Cooper !!

🌻🌻 🌻21⇧ Mostly Re-blogging but art sometimes-??🌻

[butch-creeper]

It’s late but Happy Valentine’s Day!

[aleksandracoffan]

The real reason for Gaara's squint:

[morarenga]

best way to make your child mentally ill

I love him

[godblessdoppo]

Is almost a shock to think yashamaru raised gaara from his babyhood in place of his sister and gaara's mother, he was more than one figure at once and yet he made so sure to divide himself from those other two figures and teach gaara about karura and let gaara identify his father and identify him as his uncle. Is so saddening from this one point of view, he wasn't detached in any sense from gaara to not feel anything in the moment he was sent to attack him.

Is mortifying how much detail was put to highlight he was devastated and exhausted, because it was also his choice to be there even if there weren't another choice he was being eaten away by guilt for his very own choice, he simply wasn't attempting to murder gaara but the last remaining of his sister at once. Yashamaru died with that fully aware he was messing up gaara and messing up what karura would've wanted to take care of in life and is something that will keep him trapped on that one limbo forever. I hate rasa more than anyone else

[lacyramen]

I wish more fan content abt Sakura and Gaara (either as a ship or not) acknowledged how similar Sakura is to Yashamaru. There’s the surface level connection of them both being mednins of course, but it does further than that. Both constantly jump in front of danger to protect their loved ones (Sakura to stop team 7 from getting hurt, Yashamaru to stop Gaara from hurting others).

Not only that, but both taught Naruto/Gaara about love. Sakura was the first person Naruto ever loved romantically, while Yashamaru taught Gaara about love as a whole.

On top of all this, both Yashamaru and Sakura attempted to kill someone they loved in order to “help” them.

Sakura tries to kill Sasuke to end the pain he was bringing to himself everyone around him. Yashamaru tries to kill Gaara after being ordered too, in order to end the suffering he brought upon the village. And yet, neither of them ever stopped loving Sasuke/Gaara.

Neither Sakura nor Yashamaru could truly bring themselves to kill their loved one in the end. Sakura couldn’t land the killing blow, while Yashamaru chose to use an assassination method he very likely knew couldn’t break through Gaara’s sand.

There’s also a lot to be said about Yashamaru and Sakura’s respective love/hate relationships with their Jinchuriki. I know Yashamaru’s hate is later retconned, but that’s boringggg.

Sakura obviously never hated Naruto nearly as much as Yashamaru despised Gaara, but before they were put on a team together (and even a bit after) Sakura hates Naruto. I could go on a whole separate rant about why that was, but I don’t think either Yashamaru or Sakura hated Gaara/Naruto themselves, but the circumstances surrounding them.

Yashamaru hated the demon that killed his sister, and Sakura hated the annoyance that everyone told her she was supposed to hate. Except, hate wasn’t the only emotion there. Yashamaru also loved the child his sister loved, and Sakura also loved the honest teammate who fought to earn everyone’s trust.

also this is 100% coincidental and probably a huge reach but they look very similar as well. Like they literally have the same eye shape, and Yashamaru has the same hairstyle as Sakura in Shippuden.

Idk I just felt like ranting about these two because nobody really talks about their similarities

[thaismarendaz]

His growth is everything, but that first-era energy still hits different 🏜️

Decided to challenge myself by redrawing an old Gaara piece from 2022

[godblessdoppo]

Yashamaru's bomb suicide has its nuances to put a finger on it, wat was planned by rasa didn't include it but psychological trauma from lying about karura's care, the suicide wasn't there but yashamaru's decision was to go on with it by his own accord to cope with it, like to atone for what he has done to gaara and has taken part in knowing despite if he did not rasa would've stepped in and gaara would've underwent a more violent event. It looks like pitting levels of induced trauma, what could've been worse and what was very violent forced by the very relative who would've done worse, thing aside. It wasn't about yashamaru's will only but a extreme, yet sad action to take gaara with him in spite of saving him from what was about to come, what was expecting ahead he would become, to an extent it was a desperate action to take the child with him, strip him off rasa's hands and take it where he will not hurt anymore, there lies violence but does, too, an underlying desperation to save him even if the possibilities of gaara dying right there were very low thanks to the automatic sand defense.

One more way to look at it is yashamaru hoping gaara would hate him from there onwards for the betrayal, the lies, the masked care he gave him, for have fabricated a false idea in gaara's head he was loved and cared by someone who didn't fear him for reasons he is completely unaware of and out of his reach of understanding. The idea would never cross rasa's mind to tell gaara about the behind the scenes of what happened and shatter the lie he told as truth being the true just the part where he admitted he was requested by gaara's father to carry on with it.

Is not exactly about hard love and indiscriminate cruelty toward a child from his very caretaker but an actual violence they were both forced into it by someone who overpowered both of them. Yashamaru was an adult, too, he overpowered gaara as such and yet he was left with no options of what to do because if he didn't carry on with it rasa would've stepped in and taken care of it by his own hands, it was sadly a choice within a violent lie to birth the trauma and a possible violent event to condemn gaara to live as a imprisoned animal not so different from bunpuku

[anonohmiss-onao3]

Shinki ate down with that one

[ask-the-sand-fam]

Were Yodo, Araya, and Shinki adopted at the same time?

Shinki: Yes. The three of us had chosen each other as family since we met in the orphanage, around a year before Yodo lashed out at some bullies during a routine visit from the Kazekage, which lead to her catching his attention, and later meeting us for the first time in the aftermath.

[Velwyrm: WE'RE SO BACK BABEY!!! Ask the sand family your questions here and Reblogging stops my hours of hard work from dying in your likes, it directly supports this askblog by lettings others enjoy it, and motivates me to draw more of this AU! <3]

Sidenote: This AU diverges from canon long before Gaara adopted his kids. He met them though different circumstances, much earlier than in canon as this story is based on 'Breaking The Cycle,' a fanfic that an old friend of mine wrote based on our joined headcanons, which is my favourite fanfic of all time <3]

[femmeduvet]

Team shinki

[femmeduvet]

Forgot dis

[fireazarashi]

[butch-creeper]

He has been pissing me OFF! So, I sat down and made notes.

[butch-creeper]

Had the idea of what if Gaara's iconic love mark was written in Arabic? So, I sketched this out. I will say that my understanding of the language is very limited so if this is wrong, please feel free to correct me!

[jellopen]

I'M SOBBING

[jellopen]

[jellopen]

might've missed a few social rules growing up

[butch-creeper]

Capitalism got me. His name is Broccoli. Yes, his father is Rock Lee and I will be raising him as a taijutsu master thank you very much

[butch-creeper]

Begging for him to do rebellious teen things