Norman Green

**Norman Green** is a resident of Lower Duck Pond.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Norman Green was born on November 16, 1992 at St. Magdalene's Hospital, to parents Dennis and Felina Green. Dennis is a professional wigmaker, following his father's footsteps and managing the family business, The Family Hair-Loom. Felina is a famed archaeologist, and was a major influence on Norman's love of the natural world. Norman has a younger brother, Walter, who is five years younger than him and in line to take over The Family Hair-Loom. The two are very close.

Norman attended Richland High School, and graduated with honors. Norman then attended Southwest University, where he received a degree in Zoology with a minor in Drama. Norman focused on studying animal behavior and would often volunteer at the Willowbrook Zoo. As for campus activities, Norman was also very involved in the school's theater department, and often took part in their plays and musicals. His theater career peaked his senior year, when he starred as Albin in *La Cage Aux Folles*.

### **Adult Life**

Norman, with the help of his mother, started a wildlife sanctuary called Creature Country in the large plot of land adjacent to the house. Due to his affinity for frogs, Norman initially began his career by collecting training frogs to act like people: wearing clothes, doing work around the sanctuary, and even performing for entertainment. In later years, however, Norman expanded to taking upon all types of animals, including (but not limited to) raccoons, parrots, tortoises, wolves, lizards, and more. The most recent additions to Norman's sanctuary are an Indian rhinoceros from the Eastern Himalayas and a sneaky chimpanzee that stowed away in a crate of animal food shipped from overseas.

#### **The Hungry Hungry *Actual* Hippo Incident**

On 17 July 2017, Norman's hippopotamus Loretta escaped from Creature Country due to a ladder left against a side wall. After escaping, Loretta ate half of Mrs. Green's vegetable garden, a bicycle, two pond ducks, and Jimbo the lawyer. Fortunately for Norman and Loretta, nobody really liked Jimbo anyway, so the only punishment sentenced was for Loretta to be sent away to live in a zoo with secure containment and protection. Unfortunately, three months later, Loretta had managed to escape once more. Her whereabouts are still unknown.

## **Appearance**

Norman is a rather tall and lanky man, with a head of wild curly hair. He is either seen dressed in bold fashion like he was a member of the Scooby Doo gang when he decides to socialize and enter the town, or in muddy weathered workwear while working at his cottage. These are the only two extreme states of his fashion, and nothing in between.

## **Hobbies**

Besides raising various animals like a modern day Dr. Doolittle, Norman is also a passionate scholar of Shakespeare. Norman often enjoys taking part in local theater productions or even reciting monologues to his audience of frogs, pigs, monkeys, and other animals.

Norman also hosts his own podcast with his friends called *Monkey Business*, in which they discuss fun animal facts, recent discoveries in the animal world, as well as make jokes and answer audience questions.

## **Trivia**

* Norman tells everyone his favorite film is *Gorillas in the Mist*, although he also secretly loves the film *On Golden Pond.*
* Norman's go-to order at Maidenburger is the Heredidairy, with extra alfredo sauce.
* When Norman was 15, he had his first kiss with Trina Flores, as the two were hiding inside of the wig shop while it was closed. Norman's father, Dennis, suddenly returned to the shop to pick up some paperwork, so the two put on wigs and pretended to be one of the many mannequins. Norman always loves to tell that story, and Dennis doesn't have the heart to ever tell him that he clearly saw them both.
* Norman swears that one time while he was hiking, he saw bigfoot wading through The Ravine. He hopes to one day have him as a member of the Creature Country family.
* Norman is an active member of the Lower Duck Pond Democratic Socialists of America, and attributes his firm beliefs to his upbringing committed to hard work and being an avid member of the community.
* One time, a man arrived at Creature Country claiming to have caught bigfoot in hopes of selling it to the sanctuary. Upon further inspection, however, Norman discovered it was simply the man's hairy uncle roaring and gnashing his teeth inside a cage.