Storytellers function like the Japanese art of kintsugi by exposing the psychological fractures of their characters and gilding them with stories rather than hiding them.

“there's a thing called kintsuge which is a japanese art of repairing something by exposing the fracture and gilding it and that's what we that's what we ultimately choose to do as storytellers we guild that fracture with the stories but we know it is there so we show it”