Good grief, y'all, I am so sorry I've been so absent. This month has been kicking my butt. I still love you all!
Anyway, my post for Salem is up now. I'll have Al join those of you inside the bar if we don't hear from Dino fairly soon.
Declann: an extremely late welcome to the bar! I am loving your character and your writing so far- I, too, hope you decide to stick around, in spite of the current snail's pace in here ^_^
*also pokes Dino and Myitt*
Hmmm...well that would depend upon the timeline I suppose. If Salem had come to the homeworld within a couple of years of Ossanlin's deployment, Siruvan would've still been a student. In fact, Siruvan would've only been graduated for about a year by the time Ossanlin became a War-Prince and a Captain at that. Immediately after his graduation, Siruvan became an assistant Tail Fighting instructor at the Academy. A couple of years after that, Kirun retired from Academy instruction. He still fights in tournaments now and again, but he's getting on in years. When he retired from the Academy, Siruvan took over as the head Tail Fighting instructor. The Academy doesn't allow him to teach Ken-Kara (Ossanlin's style with swords), but he has a couple of students who take lessons from him outside of Academy-sponsored class who are studying the form with him. Swords aren't allowed in tournament fighting, but the Ken-Kara forms can be used without them to great effect.
Anyway...yeah...fro m Ossanlin's graduation up to 2 years or so, Siruvan was still a student. From +2 to +4-5 years or so, he was an Assistant Instructor, and from +4-5 years or so to present, he's been the head Tail Fighting instructor at the Academy. As such, his notoriety (and any relationship he might have had with Salem), would be different depending upon Salem's time-frame for his Homeworld stay.
I would love to compose a response tonight, but I need to get to sleep so I can get up for work tomorrow (today for most ppl). So it'll have to wait a bit.
Salem would only have been on the Andalite homeworld for... probably three to five years, ending immediately prior to his initial arrival at the bar- that should all fall within Siruvan's time as head instructor, right? Meaning that Salem's relationship to Siruvan was probably comparatively respectful and formal-- although from what I know of Siruvan's character, I have to imagine that the two of them would probably get along pretty well. Tobias was less of a disrespectful asshat towards Andalites than Salem's become
They probably wouldn't have been exceptionally close, though, because Salem would love to have learned a bit of
Ken-Kara, and never did (he's generally crap with bladed weapons).
On the other hand, I'd love to write a Siruvan-secretly-teaches-Salem-some-pre-
Ken-Kara-stances (or whatever) scene at some point. Something for me to think on... I have a fair amount of retconning and editing to do in my Andalite chapters that already exist as it stands... and my earliest GESB chapters could stand a rewrite...
Also...Salem doesn't want to be a "homeless drifter," yet wants to keep the device that allows him to be a homeless drifter on a literally infinite scale... >_>
Ahaha. Trust me, that irony is not lost on me
