Apparently, Izuku was supposed to be holding tryouts for the Evergreen title. That was a weird concept. Just .. Izuku handing out titles. Was it supposed to be like the Tenderfoot tryouts, he wonders? The difference being that the reward isn't a rank. It's just ... a nice little bee pendant. And access to the Frosthealer rank. And, uh .. field medic status? A little problematic, the fact that Izuku doesn't think many of his clanmates have medic knowledge. Like .. none of them. He knows his classmates didn't. The others just .. didn't give off that vibe. But, Izuku would be happy to train anybody who wanted to learn. Who was he to deny whatever help he could get, y'know?
.. This had taken a little bit of setting up, though. Izuku had to spend a few days out of camp to collect spare medical stuff. He had enough to get him by healing-wise, but he didn't exactly have enough herbs to spare for tryouts, or even any sort of training. He'd gotten it, though, and he had two baskets worth of the stuff ready for the tryouts. And then .. he was gonna do Jacob's thing, and he had a bunch of plushies with bandage rolls next to them. That seemed important. And cute. He'd let the attendants have the ones they treated if anyone got that far, honestly.
"I'm having Evergreen title tryouts over here!" Izuku calls. His voice is a little louder than it was as a feline, and it's kind of weird. Even so, the Frosthealer settles there, ears turning nervously. .. It's weird. That he's gotten this far, y'know? Jacob had done this just a few months ago, and Izuku had already been forced to take up the mantle here. The dragon sighs, laying himself on the ground so that he wouldn't seem so large and intimidating. Not that he's much bigger than a lion, but being big was .. scary. ".. And, if anybody wants to learn more about herbs, even if it's just the basics or you don't want to be a medic or anything, you can just .. speak up or approach me after," Might as well say it now. The more people that learned any herbs at all, the less reliant they'd be on him. The less fucked they'd be when Izuku inevitably picked a fight that got him properly killed. Anyways, that seemed relevant, and Izuku needed more things to do. Dedicating his time to teaching interested people would be a good distraction.

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Hm .. a good majority of his clanmates showed up, if only to just watch. Five of them. It wasn't all of them, of course, but it was still a lot of them. That was good enough to start, right? More people could join in later, if they wanted to. Izuku could just have them start from the beginning. It wasn't that big of a deal -- Izuku had joined in to the tail end of the Tenderfoot tryouts and he still got it. Oh, right. But only two of them were here to participate. .. Oh well, it was still plenty. So Izuku shrugs. Okay. Okay, he was just going to .. Look. Izuku isn't sure how the hell he's supposed to test out what other people know beyond quizzing them. And his only idea was from how Jacob had hosted his. The dragon flexes his talons for a minute, ears turning as he thinks. He already has it set up, he just .. He's not sure.
"You could probably manage it if you tried, Henri," Izuku encourages the smaller feline. His voice is light-hearted. Really, a lot of Izuku's work relied on scent. Herbs were sometimes easier to tell apart by scent than sight, and it was the best way to test stuff like infection. I mean .. it'd take a lot of training to make up for the blindness, but it was still managable. But even so, Izuku looks over the group. Okay. Okay. He's a little surprised Nui is participating. Izuku hadn't realized that she even knew anything about it, but, y'know, whatever.
"I -- If anybody wants to join in later, they're free to," Izuku announces. He's awfully nervous about this. He's just .. he's not sure. He's not used to hosting properly official events, as he's probably said many, many times, but he's still gotta try. Izuku spends yet another moment to collect himself before he smiles passively and rustles in his herb bag to fetch things. Marigold was too easy, that was one of Izuku's staple herbs. But .. it had an obvious usage, and it had other ones. It'd be good to hear if they knew of those. Marigold and peppermint. Hopefully it wouldn't take them too long for them to list the uses. .. It was just sort of .. this, how to treat wounds, how to bandage stuff, and then that was it. I mean, he was going to be pretty thorough about this, unfortunately for the people here, but to be fair the people who had the title would have to have mostly complete medicinal knowledge. "Okay, let's .. start off basic. For one, tell me about these two herbs. What are they, how are they used, and in what manners are they used?" As Izuku lists this off, he motions with a claw somewhat rhythmically. Being able to motion so freely was weird. Because both of his front legs were .. mostly intact and okay. Mostly. Anyways. Izuku's ears are pricked as he waits for the attendants' replies, however long it might take. As long as they figure it out eventually, Izuku doesn't mind waiting a minute, anyways.

Herbs. Something Gwen had never really paid much attention to until now, but she approached anyways, curiousity getting the better of the grey kitsune, as she settled down a bit farther, easily recognizing the peppermint, but struggling with the name of the marigold. Peppermint leaves. She remembered sneaking into her family's garden, with her siblings in tow, when they were too young to understand why her parents looked down on her, and chewing on them, trying to get that sharp minty taste, even if it was only for a few fleeting moments. She had been unaware that they had medicinal properties until now. At least, she assumed so, from the fact that Izuku had them laid out.

"The leaves are peppermint, right?" Gwen said quietly, before adding, "I'm not sure what the yellow flowers are, though. S-sorry." She'd learn, eventually, but for now, she mustered up the courage for one more question.

"Do you g-grow the herbs here somewhere, or do you get them from somewhere else?" She was curious, considering the weather Snowbound was named for should prevent them from growing most plants, let alone medicinal herbs.