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Toph Bei Fong ([personal profile] tophgirl) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2014-08-04 02:17 pm

[open] Day 215 - outside the Forge

Who: Toph & you!
Open: Open
When: 215, afternoon
Where: Outside the Forge
What: With her bending limited, Toph is looking for another way to fight.
Format: Will match!
Warnings: Excessive levels of awesome from Toph...err...I mean... none.


It's taken Toph a few days to come to terms with the fact that there are ridiculous limitations on her bending. She's tested and retested them, trying to see where she can push it, but everything leads to the same inevitable conclusion. Her bending is limited.

So what's she going to do about it? No way is she going to accept just sitting around and helping out with little odds and ends in this place. She wants to be out on that Skyway, kicking ass and maybe finding Aang, Katara, and Sokka. She needs to find some way of fighting that plays to her strengths without relying on her bending...which probably means learning to fight with a weapon. If Sokka could do it, it can't be that hard.

The question then is — what kind of weapon should she get? Which is how she ends up outside the Forge that afternoon, examining weapons and trying to determine what would work best for her.
freedom_engineer: (curious)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-05 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"What'cha looking for?" Colin asks.

He's been keeping to himself quite a bit recently, but the forge is practically next door to his workshop, and he HASN'T been just sitting on his hands this whole time. There's still work to be done, and for that, he needs metalwork from the forge. Running into Toph here isn't much of a surprise in that case.
freedom_engineer: (Listening)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-05 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, you came to the right place," Colin says, his tone friendly. "Stewart's a genius at the forge. Couldn't do half my work without him."

He pauses, and he looks her over curiously. "Haven't decided what you want, yet?" he asks.
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-07 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Nope, that's dad," Colin says, laughing. Sorry Toph, but he's got great ears. "Me, I'm the best engineer you'll ever meet. If you can imagine it, I can build it."

He smirks at her, looking her over a little more critically now. "Haven't trained with one, or just don't like 'em?" he asks. "If the former, there's a couple of good teachers here. Duke, Zuko, probably Yukio. Ippo, if you prefer your fists. If it's the latter, I'll save you the time. Don't fight with what you don't like. Weapons are nothing if you can't feel comfortable with them. Any weapon has to be an extension of your body, and if you can't make it so, then you're better off sticking with what you know."

He pounds his fist into his palm in emphasis of the point.
freedom_engineer: (curious)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-11 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do you WANT to train with a weapon?" Colin asks, continuing to study her. "Or do you want to keep being your own weapon? Either one is both doable, and worthwhile."

He's infuriating, but he is also from a military culture. His wife's family are all trained in various forms of combat, as are all of his sisters and his mother. To say that he's experienced with combat is something of an understatement, even if he's not especially skilled with it personally.
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-12 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Her bending isn't that far off the mark. For all his stature, he's definitely got the body of a worker rather than a fighter. If anything might stand out, it's his artificial wrist and one very, very artificial eyeball. But even that doesn't say much about his fighting talent...

Still, there are surprises to be had.

"Martial arts, then," Colin says, nodding. "Train with a weapon, you'll find it harder to fight without it. Train to BE a weapon, and you'll never be disarmed. All my sisters fight, but Amber is the best at it by far. She can throw down with anyone, anywhere, even if she's half dead and completely naked."

His tone is amused at the thought, and he nods at Toph. He doesn't think anything about questioning her motives or her ability. "Show me your forms?" Colin asks. "You don't need to waste your strength actually using the power, there's no sense in wasting a limited resource. I just need to see how your body moves on instinct."
Edited 2014-08-13 16:08 (UTC)
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-15 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah, I wish she were here," Colin says, laughing quietly. "She's back in my world, if it's even still there. If she were here, we'd have the Skyway whipped into shape."

He shakes his head then, but he still seems to be in a good enough mood. "I'm not claiming to be anywhere near her level, but I know how to throw a punch, and more importantly, how to take one without going down," he tells her.

(OOC: Bah! teach me to comment at 1:00 AM... ANYWAY! No worries about the descriptions. XD If Toph wants to take him up, a simple stomp or push is fine. I've seen AtLA, I know Toph's deal.)
Edited 2014-08-15 16:43 (UTC)
freedom_engineer: (Head cocked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-16 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
That wasn't the reaction he was expecting. Still, he won't leave something like that up in the air.

"I know it's possible," Colin says, smirking. "What I don't know is the odds of it. If the Calamity were strong enough to destroy the multiverse entirely, we wouldn't be here. It was devastating, and there's no doubt that some worlds were destroyed... But I don't care to subscribe to the thought that everything's hopeless."

He points off in the direction of the distillery, perhaps unaware of Toph's blindness?

"Rin and Yukio prove that the incident is hitting multiple iterations of specific worlds, which means that we don't know ENOUGH about what happened to say that everything's gone. All we know is that we're here, and worlds very similar to ours are gone. That's it."

He turns back to her fully then. "But it's also a possibility that our worlds in specific have been destroyed," he tells her. "It's not a certainty that they're safe, just like it's not a certainty that they're gone."
freedom_engineer: (Head cocked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-18 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Colin pauses for a moment, then he nods to himself. "Okay, easy way to explain this," he says. "Think back to any time you've had to make a choice. Left or right, sausage or bacon, kick someone in the ribs or in the dick. That sort of thing. For every world where you made one choice... there's a world where you made the other. Now, think of all the choices you've ever made. Then think of all the choices anyone ELSE ever made. Ever. In all of history. Each of them is a different world. That's a very, very simplified explanation of the multiverse."

There was more to it than that, but Toph didn't have the technological and theoretical education to appreciate it. Even he didn't truly understand it in all of its details.
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-19 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Sadly, it's much more complex than that," Colin says, shaking his head. "Just... there are more versions of all of us than there are grains of sand in a desert."

Again, an over-simplification, but it seemed the best way to get the point across. "If we're still here, it's almost impossible to say what kind of damage the calamity actually inflicted," he adds.
freedom_engineer: (Head cocked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-24 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Black sheep," Colin says, laughing quietly. "Name's Colin Starfury. I'm the Starfury that builds stuff better than anyone in the galaxy, but causes diplomatic incidents because I can't keep my mouth shut. You'll learn that well enough with time, I've kept it up here."

He's not the least put off by her. The fact that she seems to be willing to listen is refreshing, and her wicked banter is amusing. "You got a name?" he asks. "Or should I just call you 'Sentinel'? You seem to be taking in quite a bit."
Edited 2014-08-24 03:01 (UTC)
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-25 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Many people might be offended by such an observation. Many people aren't Colin. "Elerian naming conventions are weird, I know," he says, sounding amused. "But I'm willing to bet there's plenty of people with funny sounding names. Speaking of which... You got a name, Sentinel Chuckles?"
Edited 2014-08-25 20:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-27 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
"And you're getting on me for 'Starfury'?" Colin asks, his tone both incredulous and amused. "Ah well, no accounting for taste, Melon. You want the 'Lord' part, you're gonna have to earn that. I don't even call my allies by their titles most of the time."
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-08-29 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
It hadn't been his intention, and it definitely caught him by surprise, but at least Toph had shown him what he'd hoped to see. And just as Toph seemed to have been aiming, Colin gives a yelp and goes tumbling to the ground.

To his credit though, he rolls to a crouch, eyes wide in surprise and he stares at her. "Damn! Nice moves, fruit punch!" he tells her. "Put that to work for all of us, and I might acknowledge the Baroness of Brunch."

She wasn't the only one who enjoyed making things fun for herself...

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