★ Hello and welcome to Miracledance's in-depth training guide for her apprentice, BeepawIV! (Fourthkit) She has somewhat of an interesting way of teaching, so I will be covering the gist of what she'll be imparting as inevitably I won't be able to roleplay out every single interaction ^^; ★ ★ Table of contents: ★ 0.0 Introduction and Table of Contents 1.0 Basic topics 2.0 Unique topics 3.0 Teaching style 4.0 Closing 1.0 .............................. BASIC TOPICS................... Fourthpaw will be taught nearly all of the essential topics that are needed to become a warrior, except for fighting. Detailed below is a chart of how well Miracledance will be able to teach said skill based on her own knowlege: Hunting: ★★★☆☆ Tracking: ★★★★★ Combat: ☆☆☆☆☆ * Swimming: ★☆☆☆☆ (She tends to avoid water) Water combat: ☆☆☆☆☆ * Advanced battle moves: ☆☆☆☆☆ * Balance and Coordination: ★☆☆☆☆ (CH) Survival Skills: ★★★★★ Clan History: ★★★★☆ Afterlives: ★★★☆☆ Climbing: ★★★☆☆ Animal Safety: ★★★★★ Stealth: ★★★★★ Other clans: ★★★☆☆ Territories: ★★★★★ Basic first aid: ★★☆☆☆ Emotional intelligence: ★★☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆☆ - Will not be taught. ★☆☆☆☆ - Taught poorly ★★☆☆☆ - Taught okay-ish ★★★☆☆ - Taught averagely ★★★★☆ - Taught well ★★★★★ - Masterfully taught * She will not teach battle skills by demonstration. She will explain the concept of it to him but being currently unable to fight (due to her own inexperience) she will encourage him to seek out additional training on battle from others. (And any other topic! She's super supportive of the idea of acquiring knowledge by any alternative means and expects him to develop his own interests and pursuits) This is just how well she will /teach/ these topics, to clarify, and will not completely reflect BeepawIV's eventual skills. Whether or not it also is applied by him is up to you! 2.0 ............................UNIQUE TOPICS................... Miracledance also has some unique skills that she has mastered that she will also teach him. These are more situational and less universally applied, and therefore unique topics. ★ She is fluent in Russian and will be teaching basic vocabulary and training-related commands, including conversational essentials. How fluent he eventually becomes by the end of his training is up to you! ★ She will teach him the art of finding solid information and being able to hold intelligent debates by seeing both sides of an argument. ★ She will teach him in-depth about the nature and landscapes of The Vast Planes from her various excursions, about all of the hazards and little-known secrets about the land. She will also take him on excursions to see the territories and species every once in a while. ★ She will teach skills of observation, masking scent, and evading dangerous circumstances through nonconfrontational and clever means. ★ She will also teach him to practice strategic thinking, going through encounters mentally and thinking of solutions in a tactical fashion. ★ She will instruct him on how to perform certain bird calls (Within realistic cat limitations, no perfect copies) using patterns of chitters, trills, and purrs. 3.0 ..........................TEACHING STYLE................... Due to Miracledance's own apprenticeship experience, she will have slightly different expectations of Fourthpaw. ★ Miracledance expects BeepawIV to be able to find his own interests, to seek knowledge about said pursuits on his own, and to carve out his own path in life. She wants him to grow to be independent and driven with goals. ★ While not strict, she expects skills to be practiced outside of sessions and for him to keep up with her schedule. If he falls behind, she may scramble to reassemble a new schedule and will be a little less patient in the future. ★ Miracledance will try to eliminate bias in her teaching, allowing him to form his own opinions about leadership, clans, and views while having facts from all sides. She also won't make her own personal views known as she feels that it would interfere. ★ She will teach somewhat quickly, as he was (correct me if I'm wrong, disregard this bullet point if he was canonically apprenticed at the correct time) apprenticed somewhat late and she wants him to graduate on time as the guilt that she still feels from postponing her own warrior name resonates deeply with her. She also tends to spout out large amounts of information in small amounts of time. +
★ She will try to get to know him on a personal level, as she knows that befriending him will make training easier for the both of them. She sees him almost as a wildlife study excursion, taking mental notes about his character and learning as much as she can about him through interaction. ★ Miracledance will be very strict with knowing where he is at all times. If he disappears from camp or even the territory without anyone knowing where he is or where he is going, she will be upset for fear of him getting injured somewhere alone and being unable to be found in time. However, she will be more relaxed with this rule if she has been told beforehand or someone in Thunderclan has been made aware already. ★ Miracledance will use Russian words from time to time in her lessons, but also outside of them. She will give him various titles and nicknames in Russian (Which you can choose if you'd like! I won't write the extras down or anything, it's assumed oorp) but she'll mostly just use Ученик "uchenik" (Student/Apprentice) or Пчела "pchela" (Bee) to refer to him. She may also use Russian when relaying sensitive information (which will be very uncommon, since there will rarely be a time when she will) ★ While being level-headed and patient most of the time, Miracledance doesn't do well with chaos. If Fourthpaw becomes rambunctious or otherwise derails a lesson and isn't able to be stopped with a simple request, she'll quickly get overwhelmed and will be much more likely to snap or shut down altogether. ★ She'll try and regularly include his interests into her training regimen to keep him engaged in her lessons and to reinforce any goals he may have. 4.0 .............................. CLOSING................................. So that's about it! I've tried to keep it pretty open-ended so that there's room for creative liberties to be taken should you want Fourthpaw to have certain lessons at certain times for convenience of roleplays or other events. If there is anything that you'd like to add/let me know, feel free to! I've kept it general enough so that if edits need to be made, I can make them easily. <3 Song: A Kindling of Sorts -- The Oh Hellos
