History Characters / Cookingwithwildgame

* AmbiguousDisorder: Though it isn't directly addressed aside from people saying he is mentally young, considering that and his physical appearance, he seems to show many signs of Down Syndrome.

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: He replies to Ai Fa's request that they sleep together by telling her why he feels that would be a bad idea...then enters her bed anyway. He just wanted to express his anxieties, not necessarily to act on them.

* AnimalMotifs: When in...altered...states of mind she acts rather like a cat, speaking in feline onomatopoeias and [[SentimentalDrunk rubbing her face over things she likes]]. Her hunting ability and "jaguar-like" grace contribute to this theme, as does the astrologer's statement that Ai is represented by the Cat Star.

* TheParanoiac: His home is surrounded by very high walls, his yard has vicious man-eating dogs released every night, to both protect against imaginary possible intruders, and to keep guests in their rooms, and he has slaves taste both his meals and those of his daughter for poison in every dish...And this is at the heart of Genos, where the drawbridges are closed at night, and even in the day, the guards won't let anyone enter '''or leave''' without a special pass. His pallor shows that even with all these precautions, he's clearly not sleeping well at night. He proves to be ProperlyParanoid when we learn about the crimes of his elder brother, Shileru.

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: She will protect her people from financial exploitation!...if a grown-up escorts her to the local entrepreneur's house.

* TechnicianVsPerformer: A Technician. Part of his...inferiority?...to Asuta comes from Roy's belief in traditional and aristocratic dishes. He point-blank refuses to use "common" ingredients like the ones [[ItsPopularNowItSucks that 90% of the population eat]], or accept that foreign chefs might have invented good meals.

* HonorBeforeReason: Its members ignore Kamyua's increasingly obvious hints that the totos is a gift for them because they don't want to be "indebted". Also because they distrust him...for some reason.

* EyesNeverLie: Rimee's first thought about Asuta is that he doesn't look like a [[NobleSavage native]]...but he has the bright, alert eyes of one, even though he's lugging a heavy carcass around.

* ChristmasCake: In Forest Edge, if you're over 20 and unmarried, it's widely considered that there's something wrong with you. She's introduced as a 20-year-old.

* EmotionlessGirl: She rarely shows emotion.

* InnocentCohabitation: He lives in Ai Fa's home, and has yet to make any overt romantic overtures, not because he's uninterested, but because he doesn't grasp the norms and taboos of Forest Edge.

* DarkskinnedBlonde: She's very tan, and has golden-blonde hair, like most of the people of Forest Edge.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Unique among the people of the Ruu clan, or Forest Edge in general, as she avoids it. She's actually raven-haired, as can be seen in the picture featuring Jiba Ruu above.

* {{Expy}}: When described in person and illustrated, he bears a striking resemblance to [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor Palpatine]], aka Darth Sidious.

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* KnifeNut: A rare non-violent example. Over the course of the series, he amasses a collection of cooking knives that are both useful in his work and highly symbolic.
** His father's precious Santoku knife, an heirloom passed down through many generations of their family. It was the only Japanese thing that Asuta was able to bring with him, other than the clothes on his back.
** A vegetable-cutting knife sold by the Eastern merchant Shumiral.
** A meat knife of Southern make sold by Diel.

* RantInducingSlight: After Asuta comments (hypothetically) that he would be honoured to marry her, she ''tackles him to the ground'' and accuses him of disgracing her pride as a hunter. This is one reason he doesn't bring up the subject again.

* RapunzelHair: As shown in the page image, her hair reaches her waist.

* AdultFear: She has lost everyone she loves, [[spoiler:and in volume 11, she loses Asuta too]].

* BloodMagic: What she thinks she's doing as she's bathing in giba blood. What she's really doing is making herself all stinky and putting her health at risk. She gets called out on it, to her chagrin.

%%* BloodBath:

* IAteWhat: He's stunned when Asuta feeds him giba stew and he finds that he likes it.

The youngest child of Zorro Suun.

* AmbiguousDisorder: He shows many signs of Down Syndrome.

! Zorro Suun

! Yamiel Suun

* GuileHero: During her more heroic moments, [[spoiler:and post-adoption]]. Yamiel keeps a close watch on anything that could spark a war, even things as small as Diru's womanizing or Ai Fa adopting a foreigner. She knows it's all part of the bigger picture.

'''Yamiel:''' Ahh, a war between the Suun and the Ruu clans is a serious matter though? If that really happens, the Forest's Edge settlement would be destroyed.

! Aura Suun
The clan head's (most recent) wife; daughter of Tay and mother of Yamiel.

! Zatsu Suun

* StarsAreSouls: He explains to Asuta the Sym belief that each person is represented by a star in the sky, and warns him that a "malefic star" (unbeknownst to him, Zatsu Suun) is threatening Forest's Edge.

! Michael of Turan

* DebtDetester: The reason he agreed to meet with Asuta and warn him about Cyclaeus is that he owed Sumimaru a favor.

! Jeeta
A Marsala hunter who's the son of Goram Red-Beard.

* LoneSurvivor: Presumably of the Red-Beard gang.

* BullyingADragon: He ''repeatedly'' antagonizes people way, way above his weight class, up to and including bringing his two brothers, Dodda Suun and Midda Suun on a several hour walk purely for the express purpose of trashing a Rutim Clan wedding that Asuta was hired to cater, when Dan Rutim, who can pick up and ''throw'' a 60 kg giba is the one officiating the ceremony.

! Dodda Suun:

The protagonist. He rushes into his father's burning restaurant to attempt to rescue the family paring knife, an ancient heirloom passed down for generations, and the one thing his father would mourn losing more than the restaurant itself. He wakes up in the jungle just next to the village of "Forest's Edge" with no idea how he got there, how to get back, or what's going on, until he's chased by a Kiba into a pit-trap set by Ai Fa.

* ChekhovsSkill: His experience on the family farm butchering pigs helps immensely when he gets to work drawing and quartering a Kiba before preparing to cook it for Ai Fa.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: After his (smoky) first attempts at grilling kiba, he is told very definitively to do his cooking experiments ''outside the house''.

* AnEntrepreneurIsYou: At Kamiya Yost's urging, he sets up a stall in Post Town selling Kiba dishes. Just the aroma of his cooking forces him to expand to two stalls and sell meals to all three of the local inns in order to meet the demand. His profits rival the entire income of the largest clans in Forests Edge.

The first inhabitant of Forest Edge that Asuta meets. She rescued him from the pit trap he fell into... to threaten him with her hunting knife for ruining the trap and letting the Kiba she was hunting get away. He's been head over heels for her ever since.

* BattleCouple: On occasion. Immediately after Asuta drove off the Moba that was trying to smother and eat her, she flawlessly takes out the Kiba that managed to sneak up [[RightBehindMe right behind Asuta.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her mother died of illness, her father died hunting Kiba, she was nearly raped by the heir of the Suun clan, and she was exiled for the "crime" of fighting him off and literally throwing him out of her home, that he broke into, with the intention of raping her. Eesh. No wonder she's... shy.

* FirstGirlWins: As lampshaded by Asuta himself. He muses that had he met any of the other women of Forest Edge in the jungle and been rescued by them from the Kiba trap, he could see himself falling for them, but it was Ai Fa who took him into her home, so he's hers and hers alone, no ifs, ands, or buts.

* MasochistsMeal: The first time she tastes standard "Chitto Kiba," it burns her mouth, makes her cry, and has her smack Asuta upside the head [[NeverMyFault for making her eat it,]] yet she insists on wanting more "as if someone put an evil spell on the ingredients." When Asuta prepares the dish again, as Shumimaru is visiting Forest Edge, and Asuta makes a milder version on her behalf... she secretly swaps out the bowl so Asuta gets the mild version instead, [[HypocriticalHumor and then gets mad at him when he figures it out.]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Asuta's "hamburger steak." While she always appreciates Asuta's cooking and lets him treat her as his guinea pig, she's ambivalent about everything he makes... except when she gets that Kiba hamburger steak, at which point she becomes putty in Asuta's hands.

-->'''Celice:''' My house, which is the Fou house, didn’t have many men, and can’t hunt enough kiba. But ever since the Fa house gifted us with these hides, this child finally has enough to eat...

* CategoryTraitor: To the people of Jaguar. They are despised as cowardly traitors, despite the fact that they were driven out of their native fruit forest and forced at swordpoint to convert to the god of the Forest Edge.

* AnimalMotif: A boar. He takes the phrase "you are what you eat" a bit too literally. Not only does he ''look'' like a half-man, half-kiba, which Asuta lampshades, but he's got a very boar-like personality, including a notorious HairTriggerTemper, and penchant for smashing things he doesn't like.

* GracefulLoser: Despite his temper, he is fair and honorable. When he loses a bet with Asuta concerning catering a feast for the Rutim clan, he comes to Asuta and Ai Fa's guest room, has a pleasant chat and openly blesses him with a large Kiba tusk.

* TearsOfJoy: Her immediate response to being served Kiba meat "hamburger," soft enough for her to chew without teeth, and tasty enough to ''utterly dwarf'' the sweet taste of fruit from her native fruit forest, that only she remembers, and sorely misses, but can't return to because it was burned to the ground, long, long ago.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Have we mentioned he can lift and throw a 60 kg kiba, one handed?

* StoutStrength: He's fat and can both lift and throw, one-handed, a 60 kg kiba.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Kiba spare-ribs. The first time he tastes Asuta cook them, he not only eats all the meat, he tries to crack open the bone with his teeth to get at the marrow. He's loved them ever since.

* ReducedToRatburgers: There are no kiba in their part of the forest [[spoiler:because Zattsu illegally plucks the fruit they would normally eat]], and they're too ashamed of their sins [[spoiler:and afraid to disobey Zattsu]] to ask other clans for help, so '''a lot''' of them have starved to death. The surviving Suun are weak and emaciated, dependent on carrion and the scavenged leavings of other clans. [[spoiler:And the aforementioned forbidden fruit, but most villagers would sooner die than dishonour themselves by eating that.]]

* BullyingADragon: He ''repeatedly'' antagonizes people way, way above his weight class, up to and including bringing his two brothers, Dodda Suun and Midda Suun on a several hour walk purely for the express purpose of trashing a Rutim Clan wedding that Asuta was hired to cater, when Dan Rutim, who can pick up and ''throw'' a 60 kg kiba is the one officiating the ceremony.

* BloodMagic: What she thinks she's doing as she's bathing in Kiba blood. What she's really doing is making herself all stinky and putting her health at risk. She gets called out on it, to her chagrin.

* VillainHasAPoint: The people of Forest Edge are ''the reason'' Kiba don't overwhelm Post Town and Genos City behind them. Yet the denizens of Forest Edge are treated with disdain precisely because they hunt Kiba, and eat them, by virtue of the fact they are expressly forbidden, by law, from either foraging in the forest or taking up farming. There have been deaths ''in the thousands'' among the people of Forest Edge just from the dangers of hunting alone. Unfortunately, whatever sympathy might have been well earned by pointing this out is lost the moment Zattsu took control of the Suun clan and set his clan upon flaunting the law and committing capital offenses, including banditry and murder.

** The second time it occurs was a direct result of a prank by Ludo Wu who claimed to be showing him where to wash dishes, but in fact led him to where Ai Fa and other women were bathing.
* ActionSurvivor: Though weak, he is eventually accepted by the village because of his business ability and genuine desire to be useful. In particular, his observant nature is what allowed them to peacefully resolve the Tsun issue.
* AccidentalProposal: He calls Lala Wu "charming." Among the people of Forest Edge, this is universally considered an open declaration of pursuing a woman as a bridal candidate. Asuta was not aware of this at the time, and Ai Fa was clearly not pleased upon finding out either. Fortunately, the ladies of the Wu clan let the slip pass and accepted his words as a genuine compliment, nothing more.

* BirdsOfAFeather: With Ai Fa, because they both know how it feels to be threatened by honourless brutes. He's as defiant to the Tsun Clan as he was to the yakuza hurting his family.

* EndearinglyDorky: He is easily engrossed by cooking details and {{Squee}}s upon seeing the array of strange ingredients in the Wu clan's pantry. Ai Fa actually likes to watch him while he's 'in the zone'.

* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: While the women, and most of the children, greatly appreciate his cooking skills, especially the revered elder Jiba Wu, the men of Forest Edge hold him in contempt, not only for his lack of physical strength, but because they're all so testosterone-poisoned that they believe their food ''has to be bitter and hard to eat'' so they can show the world how tough they are by being able to eat it. In fact, Donda Wu specifically calls the meal that was so delicious it gave Jiba Wu TearsOfJoy rubbish, nearly shattering his plate to the ground, because it was actually tender and delicious.

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: To everyone who sees them interact, particularly Rimee Wu, they look like they've been married for years.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The Feminine boy to Ai Fa's masculine girl. The elders of the Wu clan lampshade it.

* NumberOneDime: He keeps the first [[WeirdCurrency tusks]] he ever earned- the ones given to him by the Wu clan for restoring Jiba's will to live- because of their emotional value.

* SingleTargetSexuality: He ''literally'' only has eyes for Ai Fa. When Ludo Wu tricks him into walking into the river area where Ai Fa and several other women are bathing together, he is unable to see or hear any of the others, even when they are screeching like banshees and throwing things in his direction.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: She somehow knows judo-like martial arts. She's thrown some quite muscular men- Diga Tsun, Darum Wu, and '''Dan Lutim.'''

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her mother died of illness, her father died hunting Kiba, she was nearly raped by the heir of the Tsun clan, and she was exiled for the "crime" of fighting him off and literally throwing him out of her home, that he broke into, with the intention of raping her. Eesh. No wonder she's... shy.

* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: She self-enforces her ostracization, because the Tsun might lash out at anyone who supports her. For this reason she tells Asuta that he should move to the Wu Clan, even though she wants him to stay with her.

* MistakenForBadass: An odd variant; she is genuinely badass, but [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Zattsu Tsun]] believes her to be some manipulative seductress whose adoption of Asuta was all some big plan to make herself rich. The idea that her generosity was completely selfless, with no strings attached, never occurred to him.

* UnsuspectinglySoused: In volume 6, [[spoiler:the Tsun drug her with meremere smoke so they can kidnap her]]. Then, to wake her up, [[spoiler:Tay poured wine into her mouth]]. Although the latter was successful, the alcohol and sedative's combined effects left her a bit woozy for the next few hours.
* WeakButSkilled: Compared to the testosterone poisoned macho-men of Forest Edge, but she's one of the village's best hunters, ''and defeated the Tsun heir in single combat when he was trying to rape her.'' Literally throwing him out of her home in the process.

* WorfHadTheFlu: She made a phenomenal showing in the yearly "contest of might" where Asuta was catering the celebration. Unfortunately, an earlier dislocated shoulder injury kept her from giving her all, [[spoiler: which is the reason she lost to Dan Lutim.]]

* GossipyHens: It was an accepted fact ''long'' before any Wu actually met Asuta that he was courting Ai Fa. Even though he had only known her for a week.

* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: They are the only clan economically comfortable enough to care about the Tsun jeopardizing the village's future, and most Wu are looking for political justification to '''do''' something[[note]]war[[/note]] about it. Their boredom is shared by Ludo, who spends most of his time pranking people, and Vena, who spends most of her time hoping a reason to leave her backwater hometown will present itself.
* PunnyName: Their clan name is actually the Loo clan, which for western audiences means [[UnfortunateName toilet]]. Official translations followed the fan translator's decision to use Wu instead.
* TheLostLenore: An unnamed Wu woman was raped by Tsun men prior to the story's beginning, and killed herself out of shame. Her clan wanted- and still want- justice, but "we don't fight for dead people." The village's survival was too high a priority at that time to allow inter-clan conflict.

* TheStarscream: A rare heroic example. They don't attack the Tsun because of the deaths an outright war would cause, but it's no secret they want them gone.

! Rimee Wu:

The first of the Wu clan introduced to the audience. A sweet young girl that's been Ai Fa's friend for years, and clearly does not take Ai Fa's exile well.

* PleaseIWillDoAnything: As she's recruiting Asuta to cook for the Wu clan's elder, Jiba Wu, her great-grandmother.

* WiseBeyondHerYears: While the rest of Forest Edge was being horribly xenophobic, expecting Asuta's very existence to bring disaster, she snuck up to Ai Fa's window and spied on them, scouting out his character. She was rewarded for her wisdom by being the first Wu clansman to taste Asuta's cooking.
** Furthermore, it was her idea to have Asuta's cooking for Jiba Wu, so the latter could find her happiness again. Rimee was 100% correct.

! Donda Wu:

[[caption-width-right:350: Compare and contrast to the Kiba below. https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0022_7.jpg]]

The clan head of the Wu clan and Rimee's father. While he's the most ''vocal'' about suspicions and disdain surrounding Asuta, he's not the most worrisome offender, by far.

* TheAlcoholic: He is well-known to quaff numerous bottles of Fruit-wine a day, and when he saw Rimee Wu bringing the Fruit wine to the kitchen for Asuta's cooking, he tried to take it, thinking it was for himself.

* BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage: Not for himself, but for his son and Ai Fa. He once tried to hook up Ai Fa with one of his grown sons, after Ai Fa beat the Tsun clan head in open combat. While he was indeed concerned about Ai Fa's and his son's happiness, he did it primarily to boost his own clan's strength, and to rightly spite the Tsun clan who wanted to exile her. It didn't work out because neither his son nor Ai Fa had any interest in each other.

* GoodParents: Surprisingly enough. Whatever other flaws he may have, he is a good father to his many children, one of whom is Rimee Wu.
* GracefulLoser: Despite his temper, he is fair and honorable. When he loses a bet with Asuta concerning catering a feast for the Lutim clan, he comes to Asuta and Ai Fa's guest room, has a pleasant chat and openly blesses him with a large Kiba tusk.

! Jiba Wu:

[[caption-width-right:350:Jiba Wu is in the background, [[TearsOfJoy after having tasted Asuta's cooking.]]]]
The revered elder of the Wu clan. It is for her sake that Rimee Wu pleaded for Asuta to cook.

* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: She's ''tiny'' compared to her grandson, Donda Wu. She's also quite short compared to the rest of the adult clans-members, and she's 85-years-old.

* StealthInsult: Her response to Donda Wu's angry tirade, calling Asuta's meal "Monta Fodder" is nothing but this.
---> '''Jiba Wu:''' "If this is the food of Monta, then Monta are more high-class than humans. It's alright for you to think that way."

* WomenAreWiser: By far the most mature and level-headed member of the Wu clan.

! Reina Wu:
One of the women who helps Asuta in the Wu kitchen. Asuta is immediately struck by the fact that she doesn't just share the appearance of a friend of his from Japan, but her name.

* CordonBleughChef: To the people of Forest Edge. Unlike most of the women of the Wu clan, who cook by rote (due to both the "peculiar" taste of the men, and the very real danger of illness or death in deviating from the recipe) she prefers to "experiment" in the kitchen. She ''almost'' came to the same realization that Asuta did, [[spoiler: that Poitan is actually a cereal and should be cooked like flour, not simply thrown into the stewpot]], all by herself. In fact, when she saw Asuta prepare poitan, she immediately recognized what he was doing.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Unique among the people of the Wu clan, or Forest Edge in general, as she avoids it. She's actually raven-haired, as can be seen in the picture featuring Jiba Wu above.

* TearsOfJoy: While she does indeed enjoy Asuta's cooking, and is proud of her role in helping him in the Wu kitchen, what ''really'' makes her happy is Jiba Wu's sudden enjoyment of the meal, and returning to her true vigor and force of personality. Something that hasn't happened in decades.

! Lala Wu:

! Shela Wu

! Darum Wu

* NobleBigot: He offered to marry Ai Fa, partly to save her from being alone (and therefore unprotected from the Tsun). The conditions of this marriage were that she give up life as a hunter and let the Fa name die out.

! Vena Wu

[[folder: The Lutim Clan]]
A powerful sub-kin of the Wu clan which winds up becoming the best friends of the Fa House.

! Dan Lutim
The leader of the Lutim Clan.

* SuperSenses: He has a near bloodhound sense of smell. [[spoiler: It proved handy when Diga Tsun used meremere leaves to sedate the rest of his clansmen. He smelled it, covered his face with a cloth before Asuta was taken away, and then came to the rescue.]]

! Diga Tsun

* BullyingADragon: He ''repeatedly'' antagonizes people way, way above his weight class, up to and including bringing his two brothers, Dodda Tsun and Midda Tsun on a several hour walk purely for the express purpose of trashing a Lutim Clan wedding that Asuta was hired to cater, when Dan Lutim, who can pick up and ''throw'' a 60 kg kiba is the one officiating the ceremony.

* MaritalRapeLicense: As with all the men of the Tsun clan, it's "preemptive" in nature. If a male Tsun-clansman rapes a woman, she's going to be his wife, or the Tsun clan gets to execute her as "an adulteress."
* MilesGloriosus: Simply because he's the heir of the Tsun clan, he prances around like he's the mightiest warrior in Forest Edge, constantly provoking Ai Fa, but he dares not challenge her directly because he knows she can beat him.

* NeverMyFault: As is the case with all of the Tsun clan males, if Ai Fa's testimony is correct, he honestly believes that if he desires a woman, she's the one that somehow "invited" him (despite the women of Forest Edge all dressing and acting in near identical manners), and if she somehow manages to fight him off, she's the one who shamed him. The fact that he tried to rape her first is something she should have taken ''as an honor,'' and should have been happy to "marry" him.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Until the start of Volume 7, he lived as if he believed he was in an NTR Hentai, where all he needed to do was pin Ai Fa down, rape her, and then she'd be so impressed with his sexual prowess that she'd fall madly in love with him... He had to have it spelled out for him, repeatedly, that the Tsun clan's sub kin didn't share this mindset, and were none too pleased that he kept trying.

! Dodda Tsun:
The second oldest of the Tsun clan leader's children.

* TheAlcoholic: He makes Donda Wu look stone-cold sober by comparison.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Him shouting the Tsun clan name around is his go-to method of getting himself out of trouble.
* SmugSnake: Like his elder brother, Diga Tsun, he prances around like he's untouchable.

! Mida Tsun

The youngest child of Zorro Tsun.

! Zorro Tsun
The nominal leader of the Tsun clan, though his father, Zattsu Tsun is the one calling the shots.

* NeverMyFault: It's not the Tsun clan's fault that they're criminals for breaking the law. It's the law's fault for existing that forces the Tsun clan into crime.

! Yamiel Tsun

'''Yamiel:''' Ahh, a war between the Tsun and the Wu clans is a serious matter though? If that really happens, the Forest's Edge settlement would be destroyed.

! Aura Tsun

* AwfulWeddedLife: She is clearly ''not'' happy to be married to the head of the Tsun clan.

! Zatsu Tsun
The true ruler of the Tsun clan. Even on his deathbed, nobody dares defy him, with good reason.

* InsaneTrollLogic: He's firmly convinced that the only way people will see the Tsun clan as the bastions of nobility and courage is to act as dishonorably and despicably as possible.

* MoralMyopia: He's incensed that people despise the Tsun clan until his dying breath. The fact that people hate the Tsun clan for acting badly is irrelevant.

* VillainHasAPoint: The people of Forest Edge are ''the reason'' Kiba don't overwhelm Post Town and Genos City behind them. Yet the denizens of Forest Edge are treated with disdain precisely because they hunt Kiba, and eat them, by virtue of the fact they are expressly forbidden, by law, from either foraging in the forest or taking up farming. There have been deaths ''in the thousands'' among the people of Forest Edge just from the dangers of hunting alone. Unfortunately, whatever sympathy might have been well earned by pointing this out is lost the moment Zattsu took control of the Tsun clan and set his clan upon flaunting the law and committing capital offenses, including banditry and murder.

! Tay Tsun:

* MouthOfSauron: When the Tsun clan implodes, he becomes the voice for all the Tsun clan's resentments.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: He is utterly incapable of having his own will. He obeys the orders of the Tsun clan leadership, no matter how despicable.

! Tsuvai Tsun

* MrViceGuy: She is a touch obsessed with money, but only because her clan is desperately scrounging for survival. In a situation like that, you learn to make every coin count. After her adoption into the Lutim house, she channels this habit into making sure everyone gets equitably paid for their labor.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: He asks who would take control ''if'' the Tsun clan lost their rank.
* {{Warhawk}}: He seems to be trying to manipulate Forest's Edge into overthrowing the Tsun clan.

* BirdsOfAFeather: She and Rimee Wu bond instantly over their love for Asuta's cooking.

! Shumimaru

* LoveAtFirstSight: He was completely enthralled by Vena, even though they had only met briefly.

* StarsAreSouls: He explains to Asuta the Semu belief that each person is represented by a star in the sky, and warns him that a "malefic star" (unbeknownst to him, Zatsu Tsun) is threatening Forest's Edge.
* TheStoic: In accordance with the Semu people's [[PlanetOfHats hat]].

* CorruptPolitician: Though there's no hard evidence, as of this writing, it is strongly suspected that all the Genos victims of the Tsun clan's villainy were orchestrated by him for the "crime" of being political rivals.

* AssholeVictim: Like Shela and Reina Wu, he is limited by being born in a medieval world. Unlike them, however, he is a dick who feels entitled to physically and verbally abuse anyone 'beneath' him. So it's hard not to feel satisfied when Asuta outshines him.

* EvilGloating: He brags about killing the former captain of the guard, having the political rivals of the Tsun house meet "accidents," and trying to sour relations between Forest's Edge and Post Station by sending thugs disguised as Forest Edge hunters to cause trouble in town, and a slew of other crimes.

* OnlyFriend: She's the only person in Pyschkurewuss' house who acts decent to Asuta, so he relies on her company.

* StepfordSmiler: Her life is relentlessly shitty, so all she can really do is try not to think about it and accept whatever small bit of happiness comes her way.

! Milano Mast

* YouKilledMyFather: He vehemently insists that [[spoiler: Zattsu]] murdered his dearest friend, disguising it as an attack by a herd of Kiba on the ill-fated caravan. While some evidence was found, it wasn't enough to convict in court.

An ex-chef who used to work for Psychkurewuss.

* DebtDetester: The reason he agreed to meet with Asuta, and warn him about Psychurewuss, is that he owed Sumimaru a favor.
* GameBreakingInjury: He was once a very talented chef, but he can never wield a kitchen knife again, as a direct result of Psychurewuss severing nerves in his hand.

! Dell

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Because she bragged about Asuta's cooking, Lifureta had him brought to the Psychurewuss mansion to "prove her wrong."

! Geta

* StealthExpert: There is hardly anywhere he cannot sneak in or out of, including the Psychurewuss estate.

[[folder:Pyschkurewuss' house]]

! Pyschkurewuss

* CorruptPolitician: Though there's no hard evidence, as of this writing, it is strongly suspected that all the Genos victims of Tsun clan villainy were orchestrated by him for the "crime" of being political rivals.

* IAteWhat: He's stunned when Asuta feeds him Kiba stew and he finds that he likes it.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He's a very difficult man to deal with. He even demanded Asuta keep his stall open when two dangerous Forest Edge felons were making death threats. Had Asuta refused, Psykurewuss would have forbidden Asuta from operating business in Post Town ever again.
* TheParanoiac: His home is surrounded by very high walls, his yard has vicious man-eating dogs released every night, to both protect against imaginary possible intruders, and to keep guests in their rooms, and he has slaves taste both his meals and those of his daughter for poison in every dish...And this is at the heart of Genos, where the drawbridges are closed at night, and even in the day, the guards won't let anyone enter '''or leave''' without a special pass. His palor shows that even with all these precautions, he's clearly not sleeping well at night. He proves ProperlyParanoid when we learn about the crimes of his elder brother, Shileru.

* SecretlyDying: As revealed by Michael in volume 11, his obsession with delicious meals and exotic spices has taken a massive toll on his body. Asuta speculates which organs are compromised. Rather than taking the proper medicine and curb his diet to more mundane and bland meals, Psychurewuss prefers to simply add medicinal herbs that he ''thinks'' might help, and forces his indentured chefs to work around them. Whatever relief he gets is entirely temporary, at best.

! Lifuria Turan

[[caption-width-right:350:You! Cook me a snack! NOW!]]A ten-year old girl who is Pyschkurewuss' daughter.

* TheCakeIsALie: She promised to release Asuta if he prepares a dish that "satisfies her." Asuta knows better than to trust those words, but cooks anyway [[GamebreakingInjury for fear of Psychurewuss' wrath.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Chiffon infers that Lifuria arranged the kidnapping, but not the violence with which it was carried out.

* EvilVirtues: Though the bar is set pretty low, she certainly has more honor than her father, Psychurewuss.
* IdleRich: She is so wealthy she can toss around silver plates like most people toss pebbles out of their gardens, and is yet to be shown doing anything aside from lazing around in the Psychurewuss mansion. In her defense, this is the way Psychurewuss arranged it for her. She does not like it.

* MovingTheGoalPosts: First she promises to release Asuta if he serves her a meal that pleases her. When he does, she pays him a silver plate, then insists he'll be freed when Psychurewuss returns. Then when Psychurewuss shows up, she insists that he's not going anywhere until she's "satisfied." At that point, even Psychurewuss is fed up, and over-rides her, telling her to be silent, releasing Asuta with what may be the only sincere apology from him in his history.
* ParentalNeglect: Psychurewuss is physically present in her life, but completely ignores her whenever possible. She's almost constantly acting out to force him to pay attention to her.
* TheResenter: According to Dell, Lifuria is not only a SoreLoser, but resents the fact that Dell actually gets to leave the Psychurewuss mansion, while she's stuck there, bored out of her skull because her father, Psychurewuss, leaves her nothing to do, and ignores her whenever possible.

Lifuria's bodyguard and primary minion.
* CurbstompBattle: On the wrong end, and combined with LaserGuidedKarma. When he jumps onto the Psychurewuss dining table, smashing several dishes underfoot and lashes out at Ai Fa's party, she grabs him by the scruff of the neck and slams him to the ground hard enough to slam the breath out of him, on a padded carpet floor.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: In a truly unhealthy manner. His response to "go recruit Asuta to be my chef" is to kidnap Asuta, and there's no crime he'd ignore to carry out Lifuria's wishes, including murder.
* TooDumbToLive: When Psychurewuss himself orders him arrested under Genos law (which Psychurewuss can manipulate), he goes feral and tries to attack Asuta, Ai Fa, and a visiting noble, thus all but guaranteeing that Psychurewuss has to come down on him harshly in order to save face and keep the rest of Genos from looking any deeper into his affairs... Even Lifuria calls him out on it.

[[caption-width-right:350:Forgive me, Asuta.]]A random customer of Asuta's [[spoiler: who is actually the son of Psychurewuss.]]

* ForcedIntoEvil: He is forced to do the villainy of the Psychurewuss house, because if he refuses, the house will send someone worse to do the deed. [[spoiler: He even admits that Asuta's kidnapping would have been more violent if he did not participate.]]

Psycherwuss's older brother and captain of the guard.

* {{Expy}}: Corrupt guard, master swordsman, and is named Shileru? [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/OnePiece Sound familiar?]]

* GoOutWithASmile: He dies happy.