History SelfDemonstrating / TophBeifong

* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: [[WebAnimation/DeathBattle I was once paired up]] with that emo kid from Anime/{{Naruto}} named Gaara. [[spoiler: I won, for none shall ever challenge the Greatest Earhbender in the world and live to tell the tale! [[EvilLaugh Mwahahahahahaha!]]]]

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: In more serious moments, I don't use nicknames.

Anyway, I'm mainly voiced by the cute babyfaced little girl named Jessie Flower, which kinda contrasts with my rough and tumble exterior. I suggest you read all of this in her voice, since her voice is pretty much mine. And once you're done, earthbend as far away from here as possible. [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife Your life will be ruined if you don't.]]

* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: [[WebAnimation/DeathBattle I was once paired up]] with that emo kid from Anime/{{Naruto}} named Gaara. [[spoiler: I won, for none shall ever challenge the Greatest Earhbender in the world and live to tell the tale! [[EvilLaugh Mwahahahahahaha!]]]]

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* ParentsAsPeople: Okay, so ''maybe'' I wasn't the best mother to either of my daughters, but what would you expect from someone whose own parents tried to keep her sheltered her whole life because she just so happened to be blind? ''(sigh) Maybe I should've done the exact opposite of what my parents did, but nothing I say can justify not being a good enough parent. Hopefully, Zuko did better in the parenting position than I did.

** I did have a huge crush on [[PluckyComicRelief Sokka]]. If it wasn't for him currently dating Suki, I'd have probably kissed him until our lungs gave out.

* ThePigPen: I'm mild case. Even though I avoid almost all and any personal hygiene, especially where my feet are concerned, I don't look it unless someone else sees it. I also mention that I [[TooMuchInformation pick my nose a lot]]...and my toes. Twice. It felt great, ok?
* ParentsAsPeople: Okay so I wasn't the best or perfect mother to my daughters, but what did you expect from someone whose own parents tried to keep sheltered because of a disability?

** That adventure at the Refinery had me show a bit of interest in [[{{Adorkable}} Satoru]], who considers me his hero; needless to say, his praising of me pretty much broke the mold.

* ChildProdigy: I'm one of the youngest benders you get to see, yet I'm already one of the most powerful not-the-Avatar earthbenders. Also, I invented metalbending on the fly when I was captured, which was believed to be an impossible skill. And by the time Sozin's Comet came knocking, I'm able to sandbend, despite saying that I hated sand when we were in the desert. Eat your heart out, [[SelfDemonstrating/DarthVader Anakin Skywalker]].

And for crying out loud, please forget about [[Film/TheLastAirbender the movie]]. Just watch the show. I'm glad I wasn't poorly translated in that trainwreck.

* OddFriendship: Well , like everyone else, I met some rather unusual people, but we're all good friends nevertheless.

* OddFriendship: Well I am met some unusual people but we are all friends regardless.

* LogicalWeakness: Even with my DisabilitySuperpower I do have some weaknessness compared to normal people.
** I'm completely blind if I'm not standing on Earth. If I get lifted off the ground, or walk on ice or get sent into the water then I can't see.
** While I learned how to bend metal, like all other earthbenders I can't bend wood. I got a hard reminder of this when the Combustion Man paid some people to throw me in a wooden cell.
** I can't do anything that involves actually needing to see with eyes. So writing or putting up posters are a no no.

* DrillSergeantNasty: During Aang's earthbending training, I was tough, critical, and I used methods like "hold still while a large boulder rolls its way towards you".

* HiddenDepths: Me and Katara's tale in ''The Tales of Ba Sing Se'' makes it clear that for all of my claims of not caring what others think of my looks, I'm actually quite hurt by such rejection.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: As a member of a powerful merchant family, I flashed my gold-bordered passport and made up something about "valets" and a "seeing-eye lemur" to get entry passes to Ba Sing Se for myself and the rest of the group from a humorless border official. Unfortunately, it doesn't work as well when I later tried to bluff my way into the Earth King's party without invitations.

I know that sounds egocentric at first, but trust me, I can prove it in about a second. Anyway, if you want my life story, you're gonna hafta watch the show. I'll be honest, I got a lot done with Aang and his friends. I held my own in battle, wriggled my toes in the grass (which might have been fur), heck, I even invented metalbending, which no one in the entire world had done. So yeah, I am an invaluable part of Team Avatar, and if it wasn't for me, Aang would've never learned earthbending, the world would've been doomed, and I wouldn't have had the chance to show the world what I'm made of.

* BadassAdorable: On the outside, you usually see a cute little girl. On the inside, you see one of the strongest earthbenders in the world between Xin Fu, who ran an underground earthbending tourney, and King Bumi, who can earthbend with his face.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: I kinda have this ith Zuko's uncle Iroh, but hey, it's [[CoolOldGuy Iroh]].

I know that sounds egocentric at first, but trust me, I can prove it in about a second. Anyway, how about a little life story? I was born as the only child of the Beifong family. They're the richest people in Ba Sing Se; heck, probably the whole world, next to the Earth Kingdom rulers and the Fire Nation. I was born blind, so I was sheltered by my parents, who believed me being blind made me fragile and incapable of looking after myself, ''which was not true at all''. They went to extreme measures to protect me, including hiding my entire existence from the rest of the world, which resulted in very few people knowing that my family even had a daughter. My parents expected me to be well-mannered and proper due to their noble status in Earth Kingdom society, something with which I absolutely hated, and it caused me to resent my parents' treatment, and resent my parents in general. When I was six, I ran away from home and hid in a cave inhabited by badgermoles. This is when one of the best things in my life happened; I learned the incredible art of earthbending. I don't know if you know this, but badgermoles were the first earthbenders, and the badgermoles and I understood each other perfectly, since we were both blind. In fact, I learned how to earthbend by mimicking their movements. Even better, I learned how to "see" with my earthbending. I was able to detect people and other objects through their vibrations in the ground, which I could sense through the ground with just my own two feet. In fact, my blindness and patience helped me develop a keen sense of hearing.

My father hired the earthbending teacher Master Yu to instruct me. As if I needed any. Under orders from my father, he didn't teach me anything other than beginner's moves, but he didn't know that I already achieved mastery in the art of earthbending. I became such a powerful earthbender that I secretly entered the underground earthbending tournament Earth Rumble VI, and I became known as the Blind Bandit, and won so many battles, I became the champion of Earth Rumble VI more than once. Then one day, it happened. I didn't know it yet, but I was about to finally earn my freedom. It was the day...that I met Aang (or Twinkle-Toes, as I like to call him). It was just a simple day for me; just competing in Earth Rumble VI, keeping other earthbenders from stealing the championship I had worked so hard to earn. In fact, it happened when I took on the Boulder. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avatar/images/e/ed/The_Boulder_in_pain.png/revision/latest?cb=20140317211139 You should have seen the look on his face when I earthbended him into a leg split!]] Then Xin Fu made someone from the audience face me in battle. And someone challenged me. It was Aang. I thought it would be easy, just take him out and take the money. But Aang proved to be tougher then I thought. In fact, the fight had gone on for a few seconds, and when I shot a boulder at him, he just blew me out of the ring. I spent most of my career defeating the strongest earthbenders in the world in a few seconds, and he just beat me in mere seconds. I just stormed out of the arena after that. Somehow, Aang and his buddies tracked me back to my home, and I wanted to know who they were. It took a guard summoning, a messed up dinner, and a few seconds of messing with him to understand what was really going on. Later, we got jumped by some of the wrestlers at Earth Rumble VI. I guess they thought I took a dive and split the money with Aang. Although help did come, they only freed me, and they were planning on selling Aang to the Fire Nation. But I fought to free him, ''while my parents were there.'' But they decided to guard me 24 hours a day. After the few hours of hanging with Aang, there was no way I was going back to that. So I ran away. I threw away my money, my gowns, everything that I had, so that I could not only leave my parents, who never granted me any real freedom, but play my part in ending the war by teaching Aang earthbending, which I did as soon as I took the belt back.

So, that's pretty much it. And I'll be honest, I got a lot done with Aang and his friends. I held my own in battle, wriggled my toes in the grass (which might have been fur), heck, I even invented metalbending, which no one in the entire world had done. So yeah, I am an invaluable part of Team Avatar, and if it wasn't for Aang, I would've just still been in that house without any freedom, and I wouldn't have had the chance to show the world what I'm made of, and taught Aang one of the most useful techniques in the world.

Sigh. Anyway, introduction time. I'm Toph Beifong, one of the many female characters on the hit animated series, ''Avatar: The Last Airbender''. If you don't know what happens in it, I'll tell you. Ahem...it mainly takes place in a world where most of the people have developed the incredible skill of bending, which enables us to combine our fighting styles and spiritual energy together to control the legendary four elements: [[MakingASplash water]], [[DishingOutDirt earth]], [[PlayingWithFire fire]], and [[BlowYouAway air]]. Together many people and benders alike made nations that fit their respective element. They are, in this order; [[EskimoLand the Water Tribe]], [[TheKingdom the Earth Kingdom]], [[TheEmpire the Fire Nation]], and [[PerfectPacifistPeople the Air Nomads]]. A long time ago, all four of these nations lived together in peace and harmony. But sadly everything changed for the worse when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, the only one able to master all four of the elements, could take care of them. Unfortunately for all of us, when the world needed him most, he just vanished, and we were just left to be sitting ducks. Because of this, a massive war took all the peace and strangled it like it was just a mere throat in the millions of people that we lost fighting it. The biggest casualty has to have been the Air Nomads, since Fire Lord Sozin launched an attack [[Understatement that left the Nomads a little worse for the wear.]] About a hundred years of this war has been going on, and many fear that the Avatar's cycle of reincarnation was broken. But one day, Katara and Sokka, two Water Tribe siblings, found the new Avatar; an airbender, and by extension, the last airbender. The airbender's name is Aang, and while he is an amazing airbender, he has to learn the other elements before he can save the world. Now that you're caught on what the show is about, now it's time to tell you who I am. I'm a young girl who is one of the members of Team Avatar, a group of young heroes that have dedicated their summer, and by extension, their lives, to save the world from the clutches of the evil Fire Nation's rule. I'm Aang's earthbending teacher, as well as the team's only earthbender. Here's a description of who I am in just one little sentence:

Sigh. Anyway, introduction time. I'm Toph Beifong, one of the many female characters on the hit animated series, ''Avatar: The Last Airbender''. If you don't know what happens in it, I'll tell you. Ahem...it mainly takes place in a world where most of the people have developed the incredible skill of bending, which enables us to combine our fighting styles and spiritual energy together to control the legendary four elements: [[MakingASplash water]], [[DishingOutDirt earth]], [[PlayingWithFire fire]], and [[BlowYouAway air]]. Together many people and benders alike made nations that fit their respective element. They are, in this order; [[EskimoLand the Water Tribe]], [[TheKingdom the Earth Kingdom]], [[TheEmpire the Fire Nation]], and [[PerfectPacifistPeople the Air Nomads]]. A long time ago, all four of these nations lived together in peace and harmony. But sadly everything changed for the worse when the Fire Nation attacked out of nowhere. Only the Avatar, the only one able to master all four of the elements, could take care of them. Unfortunately for all of us, when the world needed him most, he just vanished, without saying goodbye, without any help, and without warning, and we were just left to be sitting ducks. Even worse, a massive war took all the peace and strangled it like it was just a mere throat in the millions of people that we lost fighting it. The biggest casualty has to have been the Air Nomads, since Fire Lord Sozin launched an attack that left the Nomads destroyed. About a hundred years of this war has been going on, and many fear that the Avatar's cycle of reincarnation was broken. But one day, Katara and Sokka, two Water Tribe siblings, found the new Avatar; an airbender, and by extension, the last airbender. The airbender's name is Aang, and while he is an amazing airbender, he has to learn the other elements before he can save the world. Now that you're caught on what the show is about, now it's time to tell you who I am. I'm a young girl who is one of the members of Team Avatar, a group of young heroes that have dedicated their summer, and by extension, their lives, to save the world from the clutches of the evil Fire Nation's rule. I'm Aang's earthbending teacher, as well as the team's only earthbender. Here's a description of who I am in just one little sentence:

I know that sounds egocentric at first, but trust me, I can prove it in about a second. Anyway, how about a little life story? I was born as the only child of the Beifong family. They're the richest people in Ba Sing Se; heck, probably the whole world, next to the Earth Kingdom rulers and the Fire Nation. I was born blind, so I was sheltered by my parents, who believed me being blind made me fragile and incapable of looking after myself, ''which was not true at all''. They went to extreme measures to protect me, including hiding my entire existence from the rest of the world, which resulted in very few people knowing that my family even had a daughter. My parents expected me to be well-mannered and proper due to their noble status in Earth Kingdom society, something with which I absolutely hated, and it caused me to resent my parents' treatment, and resent my parents in general.

When I was six, I ran away from home and hid in a cave inhabited by badgermoles. This is when one of the best things in my life happened; I learned the incredible art of earthbending. I don't know if you know this, but badgermoles were the first earthbenders, and the badgermoles and I understood each other perfectly, since we were both blind. In fact, I learned how to earthbend by mimicking their movements. Even better, I learned how to "see" with my earthbending. I was able to detect people and other objects through their vibrations in the ground, which I could sense through the ground with just my own two feet. In fact, my blindness and patience helped me develop a keen sense of hearing.

My father hired the earthbending teacher Master Yu to instruct me. As if I needed any. Under orders from my father, he didn't teach me anything other than beginner's moves, but he didn't know that I already achieved mastery in the art of earthbending. I became such a powerful earthbender that I secretly entered the underground earthbending tournament Earth Rumble VI, and I became known as the Blind Bandit, and won so many battles, I became the champion of Earth Rumble VI more than once. Then one day, it happened. I didn't know it yet, but I was about to finally earn my freedom. It was the day...that I met Aang (or Twinkle-Toes, as I like to call him). It was just a simple day for me; just competing in Earth Rumble VI, keeping other earthbenders from stealing the championship I had worked so hard to earn. In fact, it happened when I took on the Boulder. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avatar/images/e/ed/The_Boulder_in_pain.png/revision/latest?cb=20140317211139 You should have seen the look on his face when I earthbended him into a leg split!]] Then Xin Fu made someone from the audience face me in battle. And someone challenged me. It was Aang. I thought it would be easy, just take him out and take the money. But Aang proved to be tougher then I thought. In fact, the fight had gone on for a few seconds, and when I earthbended a boulder at him, he just blew me out of the ring. I spent most of my career defeating the strongest earthbenders in the world in a few seconds, and he just beat me in mere seconds. I just stormed out of the arena after that. Somehow, Aang and his buddies tracked me back to my home, and I wanted to know who they were. It took a guard summoning, a messed up dinner, and a few seconds of messing with him to understand what was really going on. Later, we got jumped by some of the wrestlers at Earth Rumble VI. I guess they thought I took a dive and split the money with Aang. Although help did come, they only freed me, and they were planning on selling Aang to the Fire Nation. But I fought to free him, ''while my parents were there.'' So, yeah. I showed them what I'm really made of. But they decided to guard me 24 hours a day. After the few hours of hanging with Aang, there was no way I was going back to that. So I ran away. I threw away my money, my gowns, everything that I had, so that I could not only leave my parents, who never granted me any real freedom, but play my part in ending the war by teaching Aang earthbending, which I did as soon as I took the belt back.

** First off, I can't sense anything if it's in water or in the air. As such, I can't swim and I'm extremely vulnerable to aerial attacks. I guess I should be lucky that there weren't any airbenders besides Aang in the past 100 years, or else I really would've been helpless
** Secondly, standing on anything other than solid earth will affect my "vision," making me weaker or helpless depending on circumstances. When I stand on wood, I have to hold Aang's arm while walking.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Well, Girl: [[CuteBruiser Yes]], [[DisabilitySuperpower yes]], [[DishingOutDirt and yes]]. I'm a [[PintsizedPowerhouse blind girl]] that [[BoisterousBruiser makes it known that I'm]] the greatest earthbender in the world whenever I get the chance. ''And I've got the skills to prove it.'' I've participated in an [[IncrediblyLamePun underground]] fighting tournament and instantly became its champion, repeatedly got into fights with huge guys with arms larger than I am just to [[CurbstompBattle curbstomp them]] seconds later, created [[ExtraOreDinary metalbending]], and I overall embrace this trope. When I found out that the Ember Island Players' play chronicling our adventures was portraying me as a burly man who sees by screaming, I was ecstatic.

I know that sounds egocentric at first, but trust me, I can prove it in about a second. Anyway, how about a little life story? I was born as the only child of the Beifong family from Gaoling. In case you don't know, it's the richest people in Ba Sing Se; heck, probably the whole world, next to the Earth Kingdom rulers and the Fire Nation. I was born blind, so I was sheltered by my parents, who believed me being blind made me fragile and incapable of looking after myself, which was not true at all. They went to extreme measures to protect me, including hiding my entire existence from the rest of the world, which resulted in very few people knowing that my family even had a daughter. My parents expected me to be well-mannered and proper due to their noble status in Earth Kingdom society, something with which I absolutely hated, and it caused me to resent my parents' treatment, and resent my parents in general.

My father Lao Beifong later hired the earthbending teacher Master Yu to instruct me. As if I needed any. Under orders from my father, he didn't teach me anything other than beginner's moves, and he didn't know that I already achieved mastery in the art of earthbending. I became such a powerful earthbender that I secretly entered the underground earthbending tournament Earth Rumble VI, and I became known as the Blind Bandit, and won so many battles, I became the champion of Earth Rumble VI more than once. Then one day, it happened. I didn't know it yet, but I was about to finally earn my freedom. It was the day...that I met Aang (or Twinkle-Toes, as I like to call him). It was just a simple day for me; just competing in Earth Rumble VI, keeping other earthbenders from stealing the championship I had worked so hard to earn. In fact, it happened when I took on the Boulder. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avatar/images/e/ed/The_Boulder_in_pain.png/revision/latest?cb=20140317211139 You should have seen the look on his face when I earthbended him into a leg split!]] Then Xin Fu made someone from the audience face me in battle. And someone challenged me. It was Aang. I thought it would be easy, just take him out and take the money. But Aang proved to be tougher then I thought. In fact, the fight had gone on for a few seconds, and when I earthbended a boulder at him, he just blew me out of the ring. He beat me. The champion. The big guy. The mass dragon. I spent most of my career defeating the strongest earthbenders in the world in a few seconds, and he just beat me in mere seconds. I felt it was stunning to be beaten, and I just stormed out of the arena. Somehow, Aang and his friends tracked me back to my home. I earthbended them into the air, and I wanted to know who they were. It took a guard summoning, a messed up dinner, and a few seconds of messing with him to understand what was really going on. Later, we got jumped by some of the wrestlers at Earth Rumble VI. I guess they thought I took a dive and split the money with Aang. Although help did come, they only freed me, and they were planning on selling Aang to the Fire Nation. But I fought to free him, ''while my parents were there.'' So, yeah. I showed them what I'm really made of. But they decided to guard me 24 hours a day. After the few hours of hanging with Aang, there was no way I was going back to that. So I ran away. I threw away my money, my riches, everything that I had, so that I could not only leave my parents, who never granted me any real freedom, but to play my part and teach Aang earthbending, which I did as soon as I took the belt back.

* AchillesHeel: I...admit I'm very reliant on my [[DisabilitySuperpower "tremor sense"]] to function. Unfortunately, it's not foolproof, and has a few holes. First, I can't sense anything in water or the air. As such, I can't swim and I'm extremely vulnerable to aerial attacks. Second, standing on anything other than solid earth will affect my "vision," making me weaker or helpless depending on circumstances. When I stand on wood, I have to hold Aang's arm while walking. Finally, taking out my footing or injuring my feet will leave me truly blind until I recover.

* BadassTeacher: I taught Aang earthbending.
* {{Badbutt}}: I am a tiny blind girl who acts like a pro wrestler within the bounds of a kid's show. In fact, the two guys who made the show said it was hilarious to watch Jessie Flower, an adorable, angel-faced little girl, spout wrestler trash talk during recordings. I cannot blame them. But she is amazing.

* TheBigGal: Yes! Well, you don't see it physically, you see it through my personality and my earthbending skills. The Ember Island Players' play made fun of this, since an actual big guy played me in the play they made about our adventures.

** ''(sigh)'' It happened during the Serpent's Pass incident. While I was struggling in the water after the Serpent smashed Katara's ice bridge, I mistook Suki for Sokka and kissed her on the cheek. I've been trying to forget about it ever since.

* BlueBlood: The Beifongs are a well-known family, complete with a family crest. I'm usually not one to brag about it, but my aristocratic background has come in handy on a few occasions.

* BrilliantButLazy: When the team needed to infiltrate high society, I said that Aang and Sokka would stick out like sore thumbs. When they pointed out that I was the biggest slob in the group, I fired back that I was a [[LonelyRichKid lonely girl]] whose parents [[GildedCage forced me to act cultured]], I just chose not to.
* BrutalHonesty: I'm often brutally honest when criticizing others, especially my friends. In fact, I'm very honest about my opinions on others regardless of status (in this case, the Avatar, Aang) or age (in this case, Iroh).

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Zuko's uncle Iroh, but hey, it's [[CoolOldGuy Iroh]].

* NotHyperbole: When I say that I'm the greatest earthbender in the world, you better believe I can back that claim up. I'm the girl who duelled King Bumi, who literally had a hundred years of experience on him, and can earthbend with his face, and I fought him to a draw! At age 12! Even earlier, I figured out how to turn over a major weakness of earthbending by figuring out [[ExtraOreDinary metalbending]], which no one in history had done before. [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra When the new Avatar, Korra, took over,]] this claim ''still'' applies. Even when there's earthbenders like Lin, Ghazan, and Kuvira.

* ChildProdigy: I'm one of the youngest benders you get to see, yet I'm already one of the most powerful not-the-Avatar earthbenders. Also, I invented metalbending on the fly when I was captured, which was believed to be an impossible skill. And by the finale I'm able to Sandbend, despite saying that I hated sand when we were in the desert. Eat your heart out, [[SelfDemonstrating/DarthVader Anakin Skywalker]].

* BlindWeaponmaster: I'm a lind ''earthbending'' master.

* BlindingBangs: Yes, the [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSuperDeformedShorts Super Deformed Shorts]] and some of the comics have me having these. Though, they can't actually make me ''more'' blind.

** I tried to prove I can put up posters despite my blindness and put them up on the wrong side.
* BlindWeaponmaster: I'm a blind earthbending master.

* BreakTheHaughty: I admit I was a bit of a BrattyHalfPint and EntitledBastard when I first joined the Gaang. After being told by Zuko's uncle Iroh that good friends help one another out, I started to grow out of it, but it wasn't until I failed to protect Appa from being kidnapped that humility really became an important virtue for me.

* ChildProdigy: I'm one of the youngest benders you get to see, yet I'm already one of the most powerful non-Avatar earthbenders. Also, I invented metalbending on the fly when I was captured, which was believed to be an impossible skill. And by the finale I'm able to Sandbend, despite saying that I hated sand when we were in the desert. Eat your heart out, [[SelfDemonstrating/DarthVader Anakin Skywalker]].

* DudeMagnet: Well, there was Satoru in the comic who took an instant liking to me. Then, there's the two guys who fathered my daughters, one's name being Kanto.

** I'm sort of this to Mai. Both of us were raised by very fancy families that suppressed them, what with my parents overprotecting me because of my blindness and Mai's parents keeping her well-behaved so she didn't jeopardize her dad's political career. I responded by defying my parents, acting out and really enjoying my earthbending, whereas Mai obeyed them, becoming very insular and apathetic to almost everything.

* GoodIsNotNice: I may be just as heroic, brave and self-sacrificing as any other member of the team, but I'm still a bit of a jerk who rarely opens up to anybody.

** I also called out Aang, Katara, and Sokka on letting their personal experiences with Zuko prevent Aang from finding a firebending master quite bluntly, despite me pointing out that he was being sincere to them and he has done some good, like rescuing Appa. This is rather astounding, because I never really cared about these things when I met them, but later on, I see the bigger picture.

* MeaningfulName: To a certain extent, since it's kanji. In the adventure with the Serpent's Pass, the name on my passport reads 拓芙 "supported lotus", which hardly describes me at all, but matches my parents' view of me being delicate and helpless. Averted in me and Katara's "Girl's day out" where the spelling of my name temporarily changed to 托夫 "entrusted man", before going back to 拓芙 when we met the Earth King.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: In the North and South comic, I describe the Beifong Metalbending Academy as "the most prestigious metalbending school in the world". One of my students pointed out we're the ''only'' school but I saw it as the point since we do something that used to be considered impossible until I learned how to do it.
* ThePigPen: A mild case. Despite eschewing most sorts of hygiene, especially where my feet are concerned, I don't look it unless attention is drawn to it. I also mention that I [[TooMuchInformation pick my nose a lot]]...and my toes. Twice.

* PowerLevels: According to the two guys who made the show, I'm the strongest bender in the group (though this obviously doesn't count Aang in the Avatar State). Personally, I consider myself this, next to Aang, Zuko and Katara, since we're all pretty strong benders.

* RecruitedFromTheGutter: It's [[InvertedTrope kinda flip-flopped.]] Yours truly, the [[LonelyRichKid spoiled little rich girl, was recruited by the pacifistic monk and his two near-penniless sidekicks. However, I very much live ''as if'' I'm in the gutter, pretty much because I wasn't able to.

** That adventure at the Refinery had me show a bit of interest in [[{{Adorkable}} Satoru]], who considers me his hero; needless to say, his praising of me melted the ice.

* SourSupporter: Sometimes. I often vocally express my doubt in the group's plans, but I will help them out no matter what.
* StaticCharacter: Not that I need any, but compared to everyone else, I don't get a lot of [[CharacterDevelopment life-changing over the course of our long adventure. [[LampshadeHanging I pointed this out]] during the time Aang went missing days before Sozin's Comet arrived. When Sokka proposed we split up into groups to find him, I wanted to go with Zuko, since Aang, Katara and Sokka got to have a life-changing adventure with him [[labelnote:note]] with Aang to learn the true essence of firebending, with Sokka to free his father, and with Katara to find her mother's killer[[/labelnote]], and now it's my turn. You did see me trying to talk to him about my parents, but he wasn't much interested so I dropped it, and no such changing was had. Shame.

* BrilliantButLazy: When the team needed to infiltrate high society, I said that Aang and Sokka would stick out like sore thumbs. When they pointed out that I was the biggest slob in the group, I fired back that I was a LonelyRichKid whose parents [[GildedCage forced me to act cultured]], I just chose not to.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: A mild case, and it's kept in the background for the most part. It's most evident during me and Katara's "girl's day out" and whenever my AchillesHeel is hit.

* RecruitedFromTheGutter: It's [[InvertedTrope kinda flip-flopped.]] The LonelyRichKid is recruited by the itinerant monk and his two near-penniless sidekicks. However, I very much live ''as if'' I'm in the gutter, pretty much because I wasn't able to.
* RedOniBlueOni: The snarky, blunt red to Katara's demure, caring blue.

* SadisticChoice: I was forced to choose between saving Appa from Sandbenders or saving the rest of the Gaang from a building that was being pulled into the Spirit World. I tried to TakeAThirdOption, but my AchillesHeel was active at the time. I wasn't very good at sandbending at the time, OK?

* SourSupporter: Sometimes. I often vocally express my doubt in the group's plans, but will help them.
* StaticCharacter: Not that I need any, but compared to everyone else, I don't get a lot of CharacterDevelopment. [[LampshadeHanging I pointed this out]] during the time Aang went missing days before Sozin's Comet arrived. When Sokka proposed we split up into groups to find him, I wanted to go with Zuko, since Aang, Katara and Sokka got to have a life-changing adventure with him [[labelnote:note]] with Aang to learn the true essence of firebending, with Sokka to free his father, and with Katara to find her mother's killer[[/labelnote]], and now it's my turn. You did see me trying to talk to him about my parents, but he wasn't much interested so I dropped it, and no such development is had. Shame.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Katara's a full-blown ActionGirl, but her role as the TeamMom and LadyOfWar fighting tactics mean that she often clashed with my more [[TheLadette laid-back]], OneOfTheGuys mannerisms.

* TheWatson: Not so much in personality - I actually tend to be the most knowledgeable of our gang (well, next to Aang, who has a hundred years of knowledge behind him, and Sokka, who's [[TheSmartGuy the brains]] of our scrappy little group), who are all [[CountryMouse country mice]] - but my blindness means other characters will read stuff (all in Chinese or Japanese characters) ''[[AsYouKnow out loud]]'' to me, and thus, you guys.

** When we went to Wan Shi Tong's library, the desert sand puts me at a relative disadvantage, as the looseness of it messes with the vibrations in the ground and blurs my vision. This ends up contributing to my [[spoiler: failure to protect Appa from being caught by the sandbenders. I was already struggling to defend Appa because I also had to concentrate on keeping the library from sinking into the ground, but even when I tried to attack the sandbenders, my aim was be slightly off due to the shiftiness of the sand. Eventually, I realized I had to cut my losses and put all of my effort into holding up the library, sadly allowing for Appa's capture.]]