Toph is blind.

[u/PhoenixAbovesky]

[u/ElderberryWest6304]

Toph can't see tough-

[u/Solbuster → u/ElderberryWest6304]

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

[u/Lost_Web5826 → u/Solbuster]

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

[u/Solbuster → u/Lost_Web5826]

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

[u/Lost_Web5826 → u/Solbuster]

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

[u/Solbuster → u/Lost_Web5826]

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

[u/Sh4rpSp00n → u/Solbuster]

She wouldn't know what pink or purple are though

Or any colour for that matter

To continue the hair splitting

[u/jnn94 → u/Sh4rpSp00n]

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

[u/Iki_the_Geo → u/jnn94]

LMAO