KojiSan
I LOVE THIS SO MUUUUCH!!!! I love Toph. She might not be the most ladylike, she may be young and not the mature 'hot girl' type character, etc. but she is a true bad*** and I had wanted to cosplay her since I first watched ATLA. You write her SOOOO true to her character and the arena scene legit made me LOL (as you know, 'cause you saw me laughing evily...) I loved the dinner scene. XD This was wonderful. I love you! I hope we get #1 again, but you and this story are always #1 to meeee. *Cheesy? Maybe. True? 100%!*
Thanks for the chapter, and Toph actually did use metalbending in a telekinetic way during Sozin's comet. When they steal the first airship you can see her using it like normal bending when she storms the cockpit, and during LOK they use metalbending telekinetically all the time. I don't know, just thought you would want to know.
Following the authors note, yeah some of the comics events make no sense when relating to established facts, I just attribute it to the fact that the world of Atla has been in a constant state of feudal stagnation for 10,000 years, what with the Avatar "maintaining the balance" yet after the centurty Aang was gone and Korra training for 15 years, their world advanced enough to have gone through an Industrial Revolution and is moving on to alternative, clean sources of energy (spirit vines). Like this was also causing the development of culture and martial arts to stagnate too, the only bender believed to be able to perform insane feats of bending (lava, combustion, tidal waves) was the Avatar, and yet as soon as the barriers between nations are broken we have metal benders, lava benders in Bolin and Gaazan, Combustion Man and P'li (who in my opinion are descendants of air and fire benders who use their heritage to compress air before igniting it by vibrating the air molecules, causing friction at high enough levels to ignite gases).
meh, I don't mind filler as long as it's useful. what I don't care for, is chapter that is dedicated tomfoolery. answer good here and there scattered throughout a chapter. Tomfoolery Example: Iroh and Madara getting high under a huge Ginkgo tree while contemplating the profundities of tea brewing and enjoying life đ đ...... someone is going to want to see that now