[ It's saying something that Ange isn't even remarking anything about the shove. Not so much about what Ange feels about Toph or anything - but more how she feels about this conversation, and it suddenly being turned back around towards her. She's too busy thinking about her own story and what to even say about it to really focus on the shove itself.
Hence why Ange is quiet even for a moment afterwards, until she settles on a point to start at. ]
.. my family died when I was six. They all went to a family conference without me, and something mysterious happened there that killed them all. Only my aunt came back, so since we were each other's only remaining living relatives, she was forced to adopt me. [ Ange doesn't look at the other girl when she speaks. She knows she could, that it's not like Toph can actually look back at her, but there's something too awkward about focusing on another person while she says this, regardless of their sight.
Instead she just stares at some point between them. ]
She hated it. No-- She hated me. She yelled at me every single day. She scolded me for every single thing I did, and often hit me as well. Aunt Eva acted like it was my fault that her own family was taken away from her as well during that mysterious incident. [ Ange's tone has an odd quality to it. It sounds like she's trying really hard to sound unaffected, like she's just reading some news headline, but there's something more awkward filtered in it for anyone who's listening closely. ] I guess my punishment for that was me not being allowed to be around anyone but her.
cw: talk of physical and verbal child abuse
Hence why Ange is quiet even for a moment afterwards, until she settles on a point to start at. ]
.. my family died when I was six. They all went to a family conference without me, and something mysterious happened there that killed them all. Only my aunt came back, so since we were each other's only remaining living relatives, she was forced to adopt me. [ Ange doesn't look at the other girl when she speaks. She knows she could, that it's not like Toph can actually look back at her, but there's something too awkward about focusing on another person while she says this, regardless of their sight.
Instead she just stares at some point between them. ]
She hated it. No-- She hated me. She yelled at me every single day. She scolded me for every single thing I did, and often hit me as well. Aunt Eva acted like it was my fault that her own family was taken away from her as well during that mysterious incident. [ Ange's tone has an odd quality to it. It sounds like she's trying really hard to sound unaffected, like she's just reading some news headline, but there's something more awkward filtered in it for anyone who's listening closely. ] I guess my punishment for that was me not being allowed to be around anyone but her.