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Toph Beifong | Avatar: The Last Airbender | reserved
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Character Name: Toph Beifong
Canon: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Canon Point: Season 2, episode 15 (Tales of Ba Sing Se)
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Personality:
As the blind and only daughter of the Beifong family, Toph lived a very sheltered life. She was constantly surrounded by guards, she was not allowed outside of the house and while she was allowed to learn earthbending, she was kept at the most basic level. She was kept as a secret from the world. As far as her parents knew, she was their frail little princess.
But Toph was stronger than her parents gave her credit for. Having truly learned earthbending from the blind badgermoles, earthbending became more than just an exercise for her. It became a way of life. And no, we're not talking about it in a monks and philosophy way. We're talking about how it completely changed her. While the people who knew she existed still thought of her as weak, she realized that it wasn't true. Earthbending made her more powerful than everyone she knew. Sure, she can't see in the conventional way, but who needs that when you can sense every detail of your surroundings through the ground? Earthbending gave her power and Toph enjoys power.
Bossy, sarcastic and boyish, Toph's attitude came as a surprise to the Avatar and his friends when she joined their group. How she acted in the wrestling ring wasn't just posturing, that's how she really is. She speaks her mind, which comes up as rude most of the time. She has a slightly affectionate but mostly insulting nickname for everyone. She's not a big fan of personal hygiene. And when she set her mind on something, it's hard to stop her. In her opinion, earthbending requires a degree of stubbornness, to be unmovable like a rock.
Fortunately, her stubborn and one track nature is balanced out by her patience and practicality. She is someone who "waits and listens to the earth". Whether it's fighting or messing around, she tends to stand her ground and attack just when the time is right. Unfortunately, we have to remember that she's still a runaway little girl with a sheltered lifestyle, so most of the things she met along the way was new to her. Her decisions are more practical than moral. She considers what she would gain (fun is a type of gain) from a situation than how it would make people feel. Yes, her decisions might have serious repercussions, but she's a girl who learned earthbending from wild animals. Experience, not guidance from adults whom she's come to mistrust or her peers who don't know her enough, is her best teacher.
Toph is bad at dealing with being seen as weak. She likes "carrying her own weight", which made her impossible to work with when she first joined Aang's group. She hates being seen as a bother, which is understandable given how she was treated by her family. She becomes cranky and irritable when faced with situations she can't earthbend or sass her way out of. Or when faced with situations where she can't "see", like when crossing ice or not having her feet touch the ground, she gets scared. If given a choice between not seeing or having to face a deadly monster, she'll pick the monster. Definitely.
Toph was raised in high society, but it was her decision to leave it. That doesn't mean that she threw away everything that she learned. When faced with social situations with the upper class, Toph's friends look to her for advice. And despite her disdain for how her parents hid her from everyone, it did take her twelve years to decide to run away and not return despite learning how to at the age of six. It wasn't until the opportunity to leave with the Avatar presented itself that she found a reason to do so. Toph is a child who knows where she came from and how to use those experiences to her advantage, while learning picking up new things along the way.
Abilities/Powers:
Toph is an earthbender, which means that she has the power to control earth through a series of martial arts moves. Examples of what your average earthbender could do would be to make spikes protrude from the ground and throwing giant rocks around. Toph also uses earthbending to "see". By sensing the vibrations on the ground, she can tell where things are and where things are going. This gives her an excellent idea of the world around her, but it works best when she has her bare feet on a flat surface. Her "view" of her surroundings when standing in soft sand is blurry. She's completely blind when she's underwater, standing on ice, or up in the air.
She's also capable of sandbending and metalbending, two sub-skills of earthbending. As of her canon point, she still can't aim well with sandbending. She can press the sand together to give her a better footing, to make it hard like rock. She metalbends by detecting the earth particles left in the metal and controlling that. She just learned how to do it. She eventually becomes better at both skills as the series progresses, with metalbending being her forte.
As for non-bending abilities, she's good at fighting and acting. She has a keen sense of hearing and she never forgets a voice. With the help of earthbending to sense even a person's tiniest movements, Toph can use her hearing to detect lies.
Items/Weapons: Just her clothes.
Sample Entry:
[ video ]
[ Toph waves the device wildly in front of her face, making everything a blur of teeth, eerily white eyes and black hair. ]
Hey, can you see me? Can you see me?!
[ She stops waving the device around, showing her forehead, her headband and her giant bun of hair. ]
Yeah. I still can't see you.
[ The device is casually tossed aside, hitting the headboard before bouncing back on the ground to show the top of Toph's head. She's lying down on the ground, resting her head on her hands. ]
So what's the deal with this place? It's like a city, but it's not! There are walls, and there are buildings and stuff like that. But I can't feel anything! Not normal city stuff anyway.
Normal city stuff is people walking around and a lot of talking and ants taking crumbs of food to their secret hills. This place has nothing. Like everything ran away.
Is it because it's boring? Because if I had to live in such a dump I'd be bored out of my mind too.
Sample Entry Two:
She was starting to regret saying that this city had nothing. Because that was wrong. After enduring that horrid and fuzzy walk through jagged roads (she could have earthbended the path smooth, but she wasn't sure if it was safe yet), she felt herself standing in the strangest part of the city. It was strange because it felt like what a normal should be like, structurally. The roads were better. The buildings were more intact. As she walked on, she felt tables and chairs and plants and more city things.
But she didn't feel people.
She heard people, but she couldn't feel them. There were no footsteps, no movement, nothing.
Maybe they were ghosts? Spirits? They do exist after all. But those were Avatar stuff and she wasn't the avatar. She has never faced a spirit before. How would Twinkletoes go about this? Ugh, of all the ways to handle a situation...
So she stood and listened to their conversations. Someone were two adults talking about the weather to the right, she couldn't get most of it. Strange, she was proud of hearing. There was a child's voice to her left. Two girls were talking about school behind her. She chose to face them. She walked towards the general direction of their voices until she was close enough to touch them.
"Excuse me," she reached out and felt nothing but cold air. The girls passed by like she wasn't even there. Now, Toph was blind, but she was proud of her other senses. She reached out because she was sure she would touch someone.
"Hey!" She walked after them and reached out again. Nothing.
"LISTEN TO ME!" She stomped her feet and cracked the ground. Large blocks of earth protruded around her. Normally that would cause people to notice her. But those things she couldn't feel but hear just moved on like she wasn't even there.
Fear shot through Toph. She didn't want to admit it, but this is something that she couldn't face on her own. So she ran away. She wasn't sure where she was going, she just ran on instinct. She ran and she ran until she bumped into someone.
"Oof! Why don't you watch where you're going?!"
Others Playing a blind character who "sees" with her feet. In case I get in, are there some extra things that I should know?
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