Large and peaceable, Michael is a gorilla living at a sanctuary just outside of San Francisco. When he was younger, he was involved in a program attempting to teach sign language to apes, but as he grew and funds faded, he was relocated to the Golden Ape and Monkey Sanctuary, where Robert Franklin eventually comes to volunteer.
DATE OF BIRTH: April 4th, 2001
LANGUAGES: Modified ASL, broken English
EDUCATION: Some very, very basic schooling with the family he lived with before the sanctuary, mostly picked up from the child they were homeschooling.
RESIDENCE: Golden Ape and Monkey Sanctuary. Later, the Ape Village with Caesar
NOTABLE FAMILY: The gorillas in his enclosure at the sanctuary. Later, Caesar and the other apes.
DRINK | SMOKE | DRUGS: Is a gorilla.
LIKE[S]: Treats and sweets, puzzle feeders, entertaining human children.
DISLIKE[S]: Rain, open water, being teased.
FEAR[S]: Drowning, guns, powerful hoses.
POWER[S]: Is a gorilla(very strong and surprisingly agile)
PERSONALITY TRAITS: Friendly, playful and inquisitive. As he gains intelligence; righteous, kind, generous.
HEIGHT: 5'7" when standing bipedal
Body language: Open, relaxed. Conscious of his size and strength.
Physical features: Looks like a typical ape except for his vitiligo, speckling his lips and some random spots on his body with stark white fur and skin
Rise: Set before through shortly after the spread of the Simian Flu in 2016.
Last: 2013 or later, set in an alternative universe to Rise as a cross over between the Apes movies and The Last of Us.
Dawn: Set in approximately 2026, during the events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Human populations have been devastated by the Simian Flu, and pockets of humanity survive dotted across the land.
War: Set in approximately 2028, during the events of War for the Planet of the Apes. Humans and apes are openly at war, and a new mutation of the Simian Flu has emerged.
Escape: Set in assorted times; a verse in which Michael is an escaped lab gorilla, allowing threads to happen without the threat of apocalypse in a few years.
Travel: Set in any time, where Michael is a genetically modified ape that has been sent time traveling because his life is more expendable than a human's.