>>>Although it would personally amuse the hell out of me if, somehow, a
>>>certain blind geokinetic (and former champion wrestler) ended up a
>>>Valkyrie.
>>>
>>>(I know, I know... but Toph is so much fun...)
>>
>>... yeah, lost me again.
>
>AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER. Think a blind Terra with a LOT more
>snark.

Oh, yeah, so I've gotten around to watching (about half of?) Avatar: TLA in the last couple of weeks, and so I actually get this joke now. Hee.

Toph Beifong is in fact not a Valkyrie, partly because no Einherjar had ever been made one before Virginia Shepard for administrative reasons (Shepard's elevation is something of a pilot project), but mainly because it sounded way too much like work. She subscribes to the philosophy - also espoused by the late Prince Dios of Cephiro - that when you die, that's your cue to take it the hell easy for a while. :)

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