beifongs as tumblr textposts pt 2!

Yes, I adore the headcanons of Lin bonding with Kuvira and taking her under her wing and stuff where Lin sees herself in Kuvira and whatnot..

But what about the headcanons where Lin sees herself in Opal and the boys (minus Baatar. Fuck Baatar) What about the headcanons where Lin sees Suyin in Kuvira?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees her niece and nephews vying for their mothers attention and willing to do anything to keep her pride and affection?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees a sibling split off from the family, mix with bad, dangerous people? Where said sibling causes pain to innocent people with their actions?

What about headcanons where Lin sees and remembers the strife it causes in a family?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees Kuvira trying to hurt her siblings?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees that when Kuvira is finally brought to justice, she is let off with basically a slap on the wrist? Justice trumped by a mother's love once again.

What about the headcanons where Lin sees her niece, her nephews, hurt, frightened, betrayed, confused?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees her niece, her nephews, have their feelings dismissed by their mother again and again?

What about the headcanons where Lin sees her niece, her nephews, unheard, unsupported and she decides to be that support?

Beifong headcanon:

Suyin knew that Toph had retired to the swamp (and possibly even visited her from time to time) but promised not to tell anyone her location. However, she told Lin once they reconciled. Opal also knew she was alive, but not exactly where. My reasoning for this is the mild reaction Lin and Opal had to Toph randomly showing up, as well as Lin's line, "You know, after Su and I patched things up, I thought, 'Maybe I should reach out to Mom'." Why would she say that if she didn't a) know she was alive and b) had some idea of where to find her? I like this explanation much better than what some people assume, which is that Toph abandoned everyone and made them think she was dead. I don't really understand why people want to think the worst of her. She had flaws but still had a big heart. I think she just got to a point where seismic sense made it too hard for her to live around other people.

i just want lin to be close to her niblings. like opal coming over for dinner weekly (sometimes with the krew), the twins teaching her to play power disk, discussing art techniques and history with huan, finding an understanding with bataar. forming an unspoken pact with bataar sr to keep the peace in the family and look after the kids when she can. maybe they all show up on her doorstep one night when they just rly need to get away from suyin and zoufu. i want lin to be happy with her family the end

Another lil Lin sketch

You said you wanted discourse so… Lin didn’t really properly make up with Su or Toph in my opinion. They still only saw each other when they had to (forced by villain of season )and neither have Lin a decent apology

I totally agree with you!

Although, on the upside I think it allows for dreaming up some good fic scenarios to remedy that. Like, in the show I think we got the very shaky beginnings of reconciliation of the Beifong girlies but it's like step one in a 928637647819432 step process. Hopefully it'll be explored more in canon content down the line, but I'm not holding my breath!

For now, its fertile ground for fic writers at least!

tokka core

Rate all the beifongs

Poppy: 5/10 Lao: 4/10 Toph: 7/10 Lin: 78579427042798264091740962027356057^∞/10 Suyin: 8/10 Bataar: 8/10 Bataar Jr: 2/10 Huan: 8/10 Opal: 10/10 Wei: 9/10 Wing: 9/10

Toph: So how’s your seismic sense coming along, Su?

Su: Pretty good, actually...wait...can you feel that??? I think Lin is having a heart attack!

Toph: Nah, it’s just Kya.

Su: No, that’s definitely Lin’s heartbeat.

Toph: I mean it’s just Kya taking her shirt off or letting her hair down.

Su: Oh…

Toph: This is an everyday occurrence. You’ll get used to it.

Are there any Beifong family (plus Kuvira) Discord servers out there? Asking for a friend. And that friend is me. Seriously tho, I know of some of us that would enjoy chatting all things Beifong with other like-minded fans.

happy mother’s day to mother of all mothers, suyin beifong

In my head, Su accidentally got pregnant with the twins almost right after giving birth to Opal. The pregnancy was really difficult on her and Katara and Kya had to be the ones to take care of her through it.

When Lin learnt of this, she almost reached out, but ended up chickening out at the last second. This woman would rather fling herself into a volcano than expose her emotional vulnerabily.

During this time, Aiwei inserted himself into the family and helped Su with managing the city and stuff. He even occasionally helped babysit the kids. This is why Su was so attached to him. In my brain I also like to think that she named the older twin, Wei after Aiwei. They already had a Junior in the house so they just shortened the name i guess.

After a very difficult birth, Katara advised Su not to try for anymore children. This is also one of the reasons Su ended up adopting Kuvira when the opportunity presented itself.

Being so close in age, Opal and the twins are often treated as a set of triplets rather than being just short of a year apart. This also means that, despite being younger, the twins feel very protective of their sister, especially back when she was a nonbender. I can also see Su being, in turn, super protective of the twins. They're her baby boys and she always wants them close to her. A little bit of codependency going on there I think.

Surely I can’t be the only one in the fandom who headcanons that Poppy was the Beifong heiress and Lao married into the family.

My reasoning for this is that when the two of them separated after Toph ran away, it was he who left the Beifong Estate, rather than Poppy going to back to her family. And he seemed to be financially reliant on the refinery.

Now, I realize that’s not proof of anything. I admit to having no working knowledge of how a separation would be handled in that culture/time period. It just makes sense to me.

Reblog if you also think Toph shouldn’t have been a cop.

I want to see how “unpopular” this opinion really is outside cop-worshipping Reddit.

Imo, atla has a bittersweet ending

Aang is sitting alone and wearing the air nomads clothes, his culture clothes, a necklace similar to GYATSO's necklace. I can't even imagine the emptiness and sadness he was feeling here

There are no airbenders in the crowd

All nation gathered..... except the air nomads.

No one else in the crowd wearing orange or yellow.

Aang won the war, but his people are still gone.

Yes, he has the Gaang, he has Katara, he has Momo and Appa. But he's still the last airbender.

This is so heartbreaking.

Day 3: "If I could take all your pain away, I would. But I can't, so just let me love you." OR Gossip at the RCPD

I chose "If I could take all you pain away, I would. But I can't, so just let me love you."