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At what age do you think Sasori would ha e been too far gone? I'm working on a fanic idea that deviates from canon around the time the Land of This gets destroyed by the art duo. I'm guessing that must have happened when he was in his mid-twenties(?) Would it be too late then to pull off something like that realistically?

First of all thank you for being interested in what I have to say I am very touched <3 Sorry this is going to be rambly again also I'm replying very late because I didn't see it my bad

In short: Can't really see a substantial change of character the same way I can't see it for Orochimaru. Despite what Shit Tierrot wants us to believe, patching Tsunade back together does not undo all the horrific shit he did before and afterwards.

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Ok so I guess to establish a timeline here I'm assuming Deidara would be older in your AU? Because he was forced into the Akatsuki when he was around 13 and Sasori had already been 29 by that time. Deidara and Sasori have not been canonically active before we actually get introduced to them in the KKR arc, even if it's canonically implied Sasori took over an entire country at some point in his life, the country in question probably being some small ass city state like the anime concludes, while Deidara had apparently been in contact with two other jinchuuriki. You can be pretty flexible for those 6 years in your fic because some of it even takes place before Naruto canonically kicks off.

I guess I don't really talk about Sasori's crimes because I take them for granted when I say he's canonically not really redeemable, but if we take the age Deidara joined (13) and the age Sasori (15-16ish) joined, who was his partner in crime for give or take 12-14 years? Orochimaru, who I consider to be equally not really redeemable. Why? Because they essentially are both guilty of the same crimes (against humanity). Orochimaru is an easy villain to hate RIGHTFULLY BTW because we actually see what he does, whereas it's only implied for Sasori.

Let's be real here: Both of them spent most of their time on this earth trafficking, torturing, experimenting on and murdering people regardless of affiliation. For every successful human puppet transformation, you probably had plenty of failed ones, and that is just one aspect of the probably hundreds of thousands of deaths this dude has caused directly and indirectly through the people he additionally tortured and brainwashed into doing his bidding.

12-14 years is a pretty consistent time window of two mass murders, human traffickers and mutilation enjoyers being consistently exposed to each other. If we thought what Sasori did as a whee 15 year old burning down villages to look for scraps and killing his Kage was bad, then him having pretty much unfiltered access to the stuff mentioned for absolutely no reason but self satisfaction is bound to make me think he would not be the type to start valuing humanity on a whim, unless he had no self consciousness. The OVA implies he didn't like Orochimaru from the jump, but I never thought it was because of Orochimaru's actions, probably just because he knew Orochimaru was the traitor type. He clearly had not stopped doing what he did even after Orochimaru left, up until he ultimately GAINS self consciousness through the fight against Chiyo and Sakura and immeditately unalives himself. So, by the time he meets Deidara, he would already been way too far gone tbh.

We didn't see a transformation when he was around Deidara, and we obviously didn't see a transformation when he was around Orochimaru. His entire stint in the Akatsuki surely did not improve his character in the slightest, so for me personally, I would find it very hard to redeem him with everything above kept in mind, especially since I and many others believe Orochimaru should also not be redeemed for the same reasons.

to conclude your question on how a redemption could still work:

#ask noni #meta #i am sasori's biggest hater on this website. they fear me #this was probably not helpful at all #the biggest loser in all of this naturally is deidara poor kid constantly exposed to real psychological terrorism #the wall for sasori would not have been enough

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sun--flowerseed · 6 years

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a/n: mel (xxlovendreamsxx) and i spent most of the night coming up with modern!au headcanons for every naruto character ever and this is by far my favorite, being that sai is a bisexual menace who hooks up with anybody that has a pulse. Also edit: Mel does not remember this but I’m posting it anyway.

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Sasuke almost spits his day-old milk across the table when the words leave Ino’s mouth.

“I honestly can’t believe you hooked up with Sai last night,” she teases after a careful bite of her vegetable-surprise. “Another one bites the dust.”

He splutters, loudly, causing the majority of the table to direct their attention toward him. He gathers himself, and fixes them all with a nasty glare. “What?” he hisses.

They retract.

“Uh...” Sakura’s eyes narrow at Sasuke, still settling himself. He returns her look with a curious stare of his own, attempting to take another bite of his food. Finally, she laughs. “I guess it was bound to happen.”

He nearly chokes, again, causing the entire table to turn their attention to him, again. This time, his repeated question is directed toward Sakura alone. “What?”

She raises an eyebrow. “Yes, Sasuke-kun?”

“You...” he starts, trying to find the words. He drops his fork next to his plate and frowns deeply. “You kissed Sai?”

Sakura rolls her eyes. She opens her mouth to speak, to explain herself, but is cut off.

“Yes, she has,” Sai answers for her, a smile on his face that makes Sasuke’s hands twitch into a fist. He takes a seat in the chair next to him, slamming his plate down. “And she was quite good at it, too-”

“Oh, Sai!” Sakura squeals, flushing as pink as her hair, a pretty smile on her face.

“You’re disgusting,” he snaps, and then asks Sakura, “Why on earth would you kiss him?”

The pretty blush on Sakura’s face would make his heart beat a little quickly if the situation were any different. She bites back a smile. “I mean, well, I don’t know, he’s very charming, and uh, I was drinking, and—”

“Oh, come on!” Ino yells, rolling her eyes and swinging her hand at him. “We’ve all kissed Sai!”

Sai nods. “It’s true.”

“What the fuck does that even mean?” he spits. “You haven’t all kissed Sai.”

Ino shrugs. “I have, and so has Sakura.”

“I have,” Karin agrees. “Suigetsu has, too.”

Sasuke’s eyes narrow at his friend. “What, Suigetsu—?”

He shrugs. “I’m comfortable enough in my sexuality, dick.”

He leans back in his chair, glaring. “Tch.”

“That’s not everyone, though,” Sai says, that same smile on his face. “There’s Tenten, Hinata, Temari, and Gaara, and Naruto—”

“What the fuck, Naruto?” he nearly yells, bringing his attention to the blushing blond trying his hardest to focus on the nasty dining hall food in front of him. “You’ve kissed him, too!?”

It takes him a moment to respond, but finally he resigns with, “All right! I have, okay? IT’S UNIVERSITY, SASUKE. WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE.”

“Sai is like, a right of passage or something,” Sakura concludes.

“You can’t honestly tell me you’ve never even kissed him?” Ino says, wiggling her eyebrows.

“Fuck no,” he says, a look of disgust on his face. “Like hell I’d let that freak take my first kiss.”

The entire table goes silent.

He fixes them all with a glare that could kill. “What now?”

“Your first kiss?” Ino whispers. “Sasuke, you’ve never kissed anybody before?”

Sasuke rolls his eyes, but his cheeks are dusted the prettiest pink. “What? I’m not ashamed of that.”

“He’s just waiting for the right girl to take his flower,” Naruto chimes in, grinning.

“Shut up, idiot,” he bites.

“For the right girl, huh?” Ino asks. Immediately, her attention turns to Sakura. “I wonder who that could be.”

“I wouldn’t know,” she responds, turning just as pink as the boy across from her.

Naruto grins. “I know—”

“I said shut up, idiot,” he repeats, frowning. “I don’t want to continue talking about this.”

“You won’t have to talk at all,” Sai says, and his teasing smile has turned into an incredibly suspicious grin. “You won’t be able to when I’m kissing you.” He begins leaning in, only to be pushed out of his chair.

The table erupts into laughter. “Oh, come on, Sasuke-kun!” Sai exclaims. “I was just playing around!”

“Whatever, I’m leaving.” He grabs his empty plate, and his backpack off the ground. “Don’t wait up.”

When he’s gone, Sakura sighs loudly. “You guys are such assholes.”

Karin snickers. “Well maybe if he wasn’t so obsessed with you—“

“Bite me,” Sakura interjects with a glare, and begins to stand. “And now, because of you dicks, I have to skip my lunch and go after him.”

“Oh, boohoo,” Ino teases. “How awful, going after the love of your life—“

“Literally, shut up,” she snaps, red and pink and angry all over. “I’ll see you guys never.”

She walks away, toward Sasuke, ignoring wiggly brows and flirty waves from her best friends. Best enemies. Best frienemies. Whatever.

It takes a moment to catch up to Sasuke, barreling out of the dining hall, glaring at his phone so hard she’s sure it’s going to crack. “Can you slow down?!” she yells after him.

He scoffs, but stops. “I’m not the one moving too fast, Sakura.”

She rolls her eyes. “Why don’t you cut the stoic jerk crap,” she says. “I don’t know what’s bothering you.”

“Nothing,” he says. “Why would anything be bothering me?” he lies.

“That’s what I’m saying!” she agrees. “Why are you acting like this, then?”

“I’m not acting like anything,” he lies, again.

“You can’t be bitter because you haven’t kissed anybody,” she says, “that’s your own doing.”

“I’m not bitter—“ he says.

“Like, it’s your own fault, and—“

“I don’t care—“

“You could kiss anybody you want, anyway—“

“Can you stop—“

“Literally anybody—“

So Sasuke does.

Sakura stops, eyes wide, hands frozen, and Sasuke kisses her. Sasuke pushes his lips up against hers, sloppy and soft and Sakura doesn’t move, at all. It takes her a moment to even realize what’s happening, and when she does, she doesn’t even have time to wrap her arms around him before he’s pulling away.

He’s out of breath, he’s red as a tomato, and he asks, “Are you fucking happy? I kissed who I wanted, and now you all can’t torture me, and—“

“Oh, Sasuke.” She smiles, that turns into a giggle, that turns into roaring laughter, and then he’s more red, and frowning deeper.

He asks her, “What’s so funny? Was it bad? Not as good as fucking Sai—“

But Sakura just kisses him again, and Sasuke knows he is much, much better than Sai.

#sasusaku #sai #naruto fanic #naruto #ssfanfiction #sasusaku au

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