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ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER
GENERAL
[Name:] Shi-Long Lang
[Age:] 28
[Gender:] Male
[Marital Status:] Single
[Sexuality:] Straight
[Occupation:] One of the higher-ranking Interpol field agents in the world, commanding a hundred men who answer directly to him.
CONNECTIONS
[Family:]
Father: Shi-Long Lang's father was a police officer working the streets of the family's resident prefecture in Zheng Fa. He retired some years ago, and is now the patriarch of the extended family. He was a man of ambition in his youth, but that was crushed somewhat during the fall of the house of Lang. His quiet determination and dignity was one of Lang's inspirations for restoring the family name.
Mother: Shi-Long Lang's mother worked alongside his father in the police force: they actually met in the training academy. She was disowned by her own family for marrying into the sullied Lang name, but did not mind this as much as might be imagined.
Siblings: Lang is the youngest of seven children: he has three elder sisters and three elder brothers, the eldest being a brother and then alternating genders down to himself. His parents had originally intended to only have three children, but they were very traditional in their birth control methods and things just happened as they happened. Each of his siblings serves as a member of law enforcement in some capacity, and he is somewhat proud that none of them directly serve the courts.
Grandther: The former patriarch of the family, Lang "Ye Ye" was in charge of the investigation which brought such tremendous shame upon the Lang name. He retired following the investigation, and his family was vilified in the aftermath, but he retained his dignity throughout his life in having fulfilled his duty to the best of his abilities. He died poor but surrounded by family, including a young Shi-Long, who did not understand how Ye Ye could be so accepting of fate.
[Friends:]
Tyrell Badd: Lang respects Badd as an investigator of the highest calibre, and understands his focus in bringing the Yatagarasu to justice. He sees Badd's crimes as being the actions of a man who had to work outside of the system, which is a motivation that he can understand. The fact that Badd is in prison does not depreciate his respect at all.
Miles Edgeworth: Edgeworth, as a prosecutor, was the initial target of considerable vitriol and disdain. That said, Edgeworth proved himself - more than once - to be a seeker of the truth, someone who personified what the courts were supposed to be instead of what he thought they were. Calling Edgeworth his friend might be too strong - Lang Zi says that a friend is one who shares in every kill, in fact or in spirit - but they are definitely on that road, and Lang does not mind the other man's company.
Franziska von Karma: The last von Karma is afforded close to the same degree of respect as her elder brother, and because Lang respects Edgeworth so much he sees Franziska as being younger than she is. Not to say that he sees her in a sisterly way - perish the thought - but he does not treat her as harshly as he does many other people. Of course, Lang Zi says that a cub who is not bitten will not know its place, so he is not above butting heads with her when the occasion calls for it.
The Pack: 100 men under Lang's direct command, these are his family even moreso than his blood relatives are. He knows each and every one of them as most people know their own siblings, down to the birthdays of every member of their families, and even their families' families. Though Lang is unquestionably the Shifu, he does not treat his subordinates as inferiors: rather, they are each as worthy as he is, and have to be made aware of their own worthiness to perform at their best. He goes out of his way to set a good example for them.
[Enemies:]
Main Enemy of Case 5: Enjoying the fact of him rotting in a Zheng Fa prison, thank you very much, and not particularly sad about what kind of Hell he knows that to be.
Subordinate Enemy of Case 5: Betrayal is a wound that he carries, but it has already scarred over and left its lasting mark. This person is dead to him, and he does not particularly care where they are. His greatest triumph in this scenario is probably that this has not harmed his ability to trust, just made him sharper in snooping out treachery.
[Other:]
Dick Gumshoe: He thinks Gumshoe is an idiot and generally there to provide comic relief, but at least the guy's heart is in the right place.
Kay Faraday: His outlook concerning Kay is similar to that for Gumshoe, in that he does not take her particularly seriously. He does, however, admire her determination, tenacity, and ultimate victory in setting right the damage that had been done to her family and her name. She gets respect from him, and in time he expects to see her do greater things.
Pretty much everyone he's spoken to at length: He has an excellent memory concerning names, faces, and facts relating to people. He will remember almost anything told to him about a person, and if he wants he might learn some things he was never told in the first place.
CHARACTER
[General personality:] Lang lives up to his name in almost every way. He's an investigative genius, not in that he's a procedural savant but in that he knows how to approach situations and trap his prey in the best and most efficient way possible. He balances out a tremendous sense of authority (he commands one hundred men!) with the kind of charisma that a real leader needs (those one hundred men love him as Shifu). He respects his subordinates more than most people respect their own family, and will go far out of his way to protect each and every one of them. Even when justice calls upon him to act in a way that does not favor one of his subordinates, he will confess his sorrow at having to do something they might find unpleasant.
Besides being fiercely loyal, Lang is also scared of nothing and nobody. His sense of self-preservation will take a back-seat to the protection of the people around him, be they friend or enemy, and he is capable of great feats of speed and cunning when pressed to act by an emergency. His courage is coupled with a tremendous confidence: it is impossible for anyone to actually cow him through force of personality or authority, though he will grudgingly yield when forced to do so by circumstance. He is brave, but he is not foolhardy. He is compassionate, but he also shows no mercy where mercy cannot be afforded.
He is also deeply concerned with the proper way to behave, or at least with setting the proper example for his men. He will go against every instinct afforded by his dislike of a person if it means hat he can set a good example for his followers, and he has done this on more than one occasion.
Part of the fact that Lang's been able to memorize so many things about his subordinates is that he doesn't have the average person's limitations when it comes to remembering people and relationships. The amount of information he can retain borders on the absurd, and he remembers the relationships and identities of at least a thousand people at any given time.
Also he might be considered crude, but nobody's perfect.
[Appearance:] Lang looks no different than he did in AAI, though he now has an additional scar on his leg where he was shot by Tyrell Badd. In addition, he also has a series of scars on his chest in the shape of Orion - somewhat reminiscent of Kenshiro's Big Dipper scars in Fist of the North Star. This similarity has been pointed out to him before. He's never said how he got these scars.
[Background:] Lang was born the seventh of three children, and had special pressures placed on him as the youngest child (and the last mouth to feed). He learned quickly as a child and completed his education as if he had been born for it. He was at the top of his class every time anyone cared to check, and some precursor to the Pack tended to crop up around him every so often. It was htought that he would be a great politician or corporate head, but he followed his family's business into the world of the law and was thus held up by Zheng Fa as on of the greater proteges of law enforcement that they had had in some time. When he was scouted out by Interpol, the Zheng Fa authorities allowed him to join provided he understood that he would need to be a proud example of his countrymen. He agreed. He spent years studying methods of catching criminals around the world, but he always came back to the teaching of Lang Zi, which served him best.
As an Interpol agent, he quickly amassed an incredible arrest record, an a larger-than-statistically-normal percentage of them lead to convictions in various courts throughout the world. Whenever he was transferred into new assignments, former partners were so taken with his technique and his charisma that they would ask to be transferred along with him, and they were allowed to do this because he asked for them to be allowed. The Pack was built over the course of several years, though at one hundred he declared that it was large enough - Lang Zi says that if one cannot stop at one hundred then one cannot stop at ten thousand.
His goal, the entire time, has been the restoration of his family name. Every arrest, every investigation was another brick for the foundation of a new law enforcement dynasty, one that he might never complete but that he vowed to make possible.
AAI-3 and AAI-5 went a long way toward making that possible.
The Zheng Fa government is indebted to him at this time, and he has gained some measure of celebrity in his home prefecture. More, Interpol has granted him more autonomy than ever, and it is believed that he is becoming more and more capable with time.
EXTENSIONS
Franziska von Karma: Lang's relationship with Franziska von Karma is founded on the pretense of professional courtesy: he worked alongside her to break apart the smuggling ring and was cooperative throughout, giving the appearance of amicability for the sake of his subordinates. This did not tell the whole story, of course: the von Karma name calls to mind everything that Lang saw as wrong with the world of prosecutors, but he never had an opportunity to actually spell out his distaste for the woman (not as an individual, just as a prosecutor). It's not clear if he would have done so anyway, given her effectiveness and relative professionalism; if it ever did come up, then Shih-na was the only person to hear of it.
It evolved beyond that, of course, but this was very little Franziska's own doing: it had more to do with Edgeworth's relationship with her and how that reflected on her potential as someone who pursued appropriate prosecutorial goals, in spite of what she might say to the contrary. The fact that he used her as a decoy in attempting to bring Quercus Alba into the game is simultaneously a testament to his implicit faith in Edgeworth's abilities and his expectation that she would agree with the action given his motivation.
His current understanding of Franziska von Karma still has little to do with his own interactions with her, as those are strictly professional: he's witnessed the way she insists that Edgeworth is her subordinate in spite of the fact that the latter seems to be the more capable prosecutor. She is the classic little sister, and he sees her as such - not his, of course, but that personality carries over into everything, according to his expectations. He respects her for her investigative and deductive abilities, but the woman is still a spoiled brat who has to be reminded when she isn't in charge, though not by him. Not to say that he is not friendly toward her; he is as friendly as can be expected of Lang, but he tries to be realistic about the kind of person he's dealing with.
Shih-na: Lang Zi says "The hunts remain when the pack is gone." Shih-na was a liar and a traitor, but that does not detract from the experiences that she and Lang shared, or the things that they accomplished together, or the genuine nature of his own emotions concerning her. She was his subordinate, but there was more to it than that: she was his shadow, his left arm, his one confidant in an organization where his role was shifu. She was his subordinate, so there were no romantic feelings between them and it would be unprofessional to call them friends, but if he were to be honest with himself then that is what Shih-na was to him: a close friend in a world full of enemies.
When she betrayed him - or, rather, when that betrayal was dragged screaming into the open under a cacophony of hellish laughter - it was probably the first time he had ever felt anything so negative that strongly. It was not something that he felt immediately: shock gave way to duty, as it must, and he acted in a way that he thought would save her life when the moment came. More than being betrayed by Shih-na, he feels as if he has managed to fail - she was his subordinate, and her failures, mistakes, and betrayals are his own. In some part of his mind he believes that he could have made things turn out differently if he had known beforehand, but the story of his family keeps him from dwelling on this too much. Sometimes things happen that one cannot control, and though some of the blame lies with him he is not going to beat himself up over it. He has a Pack to run.
Shih-na's betrayal may as well have ended in her death: the woman he knew, who helped him in dire times and went above and beyond the call of duty so often, is essentially dead to him in a literal sense. Her final act was revealing years of betrayal, but the hunts remain. He mourns her - in private, because he has no one who can share in that mourning.
Others
Calisto Yew: Calisto Yew might as well not exist, and yet she goes on existing in spite of that. If Lang were made to condense his opinion of her as succinctly as possible, it would be that she is human detritus beneath the notice of legitimately good or productive people. He does not hate her, would not give her the satisfaction of it, because he refuses to acknowledge her as the woman who shared so much with him. Her greatest offense toward him is in thinking that she functioned as part of his Pack: she didn't. Calisto Yew is not Shih-na. She only has the face of a dead woman.
General Personality: Shi-Long Lang is primarily characterized based on a few features: his loyalties, his prejudices, his work ethic, and his relationship with his past.
The first and probably most important aspect of his interactions with others is based on his loyalties: his entire ethos is built around loyalty and what constitutes loyalty, how far one has to be willing to go in order for the people that one cares about. His loyalties are most plainly exemplified in his relationship with his Pack, which shapes his behavior in almost every situation. He goes out of his way to learn about his Pack and their extended families, to act against his instincts so that he sets a better example, and to do foolhardy things for the sake of their well-being. His loyalties extend to his friends and coworkers to a lesser extent, but with Lang all loyalty is earned, and once earned it is very hard to revoke. He persists in upholding the morals and well-being of the Lang family; this has less to do with his own ego and more to do with xiào shùn, or filial piety.
His loyalties do not always serve him well, of course, but since his betrayal by Shih-na he has taken measure to be able to keep his loyalties from clouding his vision, so that he does not lose his ability to trust but still sees people for what they are rather than what he wants to believe them to be. It is a difficult balance and he has trouble maintaining it, but he is getting better at it.
His prejudices are somewhat less pronounced than they were before, thanks to a personal revelation concerning the legal system and the roles of the different people operating within it. It is a consequence of the fall of the House of Lang that he held prosecutors to be swindlers, liars, and general roadblocks on the path to justice. This perception of antagonism in the form of law enforcement lead Lang to become disillusioned with the entire idea of seeking justice in the first place - why try to find out the truth when prosecutors wouldn't even use what you gave them? So he went about arresting without regards to actual guilt - after all, guilt was a prosecutor's job, not his.
THis is not so much true anymore, after having seen the students of Manfred von Karma ferret out the truth on more than one occasion, seeking to protect those who were innocent from facing an unfair trial. Something in that appealed to him on a very personal level - if the prosecutors in Zheng Fa had been so concerned with the truth all those years ago, then Ye Ye never would have fallen from grace and the House of Lang would still be strong. He seeks the truth, not for the truth's own sake but for the moral superiority of it, for the sake of being able to honor he memory of his family's previous status.
What prejudices he still has are largely behavioral: it is easy for him to think critically about a situation and think laterally to arrive at unintuitive but still correct courses of action, but that relies almost solely on him coming up with the idea himself. If someone else corrects him without the evidence to back it up, he will dismiss them, and even with evidence it is a begrudging sort of acquiescence. His determination is an asset in nearly all things, but he often takes it far enough that the people around him find it difficult to deal with.
This carries over into his work ethic: his understanding of himself and his duties is a product of his filial duties and his understanding of what justice is, but his ability to carry out these duties comes from his internalizations of the teachings of Lang Zi. Lang Zi says, "A lone wolf starves, but a pack with no leader starves as well." He takes the mantle of leadership upon himself, and exudes authority through sheer force of will and personality and determination. He is often treated as an unstoppable, though no uncontrollable, force: so long as he is legally able to operate there are very few limitations on what he may do to achieve his goals, though he will not act outside of the bounds of the law in a way that would hurt his reputation or that of his organization.
An enormous amount of the action he takes and the perspective he brings to any situation is dependent upon Lang's connection with his own past, both his personal past and his familial past. His familial past provides a baseline for all interactions, serving as the impetus for his joining Interpol and the overarching goal that dictates the path of his life. His name is not a burden to be borne: it is another kind of family which is to be propped up and cared for and nurtured. In the back of his mind, he always seeks to restore the honor of his family, so that others will understand why his pride in his heritage is so justified.
While his familial past determines the course of his life, it is his personal past that determines how he will approach this path, and the way in which he chooses to confront obstacles. Without the perspective of knowing good and proper prosecutors he was left bitter about the imperfections of the justice system, and all of his actions reflected that. With the advent of Shih-na's betrayal and the rise of his sympathy for and understanding of prosecutors, he has been left with a clearer, somewhat more optimistic view of the justice system, and carries that optimism like a weapon. He is still Shi-Long Lang, but he has begun the process of growing in ways that he never anticipated for himself.
SPOILER WARNING:
THIS APP HAS ACE ATTORNEY INVESTIGATIONS SPOILERS
THIS IS THE ONLY WARNING YOU GET
ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER
GENERAL
[Name:] Shi-Long Lang
[Age:] 28
[Gender:] Male
[Marital Status:] Single
[Sexuality:] Straight
[Occupation:] One of the higher-ranking Interpol field agents in the world, commanding a hundred men who answer directly to him.
CONNECTIONS
[Family:]
Father: Shi-Long Lang's father was a police officer working the streets of the family's resident prefecture in Zheng Fa. He retired some years ago, and is now the patriarch of the extended family. He was a man of ambition in his youth, but that was crushed somewhat during the fall of the house of Lang. His quiet determination and dignity was one of Lang's inspirations for restoring the family name.
Mother: Shi-Long Lang's mother worked alongside his father in the police force: they actually met in the training academy. She was disowned by her own family for marrying into the sullied Lang name, but did not mind this as much as might be imagined.
Siblings: Lang is the youngest of seven children: he has three elder sisters and three elder brothers, the eldest being a brother and then alternating genders down to himself. His parents had originally intended to only have three children, but they were very traditional in their birth control methods and things just happened as they happened. Each of his siblings serves as a member of law enforcement in some capacity, and he is somewhat proud that none of them directly serve the courts.
Grandther: The former patriarch of the family, Lang "Ye Ye" was in charge of the investigation which brought such tremendous shame upon the Lang name. He retired following the investigation, and his family was vilified in the aftermath, but he retained his dignity throughout his life in having fulfilled his duty to the best of his abilities. He died poor but surrounded by family, including a young Shi-Long, who did not understand how Ye Ye could be so accepting of fate.
[Friends:]
Tyrell Badd: Lang respects Badd as an investigator of the highest calibre, and understands his focus in bringing the Yatagarasu to justice. He sees Badd's crimes as being the actions of a man who had to work outside of the system, which is a motivation that he can understand. The fact that Badd is in prison does not depreciate his respect at all.
Miles Edgeworth: Edgeworth, as a prosecutor, was the initial target of considerable vitriol and disdain. That said, Edgeworth proved himself - more than once - to be a seeker of the truth, someone who personified what the courts were supposed to be instead of what he thought they were. Calling Edgeworth his friend might be too strong - Lang Zi says that a friend is one who shares in every kill, in fact or in spirit - but they are definitely on that road, and Lang does not mind the other man's company.
Franziska von Karma: The last von Karma is afforded close to the same degree of respect as her elder brother, and because Lang respects Edgeworth so much he sees Franziska as being younger than she is. Not to say that he sees her in a sisterly way - perish the thought - but he does not treat her as harshly as he does many other people. Of course, Lang Zi says that a cub who is not bitten will not know its place, so he is not above butting heads with her when the occasion calls for it.
The Pack: 100 men under Lang's direct command, these are his family even moreso than his blood relatives are. He knows each and every one of them as most people know their own siblings, down to the birthdays of every member of their families, and even their families' families. Though Lang is unquestionably the Shifu, he does not treat his subordinates as inferiors: rather, they are each as worthy as he is, and have to be made aware of their own worthiness to perform at their best. He goes out of his way to set a good example for them.
[Enemies:]
Main Enemy of Case 5: Enjoying the fact of him rotting in a Zheng Fa prison, thank you very much, and not particularly sad about what kind of Hell he knows that to be.
Subordinate Enemy of Case 5: Betrayal is a wound that he carries, but it has already scarred over and left its lasting mark. This person is dead to him, and he does not particularly care where they are. His greatest triumph in this scenario is probably that this has not harmed his ability to trust, just made him sharper in snooping out treachery.
[Other:]
Dick Gumshoe: He thinks Gumshoe is an idiot and generally there to provide comic relief, but at least the guy's heart is in the right place.
Kay Faraday: His outlook concerning Kay is similar to that for Gumshoe, in that he does not take her particularly seriously. He does, however, admire her determination, tenacity, and ultimate victory in setting right the damage that had been done to her family and her name. She gets respect from him, and in time he expects to see her do greater things.
Pretty much everyone he's spoken to at length: He has an excellent memory concerning names, faces, and facts relating to people. He will remember almost anything told to him about a person, and if he wants he might learn some things he was never told in the first place.
CHARACTER
[General personality:] Lang lives up to his name in almost every way. He's an investigative genius, not in that he's a procedural savant but in that he knows how to approach situations and trap his prey in the best and most efficient way possible. He balances out a tremendous sense of authority (he commands one hundred men!) with the kind of charisma that a real leader needs (those one hundred men love him as Shifu). He respects his subordinates more than most people respect their own family, and will go far out of his way to protect each and every one of them. Even when justice calls upon him to act in a way that does not favor one of his subordinates, he will confess his sorrow at having to do something they might find unpleasant.
Besides being fiercely loyal, Lang is also scared of nothing and nobody. His sense of self-preservation will take a back-seat to the protection of the people around him, be they friend or enemy, and he is capable of great feats of speed and cunning when pressed to act by an emergency. His courage is coupled with a tremendous confidence: it is impossible for anyone to actually cow him through force of personality or authority, though he will grudgingly yield when forced to do so by circumstance. He is brave, but he is not foolhardy. He is compassionate, but he also shows no mercy where mercy cannot be afforded.
He is also deeply concerned with the proper way to behave, or at least with setting the proper example for his men. He will go against every instinct afforded by his dislike of a person if it means hat he can set a good example for his followers, and he has done this on more than one occasion.
Part of the fact that Lang's been able to memorize so many things about his subordinates is that he doesn't have the average person's limitations when it comes to remembering people and relationships. The amount of information he can retain borders on the absurd, and he remembers the relationships and identities of at least a thousand people at any given time.
Also he might be considered crude, but nobody's perfect.
[Appearance:] Lang looks no different than he did in AAI, though he now has an additional scar on his leg where he was shot by Tyrell Badd. In addition, he also has a series of scars on his chest in the shape of Orion - somewhat reminiscent of Kenshiro's Big Dipper scars in Fist of the North Star. This similarity has been pointed out to him before. He's never said how he got these scars.
[Background:] Lang was born the seventh of three children, and had special pressures placed on him as the youngest child (and the last mouth to feed). He learned quickly as a child and completed his education as if he had been born for it. He was at the top of his class every time anyone cared to check, and some precursor to the Pack tended to crop up around him every so often. It was htought that he would be a great politician or corporate head, but he followed his family's business into the world of the law and was thus held up by Zheng Fa as on of the greater proteges of law enforcement that they had had in some time. When he was scouted out by Interpol, the Zheng Fa authorities allowed him to join provided he understood that he would need to be a proud example of his countrymen. He agreed. He spent years studying methods of catching criminals around the world, but he always came back to the teaching of Lang Zi, which served him best.
As an Interpol agent, he quickly amassed an incredible arrest record, an a larger-than-statistically-normal percentage of them lead to convictions in various courts throughout the world. Whenever he was transferred into new assignments, former partners were so taken with his technique and his charisma that they would ask to be transferred along with him, and they were allowed to do this because he asked for them to be allowed. The Pack was built over the course of several years, though at one hundred he declared that it was large enough - Lang Zi says that if one cannot stop at one hundred then one cannot stop at ten thousand.
His goal, the entire time, has been the restoration of his family name. Every arrest, every investigation was another brick for the foundation of a new law enforcement dynasty, one that he might never complete but that he vowed to make possible.
AAI-3 and AAI-5 went a long way toward making that possible.
The Zheng Fa government is indebted to him at this time, and he has gained some measure of celebrity in his home prefecture. More, Interpol has granted him more autonomy than ever, and it is believed that he is becoming more and more capable with time.
EXTENSIONS
Franziska von Karma: Lang's relationship with Franziska von Karma is founded on the pretense of professional courtesy: he worked alongside her to break apart the smuggling ring and was cooperative throughout, giving the appearance of amicability for the sake of his subordinates. This did not tell the whole story, of course: the von Karma name calls to mind everything that Lang saw as wrong with the world of prosecutors, but he never had an opportunity to actually spell out his distaste for the woman (not as an individual, just as a prosecutor). It's not clear if he would have done so anyway, given her effectiveness and relative professionalism; if it ever did come up, then Shih-na was the only person to hear of it.
It evolved beyond that, of course, but this was very little Franziska's own doing: it had more to do with Edgeworth's relationship with her and how that reflected on her potential as someone who pursued appropriate prosecutorial goals, in spite of what she might say to the contrary. The fact that he used her as a decoy in attempting to bring Quercus Alba into the game is simultaneously a testament to his implicit faith in Edgeworth's abilities and his expectation that she would agree with the action given his motivation.
His current understanding of Franziska von Karma still has little to do with his own interactions with her, as those are strictly professional: he's witnessed the way she insists that Edgeworth is her subordinate in spite of the fact that the latter seems to be the more capable prosecutor. She is the classic little sister, and he sees her as such - not his, of course, but that personality carries over into everything, according to his expectations. He respects her for her investigative and deductive abilities, but the woman is still a spoiled brat who has to be reminded when she isn't in charge, though not by him. Not to say that he is not friendly toward her; he is as friendly as can be expected of Lang, but he tries to be realistic about the kind of person he's dealing with.
Shih-na: Lang Zi says "The hunts remain when the pack is gone." Shih-na was a liar and a traitor, but that does not detract from the experiences that she and Lang shared, or the things that they accomplished together, or the genuine nature of his own emotions concerning her. She was his subordinate, but there was more to it than that: she was his shadow, his left arm, his one confidant in an organization where his role was shifu. She was his subordinate, so there were no romantic feelings between them and it would be unprofessional to call them friends, but if he were to be honest with himself then that is what Shih-na was to him: a close friend in a world full of enemies.
When she betrayed him - or, rather, when that betrayal was dragged screaming into the open under a cacophony of hellish laughter - it was probably the first time he had ever felt anything so negative that strongly. It was not something that he felt immediately: shock gave way to duty, as it must, and he acted in a way that he thought would save her life when the moment came. More than being betrayed by Shih-na, he feels as if he has managed to fail - she was his subordinate, and her failures, mistakes, and betrayals are his own. In some part of his mind he believes that he could have made things turn out differently if he had known beforehand, but the story of his family keeps him from dwelling on this too much. Sometimes things happen that one cannot control, and though some of the blame lies with him he is not going to beat himself up over it. He has a Pack to run.
Shih-na's betrayal may as well have ended in her death: the woman he knew, who helped him in dire times and went above and beyond the call of duty so often, is essentially dead to him in a literal sense. Her final act was revealing years of betrayal, but the hunts remain. He mourns her - in private, because he has no one who can share in that mourning.
Others
Calisto Yew: Calisto Yew might as well not exist, and yet she goes on existing in spite of that. If Lang were made to condense his opinion of her as succinctly as possible, it would be that she is human detritus beneath the notice of legitimately good or productive people. He does not hate her, would not give her the satisfaction of it, because he refuses to acknowledge her as the woman who shared so much with him. Her greatest offense toward him is in thinking that she functioned as part of his Pack: she didn't. Calisto Yew is not Shih-na. She only has the face of a dead woman.
General Personality: Shi-Long Lang is primarily characterized based on a few features: his loyalties, his prejudices, his work ethic, and his relationship with his past.
The first and probably most important aspect of his interactions with others is based on his loyalties: his entire ethos is built around loyalty and what constitutes loyalty, how far one has to be willing to go in order for the people that one cares about. His loyalties are most plainly exemplified in his relationship with his Pack, which shapes his behavior in almost every situation. He goes out of his way to learn about his Pack and their extended families, to act against his instincts so that he sets a better example, and to do foolhardy things for the sake of their well-being. His loyalties extend to his friends and coworkers to a lesser extent, but with Lang all loyalty is earned, and once earned it is very hard to revoke. He persists in upholding the morals and well-being of the Lang family; this has less to do with his own ego and more to do with xiào shùn, or filial piety.
His loyalties do not always serve him well, of course, but since his betrayal by Shih-na he has taken measure to be able to keep his loyalties from clouding his vision, so that he does not lose his ability to trust but still sees people for what they are rather than what he wants to believe them to be. It is a difficult balance and he has trouble maintaining it, but he is getting better at it.
His prejudices are somewhat less pronounced than they were before, thanks to a personal revelation concerning the legal system and the roles of the different people operating within it. It is a consequence of the fall of the House of Lang that he held prosecutors to be swindlers, liars, and general roadblocks on the path to justice. This perception of antagonism in the form of law enforcement lead Lang to become disillusioned with the entire idea of seeking justice in the first place - why try to find out the truth when prosecutors wouldn't even use what you gave them? So he went about arresting without regards to actual guilt - after all, guilt was a prosecutor's job, not his.
THis is not so much true anymore, after having seen the students of Manfred von Karma ferret out the truth on more than one occasion, seeking to protect those who were innocent from facing an unfair trial. Something in that appealed to him on a very personal level - if the prosecutors in Zheng Fa had been so concerned with the truth all those years ago, then Ye Ye never would have fallen from grace and the House of Lang would still be strong. He seeks the truth, not for the truth's own sake but for the moral superiority of it, for the sake of being able to honor he memory of his family's previous status.
What prejudices he still has are largely behavioral: it is easy for him to think critically about a situation and think laterally to arrive at unintuitive but still correct courses of action, but that relies almost solely on him coming up with the idea himself. If someone else corrects him without the evidence to back it up, he will dismiss them, and even with evidence it is a begrudging sort of acquiescence. His determination is an asset in nearly all things, but he often takes it far enough that the people around him find it difficult to deal with.
This carries over into his work ethic: his understanding of himself and his duties is a product of his filial duties and his understanding of what justice is, but his ability to carry out these duties comes from his internalizations of the teachings of Lang Zi. Lang Zi says, "A lone wolf starves, but a pack with no leader starves as well." He takes the mantle of leadership upon himself, and exudes authority through sheer force of will and personality and determination. He is often treated as an unstoppable, though no uncontrollable, force: so long as he is legally able to operate there are very few limitations on what he may do to achieve his goals, though he will not act outside of the bounds of the law in a way that would hurt his reputation or that of his organization.
An enormous amount of the action he takes and the perspective he brings to any situation is dependent upon Lang's connection with his own past, both his personal past and his familial past. His familial past provides a baseline for all interactions, serving as the impetus for his joining Interpol and the overarching goal that dictates the path of his life. His name is not a burden to be borne: it is another kind of family which is to be propped up and cared for and nurtured. In the back of his mind, he always seeks to restore the honor of his family, so that others will understand why his pride in his heritage is so justified.
While his familial past determines the course of his life, it is his personal past that determines how he will approach this path, and the way in which he chooses to confront obstacles. Without the perspective of knowing good and proper prosecutors he was left bitter about the imperfections of the justice system, and all of his actions reflected that. With the advent of Shih-na's betrayal and the rise of his sympathy for and understanding of prosecutors, he has been left with a clearer, somewhat more optimistic view of the justice system, and carries that optimism like a weapon. He is still Shi-Long Lang, but he has begun the process of growing in ways that he never anticipated for himself.