Toriko: The Hot Headed Flame Cook Jura
(Ok this is the basic character information for my OC, I'm just going to have this already so I can just jump into the story.)
Name: Jura
Age: 24-pre times skip, 26 post time skip
Title: The Hot Headed Flame Cook
Appearance: Bright Hazel eyes, short spikey red hair. Open white trench coat, black T-shirt, long camouflage style cargo pants.
Talents/skills: High level cooking skills, knocking, intuition, and martial arts.
Abilities: His gourmet cells specialize in adaptation and assimilation. If it is compatible he can assimilate part of an enemy into himself, and gain a new power by adapting it to his body. Compatibility is crucial but he can force it, doing that however leads to a painful rejection stage.
Known Power:
Flame cooking- ability to generate and control fire with whole body
Intimidation/Appetite: Humanoid shadow creature with burning red eyes, it has black feeler arms stretching from its back, and parts of its body are constantly changing shape.
Personality: Strong willed and hot tempered, holds back most time and only unleashes his full power on those he thinks earned it. He enjoys fighting against strong opponents to sharpen his own skills as a gourmet chef. He loves to cook with his flame cooking ability. He also likes to take his time when preparing a meal or eating it, he believes its the best way to add more flavor. When it comes to fighting or cooking he has no equal…or at least that's what he thinks. He hunts for and supplies himself with ingredients to cook with. He only kills what he plans on cooking, or assimilating. Underneath his tough guy attitude is a very kind side he tries to hide to maintain his image.
Likes:
-Cooking
-Fighting
-Granny Setsuno
- Hot places
Dislikes:
-Smart Asses
- Wasting food
- Improperly cooking food
- His current listing in the IGO top 100 chef's (#20)
History
He was born in the western part of the human world, in a town called Burn Town. Burn town like every other town in the country was poor, this was in large part due to the fact it not being a member of the IGO. Burn town used to be famous for a special burn spice, an extremely rare spice that only grows every decade. It only takes about 2 years to grow the spice, but due to its extreme heat it doesn't stop burning until eight more years. The ten years of nutrients and pressure cooking from the flames creates a truly perfect flavor when prepared correctly its been said to be like tasting delicious fire.
After its countries economy declined burn town like many other surrounding towns became poor. The government didn't care about its people anymore, and let the whole country slowly begin to starve. And what little food that Burn town had was given as a sacrifice to Flame Draco, a creature from the gourmet world with a capture level over 100. It made its nest in the Burn Spice fields and sucked Burn town dry, every time it wasn't given food it destroyed part of the town. After years of starvation, poverty, and suppression by the Flame Draco the people of Burn town lost all hope, and their town was descended into a hell like state.
It was that hell that a small red haired boy with natural born gourmet cells, named Jura was born into. Jura was the only person from Burn Town to be born with gourmet cells in over 50 years. Since the day he was born everyday was like a battle, he had to fight with the other town's people to keep whatever scrap of food he found each day. As he fought his gourmet cells matured and took the appearance of giant scar on his back. Eventually Jura became the leader of a gang of orphaned kids, and together they all stole food to survive. Being a leader changed Jura for the better; it turned him from the wild animal he'd become on the streets into a protector and provider.
Life wasn't easy, but Jura managed to get his group through some of the hell in front of them…until Burn Town wasn't able to give the Flame Draco food and it came down and burned the town to the ground. The town that been like hell had transformed into a true hellish inferno, some escaped but most were killed by the flames and Draco. The pure and uncontrollable rage in Jura's heart at that moment activated his gourmet cells for the first time, and he fought against the Flame Draco. He was utterly destroyed in that fight…but not before tearing out part of the special organ, which allowed the Draco to generate and control fire from its body. After barely escaping with that part Jura's inner appetite took over and assimilated the organ into his body. When Jura woke up weeks later in the charred remains of his hometown he was burning from the inside, and was very shocked to see a huge scar on his back and his hands, which were engulfed in flames but had no burning pain. He wandered the harsh deserts of his country for days until the knock master Jiro found him. After turning down food offered by Jiro, because he felt like he didn't deserve it since he couldn't save his town, he tried to walk past him, but fainted instead.
After seeing the fact that Jura was born with natural gourmet cells, Jiro took Jura to his former partner Setsuno. It wasn't until after two weeks that Jura awoke and was greeted by Jiro and Setsuno. After waking up Jura had become extremely confused when Setsuno gave him a free meal. The concept of giving food away to anyone was completely alien to Jura; he'd shared food with his gang but never given it to them. Once he took his first bite of Setsunos cooking the sheer taste of the food, and the fact someone cared enough to give him food made it the greatest thing he'd ever eaten, so much so that he burst into tears as he ate out of pure happiness.
Eventually after regaining his strength Jiro told him about the gourmet cells he'd been born with and how his power worked. Jura had taken so long to reawaken, because his cells had been adapting his body to the new fire making organ, he'd taken from the flame draco. This news freaked Jura out and led to an accidental fire, which had been put out quickly. Jiro and Setsuno took Jura and slowly taught him how to control his new powers, and when it became time for Jura to leave he begged not to. He proclaimed to both of them that he wanted to become a chef like Setsuno, and not just that he wanted to one day become the greatest chef in the world at the top of IGO's 100 list.
Setsuno turned him down not wanting to train someone who just wanted to become famous like Jura wanted. It wasn't until a while year of Jura waiting outside her shop did she consider it. Setsuno eventually took Jura under her wing after he finally told her his reason for wanting to become famous, he wanted to be the first person open an 11 star restaurant, but make it into a place where everyone could go. He wanted to create a place where he could create new exciting meals for people, while at the same time feeding desperate needy people so no one would have to go through what he did. Over the next decade Setsuno put Jura through a hellishly tough chef training taking him to some of IGO's more dangerous gardens and having him fend for himself. Tests like those forced him to learned what kinds of foods in the wild were edible, and more importantly which tasted better when prepared together and correctly. Occasionally knocking master Jiro also took him on training trips where he learned knocking, and to master his powers more. Eventually after 13 years when Jura turned 20, he left this cooking master Setsuno to finish his training himself. Within a year after leaving he'd made it into the top 100, and after two more years Jura had reached all the way down to the Top 20 of IGO's, Top 100 chef's.
During his first year of cooking he butt heads with several people. He became rivals with the 3rd chef in the top 100 Tengu chef Burnachi, and he'd fought with two of the heavenly kings Coco and Sunny over ingredients…and won. He also fought against another heavenly king Zebra, but it ended in a tie with the total destruction of a small gourmet island they were hunting on. Despite all his travels though he's yet to meet the last king Toriko or his combo partner Komatsu.
After reaching his current ranking in the 100 chefs, he returned to the ruins of burn town and fought against the flame draco. It was a terrible battle which lasted for days, neither the great beast or Jura ever showed any sign of tiring, but when the smoke cleared beaten and covered in wounds Jura was the one left standing. It was then that Jura opened his restaurant, "The Burning Soul" in the heart of Burn town, he also cooked hundreds of fine gourmet meals from the dracos flesh and spread them out to the surrounding starving villages. It was also that day that he decided his drink for his full course meal of life...Flaming Burn Spice sake (capture level 65).
Over the years he's gotten a new variety of powers from his assimilation power, but he only likes to use his first flame cooking power. He has proven to have the talent and skills to make it into the top 5 chefs…but do to his own inability to work with others and foul attitude he's only been able to make it as far as #20 in the listing.
(Like I said this is just all about my OC, I will post the real chapter very soon...If you like toriko and would like to comment on this OC then please go ahead I want to make it as close to perfect as possible)