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

[failblazer]

[[ooc: no problem!]]

[Mokou stood at her kitchen counter, chopping away at the various vegetables and mushrooms and... whatever else she had on hand. This might not wind up as the tastiest soup in the world but at least it'll be full of vegetables and crap.

Her eyes turned around for a second, making sure Yuyuko was watching, or at least still in the room. Not a word left her lips. It might have seemed like she was teaching by showing, rather than explaining, but in actual fact she was completely at a loss for what to say.

Why was she teaching a ghost princess how to cook in the first place?]

... So... you following all of this?

[Though she doubted anyone would be following this, especially without any instructions.]

Or... I mean do you want to try?

[noblyblooming]

[Yuyuko's kind of fascinated by the whole immortality thing. And hey, Mokou runs a yakitori stand, so she has to be a good cook, right? Right? Besides, Youmu can't cook for her all the time, so maybe she should learn a little herself.

She's actually somewhat paying attention. It doesn't look that hard. Just chop up the vegetables and toss them in the pot, right? Seems simple enough. Maybe she was paying a little too much attention to the vegetables, because it takes her a moment to realize that Mokou's speaking to her.]

...huh? Oh, yes.

[Because she totally wasn't just spacing out.]

I can try. It doesn't look that hard.