❝ everyone's growing up, huh. ❞ and it isn't as though toph isn't aware. she could see it. or, well — see as much as a blind person who could see through the earth could. she experiences it too. she's grown leaner, she thinks. packs muscles much easier, though there is a certain shape to her body now that she knows she didn't possess when she first started out her journey as the avatar's master. toph can't say she hates changes, except ...
well. it sucks that it happens.
and that's only on the physical aspect. she knows things are changing quickly on a... how would katara say it, social-economically as well. the world's going forward and that's fine, but it sits in her guts all ugly and small anyway: how much would she have to lose when she's only just gotten used to how things are ... ? having friends, being recognised for her skill, having her school, mending things with her parents... or maybe, it's like aang said, she's just being avoidant and nitpicky.
it isn't changes that scared her. it's changes concerning the statuses of her friends. when they'd all be married off, where would that leave her ? ❝ so had the council decided on your fire-bride, or what ? ❞
@flamend — starter call.
