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OOC Information;
Name; Toss
Personal Journal;tossino
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Other Characters; The Eleventh Doctorcomeonthensexy and John Watson hadbadays
Activity proof; Here
IC Information;
Character Name; Toph Beifong
Canon; Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon Point; End of Souzen’s Comet, part 4: Avatar Aang
Age; Probably 13 at this point
House; Thor
Power; Strength
Personality; Toph Beifong was born to a very wealthy family – the wealthiest, even – in the Earth Kingdom city of Gaoling. She was also born blind and because of this her parents decided the world was too dangerous a place for her. They were overprotective and overbearing, no one else in the city knew they had a daughter, and the only contact with anyone aside from her parents that Toph had was with the guards and servants of the household, as well as her earthbending teacher Yu.
She was taught proper etiquette and manner, as that was how a woman in a high status family is supposed to act. She knows how to eat properly, be polite, carry herself with dignity, etc. etc. She used this skill – and her blindness – to get her and Katara into a party the King of Ba Sing Se threw for his bear, despite them not having an invitation. However, her parents missed out on one very simple fact: It is not Toph Beifong, and she does not enjoy that life. The truth is that while her parents kept her a secret from the world, she kept herself a secret from them.
Whenever she can, she slips out of her polite and helpless daughter persona and becomes a loud brute that has no care for proper eating, sitting or behaving. She holds her head high still, but she stomps and spits and speaks in a way her parents would undoubtedly consider more fitting for a man in a lower class. She hates and rejects everything her parents taught her to be. Now that she’s no longer under their watch, she only puts the high class façade on if necessary.
When she was six years old she got tired of being holed up and ran away from home. Probably not the best idea when you’re blind, but she found her way to a cavern and met badgermoles. Badgermoles were the first earthbenders, and because they are also blind she felt a connection to them. Copying their movements, she learned how to use her own earthbending and not only that, but also how to see with it. Since then she never wears shoes as she through her feet can feel the vibrations in the ground and from that tell where people and objects are. This skill is unofficially titled Seismic Sense.
While the teacher later hired for her was instructed to only teach her the basics, she practiced on her own, improving her Seismic Sense and her bending out of her parents’ sight. Without their knowledge she entered the earthbending competition Earth Rumble VI and became a master of the art on her own. She won the champion title and kept it for at least a couple of years, known as the unbeatable The Blind Bandit. She became something of a legend; showed up to the tournaments, and then disappeared.
When Avatar Aang came to Baoling looking for an earthbending teacher, Toph caught his attention because she “waited and listened.” He’d gotten instructed to find a teacher who did exactly that. In a competition where most participants use the opportunity to flex their muscles and show off their strength, she waits and listens to the earth to know exactly when to strike. The moment her opponent moves, she can feel the vibrations in the earth, predict what their intention is and counter it. She likes employing taunting tactics to make this happen:
“The Boulder feels conflicted about fighting a young blind girl.”
“Sounds to me like you’re scared, Boulder!”
“… the Boulder is over his conflicted feelings.”
As such, Toph is a patient girl, despite it all. She has a mouth on her and enjoys (fondly) mocking people, and she’d rather let her feelings out with punches (of affection or otherwise) and bursts of temper. It’s the best way she knows to express sadness, frustration, stress and other negative emotions. But she is patient and in moments when people let their emotions get to them, she can be the voice of reason. At least provided someone doesn’t taunt her. When Zuko, someone who spent the first couple of seasons hunting Aang, changed his mind and wanted to join their group and help Aang learn firebending, the others turned him down.
Not surprisingly, of course, but Toph – able to tell if people are lying thanks to her Seismic Sense – told them he was completely sincere as far as she could tell, and Aang still needed a firebending teacher. The difference was that by the time she joined the group, Zuko wasn’t really actively hunting Aang anymore because he was too busy sorting himself out, and thus she didn’t have that history with Zuko and was able to think without emotional bias. In the end, it was partly thanks to her nudges that Zuko joined the group.
A lot thanks to how she was raised, she is a very unruly person. It’s not surprising that she ran away from home to join Aang and the rest, after her parents said that they’d keep an even stricter watch on her when she told them how she felt, how she wasn’t the helpless blind girl they thought she was and how she loved to fight. In the beginning she insists “I carry my own weight” and refuses to help the others with the camp, instead making her own tent and getting her own food.
While she through the course of the series starts accepting the fact that she can’t do everything on her own and that receiving and giving help isn’t to be detested, she still hates being told what to do. As they passed through a town on the way to Fire Nation capital in preparation for an attack, she used her Seismic Sense and earthbending to con the cons; hosts of street games like dice tossing and such. It made her wanted in the town and gave her the alias The Runaway. She was completely delighted by this fact, while Katara thought what they were doing was wrong and objected strongly.
They fought over it several times, with Toph protesting that Katara isn’t her mother and can’t tell her what to do, but she later confessed to Sokka that the fact that Katara is so motherly isn’t really a bad thing and that, anyway, Katara is more of a mother to Toph than her own mother ever was. She said that Katara cares for her for who he is, despite how they sometimes butt heads over differing opinions. To her, her parents only care for who they want her to be. And in the end Katara offered to do an even bigger con with Toph to show she can be less uptight. This backfired terribly, but they’re closer for it.
Her friends are her family. She has trouble thinking of her parents as such because they only ever loved the idea of a perfect daughter and not their actual daughter, as far as she’s concerned. Aang and the others, on the other hand, love her for who she is, and even Zuko, who she knows much less than the others, is considered part of that family.
Despite how hard her shell might seem, she’s an open person. She’s grown up hiding great parts of herself and without any friends, so being free and having those friends makes her quite happy to talk about herself, who she is and how she’s lived. She has her own ways of showing affection and isn’t a very huggy person, but she’ll quite gladly take any affection regardless.
Toph is the first one to believe Zuko’s change of heart. While it was partly because of the lack of history with him that the others had, it’s also partly because she early on ran into his uncle, Iroh. She fought with Katara and Aang about not pitching in and left, and met Iroh. They had a cup of tea, Iroh said she sounded like Zuko, thinking that she doesn’t need help, but that there’s actually nothing wrong with letting people that love you help you.
Because Iroh seemed to think Zuko was capable of better than he was showing at that time, she was ready to accept him quickly. From the very start she happily made fun of him in a display of fondness. She thinks he’s entertaining to tease because his feathers are easily ruffled. And he doesn’t always know how to express himself either because, in different ways, both their childhoods were fairly sheltered. They’re not very different from each other.
Several times Sokka seems to entirely forget that Toph is blind, and she goes as far as to take advantage of it. She enjoys joking about her own condition, and at one point when Sokka had tried drawing Aang’s flying bison and Katara told him it looked terrible, Toph said she thought it looked good. Sokka was overjoyed, before he remembered that she couldn’t actually tell, and asked: “Why do you feel the need to do that?”
Still, he remembers when it matters, grabbing onto her hand when they’re standing on material he knows she can’t see on. He tends to be the one she goes to for help, and she likes him quite a lot. Enough that you could consider it a small crush.
Aang is Toph’s first student, which is a big deal for her. It not only means she gets to boss someone around; she also gets to pass on what she knows. She gets to talk about it. It’s clear that earthbending matters a lot to her. It did save her from a life of further isolation. Her teachings don’t only make Aang capable of earthbending, but undoubtedly also teaches him an important life lesson.
Because he’s an airbender, he’s spent his life opting to avoid problems and take the easy way out. Airbending is more about avoiding and deflecting than anything else. Toph told him that earthbending has no easy way out; it has no cheap tricks, no hoops to jump through. If you want to move a rock, you have to be a rock, and that is why Toph is such a good earthbender. She doesn’t flex her muscles (though she does enjoy showing off), she doesn’t avoid, she doesn’t do “the easy way.” She keeps her feet firm on the ground and faces things head on as a first resort.
In return, Aang and the others teach her that she doesn’t have to be a lone rock. Together they make a mountain.
Samples;
Network Sample; Test drive thread! Which is fairly introspection heavy but the thread with Samantha has a lot of dialogue.
Log Sample; -
Name; Toss
Personal Journal;
tossinoContact;
Other Characters; The Eleventh Doctor
comeonthensexy and John Watson hadbadaysActivity proof; Here
IC Information;
Character Name; Toph Beifong
Canon; Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon Point; End of Souzen’s Comet, part 4: Avatar Aang
Age; Probably 13 at this point
House; Thor
Power; Strength
Personality; Toph Beifong was born to a very wealthy family – the wealthiest, even – in the Earth Kingdom city of Gaoling. She was also born blind and because of this her parents decided the world was too dangerous a place for her. They were overprotective and overbearing, no one else in the city knew they had a daughter, and the only contact with anyone aside from her parents that Toph had was with the guards and servants of the household, as well as her earthbending teacher Yu.
She was taught proper etiquette and manner, as that was how a woman in a high status family is supposed to act. She knows how to eat properly, be polite, carry herself with dignity, etc. etc. She used this skill – and her blindness – to get her and Katara into a party the King of Ba Sing Se threw for his bear, despite them not having an invitation. However, her parents missed out on one very simple fact: It is not Toph Beifong, and she does not enjoy that life. The truth is that while her parents kept her a secret from the world, she kept herself a secret from them.
Whenever she can, she slips out of her polite and helpless daughter persona and becomes a loud brute that has no care for proper eating, sitting or behaving. She holds her head high still, but she stomps and spits and speaks in a way her parents would undoubtedly consider more fitting for a man in a lower class. She hates and rejects everything her parents taught her to be. Now that she’s no longer under their watch, she only puts the high class façade on if necessary.
When she was six years old she got tired of being holed up and ran away from home. Probably not the best idea when you’re blind, but she found her way to a cavern and met badgermoles. Badgermoles were the first earthbenders, and because they are also blind she felt a connection to them. Copying their movements, she learned how to use her own earthbending and not only that, but also how to see with it. Since then she never wears shoes as she through her feet can feel the vibrations in the ground and from that tell where people and objects are. This skill is unofficially titled Seismic Sense.
While the teacher later hired for her was instructed to only teach her the basics, she practiced on her own, improving her Seismic Sense and her bending out of her parents’ sight. Without their knowledge she entered the earthbending competition Earth Rumble VI and became a master of the art on her own. She won the champion title and kept it for at least a couple of years, known as the unbeatable The Blind Bandit. She became something of a legend; showed up to the tournaments, and then disappeared.
When Avatar Aang came to Baoling looking for an earthbending teacher, Toph caught his attention because she “waited and listened.” He’d gotten instructed to find a teacher who did exactly that. In a competition where most participants use the opportunity to flex their muscles and show off their strength, she waits and listens to the earth to know exactly when to strike. The moment her opponent moves, she can feel the vibrations in the earth, predict what their intention is and counter it. She likes employing taunting tactics to make this happen:
“The Boulder feels conflicted about fighting a young blind girl.”
“Sounds to me like you’re scared, Boulder!”
“… the Boulder is over his conflicted feelings.”
As such, Toph is a patient girl, despite it all. She has a mouth on her and enjoys (fondly) mocking people, and she’d rather let her feelings out with punches (of affection or otherwise) and bursts of temper. It’s the best way she knows to express sadness, frustration, stress and other negative emotions. But she is patient and in moments when people let their emotions get to them, she can be the voice of reason. At least provided someone doesn’t taunt her. When Zuko, someone who spent the first couple of seasons hunting Aang, changed his mind and wanted to join their group and help Aang learn firebending, the others turned him down.
Not surprisingly, of course, but Toph – able to tell if people are lying thanks to her Seismic Sense – told them he was completely sincere as far as she could tell, and Aang still needed a firebending teacher. The difference was that by the time she joined the group, Zuko wasn’t really actively hunting Aang anymore because he was too busy sorting himself out, and thus she didn’t have that history with Zuko and was able to think without emotional bias. In the end, it was partly thanks to her nudges that Zuko joined the group.
A lot thanks to how she was raised, she is a very unruly person. It’s not surprising that she ran away from home to join Aang and the rest, after her parents said that they’d keep an even stricter watch on her when she told them how she felt, how she wasn’t the helpless blind girl they thought she was and how she loved to fight. In the beginning she insists “I carry my own weight” and refuses to help the others with the camp, instead making her own tent and getting her own food.
While she through the course of the series starts accepting the fact that she can’t do everything on her own and that receiving and giving help isn’t to be detested, she still hates being told what to do. As they passed through a town on the way to Fire Nation capital in preparation for an attack, she used her Seismic Sense and earthbending to con the cons; hosts of street games like dice tossing and such. It made her wanted in the town and gave her the alias The Runaway. She was completely delighted by this fact, while Katara thought what they were doing was wrong and objected strongly.
They fought over it several times, with Toph protesting that Katara isn’t her mother and can’t tell her what to do, but she later confessed to Sokka that the fact that Katara is so motherly isn’t really a bad thing and that, anyway, Katara is more of a mother to Toph than her own mother ever was. She said that Katara cares for her for who he is, despite how they sometimes butt heads over differing opinions. To her, her parents only care for who they want her to be. And in the end Katara offered to do an even bigger con with Toph to show she can be less uptight. This backfired terribly, but they’re closer for it.
Her friends are her family. She has trouble thinking of her parents as such because they only ever loved the idea of a perfect daughter and not their actual daughter, as far as she’s concerned. Aang and the others, on the other hand, love her for who she is, and even Zuko, who she knows much less than the others, is considered part of that family.
Despite how hard her shell might seem, she’s an open person. She’s grown up hiding great parts of herself and without any friends, so being free and having those friends makes her quite happy to talk about herself, who she is and how she’s lived. She has her own ways of showing affection and isn’t a very huggy person, but she’ll quite gladly take any affection regardless.
Toph is the first one to believe Zuko’s change of heart. While it was partly because of the lack of history with him that the others had, it’s also partly because she early on ran into his uncle, Iroh. She fought with Katara and Aang about not pitching in and left, and met Iroh. They had a cup of tea, Iroh said she sounded like Zuko, thinking that she doesn’t need help, but that there’s actually nothing wrong with letting people that love you help you.
Because Iroh seemed to think Zuko was capable of better than he was showing at that time, she was ready to accept him quickly. From the very start she happily made fun of him in a display of fondness. She thinks he’s entertaining to tease because his feathers are easily ruffled. And he doesn’t always know how to express himself either because, in different ways, both their childhoods were fairly sheltered. They’re not very different from each other.
Several times Sokka seems to entirely forget that Toph is blind, and she goes as far as to take advantage of it. She enjoys joking about her own condition, and at one point when Sokka had tried drawing Aang’s flying bison and Katara told him it looked terrible, Toph said she thought it looked good. Sokka was overjoyed, before he remembered that she couldn’t actually tell, and asked: “Why do you feel the need to do that?”
Still, he remembers when it matters, grabbing onto her hand when they’re standing on material he knows she can’t see on. He tends to be the one she goes to for help, and she likes him quite a lot. Enough that you could consider it a small crush.
Aang is Toph’s first student, which is a big deal for her. It not only means she gets to boss someone around; she also gets to pass on what she knows. She gets to talk about it. It’s clear that earthbending matters a lot to her. It did save her from a life of further isolation. Her teachings don’t only make Aang capable of earthbending, but undoubtedly also teaches him an important life lesson.
Because he’s an airbender, he’s spent his life opting to avoid problems and take the easy way out. Airbending is more about avoiding and deflecting than anything else. Toph told him that earthbending has no easy way out; it has no cheap tricks, no hoops to jump through. If you want to move a rock, you have to be a rock, and that is why Toph is such a good earthbender. She doesn’t flex her muscles (though she does enjoy showing off), she doesn’t avoid, she doesn’t do “the easy way.” She keeps her feet firm on the ground and faces things head on as a first resort.
In return, Aang and the others teach her that she doesn’t have to be a lone rock. Together they make a mountain.
Samples;
Network Sample; Test drive thread! Which is fairly introspection heavy but the thread with Samantha has a lot of dialogue.
Log Sample; -