Monke

## Monke aka GenectDefect

Monke was born in the San Francisco biotech company Gen-Sys Laboratories as the son of a female chimpanzee nicknamed Bright Eyes and an alpha male chimpanzee of Bright Eyes' tribe residing in the West African Jungle. Following the death of his mother, Monke was found by the chimpanzee handler, Robert Franklin, and the eccentric scientist, Will Rodman. Upon the discovery, they realized that Bright Eyes' earlier rampage was not due to the ALZ-112 (an experimental drug that, through neurogenesis, repairs brain cells and increases mental capabilities) in her system, but due to her maternal instincts to protect her newborn baby whom she had secretly given birth to a day or two earlier. Because Bright Eyes' aggression was believed to be the effects of the ALZ-112, head of Gen-Sys, Steven Jacobs, terminated the project and ordered the apes in the facility's possession, to be euthanized. However, Franklin was unable to bring himself to put the infant down and convinced a reluctant Will to take him instead, sparing the infant's life in the process.

Returning home, Will discovered, to his delight, that the infant chimpanzee had inherited the ALZ-112 from his mother after he and his father, Charles Rodman, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease that Will, under employment at Gen-Sys, was desperately searching, to no avail, for a cure to, witness the infant drinking from a bottle on his own at only two days old. Three years later, Will decided to keep the infant whom he named Monke, and raised him as his own while continuing his life's work on the ALZ-112 in secret. At eighteen months, Monke was signing up to twenty-four words. At age two, he completed puzzles and models designed for human children eight years and up. At age three, he completes the Lucas Tower with a perfect score of fifteen moves and became an expert chess player as well. Throughout his early years, Genect continued to show signs of heightened intelligence and cognitive skills that far exceeded that of a human counterpart, much to Will's amazement.

One day, Monke saw children outside of his attic window playing on bikes and, after seeing the children leaving their bikes in a garage, snuck out a window while Will was distracted assessing his father's improvement after supposedly curing him with the ALZ-112. However, Alice Hunsiker discovered Genect playing with a bike in the garage and alerted her father, Will's short-tempered neighbor, Douglas Hunsiker, who threatened Monke with a baseball bat until Will and Charles, after discovering his absence, arrived to defend him.

Since Monke suffered a leg injury while attempting to escape from Hunsiker, Will took him into the San Francisco Zoo where he was treated by veterinarian and primatologist, Caroline Aranha, who took an interest in Monke after learning that Will had taught him how to sign along with a handful of other things. Visiting their home, Caroline informed Will that Monke should have "some open space" since he will not be young and small for long and will soon grow into "a large, powerful animal". Therefore, Will, Caroline and Charles introduced Monke to the redwood forest at Muir Woods National Monument where he spent time in a more natural habitat, climbing the towering redwood trees. Five years later, Monke, now an ambitious teenager, grew more curious about the world around him. After leaving the redwood forest with Will and Caroline, now in a relationship, Genect saw a dog on a leash like his own and questioned his identity. Will took them to Gen-Sys and informs Monke of his mother's death and explained the origins of the ALZ-112 that she genetically passed on to him, leaving him devastated over her death and causing him to start to resent humans.

Enamored by the individuals across the street, Monke escapes captivity and travels through the Cherry Blossom gates to find Sunny52, Marsmars\_, ImLiterallyJose, Ashley/Sam, and Antsy.