Baloo

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Kit Cloudkicker was a most unusual bear cub in many ways. For one thing, he liked cloud-surfing and did not approve of getting his pilot's license until after he turned seventeen. He also happened to be a navigator for Baloo von Bruinwald XIII of Cape Suzette. Occasionally donning a green sweater with an azure and red rimmed baseball cap faced backwards, he often did his homework whenever he felt like doing it, in his room when exhausted and jaded without Baloo having to force him into doing it. He lay on his stomach, reading History of Zootopia Volume 1 with his pen and notebook propped against the pillow, coming to an interesting paragraph that read:

"Carnivores (more commonly known as predators) were particularly accused of magic in medieval times, which incubated fear into the hearts of the already frightened prey. The prey were not very good at recognizing witchcraft and on the occasion that they did catch one, the animal in question would escape if she or he had claws to cut the ropes that bound them to the stake. This was provoked by the use of chains and filing of such claws for further executions."

Kit put his pen between his teeth and began to write on his paper. The paragraph reminded him that Baloo, his employer and closet girlfriend Rebecca Cunningham and her six-year-old daughter Molly were predators, but they did not have a medieval attitude towards prey. The three were the closest family he had after the death of his parents, for they had been murdered by the most feared sky pirate for ten years, Don Carnage. While his parents had chosen to book a cruise on Scrooge McDuck's latest luxury zeppelin, Hindentanic, Carnage saw a good opportunity to strike at the upper class passengers with either death or captivity, either way marauding them of whatever assets they carried on their person. Some faced injury at the hands of his nine pirate band, but it was his sword that struck Kit's father in the abdomen, followed by a fatal stab in the right breast to Mrs. Cloudkicker.

The then one-year-old Kit was spared when Carnage, out of pity and realization of his own strength, saw the baby as a protégé, took him away from the crime scene of a cabin and in a trice, summoned the crew back to his self-built airship, the Iron Vulture, which spanned over a thousand feet and could reach a total speed of one hundred and fifty miles per hour.

For the next twelve years, Kit had spent a life of independence, reliability and abuse at the mixed emotions toward him from Carnage and his crew, teaching him the many ways survival like how to steal, how to fly a white crescent shaped board for cloud-surfing and pounce the victim at the right moment. Following his twelfth birthday, after the lack of celebration due to many victorious crimes, Carnage had unwisely revealed to an underappreciated Kit that it was he who had taken the lives of his parents and planned to make him his successor of the Vulture. This information, along with his increasing bigotry towards Carnage after years of balanced neglect and care in the unconventional parental way, Kit made one last act of thievery by stealing a box of jewels from Carnage as quick as the fox he would never be, hitchhiking his way to freedom via air-foil with a dark brown rope attached to a cargo plane and made his way to a tropical themed tavern dubbed "Louie's Place" after it's orangutan owner, where he met Baloo.

The sky pirates soon pinpointed his trajectory, which led Baloo and Kit to escape on his floatplane the Sea Duck, a Conwing L-16 intent for cargo purposes. Learning of Kit's plight and the fact that he wanted to be a pilot just like Baloo, the older bear took the cub in as a surrogate son following a series of adventures involving the confrontation between his former guardian in his attempt to burn down all of Cape Suzette with a lightning gun, mostly attacking the citizens who refused to submit their money and jewelry to him.

Kit had come to breakfast the next morning in Rebecca's house to find the three bears sitting around the kitchen table. They were watching the television; which Rebecca had purchased after an increase in her salary. With orange fur, 5'5" long brown hair, deep carmine pink sweater, Egyptian blue jeans and having made a scandalous divorce to her husband Henry at thirty-five years old, Rebecca was seen as a typical beauty by the lower class citizens of Zootopia, while those of her station, the upper class, saw her as nothing more than a regular beauty. It even attracted Baloo in his own affections towards her, but she detested the way he shirked his responsibilities and his cringing pet-name for her "Beckers", but it soon grew on her. As managing director and owner of the business firm Higher for Hire, she could supply any plane to her customers for a reasonably expensive price.

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