Post by Gaara on May 21, 2009 16:09:30 GMT -5
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Character Information |::
Character Information |::Gaara of the Desert
Type: Cannon
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Status: Single
Interest: Nobody
Appearance:
Gaara is a red head that's fairly tall but not more than average weight for his age. His hair is short and fairly spiky. A kanji reading 'Love' is tattooed on his left temple right above his eyebrow. Gaara's most noticeable facial feature however is his eyes. His eyes are a pale green color and at times appear to be dead of any emotion. His eyes are also heavily shadowed from prolonged insomnia. Though his face is fairly smooth and clear, his expression is often very intimidating because of it's unexpressive state.
Of Gaara's most noticible clothing the first thing most people notice is the large gourd of sand that Gaara carries on his back. The gourd carries Gaara's special sand and is itself made of the same sand. It is held in place with a kind of hardnened leather chestplate that gaara wears that extends over his left shoulder. Under that he wears a dark red longsleeved shirt with tails like a trenchcoat over long pants of the same color. On his feet he wears typical sandals. As the kazekage he also posseses the traditional white robe and hat the position gives, although he rarely wears them.
Personality:
Gaara at first glance is extremely intimidating. His face is almost always a neutral, almost scowling expression which expresses very little. Those who know what he contains within him are even more afraid of him. Throughout his entire childhood Gaara was essentially alone, without anyone that truly cared about him, causing him to become as quiet and withdrawn as he was.
Gaara is completely serious, all the time. Part of this is just the way he grew up, while another is the responsibility to Sunagakure as the Kazekage. In addition because of Gaara's seriousness, very few people even attempt to joke with him, which is pretty well because Gaara doesn't really get humor.
Although his exterior always seems cold and collected, Gaara holds a quiet soft-spoken hatred to those who judge others without knowing them simply because of being different. Gaara himself after fighting with another jinchuuriki, Naruto, who had managed to overcome the hatred directed at him, realized that he could overcome the hatred directed at him himself and consequently tries the hardest both for himself and any others that might be facing conditions like his own.
Gaara is no stranger to battle and if attacked with lethal force will not hesitate to fight with lethal force of his own unless there is a possibility of casualities of those who aren't fighting or aren't capable of fighting. Gaara is loyal to Sunagakure and will do his best to help them no matter the circumstances.
History:
Gaara, also known as "Gaara of the Desert", is the fifth and current Kazekage of Hidden Sand Village in the Wind Country. He is younger brother to Temari and Kankurou, the son of the Fourth Kazekage, a student of Baki and former host to the one-tailed demon tanuki known as Shukaku. Before Gaara’s birth, a policy change by the feudal lord of the Wind country forced the village to reduce the number of ninja. Gaara’s father the Kazekage decided that quality should exceed quantity. He chose to use an old weapon of war, a bijuu, which had been imbued into two former Sand ninja in the past.
At his demand, one of Hidden Sand’s elder kunoichi's, a profoundly skilled woman by the name Chiyo sealed this weapon known as Shukaku into the unborn son of the Kazekage’s wife, Karura. Transferring it from the tea kettle it was held in, Gaara was imbued with the Shukaku, making him what many call a "Jinchuuriki", or "power of human sacrifice”. The term originates from the immense abilities that the subject wields, but at the loss of another human’s life. In this case, it was Karura who lost her life as her son was born. Furious about how she was to lose her life for the sake of a weapon, she named her baby in an accursed way. The name "Gaara" itself could be broken down to "A demon that loves only itself", a reflection of his inhuman nature and his status in the village as a weapon and nothing more.
Gaara grew up isolated, as the Shukaku came with more than just the loss of Karura as a price. Having been bonded so closely to Gaara, his will was ever-present in Gaara’s mind. His murderous nature instilled a violent mean streak in Gaara, further isolating him and shutting him off from the world socially. In addition, the Shukaku’s abilities generated an almost sentient and instinctive shield of sand that automatically protected Gaara from physical harm, even when he was the instigator, something Gaara himself realized when he never got cut and bled. Emotionally and physically shut away from everyone and everything, Gaara had no real friends, even with his immediate family looking down at him scornfully. The only person Gaara had come to be able to trust eventually was his uncle, Yashamaru, who educated him on some of the most basic human emotions that he would otherwise never learn.
One fateful night, Gaara was attacked from behind by an avalanche of kunai. Even though he was blind to the danger, his shield of sand protected him and wounded the attacker. Upon investigation, he saw the masked assassin was Yashamaru, who said the one who ordered the strike was none other than his father the Kazekage, who had deemed Gaara a failure as a weapon due to his instability. Yashamaru also confided that while he could have refused to carry out the assassination, he chose to take it willingly for Gaara's part in his sister's death. In his last moments, he activated a mass of exploding tags beneath his flak jacket in an attempt to take Gaara with him. Due to the sand shield, Gaara survived. His mind snapped due to the emotional torrent his immature mind was being burdened with. He wailed in agony and directed his sand to his forehead, carving the kanji "ai" or "love" into it, forever marking his body to remind himself of his new approach to life, to love only himself and fight only for himself.
Not deterred, the Kazekage ordered further assassinations towards Gaara, but every one met in failure. Gaara had learned to finally be the weapon he was intended, but he still retained his mental instabilities. He could never sleep for fear of the Shukaku’s influence on his unconscious mind. Some labeled it as the Shukaku "eating away at his personality". In truth, Shukaku’s personality replaced his, possessing Gaara’s body. Gaara never knew the full truth of the demon inside him. Believing that the blood of his victims that mixed with his sand strengthened him, or how he was possessed by the corrupted spirit of a priest of sand. For all the bravado, Gaara never rebelled against his father, welcoming the challenge of each life-or-death situation he was placed in as a confirmation of his existence.
Gaara was eventually entered into the Chuunin Exams held by Hidden Leaf village, although with an ulterior motive. He and his siblings passed the first stage, followed by the second without so much as a scratch. It was in this second test where he murdered a trio of rival Hidden Rain Genin for his own amusement and demonstrating his signature Desert Funeral attack, surrounding the victims in sand and crushing their bodies to powder before pain could even register in their brains. The incident was witnessed by Team 8, where Gaara’s mere presence made Akamaru quiver in fear.
During the third test prelims, Temari and Kankurou both noticed that each violent fight, Gaara began to grow more excited. Finally, Gaara himself stepped into the arena in the penultimate fight, facing Rock Lee. The first half of the fight saw Gaara mostly disappointed as Lee failed to strike him once, until Lee removed the weights on his legs and began to move at superhuman speed, eventually not only kicking Gaara on top of his head but also landing a punch on his face that appeared to crack it, something rarely seen. It turned out to be a layer of sand Gaara used as an outer shell, revealing Gaara’s real face beneath it, now grinning in a psychotically gleeful manner. Gaara began to assault Lee and throw him all over the arena and rip at him with torrents of sand, Lee was forced into using his Omote Renge, requiring several kicks to lift Gaara up to the required height while under immense pain himself. Spinning and crashing back to the ground, Gaara was driven into the floor.
To Lee’s shock, Gaara cracked apart like a hollow shell. The moment he closed his eyes from the pain, Gaara was able to substitute a sand clone and avoid the impact, which allowed him to go back on the offensive. Enraged, Gaara once again began to violently tear at Lee. With all hope seemingly lost, Lee used his trump card, the Ura Renge. Pummeling Gaara with a series of strikes that were too fast for the eye to see, Lee managed to completely strip every last grain of protective sand from Gaara’s body and drag him around at speeds too high for the sand shield to block. With a final blow, Lee sent Gaara’s unprotected body plummeting down for a final strike. At the last second, Gaara’s gourd itself turned into sand, cushioning the impact. Enraged at being made to feel pain again and not being able to kill Lee, Gaara crushed Lee’s arm and leg, intending to kill him. Luckily for Lee, the fight was stopped when his sensei Gai stepped in to knock away the oncoming sand.
The concept of Gai stopping the assassination sent Gaara’s mind reeling with confusion, forcing him to recall his past. He took his leave and was later placed against Sasuke in the third round test. Foolishly, Dosu Kinuta decided to challenge Gaara the next night as he sat alone in the moonlight, intending to kill him and take his place as Sasuke’s opponent with the intention of ruining Orochimaru’s plans. For his recklessness, he was killed as Gaara allowed the Shukaku a brief moment of freedom, reducing Dosu to little more than a bloody stain on the rooftop. Later, he would track down the unconscious Lee in his hospital bed with the intention of killing him. He was confronted by Shikamaru and Naruto, where he once again suffered a mental lapse and restated his desires, explaining his name. Naruto soon realized he and Gaara were very much alike. Gai soon arrived and sent Gaara away once again. After that, Gaara sought out Sasuke, not to kill, but to acknowledge him as prey formally and go so far as to state a certain level of similarity between them, all under Kakashi’s protective eye.
When the match finally came to take place, Gaara was stopped on the way into the stadium by two Grass ninja who asked him to stage a loss in order to help a bet. Gaara crushed them in a bloody shower, and then proceeded onwards, luckily for Shikamaru and Naruto who were also in his way. Telling them he had been sated for the moment, he allowed them to live, seeing as how his next match was also part of a secret mission. Facing off against a "fashionably late" Sasuke, he was struck several times during the match. Enraged, he formed a sand cocoon around himself made of sand that extended out into spines when approached. Inside, Gaara was beginning to transform his body into the Shukaku’s. However, before it was completed, Sasuke pierced the shell and drove a Chidori into Gaara. For the first time ever, Gaara bled, sending his mind reeling and his half-transformed body slashing out at Sasuke from within.
With the plan forced to begin early, Gaara’s mission began as a joint invasion of Hidden Sound with Sand’s backup started. Still unstable, Kankurou and Temari threw themselves in to help him get to safety until he recovered. Sasuke, under orders, followed him, though Kakashi also managed to throw Sakura, Naruto and Shikamaru into a mission along with Pakkun to follow Sasuke. Shino also decided to follow, seeking the match Kankurou denied him to keep in order with the plan. With his siblings taken out of the picture by Shino and Sasuke, Gaara finally tapped into the Shukaku’s true power and began to transform again, with the right side of his face and his arm grotesquely deforming into a shape reminiscent of the sandy talons that swiped from his shell, drooling and screaming. Screaming out at Sasuke to show himself, Gaara took a second Chidori, tearing his transformed arm off, but he did not give up.
Sasuke was driven to the point where he had to deny Kakashi’s warning and released the power of the cursed seal for a third Chidori, but Gaara’s rage and determination barred him from stopping. Naruto then entered the fray, picking up from where Sasuke left off, with the incentive of Sakura’s life on the line as Gaara bound her to a tree and threatened to crush her. The two battled, with Gaara falling deeper into the Shukaku’s hold as his body sprouted a tail and the only human parts left of him were his lower legs. Naruto managed to hold Gaara off, calling thousands of clones to aid him and knock the sand off his body. Utterly livid, Gaara finally decided to sacrifice his free will. Creating a gigantic body in the shape of a monstrous tanuki, Gaara emerged from the forehead and put himself to sleep, allowing the Shukaku’s personality to emerge in a suitable body.
Naruto summoned Gamabunta, who fought Shukaku with some persuasion from his son. Even Gamabunta was outmatched by Shukaku’s drilling blasts of wind that it literally punched out from the gut. Seeking to end things quickly, Naruto and Gamabunta used a combined transformation technique, changing into a replica of the nine-tailed demon fox to try and get close. Naruto was able to wake Gaara up with a punch, dispelling Shukaku’s hold, but then found himself trapped by Gaara and about to share Sakura’s fate. With one last burst of strength, he crudely head butted Gaara, nearly knocking him out and sending both of them plummeting to the ground as Gamabunta’s summoning was also dispelled. They both gasped for air and they lay immobile. Gaara began to feel legitimately threatened for his life when he noticed a determined Naruto beginning to crawl towards him.
Screaming at how his existence would not end, Naruto told him that it was his friends who gave him the strength and motivation to keep going. Gaara thought back to Yashamaru's words on love and began to see a new path in life. Defeated, Kankurou and Temari retrieved him once more and fled back home, but not without Gaara apologizing first in a shocking display of humanity. However, a worse situation yet had arisen as a few days after the invasion, the Fourth Kazekage’s corpse was discovered, decomposed to lengths that suggested he had been dead months before the Chuunin exam invasion had been planned. It indicated all correspondence with Sound had actually been Orochimaru himself posing as the Kazekage. Hidden Sand was forced into an unconditional surrender with Leaf and became their ally once again.
Gaara’s changed outlook on life was noticeable in his next appearance, as he had not only switched to a new, less dark outfit but showed none of his previous sociopath urges. The Sand siblings were sent to assist Hidden Leaf retrieve Sasuke from the Sound Four. Gaara himself sought out Lee to help. He greeted Lee and stated he also sought to repay a debt to Naruto. Up against Orochimaru’s strongest bodyguard, Kimimaro, Gaara found several of his tactics useless. The first part of the conflict appeared to end when Gaara trapped him in a Desert Funeral, only for Kimimaro to emerge with superficial injuries. Kimimaro activated his cursed seal, forcing Gaara to use a strategy so powerful it rearranged the terrain, swamping Kimimaro with sand until he was buried under it, where Gaara used his "Desert Imperial Funeral", a gigantic version of Desert Funeral that affected the land for hundreds of feet around them. And yet still, Kimimaro would not by stopped.
Emerging from his arid prison, Kimimaro stepped out with his cursed seal fully active, now looking like a misshapen dinosaur. He tore out his own spinal column and used it as a whip to ensnare Gaara. Kimimaro then reshaped the strongest bones in his body to become a drilling implement on his left hand. Gaara responded by using his absolute strongest defense, an effigy of the Shukaku no bigger than himself, suggesting his change of heart had allowed him to tame the Shukaku. The shield was constructed from strong minerals that he mixed into his sand and pressurized with his chakra. Kimimaro stabbed deep in, but ultimately lost as the bone shattered. Before he could launch another attack, Gaara created a whirlpool in the sand that dragged him far below the ground, imprisoning him in a suffocating prison. But Kimimaro was not done.
A huge eruption of bony protrusions littered the area like a freshly sprung forest, forcing Lee and Gaara to take refuge on floating clouds of sand. Gaara admitted he was low on chakra and lucky to be alive, all too soon as Kimimaro emerged from one of the pylons of bone. However, before Kimimaro could strike the fatal stab, his time ran out. The disease that had crippled him for months finally took him. Gaara understood completely, as Kimimaro’s devotion to Orochimaru’s cause was the same kind of faith Naruto had in his friends that caused him to move after total exhaustion. The Sand Siblings then returned to Sand. Over the following years, Gaara spoke with Kankurou about proving himself to their village. He wanted to be respected and seen as something other than a weapon. He sought to become Kazekage and the village advisory council relented, in the hopes of placating and making full use of him. The village soon grew to love and respect Gaara.
Chakra Element: Earth/Wind (?)
Rank: Kage
Affiliation: Sunagakure
Weapons: Gourd of Sand
Known Jutsu:
~ Basic jutsu
~ Armor of Sand [Suna no Yoroi]
~ Desert Suspension [Sabaku Fuyuu]
~ Feigning Sleep Technique [Tanuki Neiri no Jutsu]
~ Prison Sand Burial [Gokusa Maisou] :: Using his ability to manipulate sand, Gaara will loosen the ground below his target and cause them to sink two hundred meters into the earth. By being imprisoned at this depth, the pressure will completely nullify their ability to move. Also, the pressure resulting from being buried at such an extreme depth would surely kill any normal human.
~ Quicksand Waterfall [Ryuusa Bakuryuu] :: This jutsu sends a massive amount of sand towards an opponent in the form of a wave, covering and "drowning" them in an ocean of sand. In addition to the wave effect of the jutsu, Gaara can control the sand, allowing him to attack his opponent while they attempt to outrun the wave. In practice it's virtually inescapable and is often followed by an area-crushing attack.
~ Sand Coffin [Sabaku Kyuu]
~ Sand Prison [Sabaku Rou] :: A technique characteristic of Gaara, it uses an enormous quantity of sand to completely envelop the target from every direction and capture them. The speed, hardness, and scope of the sand depend on the amount of chakra poured into it. This allows Gaara to fine-tune the sand's properties to the size and characteristics of the target. No matter if the target is on the ground or flying in the air, it is almost impossible to escape from this technique. However, even if someone successfully escapes from it, Gaara can easily use one of his offensive techniques, like the Sand Coffin, to immediately attack the target.
~ Sand Clone [Suna Bunshin]
~ Sand Drizzle [Suna Shigure]
~ Sand Burial [Sabaku Sousou]
~ Imperial Sand Burial [Sabaku Taisou] :: Following the Quicksand Waterfall, Gaara slams both hands palm down into the sand, creating powerful shock waves that compress the sand. Gaara softens the ground below the enemy and creates a quicksand effect. The enemy will sink hundreds of meters below ground to be held there by the immense pressure of the sand and left to die. Anything buried in the sand is subsequently crushed.
~ Shield of Sand [Suna no Tate]
~ Sky Sand Protective Wall [Kûsa Bôheki] :: This air defense technique creates a giant shield, suspended in mid-air, by raising a great amount of sand from the ground. By gathering the best possible mineral-rich sand, the hardness of the shield is very high. Furthermore, the sand had its defensive strength raised by flowing chakra through it.
~ Sphere of Sand [Suna no Tama]
~ Third Eye [Daisan no Me]
~ Ultimate Absolute Defense: Shield of Shukkaku [Saikô Zettai Bôgyo: Shukaku no Tate] :: This defensive technique is formed by Gaara to create a toy-like replica of the Shukaku that is roughly twice the size of himself. Because the replica is formed under extreme pressure and is built of the strongest minerals it is virtually indestructible, having yet to be penetrated by any force.
~ Ultimate Absolute Attack: Shukkaku's Halberd [Saikô Zettai Hôgeki: Shukaku no Hôkô] :: The Shukaku's Halberd is the attack variant of the Shield of Shukaku. Like the shield, Gaara crushes the hardest materials from the ground, this time in the form of a Halberd, in the shape of the Shukaku's arm. Just like the shield which has yet to find anything that could break its defense, the halberd has yet to find a defense that it can't break through.
~ Ichibi Jinchuuriki
Theme Songs(s):
"Pompeii" by E.S. Posthumus
"Everything Burns" by Anastacia and Ben Moody
"Enter Sandman" by Metallica (You know I had to xD)
"Hollow" by Submersed
"I Hate Everything About You" by Three Days' Grace
"Bodies" by Drowning Pool
"So Cold" by Breaking Benjamin
Extra Notes: none
: Puppeteer Information |::
Puppeteer Information |::Your Name: Thomas (of the Funk)
Your Age: 18
Read The Manga / Seen The Anime? Seen. It. All.
How'd you find me?! 7th charrie, i'm not explaining anymore XD
Rule Code: Blonde bombshell
Sample RP:
((The Gutsy Ninja! Yay for none Make-Out Jiraiya writing reference XD! And I must have missed that section of the chunnin exams T_T i don't remember any dango in that section...))
"Hmm. Well if you say so." Jiraiya watched as Tsunade purchased the dango. He'd reserve judgement on this Anko girl once he saw her. The other proctor he knew for certain was skilled in what he did. Morino Ibiki. Jiraiya remembered the days when Ibiki hadn't been a proctor yet. That was so long ago, Jiraiya thought shaking his head. He definitely wasn't getting any younger.
Jiraiya took the dango Tsunade had bought for them and they found a bench, apparently absorbed in some of his own thoughts. "Tsunade...you know, I've been wondering about that. You think of us as friends right? No, you want to think of us as friends." Jiraiya turned his head and looked down the street before turning back to Tsunade.
"Tsunade, we've been friends for decades. We're already drinking buddies, and you just admitted you care for me. Just one date? It won't kill you to love a man. I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but just because you love someone doesn't mean they're going to die. Nawaki, Dan, I know you loved them both, and I know how you shut yourself off a little further after each. Would it be that hard just to open up for once?" Jiraiya set down his dango and put his hands palm down on his knees. He took another look at Tsunade then turned his head.
"I'm sorry, this isn't probably why you decided to come on out tonight...You don't have to answer if you don't want, but please, at least think it over for yourself..." Jiraiya leaned back in his seat and sighed.
"Well, now for my least favorite moment of the night." Jiraiya leaned back on the bench and took a few deep breaths, trying to compose his next couple of words. "Akatsuki's activity is on the rise. Some of the information I gathered indicates that they might start making major pushes to get the tailed demons no later than by the end of the year. Worst case scenario they start making their push in a month or so. You should know this, and I should've said it earlier, but you needed time off."
