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They should have kept Gaara slightly feral.

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Gaara: *exists*

the entire fanbase: hhhggghghhghhh sweet little child ❤️

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I can't imagine how tired Gaara must have been. Hardly ever sleeping. Hardly ever shutting off in fear that the demon inside of him would go on another rampage. It must have been so draining. So draining he could barely get a coherent thought in over Shukakus screaming. So draining he sometimes couldn't even stay upright. So draining his reality became distorted. His only motivation to stay alive was his anger, spite and bloodlust.

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*it bites when it opens both

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Really disappointed when we learned about the French Revolution in high school that they left out the part about the dragon fighting the giant cat lady

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i really want to hear more about your headcanons...

Alright, I have no idea where to start so I’ll start with one I’m sorta hesitant to speak on, since a this one in particular is one that really is just me projecting, but I’m gonna post it anyway, just to get it out of the way. There is no way in hell Gaara doesn’t have some kind of Paranoid Disorder, AND I absolutely believe that the three main symptoms are stress or sleep deprived hallucinations, problems with eating, and fears or vulnerability (physically and emotionally).

I'll elaborate more in depth on these some other time (maybe), but for now, this post should suffice.

Starting with the hallucinations. Anyone under enough specific conditions can suddenly have their mind play tricks on them, regardless of any prior condition. Mental illness might make someone more susceptible to hallucinations, but anyone can have them if they have a particularly terrible few months, and Gaara has had quite some particularly terrible years. The stress of believing that there’s always someone out to get you (caused by someone ACTUALLY having been out to get you), combined with sleep deprivation and isolation, make very terrible conditions to be in, and that makes for perfect conditions to start experiencing things that are not happening. The headcanon here is that Gaara experiences primarily auditory hallucinations, with or without influence from Shukaku. Mostly noises that don’t quite come from any particular direction, but the occasional voice does chime in.

Problems trusting food or drink made or handled by others is something that primarily happens in public settings, the fear lies in the possibility that someone put something in there with malicious intentions. I imagine that after years of people trying to kill him, Gaara would most likely develop some skepticism regarding anything anyone ever tries to get him to eat or drink. Headcanon-wise, this is why I think he’s so scrawny and thin. (This specific headcanon also ties in to another one that I have, that being that Gaara knows enough about desert wildlife to be out there eating things that most people don’t like to think about eating.)

Fears of vulnerability in both physical and emotional ways. Physically getting hurt is bad enough, and the risk of being killed is always on the mind, any situation that could be dangerous is to be avoided, and anyone who can bypass whatever security you do have is an immediate threat. Getting hurt emotionally is a whole other beast entirely, you don’t need to know how to wield a weapon to cut out a piece of someone’s soul. Fears, doubts, ideals, hopes, all manner of thoughts filtered before letting them out to anyone, told carefully to a specific few people. There is always a possibility of someone seeing the parts of your soul that you’ve shown, and remembering them only to stab you there later. Knowing anything about Gaara lore should make it clear as to why this would be a thing. It’s a special kind of terrible to be hurt by the people who are supposed to love you.

Anyway, thoughts over. It took me like a day to get my thoughts in order, so I need to zone out and recharge my brain cells. I’ll elaborate more some other time maybe, and get into those nice and horrible specifics later! If you read all this, go drink water, get a snack, and think about an animal you like.

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I wonder how adorable Yugito Nii would look with cat whiskers.

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A good solid most of my headcanons about Gaara's mentally ill behaviors stem from me relating a little too hard and projecting my own mentally unstable behavior onto him. Of course I’m great at coming up with ideas for this character with mental diseases, I have very similar diseases. The worms behind my eyes are squirming up problems for this fictional man and a disproportionate number of them are just My Real Problems.

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The fact is Gaara's Brazilian Portuguese VA [Yuri Chesman] voiced as Ali in S1, his Latin Spanish (Latin America) VA [Eduardo Garza] as Wooseok, and Mainland Spanish VA [Jaume Cuartero] as Minsu in S2!!😭

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Was suddenly visited by a desire to draw a neko-gaara

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little funny thing for Gaara's birthday ❤️