern, even after three years.

...

...and those are not footprints.