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fuckuimametalbender) wrote2012-04-22 12:33 pm
fuckuimametalbender) wrote2012-04-22 12:33 pm
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Canon: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character: Toph Beifong
Timeline: Post-series, just pre-Promise. She doesn’t know Zuko’s in Yu Dao.
Personality: Toph was, and still is, a very stubborn, prideful girl. She used to be vehemently against anyone helping her at all, taking this as pity for her blindness. However, time with the Gaang has tempered this, and now she’s willing to accept help from people she respects. She still doesn’t take insults or insinuations that, as a blind girl, she can’t function like a normal person, and has a habit of attempting to prove the person wrong, only to inadvertently prove them right. (For example, when told she couldn’t help hang posters, she took one, pasted it on backwards, and went, “It’s upside-down, isn’t it?”) She loves being blind, as it’s helped her develop her own style of Earthbending and Metalbending, a previously unheard of bending form that was only possible because Toph was banging against a metal wall and could sense the bits of unrefined earth in the metal.
Raised as a young noble, Toph is perfectly capable of handling other nobles and behaving like one. That doesn’t mean she does. She would much rather run around barefoot (this is in part because that’s how she sees) than sit inside and take tea. That doesn’t mean she’s above abusing her family name if it’ll help her friends, but she really doesn’t like being thought of as “the Beifong girl”. She’s Toph. Toph’s personal hygiene is also somewhat lacking, as she usually is covered in a ‘healthy coating of earth’, tends to burp a lot, and isn’t too terribly fond of washing the dirt off. She will when it gets ridiculous, and it’s not as if she likes being filthy. She just likes dirt.
Toph is a quick learner, and is quick to adapt to a new situation. On multiple occasions, she’s taken a bad situation (getting conned, being blind in the sand) and turned it into a situation benefiting herself and her friends (conning the con man with Earthbending, learning Sandbending). Her usual way of handling a problem she can’t turn to her benefit is to face it head on and just charge through; however, this doesn’t always work and when it doesn’t, Toph is not the happiest of people. And when Toph’s not happy, the snark comes out. She is an expert trash-talker and smartmouth, and she’s not exactly keen on fluffy feelings. She’s more tsun than dere, and punches as a sign of affection.
Being blind, Toph doesn’t worry too much about how she looks, as long as she looks presentable. It does affect her, though, when others insult her looks, since how can she respond to that? When she can respond to someone else’s taunts, Toph is a master snarker and gives mildly derogatory nicknames to everyone she meets. If she’s a friend, she means it affectionately. Honestly. She’s a loyal friend, after all, and would never insult her friends. Outright, at least. She’s good with sarcastic jokes, though, like when people forget she’s blind. Toph is generally carefree, disliking any rules she deems ‘stupid’ and always wanting to break them.
Background: Toph was born in Gaoling to the Beifong family, the richest family in town (and probably the southern Earth Kingdom). However, she was born blind. Her parents panicked and assumed she’d never be able to live on her own or care for herself; they decided to hire all the nannies, guards, and aides they could to tend to their baby girl, and they kept her a secret from the rest of the world. No one in town knew the Beifongs had a daughter, or even that they had a child. When they learned she was an Earthbender, they hired a teacher to keep her at the most basic of forms.
This pissed Toph off. She ran off several times as a child, running into a cave with badgermoles when she was six. There, she befriended the giant creatures and learned their style of Earthbending. This style also allowed her to learn how to see with the earth, using the vibrations from footsteps to figure out where things were and what someone was going to do. She practiced her style in secret, quickly becoming one of the most powerful Earthbenders in the world. She even entered the local Earth Rumble competition under the alias the Blind Bandit, winning several times before the start of the series. And then Aang showed up and blew Toph off the ring, taking the prize and annoying the hell out of her because he cheated.
When Aang first approaches her in regards to his Earthbending, Toph turned him away. She had no desire to help someone who made her lose, and at that time her parents didn’t know the truth. She explained the situation to Aang after dinner, lamenting that his life wasn’t her life when he offered her a spot with their group again. At that moment, they were kidnapped by the Earth Rumble guys, as they assumed Toph and Aang had conspired to cheat them out their prize and the money.
Sokka, Katara, Toph’s father, and her Earthbending ‘teacher’ all went to the Rumble ring to deliver the ransoms requested by the kidnappers. The kidnappers, however, only released Toph and were going to turn Aang in for the bounty. After pleading from Katara, Toph decided to help them rescue Aang, shocking her father and her teacher.
After everyone was back on the Beifong Estate, Toph confessed her double life and her true skill with Earthbending to her parents, hoping they’d see the light and let her have some freedom. It backfired, however, and her father declared that Toph was going to be taken care of constantly from now on, since she’d obviously been given far too much freedom previously.
Toph ran off with Aang and the others that same night, and her father set bounty hunters after her to bring her back home. She ended up running away from the Gaang a few days later, when sleep deprivation and a clash of personalities caused some misunderstandings between her and Katara. She returned shortly after, though, thanks to tea and a talk with Iroh.
At first, Toph was a harsh and stubborn teacher to Aang, ridiculing his ideas of how to approach Earthbending (he wanted to try and go at things from a different angle, while she kept telling him Earthbending wasn’t like that). It finally clicked for him, though, and they were able to have more lessons.
They eventually reached the desert between the southern Earth Kingdom and Ba Sing Se, where they then ran into a professor looking for a library that supposedly held all the knowledge in the world. Sokka, ever the idiot, decided to drag the Gaang out into the desert with the professor, much to Toph’s dismay. The sand made everything fuzzy, and it wasn’t like libraries held much interest for her. When they found the library, Toph opted to stay outside with Appa.
That turned out to be a good thing, as the others had angered the spirit in charge of the library when they discovered some information they intended on using to defeat the Fire Nation, and he was going to pull them all back into the Spirit World with him. Toph was able to keep the library from sinking as quickly into the sand with her Earthbending, giving her friends time to escape. Unfortunately, some Sandbenders had tracked them down and arrived just as the library started sinking. While Toph was stuck trying to keep her friends alive, the Sandbenders took Appa away.
Getting out of the desert nearly killed them (thanks in no small part to Sokka’s stupidity and Aang’s unstable emotional state after the kidnapping of his beloved sky bison), but they eventually got out and made it to the hidden docks that would ferry them into Ba Sing Se. Some refugees they met, however, had lost their tickets, and the Gaang plus Suki decided to guide them over the treacherous Serpent’s Pass. (This trip also revealed Toph’s inability to swim and her crush on Sokka.) They made it to Ba Sing Se in one piece, albeit with an extra party member, as one of the refugees had a baby shortly after they made landfall.
When they got to Ba Sing Se, however, they realized the Fire Nation (more accurately: Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee) was trying to invade it using a large drill that could destroy the fabled walls of Ba Sing Se. Sending the refugees in before them, the Gaang managed to stop the drill and fight off the Fire Nation for the time being.
Ba Sing Se wasn’t all they had thought it was going to be. Toph had been dreading actually dealing with the bureaucracy of the city, having been raised to understand the finer details of such a complex city. She was unsurprised but no less unhappy to discover that they couldn’t inform the Earth King of the eclipse that would render the Fire Nation weak right away, and that the crazy lady assigned as a guide was completely unhelpful and obstructive. Toph and Katara managed to sneak in the evening they arrived via a fancy party, but it was there that the learned the King was just a puppet, and that Long Feng actually controlled the city. The King didn’t even know about the War, and that speaking of said war wasn’t allowed in the city.
After a side trip that involved a day spa, the Gaang ran into an old acquaintance named Jet who, after Katara reversed his brainwashing, was able to lead them to where the Dai Li, Long Feng’s police, were keeping Appa. Jet was attacked, however, and although he claimed he’d be fine, Toph could tell he was lying and informed the others.
Toph, along with Katara, wanted to leave the city, tired of the stuffiness and generally hating it, but Sokka and Aang convinced them they needed to get into the palace and explain the truth to the Earth King. Toph ended up taking out most of the palace guards, and eventually the Gaang managed to complete their mission by showing Kuei the remains of the giant drill.
After this, the Gaang decided to split up. Toph was given a letter that was supposedly from her mother, inviting her home. It was a trap by the bounty hunters, however, and they imprisoned Toph in a metal coffin. It was during this incident that Toph discovered Metalbending, which she promptly used to kick some bounty hunter ass and escape back to Ba Sing Se. Thanks to Azula and Long Feng becoming allies, however, the great city fell shortly after Toph and the Gaang got back together. Aang was rendered unconscious by a lightning strike from Azula, and things looked bleak.
Aang woke up some time later, once the Gaang and some other friends they’d picked up had commandeered a Fire Nation ship. They were going to go around and pick up other allies and go with a small-scale, ragtag attack force to attack the Fire Nation capital on the Day of Black Sun instead of the huge invasion they had been planning. They were found out on the way there by another ship, although thanks to Toph’s enhanced hearing they were able to fight back before the other ship had a chance to sink them. When Aang flew off to go fight the Fire Lord himself, Toph and the siblings chased after him. They convinced him to postpone it until the eclipse; it was decided that they would go ahead to the rendezvous point and wait for the others.
They traveled the Fire Nation in disguise, running into school kids, a village that was being polluted, and a master swordsman who taught Sokka (Toph got an awesome bracelet made from meteorite out of that side trip). They helped whoever they could.
Shortly after Sokka’s sword lessons, the group discovered they were low on cash. In a stroke of brilliance, Toph and the boys began using Toph’s blindness and her Earthbending to con conmen and gain a ton of money (and bounty). This pissed Katara off, however, and the girls got into a fight, during which Toph claimed that Katara wasn’t her mother and therefore shouldn’t act like it. She later admitted to Sokka that Katara was more of a mother than her own was, though, and that she was sorry for what she had done to her parents. Katara overheard while she was swimming nearby. This prompted Katara to suggest that she and Toph team up to con the bounty hunters; Katara would turn Toph in and Toph would escape the prison via Earthbending.
The plan failed, and both girls were captured by an assassin Zuko had sent after them. They escaped and manage to save Aang just in time, though. (Katara would later pen a letter dictated by Toph to her parents, explaining her reasons for running away.)
The Day of Black Sun came, and thanks to a combination of bunkers, Azula, and bad timing, the attack failed. All of the adult fighters were captured, leaving the kids (the Gaang, their friend Haru, a kid named the Duke, and another friend named Teo) to escape on Appa to the Western Air Temple. There, Zuko found them and tried to get them to let him teach Aang Firebending. While the other three refused to even listen to the former prince, Toph was the only one willing to give him a chance. She was furious that her friends weren’t thinking things through and being irrational about this, and she snuck off to try and work something out with Zuko.
That backfired when Zuko panicked and burned her feet, leaving Toph almost completely blind. Toph fled, terrified and in pain. The others tried to use this as proof they couldn’t trust Zuko, though Toph explained it was an accident and she had just been in too much pain to stick around and talk to Zuko. She did admit that his Firebending was dangerous, however. Zuko would join up with the Gaang shortly after this. When he lost his bending, thanks to changing sides and losing his anger, she was the one who suggested he go to the dragons to learn Firebending, like she had learned Earthbending from the badgermoles. Both were the original Firebenders/Earthbenders, after all.
Toph stayed out of everyone else’s business until they went to Ember Island a short time before the comet. There, they all went to a play about their adventures, where Toph was the only one happy with how she was depicted on stage. During intermission, she and Zuko had a talk about Iroh, and they two began to really bond. (She would later try to have a ‘life-changing field trip’ with Zuko, like the others, only for it to backfire. Again.) The ending of the play—having Aang fall—was depressing, however, and left everyone feeling miserable.
Toph was crucial to the final battle, as she, Sokka, and Suki were in charge of stopping the Fire Lord’s airship fleet. She defeated the pilot of one by bending their own airship against them and allowing Sokka to start ramming others. Despite nearly falling to their deaths, the trio survived and Aang defeated the Fire Lord.
After this, the Gaang met with Earth King Kuei, now wanting to be a real ruler, to discuss what to do with the Fire Nation colonies in the Earth Kingdom. It was eventually decided that they would be relocating all of the colonists back to the Fire Nation, and after a celebration, the Gaang split up. Toph decided to wander the Earth for a while, teaching Metalbending and Earthbending, before setting up the Beifong Metalbending Academy just outside of Yu Dao, one of the oldest Fire Nation colonies. A year after the end of the war, she has three students (she calls them lily livers). I will be taking her from before the crisis at Yu Dao.
Abilities/Additional Notes: Toph’s basic abilities include:
--Mastery of Earthbending
--Skill with Sandbending
--Invention of Metalbending
--Skilled actress (she lied to her parents for years and could pull of cons)
--Pretty good artist (at least with sculptures)
--Snark
On top of this, Toph’s Earthbending gives her a 360 degree line of sight for a considerable distance around her (several feet, and she can sense abnormal vibrations (like those from Azula’s machine in “The Chase” several miles away, assuming they’re large). She has exceptional hearing, and her seismic sense allows her to tell when someone is lying, assuming they have physical tells such as increased heartbeat. I will ask permission before having Toph call someone out on this before using it in a thread. Her sense also works over wood (though not as well), metal, and meteorite.
Personal Journal: [Bad username or unknown identity: “fae_of_the_rose”]
Contact: PM my journal. I have other methods, but those are friends locked
Other Characters Played: None
Are you 18 or over? Yep!
Canon: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character: Toph Beifong
Timeline: Post-series, just pre-Promise. She doesn’t know Zuko’s in Yu Dao.
Personality: Toph was, and still is, a very stubborn, prideful girl. She used to be vehemently against anyone helping her at all, taking this as pity for her blindness. However, time with the Gaang has tempered this, and now she’s willing to accept help from people she respects. She still doesn’t take insults or insinuations that, as a blind girl, she can’t function like a normal person, and has a habit of attempting to prove the person wrong, only to inadvertently prove them right. (For example, when told she couldn’t help hang posters, she took one, pasted it on backwards, and went, “It’s upside-down, isn’t it?”) She loves being blind, as it’s helped her develop her own style of Earthbending and Metalbending, a previously unheard of bending form that was only possible because Toph was banging against a metal wall and could sense the bits of unrefined earth in the metal.
Raised as a young noble, Toph is perfectly capable of handling other nobles and behaving like one. That doesn’t mean she does. She would much rather run around barefoot (this is in part because that’s how she sees) than sit inside and take tea. That doesn’t mean she’s above abusing her family name if it’ll help her friends, but she really doesn’t like being thought of as “the Beifong girl”. She’s Toph. Toph’s personal hygiene is also somewhat lacking, as she usually is covered in a ‘healthy coating of earth’, tends to burp a lot, and isn’t too terribly fond of washing the dirt off. She will when it gets ridiculous, and it’s not as if she likes being filthy. She just likes dirt.
Toph is a quick learner, and is quick to adapt to a new situation. On multiple occasions, she’s taken a bad situation (getting conned, being blind in the sand) and turned it into a situation benefiting herself and her friends (conning the con man with Earthbending, learning Sandbending). Her usual way of handling a problem she can’t turn to her benefit is to face it head on and just charge through; however, this doesn’t always work and when it doesn’t, Toph is not the happiest of people. And when Toph’s not happy, the snark comes out. She is an expert trash-talker and smartmouth, and she’s not exactly keen on fluffy feelings. She’s more tsun than dere, and punches as a sign of affection.
Being blind, Toph doesn’t worry too much about how she looks, as long as she looks presentable. It does affect her, though, when others insult her looks, since how can she respond to that? When she can respond to someone else’s taunts, Toph is a master snarker and gives mildly derogatory nicknames to everyone she meets. If she’s a friend, she means it affectionately. Honestly. She’s a loyal friend, after all, and would never insult her friends. Outright, at least. She’s good with sarcastic jokes, though, like when people forget she’s blind. Toph is generally carefree, disliking any rules she deems ‘stupid’ and always wanting to break them.
Background: Toph was born in Gaoling to the Beifong family, the richest family in town (and probably the southern Earth Kingdom). However, she was born blind. Her parents panicked and assumed she’d never be able to live on her own or care for herself; they decided to hire all the nannies, guards, and aides they could to tend to their baby girl, and they kept her a secret from the rest of the world. No one in town knew the Beifongs had a daughter, or even that they had a child. When they learned she was an Earthbender, they hired a teacher to keep her at the most basic of forms.
This pissed Toph off. She ran off several times as a child, running into a cave with badgermoles when she was six. There, she befriended the giant creatures and learned their style of Earthbending. This style also allowed her to learn how to see with the earth, using the vibrations from footsteps to figure out where things were and what someone was going to do. She practiced her style in secret, quickly becoming one of the most powerful Earthbenders in the world. She even entered the local Earth Rumble competition under the alias the Blind Bandit, winning several times before the start of the series. And then Aang showed up and blew Toph off the ring, taking the prize and annoying the hell out of her because he cheated.
When Aang first approaches her in regards to his Earthbending, Toph turned him away. She had no desire to help someone who made her lose, and at that time her parents didn’t know the truth. She explained the situation to Aang after dinner, lamenting that his life wasn’t her life when he offered her a spot with their group again. At that moment, they were kidnapped by the Earth Rumble guys, as they assumed Toph and Aang had conspired to cheat them out their prize and the money.
Sokka, Katara, Toph’s father, and her Earthbending ‘teacher’ all went to the Rumble ring to deliver the ransoms requested by the kidnappers. The kidnappers, however, only released Toph and were going to turn Aang in for the bounty. After pleading from Katara, Toph decided to help them rescue Aang, shocking her father and her teacher.
After everyone was back on the Beifong Estate, Toph confessed her double life and her true skill with Earthbending to her parents, hoping they’d see the light and let her have some freedom. It backfired, however, and her father declared that Toph was going to be taken care of constantly from now on, since she’d obviously been given far too much freedom previously.
Toph ran off with Aang and the others that same night, and her father set bounty hunters after her to bring her back home. She ended up running away from the Gaang a few days later, when sleep deprivation and a clash of personalities caused some misunderstandings between her and Katara. She returned shortly after, though, thanks to tea and a talk with Iroh.
At first, Toph was a harsh and stubborn teacher to Aang, ridiculing his ideas of how to approach Earthbending (he wanted to try and go at things from a different angle, while she kept telling him Earthbending wasn’t like that). It finally clicked for him, though, and they were able to have more lessons.
They eventually reached the desert between the southern Earth Kingdom and Ba Sing Se, where they then ran into a professor looking for a library that supposedly held all the knowledge in the world. Sokka, ever the idiot, decided to drag the Gaang out into the desert with the professor, much to Toph’s dismay. The sand made everything fuzzy, and it wasn’t like libraries held much interest for her. When they found the library, Toph opted to stay outside with Appa.
That turned out to be a good thing, as the others had angered the spirit in charge of the library when they discovered some information they intended on using to defeat the Fire Nation, and he was going to pull them all back into the Spirit World with him. Toph was able to keep the library from sinking as quickly into the sand with her Earthbending, giving her friends time to escape. Unfortunately, some Sandbenders had tracked them down and arrived just as the library started sinking. While Toph was stuck trying to keep her friends alive, the Sandbenders took Appa away.
Getting out of the desert nearly killed them (thanks in no small part to Sokka’s stupidity and Aang’s unstable emotional state after the kidnapping of his beloved sky bison), but they eventually got out and made it to the hidden docks that would ferry them into Ba Sing Se. Some refugees they met, however, had lost their tickets, and the Gaang plus Suki decided to guide them over the treacherous Serpent’s Pass. (This trip also revealed Toph’s inability to swim and her crush on Sokka.) They made it to Ba Sing Se in one piece, albeit with an extra party member, as one of the refugees had a baby shortly after they made landfall.
When they got to Ba Sing Se, however, they realized the Fire Nation (more accurately: Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee) was trying to invade it using a large drill that could destroy the fabled walls of Ba Sing Se. Sending the refugees in before them, the Gaang managed to stop the drill and fight off the Fire Nation for the time being.
Ba Sing Se wasn’t all they had thought it was going to be. Toph had been dreading actually dealing with the bureaucracy of the city, having been raised to understand the finer details of such a complex city. She was unsurprised but no less unhappy to discover that they couldn’t inform the Earth King of the eclipse that would render the Fire Nation weak right away, and that the crazy lady assigned as a guide was completely unhelpful and obstructive. Toph and Katara managed to sneak in the evening they arrived via a fancy party, but it was there that the learned the King was just a puppet, and that Long Feng actually controlled the city. The King didn’t even know about the War, and that speaking of said war wasn’t allowed in the city.
After a side trip that involved a day spa, the Gaang ran into an old acquaintance named Jet who, after Katara reversed his brainwashing, was able to lead them to where the Dai Li, Long Feng’s police, were keeping Appa. Jet was attacked, however, and although he claimed he’d be fine, Toph could tell he was lying and informed the others.
Toph, along with Katara, wanted to leave the city, tired of the stuffiness and generally hating it, but Sokka and Aang convinced them they needed to get into the palace and explain the truth to the Earth King. Toph ended up taking out most of the palace guards, and eventually the Gaang managed to complete their mission by showing Kuei the remains of the giant drill.
After this, the Gaang decided to split up. Toph was given a letter that was supposedly from her mother, inviting her home. It was a trap by the bounty hunters, however, and they imprisoned Toph in a metal coffin. It was during this incident that Toph discovered Metalbending, which she promptly used to kick some bounty hunter ass and escape back to Ba Sing Se. Thanks to Azula and Long Feng becoming allies, however, the great city fell shortly after Toph and the Gaang got back together. Aang was rendered unconscious by a lightning strike from Azula, and things looked bleak.
Aang woke up some time later, once the Gaang and some other friends they’d picked up had commandeered a Fire Nation ship. They were going to go around and pick up other allies and go with a small-scale, ragtag attack force to attack the Fire Nation capital on the Day of Black Sun instead of the huge invasion they had been planning. They were found out on the way there by another ship, although thanks to Toph’s enhanced hearing they were able to fight back before the other ship had a chance to sink them. When Aang flew off to go fight the Fire Lord himself, Toph and the siblings chased after him. They convinced him to postpone it until the eclipse; it was decided that they would go ahead to the rendezvous point and wait for the others.
They traveled the Fire Nation in disguise, running into school kids, a village that was being polluted, and a master swordsman who taught Sokka (Toph got an awesome bracelet made from meteorite out of that side trip). They helped whoever they could.
Shortly after Sokka’s sword lessons, the group discovered they were low on cash. In a stroke of brilliance, Toph and the boys began using Toph’s blindness and her Earthbending to con conmen and gain a ton of money (and bounty). This pissed Katara off, however, and the girls got into a fight, during which Toph claimed that Katara wasn’t her mother and therefore shouldn’t act like it. She later admitted to Sokka that Katara was more of a mother than her own was, though, and that she was sorry for what she had done to her parents. Katara overheard while she was swimming nearby. This prompted Katara to suggest that she and Toph team up to con the bounty hunters; Katara would turn Toph in and Toph would escape the prison via Earthbending.
The plan failed, and both girls were captured by an assassin Zuko had sent after them. They escaped and manage to save Aang just in time, though. (Katara would later pen a letter dictated by Toph to her parents, explaining her reasons for running away.)
The Day of Black Sun came, and thanks to a combination of bunkers, Azula, and bad timing, the attack failed. All of the adult fighters were captured, leaving the kids (the Gaang, their friend Haru, a kid named the Duke, and another friend named Teo) to escape on Appa to the Western Air Temple. There, Zuko found them and tried to get them to let him teach Aang Firebending. While the other three refused to even listen to the former prince, Toph was the only one willing to give him a chance. She was furious that her friends weren’t thinking things through and being irrational about this, and she snuck off to try and work something out with Zuko.
That backfired when Zuko panicked and burned her feet, leaving Toph almost completely blind. Toph fled, terrified and in pain. The others tried to use this as proof they couldn’t trust Zuko, though Toph explained it was an accident and she had just been in too much pain to stick around and talk to Zuko. She did admit that his Firebending was dangerous, however. Zuko would join up with the Gaang shortly after this. When he lost his bending, thanks to changing sides and losing his anger, she was the one who suggested he go to the dragons to learn Firebending, like she had learned Earthbending from the badgermoles. Both were the original Firebenders/Earthbenders, after all.
Toph stayed out of everyone else’s business until they went to Ember Island a short time before the comet. There, they all went to a play about their adventures, where Toph was the only one happy with how she was depicted on stage. During intermission, she and Zuko had a talk about Iroh, and they two began to really bond. (She would later try to have a ‘life-changing field trip’ with Zuko, like the others, only for it to backfire. Again.) The ending of the play—having Aang fall—was depressing, however, and left everyone feeling miserable.
Toph was crucial to the final battle, as she, Sokka, and Suki were in charge of stopping the Fire Lord’s airship fleet. She defeated the pilot of one by bending their own airship against them and allowing Sokka to start ramming others. Despite nearly falling to their deaths, the trio survived and Aang defeated the Fire Lord.
After this, the Gaang met with Earth King Kuei, now wanting to be a real ruler, to discuss what to do with the Fire Nation colonies in the Earth Kingdom. It was eventually decided that they would be relocating all of the colonists back to the Fire Nation, and after a celebration, the Gaang split up. Toph decided to wander the Earth for a while, teaching Metalbending and Earthbending, before setting up the Beifong Metalbending Academy just outside of Yu Dao, one of the oldest Fire Nation colonies. A year after the end of the war, she has three students (she calls them lily livers). I will be taking her from before the crisis at Yu Dao.
Abilities/Additional Notes: Toph’s basic abilities include:
--Mastery of Earthbending
--Skill with Sandbending
--Invention of Metalbending
--Skilled actress (she lied to her parents for years and could pull of cons)
--Pretty good artist (at least with sculptures)
--Snark
On top of this, Toph’s Earthbending gives her a 360 degree line of sight for a considerable distance around her (several feet, and she can sense abnormal vibrations (like those from Azula’s machine in “The Chase” several miles away, assuming they’re large). She has exceptional hearing, and her seismic sense allows her to tell when someone is lying, assuming they have physical tells such as increased heartbeat. I will ask permission before having Toph call someone out on this before using it in a thread. Her sense also works over wood (though not as well), metal, and meteorite.