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roguesquadron2017-02-23 06:20 am
lothrat) wrote in roguesquadron2017-02-23 06:20 am
Master and Apprentice
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!
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"To use an example from what I did back in that warehouse, I knew perfectly well the wall was permacrete and there weren't going to be any power lines or the like running through that area. So when I sensed something electronic where it shouldn't have been, I knew what it had to be." Hence, crushing the bug in it.
Example given, he quiets down to let Ezra focus. Of course, he's not always going to have quiet to allow himself to concentrate on this, but having him learn how to do this despite distractions can wait until Ezra's more advanced.
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There's so much life around him. Bugs and snails crawling through the plants, tiny animals on the fringe of his awareness, cautiously keeping their distance. The stirring breeze, the earth, the rocks, the sky - all of it swirls through his senses, overwhelming him with the idea of trying to pick it all apart.
But I don't have to, it's relieving to realize. I just have to feel for what's different, what's not that kind of life. Which is still daunting, yes, but more doable.
He thinks.
He hopes.
"There's one... on the rock by the bare patch of dirt. And one in the tree- no, two. And you... Did you put one in a mouse hole?" Actually, he has no idea what kind of animal that is, but it's small and curled up with babies, so he's pretty sure that it's a mammal of some sort. How Garth'zel had managed not to disturb it while placing the bug must have been impressive.
He cracks his eyes open. "Did I get them all?"
Not even close, Ezra. At all.
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Garth'zel shakes his head. Ezra clearly has a long way to go. "I'm not sure how you came up with those locations. Try again. You had the right general idea for two of them."
So as not to frustrate Ezra too much. Still, they aren't leaving this clearing until Ezra's actually found them all. He has the feeling they may be out here for an hour or two. At least.
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A couple minutes pass before he speaks again. "You put one under our feet." He says that with almost a tone of accusation. That's the tricky one Garth'zel was trying to pull. Point Ezra at the world all around them and see if he forgets to focus on where he stands.
No, he hasn't finished looking for all the other bugs, but he feels that one's worth waiting for confirmation on.
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Time for Ezra to hop to it. Garth'zel can dig that one out of the ground when they're done.
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"Alright, let me focus for a second."
More than a second. He knows what to look for now, and that makes it easier. It's still a matter of picking out a tiny electronic signal from all the noise of life surrounding them.
"In the middle of that tuft of grass about ten feet away from us, on our right."
He doesn't wait for confirmation this time. Technically, Garth'zel's first instructions were to find them, then to ask.
"Behind the bush with the red berries."
Long minutes pass between each guess, and a dull headache is starting to settle in. Focusing this long and hard is a little bit exhausting, despite the fact that Ezra's not doing anything physical.
That tree where he found the second one is still bothering him, though. Ezra turns his attention back to it, pushing past the forming headache. Then, at least, he finally says, "The second one I thought was in the tree isn't in it. It's just at the base of it." A pause, then he lets his shoulders slump. "So there's six?"
He hopes he's got it right.
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Ezra's still missing the one in the tree stump. He's getting closer though; just that last one to go.
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Coincidentally right on the stump that Garth'zel hid the last bug inside.
Oblivious he rakes his hands through his hair, leaning over to help relieve the headache. "So there isn't one in the grass?" Since Garth'zel already offered confirmation on the others, he figures it's fair game to ask.
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He just cocks an eyebrow at him. "Telling you that rather defeats the purpose of making you work it out on your own, yes?"
In other words, that's for Ezra to work out.
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He is so calling the man out on teasing by dangling things like that in front of him.
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Well, unless he has a hard time finding that the last remaining bugs. He might have trouble losing his patience with that.
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He thinks not.
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How's that for confidence?
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In other words, Ezra had better quit while he's ahead.
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"I, uh... I think I'm ready to give this another shot," he says.
Let's not give Garth'zel the chance to decide he's going to send Ezra inside after all.
"The rocks over there." He points, only half certain he feels something different in the pile. "And there's one buried in the dirt a foot away."
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He shakes his head. Both guesses are wrong. "Try again."
He may already be thinking about what comes after this when its time to collect everything and head back.
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Sure enough, after a moment of poking, he does manage to dig something up.
Something so old and rusted that who even knows what it might have once been, except that it was mechanical at some point in time. Wow, way to argue with your teacher over something you end up being wrong about Ezra. Good job. Ezra flushes, a little embarrassed.
"Oh. Well, I was right that there was something there."
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Considering it was exposed to the elements. Although perhaps being buried in the dirt protected it just enough.
"Give it here and go back to trying to find what you're actually looking for." He may as well see if he could figure out what it was.
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Though speaking of his senses, he better get back to work. Ezra closes his eyes again. Focus, he tells himself, searching for the tiny sparks that feel like the ones he's already found. Quit letting yourself get distracted. He takes a deep breath and tells himself to rake the area more slowly, more thoroughly, looking for anything he might have missed the first few times. The trees, the rocks, the grass - and no, at second glance, it doesn't feel like there's a bug planted there after all. The dirt, the bushes, and the old tree stump, and...
Wait...
No, don't tell him.
Ezra abruptly has to stifle the urge to facepalm.
"The stump." He's an idiot, how did Garth'zel not laugh?
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Then he turns his attention back to what he was holding, turning it over in his hands. Something about it was nagging at him but he couldn't quite place it.
With a small frown, he tucks it away. Maybe he'll work it out later after the back of his mind has had time to work on it. Or maybe it'll come to him while he's meditating.
"Ready to head back?" It was heading into the later part of afternoon and it would probably be better if they were buttoned back up in the ship before it actually became dark. Night is when most of the predators were active.
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Then decides he'd rather take it in good stride.
"See? Told you it wouldn't take me ten tries." And he can't repress the impish grin. "Yeah, I'm ready to go back now. I think I need to drink some water."
That's probably half the source of his headache.
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Garth'zel could actually also do with a drink, but as he wasn't the one who was working on learning how to sense certain things, that need is easier for him to ignore.
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