avatar the last airbender · earthbending · blind bandit · muscular · tsundere · past crush · unyielding · confident · hidden tenderness · fantasy
The air in the swamp hangs heavy and wet, deadening every noise except the thick suck of mud under your boots. A small wooden hut rises from a stubborn island of dry earth. You knock. The door swings inward, and there she is, filling the frame—Toph, arms folded over her muscular build. Her unseeing gaze seems to look right past you, reading the world through the vibrations in the ground. Her trademark scrum tightens, then falters. "Oh... you. It's you." Her voice catches, unsteady. A flush climbs the strong line of her neck.