Concerning Hoomans - Education
A Hootie's first few years are marked by great amounts of studying and learning. They are often called upon to help their Hoojisan around the house, and the older figures use this as an opportunity to teach them various family customs. As these are grandparent-grandchild interactions, family traditions and recipes have a habit of skipping generations.
Library visits to learn to read and write are frequent, and it is often joked that the average Hootie learns to write full sentences before learning to walk with normal posture. Indeed, any tourist who is referred to visit the local library will find Hoojisan-Hootie pairs poring through documents about any one of various topics including the history of /who/, the approved national outline of the Nameless One's divinity, or a ticker-code learning guide, among many other possibilities.
Though not required, Hoomans are expected to know ticker-code as a point of pride in a civilization that invented its own pseudo-alphabet. If it is learned, it is usually learned at the same time as the usual written script.
Though the library is the most common travel destination in younger years, Hooties often join a grandparent or parent on errands within their hometown to integrate themselves into the local community and to learn to properly socialize with their fellow Hooman. The manner in which they are taught how to conduct themselves in public is largely through trial and error, though their parents are better teachers of this on average than a grandparent; it's so common for a Hoojisan to "correct" a fussy Hootie by buying something for him or her at the local bakery that some have special "spoil the brat" food items for the occasion.
The final thing a Hoojisan teaches their Hootie is how to hunt. Hunting and animal observing are very popular pastimes in /who/, and the inherent "silent watching" aspect of these activities is a behavior encouraged from a young age. Of course, the proper upkeep of the arms used (whether they be firearms or the more rudimentary bow and arrow) is very highly emphasized when the time comes for them to learn.
When a Hootie has earned their first feather, they are deemed to be ready to enter the workforce. They do not seek employment at first, instead their first job experiences consist of extended internships with their parents (individually) at said parent's occupation. An easy way to tell a paid worker from an intern is to take inventory of the number of feathers on the hood or around the neck. If there's only one, that's an intern.
As Hooties are mainly taught their parents' work, it is only natural that they follow in their footsteps in this regard. Thus, the vast majority of jobs in /who/ are hereditary by preference. It is certainly possible for a Hootie born of a taxidermist and a baker to become a cobbler, but it is very rare.
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Going into the Concerning Hoomans like the previous lore, but it'll likely be the last major thing I put in there for a while. A good four or five topics have caught my attention these past few days.
>>104913505Is the lava rhyolitic? If so, maybe you could open an obsidian jewelry market by somehow engineering an obsidian flow and harvesting/mining the volcanic glass.
>>104918944Is Gorg going to be a one-off or do you have plans to get him involved in the beholder hunt? Seems like you have incentive going opposite ways here.