First off, let us tell you what I mean by Samurai, Shinobi, and Geisha.
Samurai-My players, my pimps, my businessmen, my CEO's, my hustlers. My young men out here about their papers, and most importantly, always abide by Bushido. A Code. A Law. They Stay True to their Game, and The Game is true to them. In history, actual Samurai, in addition to their bravery and skill in combat, were also poets, and highly learned scholars. There were no dumb Samurai. They were all lords and barons. Any peasant couldn't just say, "Aye, I'm a Samurai, hand me my Sword!" In fact, Peasants were banned from carrying weapons. My Mandy Squad Samurai may have humble origins just like Hideyoshi Toyotomi (google his story), but we carry ourselves as the Lords as we aspire to be, and there you have it. To be a Samurai, you have to Be a Boss, You have to be willing to die for your code of Honor, and the shit is not Optional.
Shinobi-My Goons, My Thugs, My Shooters. My tricksters. My thieves. My golddiggers. My embezzlers, Shinobi/Ninja were peasants, but when taken advantage of by the Aristocratic Samurai, they learned to fight and carry small concealable weapons. Samurai, as much as their Bushido distinguished them, it also limited them. As the Assassin's Creed famously states: Everything is Permitted. Samurai were better trained in a straight up fight, so Ninja's didn't fight head on if they could help it. They struck at turned backs, from a distance, with poisoned weapons and the like. You might call a Shinobi a coward...but you'd be doing it with your last breath. Maybe you shoulda been a little more cowardly yourself. To be a Samurai, you must be willing to die to get your point across and stick to your code. To be a Shinobi, you gottta be willing to break a few eggs to make an omelet, and you must not allow yourself to be limited by any code. By Any Means Neccessary, I believe Malcolm X said (not that I'm saying X was dishonorable, but that quote is the best way to describe a Shinobi.)
Geisha-The Classy Female. The difference between a Geisha and a Ratchet woman is class. Some call her bougie, but fuck them. A Geisha would not sully herself with men that were not helping to stimulate her mind or situation in some type of way. A Geisha is not a Golddigger, because a Golddigger only takes from her situation, a Geisha brings her feminine grace, class, education, support, and empathy...she merely asks that the man she gets with brings equivalent qualities to the table. In a way, a Geisha is similar to a Samurai. Unlike the Samurai/Ninja dynamic, there is no honorable way to flip the opposite of a woman...at best, a 'by any means' woman can be considered a Lady Shinobi, but in my humble opinion, a woman should not be willing to lower herself to no morals. Because in the end the Shinobi were best used as a tool for the Samurai, doing what their honor would not permit them to do.
There is no favorable position. Without the Samurai in This Thing of Ours, we would be nothing more but scrabbling backstabbers, with no clear vision of the big picture, no order to hold it all together, No Law to ensure Righteousness is perpetuated. Without the Shinobi and Lady Shinobi, we would be shackled by the code. While an honorable death sounds good in the storybooks, if you know your death would be the overall end of a good movement, then how honorable would it be to allow yourself to die? If you're a mother with no money and your kids are starving, and you can fix that by sucking some trick dick for a stack, how honorable would it be to not take up on the deal? Sometime the dishonorable thing to do is the honorable thing to do. Without the Geisha, all we would have is the ratchets and no real classy chicks to uplift us. No real ride or dies.
This is the Holy Trinity of the Mandy Squad Bushido Squad.....What are you?
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