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[wilcze-kudly]

A barely coherent ramble on the Beifongs being a family of people with an incredibly high ability to feel things

Toph

I think a lot of people really misinterpret Toph. They see her for her role as powerhouse. However, one of her key abilities is actually her ability to sense her surroundings with earthbending.

But that's not all. Toph is able to sense people's heartrates and tell when they are lying or not.

In fact, Toph is a surprisingly empathetic person. Despite her abrasive and harsh personality, she's surprisingly good at reading people and seems to have very high emotional intelligence. She's extremely good at identifying people's strengths and their weak points. Multiple times, she's able to successfully get under people's skin very efficiently.

Girl is using her empathy to bully people good for her.

Sure, she often uses a tough love approach, however I would argue that it's a self defence mechanism. Toph doesn't like being vulnerable, probably due to the fact that she was treated as weak and helpless when she was growing up. People with higher empathy or sensitivity tend to be percieved as weaker or more delicate, which is something Toph desperately wants to avoid. Toph also carried her parents' emotions and expectations of her for a very long time and it could stand to reason that she doesn't wnat to do that with anyone else.

I think I may make a longer post on Toph and her trauma surrounding her parents and how that affects her relationships and behaviours lol.

Lin

So... Lin is very similar to her mother in many ways. She also puts up a prickly wall of "tough love" to deal with her high sensitivity. However, she seems to absorb and internalise things that hurt her much more than Toph does.

Lin's emotional maturity is heavily stunted, most likely due to her difficulty with bonding with people. She never really allowed herself to grow past a certain point. She didn't grow into her empathy, therefore she feels things, but doesn't exactly know how to handle them. Repressing these feelings is a band aid solution, and we do see how dangerous them overflowing is.

However, on rare occasions we do see Lin allow herself to empathise with others. We see this particularly with Opal and Mako. However, with most people, Lin's guard is always up.

Lin is the textbook example of someone very sensitive who pushes people away out of the fear of getting hurt.

Suyin

I can see some people arguing that Suyin has pretty low empathy. Looking at her treatment of Lin, Kuvira and Baatar Jr. I think it's true that in her younger years, Suyin struggled with her feelings. I'd argue it is due to very high empathy actually. In the flashbacks, Su seems to mirror Lin's emotions back at her, perhaps unable to distinguish them from her own.

However, unlike Lin, Su grows as a person in her time away from Republic City. When we see her as an adult, she is very in tune with her emotions and also able to deal with other people's outbursts without internalising their feelings.

She has a very gentle way of speaking to people and is able to quickly pinpoint what they need to hear, as she does with a young Kuvira and with Bolin. She can make other's feel comfortable and safe. Perhaps due to her own turbulent upbringing.

However, Suyin is also heacily driven by her emotions. Her impulsivity can cloud her judgement, such as when she flew into a fit of rage at the idea of a guard betraying her city, or when she risked not only her own life, but that of her sons, and tried to impulsively save Zaofu feom Kuvira. She also still holds a shocking degree of sympathy for Kuvira, despite her initial anger at her ans her children's visible discomfort with Kuvira's presence.

Suyin feels things very strongly, and, despite getting better at managing her feelings, they still often overtake her.

Baatar Jr

It's interesting when a character who is characterised as a more "intellectual" type is driven primarily by their emotions. Despite being a man of science, Baatar Jr has a habit of disregarding logic completely.

He prioritises his relationship with Kuvira, he has a weird lil rivalry with Varrick, he's incredibly bitter when it comes to his relationship with his family. Baatar Jr is such an underrated character.

Huan

I think most artists are inherently sensitive people. And we very much like to express the things we feel.

Huan seems to use his art to process certain experiences, for example Harmonic Convergence. He's quite sensitive when it comes to his creations. He also values other people's art too and perfers "raw emotional power" over quality.

Opal

I think a lot of people pick up on Opal's empathy on the first watch, especially when you see her interact with Lin. Opal is also very quick to notice that Su still has a soft spot for Kuvira. She also sets boundaries with Bolin very quickly and efficiently and I would credit this to Suyin's parenting.

But Opal is very much like her mother in the sense of having her judgement clouded by her emotions. Especially when it comes to the Kuvira situation. Her strong emotions often act to her detriment, as she almost gets baited into attacking Kuvira and her unchecked anger at Bolin arguably made him retract further into Kuvira's army. This is hardly a new thing for Opal, as we see her lashing out even as a child.

Wei and Wing

Splitting what little screentime the twins have between them yields scarce, but interesting characterisation. Wing seems to be more outwardly emotional, throwing a tantrum when he loses a game and cheering when excited about sparring Korra. While Wei, much like Lin and Toph before him, seems to put up a bit of a prickly wall, for example when he's antagonising Bolin.

The twins are very closely tied to their mother and it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to say that they internalise her emotions. Like when Wei yells at Kuvira during the negotiations.

The twins are also very open about their upset at Opal leaving. It's honestly sweet to se that Suyin raised her children to be able to express their emotions rather healthily.

Uh. Anyway. This post was mainly meant to toss a pattern I've noticed out into the open. I might make some more posts elaborating on particular aspects of it (i also wanna make one on kuvira and how she's quite the opposite of the Beifongs). So uh. If you have any suggestions of topics i should start with,just shoot lol.

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[avatarkyoshisfans]

LoK + tumblr posts

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[feral-jackdaw]

Do you ever think about the evolution of the Beifong family?

When we first meet them, they are introduced as a rich family, universally known for their wealth and nothing else.

And then, in LoK, we see a family of skilled benders, architects, artists, founders and defenders of a technologically advanced city, all of whom are freaking awesome.

And of course this change wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for Toph.

[wishingforatypewriter]

I know I've said this before, but I cannot get over the way we were robbed of a deeper exploration of the complex dynamics within the Metal Clan. Like give me Baatar Jr. with some slow simmering resentment for the twins for being the metalbending golden boys Suyin always wanted. Give me Opal jealous that Kuvira was regarded as formidable—a successor, a protege—and Kuvira jealous that Opal was regarded as precious—a loved one, a daughter. Give me Huan retreating into his art as a means of escaping the family legacy of excellence in combat. Give me the ever changing alliances between the siblings (plus Kuvira), and the profound love they all hold for one another despite all the messiness between them.

[thena0315]

[thefollow-spot]

So I’m obsessed with Kuvira now. Imagine you’re cast off but taken in by a woman who gives you everything as long as all you are becomes hers. Your talents, your achievements, your friends, your life. You’re a prodigy but without her you would be nothing. So you have everything but only as long as you’re grateful. Always grateful. So fucking grateful for everything you are. But people are hurting, people like you, orphans who never even got the chance to be grateful, and it makes you sick to know you’re all of this (brilliant, and strong, and privileged) but you can’t share it because none of it is yours—none of you is yours—to begin with. And you meet this beautiful boy who you’ve known since you were a child and he gets you—like more than anyone ever has he sees you, he makes you laugh. And he looks at you and understands what it’s like to always be grateful, which really means always be in debt. And you know you’ve never belonged anywhere, but you belong with him. And he wants to help people, too. So you run away together, to help people. It’s helping people at first—it’s not dictatorship. It’s not. And at first it’s just helping people—making things better—but to do that you need respect, you need an army, you need people who will back you and build for you and lend to you on nothing but your promises and charisma. And the crazy thing is: you do it. You get people to lend to you and build for you and fight for you. And one day you look around, standing side by side with this beautiful boy—this genius boy who has become a brilliant man, who you made a man, and you realize that everything you’re surrounded with is something you earned, you built, you made, you fought for, you took. And you realize you never ever have to be fucking grateful, never have to feel indebted, to Suyin Beifong ever again.

[avatarshippingshowdown]

ROUND 2, MATCH 8

Sukka previously defeated: Linko

Baavira previously defeated: Sokkatara

[kuvira-protege]

BAAVIRA WEEK 2023

Day 6: Sweaty Skin

A little late...

[aceof-stars]

Why are my favorite ships always:

Different but in the way that they make perfect partners and achieve so much together. Believing in each other when it seems like no one else does. Different and despite that, they understand each other until they completely don't. Some kind of betrayal and at least one of them has abandonment issues. So much emotional constipation and painful pining. Childhood friends to [insert decades long mess here] to finally, finally lovers. "My heart has always been yours. Even when I hated you. Even when there was so much distance between us I thought we'd never pull through. There's no one else in this world for me. So, yes it's you, it's always been you".

And the only two that have qualified so far are Wrightworth (Phoenix + Miles from Ace Attorney) and Baavira (Baatar Jr + Kuvira from Legend of Korra). I love how Wrightworth's partnership led them to find the truth and redeem each other, while Baavira's led them to create a dictatorship and commit war crimes.

If you have any more examples of ships that fit, please let me know.

[wilcze-kudly]

Anyway, something, something almost all the Beifongs we see in atla and tlok seeming to be very sensitive and highly emotional (all dealing with it with varying degrees of success) . Something something seismic sense.

Remind me to make a post breaking down this aspect of Toph, Lin, Su and Su's kids. Fucked up lil family of superfeelers.

[bearsandbeansart]

Growing Bonds

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For @atlararepairbigbang, to go with the fic Growing Bonds, a fic about the complexities of attraction and love in a polyamorous lense. Please give the author some love and read the fic!

[kyalinappreciationacct]

There's a story behind Suyin hiring a personal chef.

For @catra-taj

[avatarkyoshisfans]

Legend of Korra + tweets Part 1

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[thatonepersonimobsessedwith]

karaoke hc for the Beifong fam

- the ones who outright refuse to sing sober and also won’t sing drunk: Baatar Sr., Baatar Jr., Lin (even though she can sing doesn’t mean she will), Huan

- the ones who refuse to sing while sober but will get up to the mic the moment they‘ve had a couple of drinks: Su, Wei

- the ones who just want to have fun: Opal, Wing

[baaviraweek]

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Here are the official prompts for this year’s Baavira Week. 

Summer Night

Moving In

In the Kitchen

Puzzle Piece

Flower Field

Sweaty Skin

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