#rasa of the sands

[the-rubies-that-i-gave-up]

yashamaru about to die deciding to tell gaara he’s always hated him was just like I’M DONE! NOW ITS ALL ON YOU MY BROTHER-IN-LAW! THIS IS YOUR FUCKING ISSUE NOW RASA!

[rosalinesurvived]

Another one of my toxic traits is that i thoroughly believe Karura, had she lived, would’ve been the most desi-toxic mother to mother. No more ‘Soft sweet womanly mother-love would’ve saved them all 🥺” the Suna family in my mind pass on mental health disorders through bloodlines like their kekkei genkai.

EDIT I wanna elaborate on this actually. I think she would’ve raised her kids up to be militant Suna shinobi like literally everyone in the family. I think she was stubborn and authoritarian and prideful and fiery and jaded like Rasa. They loved each other fiercely for a reason. I think they both had serious mental health issues and just a bad idea in general on how to be People as you would yknow, in a generation-long culture of child soldiers. Just because two people love each other doesnt mean they have a sunshine and rainbows nuclear family relationship, especially in their culture where those emotions were probably frowned upon.

[bakapandy]

Rasa’s genes run deeper than they care to admit…

[joogios]

Anyways “Gasoline” as Rasa. I know nobody on here cares about him bUT I DO. I DO. His heart is gold and his hands are cold! He is low on self esteem so he runs on gasoline!!!!!!

[aleksandracoffan]

[vzmpyveil]

little funny thing for Gaara's birthday ❤️

[dankld]

shinobi of the sand

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[jaguarys]

I really wish Gaara's arc had been a little more involved because I truly don't think the sheer horror of it all is delved into enough. In the end it's sort of like he just. Snaps out of it. But then you start thinking about it and you're like. Oh. This kid literally could not sleep for years. Oh this kid was being tormented by Ichibi 24/7. Oh this kid had everyone trying to assassinate him when he was tiny. Oh this kid trusted one single person and they tried to kill him too and then died in front of him. Oh this kid was told everyone including his family hated him and that he was a monster and should die. Oh ok. Like sure murder was not the answer but also considering the circumstances he should've been even more out of it than he was

[cherrydyedsocks]

I'm just on a roll today with thoughts about sand siblings, and consider ! younger shikadai, maybe about six just sitting with his mom as she does his hair.

and temari is telling shikadai stories about her youth in suna, lots of talk about how kankuro would always steal her toys and make them into makeshift puppets.

shikadai just listening eagerly and then he's like. "what about gaara?"

"what about him?"

"what was he like?"

and temari just freezing up in thought because, she doesn't have a lot of stories about gaara as a kid. her and kankuro were always isolated away from him, and at a certain age temari began to fear him as well. and she's just combing through shikadai's hair before putting it up.

"your uncle gaara well.. we didn't know each other as kids that well."

"why?"

"long story that I'll tell you when your older. but there is one thing I do remember. once it was just us three outside playing in the sand, and whatever thing kankuro and I could think of, gaara would make with the sand."

temari leaving out the details of how once her father had found them playing together he was furious, that for days temari and kankuro hadn't even been allowed to be around each other as punishment.

[thunderrayarts]

This is a sample studio gibli art . Ready to do work for you .....

[shaningning-shayangyang]

Rewatching Naruto Shippuden lately and I've been OBSESSED with this around 1 second scene from ep 297 during Gaara vs Rasa

Why can't they just give us the liberty to watch a Temari and Rasa/Kankuro and Rasa confrontation?! Girlie was literally only 3 years old when her mom died, ordered to stay away from her youngest brother, forced to protect her middle brother from their youngest, lost her father at goddamn 15 while Suna was in shambles, almost lost both of her brothers to the Akatsuki and had the Suna Council question her marriage!

I NEED TO HAVE MY TEMARI ARC BEFORE I LEAVE THIS FORSAKEN WORLD.

[the-rubies-that-i-gave-up]

I don't think about them a lot but in my mind I hc the pre-naruto suna kids as being thr most insane bunch of weirdos and decisively FAR more interesting than what fans make them out to be like you have rasa, an autistic sex-repulsed neurobigot and a bitchy little control freak hunted down by the kazekage blood in him. yashamaru is absolutely just a tanuki in human skin, he's a domesticated wet cat bastard the literal embodimemt of FAFO, Pakura is show and tell by Melaine Martinez and the most religious fail!girl to ever fail!girl and a wreck overall and was manic-pixie-dream-girled by the public, Karura’s yashamaru’s mother, father and big sister, a true jingoistic vicious stone-cold hardass and would be a dictat tyrant if she didn’t have rasa and a neat little circle of courtesy/religion/suna duty to hold herself to. And she WOULD bring up her children in both the best and worst of Sunagskure. Baki's actually fairly normal he's just kinda represses his emotions, is uber-paranoid and suspiciously good at keeping secrets/being a caretaker but never mind economic stagnation they'd have rammed Suna into the ground if Rasa hadn't second handedly murdered all of them.

[bakapandy]

Karura was the best thing to ever happen to Rasa but for the power he sought, he lost her and with her, his own humanity

[bright-hope-spot-19]

You know, I find it funny how Kankuro sometimes gets hate thrown at him cause he supposedly 'stole' Sasori's puppets, and all he does is rip off Sasori's work and never invent anything new himself. This idea not only shows that people who believe that don't even understand Sasori's character and he's not even that complex (worse when they're Sasori stans hating on Kank. Yay, good job hating on the 17 year old). Sasori wanted for his puppets, his legacy, to be inherited and passed down so that his name would never be forgotten, making him eternal, in a way.

It also ignores the fact that almost none of the kids have invented their own techniques and jutsu. I think, barring Sasuke, all the others just copy their clan's, parent's, and teacher's techniques. Of course, only comparing the kids here. There is no point in making comparisons with the older generation. That's what clans in hidden villages also depend on: to keep passing their techniques and jutsu to their members, more specifically the clan heirs (and most of the konoha rookies are clan heirs). That's how they keep their legacies: as long as there's still at least one member of said clan carrying said clan's legacy and techniques, a part of the clan will always live on. I'm not diminishing the Uchiha massacre in any way, shape, or form, I absolutely loathe the hidden Leaf for their actions. That's not what this post is about any ways, I just don't want people to misinterpret my words and put false accusations in my mouth.

The point here is that legacy is a very important part of Naruto. Characters inheriting and using the techniques and abilities of their ancestors isn't uncommon. Almost everyone does this. The Rasengan being the clearest example. So, I don't understand why only Kankuro gets hate for it and is accused of stealing another artists' work? Is it just because him and Sasori aren't actually related by blood? Would it have made it okay if the sand sibs were blood related to Sasori and Chiyo? Is that the only instance in which inheritance becomes acceptable? The answer is a big, fat, resounding: No. If memory serves me right, Minato created the Rasengan, (rn I don't remember exactly, if Rasengan also belongs to the long repertoire of jutsu created by that pos Tobirama, but I think Minato was the og user) yet both Jiraiya and Kakashi can perform it, too, and they're in no way related to Minato. Legacy literally just refers to things transmitted by either ancestors (so, family) or predecessors (not precisely family). That can be knowledge, feelings about a certain subject, material things, etc.

Let's just look at Naruto since he's one of the most memorable characters. Almost none of the techniques he mainly relies on, he invented himself. The only exception is Rasen-Shuriken, and even that uses Rasengan as a base. The Multi Shadow Clone jutsu was a forbidden one created by Tobirama, I'm sure. Rasengan by his own dad. Sague mode isn't even something regular shinobi can attain. He had to be taught how to use it by the Toads cause it's ridiculously hard to absorb natural chakra. Then, everything he gets from controlling his tailed beast, he got Bee's tutoring for it cause Bee was the 1st instance of a jinchuriki truly getting along with their beast and taming their power at will. The same can be said about all the other kids: none of them are original. I think Sasuke's the only one who created his own techniques.

Another point to keep in mind is that we don't know what Crow, Black Ant, and Salamander first looked like when Sasori created them. For all we know, the versions of the puppets we're introduced to in canon and that Kankuro uses are modified versions of their original forms to better suit his style. We know that must be true: after all, the whole reason Kanks gave up vs. Shino in the chunin exams was because he didn't want to reveal the new weapons and improvements attached to Crow that it didn't possess previously. Up until that point, we'd only seen Crow crush a guy to near death in its grip. It's only in the fight with Shino in the forest that all the needles and poison launchers and re-attachable head are revealed. This means that all these features were added by Kankuro himself, at 14 years old. Sasori laid the puppets' bases, and Kankuro added on them by modifying them to suit him. That's something all artists do. It's not theft it's inspiration. That's why you always gotta attach any references you used in your research and studies, and you can't erase an artist's name or signature when you reblog art, or else it would be considered theft. Kankuro knows that. It's the reason he never attempted to get rid of the red scorpion insignia on his puppets, indicating Sasori is their original creator. He never, at any point, claims to be the person who made them either. In fact, he acknowledged Sasori's greatness in the field of puppetry. That's...... as far from theft as an artist can get, lol.

Also, look at it this way: Sasori deserted the village before Kank was even born, and he left these 3 puppets behind, meaning he didn't want them. They weren't important to him anymore. So, they were either left in the care of Chiyo (his only other living relative) or conserved by a bigger group like the puppet core of Suna. Then, because Chiyo also didn't give a fuck either way, they were reserved for Kankuro. Now, this could've either happened because 1- Rasa vouched for his son to inherit Sasori's puppets, so they couldn't say no to the Kazekage 2- Kankuro was simply the most skilled puppet user of his generation, so he was the most worthy heir 3- a combination of both factors. Kankuro was the most skilled to get them, and his dad allowed for it to happen. Either way, it's not like they could've asked for Sasori's permission cause he was, you know, fucking gone, and Chiyo didn't give a shit. Thus, making Kazekage Rasa the maximum authority on this decision, and it's very obvious he gave the green lights for the puppets to be passed down to Kankuro. Kank was also probably way too young to have a real say in the matter anyway.

Comparing him to his sibs, it's not like they invented anything? Temari is a very special, mysterious case cause we know squat shit about tessen-jutsu, so we can't say with certainty whether her jutsu she invented on her own or were made by someone else. But seeing as the war arc revealed, there's also a core of tessen users in Suna, similar to the puppet users, I'm gonna assume she was not the first to do it, and most of her techniques already existed. All she does is wave her fan around anyway, like that's the only thing we've ever seen her do in battle. I don't wanna sound patronizing, but what Temari does really doesn't look like it takes much skill. I can't remember a single instance of her doing anything other than opening her fan and moving it pro and fro like a baseball bat, always performing the exact same technique but apparently with differing names every time. Gaara controls sand, and he wasn't the first either. There was already Rasa and the 3rd Kazekage who also had control over other varieties of sand, so what Gaara did must've not been any different from what they did, the only difference is the sand's color. At least Kank had his own style of puppetry: his secret black technique, which entails that the way he uses them is specific to him, and only him. Sasori has his secret red technique and Chiyo the white one. Kanks focuses on trapping and delivering poison, while Sasori's technique revolves around turning the dead into puppets, the same way he did with the 3rd. Yeah, all puppet users rely on poison in some way, but in general, poison is Kanks technique cause we don't see Sasori rely on it as much. Kanks whole technique revolves around confusing his opponents to lower their guards, to then trap them and inject poison, to deliver a slow death via toxins or a quick one via iron maiden. Sasori doesn't do that. He relies more on overwhelming his opponents with sheer numbers cause he could control 100 puppets at a time from his literal titty window.

So, in short. This is all to say: people who hate Kankuro for being a thief are not only wrong but dumb too. End of the story here.

[aleksandracoffan]

"Heritage"

[vote-gaara]

The majority of the Naruto fandom disregards Gaara as if he didn't carry the entire war arc on his back.