SEX: Male
AGE: 10
DESCRIPTION: Strong, skillful, female hostage-taker
ID TIPS: Furrowed brow & developing cheek pads; Bearded and dark skinned; Comb forward hair-do
QUIRK: Prefers Orangutan Island to his own and is a very competent escape artist; Expert in “Scoop Foraging”, a technique he invents to find food underwater when the flood is at its peak.

HISTORY
Hamlet has been living a semi-wild existence for five years. He was taken to Palas 1, which is the neighboring island to Orangutan Island, as a five year old. He’s survived well in this community but seeks other challenges. He is very aware that on Orangutan Island he can exercise his dominance with very little challenge, as the inhabitants are younger and smaller than he is.

LIFE ON ORANGUTAN ISLAND
A young, inexperienced community of orangutans just next door was too inviting for the opportunistic Hamlet; his invasion of Orangutan Island was imminent but not necessarily easy. Hamlet battles with the Bandit Boys and challenges the strong and determined Chen Chen to get what he wants on Orangutan Island, food and females. But as Hamlet becomes entrenched in the community he proves to have some useful skills that might help the inexperienced orangutans survive their first flood… he even has something to teach Chen Chen about snakes.

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