[Action 01]

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

Option A: Lobby

[Toph is leaning against the directory with her arms crossed, unamused. The letter and course catalog are by her feet, untouched.

She's blind, Cid. Why the hell did you give her stuff to read? She's just going to stand here and people 'watch' for a while. Passerbys are free to notice her bare feet or blank stare. If you talk to her, she won't look at you.]

Option B: Quad

[Later, after lunch, Toph is sitting against a convenient wall, apparently doing nothing. People walking by her, however, have a tendency to trip and glance back at the ground behind them, swearing there was a dip there only to find that the ground is just as flat as it's always been.

She's bored and making people look like idiots is entertaining.]

Comments

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

[Nepeta had already given her the rundown, but hey. More info's always good.

Even if Terezi is licking the paper]

They better have someway to help me read things, if they're going to insist on me taking classes.

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

[She folds up the paper and gives it back to you. Slimy troll spit and everything.]

You could always not tell them until it becomes important.

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

[Toph takes it by the corner and tosses it aside]

I think they'd notice the first time they pass a book out and I'm just sitting there, like a blind kid.

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

THEN YOU SHOULD OPEN THE BOOK AND TURN YOUR FACE DOWN TOWARDS IT, DUMMY.

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

And run the risk of making myself look like an idiot? No thanks.

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

With those clothes, I don't think you run much of a risk so much as an absolute certainty.

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

Says the girl who licks everything.

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

I haven't licked you yet, have I? I could!!

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

Let's not.

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

[Why hello, have some arms draping around your shoulders and an long tongue sticking out precariously in front of you.]

Heh heh...

Heh heh heh heh...

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

Ack!

[Small localized quake that is hopefully enough to shake Terezi off]

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

[Easily. She wasn't that serious about it, and DEFINITELY wasn't expecting THAT kind of reaction.

And you now have a troll flat on her butt in front of you, eyes open in bewilderment.]

What did you just DO?

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

Small earthquake. I'm an Eartbender, it's what I do.

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

What's an Earthbender?

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

Someone who can control and manipulate earth. It's how I see. [She points to the ground] I use the vibrations people make when they walk to see them, and I can sense their heartbeat and breathing. [A grin] I'm also the only Earthbender who can bend metal.

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

That sounds incredibly useful!

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

It is. I love Earthbending.

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

Is it just limited to causing tremors and sensing people? Can you do anything else?

[Curious audience!]

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

[So Toph explains all that she can do, and how she learned to Metalbend]

So far, I haven't been able to teach anyone else to Metalbend.

[offwth31rh34ds.livejournal.com]

That's interesting.

And you say there are lots of people that can Earthbend? I have never heard of such a thing until now.

You'd think you would have been able to survive the destruction of your planet with that kind of power.

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

...Planet? What the heck's a planet?

[A beat]

You know, I don't think I'm from wherever you're thinking of.