Master and Apprentice

[lothrat]

Master and apprentice. Teacher and student. Whatever you want to call the roles, there's something special about the bond that is shared by a mentor and someone learning from them. Sometimes it's planned, sometimes it develops without either one realizing it's there until one day it just is. This meme is for those moments where that bond is growing, whether the student is learning, or showing what they've learned, or whether the master is realizing just how out of their depth they are trying to teach whatever it is, whether the moments are serious or hilarious. Or maybe things aren't working out so much. Maybe there's a disagreement about something. Is the master or apprentice shirking? Controversial things being taught? Do we need to sit down and have a talk?


Type of apprenticeship

1. Friends - Nothing formal here, just one buddy learning a neat trick or skill from another.

2. Paid - It's just a job, and not necessarily any more than that.

3. Formal apprenticeship - It's not just a job, it's part of your life. The Master wants to pass on what they know, and the apprentice wants to be a Master someday.

4. Circumstantial - Because sometimes it's just not planned.

5. Other - Because there's all sorts of variations on this theme.

Scenario

1. A natural - Whether you're the teacher or the student, you've got this. You know what you're doing and you can't wait to show your stuff.

2. Overconfidence - You only think you know what you're doing. Oops.

3. Second thoughts - No matter how much you know, you don't feel like you know enough. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all.

4. Incompetence - Who hired this idiot? Who signed this dimwit up? There's no way there's going to be any teaching here. You should just quit right now!

5. Slacker - Someone's goofing off or shirking their work.

6. Overdoing it - Or maybe someone's trying to do too much. Learn to take a break sometime!

7. Illicit - One or both of you is up to something you really shouldn't be doing at all.

8. Rebellion - You are tired of teaching or tired of learning, or you don't like the other person or all their rules, or you don't like what's being taught. Whatever it is, you've had enough!

9. No choice - By accident or circumstance, you're in a position now where you have to teach or learn from this person. Maybe there's no one else, or maybe there's no time to find someone better, or maybe things are just that bad that you'll take any help you can get. Maybe they just didn't give you any choice.

10. Prove yourself - The teacher won't teach until the student has proven themselves, or the student refuses to accept the teacher until the teacher can prove that they're capable.

11. Approval - It's not so much about what's being taught as the fact that you look up to them, or you want them to look up to you.

12. Graduation - Congratulations! You pass! That moment when a student has learned all the teacher has to teach, and now it's time to celebrate and move on. Or perhaps the apprentice has surpassed the master and is about to show them that.

13. Role reversal - When the student ends up teaching the teacher.

14. Hurt/comfort - Not everything goes well every single day of your life. Good thing the other person is there.

15. Failure - That didn't go the way that it should have. Now the teacher or the student has to help the other cope with the results.

16. Apprentice ship - When you realize you want more than just the relationship that a student and teacher have.

17. Family - They've grown to mean as much to you, or more, than anyone related to you by blood.

18. Wild card! - For all the other options out there!


Post a top level and any preferences you might have, then hit other people up. Mix and match, or combine as you like. These are just ideas!