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OOC Information
NAME: Wolfie
AGE: 24
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: BlackWarGreymon, Kovu

IC Information
CHARACTER NAME: Shere Khan
AGE: unknown, likely mid- to late 40s
CANON: Talespin
CANON POINT: post-series
FAMILY TYPES:
Dragon's Roar - As such a strict businessman, Shere Khan is really quite stubborn. He's also been shown to have a rather explosive temper.
Metal Empire - Shere Khan is the head of the most profitable corporation in the world, and dabbles often in robotics and new machinery.
Unknown - Shere Khan's allegiance, mostly, is to his company and his profits, rather than any interest in good or evil. His acts are decisive, but they are not motivated by right or wrong - they can be just as helpful as they can be harmful.


APPEARANCE:
The first word that would often be used to describe Shere Khan's physicality would be "intimidating." Even compared to the other two-legged tigers of his world, Khan is quite a large specimen, brimming with muscle only partly hidden by his ever-present suit. Sharp fangs line his orange and white tiger muzzle in a powerful, strong jaw, and his piercing yellow eyes are often set in a stony glare. The muscles keeping his head on his shoulders are thick and massive, and are the only visible sign of his physical strength normally. His big hands more resemble paws, and are equipped with claws capable of shredding the hair right off your head.

As a human, the expensive suit will stay for a time, until Khan deems it necessary to wear more practical clothing (which, of course, will still have quite an expensive lean to it). His size has not diminished any, though his neck and shoulders have restructured themselves to be suited to his much lighter human head. His nose still resembles the broad and thick nose of a tiger, and almost has something of that appearance instead of a human one. His hands are more normally proportioned for a human, but they're a little thicker, and they’ve retained his retractable claws. He'll don a pair of nice dress shoes for his feet, though it will take him some time to get used to them.

His teeth are still quite sharp, and enlarged canines show his place as a predator even among humans. The strong jaw is just as present, though it's reformed somewhat to match a human structure. He has orange hair that almost resembles a buzz cut on top, similar to the length it was as a tiger. As it falls in the front, it lengthens, pulling around his jaw as facial hair and turning white. In the back, it stays the same length, coming to a sharp, perfect square at the nape of his neck.


PERSONALITY:
The proud Shere Khan is a ruthless businessman, and he has all the most stereotypical traits that go along with that. He's opportunistic, conniving, uncaring, frightfully cold, and at times downright brutal—and nearly always calm and collected. On one occasion, his life and plane were threatened by air pirates, and he simply mixed a drink as he explained the situation to his savior, without batting an eye. None of that is limited to his business dealings, either; he'll gladly treat a person as if they're simply another cog in the machine of his corporation, or a trifle to be tossed aside. He has no care for the personal safety of anyone but himself, to the point that he will trick someone else into doing a job—for free—that he fears would threaten his own life. Taking advantage of the less fortunate is far from beneath him, and he'll simply chuckle if he's made aware that his actions have inconvenienced anyone—or outright laugh sadistically if he learns he's put others into poverty, or destroyed another company, provided his own profits have improved. On the other hand, a business deal gone bad could leave him holding a grudge for ages, such as the lost contract to Whistlestop Jackson early in his career.

In personal dealings, he's stubborn, standoffish, foul-tempered, and very serious. He hardly has any sense of humor, and if he does make a joke it's guaranteed to be at someone else's expense—probably someone in the room with him. His smile is very rarely a sign of joviality or amicability; it's an almost predatory sign of conquest, an egotistical display of how pleased he is with himself for whatever he's accomplished, or has planned. His stubbornness can become clear very quickly when any sort of disagreement comes about, as his poor temper will come to the surface. Even when a secretary gives him the slightest bit of bad news and every time one does he'll respond with a scowl and a snarl, or, if he's feeling light-hearted, a disappointed sneer. If the news is too displeasing, he's likely to yell, shred a paper on his desk, physically assault the messenger (slice hair off with a claw, lift them from the ground in a choke hold, etc), have the messenger removed from his office, or even dig his claws into his desk so hard that the wood begins to peel away. Outside of the office, the growling and snarling is just as likely, and physical assault seems to be something he'll resort to even more quickly.

Getting Shere Khan to become invested in something will always go the same way. Because his life is so rooted in his business, he will have to be convinced that any course of action will be beneficial to him in the end; or that the results will be worth the risk. This goes for both matters of business and pleasure, and he doesn't quite have "friends" who are exempt from this process of convincing him, either. If you can't prove that it's going to do him good, and even then greater good than the resources he'll expend for it, he'll simply refuse you outright. He has no seeming moral compass that will make him feel compassion for another, or sense of duty as a citizen. At one point, he had a deal with pirates to steal barrels of gasoline to drive up prices, and his profits. His only allegiances are to himself and Khan Industries, and those are the only ways to motivate him if there's something you want him to do. Not even extreme circumstances will change this; he'd be likely to sooner leave another man to die if it means saving his own skin. Whether he feels remorse for the act or not would heavily depend on the exact circumstances at hand. He's kicked a man out of a plane into the middle of the ocean for the sake of a safe flight home.

However, even for all his bullheadedness and profiteering, he is not incapable of generosity. He has on occasion been known to offer large rewards for seemingly small acts, and to simply toss money or gifts at people simply to get them out of his hair. He would never consider these kindnesses on their own, though. Instead, he'll phrase it as "repaying his debts." These can be simple things, such as giving out free passes to an attraction or small wads of cash to children who helped to stop a would-be kidnapper, to offering Baloo "anything he wants" to repay a life debt. Shere Khan detests feeling indebted to another due to some kindness performed to him, so he will attempt to even the score as quickly as he can, even if that means he has to be nice.


HISTORY:
Shere Khan is the owner and CEO of Khan Industries, the largest and most profitable corporation in the world. Its main offices, and Khan's own penthouse office, are housed in the largest, tallest skyscraper in the city of Cape Suzette, towering over the city with a factor of intimidation only Khan is known for. The primary function of his company is aviation, mostly as a shipping business, but by now the company has expanded to many varied operations, including mining, engineering, and inventing. Khan built the corporation from the ground up, with some mentorship but little direct aid. The shrewd tiger has run dozens of other companies out of business for the sake of his own, and he now controls much of the economy in Cape Suzette.

Every now and again, Khan's business dealings will run him afoul of a certain ace pilot named Baloo, and a crew of air pirates run by Captain Don Karnage. His first encounter with Baloo even involved Karnage. The pirates had stolen a new development from Khan Industries, a "thunder stone" that could provide power to a huge portion of the corporation's many and varied sites. Baloo, along with his navigator Kit Cloudkicker, stole the stone back from Karnage, who had used it to create a lightning gun to threaten Cape Suzette into giving up all its riches. Khan offered Baloo a radical reward for the return of the stone, but in the end it was destroyed instead, leaving the pilot with nothing. That, however, is one of the rare times that Baloo actually had a positive encounter with the tiger. The only other of note, Baloo answered a distress call from Khan's plane when Karnage's pirates had attacked him.

Early in his career as an aviation executive, Shere Khan competed for an exclusive delivery contract to a small country with the famous hero pilot Whistlestop Jackson. After a particularly daring maneuver loved by the public, Jackson won the contract—right as it was about to be awarded to Khan. The tiger never forgot that sleight, and when a much aged Jackson returned to Cape Suzette to threaten another exclusive delivery contract, Khan attempted to oust Jackson from interfering in his affairs ever again, by ordering a few of his men to shoot Jackson down. Needless to say, Baloo's interference displeased him, as did Jackson's survival of the incident; even though Jackson retired afterward.

On more than one occasion, Khan has used incredibly underhanded tactics to get what he wants. Two significant instances involve both Baloo and Don Karnage, to different degrees. For some time, Khan had been losing pilots in a specific region of air space. Planes would enter, go down, and never be heard from again. In order to discover the reason for this without losing any more of his men, Khan decided to trick Baloo into flying the route. He gave Baloo a trophy for being the "World's Best Pilot" and sent him on the route to prove himself. Baloo crashed as well, but was able to determine that Don Karnage was using incredibly large mirrors to trick pilots into thinking they were flying upside-down, resulting in them crashing their planes into the ocean below. Khan offered Baloo nothing but his verbal gratitude in exchange for the discovery and dealing with the pirates. The other instance, the delivery company Baloo worked for was in danger of going out of business due to sharply rising gas prices. The owner of the company complained to Khan in person, barging into his office, only to encounter him claiming to be in much the same predicament. It was by luck that Baloo discovered Khan had hired Don Karnage to raid gasoline shipments, artificially driving up prices by increasing demand, and making Khan's profits soar.

Yet another run-in with the pirate captain left Khan indebted to Baloo for saving his life. The tiger offered Baloo, mistakenly, "anything he wanted," since Khan Industries could afford any monetary expense the pilot could possibly imagine. Baloo started small with the requests, but refused to consider the life debt paid as he became greedy. As the requests continued, Shere Khan became quite irritated, to the point he had two of his employees kidnap Baloo while masquerading as common crooks. The pilot was forced to not only consider the score even, but to sell everything he'd gotten from the bargain as well.


SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON:
Right here~


THIRD PERSON:
"I heard you the first time, there is no need to repeat yourself." Shere Khan sat behind his massive desk, even his huge frame dwarfed by its size, and the size of his chair. His sneer at his insubordinate slowly faded into a look of contemplation as he leaned forward to rest his elbows on the desk. With his chin supported by his hands, the expression changed into a frown. "Tell him I want to speak with him at the first available opportunity. There is something I would like to discuss with him in person."

The assistant to the CEO quickly scrambled out of the room, leaving his boss to consider his options. The possible benefits Khan Industries could reap from this deal were immense. However, something about the matter had him on edge. There were too many unknowns, and quite a fair number of them would have him relying on pure luck. He wasn't about to stoop to that pilot's level—what was that bear's name again? No matter, the name's of no consequence—and put his trust in nothing more than "good fortune." Shere Khan made his own way, and did not need "luck."

Even more distasteful was the shady nature of this deal. Khan had been privy to and part of many exchanges that were quite underhanded, and a fair few of those had resulted in tearing the foundations right out from under competing companies. Yet this one left him feeling like there was something much more sinister at work, something that could leave Khan Industries far more vulnerable than he would like. He needed more details before he could make a decision, and time to make a backup plan to handle any potential fallout should his concerns be realized. Of course, the chance to talk to this man in person should help to get his…point across.

Khan flicked out a claw on one index finger, and his features twisted into a predatory grin. This man would learn not to make light of Shere Khan, even if he had to do so the hard way.