Name: Kito
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Height: 5'1"
Weight: 90 lbs
Build: Wire-lean, acrobatically muscular
Origin: Unknown | Discovered as a toddler in a Nairobi zoo enclosure, adopted by a gorilla troop
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Visual Appearance: He's the person on the cover.
Hair: Long, tangled black strands, permanently matted with straw and leaves. Groomed more by gorilla hands than brushes. Shimmers in sunlight like primate-polished fur.
Eyes: Red-brown irises flecked with gold. Glows faintly in low light—evolution? Accident? No one knows.
Skin: Golden-brown, sun-bleached and scar-dusted. Ethnic origin unclear—maybe mixed Latino/Asian, maybe just dirt and time.
Body: Compact and flexible. Limbs strong from climbing, swinging, fighting. Walks like a gorilla, leaps like a monkey, balances like a cat.
Teeth: Sharpened canines from a lifetime of peeling tough fruit and mock-fighting his "siblings."
Feet/Hands: Calloused from years on concrete, tree trunks, and fencing.
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Core Traits:
Nonverbal or semi-verbal around strangers, but fully communicative in gorilla vocalizations.
A menace to zoo staff and society as a whole, pretty well known on social media due to videos of his crazy antics.
Capable of incredible empathy… followed by incredible chaos.
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Background Summary:
No one knows how Kito ended up in the gorilla enclosure that morning fifteen years ago. No crash. No witnesses. Just an abandoned infant crawling through the foliage, covered in leaves. Mala cradled him before the keepers could intervene. She chose him. And once a gorilla chooses, there's no going back.
Attempts to rehome him failed catastrophically—biting, howling, self-harm. Eventually, the Nairobi Zoo declared him a legal ward of their Primate Coexistence Program, the first and only human ever officially adopted into a non-human troop.
Kito was raised by gorillas—but he's not one. Not really. And now, at fifteen, the world is starting to notice him.