And then the sandbenders come to kidnap Appa, which because sand, she can only sorta kinda ‘see’. So she can’t even give a good account of what happened after the fact, which has got to be fucking awful for a crap ton of reasons. This girl can hear people lying because of the increase in their heartbeat (because it vibrates their body enough that she can fucking hear it through the ground, I think) But because of the sand everything goes fuzzy and she can’t ‘see’ for shit.
And she’s like, what 12-13-ish at the time. Like seriously, it’s freaking ridiculous.
Literally the only comparable feat I can possibly think of is that time that Kyoshi moved that whole Island, separating it from the mainland. And…. she was the fucking Avatar (I don’t actually remember if she had to go into the avatar state to do that but I think she did)
Like look, Bumi bending shit with his face is pretty awesome. But Toph holding this entire fucking building up…. geeze.
Also…. when she’s older, in LoK, she lives in that swamp where she can basically ‘see’ like everything! The earth bending awesome that let’s her map out her environment, that let’s her hear people’s heart’s speed up when they lie, that let’s her find little particles of earth in metal…. expanded to the point where she can ‘see’ what’s going on like half a fucking continent away.
I love her so much.
(also I think the likely scenario is that the building is getting dragged through an
interdimensional
vortex, given that in LoK the library ends up in the spirit world so *shrug*)
- Leon