The Zookeeper

The Zookeeper was an adult hero working in Heavendale. He was a member of the team that fought the 4th leg in The Story of Spider Day, in a relatively underpopulated part of town, but ran into some interference by the Cult of the Trampled. He was a member of the Roaring Trainers. He was portrayed by Gatlin.

The Zookeeper had the ability to transform into any mammal at will.

## Appearance

The Zookeeper is an adult male. Not much is known about his physical appearance.

## History

Not much is known about The Zookeeper before the events of the first Spider Day. At some point before the events of Spider Day, The Zookeeper joined together with Cat Dude, Spider Guy, and The Big O, but not much is known of the origins of this super group. At some point, The Zookeeper also had 8 children born into a "liter" (AKA octuplets), though information about his partner/children other than that is unknown. We also know that The Zookeeper did not approve of poisonous spiders because the cost would be too high to import them into Heavendale for Spider Guy's Spider Museum.

## Abilities

The Zookeeper is able to transform himself into any mammal at will. It appears to take more mental focus and physical energy the larger that the animal is, though this is not officially confirmed.

## Spider Day

The Zookeeper assumed that this fight would be relatively easy, but grew increasingly frustrated with Spider Guy when he seemed unable to control the spider, which was literally his "thing". When four pony-sized spiders appeared from pods dropping off of the giant spider, The Zookeeper transformed into a jaguar to attack the spiders. Alongside Cat Dude, the two of them were able to take out all four of the initial pony-sized spiders.

It was at this point that the Cult of the Trampled arrived, attempting to die at the hands of the spider. The cult believed that the only way they could ascend to the one true heaven was to be crushed or destroyed by some terrible monster or kaiju. To try and stop the cult, The Zookeeper ran at the members and then transformed into a rhino to push them out of the way of the giant spider. Since he was only a normal-sized rhino, he was not classified as big enough and so the cult tried to avoid him.

Seeing that cult members were getting around him, The Zookeeper summoned all of his energy, extending his powers further than he ever thought possible, to turn into a life-size Blue Whale. He succeeded, causing damage to nearby buildings and crushing around 50 cultists in the process. An inspector from the cult measured his height and proclaimed that he counted as an over-sized creature, so many other cultists attempted to rush underneath him. It was at this point that Cat Dude got on top of a building so he could glare at The Zookeeper, for which The Zookeeper blames Spider Guy somehow.

When The Big O saw the cultists being crushed, he pushed The Zookeeper as the whale out of the way, which in turn crushes plenty of other people. In order to avoid injuring more people, the Zookeeper transformed into a naked mole rat. In drastically changing size, this lead to The Zookeeper being about 20 ft in the air, plummeting to the ground. Cat Dude saw this tasty rodent, and jumped off the building to eat the rodent in midair. Sensing this, The Zookeeper attempted to transform back into a human. Unfortunately he was already in Cat Dude's mouth, which lead to Cat Dude's Head exploding as he bit down on The Zookeeper's neck, leaving him halfway transformed between human and naked mole rat and also dead.

## Trivia

* The Zookeeper is portrayed by Gatlin, GM on The Roaring Trainers, a pokemon 5E actual play podcast set in Kanto in the Jazz age. The group came up with The Roaring Trainers team as a nod to their show.
* The Zookeeper may only be able to transform into mammals, as those are the only animals he transformed into during the battle of Spider Day, though this is not confirmed.
* The Zookeeper's normal identity is discussed, but the curator of this page had literally no idea how to begin spelling it, so if anyone wants to figure that out, please feel free to edit this page to reflect it because the curator listened to it at least 15 times and STILL CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT