Video 002: Update

[seismometrics]

[There's a Toph on the screen resting her feet up on the desk, grinning and looking . . . well, smug. Definitely pleased with herself.]

[And . . . older?]

[Must be the light, right? Her bangs seem longer, though. Heavier. Even more prone to falling across her eyes. And her face just has a slightly different weight to it that's hard to explain.]

[Grin is completely the same, though. Some things just don't change.]

Hey, I'm back!

I guess technically I never left, and most of you didn't know I was gone in the first place. [Her grin widens.] Whatever. I feel like I'm back, and that's the point.

If you're wondering [(And yes, she hopes you are.)], basically I did the whole "go home through the Dreaming" thing where you don't really go home, but you get to live out what happens in your world just like you're there. Pretty good stuff. Found out a few things.

Basic rundown:

The war? We kicked butt. Stopped the Fire Lord, saved the world from looming destruction, all of that. I started up a school for metalbending. Started with just a few students, but now it's really taking off. Have to expand the place when I've got the time and the money.

Everything's in a lot better place now, even if it's still pretty much a mess, so can concentrate a lot better on this place. [Can that grin get any wider?] Plus I've got the metalbending to back things up.

[And yes, she'd love to show it off -- how did you guess?]



((ooc: Toph has officially been canon updated to the beginning of The Rift and is feeling a lot better. Age is now approximately 15.))

Comments

[wintershepherd]

Welcome back, Toph.

[seismometrics]

[A grin at the familiar voice.] Thanks, Lightfoot.

Did I miss anything after the Chihuelan guys left? Nothing broke or exploded?

[wintershepherd]

"Lightfoot", huh?

Nothing exploded. Mostly nothing unfixable broken.

We're working on what to do to help Asti, now.

[seismometrics]

It'll work in a pinch. "Twinkletoes" was already taken. It'll come to me.

[That's reassuring, right? Interest takes over, though, at the last part.]

Yeah? Wake him up, you mean?

[wintershepherd]

Do you nickname everyone?

I hear that's the plan. Too bad it wasn't as simple as building a giant noisemaker.

[seismometrics]

Just the people I like. [A grin.] And some of the ones I don't.

The noisemaker would definitely be easier. . . . Do we know exactly when he fell asleep in the first place?

[wintershepherd]

We don't exactly know. Malicant said that Asti's been dead longer than we've been here, but Zatanna proved that wasn't true. But we still don't know how long Malicant was possessing him, which means... we may not even have "met" him, when we thought we were.

[seismometrics]

She proved it? How?

. . . Somewhere around the time when I first came, people had seen him. In a dream. Something.

You're saying it could have been the M-guy instead?

[That is . . . not appealing. Not at all.]

[wintershepherd]

There was a big seance-type spell thing, most of the Foreigners pitched in with energy, it let her contact Asti. Or, sort of. Like mental voicemail. We all got visions from it.