HoNK: David Hargrove (PowderMiner)

Name: Lieutenant David Hargrove (Powder Miner)
Class: Masterchef
Likes*: Danger, Entrepreneurship, Guns, Chicken Wing (Consumable)
Dislikes*: Cowardice, Mediocre Food, Bleeding Hearts, Borger (Consumable)

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HP: 9
Max.AP: 7 (can also be raised with Snack skill)
Weapon: Cleaver (1 Damage)
Armor: Kitchen Apron (0 Armor)
Trinket: -

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Skills:
Snack (0): Masterchef prepares a quick snack for themselves. At start of next Turn, Masterchef will recover 1 HP and gain 2 AP.
Spring Soup (1): Masterchef prepares a soup made with fresh veggies. At start of next Turn, Masterchef and their allies will recover 1 HP, and gain +1 Damage boost for 1 Turn.
Chicken Broth (1): Masterchef prepares the cure-all used by every babushka in the world - chicken soup! At start of next Turn, Masterchef and their allies will clear themselves of up to 2 Ailments.
Spicy Boi Roll (1): Masterchef prepares a special, spicy bread roll for a chosen warrior. At start of next Turn, a chosen Ally will lose 1 HP, but gain +1 Hit and +2 Damage bonus for 3 Turns.
Mystery Ingredient (1): Turns one of Consumable Items in the inventory into a 'Mystery Ingredient'. Masterchef can use this skill up to 3 times per Turn, as long as they have enough AP.
Mystery Stew (3): Masterchef uses up 3 Mystery Ingredients to prepare a 5-star mystery stew. At start of next Turn, Masterchef and their allies will gain +2 Hit, +2 Evasion, +2 Armor and +2 Magic Armor bonus for 5 Turns.

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Backstory: David Hargrove grew up in a poor family, his father an industrial worker who was frequently injured and bounced from job to job, and his mother... really, really not good at cooking. By the age of 7, David had already taken it upon himself to learn to cook, and was significantly augmenting the quality of his mother’s meals through a burgeoning talent for cuisine, notably skilled with vegetables and chicken. By the age of 11, he was the one entirely cooking for the family — and territorial about it too, insisting that it should only be him. Unfortunately, at the age of 11, his father also died due to complications from a compound fracture of the leg. His mother remarried almost immediately, but David couldn’t stand his stepfather and it was mutual, so after only two years he left home. With a painful part of his history behind him and the world in front of him, the young David was inspired to...

...go stay with his uncle briefly before supporting himself with a number of jobs, kicked out of one after the other due to a combination of incredible stubbornness, self-righteousness, belief in the value of confrontation, and unwillingness to put up with the practices of shady bosses. Notably, he actually served as a legal assistant for 3 years until he got into a drag-out knock-down brawl with a client. It was hard to find jobs, increasingly, due to his reputation, so now 19 years old and with few places to go, David drew upon his willingness to leap headfirst into danger and joined...

...his home district’s military. Although he applied as a cook, David showed a profound amount of aptitude for the dangerous job of an infantryman, and so that’s what he became, shipped off to THE WAR to go fight on the front-lines, something now-Private David Hargrove did not complain about one bit. He was reliable, brave, and not a half-bad shot, so David was slowly promoted up the enlisted ranks, to Private First Class, to Corporal, to Specialist, to Sergeant, to Staff Sergeant, to Sergeant First Class, and with his leadership skills on display through his entire time as enlisted, he was then put through officer training school and promoted to Lieutenant Second Class, to Lieutenant First Class. Then, THE WAR ended and though he’d served throughout THE WAR with distinction, he found himself ill at ease in a peacetime military, so he left it and chose instead to take his skills to...

...founding restaurants and owning properties! Still as skilled of a cook as ever, despite the years spent mostly fighting, David started a time as an entrepreneur, starting food stands around gas stations, then after finding success due to the quality of his chicken, he purchased a motel, one he soon built a restaurant next to. He experimented with chicken frying techniques, and soon found ways to cook more chicken than any competitor could, leading to the wild success of his restaurant, which he named Kasheville Chicken Fryin’, or KCF for short. KCF soon became a franchise that spread through his country and then the world in a whirlwind several years, and David acted as both owner and face for the franchise, known and feared for appearing at random KCF restaurants to make damned sure they weren’t screwing his recipes up, berating them and hopping the counter to show ‘em how it was done if they were. At 31 years of age, his hot temper hadn’t cooled at all, and he got into a social media fight with Roland McDoland, the head of a burger chain, which soon spiraled into an actual real-life pitched gunfight, one which David was known to say “that he totally won, shot that red-and-yellow-and-white sonuvagun right in the ass,” and that “it was the most fun he’d had since THE WAR.”

Still, the fact that he got into a pitched gunfight with Roland McDoland was quite the scandal, and rather than give in to demands to resign, he instead decided to salvage his reputation —and have a lot of fun while he was at it— by lending his skills and headfirst demeanor to the Heroes of Nobelian Kingdom.