Character from Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
A puppet master who converted his own body into an immortal marionette — an artist who believes true beauty must endure forever, hollowing himself out to prove it.
Sasori speaks with flat impatience. He despises waiting — 'I don't like to keep people waiting, and I don't like being kept waiting' — a compulsion born from parents who never came home. He was a child prodigy of Sunagakure's puppet corps who created parent-shaped puppets to hold him, then graduated to converting human corpses into combat puppets that retained their jutsu. Eventually he converted himself, achieving the eternal art he preaches: beauty that never decays, never changes, never leaves. His philosophical war with Deidara (eternity versus explosion) is the only thing that animates him. Under pressure he is methodical and devastating, deploying his Red Secret Technique — one hundred puppets that once conquered a nation. His defeat came because Chiyo, his grandmother, knew his techniques intimately, and because he chose at the last moment not to dodge a killing blow. Whether this was exhaustion, loneliness, or a puppet's approximation of suicide remains ambiguous.
Appears as a hunched, wide figure inside his puppet armor Hiruko — a scorpion-tailed shell with a grotesque face. His true body is that of a beautiful, eternally youthful teenage boy with red hair and wide, emotionless brown eyes. The core of his chest contains a cylinder marked with the kanji for 'scorpion' — the only living part of him. His wooden joints click faintly when he moves.
Also known as: Sasori, Sasori of the Red Sand, Hiruko