Mai and Toph

Written for Wei Tzu. Three alphabets in as many days go me. I still need prompts (link is in my profile) and a beta for HP. Help me out please. Toph and Aang up next.

Published 10/28/11

Anger

Toph's fists clenched as the ladies giggled pointedly at her bare feet.

Black

Mai's favorite shade is the only color that Toph could comprehend.

China

Both of their parents treated them as though they were fragile things, easily broken.

Dream

Toph dreams in what she imagines color must look like. Mai dreams of silence.

Emo

Toph grabbed the older girls hand and swings it back and forth as they walked back home from school.

Finch

Mai had a pet songbird given to her when she was young. It hated its cage and flew against the bars with enough force to bend them. It broke its neck on the bars and she wept and learned that she should not rage against her fate.

Gold

Toph does not see the value of gold. To her, it is just another metal to bend. Mai takes it upon herself to explain the shine gold has in sunlight.

Hygiene

"That's disgusting Toph. Get your feet off my table." Her monotone makes her sound more dangerous.

Iron

Metalbending is not so hard. All Toph needed was a few hours in a cage with her ability to "see" gone to figure it out. But then Toph was always going to be extraordinary.

Jasmine

They have a favorite flower in common. Toph loves jasmine for its smell, Mai loves jasmine because Zuko used to pluck one from the bush and tuck it behind her ear.

Keen

Mai's first lesson with blades is how sharp they are. Her teacher has her draw a knife over her open palm. She was seven.

Liquor

Toph and Mai both have excellent taste in wine, despite it not being their favorite drink. Toph prefers whiskey and Mai goes straight for the vodka.

Matter

"What's wrong with lil' miss doom and gloom? I can feel her brooding from over here."

Noble

Mai and Toph are alike in that they were trained from birth to hide their emotions. Toph however was never subjected to the dainty whispers from behind gilded fans and as such never had a reason to stick to her training

Outshone

Toph makes a serious effort to rival Mai in the academy because they are very similar, the two of them.

Politics

Who know that Toph could be so... ruthless?

Quote

"Come on knivey, let's dance."

Rain

Toph likes the sensation of rain on her skin, it feels unlike anything else. Mai always carries an umbrella.

Similar

They are not so unlike one another. They were always alone. Their parents were wealthy. They lacked nothing except affection. But Toph learned how bend from badgermoles, whose natural instinct is to stay together and Mai learned her knives from an old soldier who jumped when she was too loud.

Trip

"I finally got my life changing field trip with Zuko! Thank you Mai!" Toph bounced into a hug and then retreated. "Where did you take her?" Mai inquired. Her boyfriend rubbed the back of his head sheepishly and muttered don't ask.

Universal

Young ladies must behave appropriately. Toph had a talent for destroying her gowns and Mai's calm handling of knives frightened her teachers.

Vice

Mai learned how to cheat at cards from her father when she was four. Toph learned how to fix a shell game by accident when she found boys playing it in the alley outside her house when she was ten.

Weather

Toph likes the heat of the Fire Nation. She winters there and manages to draw the young Fire Lady into discusses of tea, a passion Toph turned into an art form

Xylophone

"All young ladies must learn an instrument." A small girl in the back of the class raised her hand. "Ma'am I'm blind." "That is no excuse. You." the teacher gestured imperiously to a girl in black in the front. "Help her."

Yawn

Mai is exceptionally good at description, this means she gets the blind girl by her side as they watch the meteor shower from Appa's back. Toph leans into her around three in the morning half-sleep, and Mai gently covers her with the blankets they brought.

Zip your lips

"Just shut up alright. You're so loud." Mai slumps into Zuko's arms as Toph cackles. "Never give her caffeine again."

Bonus tracks

Cabbage

"Not my cabbages!" Mai and Toph stop fighting long enough to roll their eyes at the idiocy of the merchant.

Zip your lips inspired by freshman. Sometimes I just want to dump them in trashcans.