Sink-or-Swim Mentor: Difference between revisions

 

* In P.N. Elrod's ''Quincey Morris, Vampire'' ([[Better Than It Sounds]]), [[Dracula]] is the epitome of the Sink Or Swim Mentor when Quincey wants to know how to turn into mist like Dracula does. The Vampire simply tossed Quin off the castle. When asked why, Dracula admits to the reader that's how ''his'' father taught him how to swim as well.

* [[Discworld]]'s Granny Weatherwax is often the benevolent version, especially with Tiffany Aching. According to Granny "witching school" (ie the world) gives you the exam ''first'', and then you spend the rest of the time finding out whether you passed. And everything is a test.

** Early in ''[[Discworld/A Hat Full of Sky|A Hat Full of Sky]]'', when Tiffany is engaged in wholly unjustified paranoia about the witch she's been sent to train with, she tries to tell herself that Granny Weatherwax and Ms Tick wouldn't have arranged it if it was dangerous ... and then realises that they probably would, on the grounds that if she couldn't cope she'd no business being a witch.