Yup, totally. That’s how we played it as well. 

I like that the water/steel stat kind of locks the player into consistent narration. If you’re a pushy aggro kind of bushi, you’re gonna be pushy and aggro in all things. Pushy aggro tea ceremony, pushy aggro road racing, pushy aggro yelling at the boss. That’s why I mentioned up there that it might be more feature than bug that there’s no mechanical force behind the challenger trying to set the stage in a particular way.