Melon

Melon (-) is an antagonist and minor character in Beastars. He is first introduced in chapter 124 as a faux elephant therapist, killing them and using their tusks/ivory for quick money.

Appearance
Melon is a half-breed, gaining characteristics from both parents. He is a gazelle with a long, slender leopard's body, cat eyes, leopard jaw and leopard's tail.

He wears a surgical mask in public to hide his leopard features.

Because of his life as a half-breed, Melon develops leopard spots on his body gradually. He chooses to hide them with tattoos of melon leaves. Every so often he gains leopard spots somewhere on his body, and covers them up with melon leaf tattoos.

Personality
Melon is a cunning, psychotic individual who can easily manipulate others using his false sense of charm and empathy to achieve his objective. His deceptive nature has led others to be seriously injured or killed, from murdering an elephant with a large syringe to almost killing Legosi with a bullet to the stomach. As a new boss of the Shishigumi, Melon is cruel and harsh towards the members, unlike Louis, who is firm, yet kind with them. He also has no remorse what he has done, making him ultimately sociopathic or psychopathic in nature. He seems to be a masochist too, since getting a tattoo from a sloth excited him immensely, making him blush and stick his tongue out in pure bliss. Melon claims that getting inflicted with pain is the only way for him to feel alive, since he can't taste anything due to his hybrid nature.

Trivia

 * Melon displays several symptoms of Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) including a lack of remorse for his past actions, a façade of empathy and kindness, manipulation, condensation, arrogance, and deceitfulness.
 * In Chapter 140, Melon mentions that he is the son of a male gazelle and female leopard, however, a casual sketch from the epilogue of Beast Complex showing a male leopard and female gazelle in a bedroom together could possibly contradict that.

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