NAME/ORIGIN
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Character name
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Song/Album
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"Gorilla"/ Gorilla
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Release Date
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ABILITIES
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Powers
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Flight
"Look up in the sky, Mama, that's the one" Speech Is from "a land where the understand what a woman might like to hear." |
Skills
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Ride in a car
"He rides my Eldorado when he comes to town" Find people, like a detective or p.i. "He's out there somewhere trying to track you down" |
Attributes
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Is vegetarian
"He don't eat meat" |
Vulnerabilities
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Weapons, hunger
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Formidability
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Is much larger than others of its kind
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Attractiveness
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Physically, low, except to other gorillas and those who find animals majestic "Got a nose like a donut."
Emotionally, high: Is from "a land where the understand what a woman might like to hear." |
Source
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Larger size means larger brain.
Contact with humans means opportunity to observe and copy. |
Goals
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"He dreams about the world outside from behind those bars of steel"
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POSSESSIONS
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Weapons
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"He don't use tools or weapons"
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Amulets
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N/A
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Objects
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N/A
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Clothing
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None
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Vehicles
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None, but can ride in a car
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Dwelling
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"in a cage at the local zoo"
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Milieu
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Has known life outside the cage
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BIOGRAPHY
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Gender
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Male
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Age
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Adult
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Physique
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Is a gorilla
"He got arms like legs/ He got hands like feet" Is overweight "Got a tendency to overeat" Is larger than average (but still fits in a car... a convertible?) "See the mighty profile block the noonday sun" |
Ethnicity
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Primate?
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Origin
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"He comes from the heart of darkness, a thousand miles from here"
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Ancestry
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Africa, most likely
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Profession
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Zoo attraction
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Education
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Self-taught
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SES
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Low
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Relationships
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Has a crush on a human woman
"He loves you, baby, for who you really are." "His love is as burning hoyt as a big old ten-cent cigar" Has no friends to vent to about his crush "No one can understand about the heartache the man can feel" "People stop and stare, but nobody seems to care" |
Pets
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N/A
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PERSONALITY
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Morality
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Moral
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Intro/extrovert
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Introvert
"He likes to stick to the bushes, tends to avoid the street." |
Intelligence
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"He sits around contemplating the things he would rather do."
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Emotions
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Victimized: "It don't seem right somehow, it just don't seem fair"
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Sanity
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Sane, but sad.
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Enemies
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Visitors who taunt him, zookeepers who keep him locked up.
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Narrative Function
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Protagonist
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Other Notes
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Gorilla is a tragic figure. He is very large and intelligent for his kind. He can fly and talk, yet somehow wound up in a zoo cage. To make things worse, he has fallen in love/lust with a human woman he could never be with. Perhaps this is why he allows himself to stay caged-- what's the point of freedom if you can't be with the one you love?
And why escape if he would spend all his time eluding his captors? That's still not freedom. Also, they have no problem hurting him when capturing him, so in staying free he might have to hurt them, and just can't bring himself to (although of course he could). And again, they outnumber him-- the zookeepers and police and army... Plus, outside, he would have to find food and shelter, and he has those here. Still, he has known freedom and longs to be out, going where and doing what he pleased. He does have one friend, though, perhaps a primatologist with access to his cage. This person (the singer of the song) sneaks him away at night when he is in town. They go riding in his car with the top down, under the cover of darkness. Then, Gorilla enjoys some freedom, maybe even flying in an empty field, until just before dawn, when he must be returned home to the zoo before he is missed. Maybe Gorilla gets access to a voice-activated cellphone, and calls the woman he longs for. This could set an interesting plot in motion... |
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