when I think about it, i realized that Toph legitimately DOESNâT have any real skillset outside of playing high society stuff, sitting around all fancy like, and fighting, and she knows it
she knows how to convincingly seem to be high society and talk to people, because she IS a very important person from a powerful family, so she was immersed in that stuff since she was young and she wasnât really allowed to learn anything else. She was basically born into a gilded cage, and she knows it. And lounging around is, more or less, the only option available to her in that circumstance.
She learned how to fight on her own, and she had to sneak out and hide it in order to actually do that
so ultimately Toph can be seen as having a fairly limited skill set and a big part of her character is that she acts tough and seems that she doesnât care, it makes sense that this is ultimately something sheâd be really insecure about, and it seems like a reason for her to eventually become a guru of sorts and an Earth Sage just by philosophzing and working things out on her own
now, ultimately, Toph DOES do more things than just âtalk fancyâ and âhit thingsâ, but the thing about it is that itâs pretty likely that SHE doesnât see it that way, so it seems like an excellent character angle to strike especially when, from her POV, it seems like all her friends are polymaths while she just does two things, and one of them she hates because she learned it entirely against her will
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