Name: Valin Vaschel
Age: 21 Years old
Species: Gorilla
Gender: Male
Occupation:   Carpenter, Farmer, Channelwood Freedom Fighter
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 400lbs.

Appearance:
        Valin is an adult male Gorilla standing around 6 feet 2 inches tall, and he weights 400 pounds, as he’s quite a bit larger than most Mobians. Although his height and weight are average for an adult male gorilla, for a Mobian on average, he is very large, with a physique that is exceptionally muscular. He has dark brown fur all over his body except for his fingers, palms, face, armpits, and bottoms of their feet which has no fur, and he has a silver patch of fur on his back that is sort of shaped like a saddle, which matches the silver ‘head fur/hair’ that Valin has which he keeps somewhat short, but still slightly longer than the fur on the rest of his body. Valin has dark blue eyes and no tail, which is normal for a Gorilla. As with all Gorillas, Valin feet have an opposable big toe, which enables Valin to grasp things with his feet as well as with his hands. Valin also has strong jaws and his canines, which are 2 inches long, which can look intimidating when Valin yawns, which is rather ironic since he’s rather peaceful and dislikes violence, but he will defend himself and his friends if push comes to shove. Valin doesn't really care much about clothing other than it is quite useful for carrying items without having to hold onto them, which is why Valin normally wears light brown cargo shorts with big pockets and a matching pocketed harness which contains the tools he uses when he's working. The only other noteworthy item Valin wears is a Silver locket necklace containing a picture of Valin as a 10-year-old boy with both his parents.

Abilities:
        As a Gorilla, Valin has long, extremely powerful forearms and very strong hands. Valin can lift approximately one ton, but his muscle mass also hinders his agility. Thus he is strong, but he’s not agile, despite this he is rather good with his hands, and he’s a rather big target as far as Mobians go…(As he’s about as large as Robotnik except he’s athletic and muscular instead of incredibly fat) Valin is capable of throwing rocks around the size most fruit, or something else that is hard and around the same size with enough force to take out a SWATBot with a single direct hit at short ranges. (In the TV show Animal Face-Off episode 9 they had a face-off between a Gorilla vs. a Leopard. I can't find the webpage anymore as the show is off the air, but I did see the episode. In the simulation the Gorilla killed the Leopard in ONE strike to the spine/back once it was able to land a blow on the Leopard… as the Leopard was practically bent into a 'U' shape... Gorillas are not violent, but if forced to fight... they don’t monkey around...)
        Other than Valin’s strength, which has already been mentioned, Valin is both a skilled Carpenter and a Farmer. It’s also a good climber although his size and weight do limit where he can climb since he’s too heavy for smaller branches to support him.

Personality:
        Valin is the epitome of the ‘gentle giant’, as like most Gorillas he’s very peaceful and is quite forgiving. Valin is also an exceptionally good climber but only an average swimmer as his body would sink like a rock if he stopped swimming due to his low amount of body fat compared to the huge amount of muscle, thus his bulk makes it harder for him to swim, as he’s not that flexible or agile, but he is able to swim forcefully enough to be a mediocre swimmer. Valin does like wadding around in water, especially on hot days. Valin likes to work with his hands, as they are somewhat nimble despite his size and the inflexibility of the rest of his body, which helps a lot when Valin is working on the job. Valin tries to not think about what Robotnik has done to the planet, as Valin would rather focus on the positive things that go on than dwelling on the unpleasant things.

History:
        Valin’s father was one of the carpenters who helped build Channelwood, Valin’s mother was a gardener and farmer who helped set up the first hidden gardens and small farmland for Channelwood. Valin spent much of his childhood in Channelwood and the surrounding forest during his apprenticeship to his parents, although he spent more time working with his father than his mother.
        On the day that the Coup took place, Valin’s mother was in Middletown selecting new seedlings to take to Middletown to finish up another garden, and she was captured and roboticized, refugees from Middletown arrived in Channelwood Valin’s father learned what was going on and he rushed to Middletown, but ordered Valin to stay behind as the situation was too dangerous for a ten year old boy. Valin never saw his father after that day as his father was captured trying to save Valin’s mother, and he too was roboticized. Valin was distraught over loosing his parents, but others helped Valin cope with the loss, since they too lost loved ones to Robotnik's forces. To get his mind off his loss, Valin focused on the chores that his parents had left him, which Valin carries out to this day to honor his parents. Valin doesn’t like to leave Channelwood often other than searching the forest for wood he can gather from trees to make ‘replacement parts’ for the huts and other wooden objects in Channelwood, or seeds he can gather from plants for crops. Occasionally the other Freedom Fighters will be able to convince him to help out on a raid, as his strength is comparable to the cybernetic limbs of the Knothole Freedom Fighter, Bunnie. Then again with arms as massive as the total body mass of some of the other freedom fighters, this isn’t too unexpected, as Valin’s arms are larger than those of a SWATBot and it’s all muscle mass.
        However given that many raids require a degree of agility and stealth that Valin lacks due to his bulk, he’s often unable to help out much as he’s too large to fit through most of the air ducts that other Freedom Fighters are capable of easily fitting through. Furthermore with his size, he’s even too large to try and fit into a hollowed out SWATBot shell. But Valin is content with his minor roll in things as he sees no shame in being primarily a carpenter and a farmer and not a fighter, as Valin just doesn’t have much of a ‘warrior’s instinct’, but he is quite capable of defending himself and those around him if he has to.