Toph (beifong_toph) wrote in salemscenes, @ 2016-08-03 15:43:00 |
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Entry tags: | hope summers (yourmessiah), jenny humphrey (queen_j), toph beifong (beifong-toph) |
Who: Toph, Hope, and Jenny
What: Toph needs new clothes
When: Today
Where: Near Crush
Warnings: Likely none
Toph was adjusting to the fact that she was stuck in Salem. It was probably one of the weirdest things that had ever happened to her and she had been taught earthbending by huge badgermoles. Badgermoles that didn’t exist in Salem because even the animals were weird here. She had mentioned a long list of animals that Hope said didn’t exist. There were no turtleducks, just plain turtles and ducks. None of the animals here were a combination of two species, just one on its own. It had made her look dubious but it wasn’t the first thing that was different about the future and it wouldn’t be the last. She wasn’t sure if she would ever be used to this place but she was determined to learn how to live in it. Toph was nothing if she wasn’t adaptable. She wasn’t the naive, helpless little girl her parents thought she was and she wasn’t going to fall to pieces because she was in a different world. She was going to take charge and make the most of it. It was how she lived her life.
So there she was, dressed in Hope’s clothes so she wouldn’t stick out - as much. She was shorter than Hope so the jeans were rolled up into cuffs at her ankles and underneath it, her bare feet walked over the pavement of what Hope had called the sidewalk. That and her glazed over eyes seemed to attract attention but only from people that actually stopped to pay attention to her. Those people were glared at until they went away. It didn’t matter that she was in a different world, adults were always too self conscious to say anything to the rude blind kid even if they wanted to help. It was a fact Toph had learned to take advantage of early on. If she wanted to be left alone, she put on her most unwelcoming face and if for whatever reason she needed adults around, she could manipulate them into doing what she wanted by playing the role of the fainthearted little girl. Both rarely failed her.
“This ice cream stuff is pretty good,” she told Hope after taking another lick of the strawberry scoop on a waffle cone. “It’s almost worth the kidnapping and world hopping.” She took another lick of her ice cream and deftly walked around that sticky stuff, gum, stuck on the ground.
Hope had offered to show her around Salem in a guided tour kind of way and Toph had agreed. Even though Toph could feel where the buildings were and if people and things were inside, it didn’t give her insight as to what kind of building it was. She could tell when it was a home but stores were harder to tell apart when there were blocks of them and had the same shape more or less. However, as Hope pointed them out, Toph noted the smaller differences and committed them to memory. So far, the ice cream shop was one of her favorite places. She wished that the rest of the group was there, she was sure that they would have loved it, especially Sokka.
“Are you sure I’m gonna have to go to school when it starts up again? It’s not like someone’s gonna force me to go if I don’t show up. Plus, I’m really good at hiding when I want to be.” Namely, Toph took to going underground.