[hider=Captain K. Runch][color=turquoise][b]Name:[/b][/color] Bartholomew K. Runch [color=turquoise][b]Alias:[/b][/color] Captain K. Runch, the Cereal Killer [color=turquoise][b]Race:[/b][/color] Human [color=turquoise][b]Sex:[/b][/color] Male [color=turquoise][b]Class:[/b][/color] Devil Fruit Swordsman [color=turquoise][b]Equipment:[/b][/color] [list][*][url=http://spoonplanet.com/washswordshell.jpg]The Spoonsaber[/url] – A wildly impractical weapon for most, but Runch is proficient with it. The edges of the spoon head are serrated, allowing for a rip and tear style cut, while the overall shape allows Runch to swat some attacks away or launch objects similar to a catapult. [*]Flintlock – A single-shot pistol on his belt,it is loaded with powder but never any ammunition, as Runch creates the most fitting shot he can think of at any given moment on the fly. Is only a sidearm used primarily for distractions or to take advantage of a lowered guard.[/list] [color=turquoise][b]Abilities:[/b][/color] [list][*]Accomplished swordsman – Runch is by no means a master of the blade, but he is proficient in his own right and can hold his own. His weapon is so absurd and unique that most others wouldn’t even know how to use it, but if he were to go up against a dedicated swordmaster and rely on nothing but his own skill with a blade, then he would surely lose. [*]Vast Endurance – Runch is not the strongest fighter, nor the fastest, but he can take a great deal of punishment and keep fighting on. Since his bori bori no mi powers require that he eat a type of cereal himself before he can create it, he’s been forced to expose himself to every single weaponized Krunch Berry he’s ever developed. [*]Bori Bori no Mi (Crunch Crunch Fruit): Having eaten the devil’s fruit known as the bori bori no mi, Runch is a cereal man, able to create and manipulate any type of cereal that he has himself eaten. The amount he can produce is theoretically limitless, but once created and expelled from his body he has no power over it. At creation he first chooses which recipe of cereal he has eaten (some examples include poisoned, explosive via gunpowder, peanut butter, etc.), then creates it with the physical properties of his choice (size, density, etc.), and finally where and how it emerges from his body. The cereal can be weakened by moisture, and Runch himself is unable to swim due to the devil fruit’s curse. Instead he sinks like a stone.[/list] [color=turquoise][b]Fighting Style:[/b][/color] Field-control is number one in Captain K. Runch’s priority. Not being as strong or as fast as his opponents means that he has to manipulate the battlefield to his advantage, and he makes full use of his bori bori powers to do it. To trip up enemies he’ll leave berry pellets as dense and hard as steel. To block unavoidable attacks he’ll erect a wall of dense, heavy cereal pellets. To keep himself mobile he may propel around with a quick blast of cereal from his feet, and rain explosive cereal down from above, or even gum up his opponent and/or their weapons with peanutbutter-shot. Between it all Runch will generally launch quick hit and run tactics using his spoonsaber. [color=turquoise][b]Personality:[/b][/color] A pirate on the high seas, but a very friendly, jolly, and jovial man with a unique laugh (omnomnomnom!), Captain Bartholomew K. Runch is the kind of man to cheerfully make friends first, and battle second. He’d rather win you over with the perfect bowl of cereal and enjoy a night on the town than engage in a skirmish, but he certainly won’t shy away from a battle once it’s clear such a thing can no longer be avoided. He commands his crew fairly, but is stern and authoritative. Off ship, Runch treats everyone with respect until they prove it is undeserved, though certain formalities may fly over his head. Intelligent, but no genius, he’s an educated man that can nonetheless be slightly naïve or gullible, which owes more to his trusting nature than his overall intellect. Despite his epithet of the “Cereal Killer,” Runch goes out of his way to avoid killing unless there is no other alternative, or the victim in question has proven that they are the worst kind of scum, the kind of person which he claims, “don’t deserve the joy of seeing a child’s smile.” [color=turquoise][b]Bio:[/b][/color] Born a lad on a large island in the northern seas, Bartholomew K. Runch was raised as a wheat farmer. Though he enjoyed the family business well enough, his dream happened to be liess on the production side of the farming, and more on the manufacturing side. He desired to take the wheat and grain and fashion it into cereal that his family could market and sell under their own branding. So at a fairly young age, he took over the family business and expanded their process, investing in the tools and equipment he would need to fulfill his dream. A few years had passed, and his new business was booming among the local islands. His product had become a major import in the area, his family gained a new height of profit, and his respect grew. Still, if you were to ask Runch himself, he’d tell you that the best part of it all was to see the joyful smiles on people’s faces, children and adults alike, as they scarfed down his latest recipes. If only there was a way to get his work out to the rest of the world! Alas, they were in a rather quiet and disconnected area, isolated from other people, and they didn’t have the fields or production to be able to reliably supply other places. Such ideas would remain a pipe dream. At least Runch thought so, until he received summons from a far away island across the sea! The king of this land had heard tale of his cereal and invited Runch to a competition against other cereal chefs that were to gather together. Excitedly, Runch gathered his essentials and left to prepare for the competition, leaving his business behind for the rest of the family to take part of. Once there, he and the competition were treated to audience with the king and explained the rules of the competition. Each would have one day to prepare the best, tastiest, most delicious sample of cereal they could for the king to enjoy, and the winner would join his majesty on an expedition to the most dangerous and legendary lands on the planet in order to seek out new ingredients to even better their recipe. More excited than he ever thought possible, Runch took the competition very seriously. He and the three other competitors provided their meals for the king to enjoy. After an hour of deliberation, a winner had been declared. Bartholomew K. Runch would be setting sail soon as the month came to an end. He and the king celebrated that night, but the joyous occasion would come to a terrible and tragic end. One of the other competitors, jealous and enraged over his loss, snuck into the king’s chambers and murdered him the next morning. Runch arrived just in time to catch the perpetrator red handed, but was not able to stop the murder from occurring. Still enraged, the killer turned his sights on Runch, who fought hard to defend himself, but was no warrior. Nearly down and out, Runch had been knocked into a display case which held various objects the king had collected, spilling the contents upon the floor. The nearly beaten cereal chef spied a bizarre berry with strange swirl patterns and recalled the legends of the devil fruit, which could grant amazing powers. He quickly gobbled it up (instantly regretting this action as the fruit itself was the worst tasting thing he could have ever imagined) and reached out with his hand as his assailant charged. A stream of cereal blasted from the open palm, slamming into the murderer and knocking him out of the window. The royal guard, summoned by the sounds of the battle, kicked in the door to find Runch alone with their deceased king, and made the natural assumption. Instinct kicked in, and Runch fled the scene. After that day a bounty was placed on his head, and so he could never go home again. Determined to bring the old king’s dream to reality, he set out on the only path left available to him, and thus he recruited a crew of buccaneers and brigands to sail the high seas free from any law, following only their hearts and adventure. One day he will explore all new lands and sample every ingredient so that he can create the perfect recipe, just as king Bonaparte desired. [color=turquoise][b]Wish:[/b][/color] Runch set sail in order to explore the world and find as many exotic and amazing places as he could, and gather every ingredient possible from these strange lands in hopes of being able to create the “perfect cereal,” one which is tasty and nutritious for both adults and children alike. To that end, he desires the perfect ship, which can carry he and his crew anywhere in the world they choose to go. [color=turquoise][b]Echo:[/b][/color] Within a faraway island kingdom, a palace sits crawling with guards and soldiers, while inside a monarch is dead, slain with a spoon through the heart… [color=turquoise][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] [hider=G’day Cap’n!][img] http://orig04.deviantart.net/9710/f/2007/257/9/9/tengen_toppa_cap__n_crunch_by_vashperado.jpg[/img][/hider] Runch is not an especially tall man, standing at only 5’6”, with a lean but muscular build. Somewhat pale despite all the ocean sun he gets, with a snow white mustache jutting down nearly two feet from his face stylized in a razor-sharp looking V, he wears the coat of a marine that has been dyed blue. Adorned upon his head is a wide blue bicorn hat with a large ‘K’ emblazoned (somewhat poorly) upon it. [color=turquoise][b]Frenzy:[/b][/color] When forced into the frenzy, all trace of the jolly ol’ cap’n is gone. He could not even be recognized on sight, as he produces a thick armor of highly dense cereal and attacks with abandon, resembling some sort of [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/95/Clayface.jpg/220px-Clayface.jpg]mush monster[/url] fashioned from grain and wheat. He constantly leaks cereal of all kinds from every recipe he’s ever concocted. Most are harmless, of course, but many are poisonous, explosive, gooey, acidic, and other forms of very nasty. His intent in this form is nothing short of the complete smothering of his opponent so that they are buried in a large mound of mush until they succumb to the properties of the various dangerous cereal mixes, or die of asphyxiation. [color=turquoise][b]Inventory:[/b][/color] Phylactery [url=http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/6/6a/3_Gravity_Falls.png/revision/latest?cb=20130310021122]Journal[/url] Knowledge is power Provides a readout of the behavior and abilities of a nearby organism when opened, generating a new permanent page each time [/hider]