#jewish kankuro

[edai-crplpnk]

Some Team 8 + Sand Sibs chara sheets

I procrastinated writing yesterday by doing little chara sheets for my polycule AU.

Kiba and Shino have been dating since they were teens. Shino and Hinata have been dating since college. Kankurou and Kiba start dating at 22/25 (I am writing this fic). Hinata and Kankurou may or may not have some queerplatonic relationship going on eventually.

I used this picrew for the sheets!

Additional facts!

Kiba:

Inuzuka Kiba isn't his legal name, he is still officially registered under his deadname and his father's family name. He might change it once his father's dead, probably not before that since he doesn't want him to know about it. The rest of the polycule handle most of his mail so he doesn't have to deal with it unless necessary.

He is Japanese through his father and Filipino through Tsume.

Hana is his half-sister (different father).

He transitioned in his late teens and has been on T + post-top surgery for some years now.

He got a hysterectomy for endometriosis.

He doesn't smoke much anymore, mostly vapes, which allows him to control CBD/THC levels and ratio better.

Kankurou:

He doesn't identify as trans, but might identify as non-binary somewhere along the way. He's fine with being seen as a man and conveniently goes by he/him, but is honestly a bit too psychotic and dissociated to really have an opinion about his gender and gendered body.

He is Jewish through his mother, but was raised by Baki (here, Rasa's half-brother) so most of his relationship with Judaism and Jewishness is self-taught reconnection.

He had only one brief relationship before Kiba and had sort of settled for the idea of not trying to look for partners (both romantically and sexually) because it was a lot of work and socialisation and it didn't feel all that too important for him, but hey, shit happens. (Kiba happens, and it's good shit.)

He gets a colectomy and stoma bag for his ulcerative colitis around 25 (again, the KankuKiba fic is about that). He probably won't try to get a reversal surgery in the future because he hates surgeries and hospitals.

Shino:

He mostly uses Makaton and text-to-speech as AAC. The former is easier for short indications and requests in daily life, and the latter for more complex conversations.

He gets on opioid replacement therapy sometime during his teens, although still injects occasionally as an adult.

He was initially assigned male at birth, and then reassigned female during his childhood, which he (very understandably) did not live well. Shibi defended his right to choose his gender presentation and refuse further intersex surgeries after that, and he's been mostly living as a boy/man since then. He half identifies as a cis man, half not because dissociation and plurality and trauma make gender complicated but he's sort of working through it. He'd still consider his relationship with Hinata straight, and his relationship with Kiba gay.

His parents broke up when he was a kid (in part over the decisions made about him) and Shibi raised him for the most part. He sometimes sees his mother as an adult, but they're relationship is not very good.

Hinata:

It's been a bit of a struggle to slowly acclimate Hiashi to her being part of a polyamorous relationship, but he does like Shino a lot, so that helped. (He doesn't have an excellent opinion of Kiba but they also mostly never see each other and they're happy with that.)

She has a fairly ok relationship with her family now, but being able to move out and live in group with way less hierarchy and a whole lot more community support has been very healing and helping with having more resources to maintain her relationship with her family too.

Kankurou does all her phone calls (as that of about everyone in the polycule, to be honest).

And the sibs!

Gaara:

He's had a lot of autism-related struggles as a child/teen, but functions much better as an adult now that he understands his needs better and has accommodated his daily life to them. He works as a landscaper but has a lot of at-home work hours.

Lee is his first relationship (I also have a fic about that) and he does think he's gay? But also never has thought about neither his orientation nor the idea of dating and who he would want to date much before that, so he's not sure. He's going with that for now.

He waxes his eyebrows because he compulsively plucks them otherwise. Dying his hair also helps with trying not to pluck them.

He was mostly raised by Yashamaru, who is Jewish and raised him Jewish, but has a bit of a complicated relationship with that because there was a lot of projection on Yashamaru's end, and difficulty to see him as his own person and not just his late sister's baby. He's not religious although he sort of still observant out of habit. (Ex: he doesn't necessarily care about eating kosher, but it's also the food he's used to make and eat, so he will still go for that most of the time.)

Temari (in pyjamas mode in this picture because I didn't have something less casual that fitted her style in the picrew):

She works as a diplomat and is very much a workaholic. The trauma is strong but the grind is stronger.

Just like Kankurou, she was raised by Baki and her connection to Jewishness and Judaism are mostly self-taught. She is a bit less observant than Kankurou.

She has chronic pain that she probably ignores a bit too much, but who can really stop her. (Kankurou should try and probably does.) Compression stockings enthusiast.

She has a motorcycle that Kankurou is very afraid to ride. (Gaara is okay.)

I'll probably do more in this AU later!

#team 8 #sand siblings #shino aburame #kiba inuzuka #hinata hyuga #kankuro #temari #gaara #naruto headcanon #modern au #jewish sand siblings #jewish kankuro #jewish temari #jewish gaara #trans kiba inuzuka #intersex shino aburame #autistic gaara #autistic shino aburame #autistic hinata hyuga #kankukiba #kankiba #shinohina #shinokiba #gaalee

[allgather]

what toppings do pidge, kankuro, and angus put on their latkes

angus is a sour cream ONLY purist. he likes to keep it savory, likes the texture of the crispy fried latke meeting the creaminess of the sour cream. any applesauce in the mix throws off the careful balance, so its a no from him. might throw in green onions on top for some flair, because he's in taako's kitchen and he's gotta make it flashy for him.

pidge is particular about her food, and of course this extends to latkes. she watches matt just dump both applesauce and sour cream on each of his latkes and it makes her a little bit ill ( she tells him he is a heathen with no respect for cultivating a good eating experience. and she flicks a spoonful of applesauce at him for punishment ). she has both sour cream and applesauce on her plate in little dipping piles, will only have one at a time on each bite. she's getting the best of both toppings without feeling like she's got too much going on.

kankuro is an aforementioned heathen for sure. dumps too much of both sour cream and applesauce on the whole pile of latkes, just loads those babies up. they mix together into something tangy and creamy and sweet all at once, and he loves it. his latkes turn out a lil soggy and not quite crispy or really burnt because he's impatient and bad at keeping track of how hot the oil is, but they're still good and he's still proud of them. and he shares with his siblings and they're certainly not complaining.

#thank you hnak you are truly a REAL ONE #happy hanukkah to you my friends <3 #chanting: they are jewish they are jewish hell yeah hell yeah #(pidge) #(angus) #(kankuro)

[momowho34]

kankuro, to gaara: what do you wanna eat?

shukaku: the souls of the innocent

gaara: a bagel

shukaku: NO

gaara: ....two bagels-

#shitpost #naruto #incorrect naruto quotes #naruto shitposting #sand siblings #gaara #temari #kankuro #love em #my boys (and girl) #(u know what I mean) #vines #my jewish ass is like “six bagels

[weaponwield]

“it’s sukkot today, so chag sameach.” do not let his confidence fool you; kankuro does not speak hebrew. he learned the greeting from lady chiyo. nonetheless, he’ll celebrate the ( always meagre ) sunagakure harvest by stringing up dried fruits and lighting candles with his siblings. 

#it mean 'happy holidays' in hebrew fyi ! #sukkot is like the jewish harvest festival #kankuro hc #(kankuro)

[ghoste-catte]

Happy Hanukkah @jessicamiriamdrew! I hoped to have this finished a bit earlier, but I hope you enjoy this little GaaLee Hanukkah fic anyway. (This is the answer to the question “Why was Greyson asking about if you can use a robot to light a menorah”?)

Title: You Spin Me Right Round

Rating: T

Fandom: Naruto

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Gaara/Rock Lee, Shikamaru Nara/Temari

Characters: Gaara, Rock Lee, Kankuro, Temari

Additional Tags: Hanukkah, Jewish Sand Sibs, Fluff, Humor, Alternate Universe-Modern Setting, Quarantine Fic, Ugly Holiday Sweaters, Zoom Mishaps, Kankuro’s Questionable Adulting Abilities

Summary:

Gaara is preparing to spend his first Hanukkah with his roommate-turned-boyfriend, Lee. And he’s not going to let anything stand in the way of enjoying the holiday: not social distancing, not Lee’s bad luck with frying oil, and not even Kankuro’s … shall we say, creative take on the festivities.

Read ‘You Spin Me Right Round’ here on Ao3!

#gaalee #leegaa #gaara #rock lee #naruto #my fics

[allgather]

hey guys im abt to make more characters jewish, trans, and autistic. you cant stop me. already got my grimy little hands on kankuro. pidge is next for all 3.

#tw religion #i transgenderify #i autisticify #and i jewishify #its who i am #ooc

[allgather]

I love being self-indulgent and sharing important parts of myself with my muses. pidge is from a mixed-faith family and is jewish, autistic, and non-binary. angus is jewish and autistic, too. kankuro is jewish. kazuma is disabled and has chronic migraines. shisui is disabled. iruka has ocd and is trans. jonouchi is trans. and kakeru is stupid.

#this is both sincere as hell and a haha funny joke #been working my way up to writing by focusing on what makes me love and feel connected to these muses #and they’re like 95% all bisexual : 3

[ghoste-catte]

For the Fanfic Ask Meme, will you do ✨ and 👓?

Thank you~~

✨ - what is your newest shiny fic idea?

The very latest is something I'm planning to write for GaaLee Hallo-Week. It's basically an angst bomb, so apologies out front. The basic premise is that Lee dies, but his ghost stays with Gaara/his family. His ghost can interact with the world in very limited ways, showing up in mirrors but only after dark, speaking but only repeating bits of what a living person said to him on a six-second delay, touching (maybe, I'm unsettled on this one) but only from a certain distance. It's mostly a story about grief, and the way we carry it around with us, and how different people deal with grief and the ways that the people around us react to our grief reactions and the ripple effect/fractal that creates in our relationships. It's about how to live with a person who isn't truly present in your life, but whose existence colors your every moment. And when--and if--to let go, and how personal that decision is.

Sorry, that was a bit maudlin.

👓 - what’s a tiny detail you wrote that you’re proud of?

I don't know about 'proud', but a fun detail is that in 'You Spin Me Right Round', I actually consulted with @jessicamiriamdrew about whether or not using a robot to light a Menorah was permissible in Judaism (the verdict is out but there are some videos of real life Menorah-bots), and all of the superheroes that make up Kankuro's abomination of a Hanukkiah are canon Jewish superheroes. Oh, and Kankuro's ugly Hanukkah sweater is real, and it's beautifully hideous.

Fanfic Ask Meme

#answered #ask meme #lilac-noctua

[weaponwield]

TLDR; kankuro & sunagakure & judaism.

sunagakure is a desert nation, and just like the desert nations of the middle-east, it has a significant jewish population. this is not to say that everyone from sunagakure is automatically jewish, or it is a jewish ethnostate (ew), but it is the place in the naruto-verse where judaism would most likely have it’s roots and a strong continuing practice to the modern day. other villages surely have some jewish populations as well from inter-marriage, immigration, or the conquering and absorbing of settlements originally from the land of wind by other nations, however I believe these communities are mostly small and diasporic in nature. so, especially up to and during the era of war that takes place until the end of shippuden where alliances between villages are tumultuous, the vast majority of the jewish population remains in sunagakure.

kankuro places great importance on his sunagakure and jewish culture. Judaism is both a set of religious beliefs and a lived culture to many people. kankuro is spiritual, he values his cultures and his religion very much and fights fiercely to keep them alive. he wears the face paint traditional to sunagakure, he practices and teaches puppetry, which is a dying art regional to suna. he observes the sabbath when he can ( though he can’t always manage to do it, as an active shinobi with a duty to his village and to the kazekage ). he takes Yom Kippur off every year to mourn and ask forgiveness for his misgivings over the past year. he enjoys loud and raucous passover seders with his family and their every-extending group of friends and allies ( yes, their passover is huge and well-attended by the shinobi of the leaf, who make the trek to sunagakure every year ). he mourns by bringing stones instead of flowers to the graves of his fallen comrades and his parents. he covers his head when he seeks the wisdom of adonai or prays before the torah.

sunagakure also has a very distinctly jewish cultural atmosphere that kankuro revels in. every village elder thinks of themselves as aunt or uncle to the children of the kazekage, making their lives, their progress in training, their private romances the business of the whole town. it’s a sin to gossip, but oh how folks in suna love a good tidbit of something juicy to pass along at Friday night dinner. the dinners themselves are loud and joyous, distinct with the sound of mixed languages: the common tongue spoken between nations and Hebrew ( mostly by the older folks of suna, but kankuro is trying to learn it ). he refers to lady chiyo as bubbie, views her as a rabbi, a teacher. kankuro feels it’s his duty as a member of the kazekage clan to keep both his jewish and his sunagakure cultures alive in and  to pass them on to future generations. if he is successful, he hopes one day to be worthy of that title of rabbi, too.

#hc #(kankuro) #kankuro hc

[weaponwield]

it’s Yom Kippur tomorrow, so I think I’ll channel that and write a bit about my hcs for suna and, more specifically, kankuro’s Jewish culture. i also am working on a Drabble for kank feat. jewish mourning practices.

#kankuro #ooc #these are a treat for Messlf