Song Oak

Song Oak is Lio's wife and Kipo's mother, and a former Mega Mute that roamed the surface. She was at one point under the control of Emilia but was later freed from her collar by Kipo. Song was put under mind control again by Scarlemagne but freed once more by Tad Mulholland.
She was permanently returned to human after being administered the mute cure by Lio and Kipo in Season 3.
== Appearance ==
As a human, Song is nearly identical to Kipo in physical build. The only differences are her paler skin, black irises, and her long, braided black hair.
In Kipo's dream created by Mulholland and in reality, Song wears a white shirt with a fuchsia scarf and amaranth sleeves. In flashbacks, she wore a pink zip-up DNA-burrow jumpsuit with dark trim.
As a Mega Monkey, Song is perhaps modeled after a red-shanked douc. In this form, Song is mostly dark brown with reddish-brown ears, a reddish-brown eye mask, and a white chin and beard. She has red eyes with yellow sclera. She accidentally gets molten gold on one of her hands at the end of season 2 and this stays until season 3.
== Personality ==
Before her transformation, Song was having moral qualms about reverting the mutes back to their respected animals, especially after Hugo. She didn't believe in taking away gifts that were given. Song developed Project Kipo in order to develop a way for humans to use mute powers to live on the surface without declaring war on mutes.
Despite not being able to speak a human language as the Mega Monkey, Song could understand human speech and respond using hand gestures and vocalizations. Song was a peaceful creature when she was not being manipulated with Scarlemagne's puppet pheromones, but has a special fondness for Kipo, who was the first to break her out of her pheromone-induced aggression.
Song had notable trouble communicating in the mindscape since her human thoughts and vocabulary were limited by the instincts and feelings of the Mega Monkey.
== History ==
Song and her husband Lio were scientists in the DNA burrow. They were tasked by the burrow leader, Dr. Emilia, to isolate the Mute mutagen and find a way to reverse its effects, which would allow humanity to retake the surface.
In one of their experiments, Song and Lio turned a mandrill named Hugo into an intelligent mute and successfully isolated the mute mutagen. At the same time, they found a way to combine mute genes with human genetics, thus granting mute abilities to humans with the intention of giving humans a fighting chance to live on the surface if they had mute abilities to protect them. They were successful and Song was impregnated with their daughter, Kipo, who would be born with mega jaguar genes. However, Song and Lio soon realized the dire consequences if their breakthrough were to become known and did not feel that it was right to strip sentience and intelligence from the mutes. They kept Hugo's abilities a secret and planned to all escape the burrow as soon as Kipo was born.
During Song's pregnancy, she ended up absorbing some mega mute genes through Kipo, developing super strength and fur on her arms as a result. Lio and Song decided to hide herself in their apartment to keep the truth about Kipo a secret. After Kipo was born, Emilia sought to confront the couple about Song's pregnancy, having realized what they had done. At Song's insistence, Lio was able to escape with Kipo while Song distracted Emilia. During their confrontation, however, Song fell over a ledge and her mute genes activated in response to her fear, transforming her into a six-armed, giant, mega monkey. This caused the destruction of their burrow, resulting in Hugo being separated from Lio as well. Song was kept under Emilia's control for the next thirteen years thanks to her supply of Hugo's mind-controlling pheromones and through the use of a large collar that released them as gas from time to time.
At one point, Emilia ordered Song to attack The Timbercats in the forest and steal the Scratching Tree, the Timbercats most prized possession.
Later, Song was forced by the pheromones to attack the burrow where her husband and daughter now resided. She used the stolen Scratching Tree as a battering ram to demolish the ceiling of the burrow, forcing the residents to flee to the bunker. Lio and Kipo, at the time, were rock climbing and when Lio realized what was happening, he pushed Kipo into the aqueduct in an effort to save her. When Song broke through, she grabbed several residents until Lio got her attention. While being held by Song, Lio was briefly able to bring her back to her senses, until her collar became active again. Lio and the burrow residents were able to escape and afterward, Song retreated to her lair in Cactus Town.
=== Real Cats Wear Plaid ===
In the beginning and middle of the episode, the Timbercats mentioned about Song. Up on top of trees, Yumyan tells Kipo everything about Mega Monkey Song, and how she attack the Timbercats and stole their Scratching tree.
=== Cactus Town ===
Kipo met Song in Cactus Town, unaware that she was her mother, during her expedition with the Timbercats. The Timbercats attacked Song in an attempt to reclaim their stolen Scratching Tree, but Song, under pheromone mind control, easily defeated them. Soon after, Kipo was able to calm her with music but Song fled as her pheromone collar activated once more.
=== Paw of the Jaguar ===
Whilst traveling to Scarlemagne's palace to rescue her father, Kipo's Mega Flamingo gets attacked by Song under pheromone mind control. By singing her father's song, Kipo manages to pierce through the trance. She and the Song have a brief moment before the collar becomes active again, though before it can spray more pheromones, Kipo uses her Mega Jaguar arm to break it, freeing her mother. Song is grateful and attempts to tell Kipo something, but she is unable to understand. Unaware that she is her mother and knowing she has a mission to complete and what Scarlemagne may do to her, Kipo tells Song that she cannot come with her but gives her a blue armband as a reminder that they will always be friends.
=== To Catch a Deathstalker ===
Whilst searching for Kipo, Scarlemagne's nobles came upon the destroyed collar and brought it to him. Realizing that the monkey was free, Scarlemagne ordered his nobles to find her.
=== Fun Gus Part I ===
Scarlemagne attempted to locate Song, bringing her collar with him. With information from the Mod Frogs, he tracked her to her lair in Cactus Town where he got into a fight with the Umlaut Snäkes. During the fight, Emilia managed to get to Song first while her associates quietly retrieved the collar.
=== Fun Gus Part II ===
Emilia's associates brought her the now repaired collar and attempted to take control over Song again while she was sleeping. Fortunately, Song woke up and fled the area.
After winning the fight with the Umlaut Snäkes, Scarlemagne soon realized that Emilia had reclaimed the collar and stated they needed to find the monkey first. Soon after, Scarlemagne witnessed Song fleeing from her lair and gave chase with his nobles.
Scarlemagne and his nobles chased Song into some city ruins where they were lured into a trap when Song threw a large net at them. Scarlemagne managed to avoid being subdued and continued to chase Song alone.
Scarlemagne, at last, caught up to Song in the Valley of the Dogs. Unaware of who she truly was, Scarlemagne gave Song the offer to join him and get revenge on Emilia. Though initially interested, Song rejected the proposal and ran away when Scarlemagne revealed he wanted exact revenge on all humans and not just Emilia.
After she rejected his proposal, Scarlemagne had his nobles corner Song. Riding their Flamingos, the nobles enveloped Song in a cloud of pheromones, thus placing her under Scarlemagne's control.
=== Benson and the Beast ===
Kipo later snuck into where Song was being kept and secretly fed her water that contained Tad Mulholland, who would go on to cancel out the pheromone's effects on Song. In her mindscape, Song had notable difficulty speaking due to having spent the last thirteen years as a Mega Mute but was happy to learn that Mulholland knew her daughter and asked that he tell her that her mother loves her.
=== Heroes on Fire ===
During Scarlemagne's coronation, Song shepherded the humans to safety before returning to aid Kipo in knocking over the molten gold-filled tree in order to save everyone. Though one of her hands was scalded by the hot, molten gold, they were successful and Song comforted her daughter when she struggled to turn back into human form. Kipo was able to change back and expressed hope that they could help Song turn back into a human as well.
=== Everything is Crabs ===
After Scarlemagne’s coronation was stopped, Song and Kipo spent the next few months searching for Dr. Emilia all over the surface world, but to no avail. Before the first H.M.U.F.A. meeting started, she went fast to sleep after a long day’s search. Song would later reawaken to fight the Mega Crabs that invaded Timbercat forest alongside her daughter.
=== Don't You Forget a Meow Me ===
Song first appears trying to stop Kipo from rushing in to save her friends from Emilia without a plan. Although she tries to give Kipo some words of advice, Kipo is unfortunately still unable to understand Song and instead looks to Lio, Yumyan, and Mulholland for help. Wanting to do more for her daughter, Song comes across Scarlemagne, who begrudgingly agrees to help out Song in exchange for something to benefit him. At first, Scarlemagne tries to use letter blocks as a way for her to get her words across, but Song’s gargantuan size makes reading and handling tiny blocks difficult. Soon, Song uses charades to try and communicate what she has to say while Scarlemagne would try to guess what she was intending to say. After a while, Song and Scarlemagne arrive to give Kipo the help she needs by Scarlemagne saying what Song wanted to tell Kipo. He speaks for Song by saying Emilia’s pride and arrogance can be used against her by making her think she has won so Kipo can have an advantage in outsmarting her. This earns Song a high five from her husband and a hug and thanks from her daughter. Song then lets Scarlemagne play his piano in exchange for his help.
=== Song ReMix ===
Thanks to the cure that Emilia has made she was able to be reverted to her human self as she and her daughter tearfully hugged each other. Song and Kipo then set off to find the bees.
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Former Powers ===
* Super Strength - When she was a Mega Monkey, Song was remarkably strong.
* Multiple Arms - Song possessed six arms as a Mega Monkey.
* Immense Height as a Mega Monkey Song Towers over most.
=== Abilities ===
* Dubstep Language - Song is able to understand the language of the Dubstep Bees and replicate it to achieve communication.
* Science - Song is an accomplished scientist capable of complicated genetics and is an expert on the mute mutagen.
== Episode Appearances ==
=== Season 1 ===
* 03. "Real Cats Wear Plaid
* 04. "Cactus Town"
* 07. "Mulholland"
* 10. "Beyond the Valley of the Dogs
=== Season 2 ===
* 01. "Paw of the Jaguar"
* 05. "Fun Gus Part I"
* 06. "Fun Gus Part II"
* 07. "Benson and the Beast"
* 08. "Sympathy for the Mandrill"
* 09. "All That Glitters"
* 10. "Heroes on Fire"
=== Season 3 ===
* 01. "Everything is Crabs"
* 04. "Don't You Forget a Meow Me"
* 05. "Song ReMix"
* 07. "Requiem for a Dave"
* 08. "Hidden Treasures"
* 09. "Prahmises"
* 10. "Age of the Wonderbeasts"
== Trivia ==
* Song is theorized to be a clone of her mother, who was also part of the science burrow.
* Song is Korean.
* In the original webcomic, Song lived with Kipo in her home burrow instead of Lio.
* Song's mega mute form, a monkey with eight limbs, may be a visual pun referring to a spider monkey.