“𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖’𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕡𝕖𝕠𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦”

My friends finished ATLA last night and I’m finally able post my screencap redraw from Sozin’s Comet! Forever love these two the most-est!

PS! Check me out on INSTA!

me, watching my mutuals post ceaselessly about a fandom i’m not in:

fire sibs talkin’ smack.

giving the mutuals a mango 🥭

Toph💕

Yes hi hello here’s an old Kantoph doodle because I’m thinking about ~them~ :D

Toph's turn

Honestly, she made the series so much better lmaoo

YEAHHHH, SO.... I think Toph and Sokka liked to play pranks on each other all the time while at work. (Spoiler alert: Sokka was a much better sport about being pranked than Toph)

Also, I wouldn’t compare their personalities to Dwight or Jim at all... but I still had to do a comic based off this moment.

Kyoshi.

Tokka to make your day *or night* better

Toph- Avatar The Last Airbender

Toph Beifong best girl

@ mutuals take this bowl of soup 🍲 as a token of my appreciation

Angstpril 2022 - Day 5: “I never stopped”

The city was quiet that night, heavy summer mist pressing in against her skin. She could smell the threatening storm that must be pushing in from the sea. The thunder rumbled low and mournful out over the bay and Toph sighed, letting the sound vibrate in the air around her as she lingered at the entrance to her building. Tiny feet hit the floor near the couch the second she pushed open the door to the apartment. Suyin waited patiently as her mother bent off her armor and set down her things before she came to join her.

“Everything okay?” Toph asked her, slumping down into the couch.

Su made sure her mom was settled before she crawled closer, curling into her and pulling her blankets up to cover them both. Weariness settled, sudden and substantial, into her shoulders, her temples, her heart, but she pulled Su into her closer anyway.

“I was waiting for you.” Suyin explained, her voice tired.

Toph felt her body shake with a silent yawn. Guilt prickled in her fingertips at being absent for so long. But she knew that the girls could take care of themselves. Suyin was just a year younger than Toph herself was when she had left to travel the world, after all. Her daughters were capable people. And they knew where to find her or who to call if they needed anything.

“Where is Lin?” Toph asked, wondering why Suyin hadn’t just gone to find her older sister instead of waiting around for her to come home.

“I didn’t want to wake her.” Suyin answered softly. “She hasn’t been sleeping. Kya must have gotten her to rest somehow.”

“Kya’s here?”

Su only nodded. Toph threaded her fingers through her daughter’s thick hair as she thought. Beyond the small, strong heartbeat of Su, laying so close, she could sense two others, faintly. Kya and Lin, then. Spirits, those two. Toph shook her head slowly. Lin, she was too much like her mother. So much that it tended to worry Toph like nothing else did when it came to her daughter. Lin is strong like her. Capable like her. Sharp like her. But Toph worries, often, that Lin might make many of the same mistakes as her as well.

When the key turns in their lock, little Suyin is fast asleep, and so she doesn’t stir.

“It’s just me.” Suki said. She shut the door quietly behind her when she noticed the sleeping child.

“I felt you coming.” Toph told her, nodding to her bare feet on the floor.

“Slate.” Suki noted. “I forgot. I haven’t been here in a while, I suppose.”

“Yet you still have the key.” Toph pointed out.

Suki settles down in the chair next to the couch with an almost imperceptible sigh. Toph imagines she can feel the same weariness that permeates her own bones rolling off of Suki into the stone floor and the air between them.

“Silly to get rid of it.” Suki shrugged. “Just cause the girls are older now and you haven’t needed me to come watch them doesn’t mean you or they won’t need me again eventually.”

“Good thing I gave one to the both of you then.” Toph decides, her voice heavy.

She thinks of the day she first gave Sokka and Suki those keys. When she had needed someone to help out with Lin after she got called into the station unexpectedly. It was hard to remember, honestly. Over fifteen years ago now. There had been countless similar instances since then too. Except, now, Sokka would never again use his key to walk through her door. Because he was dead. Killed. And Toph couldn’t find who the fuck was responsible for taking her best friend from her. Toph and Suki, they were at their limits. Since it had happened, they had thrown themselves into avenging him. Not once believing that they might have to contend with the idea that…they might never get to.

“What are you doing here?” Toph asked quietly, half hoping there was some sort of news — despite having left her just an hour or so before.

“I didn’t want to be alone.” Suki whispered after a while.

“You’ve lived alone for years now. Shouldn’t you be used to it?” Toph asked her.

It was only meant to point out the obvious but the way it sounded seemed slightly harsh. Good thing Suki was also used to her bullshit. Toph began to run her fingers through Su’s hair again and down her small back. Partially to soothe her daughter as she slept and partially to soothe herself if she was being honest. Suki huffed quietly, looking at Suyin where she lay curled into her mother’s lap and the couch.

“You know what I mean.” Suki said.

“Yeah, you want to be with someone who is feeling just as shitty as you are. I get that.” Toph answered.

“She looks so much like him.” Suki whispered after the few blessed moments of somewhat comfortable silence.

Toph forced herself not to flinch but instead clenched her fingers into the blanket around Suyin’s shoulders. Then she sighed deeply and relaxed her shoulders, too exhausted to keep herself hardened anymore right now. Her fingers found Su’s soft hair once more and she focused on untangling the ends of it gently before speaking again.

“It feels just like his did, too.” Toph whispered back, afraid that if she uttered it any louder, her voice might betray her.

“When did you—?”

“Never while you two were—”

“I would never think that.” Suki sighed, her voice almost firm. Sokka and Suki had been separated for ages now. But of course, they had remained close.Just as they all had. It was hard not to with the deep, familial bonds they had all formed during the war. “I just mean that…I remember. It was so obvious, especially when we were kids, how much you cared for him. I guess I was just wondering when you started to feel something…more?”

“I never stopped.” Toph said simply, easily, despite the tangling in her chest.

“Hm?” Suki asked, not quite understanding her answer.

“I never stopped loving him. I never stopped caring for him. It wasn’t something I felt one day and then didn’t the next. It was the most constant, steady thing in my life for as long as I can remember. Constant. Just like he was. So, yeah. There wasn’t just a moment when I decided I wanted him. I fell in love with him. And then I never stopped.”

Toph and Suki were quiet then for a while, the only sounds were the soft patter of the rain against the windows and Suyin’s light snores.

“It’s just…” Toph sighed, resting her head on the back of the couch. “Being with him. With anyone. It wasn’t something I was ever going to let myself have.”

“You’re still alive, Toph.” Suki argued gently. “You still have time to have something like that. You deserve to have something like that.”

Toph only shrugged. So Suki dropped it.

“Did he know?” Suki asked instead.

“I think so.” Toph sighed again, every word feeling hard to get out. But also necessary somehow. The spirits knew how they had gotten here. Suki had always just been too easy to talk to, she supposed. Just like Katara. It could be infuriating. But in moments like this, when she was exhausted and broken and just needed someone, she tended to be weak for it. “It was only ever him. For a little while now. I think he knew I loved him. I hope I told him. What matters is…he knew that she was his.”

Suki hummed in soft agreement as she watched Toph with her daughter.

“Though, we never really told anyone else.” Toph pointed out bluntly.

“It’s pretty clear.” Suki admitted and Toph arched an eyebrow at her humorous tone.

“You know, he was so present when he found out? It annoyed the crap out of me initially.”

“I bet.” Suki makes a sound that’s almost like a laugh but quieter and painted with such sadness.

“It didn’t change much between us. Didn’t change…whatever we were doing. But, he loved her instantly.” Toph let the smallest of smiles cross her face as she remembered. Then she rolled her eyes, also recalling his silliness. “When she was in me, he called her his little seedling.”

“Seedling?” Suki chuckled quietly.

“Yes. Then after she was born: Little Flower.” Toph grew quiet, brushing her fingers through Suyin’s hair once more. “Because that’s what happens when water meets earth, he said. It blooms.”

They didn’t talk for a while then but Toph sensed there was still much on Suki’s mind, same as her. Maybe it was enough just to sit there, together, though. At least for now.

“Do you regret it?” Suki asked her finally.

“I can’t. It gave me Su.” Toph answered honestly.

“No, I mean…not letting what you and Sokka had grow into more.”

“Sometimes.” Toph told her quietly, after she had thought about it for a moment. A tear slid down her cheek, startling her, and she swiped at it quickly. “But, what we had was pretty amazing too. Just as it was.”

Toph felt warm fingers close around her hand where it was clenched into the fabric of the couch. Suki kneeled on the ground beside her, placing a hand on her friend’s back for comfort.

“I miss him, Suki.” Toph whispered, her voice hoarse. Suki enveloped her into a tight hug then, pulling her close.

“I know, sweetie.” Suki breathed out. “I miss him, too.”

Sometimes life is like this tunnel. You can’t always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you keep moving, you will come to a better place.

Kantoph- Remembrances

Written for Angstpril day 6: the past comes back to haunt.

She was passing by the hallway when she heard the small exchange between mother and father.

“Bataar, I know we never planned for another one but-" Toph felt Su shift his hand onto her stomach. “I’m pregnant,” she accompanied this with jazz hands.

It was difficult to make out what the soft-spoken Bataar said next but it sounded something like:“Su, I-, I don’t know what to say, this is amazing dear. Do you think it’ll be a girl this time?”

“I don’t know,” she smiled shyly,” but the doctor said that these are ‘girl-like’ cravings,” she looked up at him, hope in her eyes.

“Honey, she’s going to be just as beautiful as you, and strong, independent, hard-working,”he said all whilst cupping her face, stroking her cheek with one finger.

It must’ve struck a nerve for Toph because she was struck into the past almost thirty-four years ago into a similar memory.

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“I’m pregnant,” she was biting the inside of her cheek to stop herself from crying,” I know you probably wanted to get hitched or something before-,” her bottom lips trembled.” Before my problem-“ she broke out into small sobs, she viewed this child as a blessing, she didn’t think she could have children like Katara and Mai.

Before she could continue her sobbing she felt Kanto drop to his knees, he hugged her middle wrapping his arms around it tightly as if his life depended on it. She felt him look up at her, "My love,” he stopped. Stood up. Then threw her on the bed.

“I’m gonna be a dad!” He shouted for the whole world to hear, he proceeded to crawl onto the bed, hovering over her.”Do you know the gender?” "Katara thinks it’ll be a girl.”

He seemed to contemplate this for a moment.

“A girl, Toph?” he murmured under his breath, then shouted,"A GIRL ,TOPH!” He started peppering her body in kisses,

“She will be strong,” he placed a kiss on her hair

“She will be brave,” he placed a kiss on her forehead

“She will be smart,” he placed a kiss on her ear

“She will be caring,” he placed a kiss on her nose

“And most of all, she will be the most beautiful earth bender, just like her mama,” he finished by placing a big fat kiss on her lips.

Toph giggled, tracing the grooves of his face with her fingertips,” And what if she’s like her daddy?”

Kanto let out an audible sigh, then squeezed her hand.” well I suppose she has to get her sarcasm from someone.”

She punched his arm, she felt his face turn serious, with the hard set in his jawline.

“Toph, this is the most beautiful gift you could ever give me, just imagine, our little girl running around the precinct with the cutest chubby cheeks,” he pinched her cheeks to emphasize it,” and the most beautiful green eyes, that look like jade, she will be as beautiful as jade as well, maybe even more. My little Jade, do you like it? I do.” That is how they fell asleep that night, with Kanto wrapped protectively around Toph.

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“Toph, Toph, are you okay?!"

"Kanto?" she snapped out of her funk.

"Mom, are you fine, should I get you some water,"

Toph sighed and rubbed her cheeks, finding them unusually wet."Yeah, yeah, heard you finally told scaredy over there about the baby, just got-" she paused, lying wasn't her strong suit, she moved her feet so Su wouldn't be able to tell properly."Emotional, that's all, can't wait to have another grandkid," she deadpanned. After bidding Su a good night she fled to a place where she knew the hum of the earth would calm her down

Instead she retreated to the safety of the garden where she let the tears drop freely out of her eyes."Kanto-" she hiccuped into the night.

"I failed your little jade."

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a/n: Lin means beautiful Jade so..., sad HC, Toph named Lin, Lin as a tribute to Kanto's nickname for her: little jade. (I think this story makes a little more sense if you read this) Sorry for the crappy title, couldn't think of anything else that wouldn't give away the story

the Original Bei Fong

some older tokka fan art I did that I still love