I've never seen indication that Gaara sleeps at all. The eyes are usefully portrayed in fanfiction as being due to sleeplessness, but they are such a distinctive mark that they could very well be related to the Shukaku tanuki-spirit instead or as well. Too bad we don't get a shot of infant Gaara to compare to infant Naruto.
And you asked elsewhere about what's up with Shukaku now: Gaara no longer is possessed by Shukakau; Akatsuki took Shukaku and they're planning to use its power somehow, by, I dunno, keeping it in a jar as a battery or something. They're not letting run it around loose, though. It's reportedly been said somewhere (an interview? you fail me, Google) that Gaara can still use sand attacks now, but there's no indication yet about how powerful he is and how far his abiilities extend and whether or not he's still protected by the invisible sand-shield. (Since he's been invulnerable his whole life, will he have had any training in hand-to-hand and/or defensive combat at all?)
And his favorite foods are gizzard and salted tongue. WTF, Gaara. And he does not like sweet bean jelly, which means our love can never be.
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Date: 2006-04-29 05:30 am (UTC)And you asked elsewhere about what's up with Shukaku now: Gaara no longer is possessed by Shukakau; Akatsuki took Shukaku and they're planning to use its power somehow, by, I dunno, keeping it in a jar as a battery or something. They're not letting run it around loose, though. It's reportedly been said somewhere (an interview? you fail me, Google) that Gaara can still use sand attacks now, but there's no indication yet about how powerful he is and how far his abiilities extend and whether or not he's still protected by the invisible sand-shield. (Since he's been invulnerable his whole life, will he have had any training in hand-to-hand and/or defensive combat at all?)
And his favorite foods are gizzard and salted tongue. WTF, Gaara. And he does not like sweet bean jelly, which means our love can never be.