Graham (Animal Jam)

Graham is a major character in Animal Jam and one of the seven main Alphas that protect Jamaa. As Alpha of he monkeys, he is a very skilled inventor that is always creating new devices to help in the war against the Phantoms, and is fascinated whenever he discovers something new about Jamaa's past. He is the titular mascot of the Graham's Workshop activity.
==Biography==
Long ago, the Phantoms had begun to invade Jamaa and seal away it's inhabitants in their Heartstones. Knowing that they couldn't fight off the threat on their own, Mira and Zios sought out the leaders of the six remaining animal species and granted them magical powers along with the title of Alpha. One of which was graham, the monkey's leader, who helped defeat the Phantom Queen and drive off her army. However, Zios was captured as they escaped, and with Mira flying through the dark portal after him, the Alphas were soon left to protect Jamaa without their aid.
Graham's first appearance is in Greely's Inferno, where the player meets him while climbing up the active volcano. He introduces himself and states that the Phantoms have corrupted the volcano from the inside out, but that he's found a secret entrance to the right of where he is. He then gives the player a gear before they go in, telling them that it's for his newest invention called a Spotbright, which can generate light and be used to solve puzzles. He states that the Phantoms have stolen some of his Spotbrights and took them inside the volcano, advising the player to repair any they come across. At the end of the mission, thinking that Greely was killed while stopping the volcano's eruption, Graham along with Cosmo and Liza mourn for him, with the monkey Alpha laments the fact that he won't be able to thank him for his sacrifice.
In The Search for Greely, Graham sends out a monkey search party to investigate the wolf Alpha's den and find any trace of him, dead or alive, and asks the player to help them. He then meets back up with the player after discovering Greely's secret hideout, saying that its owner used to sneak away for long periods of time, concluding that he must have been coming to the hideout. He then comments on the journal pages the search party had found that made it seem like Greely was working alongside the Phantoms, and Graham wonders if this is true. He then notices a combination lock on the back wall, thinking that the shapes in Greely's journal could have something to do with it. Once the lock puzzle is solved, yet another secret room is found, and the two find a Phantom portal within it. Graham concludes that the portal was how Greely was able to communicate with the Phantoms, and is confused as to the purpose of the Phantom Crystal also found there, as it doesn't seem to be related to the portal. At the end of the adventure, Graham, Cosmo and Liza confront Greely about him conspiring with the Phantoms, and the wolf Alpha explains that he was working as a spy to learn the Phantom's secrets, before telling them about the Phantom Fortress. Graham dismissed the Phantom Fortress as a myth until Greely shows them the Phantom Beacon, which can track the fortresses' location.
Graham greet the player at the beginning of Turning the Tide, telling them that he made a prosthetic tail fin for Tavie - as she was born without one - and had given it to the commander of the Bottlenose Brigade to deliver to her. However, neither Tavie nor the Bottlenose Brigade had been seen for a while, so he sends the player down to go find them, fearing they had been captured by Phantoms. At the end of the adventure, Graham appears with the rest of the Alphas, grateful to see Tavie safe and happy to know that her tail fin prosthetic had been received and is working properly.
In The Phantom Badlands, Graham and Sir Gilbert meet with the player, where the former tells them that his Mechachompers - mechanical versions of Chomper Plants that can be used multiple times - have been damaged and need repairing, and then compliments them on their bravery and wishes them luck. Once the player reaches the Mira shrine, the two other Alphas arrive to find that the feather of Mira's that they intended to use to purify the corrupted land is missing. Graham then points out the colorful splatters around the area, concluding that someone must have been there before them, put up a fight, and then left in a hurry. He comments on how the Phantoms only leave darkness and ruin, but the colors there are much brighter, adding that it feels like they're in Peck's den before realizing that the aforementioned bunny Alpha must have been the one who left the colors. Sir Gilbert doubts this, as even though Peck is reckless, she likely wouldn't try to take on an entire army of Phantoms herself. Graham argues that she would if she had a good reason to, speculating that she took Mira's feather with her, trying to track her footprints and noticing a pile of glowing rocks nearby. Under the rocks, Mira's feather is found, and Sir Gilbert uses its power to restore the polluted land and trap the Phantom Fortress in place.
In The Mystery Below, he teams up with Cosmo and the player to explore the caverns that the map obtained in The Trials of Zios is for. While the player opens the gateway with Light Blossoms harvested from the surrounding mushrooms, Graham asks Cosmo why his ability to speak to plants doesn't work on fungi, claiming them to be the same thing, to which the koala Alpha retorts that plants and fungi are very different. After discovering that the cavers house the ruins of an ancient fallen city, Graham wonders how its past inhabitants were so technologically advanced, and Cosmo reminds him that technology is more that gears and cogs.
After finding a mysterious pink stone, the Alphas take it back to their headquarters to research. However, feeling that it's wrong to taker the stone and intending to return it, Greely steals it and brings it back with the help of Peck and the player. At the end of The River's Heart, Graham joins Liza, Cosmo and Sir Gilbert in reprimanding Greely for stealing it, doubting its importance to the land it was found in until the rocks around it begin to glow, revealing it to be a Heartstone.
==Appearance==
Graham is a peach-skinned monkey with blue fur and lime green eyes. He has long, spiked white hair and a matching white beard. He has light blue square and rectangle markings on his lower arms and his thighs, and dark blue stripes on his tail. He has a brown leather backpack with x-shaped straps that have a yellow gemstone in the middle. He also gemstone examining goggles usually kept on top of his head and a brown leather belt with several pouches on it, the flap of each having a small, yellow, upside-down triangle gem on it. He has a small gold sun dial attached to a brown leather band on his right arm, and most of the time he also has a small gold key tied to his tail with brown string.
==Trivia==
*He's named after Alexander Graham Bell, the second president of the National Geographic Society. His inventive nature may have been inspired by Alexander's invention of the telephone.
*Graham was briefly an NPC encountered in the Lost Temple of Zios in 2011.
*His profile page during beta testing revealed that his favorite color is yellow.
*In older artwork, his eyes were gold and the gemstones on his clothing were green.
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