Nuri Chanthavong

## Nuri Chanthavong (ນູຣີຈັນທະວົງ)

Nuri is an elemental who has the ability to create fire without using a matchstick and is one of the last characters of Chinatown Heroes to be a male. He was born of fire and is good at preparing and cooking food yet he's allergic to water.

## Profile

* Name: Nuri Chanthavong (ນູຣີຈັນທະວົງ)
* Nickname: Nuri
* Gender: Male
* Race: Elemental
* Birthday: August 6
* Age: 19
* Zodiac Sign: Leo
* Zodiac Sign (Chinese): Horse
* Appearance: Red short hair, red eyes, pointy ears
* Height: 163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
* Weight: 53.5 kg (117 lbs)
* Personality: Energetic, kind, outgoing, altruistic, atheist, serious
* Likes: Fire, cooking, grilled food, spicy food, chili peppers, cooked meat, BBQ
* Dislikes: Water, ice, spoiled food, swimming, frozen food, raw meat
* Weakness: Water

## Biography

### Prologue

3 days after Moaya's mother's old house was set on fire on August 3rd, an unnamed male elemental was born from the leftover smoke, covered in soot and crying in a leaf cradle, and at the same time, there were a mother cat and her kittens in a empty box, which flew away, causing them to be vulnerable to the cold weather at the time and the former got killed by a car, leaving the latter behind. Moaya felt sympathetic to him and the kittens that she told her mother to adopt them and she agreed, thus the two took them to their new house near the Cambodian border, where the former's cousin Liliha named the boy Nuri, and gave him her surname Chanthavong.

The young boy, now named Nuri, grew up with his adoptive siblings Moaya and Itsuki and really got along with them by playing hide and seek with them and caring for the kittens for 3 years until he left the human world for Makai at the age of 3, where he excelled at cooking by the age of 8 and by the time he was in his preteens, he won three bronze medals for a cooking contest in Pandemonium and a silver medal in a dancing contest at Ignacio's palace with Lilin until one day, Pop ran away from her husband's home while he was gone and wanted to commit suicide by jumping off from a bridge, but Nuri prevented her from doing so, only for him to get yelled at by him and accused her of having an affair with him when actually the two didn't do nothing wrong despite the fact that the two were both underage at the time.

Upon her twin sister Lolli arriving in Pandemonium, Nuri answered her question and told her about what actually happened with her sister at the time, and according to his testimony, Pop's husband was possessive towards her by forcing her to cut ties with her family and friends as well as their caretakers Ayad and Fadel, who were worried about her, threatening her with violence if she dared to go out and reunite with her sister without his permission and harassed her to the point she considered suicide as the only option to get away from him.

After telling her his testimony, he whispered to Lolli about their secret plans to save her sister Pop from her husband, and the two disguised as her in-laws to secretly take her away from the house and left a divorce paper with her part filled in it and a letter that read "I'm not home. Talk to my lawyer if you want to talk to me." in Arabic, and once he came back home, he yelled in agony and refused to sign the papers until the two forced him to sign the paper and together, the three went to court, where they had a lengthy battle for 2 years until the judge ruled in favor of the twins, sentencing the latter's now ex-husband to 15 years in jail for marital violence and domestic abuse and granting the sisters a permanent restraining order against him, thus allowing them to reunite after years.

Once the sisters have left Makai and eventually got separated from each other by Tara who sent them to different universes, Nuri began thinking about wanting to reunite with his adoptive siblings and one day, he saw a poster for a Thai cooking competition and decides to leave Pandemonium for the human world, where he went to the nearby restaurant in Thon Buri, located near her apartment and won a gold medal from the competition, with his red curry, bamboo shoot salad, tom yam and nam tok mu that tourists and the locals even came to eat his food and he really enjoyed eating with them.

After the competition was over, he came over to Moaya's apartment with his remaining leftovers, and she even hosted a eating livestream in her room involving him, with them eating the leftovers for their fans to see and eventually Nuri became popular with her fans worldwide that they even want to eat his own food, and one time, he received an offer from a Thai restaurant in Laos to become their professional chef, but he refused and went back to the demon world to improve on his cooking skills anyway. To his surprise, on his 18th birthday, after he was done with practicing his fire powers and was on his way home, he was harassed by Pop's former sister-in-law, who wanted to get revenge on him for putting her brother in jail for domestic abuse and splashed him with water, which led to him having rashes and he was even transported to the hospital to get his own allergy treated, and as a result, she was thrown to jail and caned for attempted murder before she was sentenced to death by falling into the lava.

A few days after the incident, Nuri got discharged from the hospital and saw a poster for Chinatown Heroes, which already welcomed Pop as its newest member and he wanted to join the group, so he met his close friend Enzo from a few years earlier in the human world and Areum, who had more knowledge about the group than the two friends. Yinuo appears waving at the three of them and takes the former of the three away to Sakurahama Island, where he and Aguya were welcomed to the group at the same time, with Saphir taking the two of them to master their fire abilities properly. At first, Nuri and Aguya weren't used to Saphir's unique fire abilities that he learned from Kiran, but they gradually got used to it in a few weeks, and on the other hand, while the latter went to on her own mission while teaching Spanish part-time on her own, the former went on a mission to save the Chinatown with his near-great cooking techniques.

## Appearances

Nuri made his first appearance in Crystalline Codex Season 8's Elements of Genesis, where he and Enzo had a crush on Aluna only for her to reject them.

* *Crystalline Codex* (debut)

## Quotes

### Crystalline Codex

#### Season 8

* (with Enzo) "Oh boy, but what about us?" (from *Elements of Genesis*)