Post by Sabaku no Gaara on Sept 10, 2009 15:30:46 GMT -5
Canon Character's Full Name: Sabaku no Gaara
Question #1: Gaara is probably the most human character the show has ever shown. Man is an imperfect beast. Sadness and anger can drive man to places he would never go before. Gaara is a perfect example. Alone, cut off, hated, he became what everyone accused him of being. He was molded by society around him. No one person, no matter how strong, how brilliant, or how talented, can undo the damage society has wrought on its children.
Except for Naruto.
Yeah.
With Naruto’s forceful will and beating and battering, and just a bit of kindness from his siblings, Gaara became what we see him as while the Kazekage. He’s sane enough now. Serious and grim, he regards his position as a chance to prove to his village that he is not the monster they made him, the weapon people called him. Grim he may be, but not evil, not even all that angry any more. One might compare him to Tsunade and find him to be calmer.
This is why Gaara is my favorite character.
Question #2: Why do I think I can play Gaara well? Sabaku no Gaara, he is really a mentally intense character. Before Naruto he was intense and sprinkled with slight insanity, anger was rarely beneath the surface, but it was so mixed with all these other emotions that it seemed new, different. I can portray the emotions of character, turmoil, lack of emotion, anything I need properly. While plot isn’t always my strong point writing, characters ARE.
I can adapt, so Gaara will be well played and adapted.
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Gaara sat on the edge of the roof, looking off over his village. The sun was rising, and he would be in his office before any of the normal villagers awakened. For now, Gaara had his moment of peace, one of his few allowances when he should be working. It was different now that he could sleep, though. Now that he COULD sleep, with the Raccoon gone... he rarely got this moment.
He wasn’t even sure exactly what he was doing.
The only other human beings moving in the village were guards on the outer edge. He was in the center of town. Complete silence—save for the early birds and the sound of the wind through the streets—allowed him time to think. Some days, this was his moment of mental organization which allowed him to get everything planned out so that he could get it all done in time for dinner, which he missed more often than not anyway. Today, it was time for a self-absorbed relaxation. Within his mind he merely recounted the past few months.
Gaara realized he was still unhappy, but not as unhappy as he once was. For Gaara, it felt as if, even sitting in Sunaga’s Kazekage office, that he was still unfulfilled. He would watch children learning in the local school, or at the training grounds, watching how some of them intensely trained their bodies, or others ran through hand seals and practiced nin-jutsu.
He really hadn’t needed to do either as a child, and that was why he felt particularly unfulfilled. He had skipped all of his classes past learning the most basic jutsu, and studied what ones he thought he wanted to know on his own, any enemy he would need to defeat, the sand usually did it for him. It was so rare for him to come into melee combat.
Briefly, as he saw that the sun had brightened the town up even more, he considered beginning physical training. But, he thought with little more than a shrug, I’ve got new responsibilities now.
Question #1: Gaara is probably the most human character the show has ever shown. Man is an imperfect beast. Sadness and anger can drive man to places he would never go before. Gaara is a perfect example. Alone, cut off, hated, he became what everyone accused him of being. He was molded by society around him. No one person, no matter how strong, how brilliant, or how talented, can undo the damage society has wrought on its children.
Except for Naruto.
Yeah.
With Naruto’s forceful will and beating and battering, and just a bit of kindness from his siblings, Gaara became what we see him as while the Kazekage. He’s sane enough now. Serious and grim, he regards his position as a chance to prove to his village that he is not the monster they made him, the weapon people called him. Grim he may be, but not evil, not even all that angry any more. One might compare him to Tsunade and find him to be calmer.
This is why Gaara is my favorite character.
Question #2: Why do I think I can play Gaara well? Sabaku no Gaara, he is really a mentally intense character. Before Naruto he was intense and sprinkled with slight insanity, anger was rarely beneath the surface, but it was so mixed with all these other emotions that it seemed new, different. I can portray the emotions of character, turmoil, lack of emotion, anything I need properly. While plot isn’t always my strong point writing, characters ARE.
I can adapt, so Gaara will be well played and adapted.
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Gaara sat on the edge of the roof, looking off over his village. The sun was rising, and he would be in his office before any of the normal villagers awakened. For now, Gaara had his moment of peace, one of his few allowances when he should be working. It was different now that he could sleep, though. Now that he COULD sleep, with the Raccoon gone... he rarely got this moment.
He wasn’t even sure exactly what he was doing.
The only other human beings moving in the village were guards on the outer edge. He was in the center of town. Complete silence—save for the early birds and the sound of the wind through the streets—allowed him time to think. Some days, this was his moment of mental organization which allowed him to get everything planned out so that he could get it all done in time for dinner, which he missed more often than not anyway. Today, it was time for a self-absorbed relaxation. Within his mind he merely recounted the past few months.
Gaara realized he was still unhappy, but not as unhappy as he once was. For Gaara, it felt as if, even sitting in Sunaga’s Kazekage office, that he was still unfulfilled. He would watch children learning in the local school, or at the training grounds, watching how some of them intensely trained their bodies, or others ran through hand seals and practiced nin-jutsu.
He really hadn’t needed to do either as a child, and that was why he felt particularly unfulfilled. He had skipped all of his classes past learning the most basic jutsu, and studied what ones he thought he wanted to know on his own, any enemy he would need to defeat, the sand usually did it for him. It was so rare for him to come into melee combat.
Briefly, as he saw that the sun had brightened the town up even more, he considered beginning physical training. But, he thought with little more than a shrug, I’ve got new responsibilities now.