Melon - Beastars

Melon is a half-breed, as his mother is a leopard and his father is a gazelle. He has the general appearance of a gazelle with the jaws, claws, and eyes of a leopard. He wears a surgical mask in public to hide his fangs and the leopard spots on his face. Most of the time, he keeps his eyes closed. Since he is half-leopard, Melon gradually develops leopard spots on his body as he ages, which he chooses to cover up with tattoos of melon leaves. On the eve before Rexmas, Melon's body grew larger and more muscular, his tail grew longer and thicker, and more spots appeared all over his body, making him look more like a leopard than a gazelle. Melon is a sociopathic, ruthless, deranged and cunning individual who hides his murderous peculiarities beneath a veneer of affable innocence and seemingly childlike curiosity. His knowledge in psychology has allowed him to gain a deeper understanding of how people's minds work, which in turn allows him to more easily manipulate people. As a sociopathic villain, Melon often hurts others without remorse, seen when he almost killed Legoshi with a bullet to the stomach and when he murdered an elephant with a syringe. Melon's sadomasochistic tendencies and cruelty are most prevalent when he is getting tattoos, as well as brutalizing Legoshi and the Shishigumi. As the new head of the Shishigumi, Melon is cruel and harsh towards the members, unlike Louis, who is a firm yet benevolent leader. Melon seems to be a masochist, since getting a tattoo from a sloth excited him immensely, making him blush and stick his tongue out in pure bliss. Melon claims that being inflicted with pain is the only way for him to feel alive, since he can't taste anything due to his hybrid nature, along with the contradictory senses he's constantly bombarded with. Melon hates his leopard heritage and tries to cover his spots with melon leaf tattoos. When his body went through a dramatic change, he tried to gouge his spots out, but could not because his claws were not as developed as a carnivore's. Desperate to stop changing, he shot off the hand of the leopard Madaragumi leader, believing a feline's claws would be capable of gouging out his spots. In this AU, Melon is still the boss of Shishigumi. He won in a fight against Legoshi, and black market weren’t destroyed by civilians. Shishigumi - is a lion mafia clan.