Originality has never been a trait of mine. Though I'm an avid disciple of the arts-everything from musical showmanship to casual writing-what I excel at is not creating ideas from thin air but in decomposing someone else's idea for its best pieces and omitting the rest. Like Joji's prowess for drawing cats in "The Boy who Drew Cats", my talent may seem useless at first; what good could picking apart another's work have? But just as Joji was able to unintentionally save the town from a terrible beast, I believe my ability to see the successes and failures in a person's suggestion is the perfect way to efficiently organize what our group should and should not be doing. For me, even if someone has a plan that seems as silly as felines on rice paper, I can see that, if pulled in the right direction, that weak idea can become a strength, one that can benefit the group in ways that otherwise may have been lost.
On the rare occasion that I do come up with an idea, I usually believe that idea is one that can be of use to the group. I am, however, not afraid to yield. The "Master Man" Shadusa believed his abilities to be the greatest in the world, but he soon encountered men that were capable of strength he couldn't even imagine. Shadusa was overconfident in his strength; I am the opposite. I mentioned that I can easily see the flaws in others' plans, but I can easily see the flaws in my own plans, too. In this way, my role as the conciliator fits me well; I can accept criticisms without taking offense, and unlike Shadusa, I already know that there will always be someone out there with a better, stronger idea than my own, and I'm happily willing to listen.
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