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asgardeventide2015-01-20 01:10 am
earthrhythms) wrote in asgardeventide2015-01-20 01:10 am
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1st Boulder ~ [Video]
[ Toph's leaning back in her bed, resting on the pillow she's propped against the headboard. She's looking ... unimpressed. ]
Wow, you guys have gone reeeaaaally quiet all of a sudden. Except for depressing announcements about people disappearing. Try living in a Welcome Hall all by yourself! Now that's empty. But I'm not letting that get me down, so I thought I'd break the gloom.
I have someone to introduce to you!
[ There's a moment's pause, and then a lemur comes into view, wrapping around her neck and tilting its head at the screen, chirping. ]
This is Momo! Technically he's not mine, but for some reason I got him during this Christmas thing. He actually belongs to my friend Aang, so maybe they're just making up for the fact that I'm the only one from my world here or something.
Momo, this is everyone. Well, not right now, but I hope some will show up and say hi to you.
[ She puts a hand on Momo's head, scratching lightly. ]
But that's actually not the only thing I was gonna say.
There's probably gonna be some ultimate showdown soon, right? I may not look like it, but I'm actually pretty good at packing a punch, and I've seen that a bunch of people have offered to train others. I used to teach Aang back home, and I just realised how much I miss teaching!
[ Ordering people around. She means ordering people around. Even though she's smiling very innocently. Very innocently.
Or maybe there's a slight mischievous crease to her brow, if you squint. ]
There's not really any time to make any of you masters in martial arts if you aren't already, but if you'd like me to show you a thing or two, I'm bored.
Or we could just do some sparring. That'll work too!
Name's Toph. Let's blow some life back into this place.
[ She punches her own palm, before she cuts the feed. ]
Wow, you guys have gone reeeaaaally quiet all of a sudden. Except for depressing announcements about people disappearing. Try living in a Welcome Hall all by yourself! Now that's empty. But I'm not letting that get me down, so I thought I'd break the gloom.
I have someone to introduce to you!
[ There's a moment's pause, and then a lemur comes into view, wrapping around her neck and tilting its head at the screen, chirping. ]
This is Momo! Technically he's not mine, but for some reason I got him during this Christmas thing. He actually belongs to my friend Aang, so maybe they're just making up for the fact that I'm the only one from my world here or something.
Momo, this is everyone. Well, not right now, but I hope some will show up and say hi to you.
[ She puts a hand on Momo's head, scratching lightly. ]
But that's actually not the only thing I was gonna say.
There's probably gonna be some ultimate showdown soon, right? I may not look like it, but I'm actually pretty good at packing a punch, and I've seen that a bunch of people have offered to train others. I used to teach Aang back home, and I just realised how much I miss teaching!
[ Ordering people around. She means ordering people around. Even though she's smiling very innocently. Very innocently.
Or maybe there's a slight mischievous crease to her brow, if you squint. ]
There's not really any time to make any of you masters in martial arts if you aren't already, but if you'd like me to show you a thing or two, I'm bored.
Or we could just do some sparring. That'll work too!
Name's Toph. Let's blow some life back into this place.
[ She punches her own palm, before she cuts the feed. ]
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Dragonscales sounds awesome, though. Let's do it.
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I'll meet you over in the arena, say, in an hour?
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Ah well.
When they reach the arena, Momo leaves Toph's shoulder with a chirp and flies over to Samantha, curious as ever. ]
What's up?
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[Yeah, lame humor, but she was never very good at it.
A seeing eye lemur was probably one of the more unusual notions Sam had seen recently, but seeing Momo doing his job and helping her navigate was definitely an eye opener.]
I like your little friend. [She chuckled.]
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[ But her lips are twitching, as she walks towards the sound of Samantha's voice.
Seeing as Samantha seemed fine, Momo perches on her shoulder until Toph reaches them, and then returns to hers. ]
Momo, meet Samantha. She's cool.
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[She figured it was because she smelled like predator to them, so it made several nervous. All the same, she waved at Momo and snickered back towards Toph.]
I have to try and be funny once in a while, you know. I'm way too serious, in case you hadn't noticed.
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[ She emphasises the last two words by lifting her hands in front of her, palms facing the ground, and waving them up and down, as though gesturing for someone to calm down or something. ]
Or we end up with lame jokes like that one.
Leave the jokes to people like me.
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[ Well, neither is she, and her tactic is to seldom make the first move. Usually because she sees better when people are moving, even when she can't see like she used to.
She strokes Momo's head a couple of times, and then nudges him off, and he takes to one of the beams in the ceiling. With him out of the way, she adjusts her stance, putting her feet slightly, steadily, together and raising a hand (see icon). ]
Hit me.
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[Samantha had caught on that Toph would have to be more of a reactive fighter. It meant that they both had similar styles and Toph was simply a shit-ton more refined in hers. However, that didn't mean she wasn't going to try to land a few good, solid blows. Setting herself and keeping the claws retracted, she started to move in, body crouched in an almost feral position as she drew closer in.
Her first punch wasn't very tentative, though, despite the approach. She'd never been very good at being gingerly with her attacks.]
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She listens for the sounds of feet scraping against the floor, and wiggles her toes. She's taken off her shoes, since she's indoors and still doesn't like wearing any, and while she doesn't see the same with them anymore they still help. Floors always shift when people weigh them down.
Whatever foot Samantha puts down closest to her, she moves her own beside it, and in one smooth step twists around the punch and lifts a knee, aiming for Samantha's stomach. ]
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As she took the blow, she used the convenient closeness to bring her other arm up, going with a right hook and her already active momentum to try and strike her in the gut with the punch.]
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Rather than move in again, she focuses on regaining her footing, and once again waits. ]
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Toph hit like a freight train.
Another cough and she was rotating her head, snickering as she started to try dancing in again, going for a snap kick for speed.]
I have got to remember how hard you hit.
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Yeah, you do. You better avoid these.
[ Samantha's kind of like Twinkle Toes, though. All light on her feet. Which would have been fine, could Toph see as usual. As is, it's a bit difficult. The giants are easier; big and often noisy and clumsy or simply with no care for subtlety. With how big they are, they hardly need it.
She notices the kick too late to avoid it or block it well, though she at least manages to do that much. And, since her hand is there already, she makes a grab for the leg. ]
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[And with the way that Samantha fought, she'd catch the blow as it struck, her leg snared. Samantha sneered at that moment, her tail whipping in and going straight for one of Toph's legs, trying to pull and unbalance the normally very solid stance that she held to. One thing she knew about her style of fighting was that it involved a whole other limb that was almost completely silent, great for taking people by surprise, hopefully before she got flung half-way across the arena.]