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What do you think about Sasori's death? Why he didn't dodge Chiyo's final attack?

Well.

On a more personal (and perhaps biased) note: I can understand from a writer’s point of view that he was “the challenge” for our main crew much like the other Akatsuki members (pretty much an obstacle), but I felt like the elimination was much too sudden. Sasori was one of those characters that, ironically for his meaning of art, flew by with a small backstory and went out like the wind, even if his past went a bit more deeper then the others. Kishimoto set him up very nicely, with a very interesting concept (human puppets and that overall subject), and had me hooked! Characters such as these, who are incredibly complex but only appear for a very short time, are somewhat of a treasure for me a h a h, especially those like Deidara and Hidan. Its a shame that some writers don’t give their children the love and time that they deserve.

But hey, Sakura got her time to shine, right?

As if for why Sasori didn’t dodge the final killing blow, well, that’s another analysis entirely. :,,^) Let’s get abstract!

It is up to the reader’s choice on whether the decision was simply a ‘last resort’ or its much more deeper then one might think. There are many ways that you can tackle this, but here’s the most common people like to propose:

1. the puppets that ‘attacked’ him were his parent puppets and that’s why he ‘refused’ to dodge it

2. overall mental state and acceptance caused him to give up entirely in the last second

For me, its pretty much both… But consider one at a time.

A moment to review Sasori in psychology overall. To sum up it without it getting way too long, he has a delusion towards puppets because of emotional neglect. His parents were eliminated in war and his grandmother neglected him because she had no clue what to do with him in substitute for just telling him the truth- so, the old coot forever curses him by giving him the worst coping mechanism known to mankind. Fake love. Porcelain, resin and mechanical hearts ease the mind for poor puppet boy, carrying him into a self-crafted fantasy, labeling mortality and flesh nothing but a nuisance. All others became unimportant as his childhood home slowly became a building full of never-ending loneliness and dread, and this need eventually turns into painful infliction on others- and eventually himself.

Before we start going into an emotional tangent about his past, let us all come to an agreement that it was extremely depressing, and its pretty evident that it carried onward in more resentful ways then healthy ones. Sasori finds fascination in finding faith in mechanisms then in people, and when people interest him he has this tendency to think ‘puppet-worthy’ then ‘friend-worthy’. His parent puppets, though not actually made from the parents themselves, are a huge chunk of this problem- because, well… That’s were it all began, isn’t it?

It began with his parent replicas, and its not the fact that they’re replicas of his parents that makes it important. Not only did this signify that Sasori was truly lonely and perhaps his grandmother wasn’t exactly the best caregiver- but the beginning of spiraling downward into appreciation for the undead. His outlook on life starts to sour, and he develops no remorse or shame towards others on his way to supposed ‘prefection’, having the freewill to eliminate anyone who gets in the way of it or is part of the equation. This is a bit of a repeat of what I just mentioned before.

Recall that mortality is seen as pathetic in Sasori’s meaning of art and human interaction is difficult for him because of the puppet obsession. Sasori’s transformation into puppet forms wasn’t him being prideful, or trying to achieve the ‘ultimate power’. Infact, it was most likely the opposite (pride-wise), merely being that he just didn’t want to feel the depression and dread buried deep on his shoulders, and felt freed once his emotions faded and nothingness took over. This such nothingness creates a barrier that Sasori deems wonderful, mostly because the grief surrounding his parents (and perhaps his friend Komushi if you want to make the claim that the poison was an accident) are blocked out completely and he doesn’t have to worry about them any longer- but that doesn’t stop them from continuing to linger in the air. This entire idea right here goes back to my Sasori headcanon relating to disassociation- where the ‘nothingness’ actually becomes a problem for him when, from time to time, it causes him to ‘fall into a black hole of anxiety’. Perhaps through this, Sasori begins to see that he pretty much screwed himself over once he warped into a puppet. He still senses the loneliness- it lingers eternally, and he can never escape the past. He begins to regret what he’s done, but it was obviously much too late to do anything else.

Then, he realizes. On his transfer into a puppet body, Sasori basically died from the get-go (depending on how you theorize his process). He ironically perished in order to become this form of “eternal beauty”, and finds that he had become part of what he despised- death. Through this wicked immortality, not only did he create a wall against his emotions surrounding his parents, but against his parents themselves. Because he still has the ‘living’ part of him intact, puppet boy cannot pass onward to the afterlife to see them once more. So, only one solution on mind, and you know fully well what it was.

The battle soon comes to an end, and there they are. Reminded of all of his previous problems and what it lead up to, Sasori seizes the opportunity to give himself the peace that he rightfully deserved since the beginning.

so, in order:

1. Parent replicas begins puppet obsession2. Puppet obsession leads to poor coping skills3. Poor coping skills spirals into puppet transformation4. puppet transformation leads to instant regret5. instant regret ends with a solution

For me, I see Sasori’s true death being that immediate transfer of his conscience into the puppet body, but everyone has their views, right??? Hope you didn’t suffer reading through all of this. He’s just that interesting o k ?

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