Baleera

Baleera is the slash ship between Baloo and Bagheera from the The Jungle Book fandom.

The Jungle Book (1968)
Baloo and Begheera were already familiar with each other prior to the events of the movie. After Bagheera gets fed up with Mowgli and leaves him to be on his own, he hears the mighty roar of an animal and thinks something happened to him. When he arrives at the scene, he is annoyed at seeing Baloo again. When Baloo asks the boy for his name, Bagheera answers for him and dismisses Baloo trying to get Mowgli to go to the man village. He nontheless watches as Baloo teaches Mowgli how to fight, but chews Baloo out when the bear accidentally knocks Mowgli into a tree. Mowgli defends Baloo, claiming that he isn't injured. That convinces Bagheera, he does not approve of Mowgli staying with Baloo and urges the boy to come to the man village. When Baloo stands up for Mowgli, teaching him the values of Bare Necessities, Bagheera walks away hoping that Baloo will eventually realize that Mowgli can't stay in the jungle.

However, when Baloo isn't looking, Mowgli gets kidnapped by monkeys, who knock him down a short hill. Realizing that he lost Mowgli, Baloo calls Bagheera for help. Bagheera is disappointed in Baloo, but he says that he genuinely tried to keep Mowgli safe, but the monkeys ambushed him and were too quick for him to fight. Bagheera calms down considerably and deduces that Mowgli has been taken to the ancient ruins, the "kingdom" of King Louie, and the two waste no time tracking Mowgli down.

When they find Mowgli in the clutches of King Louie, Baloo is furious and intends to tear them apart if they do something to hurt Mowgli. But when Bagheera hatches a plan, Baloo gets distracted by King Louie's song, Bagheera just tells him to make a distraction so that he can snatch Mowgli away from the monkeys. Bagheera's plan seems to go well, with him being able to sneak into the King's court undetected and nearly grabbing Mowgli and making a run for it. At the worst possible moment, Baloo storms in, disguised as a female orangutan and actually does a good job distracting King Louie by dancing with him. However, his disguise literally falls apart and their cover is blown, the monkeys realize that they are trying to take Mowgli from them and chase them. Baloo destroys a pillar of one of the ancient temples and happens to trap King Louie in another pillar, allowing them to get away with Mowgli and one black eye each.

The three of them rest by a tree near a body of water and Baloo and Bagheera use the opportunity to have a talk while Mowgli is sleeping tight. Though Baloo is proud of his work with the monkeys, Bagheera disagrees and chastises him for putting Mowgli in danger. Baloo doesn't understand why Mowgli can't stay in the jungle and grow up to be a bear like himself, but Bagheera explains that one should not divert from their own species. He further tries to convince him that a human was never meant to live in the jungle and that Mowgli will only cause further unwanted attention. Baloo remains stubborn until Bagheera mentions Shere Khan. When Bagheera makes it clear to him that Shere Khan will not wait until Mowgli's grown old enough to hurt him, Baloo is finally but reluctantly convinced to let the boy go.

As Baloo does what Bagheera told him to do, he gets on Mowgli's bad side and he chews Baloo out for being no different from Bagheera, which leads to Mowgli running away from him. Bagheera hears Baloo calling for Mowgli, but Baloo tells him that he said exactly what Bagheera told him to say and Bagheera seems to realize that Mowgli running out on them was partially his fault as well. So they agree to separate and find him before Shere Khan does. Baloo finds Mowgli being attacked by Shere Khan and comes to his rescue, but during his fight with him, he gets knocked down and doesn't respond when Mowgli urges him to wake up. Bagheera arrives at the scene and sees Baloo lying there motionless, taking Mowgli by the shoulder, he starts a speech about how Baloo will not be forgotten and that this place will be his memorial. Baloo wakes up partially in Bagheera's speech and chuckles to himself, clearly moved by how much Bagheera cares about him and wishes that his mother were there to hear this. When Bagheera takes Mowgli to leave, Baloo reveals himself to be alive and Bagheera admits that he is indeed relieved.

Just as Baloo uses Mowgli scaring off Shere Khan as proof that Mowgli can survive in the jungle, Mowgli is distracting by a girl singing. Baloo tries to stop Mowgli from going after her, but Bagheera tells him to let Mowgli have his way. As Mowgli and the girl make eye contact, he starts having second thoughts about leaving and looks at Baloo and Bagheera, who each try to convince him to come back and go on respectively. Ultimately, Mowgli decides to follow her, to the disappointment of Baloo. Bagheera tells him that Mowgli is finally where he belongs and Baloo does agree with that, still lamenting that Mowgli would've made a great bear. He then suggests that they should head back where they belong as well and Baloo wraps his arm around Bagheera singing his "Bare Necessities" song. Bagheera joins in and they walk into the sunset together.

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Despite most of their relationship being in focus, Baleera is only the second most popular ship in the "The Jungle Book (Disney Animated Movies)" tag on AO3. Nonetheless, the ship is widely celebrated as being one of the clearest depictions of a character having two fathers in a Disney movie, often credited for setting the template for later pseudo gay couples (most notably Timbaa).

Fans of TaleSpin often try to insert Bagheera into the cast, founding it odd that he is the only major character who is conspicuously absent. He's often depicted as an old friend of Baloo and a business partner of Higher for Hire. Strangely, only one fic for the ship is tagged as "TaleSpin".

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 * Baloo often calls Bagheera "Baggy" in the Disney movie.