Okay I’m gonna play in this space for just a moment, because I had the funniest idea when reading this fic about Toph and Zuko being rich kids who’ve had betrothal contracts since they were little.
The Bei Fongs are a very rich, very noble family, rich and noble enough that an administrator in the largest city in the world, on the other side of the continent, is impressed by her seal, impressed enough to bend some *very strict* rules. Now, Gaoling isn’t on the front lines of the war, but it’s on a river, on the southern coast of the Earth Kingdom, a center of earthbending power, and a ripe plum for the Fire Nation to try and pick. Yet it seems remarkably un-war-torn. My guess is the Bei Fongs made a deal with the Fire Nation, making them collaborators, but protecting the town, the way the Mechanist does the Northern Air Temple.
Of course, Toph’s parents try to keep all mention of trouble away from her, so all she knows, from eavesdropping and sneaking and gossip, is that she’s betrothed to some fire nation noble kid.
All Zuko knows is that he’s betrothed to the daughter of the Bei Fong family. What? No, he doesn’t know her first name, he’d read it on the contract but that was years ago. Why? Have you met her? Is she nice? Why are you laughing, Sokka, seriously, what’s so funny–
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