missazula:Avatar AU:Toph never meets the gaang and runs away from home on her own. She travels to Ba
missazula:Avatar AU:Toph never meets the gaang and runs away from home on her own. She travels to Ba Sing Se, where she meets Iroh. Iroh gives her plenty of advice (and plenty of tea), before giving her a little bit of money to help her live on her own and get started in the big city. However, after tormenting some rather unlucky Earth Kingdom Salon workers, Long Feng is alerted to an earthbender in Ba Sing Se, something that is unheard of since all earthbenders are recruited to join the miliary at a young age. After capturing Toph and interrogating her about how she learned to earthbend while being blind, where she came from, etc., Long Feng offers her a deal: stay in Ba Sing Se as the Earth King’s personal guard, or be recruited into the frontlines of the Earth Kingdom military as punishment for her shenanigans. He offers her the chance to be a guard for the Earth King not only because of her proven earthbending capabilities, but also because she is young and blind and appears to be very fragile. She looks weak, but can fight: a perfect guard. Toph decides to stay in Ba Sing Se where she is proclaimed to the public as the Earth King’s daughter, but is actually a guard and a warrior set in place to protect the Earth King when his life is threatened. -- source link