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ORIGINAL: aidan

So perhaps not the pagentry (or all of it, at least. I still like my kimonos and tea ceremonies), but definitely the skills they were trained in. Witty conversation, poetry and writing, theatrical entertainment...These are all things I lean towards anyway.

I've always imagined a sort of combination between the samurai and geisha for a boy. Strong, focused, intelligent, sensetive, loyal and able to serve, entertain and defend all equally well. It's something to be noted that the word samurai literally means "one who serves".