#ourirkeninvader

Hello!! I wish I could, besides a few small things in filler episodes, I think the main reason (for me personally) that it doesn’t feel too one-sided, is the particular way naruto acts around gaara that is unique from his other friends or people he wants to/has ‘saved’. I think in fact the moment where naruto is too embarrassed to shake gaara’s hand when they are saying goodbye is the most important between them. I don’t remember naruto ever being shy in this extreme way with anyone else! Every time gaara is mentioned naruto pipes up with how strong and cool he is. I just always felt naruto acted so different about gaara than any other person he cares about! he will go on and on about how cool and strong he is, but then be very shy when gaara actually shows up. naruto doesn’t even make fun of him in the joking way he does to his other friends, he is always respectful and sincere with gaara. 

I don’t know if you would consider things like the video games as ‘canon’ but in a lot of the naruto fighting games (ninja storm), there are little side quests that have cute little cutscenes between characters, and also written letters between 2 characters, and I find the naruto and gaaras ones are very charming! but I think in the end it boils down to, I don’t need more evidence from the canon material for their relationship to be the most important to me. a lot of the naruto manga is, quite frankly, bad! and boring! a lot of characters are left out and ignored, a lot of plot is left hanging open, but for me, gaara (and his siblings) arc was the most interesting and poignant for me, and gaara and narutos relationship the most emotionally driven. 

naruto loves a lot of people, but i think the specific way gaara impacted him was different than the other people he sees as being ‘like him’ just bc he thinks they are ‘lonely’ like him. I would go so far as to say their fight during the chuunin exams was when naruto literally found in himself how deep he actually loved other people, and how they love him, seeing reflected in gaara how gaara does not have that. he’s ‘’’talk-no-jutsu’d’’’ a lot of people, but I just think his words to gaara at that time were a lot more than that. 

Unfortunately, I no longer have those files. I entered the WOY fandom in 2014, and the last time I actively was a part of the community was 2016. Since then I’ve moved twice and replaced computers, making it so I’ve lost a lot of art from those years.

oh thank you!

you know… i deleted my old woy arts recently X)

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Hello,

well, every Deaf person is different and we here certainly don’t speak for a whole community.

There are Deaf people who don’t like hearing people learning sign language. They have numerous reasons for that:

- some consider sign language a language of their own community and see hearing people as outsiders who don’t deserve to learn the language

- some are unhappy that deaf people were/are forbidden or discouraged from using sign language, yet hearing people are encouraged

- some have met hearing people who only wanted to learn the language to use swears and/or make profit of it and they are suspicious (there was a case of hearing woman who wrote a bogus dictionary of dirty words in ASL, despite the wishes of Deaf community and her being pretty shit at ASL)

- some think that only valid reason to learn SL is if you want to be an interpreter, etc.

But you will also meet plenty of Deaf people who love to chat with new peeps and who encourage everyone to learn sign language. Tbh, I don’t know what the community is like in Mexico, but if Deaf people do offer lessons there, it means they want others to learn their language. (as a side note - your teacher should definitely be someone Deaf)

Go ahead and learn - there might be people who grumble, but I believe world is better with more people who can communicate with each other. ;)

Hello,

if he did, he is an asshole. Liking languages is a valid reason to learn SL and there is nothing wrong with it.

Its possible he wasn’t happy with your second sentence about nonverbal communication - sign language actually isn’t nonverbal communication. Nonverbal means “without words”, not “without sounds” and sign languages do have words. Nonverbal communication is gestures, face expressions, movement of hands, etc, and while sign languages contain all these elements, they have grammar rules about how all these elements interact. Nonverbal communication also contains sounds like wails, laughter, hums, etc. which are sounds but not words. Does that make sense?

Even so, if he was mad about the second part - still dickish thing to do, because majority of people don’t know this and you are a new student.

Another option is that he just has a angry resting face and seems mad when he isn’t. I would just ask him outright, tbh, that way you will be sure.