Geoffrey

***Geoffrey*** (aka "Jeffers" or "Geoffers") is Professor Elemental's ape butler and trusted confidante. Although Geoffrey is the name he uses in Human Society, his Ape name is unpronounceable to humans, sounding something like EEEEk-ooka-OOKOOK-eek-OOK. He has also gone by the alias of Geoffrey the Ape-Wonder. In an interview with Butlering Quarterly Geoffrey reveals that he grew up in a large family, that had been known to marry outside of their Orangutan Society. He lists his family as including a Gorilla cousin in Africa named Solovar, chimp nephews in Bolivia and possibly even a Panda.

## History

### Early Life

Geoffrey was born in Borneo where he lived with his mother, never knowing his father. The pair of them spent his early years saving up money to gain passage on the *Shrieking Baboon*, a ship piloted by an intelligent 300 pound primate, and after a brief incident with some pirates they arrived in the Congo, where they built a house. [Young Geoffrey]

Geoffrey spent many years in the Congo tending to the jungle, despite the Gorilla's attempting to sabotage his work.

### Meeting the Professor

By 1880, Geoffrey was living in the Congo when he spots an airship arriving overhead. Heading out to investigate Geoffrey runs into a man named Professor Charles Elemental, who possesses a Human/Orangutan translation device. Having spent years in the jungle surrounded by dung Geoffrey begs the Professor to take him with him, later revealing among his reasons for leaving the sheer volume of rhino dung littering his cave. Geoffrey gladly joins the Professor aboard his airship the *HMS Incidental* and the pair fly back to London, where Geoffrey becomes Butler to the Professor. [Around the World in 80 Brews part one]

Upon their return to England, Geoffrey and the Professor retire to the library where Geoffrey asks about the largest portrait. The Professor then regales Geoffrey with the tale of Lord Percival Elemental [Lord Elemental Earl of Sussex]

Not long after coming into the Professor's service, Geoffrey once more travels the world with the Professor, searching for flowers to fill the arboretum the Professor is intending to build for Miss Sadie Bell. The opening does not run smoothly however as Geoffrey finds himself having to battle a man eating plant, while the Professor woos Miss Bell. [Every Rose Has Thorns]

Geoffrey continued his travels with the Professor and the pair wound up getting caught while exploring a Lost Temple of the Incas. It is currently unknown how they survived being sacrificed. [The Belvedere Bully]

Geoffrey helps the Professor in the construction of his Dimensional Portal, however the Professor finds the experience so harrowing that he orders Geoffrey to destroy it. [Professor Elemental's Multidimensional Voyage]

In need of funding Geoffrey helps the Professor to host a bake sale, but of course things go wrong and one of the cakes comes to life, calling itself Cakeface and trying to attack the judges, until the pair are able to defeat it. [Funding Troubles - Flashback]

While cleaning Elemental Manor, Geoffrey finds himself accidentally encased in the Lost Armour of Xitlocan, transforming into a giant Mecha Geoffrey, until he is rescued by the Professor. [The Terror of Mecha Geoffrey]

In 1881, Geoffrey and the Professor make their way to Borneo in search of a mystical teapot. They are able to find it and bring it back to Elemental Manors, only to find it's magic has rather unfortunate side effects, destroying the Professor's best roses. Geoffrey reveals that he too had been growing roses, using his own dung and the remains of the monster plant as fertiliser, and Elemental is able to use them to win the best roses contest at the ninth annual Professor Elemental Village Fete. [The Tempestuous Teapot]

Following a lead from the Lost Armour of Xitlocan, the Professor and Geoffrey trek to the Peruvian jungle where they encounter Bertha Von Bismarck and her simian sidekick Henrik. The two teams battle to gain access to a Peruvian mountain, where they discover a Space-Faring Dirigible selling the proceeds to the British Museum. [Professor Elemental and the Peruvian Prize]

Geoffrey helps the Professor in the construction of a new giant telescope, unaware that as they do they are being watched by beings from Mars. [Funding Trouble]

### Further Adventures

Geoffrey receives a letter from his Cousin Solovar, claiming that poachers are after the Last Dodo Egg. Geoffrey and the Professor set off with the help of No Eyed Jim and are able to defeat the poacher Marcel Deloux. [Dodo-A-Gogo]
While taking tea at Elemental Manor, Geoffrey and the Professor are interrupted by a man name Bernard Tranter from the Mayors office who informs them that the Gentleman Rex has escaped from the menagerie. Geoffrey fetches Mavis for the Professor and together they are able to bring the dinosaur down. [Large Animal Legislation]

When the Professor's date with Sadie Bell is interrupted, the Professor constructs a machine to grant him super strength and together they take to the streets as Super-Prof and Geoffrey the Ape-Wonder. Their career is short lived however when it turns out that the super strength only lasts for a short time. [Steampunk Superheroes]

Sadie leaves the house for a while, and Geoffrey tries to keep the Professor out of trouble, instead winding up in the sewers meeting a mutant mouse, Sir Henry Ratkinson and inviting him back to the Manor. [Subterranean Sunday]

The Professor and Geoffrey once more take a tour around the world, arriving in the Orient where they fight off a hoard of Gecko's and then board an Imperial Airways Airship to New York. On board the airship the pair of them are forced to fight off a gang of thieves led by a man named Gustav. [Perish with Difficulty]