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Character Name: Sabaku no Gaara
Character Series: Naruto
Age: 15
Background:
Before the manga:
Gaara was the third child of the Fourth Kazekage, but he was born as an experiment. Before he was born, the sand demon, Shukaku, was sealed inside him, with his mother as a sacrifice. When Gaara was born, his mother died, cursing her village, and named her son Gaara: a demon loving only himself. His uncle, Yashamaru, was charged with his care.

Because Shukaku was sealed inside him, he had complete control of sand, but at the price of never being able to sleep for fear of the demon eroding his personality. Also as a result of the Shukaku, everyone in his village feared him as a monster. For the first six years of his life he was alone but for his uncle, with even his family refusing to interact with him.

When he was six he was sitting alone at a playground when he saw a group of kids loose their ball on top of a building. As they complained that they couldn't get it down, he used his control of sand to bring the ball to his hands. But when he tried to give the ball back, the kids ran. Responding to his desire to stop them from running, the sand lashed out, tripping one girl as she ran. As the sand was about to attack again, Yashamaru appeared, blocking the sand as the girl got away.

Later that day Gaara asked his uncle what pain was like, as the sand had always automatically protected him from injury. Yashamaru awkwardly explained, and told Gaara about 'wounds of the heart' and that the only way they could be healed was with love, also asserting that he loved Gaara. Gaara then decided to take ointment to the girl he had accidentally injured to help her recover, but she slammed the door in his face, calling him a monster.

On his way home, emotionally injured and angry, he lashed out at a man who bumped into him, responding to the fearful look he gave him and killing him. He returned home to angry looks from his father and siblings and spent the night on the roof. In the middle of the night, however, he was attacked by a barrage of kunai throwing knives. The sand blocked the attack and Gaara was easily able to disable his assailant, but as he walked over to find out who had attacked him, he found it to be none other than his uncle.

Hysteric, Gaara asked his uncle why he had done it, finding out that his father, the Kazekage, had decided that he was too dangerous because of his lack of control over his powers and ordered him killed. Gaara was relieved, thinking that his uncle had had no choice, until Yashamaru said that he probably could have turned down the mission, but he was, in reality, angry at Gaara, blaming him for his sisters death, and even hated him. He then explained the meaning behind Gaara's name and opened his jacket to reveal hundreds of bomb tags, saying "Please die" before they exploded, killing Yashamaru, while the sand protected Gaara. This revelation drove Gaara insane and he had the sand scar the kanji for 'ai', love, onto his forehead, concluding that his purpose in life was to kill everyone else.

Pre-timeskip:
Gaara first meets Naruto right before the Chuunin Exams, reminding his brother that they weren't supposed to cause trouble. In the exams he severely injured a Konoha-nin by the name of Rock Lee, and was only stopped from killing him by his sensei intervening. Later, Gaara fought one of the major characters, Uchiha Sasuke, as part of a plan of Suna and Oto to destroy Konoha.

During the fight he began to lean on the power of his demon, starting to transform into it. He was interrupted by an attack from Sasuke, leading to him retreating into the surrounding forest, where he was pursued by Sasuke, leading to another fight, which he won. Once again Gaara was prevented from killing his opponent by an intervention in the form of Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura.

After a long fight, Naruto defeated Gaara. When Gaara's siblings came to his aid, he surprised them both by telling them to leave the injured Naruto. The three of them returned to Suna, where they discovered that the man who had lead them to attack Konoha was not in fact the Kazekage, but Orochimaru, who had killed the real Kazekage and taken his place.

Months later, Gaara returned to Konoha as an ally to help retrieve the wayward Sasuke, who had left to join Orochimaru. He arrived in time to prevent one of Orochimaru's lackies, Kimimaro, from killing Rock Lee. Even with the help of Lee, Gaara still barely survived the battle, only escaping death because Kimimaro died of an incurable ilness seconds before his attack hit.

After the match, Gaara had a brief conversation with Lee about what lonliness will drive people to, before the mission was declaired a failure and he returned to Suna with his siblings.

Post Timeskip:
After two an a half years Gaara has become the Fifth Kazekage. He is also, however, a target of the Akatsuki, specifically Deidera, who attempted a surprise attack on Gaara. Gaara, however, caught on to the attack and a fight ensued between the two of them. Gaara nearly defeated Deidera, but Deidera turned the fight around by planting bombs in the sand Gaara used to defend and then targeting the village below. Gaara used the last of his energy to protect the village from the attack and was captured by Deidera.

The unconscious Gaara was taken to a cave in River Country where the Shukaku would be extracted from him, resulting in his death, but before the procedure could begin, he slipped out of his world and into Memento Eden.

Personality: Gaara is ordinarily a very quiet individual and is not accustomed to talking to people. This, however, doesn't mean he's an unpleasant person. He is a genuinely kind and caring person and a good friend if you can get to know him. He is also very protective of people who look up to him, willing to sacrifice his life if need be.

This protective tendency is rooted in Gaara's desire to be accepted and needed as something other than a weapon and likely a desire to make up for the years he spent killing mostly innocent people without remorse. But although he is kind to his friends and allies, he is cold and sometimes brutal to his enemies, willing to kill people who threaten his home or his friends without a second thought.

When he does fight, he does so exclusively with sand, preferring to capture and crush his enemies, usually with enough force that they die before they can feel the pain. On occasions when he cannot fully capture his opponent he will crush any limbs he can immobilize to weaken the enemy and hopefully fully envelop them with sand. He usually does this from a distance, as he has an incredibly low pain tolerance due to having never been injured until he was twelve and rarely after that due to Shukaku automatically protecting him from attacks.

(Also, this hasn't been canonically established, but it hasn't been refuted either as it hasn't come up at all, but I'm going to be playing him with a decent sized liking for watermelons)

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