The Blue Chibi
Cabbage Merchant
you cannot push the river... nor can you hold it back
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Post by The Blue Chibi on Oct 28, 2007 4:06:35 GMT -5
Oooh! Err... good question. Well, to start at the very beginning of the topic, sure she's an earthbender, but even if she weren't, she'd still have heightened sensitivity and hearing. I guess you add to that a special affinity to the earth, and you have someone who can sense ants walking on the ground, yards away. That's super-sensitive. So. . . given that she's so attuned to vibrations and frequencies, and that the show is at least partially focused on reincarnation, and finally that Toph herself and several events surrounding her seem to have a sense of foreboding, could she not be so sensitive that she can perhaps feel some faint vibration of her past life still oscillating? I think I've made it worse, not better, but it's such a difficult and ephemeral thing to describe. It's kind of like Aang being able to talk to Roku, only he does that spiritually, whereas Toph might be able to sense hers physically? If time is an illusion, maybe she can feel in both directions, too? Her last comment in The Avatar and The Firelord seemed to show that she was worried about having friends in the next life. And yes, I do like Toph and I would be sad if she died.
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Post by Darryl on Oct 28, 2007 4:14:48 GMT -5
ZOMG. The words! They're too strong for a 14 yr old boy to understand! *heads burst* hehe. Hm.. Well, anything is possible.. . . . Hmm.. Lemme see..her last line.. AHA "Do you really think friendships can last more than one lifetime?" And she had a sad face on while sayin it spoilers removed
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ilovetaang03
Avatar Yangchen
Im a secret AGENT MAN. A SECRET AGENT MAN!!!! (though im a girl)
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Post by ilovetaang03 on Nov 24, 2007 19:11:01 GMT -5
i gess she can "see on anything that is soild
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Post by Pyroman on Dec 6, 2007 4:27:19 GMT -5
She sees by earthbending. She is compeatly blind you can also tell this by when she talks she never really looks at who she is talking to. How she sees is if think of it this way, by sending a slight vibration trough the ground or anything made of earth, any other objects that are not earth would absorb the vibration or even bounce it back to the earth. Then being able to sense acording to how much or how little of vibraion was absorbed or bounced back would detrmine size. some what like how like how sound or radio waves are used to see pictures radars, ultrasounds, depthfinders, etc. she does this sort of thing exept by bending the earth rather than sound itself. Also as something moves if gives off vibration in the ground Toph can feel this as well by slightly bending the earth around her, not enough for others to feel. There is also the thing of like anyone who looses a sense others become more attuned. such as person looses sight (Toph's case) can hear feel etc. bettter. And the thing about the desert episode is the sand is loose and hard to bend even tough is earth it is not solid so like she said "everthing is blurry" it is because the sand is soft and the vibrations are hard to feel due to are lost between each grain of sand.
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