Lin Beifong is a Hero (unbendable) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2012-09-08 20:53:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, lin beifong |
Who: Lin Beifong, Dream!adult!Toph, dream!adult!Aang
What: A dream of her mom
Where: Her place
When: The night before the Gala
Status: Complete
Rating: PG for twinkletoes.
Her mother was blind. This wasn't new. She was tough. That wasn't new either. What was new was the way she commanded the earth, and commanded metal to bend to her will. Toph Beifong was the best earthbender in the world, and Lin looked up to her and adored her with all her being. From a young age she trained along side her mother. She watched the Metalbending police force be created from nothing. Once, she overheard Katara and Sukko remarking that Toph the rule breaker had become the authority.
Lin, who obeyed all the rules, sometimes to her mother's frustration, marveled at this. But there was one time, when her mother took her aside.
"Lin. There are some times when rules and laws are unfair, or wrong. When you can't work within them, and you have to work within your own. As long as you stay true to your moral center, you won't be betraying yourself."
Aang had visited then, and Toph's tone immediately became teasing as she spoke with Twinkletoes, her arm around her daughter, "I was just teaching her when to break the rules."
Twinkltoes. Maybe that was right. Lin had not felt his presence in the earth. Everyone else she could feel coming, as long as her feet were bare. But not sweet Uncle Aang. She looked up to him, too, and what he said to Toph wormed it's way into the back of Lin's mind, where it would remain hidden for a long time.
"Of course you would, Toph. You made a career of making the rules. You know just which ones to break, for the people that matter most."
Forty years later, Lin Beifong would finally understand what that meant, but in another place and another time, she woke, puzzled and confused. The law was absolute. Wasn't it?