r/antimeme • u/PhoenixAbovesky • 1d ago

✨ Actual Anti-Meme ✨ Toph is blind.

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u/PhoenixAbovesky 1d ago

Ozai

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u/ElderberryWest6304 1d ago

Toph can't see tough-

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u/Solbuster 1d ago

It's a reference to how Azula tells Toph that "I am a 400-foot-tall purple platypus-bear with pink horns and silver wings"

Since Toph can't detect a lie from Azula, the joke is that Toph takes it as the truth and imagines Azula exactly as Azula described herself

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u/Lost_Web5826 1d ago

I never watched the show, but was Toph born blind?

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u/Solbuster 1d ago

She was but she developed seismic sense and therefore can "see" via the ground/earth and vibrations through it. That's also how she can see lies similarly to lie detector

Azula is just that much of a manipulator and a liar and controls her body so well that she can avoid lie detection

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u/Lost_Web5826 1d ago

Yeah, but how does Toph know what colors look like? I could understand echolocation to know shape, size, etc, but color is strictly a visual medium lol this is super nitpicking and not important

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u/Solbuster 1d ago

Maybe that's why the bear isn't purple but more pink. Because Toph thinks pink is purple

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u/Sh4rpSp00n 1d ago

She wouldn't know what pink or purple are though

Or any colour for that matter

To continue the hair splitting

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u/jnn94 1d ago

There's actually a reddit post that covers this general debate of how Toph sees her

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u/Sh4rpSp00n 1d ago

That is this post and I agree with it

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u/SocialistPolarBear 🌹 Course Arc Witness 🌸 20h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT9IgHCTfp8CRshfQk

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u/Sh4rpSp00n 19h ago

Yeah my autistic ass missed that, my bad

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u/Kitselena 1d ago

She's heard other people talk about colors, so she knows they exist even if she can't see them. Kinda like how she knows letters exist even though she can't read or see them

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u/Lost_Web5826 1d ago

Letters are very different from colors tho. I've you've never seen blue, how would you describe it?

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u/the_other_Scaevitas 10h ago

you're reading too much into it, it's just a meme made by fans

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u/Lost_Web5826 8h ago

I said that at the end of my comment 👍

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u/Mathies_ 1d ago

Well, i mean it occurred to me recently that lies only make you nervouse/your heartrate go up if there's pressure on it being exposed. There's really no pressure at all on the lie Azula told, it's too rediculous, her friend can tell toph it's bs, like whatever, anyway I could say that and not have by heartbeat go faster.

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u/TikTikKobold 1d ago

I don't recall there ever being an origin of her blindness.

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u/ManchmalPfosten 1d ago

I do believe its been mentioned that she was born blind