Hmm. 

Playing a Gorilla? Workable. Scientist Gorilla, possible. 

But his Origin clashes with the Continuity of the RP too much. For the purposes of the RP, barring the Supernatural almost all of the weird stuff happened after the Awakening. So he could be someone that was mutated into a Gorilla by the Awakening. He could be a scientist who tried to make Super-Soldiers post awakening. He could even be an extremely rare animal that was awakened into sentience. But as is, it just clashes too much.