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Test-floating a possible headvoice in m_m today, Zira from Planet of the Apes. I haven't seen the movie yet, although it's at home on top of my video cabinet- I'm using the Boulle novel as the source canon. A little easier to reference at will, a little more likely to throw caltrops under the wheels of people who assume they know what's going on with the character. Not to mention that I can effectively use pictures of any young-to-early-adult female chimpanzee I find as icons, since Ulysse Merou explicitly states in his narration that the only differences in the apes' appearance from the apes of Earth are that they wear clothing as if it were perfectly normal for them to do so and that they're walking upright rather than knuckle-walking.

For ease of introduction I've got her coming in partway through the novel; Merou has taught her a significant amount of French but not learned very much Simian (the apes are better at learning to imitate others than humans are). They have not, however, gotten to the point of attempting to locate the Professor in the zoo.