Apprentice to Mentor listing!

my thoughts very much align with yikes and cawn's perspectives. it would require a lot more managing on everyone's part to sort of have to accept an apprentice, put them in limbo until their mentor can be assigned. like they mentioned, my biggest concern is delay. it'd require the staff to have to keep tabs at what stage the accepted apprentices are at (have we told the member how the pairing will be assigned? have we contacted the leader? has the leader given their suggestion? have we let the member know who their mentor will be?) and if multiple acceptances are taking place, i anticipate it can get very jumbled about who's at what stage of the process and whatnot. not to mention, as cawn suggested, it would require the leaders to keep several tabs on all the characters in their clan, and take several factors into consideration when making a decision (is the mentor active? what sort of relations does the character have in the clan? is the warrior old enough? would they be a good pair? do both members already have a mentor-apprentice pair in another clan together? can i make sure that this pairing doesn't lead to a member mentoring their own character? that sort of thing).

at this point, i like the idea of being able to streamline new characters right into role-play without have to rely on too long of a wait period (unless of course no mentors are available). but, mark, there might be some other ways you can get aspenstar more woven into involvement. if you would like, it might be useful to go through the apprentice applications, kits, or whatnot, and see where everyone is at age-wise or training-wise. if you see a character that you think might be nearing the age of a ceremony, it might be handy to contact the member and just see what their thoughts are on their character at the moment! this way you can get a gage on when your members are expecting ceremonies and can get a better grasp of what's going on or what needs to be done in the clan. does that make sense?

there's also nothing stopping you from having aspenstar decide to take things into her own paws and maybe conducting random training assessments, or throwing together a patrol, or throwing up a mini-plot thread (perhaps requesting to utilize a small random event) to get some members involved.