The Fire Breather

 The fire breather is a man who is mentally extremely strong and physically very fit. why this is, is because to become a fire breather the person has to have a tattoo of a dragon burned into your skin by magic. The size of the dragon and the detail of it will not only determine the strength and abilities (such as top "cast" fire and such) of the fire breather but also his physical abilities (such as flexibility reflexes etc. (though these can increase with disciplined or decrease with neglect just as any other human)) Now for the catch... to have this operation done the person becoming the fire breather has to be near death thus making it not only difficult to get a person onto such a state  also to keep the person from dying during the operation. this complicates things just a little compared to whats coming. continuing on that if the magic casters creating the tattoo makes it too detailed or to big then instead of becoming a fire breather, they will instead turn into a fire demon. which then wreaks havoc on the land, yea classic i know. now moving on so anyway torturing a person into a near death state will make them go crazy thus making them turn into fire demons, so yea the ways to do this is narrowing very fast. so the person needs to be mentally strong because they have to not only go through the near death experience but also the immense pain from having a tattoo permanently burned into your skin. (ouch) then after the operation the person has to be not only nursed back to heath but taken care of so that he does not go mad, or demon, from the experience. then finally the person has to learn to cope with himself and what he is.