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Gaara App 3/?
Personality/Likes & Dislikes: His father was right: Gaara was never rehabilitated. He simply learned how to play the part. He knows how to say please and thank you, to raise his hand when he knows the answer (but not too often), how to shape his characters, to write an essay and put together that formula, how to follow the rules and play along. He knows these things, but they are meaningless, and in that, Gaara has a sociopathic tinge. His insanity does not stop there: he hears the voice of his “mother”, and of course, she is bloodthirsty.

Yashamaru's betrayal and subsequent death left Gaara warped, and he found it impossible to relate to other people since. Viewing himself as other than human, and disinterested in other humans except for what they can do for him, and how he exists in relation to them. He understands how the system works, and so he does not kill, or snap. He maintains a cold, blunt front, with a severe lack of patience (it comes of little sleep), an intense intolerance for stupidity and inefficiency, and inherited from his father, an interest in having his demands met combined with a poor temper when they are disappointed.

Other people don't like, or even fear him, and he doesn't like them. The fact that he might be lonely, even miserable, is not only irrelevant, but long forgotten. He is terse, succinct, and disinclined to speaking much at all. He waits, he watches, he plans. Gaara is direct, matter-of-fact, likely finds no topic awkward or uncomfortable, and has little to no shame, outside of certain traces of school-boy guilt from Yashamaru’s influence. He isn’t typically awkward in that he’ll feel uncomfortable- he has none of those reservations, uncertainties, or second-guesses; he doesn’t know that he should. Unsurprisingly given his insomnia and following instability, he is prone to occasional bouts of fickle behavior. Fleeting interests, spontaneous comments or activity. For all that he loathes people, and depends on his isolation to the extent that he despises to be touched, he spends an awful lot of time watching them.

An awful lot. It's probably best to avoid really getting his attention.

Gaara dislikes most things. He likes raking sand in his Zen garden, polishing various offensive techniques, heights, and being on the water. Full moons, inexplicably, put him on edge.

First person writing sample: (Shorter than 300 words with mod permission!)

Temari sent an e-mail. The General is planning a vacation. I declined. I do not want to take off from work. Last night was dull. The night before not much better. Weekends are the best; there's more to do. I was back by 0400. The sunrise looked like a painting. It always does. Reds were stronger. Sailor's warning, the English phrase goes. I didn't plan to take out the boat. It rained.

The drops ran down the windows, but the patterns didn't make sense. I wrote my name in the remnants, but it rained again and washed it away. There is a leak in the ceiling. It drips every six seconds. It is almost that regular. It pisses me off. I put a pot under it. It didn't help. I put a towel in the pot.

It was still raining when the sun set. The sky looked like a bruise. The yellow kind. I watched it from the roof, but not with my umbrella. Everyone looks like insects from there.