Wednesday DE: sidekicks or partners

[thebattycakes]

Hellooooo Milliways! It's Hump-DAAAAAAAY and the madness here is starting to wind down!

After a month of doing all the things myself I have a new person that I have been training up to help out and I thiiiink it's going alright. Time will tell.

Today's DE, your pup has just received a protege (or already has one)! How are they as a mentor?

Comments

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Well, Yamato has a protege of sorts -- Daisuke, as the secondary contractor for both his and Taichi's Crests, tends to share the two of them as mentors, like a kid whose parents don't get on.

As for how it goes, er. Here's Yamato declaring that he's going to beat Daisuke up, and Daisuke accepting his challenge, here's the two of them riding into battle five minutes later and here he is about ten minutes later ruffling the kid's hair. So, like, normal for Yamato. Baseline mentoring.

[alongfallfromgrace]

Wei Wuxian is an excellent mentor, he loves teaching. He falls into it naturally - he starts teaching the Juniors at Yi City, he teaches his nephew how to beat up bullies given half a chance... just made for it. Give him a kid.

[bjornwilde]

Jess is surly, cynical, irreverent, and mistrustful on a good day. She is thus an excellent teacher and does amazingly well with all three spider-gals; Anya Corazon, Cindy Moon, and Gwen Stacy. She is not afraid to expose them to other heroes in her teaching/mentoring. In fact, she depends on it.

[run_barry]

Barry is a great mentor to other speedsters and heroes, although he has his flaws. The biggest is one he struggles with in all things, which is the need to slow down. Oftentimes when he's training someone he tries to start off too fast, he pushes people too soon and rushes them into situations they're not really ready for yet.

Part of this is it's Usually an urgent situation and he's feeling the pressure to find solutions fast and get people ready before something bad happens, and a part of it is also him forgetting how long it actually took him to learn the whole hero gig thing.

Another thing Barry does is he also tries to protect people from his mistakes. When training others, especially other speedsters, Barry really wants to shield them from the bad stuff and pitfalls he's faced, but often that just leads to him being overprotective and the other person feeling stifled or like Barry doesn't trust them.

When he gets himself sorted out though and slows down and takes the time to really work with a person, Barry is a truly great mentor and those he takes in often end up looking up to him and respecting the man and hero that he is.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

When John Constantine got an apprentice canonically in the form of Gary Green, he basically treated Gary as a dogsbody-slash-bait. He does teach Gary some magic, but he uses Gary to catch dragons and unicorns, too. (It's Legends of Tomorrow. Just go with it.)

Steve Rogers, I think, would have kind of a "big brother showing little sibling the ropes" vibe.

When he likes a person, Sherlock can be a very gentle teacher. I'm thinking particularly of the sequence with "Faith" in "The Dying Detective," when they walk and talk until dawn. While he's not actively teaching her anything, he shows kind of a Socratic method in guiding her to conclusions.

[canttrickmeanymore]

Harry kinda did mostly okay as a mentor... he did a lot of 'not doing the same stuff his mentor did' b/c his life was a hot mess.

Peter would immediately freak out, but ultimately end up being pretty awesome because he lives to help people.