Toph Beifong

## Background

### 2003 - 2019: Toph Beifong

Toph is the only child of the wealthy Beifong family in The Provinces. The Provinces were widely known throughout the Earth Kingdom as being the most prestige of their communities. Her father was local businessman, having inherited the family's mining business from his ancestor & founder Lu Beifong.

Born blind, she was sheltered by her overprotective parents, who believed her blindness made her fragile & incapable of looking after herself. They went to extreme measures to protect her, including hiding her existence from the rest of the world & having her homescooled by her mother. To the rest of the world, it was not even known that the Beifong family even had a daughter. Because of her pare parents' noble status, Toph was expected to be well-mannered & proper. Toph secretly hated her parents' status, feeling they never used their wealth for anything good.

At the age of seven, Toph adventured around her family's properties before ending up in a cave inhabited by badgermoles. She immediately felt a kinship with creatures, feeling that they understood each other as they were both blind. By imitating their movements, Toph began to learn the art of geokinesis. This specific style allowed her to "see" through the use of her geokinesis by detecting people & other objects through their vibrations in the ground. In the following years, Toph would continue to sporadically sneak off to practice her skills until she became a formidable combatant.

The Earth Kingdom was mostly untouched during the Great War, allowing Toph to continue her life as normal. And normal for Toph meant many arguments with her parents over how they controlled her life. After one particular bad argument when she was thirteen, Toph secretly entered a series underground geokinetic tournaments as the Blind Bandit. She was quite successful in the tournaments, becoming known as the champion of Earth Rumble multiple times. It was here during the tournaments that she would an aerokinetic, a hydrokinetic & a boy with a boomerang.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Homo Magi Physiology:** Bhutran is a place where most of its citizens are born with a natural affinity to use magic, specifically one of the four elements. Toph inherited the ability of hydrokinesis despite neither of her parents possessing the ability.
	+ ***Geokinesis*:** Toph's proclaims herself to be one of the most powerful geokinetics of the world. Her claim is supported by her talented displays of geokinesis from a young age. Although blind, she taught herself how to use her abilities by using the ability of seismic sense after learning from the country's native animal, badgermoles. She used geokinesis to "feel" even the most minute vibrations in the earth, including the march of ants several meters away & the presence of buildings. Through this heightened seismic sense, she could visualize where people were, their relative distance to her & their physical build. This sense provided her with a distinct advantage when facing other geokinetics in combat because she could predict attacks as they began & quickly react. Her style was unique & thus unpredictable, as her training was unconventional & more deeply rooted in the nature of geokinesis rather than just pure fighting.
		- ***Psammokinesis*:** Psammokinesis is the manipulation of sand. Because sand is loose & ultimately always changing with the winds of the desert, Toph found it hard to navigate through & control. To compensate somewhat, she would condense the sand together to give her a better footing. However, she does have a lack of precision in her attacks.
* **Agility:** She has displayed a remarkable amount of agility for one who preferred to have her feet planted on the ground at all times. In one of her battles, she rolled, pushed herself off of the ground with one hand & flipped over in the air to regain her balance after her opponent took a shot at her. Toph also has a remarkable sense of balance.
* **Artistry:** Toph also showed a decent amount of artistic talent, as she was able to create a realistic replica of the city of Ba Sing Se with psammokinesis. She has also created sand sculptures of soldiers for training exercises.
* **Enhanced Senses:** Despite her lack of actual sight, her remaining senses, primarily her sense of touch and hearing, were especially acute. She once claimed herself that she "never forgot a voice." She also could clearly hear the most subtle of whispering from considerable distances.
* **Multilingualism:** She is fluent in Bhutranese, English & Chinese.

### Weaknesses

* **Blindness:** Toph is blind but she is able to "see" everyone by using vibrations from the ground.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* Toph Beifong comes from a long line of wealthy & politcal figures. Born blind, her family doted on her & treated her as if she would break. Unknown to them, Toph was one tough cookie & participated in underground fighting rings. This is how she came into contact with The Gaang & eventually joined them on their mission to help free their country from the ruthless dictator Ozai.
* She has a very fine memory, able to accurately remember & distinguish the physical form of people making it hard for people to trick her with disguises.

## Notes

* Toph is an original character of the *Avatar: The Last Airbender* franchise.