#Lao Bei Fong

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Zuko: Toph as my new Economy Minister what is your first order?

Toph: We should print more money to end poverty and give it to the poors!

Zuko: I don't know Toph something about it doesn't sound right.

Toph: My dad says it would be catastrophic but he's always wrong about everything so he must be wrong about it too.

Zuko: Yeah Ozai would say the same. Alright let's do it.

*Cut to the Fire Nation's economy crashing*

[dollvix]

To quote yourself, since I know you love the Bei Fongs as much as I do, do you realize that poor Baatar had to ask Lao and Poppy for their 'permission' to marry Suyin??? (we know it wasn't necessary but, alas, I bet Baatar didn't)

Just trying to picturing Old And Tired!Loppy being like 'omg someone in this family will ACTUALLY marry' with poor nervous Baatar in the background. Baatar being sure they'll reject him. *Cut to Poppy yelling at Suyin to she better marry ASAP before Baatar changes his mind*

So imagine that they have no idea why the architect that their granddaughter hired (with their money obviously) requested a meeting but they still receive him in the hall even though they can barely climb due to age but they would never admit that and Baatar never felt so much like a small boy before them (smaller than Toph here) but he still asks for Suyin's hand hoping that his guards will not kill him.

Lao's order to his guards is to bring drinks to celebrate, Suyin laughs because she had no idea why he wanted to talk to her grandparents until she heard it and mocks how unnecessary it was while Poppy scolds her and almost orders to bring a judge right then while Baatar looks at his new family in disbelief.

Lao: well at least we no longer have to pay him for his services in the new city Poppy: no but now we have to pay him for keeping Suyin

[attackfish]

Can we have 5 more headcanons for the "GAang's parents are swapped" AU? Specifically about Toph and her single, elderly dad Gyatso? That sounds absolutely *precious* and I want my fave to have a happy childhood! She deserves it, and more!!

Continued from: [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

I haven't talked that much about Toph and Gyatso Bei Fong here, simply because as the recipient of a happy childhood with a supportive parent, Tophs story just isn't as messed up and complicated. In canon, Lao and Poppy hide their daughter away and refuse to acknowledge she might be anything other than a delicate helpless widdle baby. The townspeople of Gaoling don't even know the Bei Fongs have a daughter. She is a secret, and they both are ashamed of her, and hyperprotecive.

Gyatso on the other hand, is like, hey, have you heard about my daughter? She taught herself to earthbend when the master I hired for her couldn't keep up with her talent! She's the Earth Rumble champion! She's so clever, and strong, and I love her so much! Everybody knows Gyatso Bei Fong has a daughter that he will not shut up about. They have met this little gremlin child. When she was little, and she had to make an appearance at social occasions, she used to say to people, "Dad says I have to say hi to everybody, and then I can go outside and throw rocks around, so hi. Also bye."

But Gyatso is not an infinitely indulgent parent. He thinks she needs to learn a whole bunch of things that are not nearly as much fun to learn as earthbending, such as manners and etiquette, but also the deeper way we treat people, that other people are just as human as she is, and just as deserving of respect and kindness, and yes, the servants too, especially the servants, because they work for you and do a lot of things for you, so it behooves you to recognize that and treat them as people who are helping you deserve. And yes Toph, the annoying boys in town are also human beings deserving of common human decency. This is not something his own family thought was worth teaching him, like many extremely wealthy noble families, he had to learn it on his own.

He also is a very cultured man, and he enjoys the finer things in life, and wants to bring that to his daughter, music, art, poetry, literature, philosophy. Some of it is easier than others, for example Toph is never going to appreciate a painting or a piece of ink calligraphy. And her tutors think he's absolutely batty for trying to teach her to write, but you know Gaoling is really close by the Si Wong desert, and thousands of years ago, before the cultural expantion from Ba Sing Se, the people in this area developed their own form of writing using clay tablets. Gyatso uses stone engravings, and teaches Toph to make her letters on clay, and he painstakingly copies out poems and stories on the clay tablets for her to feel and read. And of course he reads her poems and stories, and philosophy.

Gyatso's indulgence of his daughter and her interests only adds to his reputation as an eccentric. He doesn't mind, and neither does Toph.

And the Toph who grows up this way is a little more polite and better at teamwork, and a little less brash and a little less boastful. She doesn't need to brag because she knows she has nothing to prove.

[theotherace]

The Bei Fongs, 126 AG

The OCs are, from left to right, Bumi, Tenzin, Norbu, Kavi and Asha. Everybody else is hopefully recognizable enough. 

[zutara] [sukka]

[aangarchy]

Okay I’m literally having people attack me for whitewashing now lmao I just wanna clarify: it’s a fucking joke. I’m referring to a meme that went around ages ago of Nic Cage Bei Fong. I do not actually tolerate whitewashing in the slightest. Learn how to detect a fucking joke before you respond all upset and attack me personally on anon (which also makes you a coward btw.)

[woeismyhoe]

Ozai: My daughter is a prodigy!

Hakoda: My daughter is a prodigy!

Lao Beifong: My daughter is blind!

Toph: I’m the greatest earthbender in the world. I literally created a new bending at only 12 years old yet my dad still chooses to put my disability first instead of acknowledging just how awesome I am. Sure. Ok.

[zuko-always-lies]

“The Beach”:

Mai: Oh, well, I'm sorry I can't be as high-strung and crazy as the rest of you. (Cut to over-head shot of the four teens. Zuko walks closer to the fire and Mai.) Zuko: I'm sorry, too. I wish you would be high-strung and crazy for once, (Close shot of Mai looking away and Zuko standing over her) instead of keeping all your feelings bottled up inside. She just called your aura dingy. Are you gonna take that? Mai: (Cut to wide shot of the four of them. Mai lays back carelessly on the rock she is sitting on) What do you want from me? You want a teary confession about how hard my childhood was? Well, it wasn't. (close shot of Mai) I was a rich only child who got anything I wanted. As long as I behaved...(cut to shot of the clouds above) and sat still...and didn't speak unless spoken to. (cut to shot of Zuko listening) My mother said I had to keep out of trouble. (Cut to wide shot of the four of them around the fire) We had my Dad's political career to think about. Azula: Well, that's it, then. (close-up shot on Azula) You had a controlling mother who had certain expectations, and if you strayed from them you were shut down. That's why you're afraid to care about anything, and why you can't express yourself. Mai: (close shot of Mai) You want me to express myself? (she stands and yells) Leave me alone!

“The Blind Bandit”:

Aang: That's amazing. Toph: (frustrated) My parents don't understand. They've always treated me like I was helpless. Aang: Is that why you became The Blind Bandit? Toph: Yeah. Aang: Then why stay here where you're not happy? Toph: They're my parents. Where else am I supposed to go? Aang: (pause, then with a smile) You could come with us. Toph: Yeah. You guys get to go wherever you want. No one telling you what to do, that's the life. It's just not my life.

and 

Toph: Dad, I know it's hard for you to see me this way, but the obedient little helpless blind girl that you think I am just isn't me. I love fighting. I love being an earthbender. And I'm really, really good at it. I know I've kept my life secret from you, but you were keeping me secret from the whole world. You were doing it to protect me. But I'm twelve years old and I've never had a real friend. So now that you see who I really am, I hope it doesn't change the way you feel about me. Lao: Of course it doesn't change the way I feel about you, Toph. It's made me realize something. Toph: (hopeful) It has? Lao: Yes. I've let you have far too much freedom. From now on, you will be cared for and guarded 24 hours a day. Toph: But dad! Mrs. Bei Fong: We are doing this for your own good, Toph.

“Sozin’s Comet, Part 1″:

Toph: (Cut to some beach houses and camera pans down to Toph in her Fire Nation outfit & Zuko walking around) And then when I was nine, I ran away again. Zuko: Uh-huh. Toph: I know I shouldn't complain, (Closes her eyes and opens her hands to the side. Zuko appears disinterested and looks away.) my parents gave me everything that I ever asked for. But they never gave me the one thing that I really wanted. Their love. You know what I mean? (Zuko drops his head and sighs audibly) Zuko: (Cut back to Zuko who turns around and looks at her) Look, I know you had a rough childhood but we should really focus on finding Aang. (Cut to the top view of the scene with 2 white birds feeding on a branch. Zuko walks on.) Toph: (Cut back to Toph who looks disappointed) This is the worst fieldtrip ever.

I don’t think it’s a good sign for Zuko’s relationship with Mai that Toph has very similar parental issues as Mai does but Zuko doesn’t have any empathy or understanding for Toph.

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Lol amazing!

3 ships: (aka my 3 current fixations) Dream of the Endless/Death of the Endless (Sandman), Fred Jones/Velma Dinkley (Scooby Doo), Lao Bei Fong/Poppy Bei Fong (Avatar)

My first ship: Frelma probably but since I already mentioned it, the second was Robin/Raven from Teen Titans

Last song: A TI TE QUEDÉ GRANDE Y POR ESO ESTÁS CON UNA IGUALITA QUE TUUUUUU (Shakira ft Bizarrap)

Last Movie: The Addams Family 2

Watching: Naruto, Wednesday and Riverdale

Reading: Flowers in the Attic

Tagging @despairoftheendless (if you want)

tag people you want to get to know better

Oh hey, Thanks for the tag @hchollym!

Three ships: Might as well drop one from each of my three main fandoms then~ Sokka X Jet (atla), Sora X Vanitas (KH), and Wangnan X Bam (ToG).

First ever ship: God, it’s been absolute ages, but probably Yugi X Jou (YGO). What a pull though.

Last song: “Black Sheep” Poor Man’s Poison

Last movie: I haven’t watched many movies lately tbh. The latest was probably …Home Alone 2 a couple weeks ago.

Currently reading: My own WIPs mostly. 😓

Currently watching: Nier Automata

Currently consuming: Had some sausage and beans for dinner earlier.

Currently craving: a warm, cream cheese colache… mmm

Tagging: @meliohy, @dimobserver, @nope-the-weeb, @flyinrumble, @proxissima, @venjamin-kingdomhearts and anyone else who wants ta

[doloreseddt]

Day 29: "Fragile"

Lao Bei Fong: My daughter is blind! She is blind and tiny and helpless and fragile. She cannot help you!

Toph: Yes. I can!

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Just because I know that you love the Beifong as much as I do, do you realize that Lin was the best game and that probably everyone wanted/loved her? Strictly speaking politically *because we all know the other benefits of having Lin as a couple lmao* She is THE heiress of the noble family richest and with good influence of the last centuries fr and does not have the "tie of the crown" like:

Poppy: proposals have just arrived from the water tribe of the north so that our beloved granddaughter is their Chief.

Lao: put it together with that of the Fire Nation to be Fire Lady.

Poppy: Kuei continues to insist that she be a queen consort of her daughter.

Lao: Also the avatar, says that he has a son leader of the Air Nation and the other son Chief of the Water Tribe of south

You can bet Lin was the most in-demand bachelorette in the Kingdom after Toph, only that trying to ask for Toph's hand was a waste of time from the start (Lao and Poppy made quite a collection of origami figures out of the marriage proposals, pretending they didn't even want to marry her off anyway to protect their peace of mind and ears) (Toph would have yelled a lot) (Poppy made a magnificent little origami zoo, Lao only knows how to make flying boars).

Because Lin always said out loud that she wanted to follow in her mother's footsteps, Poppy and Lao never bothered to respond to Lin's marriage proposals. Sometimes they would show them to Lin, who would shrug and ask if there wasn't some way to recycle the paper because she hated wasting resources.

Suyin never received a single marriage proposal and that made her very sad. Poppy used to write her fake marriage proposals so she wouldn't feel so bad. Suyin never bothered to check if the 'Prince of the Flower Country' really existed, though.

[shedrabbles-butitsalie]

Update: I am alive, adulting, and steadily making my way through the next chapter of Spirits. Don't know who cares, but here's an excerpt I felt the need to share:

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Wei Pei frowned at that, turned her attention away from the map to look at her second, and Lily held up her hand in a calming gesture.

“It’s okay, the unit made overtures, and the kids are coming back with them. Their ‘leader,’ wasn’t too happy about it, but you know how Saku is when he’s angry. Didn’t give the tyke much of a choice.” She laughed.

Wei Pei might have joined her, if Tei hadn’t come in at that moment looking pale and worried.

“Oh, please tell me Taka didn’t go raiding another Bei Fong merchant caravan.” She sighed, leaning against her desk with an amused glance towards Lily.

Tei shook his head slowly, took a deep breath, and then altered her world.

“I just got news from our spy in Lao’s ranks. Toph was kidnapped — by the Avatar.”

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5 hc from your favorite au right now? i love all your writing ❤️❤️❤️

Continuation of the Garth Nix Old Kingdom fusion AU, which could use some love: [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. Let's talk Toph, Suki, Mai, and Ty Lee. I've barely touched on Mai and Ty Lee, and I haven't mentioned Toph or Suki at all. Toph was the daughter of a wealthy family from Belisaere, who had the good sense to flee to Ancelstierre when Ozai first killed the royal family a hundred years ago. Perhaps they were the last of the family to have any sense. Certainly Lao and Poppy Bei Fong have never shown any. They have done everything they can to assimilate into Ancelstierre society, and have kept their daughter close, not allowing her to attend school, but only study with a governess. It probably doesn't matter anyway because Toph is blind, and it's not like she's ever going to find a husband anyway. And this is probably why Lao allows it when his wife, in a fit of superstition, has their daughter baptized with a charter mark.

2. Toph comes from no great family tradition of strong charter magic, and the only charter instruction she gets is from slimy old Master Yu, who is there to teach her little spells to amuse and delight, nothing useful or powerful. But he teaches her a charter spell that can read books aloud to her, and with that, he unlocks the world for her. Her parents have books on charter magic hidden away in a dusty corner of her father's office, and one by one, they find their way into a hole in her bedroom wall, hidden behind a painting. Soon, she has far surpassed Master Yu, and she has to work hard to keep her power secret.

3. Neither Mai nor Ty Lee remember their parents. They know the vague outlines. Their parents never gave them a charter baptism, but instead traded them to necromancers in exchange for temporary safety for their villages. It happens all the time. Usually it's poor and orphaned kids, but not always. Their parents almost certainly think they're dead. That's what usually happens to kids like them, it's not like a necromancer has much use for a living child. But they were lucky, or maybe very very unlucky, because their parents traded them to a necromancer in Ozai's service, and he decided they would be good playmates for his host's children.

4. It wasn't like there was ever an adult who is responsible for them. They grew up on the edges of Ozai's forces, scrabbling and clawing their way through life. There were other kids too at first, but one by one, the other kids disappeared, killed as necromantic sacrifices. But somehow, it was never their turn to die, maybe because Azula liked them so much, or maybe because they picked up enough free magic to start looking like they might be useful. By the time Zuko makes his great escape, both girls are powerful free magic sorceresses. And both know that there is a dangerous trade they make every moment of their lives, because the more power they have, the more useful they are to Ozai, but the more his other sorcerers and necromancers see them as threats. There is no safety for them, only the constant watchfulness of wolves in a cage.

5. Suki is the daughter of the leader of the Kyoshi people, one of the many northern peoples called barbarians by ignorant Old Kingdomers. She leads a band of warriors, and it's she who first finds four Old Kingdomers trespassing on her people's territory. And one of them, an old woman, carries a dark and unsettling power, and sometimes, deep in her her eyes, Suki swears she can see a fire burning her up from within. She wants this woman off her land, but almost more than that, she wants to shield the three children with her from whatever this woman has planned for them.

[loopy777]

Honestly, I think that the Beifongs actually get off easy when it comes to fan perception. When presented with evidence that Toph is a prodigy, they try to isolate her from the world further. Lao seems to disregard entirely Master Yu's declaration that Toph is the "greatest earthbender I've ever seen." Lao and Poppy even hire the guy who abducted Toph and ransomed her to track her down. They're utterly awful parents and I question whether reconciliation between them and Toph would even be good.

I’m not sure that the fandom is all that kindly disposed to the Beifongs. Certainly, Lao seemed to be something of a punching bag before The Rift was published, although Poppy was often depicted (from what I saw) as more able to change and reconcile with Toph. And then the comics gave him a fairly easy turnaround, so it seems canon wants to purify him faster than the fans. Any goodwill he has now is probably just people going along with canon.

What probably makes this easier, though, is two things. First of all, in a story that features a character whose father branded his face with a flaming fist, the Bei Fongs were never even hinted to be physically abusive to Toph. And second, Toph wants to reconcile with her parents.

This isn’t like Zuko in Book Water, where he’s fooling himself about the relationship he has with Ozai. Toph understands how her parents were doing her wrong, and she walks away from them of her own accord. And yet she is later willing to try to reforge their relationship into something good. She’s not desperate; she stays away until she gets the terms she wants. But she wants to try for it, and she seems to think it’s a real possibility.

So, to a certain degree, I think the fandom has taken their cues from Toph herself.

It helps that she probably killed Xin Fu and Master Yu. Those two suffered and died for Lao Bei Fong’s sins.

[nightcoremoon]

Same voice actor, Cam Clarke:

- Leonardo (TMNT- 80s)

- Kratos "Traitor to Heaven" Aurion (Tales)

- Lao Bei Fong (Avatar the Last Airbender)

- Corrin (Fire Emblem)

- Rokusho Aoi (Naruto)

- Subject 16 (Assassin's Creed)

- Herren (Dragon Age)

- Hercules (God of War)

- Simba (Kingdom Hearts)

- Liquid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)

- Daniel (Painkiller)

- Kageroza Inaba / Yasochika Iemura (Bleach)

also credited in:

- Horizon Zero Dawn

- World of Warcraft

- Starcraft II

- Shin Megami Tensei series

- Dead Island

- Final Fantasy XIII

- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

- Yakuza 1

- Fallout series

and many, many other video games and cartoons of the 90s and early 2000s

[theotherace]

WIP! Fight me on Mustache!Aang.

[aangarchy]

I HAVE DECEASED

I saw a lot of good casting options passing by for the live action already, but guys, we forgot one very important casting option:

I will only

ONLY

accept Nicholas Cage as Toph’s dad.