Katsuo

Unofficial

A strong tall person, capable of large feats in his physical abilities alone. Strong enough to instill fear into criminals on pure reputation alone. He currently stands as the Warden of the greatest prison the World Government has to offer, Impel Down. A prison only known to a few break-outs in its entire history of existence, still standing as one of the most dangerous places, even though its in Paradise. To keep prisoners in line, and to protect this prison along with the other protections of the prison stands Katsuo, the eater of the Yōgan Yōgan no Mi. This fruit gives him the ability to create control and be Lava himself, a fierce fruit recognized by many.

Childhood
Katsuo was born into a family of Marine officers, his father had been a Captain-Classed Marine officer, and his mother had been a nurse in the very same marine base his father had worked in. The marine base had been located with in the town they had lived in, so they were able to tend to Katsuo without having to leave. Since his mother had been a nurse, she had been around many sick patients, many contagious and fatally diseased. His mother had however not caught one of these fatal diseases rather Katsuo's dad had caught an incurable disease, a highly contagious one. This had happened in one visit he had gave to his wife in which resulted in an accidental contact with a run-away patient with such disease. Katsuo's mother had reluctantly not been one of the few to catch this disease, and had all died. Katsuo had been left to take care of his family and take on his father's ambition as a marine officer.

Katsuo had been naturally gifted in combat, at the young age of 12 he was able to easily defeat normal marine officers in sparring matches. He had been promoted from chore boy onto the rank of Lieutenant Junior-Grade amongst the Commissioned Officers ranks. He had made his mother proud of his abilities, and had effectively supported himself and his mother with his pay as an officer. He had well made a reputation of himself amongst the Marine world, having become one of the youngest members of the marine with an abnormal physical strength for his age.

At the age of 15, Katsuo had made a name for himself amongst the Marines for his combat abilities and had reached through the the Lieutenant rank and had made it to Captain rank. Having reached this level he had been assigned onto a different Marine base, and was forced to leave his home, to train and work on this base. Here, he had learned Rokushiki, a martial arts trained closely by higher leveled Marine officers, and basically have an upper hand against pirates. Though these techniques had been used by the marines, most could never master every one of these abilities, which had as well been the case with Katsuo. He had never mastered Soru, and Kami-e. These two of the six abilities had never been able to be mastered by Katsuo, which had led him to never learning the ultimate move of the Rokushiki, Rokuogan.

At Rear Admiral rank, in the age of 18 he had fought a powerful pirate. This pirate had been an unrecognized one, and had been considered a rookie, but had much more power than the government had given him credit for. This pirate's strength however had been short lived, as Katsuo had been losing the match, defeat had caused him to suddenly awaken his Haki. He had awakened Kenbunshoku Haki first, and had caused him to continue this fight with the unknown ability. With this ability, he was able to see all of this pirate's swift attacks before they had landed, resulting in Katsuo eventually overwhelming him. He had ended the fight by crushing the skull of the pirate, ending his life and had finally said," Despicable pirate, know your place when against justice." He had hidden his discovered Haki from the rest of the government, for that he did not wish to become a vice-admiral.

Adulthood
After awakening Haki, he had quit the Marines, to pursue something more direct with the World Government to deal with criminals. He had wished to punish those who had defied the government and to reject them from ever seeing light again. He had joined the ranks within Impel Down, with his highly impressive abilities he had quickly reached vice-warden rank. He had shown his power swiftly, and had been known as a ruthless officer within Impel Down.

During his free time as a vice-warden within Impel Down he had further trained his Haki abilities, to hone it and master such power. He had fully mastered his Kenbunshoku Haki eventually, and had learned to fully control his Busoshoku Haki to the point he could concentrate it to the point where it creates a black metal-like substance on the body part.

He had obtained a mysterious fruit that had been found on one of the prison ships docked on Impel Down. This fruit had been apparently confiscated from a pirate ship, and made its way to this ship. Curiosity had taken over Katsuo, and he had eaten this fruit to find out its power. The risks of it being a useless fruit could have been quite great, one to ruin his reputation of a member of the World Government. This had not been the case, he had eaten one of the most rarest kinds of fruits, a logia fruit, or more specifically the Yōgan Yōgan no Mi, the ability to control and create lava in a mere whim. This had been an incredibly dangerous fruit, allowing him to scorch and incinerate any of those who had stood in his ways with the addition of his already obtained physical abilities made him nearly unstoppable.

With this massive ability of destruction, the World Government had recognized him as one of the more fiercer members of it. They had ranked him up to the level of Warden of Impel Down with the knowledge of his powers would make it unlikely for any one to ever escape such a prison. His lava abilities would burn any escapees, and would use it as a torture devise to prisoners who did not abide to his law within the prison, he had soon grown overwhelmed with his power. He had grown to hate the members within the prison and had burned slightly when ever he had grown annoyed.