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

[rainbowbrush]

I know all kinds of ice magic! And I can paint snow, sooooo... Yeah, of course I have!

[That isn't the same thing, Relm.]

[brrrrr]

[That really isn't the same thing, Relm.]

That's...not exactly what I meant, but it's a start.

[This was going to take a while.]

Okay, the first thing you need is a target. Something - or someone - who really deserves a snowball to the face.

[rainbowbrush]

[You have no idea, Jack. You poor soul.]

I know lots of people like that!

[brrrrr]

Alright. So imagine your target is over there.

[And he's making a snowbunny. Well, more like an icebunny. A little bit of staff magic with a bit of spinny action and bam. Willing victim statue ahoy.]

[rainbowbrush]

Got it!

[There is a flurry of sketching in the air with her paintbrush, and a volley of snowballs appear out of thin air, launching themselves at the target with gusto.]