modern AU Toph was homeschooled until she got to high school, at which point she somehow managed to enroll herself in a public high school behind her parents’ backs because when she asked them, they said no.
it’s not a very big school, so most of the students know each other simply because they’ve grown up together. so when they hear that the new girl who transferred in second semester of her freshman year a) was previously homeschooled and b) is blind, they are expecting basically the opposite of who Toph is. they expect Toph is going to be introverted and the Homeschooled™ brand of weird and sheltered.
during Toph’s first week of school, she gets in a fight with one of the senior football players and wins. in, like, thirty seconds max. people do not underestimate her after that.
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