What is this 💩 of a blog?? I don’t know bro, I just post...

anyway here’s a goofy gif of them

Like… that was it, the fight was over. Auguste was stronger in the end. It was probably the first time anyone has ever disarmed Damen on the field, and in that frozen moment of shock and disbelief, Auguste could have pressed the advantage and killed Damen right then.

But Auguste still let Damen pick up the sword again. Let him have a fair chance to go down with a weapon in his hand.

Because I think Auguste looked into his eyes and saw, for a moment, a younger brother who was in way over his head. A younger brother who was only here because his father had expectations and Damen was trying so hard to meet them. A younger brother who is scared and alone and too young for any of this, who should have been back home reading books and riding his horse while his father and older brother kept him safe.

"Su had to go live in a fancy estate with some of the richest people in the world" So first of all. Lao and Poppy Beifong, as we know, were not good parents to Toph and did not make good emotional space for her, infantilized her, and restricted her to the point where Toph ran away. They could be better grandparents than parents, but the truth of the matter remains that no fucking amount of money is going to make up for emotional neglect, and no fucking amount of money makes up for being kicked out of the house by your own fucking mother. And it's pretty clear she wasn't content to stay there given that she left to join a pirate troupe less than a year later, and no, conditions on a pirate ship are not exactly glamorous.

"and assaulted and permanently scared her sibling" This is exactly what I'm talking about when I say the fandom loves to exaggerate and frame certain things to demonize one character and infantilize the other. "Permanently scared" like are you kidding me? Do you not hear how ridiculous that sounds ?? "oohhhh she scared her!!" Lin is the one who would escalate every fight to a physical altercation. Suyin did not assault her, she did not fucking jump her with a knife, she cut the cord off of her wrist and the tension caused it to spring back and cut Lin (have you ever had a stringed instrument break a string?). Which is a count of resisting arrest, but not assault. Yes it injured Lin and scared her, but making Suyin out to be a demon who "assaulted" her purposefully is not only wrong, it's laughable.

This ^ is not the face of someone who injured her sister on purpose.

The really interesting thing. Is that Lin is more willing to acknowledge these things than you are. Lin actually goes back and reconciles with her sister, her apology to Opal makes it clear that she understands that she and Suyin were both having an extremely difficult time as children, and promises not to attack Suyin again. You are less willing to see Su's side of things in your obsessive defense of Lin than Lin herself is, and it's really quite curious.

Su still was wrong. She still didn't get in serious trouble she got to go live with strict people as a teenager she was definitely not thrown to the street like a dog. Su made a bad choice, she got a weak consequence. Some people get killed by their parents. trauma, is trauma, but she wasn't homeless until they decided to leave. Not even face that consequence.

Also, since you mentioned Lin because all I said was she was scarred, however, you spell that shit. She was doing her job arrest, the teenager involved in crime .

No one is arguing what Su did was wrong lmao. This has never been an argument. Op only mentioned that she did in fact recieve consequences.

Also the "oh she got to live in a mansion with her grandparents who were notably abusive to her mom gee I wonder why she may have left after less than a year" is so insidious because it falls so perfectly into how ppl justify and erase children and teens trauma from abuse because "well at least they're not doing [x] to you".

Regardless of who I personally prefer, I think: Su has character development because she represents the idea that “everyone deserves a second chance.” Not a third or fourth—but a second. She paid the consequences she had to (moving away, seeking knowledge, traveling, etc). Maybe those consequences weren’t as harsh as some people would’ve liked, but they did happen and she followed through. Maybe they weren’t the fairest when you think about things like… ROBBING and joining a borderline gang at 13 years old like… wtf.

On the other hand, Lin represents all the older sisters frustrated with their younger siblings, those who went through parentification but were never truly acknowledged by those same siblings. She made mistakes too, of course—she’s stubborn, rigid, emotionally reserved, and was even paranoid with Pema, Opal, and others. But that’s also part of her arc. Lin lives alone in her 50s, but by choice. And if that makes her suffer… maybe that’s her self-inflicted punishment(?)—depending on how Su defenders interpret her resentment or her choices.

But honestly, it’s funny how fans argue like crazy when at the end of the day, Lin and Su reconcile. They accept that they love each other as sisters, despite the damage they may have caused. Maybe there wasn’t a dramatic apology or a super deep conversation... sure, Su can come off hypocritical or cynical at times, and Lin can be unbearable and intense—but both of them did the best they could while growing up in the shadow of a mother like Toph.

Toph might actually be the root of all this… AND I LOVE TOPH. She and Sokka are literally my top 2 favorite characters!!!! But come on—where there are kids with issues, there are parents with issues. And both sisters craved their mother’s attention in totally different ways. Lin lived alone with Toph for about six years, which probably made them closer. And Lin’s more mature, aware personality may have led her to think: “If I become like her, she’ll give me all the attention I want. We’ll have the same schedule, same interests, and end up talking about the same things.” Su, meanwhile, is the younger sister—six years younger. Like most younger siblings with a big age gap, she was probably “raised” a bit by Lin, and not very willingly. She spent less time with Toph, and that’s hard. So Su tried to get attention differently—by standing out and not being like her older sister, as younger siblings often do when they stop idolizing and start rebelling.

It's impossible not to compare characters, especially when they're siblings who grew up in the same environment but turned out completely different from one another! (In psychology, this is called EQUIFINALITY. Basically, it means that a single starting point can lead to multiple different outcomes.)

Or in other words: Different paths can lead to the same result, and the same path can lead to different results.Even if two siblings grow up in the same family system, each one:

1.Has a different subjective experience.

2.Fulfills a different functional role.

3.Forms unique alliances, conflicts, and emotional bonds.

As a result, they may develop completely different personalities, values, or ways of connecting — even within the same environment. That’s equifinality in action. It’s not a competition, obviously — but you get what I mean.