Also known as the Obi-Wan meme, though hopefully with less premature death.

[followedbylemmings]

The Mentorship Meme
I was going to have a picture here but they were all kind of...generic. You know, the older, presumably wiser figure with the naive young student.

According to wikipedia, a mentorship is...

Mentorship is a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. However, true mentoring is more than just answering occasional questions or providing ad hoc help. It is about an ongoing relationship of learning, dialog, and challenge.

The person in receipt of mentorship may be referred to as a protégé (male), a protégée (female), an apprentice or, in recent years, a mentee.

And knowledge is power.

• Make a comment. Your character is now a mentor. Have fun.


• In your top level comment post a few things your character would be...theoretically...or not...qualified to mentor in. Let's say...three? Three's a good number. Your mileage may vary so if you want to just post one? Go for it, bro, the world is your oyster, go seek your pearl.
  
  But here's my thought. You could have one intangible personal quality such as leadership, bravery, hard work, or debauchery. You could have one practical skill your character actually knows, a specialty that they've spent time working on. And you could have one completely random ass thing that they don't really know that much about but somehow ended up mentoring in because the original mentor got drunk or something.


• Mentees! Find a mentor! Queue up and request valuable life lessons...maybe? Ask for one, for two, or maybe all three. Start at whatever stage of this mentorship you want. If you have a setting in mind, go for that setting. If you don't, you're meeting in the closest equivalent to Starbucks you have in whatever world your characters come from.


• And live long and prosper.

Comments

Malingo | Abarat

[malingo]

[Good at: sailing, fishing, being orange, climbing and hanging off of things, doing manual labor. Barely passable at sewing. He's patient, and kind, and pretty fearless. Probably good with kids.]

Jack Frost | Rise of the Guardians

[brrrrr]

[Deeply important intangible personal quality: fun.

Practical skill: the art of snowballs.

Completely random ass thing: probably something to do with eggs or maybe tennis just...because.]

[rainbowbrush]

[Perhaps it was that very embodiment of fun that drew the young Pictomancer to Jack. Or perhaps she was just lucky (as poor Jack was unlucky) that she stumbled upon him one day. For whatever reason, Jack's fondness toward children was likely being tested right now as Relm followed him around, pestering him nonstop.]

Are you gonna teach me how to make snowballs yet?

Revan | Star Wars: KOTOR

[forcereset]

[Good at: warfare, swordsmanship, building robots. terrible at: cards.]

Veronica | Franken Fran

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[ Good at: Swordplay, espionage, gurellia warfare, and explosives.

Intangible personal quality: Determination.]

James Rogers | Marvel's Next Avengers

[nextavenger]

[Good at: Throwing things, hand to hand, acrobatic stuff

Intangible quality: Loyalty

Random Thing: drawing]

victor frankenstein | frankenstein [modern au]

[pyr]

[ how to raise the dead 101. angst for idiots. alone-ology. how to become a worrying plant father for beginners. ]

[oftitans]

[ Lavinia has never been able to get in the habit of tending to plants.

She has, however, taken an interest in the whole raising the dead bit and to no one's surprise. Mother worries, but Lavinia insists that this is purely in the interest of science. After all, whatever chaos that followed the first attempt nearly eclipsed her father's actual scientific accomplishment.

She wanders through the makeshift lab, peering through test tubes and waiting for her father's attention. ]

howard stark. mcu.

[ex_expo586]

[ good @ drinking, fucking, blowing shit up, tossing money at problems, having an awesome 'stache, spending all his time making films for his adult son to find in the future instead of spending time with him as a child, piloting a plane into a fucking warzone, helping end world wars, helping create the modern world, helping create super-secret, government agencies with long names, being a bamf despite the limited technology of his time.
bad @ being modest and ok. being a father, not hitting on women, finding star-spangled men, creating flying cars.
intangible quality | fun, brilliant, relatively patient, does not have a penchant for painting everything red and gold.

also, wealthy as fuck. ]

[moonbunnyusako]

Serenity was the new intern in the recently created government division. So far she hadn't gotten to do much, mostly filing and errands which was a bit of a disappointed. Still, she knew her time would come. So for now she was delivering these files to Mr. Stark, and hoping she got to see something interesting in his office as she did so.

(Only nos involve bathroom, death, etc. She is very curious, and could use a mentor in many ways.)

mia | evil dead | looking for a mentor. ;D

[detoxes]

[good at: absolutely nothing. she killed that one scary monster thing once. also good at drawing/painting. and being cute.

intangible quality: determined. enthusiastic.]

How about one who will teach her how to kick ass better?

[idkworldruler]

Alright, so first thing's first, we need to go in, kill at least fifty demons, beat down one of the Lords of Hell and then retrieve Solomon's Key. Any questions?

[Note, he's dressed in a light sweater while proudly sporting a t-shirt that states how much he loves "Mr. Freezie"]

Daenerys Targaryen | A Song of Ice and Fire

[wokethedragon]

[intangible personal quality: determination, strong leadership qualities.

practical skill: riding a horse!]

SOMEONE TOOK A WRONG TURN AT A STAR

[justalittlebitofpixiedust]

[Peter doesn't really need to learn about leadership - he's a perfectly fine leader after all! Even better then fine, actually. He is a great leader.

However, he's never thought to learn how to ride a horse. Why bother with that when you could fly? Now though he's a bit curious, plus until he finds Tink and gets back to Neverland he's got to find someway to travel around. Walking is boring.]

Francis York Morgan | Deadly Premonition

[policebrand]

[practical skills include: divination with your coffee, an encyclopedic knowledge of all B-movies from the 20th century and peeping.

Totally practical, kids.]

[thelaughingreaper]

[Shinigami (or rather, a rogue one, but that's a trivial little detail, isn't it?) and an undertaker at that. Practical skills: ending lives, building coffins, baking cookies. Has two horses. Loves jokes, but mind that his sense of humour is a little bit...off. A troll of the highest caliber.]

The Doctor | Doctor Who

[hastobeamazing]

Skills: Um... name it. Time travel, space travel, science, history. If it's some kind of academic or technical skill, this is the character that knows it.

Intangibles: Courage, adventure, standing up and doing the right thing.

Random-Ass Stuff: Cooking. Remote controlled helicopter piloting. The weirder and more random the better.

[justafailboat]

[OOC: Time Record powers, plus some confidence/self-esteem issues?]

[Miranda hasn't been with the Order for very long. She at least has an outfit suited for the Innocence that was inhabiting her clock, in the form of a disc attached to her right shoulder which can be slid down to her wrist. A time expert, they said, had been called in for some of her training. Understandably, she's nervous. This is one job she really doesn't want to lose. So maybe if she stays still, she won't do something clumsy and foolish, like trip over a loose flagstone, or stumble and break a priceless artifact. Just sit still, stiff as a board, twisting her fingers together.]

Catherine | Catherine

[yournumberone]

[good at: seduction, certain 'adult' acts, the best dominatrix in the west, holding down liquor, getting over break-ups, getting revenge via demonic shenanigans, mindfuck, emotional manipulation.

bad at: baking, healthy and/or platonic relationships, dealing with ants.]

[needsahand]

[While Ragna may be good at cooking and baking on his own, teaching someone else to do it is...completely different. Especially since he's not really a people person. But hey, Jubei taught him, so this can't possibly be that difficult. At least the kitchen's decent and they've got their aprons on.]

We'll start out with something simple first to get you into the hang of things, got it?

Princess Celestia | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

[light_of_canterlot]

[Skills: Presumably she's an expert in most fields of magic, especially anything to do with the sun. Probably knows the secret to sustainable nuclear fusion too, given that she raises a natural fusion reactor every morning - no superconductors in Equestria, though.]

Intangibles: Great at leadership... and benign manipulation.

Random: Knows the name of every dessert ever created.]

[geistwrapped]

Can you just... promise me this won't end with something horrible coming after my soul?

[Because that was what happened the last time he saw someone try something with magic.]

Frankenstein | Noblesse | OTA

[francenstein]

[ Expert tea-maker, ramen creator, and bad-guy-who-wants-to-take-over-the-world eliminator. ]

Fujiwara no Mokou | Touhou | OTA F/F for romantic stuff.

[failblazer]

[Good at; fishing, fighting, making fire, not dying, flying.

Bad at; talking to new people, taking care of herself, dying, dealing with grudges, identifying poison mushrooms.

Personality: Rude, short with people, irritable, takes a while to warm up to people.

Random ass thing: Making grilled chicken. Cooking in general.]

[Open to starting a thread, whatever!]

[noblyblooming]

[ooc: Would you like to do a starter for Mokou feeding teaching Yuyuko how to cook?]

Ichirin Kumoi | Touhou | F/F for anything romantic, OTA otherwise.

[cloudnun]

[Good at: Buddhist stuff. Punching things. Being a buddhist. Guarding stuff.

Bad at: Being popular She is naive, man. She let people into the ship she was guarding because she thought they were there to help. Fashion.

Personality: Sensible, quick to understand things, happy, friendly, not dangerous, self controlled, naive.

Random ass thing: Idk cooking, probably?]

[Open to starting a thread, whatever!]

haymitch abernathy | the hunger games

[drunkenmentor]

Good at: drinking all of the moonshine, survival skills I guess.

Bad at: staying sober, people skills, and keeping his tributes mentees from dying.

Intangible thing: guilt, especially in this situation. over 40 kids have died under his mentorship.

Sirius Black | Harry Potter | OTA

[grimolddog]

[Good at: troublemaking, sneaking around, dueling, becoming an animal and acting like one too, and spouting out bits of life wisdom that he doesn't really follow.]

Luna | Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

[l016]

[good at: nursing, dealing with children, making the best of bad situations, garden appreciation?]

hannibal lecter | hannibal ( nbc )

[boucher]

[ ooc; surgery ( specifically emergency surgery ), medicine, anatomy, culinary arts, art history, possibly some psychology. yes, he has more skills... just not the kind I think he'd teach. might make an exception on that for canon-mates who want to explore a dark au. ]

Dexter Morgan | Dexter

[bayharbor]

[ Blood-spatter analysis! Being meticulous, boating, fishing, and golf I suppose. Dexter has, however, been known to take the occasional apprentice under his wing for killing (and getting away with it). If that's what you're interested, the apprentice needs to, at minimum, at least seem to have a sense of morality. ]

Emiya Kiritsugu | Fate/Zero | OTA

[wouldbesavior]

[Skilled at: usage of various weapons (especially firearms and explosives), tracking, magecraft, time manipulation, assassination, killing mages.

Intangibles: JUSTICE, but don't expect shades of gray.

Random thing: Cooking? He's not very good at it, he generally just eats hamburgers...]

Beetlejuice ° M/F for anything with tongues

[deadski]

( Good at: Scaring the living, being charming, knowing magic ticks.

Bad at: getting people to say his name, stopping people from saying his name. )

OH MY GOD

[onebigdarkroom]

[After he'd gotten sent back to the afterlife for all the horrible things he'd done to her family - the ones blood related to her and the new one she'd found on her own - Lydia has no idea who decided this guy would be a great mentor. Was this his punishment from - what did Adam call her, Juno?

She just rolls her eyes at him, shaking her head.]

I really don't know how to approach this one, Beetlejuice.

[She's already said it once. Don't push your luck.]

Rochelle Goyle | Monster High |ota

[obeirauxregles]

[good at: keeping order, upholding rules, speaking French, sitting still, fighting dragons, protecting large buildings, rollerskating.

bad at: breaking rules, stepping back, dealing with birds.

random-ass thing: smoking dope guerilla warfare for dummies.]

[enervate]

[ Oh hey, Rochelle. She very well knows that Rochelle knows French, but she doesn't expect to be tutored by her. She is way more nervous and a lot shyer now — as if that could ever be viable — when she slowly shuffles to her, unable to make eye contact. ]

—Uh...

[ That is a very quiet, 'I'm here for French lessons.' ]