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.

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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.' ]

[obeirauxregles]

Oh. Bonjour, Ghoulia.

[Rochelle blinks, head cocking as she notices the sudden change in Ghoulia's demeanor. Could it be an issue of bullying? A family dispute? Just as she opens her mouth to question her friend, she makes out the quiet request and pushes her fears from her mind (although she'll still obsessively watch over Ghoulia during school hours, just in case.)]

I see. It would be the greatest honour to tutor you in my native tongue. Do you wish to start now?

[enervate]

[ She nods and gives a small sound of agreement for measure. Other monsters seem have a tendency to not be able to tell when a zombie is nodding because of their limp posture and slower movements. It looks a bit like blank staring without the comprehension of spoken word, so to save embarrassment Ghoulia usually takes this into account when she is with someone she is less familiar with.

She begins pulling out her notebook, pencil case, and French textbook (just in case Rochelle wants to read from that — although she doubts it, trusting the gargoyle to know her own language) from her backpack and seems to be more than just a little prepared. If anything, Ghoulia is taking this very seriously.

This zombie is looking very diligent and studious as she laces her fingers together and waits for Rochelle's first instruction. ]