Padawan Pack

[Judah Lesan Jr.]

For a long time I have wanted to take a pack of younglings and see them develop into adults. What is life like for them growing up as Jedi? What challenges do they face? How do they deal with life knowing they are different? How do they handle being split up as each one eventually gets their own master?

There are a lot of things that could be explored. Am I the only one out there interested or would others want in on this?

1. [member="Jerek Zenduu"]

 

[Katagiri Ike]

I would be

 

[Undin Jaii Kryze]

[member="Judah Lesan Jr."]

They'll probably be eaten up by [member="Darth Carnifex"]

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

For a long time I have wanted to take a pack of younglings and see them develop into adults. What is life like for them growing up as Jedi? What challenges do they face? How do they deal with life knowing they are different? How do they handle being split up as each one eventually gets their own master?

There are a lot of things that could be explored. Am I the only one out there interested or would others want in on this?

It's absolutely the right way to go, but most writers around here don't aim to stay Padawans long enough to enjoy the experience and really get a grip on it. Which frankly bores me to tears and makes me want to smack someone, but it'd be nice to see a group of good writers prove me wrong on that point.

Because, honestly, it's really the most fun you can have as a writer. It's the perfect opportunity to explore without the pressures of having to train or go beat up Sith or get involved with politics. Being a Padawan means ONE thing, and one thing only: personal growth.

The writers that tend to rush through the process will forever be relegated to the trash can labelled 'bad writers'. Good ones enjoy the process. Please be in that group! PLEASE!

 

[Micah tol Powl]

[member="Judah Lesan Jr."]

I think the difficult thing is getting people on the same page for how the characters age. For example, this character and Theodred Heavenshield.

I think Theo's writer and I have both done a lot of work in detailing how our characters have grown and the relationships that they've developed as a result, but when we started Theo was 2 years old and Zak was 9.

Now Zak is 14 and Theo is 20ish (based on Coci's last statement with regard to Theo's age).

Different writers are all going to have different goals and character milestones they want to achieve before moving on to the next stage.

 

[Jerek Zenduu]

It's a great concept, for sure. As [member="Zak Dymo"] covered, staying in sync can be difficult (it's useful to note that Zak was once 9 years old at the same time Jerek was 14, though they never interacted in the same threads, now Zak is 14).

I started doing something similar with Jerek in the republic, using NPCs for his group of friends. I got sidetracked and before I knew it, the GR had lost Ossus where the Jedi were based and everything went south. Sometimes Chaos will throw a wrench in your story, too, which makes planning on a long scale risky at best.

If you're really interested in this, I'd be down. Depends on what age you want to start at, and how that's going to progress. Will the group be mutually in sync (Harry Potter style) or are they simply a group of independent characters who interact in similar stories?

Also, as for what challenges to face, I've taken inspiration in the past from the children's books Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest series which are set in the prequel era, in addition to the Young Jedi Knights (NJO era) books. The Clone Wars show had a few episodes with a group of younglings as well, it's worth a watch to get some ideas. Plus, depending on the age, there are classic coming of age stories that can be adapted to Star Wars. There's really no end to what you CAN do.

 

[Judah Lesan Jr.]

Well aging is easy. You all agree on your time skips and age based on group threads to a preset age. It doesn't work if not hashed out ahead of time. To work as a group ultimately means to give up the freedom to age at ramdom with that character.

This is a group project in the end not an individual project. It's not for everyone. [member="Zak Dymo"]

[member="Jerek Zenduu"]

As far as age and such lets get a group together and decided then? I was thinking youngling then to preteen then teen then adult... But thought best to get a group interested first.

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

[member="Judah Lesan Jr."]

That noted, there's absolutely nothing wrong having Padawans of different ages working together - let's face it, people come to the Order at different times, and advance at different rates anyway. The key to a good experience, I feel, is the "we're all in this together" mindset. Train together, spend time together, laugh together and fail together.

And I personally don't think there's any issues with a 20-something Padawan working with one in their teens, or younger: you'll all have different personalities, experiences and wisdom to share with each other, and that'll only help the growth of the group!

Also makes it easier for us to 'teach' you

 

[Ryn'Dhal]

I started as a Padawan myself, and was actually approved (without seeking it) for Knighthood, though I didn't actually advance my story into being a Knight for nearly another hundred or so posts worth of story.

As for making a young Padawan for your story idea, which is an awesome idea, I'd LOVE to join in, but I have a hard enough time keeping up with my characters as is, I'd only hold the group back.

I would, however, be keen to interact and help train said group sometime when it gets off the ground.

 

[Joza Perl]

I sometimes act like I'm still a Padawan, can I join?

 

[Jerek Zenduu]

[member="Joza Perl"]

I can just imagine the Padawan Pack now:

 

[Undin Jaii Kryze]

Is there a spot left in your group? I'know, every group has got to have a..... Well, I don't know, every group has got to ahve that one kid with a backstory that nobody likes to talk about.

 

[Dune Rhur]

[member="Joza Perl"]

That you do, my old Padawan

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

Then again, by that same token, older Padawans tend to be more at risk of being godawans especially if they developed elite-level skills in an area before they even were Padawans in the first place.

My very first FU has been Master-less, so I played that Jedi Brute almost as if he already was knighted: I had him fight Sith around, as well as clearing minefields for the Alliance. I was forced to virtually cease playing him because I couldn't write worth two beans about hostage crises (the IC explanation is Ugohr's lack of experience and training in stealthy-types of missions), which landed him in big IC trouble. He basically shot a tank round in a hostage crisis, causing some deaths of innocents and hostiles at once. That forced him to sell his real estate brokerage corporation that he perceived at the time as the Alliance's main instrument of soft power, and 5 IC years is not going to suffice. He's still in the Alliance's Jedi roster, though. And the Alliance is ICly angry about the transaction (even though no Alliance players have actually complained about that to me) which forced my second FU, Cathul, to take up the realtor mantle.

[member="Joza Perl"] As for you feeling like a Padawan, you know what life-long learning is about after all... we should thread sometime. Even though many have the impression learning is mostly from teacher to student, part of it also occurs in reverse in a student-teacher relationship.

 

[Micah tol Powl]

Well aging is easy. You all agree on your time skips and age based on group threads to a preset age. It doesn't work if not hashed out ahead of time. To work as a group ultimately means to give up the freedom to age at ramdom with that character.

This is a group project in the end not an individual project. It's not for everyone. [member="Zak Dymo"]

Hence my point. If you can get people to agree to those things, go for it.

 

[Joza Perl]

[member="Jerek Zenduu"]

I'm like that older kid who is too lame to hang out with kids his age so he hangs out with younger kids and buys them booze to win their awkward forced friendship.

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

I party hard, if you think you can handle all this!

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

[member="Joza Perl"] I know you once commented on how much of a brainiac my character is. If you fancy learning about how you can become invisible, transparent or opaque, or zap enemies, or about mechu-deru, Jessica is the chick of choice.

 

[Sor-Jan Xantha]

[member="Judah Lesan Jr."]

On a different note, because this character doesn't age at the rate of a human, I'd be interested in aiding or assisting the padawan pack if you and your group would be open to that.

It would be interesting to develop roleplay where characters age from younglings to young adults, while SJ stays the same. There's a couple of characters (Mara Merrill and Micah Talinth) that are now adults that SJ knew as children and its always a fun way of reinforcing my characters dilemma.

 

[Jerek Zenduu]

[member="Jerek Zenduu"]

As far as age and such lets get a group together and decided then? I was thinking youngling then to preteen then teen then adult... But thought best to get a group interested first.

Again, I'm down. I'd probably not be interested in anything younger than around 8 years old to start, I'd go for 10.

I was thinking about the circumstances that bring them together. Unless you want them all to have known each other since a very young age and be close friends (which is hard for multiple people to write), I was thinking of a meaningful IC reason. Does the OSJ use clans for their younglings? If so, we could have our characters be part of a new clan that formed when others became too big to handle.

 

[Judah Lesan Jr.]

I'll write up a more outlined idea and post it here tomorrow. That way we can see what we are doing. [member="Jerek Zenduu"], I love your clan idea to be the common point. That way they have to actually learn to work together.