Toph Beifong (北方•拓芙) (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
seismicity) wrote2013-10-14 12:15 pm
seismicity) wrote2013-10-14 12:15 pm
002 ; voice + action
If any of you guys have cold remedies that actually work, I'm all ears. Y'know, in case I ever need 'em again. 'Cause there's no way I'm ever gonna suck on another frozen frog, thanks.
[ So, Toph had spent the last week and a half confined to her bed. Well, just to her room. But she was in bed for most of it, because she'd come down with a strange cold that nothing could seem to cure. (Looking for a cure had been an adventure in itself. But that's a story for another time.)
That said, she'd been feeling better these last couple of days, and today she was finally able to harass someone into letting her out of the house (instead of just escaping, anyway.) The weather was starting to get cold, so it wouldn't be long before the days got too chilly for her to spend so much time outside. She was going to take advantage of what time she had left. So, after spending the morning at the barracks making sure her bending hadn't suffered from her cold (it hadn't), she wastes some time at the Avatar House's backyard, lazily raising elaborate, miniature structures and landscapes out of the earth.
And when she needs a minute to rest (because she's still only just recovering!), well, she decides that there was nothing wrong with just lying on the ground. By the end of day, she's totally covered in sand and dust and earth. But who's complaining, right? At least she isn't tracking mud into the house. ]
[ So, Toph had spent the last week and a half confined to her bed. Well, just to her room. But she was in bed for most of it, because she'd come down with a strange cold that nothing could seem to cure. (Looking for a cure had been an adventure in itself. But that's a story for another time.)
That said, she'd been feeling better these last couple of days, and today she was finally able to harass someone into letting her out of the house (instead of just escaping, anyway.) The weather was starting to get cold, so it wouldn't be long before the days got too chilly for her to spend so much time outside. She was going to take advantage of what time she had left. So, after spending the morning at the barracks making sure her bending hadn't suffered from her cold (it hadn't), she wastes some time at the Avatar House's backyard, lazily raising elaborate, miniature structures and landscapes out of the earth.
And when she needs a minute to rest (because she's still only just recovering!), well, she decides that there was nothing wrong with just lying on the ground. By the end of day, she's totally covered in sand and dust and earth. But who's complaining, right? At least she isn't tracking mud into the house. ]
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I'm sure there are herbal remedies that are far more effective that can be found, though the method I tend to ascribe to is usually hot baths and eating as much as one can stomach.
[Voice]
Hot baths, though? [ She has to be clean? ]
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action;
Ugh, doesn't sound pleasant. How do you live there?
action?
We fought hard to free it, and I've done a great deal to make things better for my people, so that they wouldn't have to worry anymore.
[Voice!! my bad, sorry! |D]
"Your" people, huh? And what was wrong with it before?
[Voice! I figured I'd check there, just in case she appeared]
We worked to fix it, and I ended up in charge after that.
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Not... exactly...
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... So what, you gonna tell me you can make it rain now? [ Because she's heard of weird things! But controlling the weather? That's something else! ]
[Voice!]
Since you asked... yes.
[You're making him feel reaaaally sheepish here.]
[Voice!]
[ Far as she can tell, he doesn't seem to be lying! But then, this was just over the journal. Huh. ]
[ Extremely suspiciously: ] Yeah? How?
[Voice!]
However I have never met someone else with the ability, as most don't have my... diversity.
[That would be because he's not lying Toph.]
[Voice!]
... I guess that's pretty cool. Are you some kinda special waterbender, or something?
[Voice!]
[Give him a moment, you managed to confuse him.]
Manipulating the rain takes more than just that though.
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[He paused, then gave a soft huff of a sigh.]
I have far too many abilities, to be truthful, I know I've never explored them all.
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That's big talk. You probably just need to practice with 'em more, before complaining about not being able to use 'em all.
[Voice!]
I have been working on seeing what my new boundaries are since arriving here. It's refreshing to be able to do so in spite of my deaths. I will say that's one thing I'm glad for about this place.
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