#◑ | the system only dreams in total darkness ( rogue verse )

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◐ rogue verse | headcanon: kankurō’s return 

the day after kankurō disappeared, a search party was sent out to find both him and sasori. at this point, the hidden sand village had no choice but to assume that sasori was responsible and was immediately given the status of s-rank. the search went on for years and each party returned with nothing, not a lead or a body. 

after rasa’s death, the council decided to close down the search for kankurō, assuming that if he was still alive that he would have tried to return. and if he was alive, he could potentially be a danger having been under the influence of sasori for too long. they wanted to use their resources to secure the village in the absence of a kage. search parties were instead used to search for rasa’s body which was also never found.

the first trace of kankurō’s presence was within 6 months to 1 year after gaara’s tailed beast was extracted. kankurō wandered a bit too close to the border of suna and after failure to identify him from afar, the suna shinobi had no choice but to engage. despite his efforts to get away, kankurō had no choice but to become hostile, killing at least a few shinobi in his encounter. they had no choice but to retrieve gaara, the fifth kazekage. this was the first official reunion of kankurō and his siblings

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okay so kankurō probably definitely goes behind sasori’s back to blow up puppets with deidara. he knows his teacher wouldn’t approve of that, even if it does provide some weak knowledge about how strong a puppet can be to withstand an explosion. the puppets kank brings are mostly half made, pieces that he and his sensei aren’t going to continue working on anymore. sometimes kank will bring a full piece that he worked hard on, just to see how well he did in making it. he has a scroll set aside just for “duds” that he stores them in. 

kankurō would also be very inspired by deidara’s jutsu and try to work that into his puppet making. a puppet that has a timer and will explode once it captures someone?  maybe a puppet that can explode but also be quickly reassembled? kankurō hasn’t figured it out yet but he has ideas that he’s working on @explosionrelease

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8, 11, 13, 33, and 39 for Inan, Alhanin, Tace, and Fewena, E and H for you plz and thank you :D

UNSURPRISINGLY THIS IS V LONG SO IT’S UNDER A CUT

8. What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a childAlhanin:

to stop goofing off and do her chores, she was fairly good about doing things since she was Mom’s Little Helper when they weren’t with the clan and had that Be Good and Do Things mentality really early so she could help mom out but she’s always been really bad about stopping her chores to goof around with children.

Féwena:

to stop arguing or fighting or picking on someone. she was a tiny terror.

Inanallas:

to stop wandering off. to start their homework, do chores, try playing with the other kids more. the sort of things you’d tell a daydreamy child to do/not do. 

Tace:like, everything. stop back talking, stop trying to skip class, stop lying, stop reading above your approved level like– just think of what someone could tell a kid to stop doing in the circle/a circle like environment and he got it.11. How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?Alhanin:

asks questions like a functional grown ass adult until she’s sure she gets it. Especially when it’s really important. if it’s not too big of a deal might just let it slide tho.

Féwena:

basically interrogates, them/whoever’s available and is like Weirdly Annoyed she’s confused. But she’s always kinda >:| so  but yeah also tends to get progressively more snappish and heated as she asks questions for literally no reason. she’s just too salty to act normal.

Inanallas: 

depends on who’s involved, if it’s someone they know p well they’ll just ask them for clarification. but if it’s a stranger or someone they consider intimidating or something like that they’ll either look around fervently for someone like Thenvas, who they know and will see the confused terror in their eyes and know what to do, or feigns understanding long enough to scamper over to one of their friends and plead for help.

Tace:

gets really mad and petty for no fucking reason and bitches while asking questions then cuts them off from explaining to bitch more. or just doesn’t fucking care and ignores that the interaction even happened bc like, he wasn’t gonna do jack shit with that anyway.

13. What color do they think they look best in? Do they actually look best in that color?Alhanin: greens, especially olive-y ones. it certainly doesn’t look like shit but idk if it’s the best since she and few’s coloring is basically “different shades of red/red-orange”

Féwena: deep reds, darker colors, olive green, basically Edge Lord Colors generally. Overall yup on point tho idk how good the red and green are since her coloring is so red, more red is possibly just too much and green runs a risk of gross.

Inanallas: light blues. it does actually look very good on them and helps soften how pale they are while highlighting their eyes. also makes them seem more approachable and less spooky which the tattoos tend to do.

Tace: Every Color Bitch. he’s…. well he’s arrogant but he’s technically not wrong. his best colors tho are pastels and saturated colors, they really pop on him.

33. Could they be considered lazy? 

Alhanin:

only in her wildest fucking dreams, she likes to pretend at being the lazy lovable rogue but nope she’s a lil worker bee.

Féwena:

kinda, she certainly doesn’t lift a finger if she doesn’t see why she should.

Inanallas:

they can seem lazy, but it’s all the mental anguish keep them from getting things done. It was big problem in their inq au to manage their image, thenvas was doing all the inquisitorial work in skyhold (so basically running the whole dang thing) in their stead while inan still did all the field and in person work. it was month before they could even bare to leave their room after they got made inquisitor. it can take them ages to get anything done and to others it can look like their total slackers and completely irresponsible but the reality is they’re grappling with themselves over what to do.

Tace:

lol YUPPPPPPP. tace is HILARIOUSLY LAZY. he HATES working or doing ANYTHING and loves lounging around. to be fair, a good part of that tho is just like complete and total burn out in effect. but he also genuinely fucking hates like, all the kinda academia-esque shit the circles did and would just Not fucking do it bc Fuck You and go take a nap instead. even when he was in his poorly thought out affair with anders in his da canon verse and helping at the clinic he was forever moaning and groaning and whining.

39. How easy is it for them to ignore flaws in other people? 

Alhanin:

Honestly fairly easy. it’s a bit difficult to explain exactly but for Al, giving people a chance and not holding them to their flaws, thinking the best of them (within reason) is natural and also an important part of her whole philosophy. compulsive lying is bad, but the reason someone does it could be to protect themselves from something worse, so it’s important not to immediately judge or write people off because of flaws or actions and to reserve judgement until you know more and to always be willing to give people another chance. but at the same time, alhanin is always involved in the justice system somehow and is forever looking for people’s flaws and any/all potential red flags that they’re genuinely Bad or will just do it all again. So she’s both willing to forgive a lot but also ready to pin people at the drop of a hat.

Féwena:

depends on the flaws, if it’s one she finds unforgivable and/or annoying then NOPE and she will beat you up for it, mentally/emotionally or physically. otherwise she’s pm lets things slide until someone else says their not okay w/ something or w/e. she’s aware she’s really not in a position to throw stones most of the time since she’s a belligerent,  kinda xenophobic/bigoted/anti-human aggressive asshole (tho it doesn’t stop her from ridin’ that high horse around town whoops).

Inanallas:

kinda, it’s harder for them when they’re younger and things always feel more dire or visceral and they hyper focus on and distort the negatives but it gets better as they get older and they understand more about life and other people. post-trespasser or the au appropriate exp/age equivalent is very good at being kind and forgiving flaws, even when they’ve personally been hurt because of them. standard inan, which is aprox dai inan (usually pre-skyhold or near to the end bc of the Dark Zone) is very mixed and sporadic about it and hypocritical, clearly still trying to come to terms with how some flaws are okay, some are not, and how extremely situational that can be.

Tace:

TACE DOES NOT FORGIVE SHIT. TACE DOES NOT FORGET SHIT.

He fucking remembers every last fucking flaw a person’s got and will hold them against them until he fucking dies you can try and pull this from his cold dead hands and even then it won’t budge. even once he’s basically married to keshet and living in domestic bless he still is hilariously petty and loses his mind about all of keshet’s flaws (and tbh keshet exaggerates some, like the shitty jokes, just to rile him up), it’s kinder when it’s with people he likes/cares for, like Keshet and CONSIDERABLY less frequent and nicer when it’s someone he cares about and is Highly Sensitive like Thenvunin bc he’s not trying to make them feel bad. but he’s still judging, silently, in his Heart, and then out loud at home over wine while keshet very Obviously ignores him.

QUESTIONS FOR CREATORS

E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?Alhanin: ye ye, al is super chill and encouraging so that’d be cool. we’d get on just fine.

Féwena: there’s a chance we could but it’d be rocky there for a while, few is Rough to deal with sometimes and has a very brusk personality.

Inanallas: we’d get on really well and also overshare and cry a lot it’d be a sad lil tiny losers weeping club. inan would probably ask me to draw them shit all the time.

Tace: i have noooooo fucking idea. it’s hard to tell who tace will tolerate until he meets them. i’d probably wanna be friends w/ him but be too scared to talk to him bc he’s so INTENSE and he’d be like w/e, too busy losing his mind over shit elsewhere.H) What trait do you admire most?

Alhanin: 

how committed she is, how deeply she takes being Fair and Just to heart, how genuinely altruistic she is and how dauntless she is.

Féwena: 

her fire, passion and tenacity and her total fearlessness to stand up to anyone over anything. and her ability to actually control that somewhat so she doesn’t go completely out of control.

Inanallas: 

their bravery to push through and find a way to do things they need to even while scared shitless and the seriousness they treat things with when they finally accept responsibility or even if they haven’t accepted it yet. when they got made inquisitor they knew they were the worst choice objectively for a myriad of practical reasons and when thenvas arrived immediately began basically therapy w/ him and gave him pm all her responsibility bc he WAS the best choice and he knew her well enough to be able to help get them functioning again so they could do right by this shit.

Tace:

how totally unrepentant he is for his existence and how he refuses to let people try to convince him he’s the bad guy or that he deserves the abuse he gets and how he constantly stands up for himself against literally everything and everyone while doing his best not to fall into the trap of becoming as bad as them to survive it.

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i haven't talked about my rogue verse in a while ( if you don’t know what that is feel free to read about it here uwu ) and i’m imagining a scene where kank actually does run into his siblings for the first thing since he was a child and it’s revealed that its his family. i feel like he would be completely torn and would try to persuade them to join him rather than for him to return to society. he would probably say something haunting like “ i’ll have you one day..my entire family will be with me one day ” 

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rogue verse ⇢ ◐ | ᴛʜᴇ sʏsᴛᴇᴍ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍs ɪɴ ᴛᴏᴛᴀʟ ᴅᴀʀᴋɴᴇss ( ʀᴏɢᴜᴇ ᴠᴇʀsᴇ ) 

name: kankurō rank: s-class status: missing skillset: puppetry , human puppetry

age 5-10: 

by the age of five, kankurō was already showing promise with puppetry. eager to have his son move forward, rasa sought out the expertise of sasori to train his son. within a year, kankurō was on his way to graduating from the academy early. rasa was proud of his son and eager to see how much more he could learn. 

so was sasori. 

in the middle of a cold desert night, sasori acted on plans to leave the village. the true reasons why would be unknown to kankurō until years later. it didn’t take much for kankurō to be lured by his sensei. a promise of a short adventure with lots of puppetry knowledge to gain. they would be back before he knew it. 

once outside of the village, sasori altered kankurō’s mind, sealing his memories of his life before that night away. kankurō would not remember his siblings, his father, his uncle, or his mother. he would not remember much of suna at all. for the remainder of kankurō’s life, he believes that he has always been under the care of sasori. 

as years passed, sasori began to introduce kankurō to the art of human puppetry. traveling along the outskirts of the shinobi countries, sasori and kankurō often passed smaller villages that were caught in the crossfire of shinobi affairs. some towns were emptied. others were filled with bodies. kankurō was always drawn to the children his age. seeing their lifeless forms pulled on his heart in more ways than one. he felt he was missing something. missing someone but there was no life in these bodies for him to connect to.

still, sasori noticed how kankurō continued to linger every time they passed an unfortunate massacre –– how kankurō was looking for something in these children. eventually, sasori suggested kankurō take one of the bodies. whichever one he wanted. he picked the least mutilated one, a girl around his own age. her cause of death seemed to be from her legs being crushed by a falling building, causing her to be stranded as her village continued to be attacked. sasori approved of his choice, seeing that most of her body was still intact, the procedure would be an easy one. later that night they would start transforming her into kankurō girl human puppet. kankurō would call her his “sister”. 

within the next year, kankurō would repeat this process. he would collect a total of four “siblings” but only two he truly became attached to: the first girl he transformed and a boy slightly younger than him. 

age 15: 

sasori gets news of the fourth kazekage passing. being aware of rasa’s unique gold dust technique, he decides to use this as a teaching moment for kankurō. he fetches the body and brings it back to him, refusing to reveal rasa’s true identity as his father. together they manage to transform rasa into kankurō’s first advanced human puppet. 

age 17-18:

kankurō’s master is dead. after the fight for the fifth kazekage’s jinchuuriki, kankurō returned to his master’s lifeless puppet body. sadness consuming him, he took possession of the body, choosing to preserve the only father he has ever known. kankurō now wanders along the outskirts of the shinobi nations, doing his best to keep himself and his “family” out of view. 

extra notes: 

- kankurō suffers from extreme headaches whenever he gets close suna. he now avoids the village if he can.  - kankurō hands are puppet hands. he transformed them when he was 10 - although kankurō does not kill with intent to obtain a human puppet, his collection is still gradually growing. 

***verse is an accumulation of HCs created with @ofredsand & @spiritwithinthesand

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i think i'm going to edit my rogue verse. not get rid of it but like make a like a b-side to it? instead of kank being kidnapped and having his mind erased by sasori, a version where kank follows sasori willingly, knowing that he may not ever go back home and not caring because sasori is his idol and he wants to learn more about puppetry. everything else stays the same with kank making his own human puppets and eventually turning his father into a human puppet. 

the biggest change would be kankurō’s pause when sasori and deidara are tasked with killing gaara. because kank left when he was a child, he never got to have a close relationship with gaara but the entire situation doesn’t sit right with him. he doesn’t participate in the mission but he’s just so torn.

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in my rogue verse, kankurō mostly fights using taijutsu. outside of his sasori and rasa puppets, the majority of his puppets arent heavily weaponized since kankurō views them as his family and not weapons. plus his puppet hands have been altered to contain long poison soaked spikes so he can spare his puppets from unnecessary damage 

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oh man....oh man rogue!kank showing gaara and temari his "family" and he shows them rasa's puppetfied body and all of his other human puppets and he’s just so happy and naive about what’s he’s been through man...man

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rogue verse ⇢ ◑ | the system only dreams in total darkness ( rogue verse )

name: kankurō rank: s-class status: missing skillset: puppetry , human puppetry, taijutsu age 5-10: 

by the age of five, kankurō was already showing promise with puppetry. eager to have his son move forward, rasa sought out the expertise of sasori to train his son. within a year, kankurō was on his way to graduating from the academy early. rasa was proud of his son and eager to see how much more he could learn. 

 so was sasori. 

in the middle of a cold desert night, sasori acted on plans to leave the village. the true reasons why would be unknown to kankurō until years later. it didn’t take much for kankurō to be lured by his sensei. a promise of a short adventure with lots of puppetry knowledge to gain. they would be back before he knew it. 

once outside of the village, sasori altered kankurō’s mind, sealing his memories of his life before that night away. kankurō would not remember his siblings, his father, his uncle, or his mother. he would not remember much of suna at all. for the remainder of kankurō’s life, he believes that he has always been under the care of sasori. 

as years passed, sasori began to introduce kankurō to the art of human puppetry. traveling along the outskirts of the shinobi countries, sasori and kankurō often passed smaller villages that were caught in the crossfire of shinobi affairs. some towns were emptied. others were filled with bodies. kankurō was always drawn to the children his age. seeing their lifeless forms pulled on his heart in more ways than one. he felt he was missing something. missing someone but there was no life in these bodies for him to connect to. 

still, sasori noticed how kankurō continued to linger every time they passed an unfortunate massacre –– how kankurō was looking for something in these children. eventually, sasori suggested kankurō take one of the bodies. whichever one he wanted. he picked the least mutilated one, a girl around his own age. her cause of death seemed to be from her legs being crushed by a falling building, causing her to be stranded as her village continued to be attacked. sasori approved of his choice, seeing that most of her body was still intact, the procedure would be an easy one. later that night they would start transforming her into kankurō girl human puppet. kankurō would call her his “sister”. 

within the next year, kankurō would repeat this process. he would collect a total of four “siblings” but only two he truly became attached to: the first girl he transformed and a boy slightly younger than him. 

 age 15: 

sasori gets news of the fourth kazekage passing. being aware of rasa’s unique gold dust technique, he decides to use this as a teaching moment for kankurō. he fetches the body and brings it back to him, refusing to reveal rasa’s true identity as his father. together they manage to transform rasa into kankurō’s first advanced human puppet. 

 age 17-18: 

kankurō’s master is dead. after the fight for the fifth kazekage’s jinchuuriki, kankurō returned to his master’s lifeless puppet body. sadness consuming him, he took possession of the body, choosing to preserve the only father he has ever known. kankurō now wanders along the outskirts of the shinobi nations, doing his best to keep himself and his “family” out of view. 

extra notes:  - kankurō suffers from extreme headaches whenever he gets close suna. he now avoids the village if he can.  - kankurō hands are puppet hands. he transformed them when he was 10 - although kankurō does not kill with intent to obtain a human puppet, his collection is still gradually growing.

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