#⊰ ° ‧: ｡* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 ↝ Sasori ⊱

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Sasori’s  nb  & considers  himself  agender  to  be  precise.  He  accepts  all  pronouns   but  he/him  pronouns  are  used  most  frequently.  In  all  aspects  Sasori  has  gone  out  of  his  way  to  liken  himself  as  much  to  a  doll  or  “ puppet ” as  possible   &   this  is  perhaps  another  reflection  of  that  process.  Though  he  is  uncannily  life  like  in  all  other  ways,  in  part  attributed  to  being  built  from  a  real  human  base,  no,  he  hasn’t  actually  bothered  with  anatomical  correctness.  Reason  being  that  he  finds  this  to  be  just  pointless  to  his ~aesthetic~.  

Furthermore,  while  Sasori  is  comfortable  projecting  certain  aspects  of  masculinity,  he  typically  teeters  over  to  more  feminine  aspects  frequently  &  preferably.  Appearance  wise,  Sasori  does  not  like  to  look  like  a  man  as  such.  A  very  pretty  young  boy  is  as  far  as  he's  comfortable  with  as  far  as  male  presentation  goes.  He  prefers  to  look  feminine &  doll  like  &  as  he  sees  himself  as  more  youthful  &  beautiful  this  way,  so  his  overall  appearance  can  be  rather  ambiguous.  The  best  way  to  describe  Sasori’s   appearance  is  young  &  angelic  with  no  completely  obvious  gender  on  either  side.  

In  line  with  the  above,  no,  Sasori  has  never  had  any  romantic  flames  in  any  way.  Sasori  lived  most  of  his  life,  even  while  human,  isolated  from  others.  His  great  skill  set  him  apart  from  any  in  his  age  group  & his  mastery  of  puppets  frequently  othered  him  further,  given  in  Suna  puppet  users  were  often  considered  oddities  in  the  first  place. (  Which  I  believe  was  suggested  with  Kankuro )  Dire  loneliness  was  one  of  the  overarching  factors  that  warped  his  psyche.  Kumoshi  was  the  only  living  person  in  Suna  who  treated  Sasori  like  a  human  being,  &   not  a  form  of  object,  be  it  a  weapon  to  serve  the  village  or  a  column  on  a  pedestal  only  to  be  looked  up  to.  Since  then,  the  only  other  living  people  Sasori  has  found  comfort  &  a  sense  of  kinship  with  are  the  Akatsuki.  His  loyalty  to  the  organisation  is  truly  genuine.

Sasori  has  no  filter,  he’s  extremely  blunt  no  matter  who  he  is  speaking  to.  Besides  Itachi  he  is  one  of  the  members  of  Akatsuki  who  talks  the  least,  however  in  stark  contrast  to  Itachi  he  isn’t  ever  polite  about  it.  If  Sasori  has  something  to  say  he’ll  say  it  regardless  to  what  anyone  thinks  about  it.  Canonly,  almost  everyone  BUT  Sasori  was  prone  to  using  honorifics  when  speaking  to  others.  Sasori  rarely  ever  used  them.  ( Never  to  my  knowledge )  Where  as  Itachi  almost  always  used  them.  He  has  ZERO  qualms  when  it  comes  to  cutting  others  down,  using  harsh  /  foul  language  &  can be particularly  insulting  when  he  wants  to  be.  Sasori  will  read  you  for  fifth  at  a  moments  notice.  Its  a  talent  he  has.

While  he  was  able  to  eat  Sasori’s  favourite  food  was  MAPO DOUFU.  He  tended  to  enjoy  spicy  dishes  the  best.  He  also  had  a  massive  sweet  tooth  &  was  a  fan  of  all sweets,  particularly  those  in  the  caramel  family.  On  top  of  that,  Sasori  was  &  is  a  decent  cook,  contrast  to  his  grandma  who  wasn’t  fond  of  the  culinary  side  of  things  which  pushed  him  to  take  an  interest  in  this  himself,  especially  if  he  wanted  to  eat  a  proper  meal  at  any  point.  It  should  be  noted  that  while  Sasori  no  longer  needs  to  eat  he  does  actually  still  sleep.  This  is  not  so  much  done  to  recover  physical  stamina  but  rather  mental  stamina   &  to  pass  the  time.  Sasori  may  not  have  a  body  to  keep  recharged  anymore  but  he  still  has  a  consciousness,  which  does  still  benefit  from  sleeping.

Sasori’s  mother  &  father  had never  planned  for  him  to  become  a  shinobi.  They  did  not  want  that  life  for  their  child  &  had  kept  him  majorly  away  from  it   while  they  were  alive.  After  their  deaths,  however,  Chiyo  taught  Sasori  puppetry  to  cheer  him  up.  It  worked  for  a  short  time  but  Sasori’s  talent  became  obvious  to  all  around  him  which  resulted  in  the  council  of  Sunagakure  pushing  Chiyo  to  train  Sasori  for  combat,  due  to  their  desire  not  to  waste  this  talent  when  they  believed  their  village  was  struggling.  Chiyo  reluctantly  agreed  &   Sasori  proved  to  be  as  talented  in  battle  as  he  was  in  the  workshop.

Sasori  is  in  fact  distantly  related  to  Chikamatsu  Monzaemon,  which  is  precisely  how  the  Chikamatsu’s  collection  wound  up  in  Chiyo’s  possession,  having  been  passed  down  their  family  for  generations.  As  a  child,  Sasori  was  occasionally  referred  to  as  “Chikamatsu’s second coming”,  or   “Chikamatsu  reborn”  in  acknowledgement  to  his  prodigal  talents,  something  which  he  took  great  pride  in  as  he  always  studied  & idolised  the  man.  Even  to  this  day  if  Sasori  was  given  the  option  to  face  anyone  dead  or  alive  in  a  friendly  battle  of  skill  Chikamatsu  would  be  his  choice  without  hesitation.

Another,  probably  more  controversial  headcanon  I  have  is  that  Sasori  is  also  in  fact  related  to  an  unknown  member  of  the  Uzumaki  clan.  This  is  known  possibly  only  by  Chiyo  however.  Sasori’s  grandfather  was  never  given  any  identity  in  the  series  that  I  know  of   &  as  far  as  we  saw  he  didn’t  get  his  bright  red  hair  from  his  grandmother.  Chiyo  also  makes  no  reference  to  any  husband  or  indication  that  she  ever  had  one  leaving  Sasori’s  grandfather  a  complete  mystery.  Taking  the  known  traits  of  the  Uzumaki  clan  relatives  we  know  of   and  applying  them  to  Sasori  does  make  a  lot  of  sense  in  my  opinion,  particularly  when  I  think  of  the  amount  of  Chakra  Sasori  was  able  to  effortlessly  expel  and his  precise  control  of  it  even  at  such  huge  quantities  I  think  this  is most  clearly  demonstrated  in  both  Sasori’s  100  puppet  performance  technique   &  his  living  core,  which  I  would  think  is  mostly  logically  the  result  of  a  type  of  macabre  Fūinjutsu.  As  for  Sasori’s  grandfather  I  haven't  named  him  or  given  him  any  type  of  personality  in  my  HC  but  I  do  HC  Chiyo  possibly  met  him  during  the  second  war &  had  a  relationship  with  him  then.  I  believe  this  has  always  been  kept  a  secret,  whether  or  not  Chiyo  knew  his  origins.

A  little  bit  on  Sasori’s  core:  As  stated  this  is  quite  literally  Sasori.  The  cylinder  seen  in  his  chest  is  Sasori’s  actual  form &  contains  all  of  his  consciousness  &   life force,  making  it  generally  sentient.  It  is  able  to  move  itself  in  a  somewhat  psychokinetic  manner.  Technically,  Sasori’s  core  is  able  to  “merger”  with  whatever  organic  material  it  comes  in  contact  with,  allowing  Sasori’s  spirit/lifeforce  to  possess  it  & Sasori  does  have  consciousness  &  control  over  what  his  core  targets.  In  theory,  this  could  mean  Sasori  could  posses  a  still  living  human,  however  the  tendrils  that  protrude  from  the  cylinder  are  short  &  are  not  designed  for  grappling  with  living  things  that  might  seek  to  reject  its  presence.  This  is  also  why  Sasori’s  shell  bodies  all  have  a  special  space  carved  out  for  the  core  to  slide  in  nicely  &  take  control.

The  shells  that  hold  Sasori’s  physical  likeness  are  really  just  that  ━  shells,  of  which  he  has  created  numerous  in  his  former  image,  as  shown  briefly  during  his  battle  with  Chiyo  &  Sakura.  Sasori’s  original  body,  however,  is  the  one  he  was  shown  fighting  in & it  only  differs  from  his  human  puppets  due  to  his  own  design,  which  is  why  Sasori  considers  himself  his  greatest  masterpiece  as  he  is  the  closest  to  a  living  puppet  there  ever  has  been  in  any way.   Unlike  his  “human  puppets”  Sasori  initially  appears  completely  lifelike   &  with  the  exception  of  eating  & breathing,  behaves  lifelike  as  well.  He  has  even  taken  measures  to  camouflage  any  obvious  joints  that  might  be  visible  outside  of  his  Akatsuki  robes  with  a  layer  of  what  would  be  best  described  as  a  type  of  “skin”  over  top.  This  is  why  Sasori’s  fingers,  wrists  & toes  do  not  appear  to  have  puppet  like  joints  as  his  human  puppets  do  & why  his  skin  doesn’t  take  on  that  greyish  “dead”  appearance  they  do  either.

In  some  places, however,  it  was  shown  Sasori  hasn’t  bothered  to  hide  his  joints  or  his  obvious  puppet  parts  as  they  are  concealed  by  his  cloak.  This  was  also  due  to  using  his  body  as  a  battle  puppet,  fitted  with  deadly  weapons  &  simplifying  himself  for  repairs & additions.  If  he  wanted  however,  he  could  have  made  his  puppet  body  look  exactly  the  same  as  his  human  body  with  absolutely  no  obvious  joints & free  of  weapons  entirely.  The  difference  merely  being  the  lack  of  a  sign  he  is  actually  alive.  ( Body  heat,  breath  ect )  &  since I  like  to  use  pieces  of  the  game’s  canon  in  my  portrayal,   I  do  imagine  Sasori’s  body  had  been  in  this  more  entirely  “human  looking”  state  once  before,  before  he  decided  to  alter  himself  to  add  weapons,  to  explain  why  there  was  no  visible  sign  of  him  being  a  “puppet”  when  confronted  by  Konan  to  join  the  Akatsuki  despite  the  fact  that  at  that  point  he  should  have  already  been  converted.

Sasori’s  desire  to  collect  puppets  would  very  much  go  into  the  realms  of  compulsive  hording  if  the  Naruto  world  didn’t  have  that  handy  little  thing  called  scrolls  where  you  can  just  instantly  & infinitely  store  items, +  Sasori’s  always  forced  to  move  around  being a  criminal   & all  so  he  never  gets  settled  anywhere.   As  things  are  now,  of  course,  Sasori’s  “”collecting””  is  dark  in  the  sense  that  it  combines  a  serial  killer &  trophy  taking  kind  of  angle  which  would  slow  down  MOST  normal  people  outside  of  Naruto’s  world  but  since  death  &  killing  is  almost  considered  a  norm,  Sasori  is  just  as  able  to  freely  acquire  mass  amounts   of  human  puppets  the  same  way  he  would  able  to  acquire  Barbie  dolls  in  our  wold. The  only  things  limiting  his  collecting  is  the  hunt   &   the  “materials”  he  can  find  &  deem  worthy.  

Sasori  can  be  very  picky,  he  wont  just  convert  ANY  shinobi  into  a  human  puppet  for  his  collection,  he  prefers  strong  shinobi  with  interesting  jutsu  so  obviously  that  limits  what  he  can  collect  for  either  unavailability  or  the  challenge  of   having  to  kill  that  shinobi –  though,  nearly  300  puppets  later,  obviously  killing  them  hasn’t  been  THAT  MUCH  of  a  challenge  to  Sasori.   After  proving   himself   the  victor,  Sasori  feels  himself  entitled  to  collect  that  person.  He  would  not  find  the  “piece”  as  valuable  or  as  desired  if  he  couldn’t  face  &  defeat  them  in  battle,  meaning  Sasori  almost  never  makes  puppets  out  of  anyone  he  hasn’t  personally  confronted  &  killed  himself.  Furthermore,  Sasori  does  not  consider  this  an  evil,  twisted   act  but  rather  quite  the  opposite.  To  Sasori  this  is  a  show of  utmost  honour  &  respect  to  them  &  their  abilities.  In  his  mind  he’s  immortalising  them,  so  they  will  “live”  forever,  never  broken  or  defeated  again.

Regardless,  he  does  sometimes  “convert”  shinobi  who  aren't  strong.  These  are  literally  spare  parts.  As  his  puppets  are  “human”  the  only  materials  that  aren't  human  are  the  weapons  &  mechanisms  within  them.  To  do  that  he  needs  human  parts  to  work  with  as  well . Sasori  likes   to   keep  his  materials  organic as  much  as  possible.

I  believe   Sasori’s   death  was  certainly  linked  to   the   amount  of  puppets  he  lost.  His  fight  with  Sakura   &   Chiyo  essentially  laid  waste  to  his  life’s  work &  Sasori’s  puppets  have  always  been  more  important  to  him  than  just  pieces  of  art  he's  proud  of.  They're…  A  condition.  The  manifestation  of  a  severely  damaged  psyche  &  trauma.  They’re  a  coping  mechanism.  Since  he  was  a  child  creating  puppets  was  how  he  distracted  himself  from  his  sadness  & loss  &  really  existed  to  fill  that  void.   I  don’t  think  Sasori  really  took  the  loss  of  over  15  YEARS  of  tireless  work,  dedication  &  attachment  as  well  as  it  seemed.  I  think  it  was…. Very  hard  for  him  to  watch  his  favourite  puppets  completely  destroyed  &  with  most  of  his  collection  wrecked  I  believe  he  began  to  feel  the  only  comfortable  outcome  for   himself   was   to  “die”  with  them   & so   when  the  opportunity  presented  itself  Sasori  simply  allowed  it,  keeping  in  mind  Sasori  would  have  been  the  victor  had  he  chose  to  be.

Puppets   of  course  aren’t  the  only  thing  Sasori  has  in  his  collection.  He  also  obviously  collects  poisons  /  toxins  &  the  equipment  to  make  all  of  these  things,  from  the  poisons  to  the  puppets.  He  has  a  fascination  for  bugs  &  creepy  crawlies  so  he  has  some  preserved  bug  specimens  as  well  +  a  little  bug  collection.  Then  being  an  artist  he  also  tends  to  have  various  things  for  artistic  mediums  beside  JUST  making  puppets.  Another  one  of  Sasori’s  most  important  artistic  mediums  is  drawing.  He  has  a  few  sketch  books,  one  in  particular  which  is  rather  large & slightly  tatty  showing  its  age.  These  books  are  full  of  deigns  for  Sasori’s  puppets,  including  their  mechanisms  &  brief  notes  on  how  they  will  work  & other  things.  He  makes  sure  not  to  go  too  much  in  detail  however  as  he  prefers  to  keep  his  puppets  secret  weaponry  just  that.

He  doesn’t  create  a  puppet  without  a  good  design  in  mind,  especially  for  how  he  can  best  utilise  the  puppet’s  human  traits.  He  often  has  to  make  special  mechanisms  to  get  a  human  puppets  particular  kekkei  genkai  working  at  the same  level  it  would  when  that  puppet  was  still  alive.  Sasori  likes  to  have  all this  planned  out  before  he  begins  working  for  convenience  sake,  he  at  least  likes  to  have  a  rough  map  for  what  components  he’ll  need  to  access  & utilise  those  special  abilities,  as  often  he  can  add  other  things  later & usually  does  when  he  feels  a  spurt  of  inspiration  or  thinks  he's  had  a  good  idea.  Sasori’s  artistic  style  is  very  hyper  realistic,  he  likes  to  get  everything  as  perfect &  precise  as  possible  which  he's  very  capable  of  given  his  extensive  anatomical  knowledge. Sasori  will  also  make designs  of  people  who… Aren’t  dead.  Many  of  his  fellow  Akatsuki  members  he's  already  made  design  plans  for  with  very  detailed  &  descriptive  images.  This  would  probably  be  seen  as  threatening  if  discovered  but  Sasori  doesn’t  exactly  see  it  that  way.  Its  really  just  like  drawing  someone  a  portrait  of  themselves  to  him  &  as  far  as  his  fellow  Akatsuki  members  go  no,  he  doesn’t  really  plan  to  ‘act’  on  making  them  into  puppets  for  now,  he's  simply  imagining  what  they'd  be  like  as  puppets.  

Typically,  Sasori  will  start  “designing”  someone  he  finds  interesting  as  a  puppet  the  moment  he  meets  them  &  if  he  decides  he  likes  them  enough  he  will  eventually  start  putting  his  designs  to  paper.  Again  this  would  be  seen  as  frightening  & threatening  to  most  normal  people  really  it  should  be  taken  as  flattering  or  complimentary.  To  be  designed  in  one  of  Sasori’s  sketch  books  Is  Sasori’s  weird   way  of  saying  he  likes   you  or  he  respects  you  / admires  your  power  & thinks  you  deserve  to  be  ‘eternal’.

Sasori  & Chiyo  had  a  rather  serious  fight  prior  to  Komushi’s  death.  This  was  the  product  of  Sasori  confronting  Chiyo  about  lying  to  him  about  his  parents  deaths  for  all  those  years  &  Chiyo  defending  this  by  claiming  she  wanted  to  spare  him  the  pain  &  Sasori  arguing  against  what  he  felt  were  hypocrisies.  It  went  on  like  this,  Chiyo  defending  the  village’s  ( and  her  own )  decisions. Sasori  was  already  kind  of  suffering  selective  mutism  at  this  point  & this  didn’t  really  help.  The  communication  between  them  wasn’t  very  fruitful  or  satisfactory  for  either  of  them. This  resulted  in  Sasori  opting  to  “move  out”  in  a  way  as  he  decided  to  retreat  to  suna’s  puppet  workshop  &  stay  there,  avoiding  his  grandma  as  much  as  possible.  This  is  why  Komushi   started  acting  as  a  messenger  between  him  &  Chiyo  since  the  two  were  not  speaking. This  went  on  for  a  number  of  months,  I  would  go  as  far  as  to  say  nearing  a  year,  but  Sasori’s  mental  state  wasn't  thought  of  as  dire  as  it  was  due  to  the  fact  Sasori  was  though  of  as  just  naturally  quiet &  Chiyo  herself  noted  Komushi  was  Sasori’s  only  real  friend  so  his  absolute  withdrawal  was  not  entirely  thought  of  as  unusual  or  noticed  too  much  until  too  late.  

I   always   found  Chiyo   recounting  past  events  in  ep  319  really  strange  since  her  &  Sasori  are  shown  to  have  this  awkward  standoffish  relationship  despite  the  fact  we’re  not  shown  any  clear  reason  for  it.  We’re  not  sure  why  they  seem  to  be  avoiding  each  other  otherwise  but  this  is  my  explanation  &  to  me  looking  at  it  this  way  it  makes  sense  why  Chiyo  felt  so  responsible  for  Sasori’s  collapse  as  she  says  she  distanced  himself  from  him  when  he  needed  love  by  allowing  him  to  withdraw  away  & essentially  encouraging  it  as  she  did  the  same.  Her  attempts  to  make  peace  with  Sasori  were  there  but  since  they  weren't  direct  Sasori  did  not  interpret  them  as  such  &  he  was  already  hurt  &  angry  that  she  had  lied  to  him  all  those  years.

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