Disclaimer: Don't own Avatar the Last Airbender therefore I don't own Toph Bei Fong
My friends
POV Toph Bei Fong
I guess people see
only what they want to see.
Like when they look at me
all they see is a blind girl
someone that needs help
needs sympathy,
but that isn't what I need.
I was born blind
I don't miss having my vision
because I never had it to begin with.
My parents don't understand
they think that because of
my being blind
that I am helpless
but I'm not
I'm an earthbender
I may not see the way they do
but I do, in a way, see.
Everything hitting the ground
causes a vibration
the size of the vibration
varies by the object
making them and thus
I know what is around me by the
vibrations.
Then I met them
my friends
my first real friends.
The first one I met was
this cheerful boy about my age
he was an airbender and therefore didn't like
staying on the ground, and
when he did land from the air
it was so lightly that
I could barely feel it.
Then there was the one girl in
their group
she was sweet
I mean sickeningly sweet
but at least she saw that I wasn't
helpless, but that I could handle myself
most of the time.
She didn't act like she pitied me
the way others before her had
she understood that
I didn't know what it meant
to be able to see in the classic sense
of with my eyes and she accepted me.
Then there's her brother
oh geese, I'd like to earthbend him
into the ground sometimes.
I'm sure his intentions are good
and his heart is in the right place
or whatever, but at the end of the day
he is annoying.
He tries to make jokes and
most of the time doesn't make us laugh
which I'm sure is what he is trying to do.
I'm not complaining about them
I just... I guess I needed to rant a little.
Get this out of my system. They are great
I wouldn't trade them for anything
but on the same token
I would like to maybe
make Sokka ease up on the bad jokes
like the leaning on my head
why doesn't he ever do that to Aang?
Oh well, other than that one thing
I wouldn't change them...
even if I was capable
of doing so.
The end