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

[boomsticking]

[Well, waddya know? That one hit dead center.]

Good.

[She gets a squeeze for it.]

[detoxes]

[A grin slowly creeps across her face.]

I did it?

[She looks up at the target, then up at him, then back. He gives her a squeeze and she leans into him.]

I did it. Huh. That wasn't too bad.

[boomsticking]

Yep. Sank it. Told you you could do it.

[He'll just kind of rock her against him now. This is nice.]

[detoxes]

Watch me do it again.

[Someone's giddy. She laughs a bit, wriggling in his hold until she situates herself to take another shot.

She goes through the motions, raising the gun up, focusing, and then firing.

And - she does it again.]

Boom!

[boomsticking]

[Fond eyeroll.]

Don't get cocky.

[detoxes]

That's your job right? [Smirk.]

[boomsticking]

Always.

[See icon.]