#beifongs

[mintjuliee]

Dear Mom, Aunt Lin wasn't very happy about having her photo taken at first. I think her reluctance had something to with certain slimy reporters over the years trying to make her look bad.

To ease her nerves, I developed a few of my favorite shots and showed them to her. I guess it worked because she said I can set up a darkroom in her house. I can't begin to tell you how excited I am for that. Ikki and Meelo keep moving my equipment around, and I don't have much space in the dormitories to start.

While I am in the process of setting up, I sent the photos I mentioned before. Let me know what you think. It's hard to tell if I have an eye for this sort of thing.

Love, Opal.

P.S. You know, it's kind of weird. When I first met Aunt Lin, I had a hard time believing she was the same person from your stories. Living here in Republic City now though… I am starting to get it. Previous Letter Buy me a coffee☕? / Art Tag

[melonbandit]

beifongs as tumblr textposts pt 2!

[sanrielle]

Beifong headcanon:

Suyin knew that Toph had retired to the swamp (and possibly even visited her from time to time) but promised not to tell anyone her location. However, she told Lin once they reconciled. Opal also knew she was alive, but not exactly where. My reasoning for this is the mild reaction Lin and Opal had to Toph randomly showing up, as well as Lin's line, "You know, after Su and I patched things up, I thought, 'Maybe I should reach out to Mom'." Why would she say that if she didn't a) know she was alive and b) had some idea of where to find her? I like this explanation much better than what some people assume, which is that Toph abandoned everyone and made them think she was dead. I don't really understand why people want to think the worst of her. She had flaws but still had a big heart. I think she just got to a point where seismic sense made it too hard for her to live around other people.

[wilcze-kudly]

In my head, Su accidentally got pregnant with the twins almost right after giving birth to Opal. The pregnancy was really difficult on her and Katara and Kya had to be the ones to take care of her through it.

When Lin learnt of this, she almost reached out, but ended up chickening out at the last second. This woman would rather fling herself into a volcano than expose her emotional vulnerabily.

During this time, Aiwei inserted himself into the family and helped Su with managing the city and stuff. He even occasionally helped babysit the kids. This is why Su was so attached to him. In my brain I also like to think that she named the older twin, Wei after Aiwei. They already had a Junior in the house so they just shortened the name i guess.

After a very difficult birth, Katara advised Su not to try for anymore children. This is also one of the reasons Su ended up adopting Kuvira when the opportunity presented itself.

Being so close in age, Opal and the twins are often treated as a set of triplets rather than being just short of a year apart. This also means that, despite being younger, the twins feel very protective of their sister, especially back when she was a nonbender. I can also see Su being, in turn, super protective of the twins. They're her baby boys and she always wants them close to her. A little bit of codependency going on there I think.

[justasmallfellow]

i just want lin to be close to her niblings. like opal coming over for dinner weekly (sometimes with the krew), the twins teaching her to play power disk, discussing art techniques and history with huan, finding an understanding with bataar. forming an unspoken pact with bataar sr to keep the peace in the family and look after the kids when she can. maybe they all show up on her doorstep one night when they just rly need to get away from suyin and zoufu. i want lin to be happy with her family the end

[mellamomilla]

does anyone wanna chat about the beifongs? I'm suffering from beifong brainrot and I need to get it all out lol

especially if you too love kuvira and also baatar jr who is under appreciated

[ilovelin]

Another lil Lin sketch

[chiefbeifongcanrailme]

Rate all the beifongs

Poppy: 5/10 Lao: 4/10 Toph: 7/10 Lin: 78579427042798264091740962027356057^∞/10 Suyin: 8/10 Bataar: 8/10 Bataar Jr: 2/10 Huan: 8/10 Opal: 10/10 Wei: 9/10 Wing: 9/10

[toxicgetou]

toph and lin is my roman impire

Toph, baby, you did it right.

why would I do that dammit

[melonbandit]

happy mother’s day to mother of all mothers, suyin beifong

[sanrielle]

Surely I can’t be the only one in the fandom who headcanons that Poppy was the Beifong heiress and Lao married into the family.

My reasoning for this is that when the two of them separated after Toph ran away, it was he who left the Beifong Estate, rather than Poppy going to back to her family. And he seemed to be financially reliant on the refinery.

Now, I realize that’s not proof of anything. I admit to having no working knowledge of how a separation would be handled in that culture/time period. It just makes sense to me.

[wilcze-kudly]

Yes, I adore the headcanons of Lin bonding with Kuvira and taking her under her wing and stuff where Lin sees herself in Kuvira and whatnot..

But what about the headcanons where Lin sees herself in Opal and the boys (minus Baatar. Fuck Baatar) What about the headcanons where Lin sees Suyin in Kuvira?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees her niece and nephews vying for their mothers attention and willing to do anything to keep her pride and affection?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees a sibling split off from the family, mix with bad, dangerous people? Where said sibling causes pain to innocent people with their actions?

What about headcanons where Lin sees and remembers the strife it causes in a family?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees Kuvira trying to hurt her siblings?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees that when Kuvira is finally brought to justice, she is let off with basically a slap on the wrist? Justice trumped by a mother's love once again.

What about the headcanons where Lin sees her niece, her nephews, hurt, frightened, betrayed, confused?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees her niece, her nephews, have their feelings dismissed by their mother again and again?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees her niece, her nephews, unheard, unsupported and she decides to be that support?

[hannah-muzi]

Omg yessss

ngl it makes me really happy lin and su are in their hogwarts house colors in the show

and yes those are their houses suyin is an excellent slytherin and lin is basically the huflepuffiest hufflepuff to ever huffle.  lin would play keeper and su would be a seeker.  lin would be prefect every year she could but not head girl, suyin would never be a prefect but would get head girl 7th year.

also bumi would have been gryffindor, kya gryffindor or ravenclaw, tenzin would be the other hufflepuff prefect

[cookie-kat777]

Atla nation, come get y'all's juice

[ilovelin]

Day 3: "If I could take all your pain away, I would. But I can't, so just let me love you." OR Gossip at the RCPD

I chose "If I could take all you pain away, I would. But I can't, so just let me love you."

[tadpole-art]

I think they would've been friends