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Seismic Sense
Apr. 6th, 2012 07:59 pmSo, Toph is blind. She also has an extra sense via her superpowers that mostly make up for this. The full details are on the wiki
Short version
• Toph senses the vibrations through the stone beneath her feet. She can't see surface markings or fine details like facial expressions. She can see behind her.
• Toph gets something of a 3-D view of people. She can sometimes detect lies (Azula could beat her, but Azula lies effortlessly). She also can detect internal injuries.
• Given the latter, she can probably do things like detect people who are obviously not human. Not on the Vulcans have hearts on the other side of their chests, but on the 'I didn't bother to make bones' thing. Or people like Al, who looks like a hollow suit of metal armor to Toph.
• She has special pings (and the ability to manipulate) rock and metal.
• These don't work if Toph isn't on earth or stone or metal.
So, mostly it's opt-in if you want her calling you on your lies, or realizing that you aren't human or anything else funny that a 'normal human' will miss. Or just cuing me in to thibngs.
Short version
• Toph senses the vibrations through the stone beneath her feet. She can't see surface markings or fine details like facial expressions. She can see behind her.
• Toph gets something of a 3-D view of people. She can sometimes detect lies (Azula could beat her, but Azula lies effortlessly). She also can detect internal injuries.
• Given the latter, she can probably do things like detect people who are obviously not human. Not on the Vulcans have hearts on the other side of their chests, but on the 'I didn't bother to make bones' thing. Or people like Al, who looks like a hollow suit of metal armor to Toph.
• She has special pings (and the ability to manipulate) rock and metal.
• These don't work if Toph isn't on earth or stone or metal.
So, mostly it's opt-in if you want her calling you on your lies, or realizing that you aren't human or anything else funny that a 'normal human' will miss. Or just cuing me in to thibngs.
