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An Earthbender and a Viera Walk into a Bar...[Open/Active]

Character(s): Toph, Fran, and anyone who might bump into them?
Content: Toph trying to pick more fights with other people stuck in Paixao. Looks like it's Fran's turn.
Setting: Cafe Ersesat
Time: Lunch times! OMNOMNOMNOM
Warnings: Just Toph being her spunky, rude self. I don't know about Fran though...

Toph was no stranger to Cafe Erestat. She had collected plenty of jewels from the fake plants to eat there quite often, to the dismay of the local people that worked there.

It was lunch time, and Toph marched in to the restaurant and took her usual seat in the middle of the dining room, placing her feel up on the table. The waiter came and reluctantly took her order as she cracked her toes and fingers. All she had to do now was wait for her meal.

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Contrary to people might be inclined to think, Fran didn't spend all her waking hours in Balthier's company. A fair number of them, yes, but she was quite capable of going elsewhere. And indeed, more than a few of their adventures had required that she do so.

This was none of those. She'd simply decided to be somewhere else for a time. Perhaps she'd even turn up a interesting snippet or two. There'd been rather a lack of honest pirating of late. For now, however, she simply strode into the cafe, ignoring the usual host of stares at her ears. She was used to them, by this point.

Toph felt the woman walk in, and she also felt her ears and lack of clothes. Toph turned around in her seat and pointed in her direction. "Hey, what happened to you?" She had heard of strange animals walking around town, but nothing about a human-rabbit.

Stares, Fran was used to. Few people had heard of her kind in Ivalice, much less actually seen one in the flesh. Outright pointing, on the other hand, was much less tolerated. Especially when the question to follow it was quite so blunt.

"I am as I should be," she answered, shifting to rest one hand on her hip.

Toph snorted. "Are you sure? 'Cause from what I feel, it's like someone glued pig-rabbit ears on your head!"

The waiter then brought Toph her food, which she immediately started to devour while making a mess and rude slurpy noises. In between ripping apart her food and chewing, she commented to the human-rabbit again. "You know, you might want to think about getting some clothes too. I don't mind people goin' around naked or anything, but it gets cold at night sometimes."

If Toph had been intending to make the worst possible first impression, she was getting there with surprising speed. Not even Vaan had been quite so uncouth and that was saying something, given the fact that he was hardly what she would have considered tactful.

But neither was Fran going to rise to the bait so clearly. Humes were not to be blamed for their ignorance where vieran customs were concerned.

"Have you no viera where you come from?"

"Viera? Is that what you call yourselves?" She still preferred to call this thing a rabbit-human, but then, viera was a little easier to say. "Nah, there aren't any from where I'm from."

Toph chomped a bit more before going on. "So, do those things on your head ever get caught on stuff? I don't think they'd be very good to have in a fight. Someone could grab them and swing you around like a rag doll." No, Toph still wasn't taking the viera seriously, and she had no intention of doing so in the first place. At least, not until it proved that it wasn't as goofy as it seemed it was.

"It is."

She wasn't surprised by the answer. The earlier mention of 'pig-rabbits' had implied some world she wasn't familiar with, and she already knew that most of the people here fell firmly into the category of people who hadn't heard of viera. But neither did that mean that frankly idiotic question would be tolerated.

"They would be welcome to try," she answered, in a tone that suggested that anyone who tried would find things going less than well for them.

Toph licked her fingers as she finished her meal, giving the ~~human-rabbit~~ viera a mischievous grin. "Sounds like you know how to fight." Finally. Maybe this weirdo was a sparring opponent she was hoping for. "How'd you like to test your skills on the world's best earthbender?"

Of course she did. Neither she nor Balthier would have gotten very far as sky pirates had they not been able to handle what very treasure hoards threw at them. Or the natural side-effects of running counter to the law proper.

What, precisely an 'earthbender' was she less certain on but that wasn't enough to stop her. If the rude hume wished a fight, so be it.

"Best to not stay in here, then."

Toph left some jewels on the table to pay for her meal and stood up, proceeding to crack her knuckles. "Yeah, I kinda like this place. It has really good food. We should go to the park. There's a lot of open area and it's not too far away."

She really hoped that the viera would be worth this. She didn't want boring fights like the ones she had to deal with in the tournament.

"Oh, the name's Toph." She started picking her nose as she left the cafe.

Fran, for her part, was somewhat less then interested in the overall outcome of the fight. She wasn't about to do anything less then her best, but she'd never been one to worry over much about the outcome of such things. She hadn't deliberately gotten into a purely hand-to-hand fight (or magic to magic, if that turned out to be the case) in years, but no matter. She douted it would make that much of a difference.

"Fran," she answered as she followed after Toph, doing her best to put any further displays of uncouth habits out of her mind as she did so.

It wasn't long before the pair made it to a nice empty spot in the park. Toph turned to Fran. "Any rules we should follow before this starts?" They obviously wouldn't be trying to kill each other, or even really harm each other. Spars weren't about that. To Toph, the were about showing off skills and even learning about yourself too.

Again there was silence from Fran. She wasn't overly worried about injuries sustained, given her various restorative magics but boundaries were a good thing to set all the same.

"Best to have a set place at which to stop."

Toph plopped herself on the ground and held her hand to her chin. "We could just stop when the first of us tires out first or until we get bored." She highly doubted that she would be the first out in any circumstance, despite knowing absolutely nothing about viera or Fran herself. But then, that's what you get from Toph. Overly-high self-confidence.

"We should probably set up a wall or something too so stupid people don't get hurt." Who knew what kind of idiot around here would step in the middle of them. Knowing Sokka, Toph knew that such people actually existed.

That sounded like a potential recipe for disaster. Not enough so to really request that the rules be changed, but enough so to send potential alarms running through her head. It did, however at least speak to the general temperament of this strange young Hume.

"A wall would be best, yes," she answered with a nod.

"'Kay." Toph raised her hands and the ground beneath them rumbled a bit before a wall rose out of the ground, circling the perimeter of the area they would be duking it out. Toph made sure to leave a lot of space. "How's that?"

Toph got her earthbending stance. "Ready when you are!"

"That should do well."

She didn't recognize the spell that created the wall, but perhaps this was the earthbending had been mentioned earlier. How well it did in combat or something near it would remain to be seen.

"I am ready."

Toph grinned, and dug her feet a little more in the ground. She really didn't know what to expect, but that made it all the more exciting.

It was rare for Toph to attack fist, as she preferred to feel what her opponent was up to and act accordingly. She waited patiently for Fran to make a move.

The same could be said of Fran. But in lieu of any other option she was more then willing to start. But she wasn't about to come running in. She'd leave that to people with fewer options.

So after a brief gesture and a word murmured under her breath, the familiar glow of a fire spell was heading Toph's way.

Toph could feel Fran make a small gesture while moving her lips. She frowned, and not knowing what exactly the viera did, she immediately protected herself by raising the earth around her to cover her from the front and above. She was glad she did, as she felt an increase in the temperature, much like how it felt when a fire bender shot a fire ball. So, it seemed there was bending on other worlds, though this seemed a bit different, as Fran had hardly moved.

Now it was her turn. Toph forced one half of her earthen shield to speed towards Fran, waiting with the other to send so she could send it flying at Fran at the right moment.

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