Temari

Temari, or sometimes known as Temari of the Sand, is the oldest sibling in the sand siblings, and is a frequent recurring character in Discordtopia. She refuses to put up with the nonsense of any given setting, and is one of Discordtopia's much needed straightmen, albeit with some of her own outstanding quirks.

## Temari

### Relatives

Kankuro (Younger brother)Gaara (Younger brother)Rasa (Late Father)

### Occupation

Professional Kunoichi, Kazekage's assistant

## Appearance

Temari is a relatively tall young woman, with sandy blonde hair, and teal pupiless eyes. Her hair is styled up into four spiky pigtails, and symmetrical bangs.

Her typical attire consists of a standard Hidden Sand Village ninja headband, a black dress with red accents, black fingerless gloves, assymetrical fish net leggings, black sandal boots, and on her back she sports her signature weapon, her giant fan.

### Demeanor

Temari is a very straight laced and professional person, and often conducts herself in a controlled and mature manner. Every movement she makes typically has purpose, and she is not one to give away her emotions through body language, possibly due to her extensive physical ninja training, or her closed off personality.

Temari struggles with expressing her emotions verbally and physically, which often makes her social interactions come off as stiff or overly professional.

## Personality

### Responsibilities

Temari, as the oldest of her siblings, views herself as responsible for watching over her little brothers. Her mother died shortly after giving birth to Gaara, which caused their father to withdraw from the family. This led her to take a more motherly role earlier in life than what is what considered normal, and even as her brothers age, she has a tendency to watch over them and not trust them with big responsibilities.

She also felt the need to hide her feelings about the loss of her parents, just for the sake of being a good example to both Gaara and Kankuro. She has the tendency to keep up the facade of emotional resilience, which has led to her being percieved as selfish, cold, or cruel. Having been taught by her father that sacrifice is necessary for progress, Temari shows a great understanding of risk versus reward, and has a tendency to go for the risk. In her mind, it's not a risk if she knows it can be done.

### Social Skills

Temari has many priorities in her life, such as her family, her village, and herself, but social skills is not one of them. She only knows how to conduct herself in a professional setting and is at a complete loss in casual social situations. She's not particularly good at fun having or small talk.

Temari also lacks a filter and will say outright cruel things to others if she believes them to be true, as she believes that lies get in the way of progress.

Temari is only able to act casually and normally when she is with Kankuro, as she feels less pressure to be perfect than she does with Gaara, who she feels he had failed as a sister.

### Violence

Temari is noted as being particularly violent once she has been pushed to the edge, or feels it is a necessity. Temari has killed many people in the past for combat and military reasons, and will not hesistate to go after her enemies with intent to kill. This has made her a particularly fearsome opponent, and someone who you don't want to make your enemy.

This is unless of course, she doesn't deem you as a threat, in which case she will toy around with you until you tire out.

### Embarassing Passions

Although she would never admit to just anyone, Temari has interests and passions outside of being the perfect soldier. The most prominent of which include botany, particularly flowers, interior design, teaching and taking care of vulnerable children, and her feelings for Shikamaru Nara (which she is in denial about).

Caring so frequently for her brothers has endeared Temari to the idea of one day having children of her own, a desire that she has not even shared with her brothers. As her brothers are older and much more independant now, Temari fills that void by volunteering as a teacher for both Hidden Leaf and Hidden Sand academy students. When supervised, Temari will treat them like her soldiers, but in private, she is much more understanding and nurturing to her students.

## Background

Temari Nara was born on the 23rd of August in the Hidden Sand Village to her mother Karura, and her father Rasa, the Kazekage of the Hidden Sand. Shortly thereafter her younger brother Kankuro was also born, much to her excitement.

Unfortunately, neither of them were compatible to bond with Shikaku, the one tailed Jinchuriki, which was the only reason Rasa was having children at all. This led to them trying again shortly after Kankuro's birth, which led to Gaara being born, who was compatible, despite being premature. Gaara's birth resulted in the death of Karura, who Temari was close with despite her young age.

Overtaken with grief after the passing of his wife, Rasa became even more cold and withdrawn from his family, especially Gaara. Temari loved her new brother just as she had the first, but as Gaara grew older it became clear that he was different from the other children. Cursed with incredibly dangerous and volatile powers, everyone in the village lived in fear of Gaara, including both Temari and Kankuro.

Prone to destroying things and killing people if things didn't go his way, as well as surviving an assassination attempt by their father, Temari and Kankuro became all of the family Gaara had left. Temari cared for him and put up a front of being in control, but was just as terrified of him as everyone else. After the assasination attempt, Rasa stopped seeing his children entirely, which put Orochimaru in the prime position to murder and impersonate him.

After an alliance with the Sand Village and the Sound Village to attack the Leaf went arry, Gaara became a changed person after Naruto reached out to him. He became more open with both of his siblings and began to change for the better. Temari was wracked with guilt upon realizing that there had been hope for Gaara after all, and that she had given up on him- And if only she had reached out to him just as Naruto had, perhaps he, as well as countless others, may have been saved.

She has no doubt that the way she treated Gaara is her biggest regret- She was such a coward.

This led to her following Gaara's example and trying to be better for him, becoming fiercely over protective of him emotionally and otherwise, serving to help him in every possible way. Unfortunately, Gaara's growth and distancing from his past has led him to become rather disconnected from his siblings, much to Temari's despair.

This has led to Temari being especially family focused and trying to bring them all together in any way that she can, no matter how cheesy or personally violating. This had led her to become a bit of a nuisance to Kankuro, although Gaara appreciates the gestures.

### Temari in the Time of Discordtopia

Gaara has become Kazekage, and appointed both Temari and Kankuro as his personal assistants. Unfortunately however, Gaara often gets distracted from his Kazekage duties, which often results in Temari making the actual decisions. She lives in a house in the Sand Village with her brothers, and often prepares dinner for them, thanklessly. Although sometimes she doesn't want to put up with it and instead forces Kankuro to do it.

She's also frequently at the Hidden Leaf Village for either teaching or intervillage relations purposes.

Dan Schneider is also a frequent resident of their household, much to Temari (and Kankuro's) annoyance. Temari is more tolerant because Gaara is rather fond of the thing, but frequently has to keep an eye on him to keep him in line.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Gaara

Temari is fiercely overprotective of and devoted to her younger brother Gaara. This is likely out of a sense of obligation for letting him down as his only family during the darkest times of life. This has led to her becoming incredibly enabling of and supportive of Gaara's endeavors, no matter how stupid, much to the annoyance of Kankuro.

She only revokes her support when she fears that Gaara might be putting himself in danger, particularly emotionally, as Gaara is pretty much indestructible in a physical sense.

She will go out of her way to sugar coat and make things runs smoothly for him, even to the inconvenience of others. Gaara is for the most part, unaware of all the things that Temari does for him, and is as a result, very ungrateful.

#### Kankuro

Temari is much less likely to put up with Kankuro's brand of nonsense, often chastizing him for his shortsighted and pretentious artistic endeavors, as well as his attitude towards Gaara. These criticisms of his character do not go unchallenged however, as he will often snap right back with retorts and complaints of his own.

The two act more like twins than an older sister and a younger brother, being inseparable in many aspects, but also prone to conflict. Although they fight and have disagreements often, Temari considers Kankuro her closest friend and most trusted confidant.

### Friends

Temari doesn't have a very wide social net, and has not let her walls down for many people outside of (or even within) her family. But what few friendships she does have she cherishes dearly.

#### Shikamaru Nara

Upon first meeting Shikamaru Nara, Temari saw him as nothing but a layabout and a pest. However, he earned her respect in combat and the way that he handled the Sasuke Retrieval mission, even showing up to save him from Tayuya, killing her. Ever since the two have had an interesting relationship, frequently getting into heated debates and discussing intervillage relations.

Temari has feelings for Shikamaru that she absolutely refuses to show or engage with out of a major sense of shame and embarassment. Shikamaru is oblivious to this and doesn't understand why Temari becomes irritated with him out of nowhere. Watching them from the outset, you wouldn't think they were friends, but there is no denying that they look forward to their get-togethers.

#### Athena Cykes

Athena Cykes isn't the sort of person Temari would've seen herself befriending, but Athena's astonishing emotional insight and infectious sense of energy rendered any preconcieved notions that Temari had. It's surprisingly nice to have a friend who always knows how you're feeling.

Temari has become a confidant for Athena, again feeling an obligation to be there for her as Athena has for her. They have a surprising amount in common, such as a sense of purpose to protect someone, familial trauma, and a sense of guilt. Temari is fiercely protective of Athena and wishes her success in all of her endeavors. It's been said that Temari acts like a whole new person when she's with Athena, actually acting her age instead of like a business executive.

### Enemies

Temari has a variety of enemies whom she harbors extreme grudges against. It's easy to make her dislike you, but to become her enemy, you have to be something special indeed.

#### Dan Schneider

Temari hates Dan Schneider with every fiber of her soul. Her overwhelming hatred for the man only outmatched by her love for Gaara, who is the only reason that she lets him stay around, as he is incredibly fond of the thing somehow. His sense of entitlement and disgusting habits leave her hair turning gray before she turns 20.

Despite his awful behavior, Temari will mostly put up with it for Gaara's sake, but there have been a few distinct instances in which Schneider has crossed the line, and envoked murderous intent from Temari.

The most prominent of these happening in the episode "Schneider's Inside Story", where Dan Schneider plays the Firetruck game with Gaara, a game which results in Dan touching Gaara in a way that makes him feel uncomfortable. Upon walking in on this "game", Temari becomes overcome with rage, attempting to kill Dan Schneider on the spot in spite of Gaara's protests. She later hires Suigetsu to perform the same task from inside Schneider's body when his hide and significant blubber prove impervious to all other forms of damage.

#### Franziska Von Karma

If there's one thing Temari hates, it's privilege and petulance- Two of the main character traits of one her greatest annoyances and enemies, Prosecutor Franziska Von Karma. The two met in the Survival of the Fittest gameshow although Temari had been vaguely aware of her reputation before this.

Franziska's blatant cheating, poor attitude, lack of contribution, and violation of the game's integrity angered Temari to no end. Although Temari was generally agreed upon as the team leader, Franziska insisted that she was actually the leader and proceeded to order everyone around and wake them up at early hours.

Temari has also been shown to detest the way Franziska treats her family and allies, namely Cody Hackins, Dick Gumshoe, and Miles Edgeworth. She has also been seen to defend Apollo Justice from Franziska's advances, but it should be noted she does this only to spite Franziska, and not out of any care for her horned victim.

### Orochimaru

Naturally after murdering her father and impersonating him to achieve his own ends, Temari is not particularly fond of the flamboyant rogue ninja. However, her disdain for the man comes more from his deception and manipulation of the village and her family, rather than from the murder of her father.

She was initially happy to hear that he died, but much less so upon news of his subsequent ressurection and resume of his research and compounds.

### Other Associates

#### Suigetsu Hozuki

Initially known as "that kid who hangs around Dan Schneider", Suigetsu becomes a more prominent person in her life as the series progresses, due to how often their circumstances overlap. Suigetsu is confused by and intimidated by Temari's serious attitude, and often attempts to lighten the mood with comedy, which often fails.

She doesn't particularly dislike the guy, but finds him to be an idiot at most, and a nuisance at worst. At the very least he can be trusted to keep Gaara safe from unsavory behavior from Schneider, so for that she is grateful.

## Abilities

### Physical Prowess

Temari is shown to have extreme physical prowess, being able to run without tiring for long periods of time, jump extremely high, and render a man unconcious with a single slap. She also shows a proficiency with most manners of weapons and has excellent reflexes.

### Wind Style

Using her fan, Temari is able to outright deflect most attacks, shredding her opponents from far range, which is her specialty. She is able to create cyclones, sharp gusts of winds, and hurricanes at will.

Although far range combat is her specialty, Temari also shows skill in close range situations, sometimes even taking advantage of the close the range to prevent her opponents from dodging her attacks.

## Differences from Canon

Temari's personality is much more exagerrated than in the official Naruto series due to the comedic nature of Discordtopia. As well as the deeper facets of her personality not outright contradicting canon, but rather being a fan interpretation.

Temari is a much more frequently recurring character, as the Sand Siblings are some of the most frequently recurring Discordtopia characters, as well as her relationship with Shikamaru being more expanded upon and prominent.

## Trivia

\*Temari is incredibly fond of sweet chestnuts.

\*Temari is an awful cook, but she tries. This is in contrast to Kankuro who is extremely gifted at culinary preparation, something she is quite envious of.

\*Temari is more of a leader to the Sand Village than Gaara, doing much of the more boring Kazekage work.

\*Temari is secretly a fan of cheesy romance novels.

\*Temari has the ability to summon weasels, however, she has forgotten that she has this ability and hasn't used it in forever.

\*Temari frequently reads in a local greenhouse in her spare time.