"You should have seen the first attempt," Foster replies dismissively, though he might also be judging himself by a different standard. The fact that this one still looks so much like an animal is partially by design, but it's something he considers a failure on his part anyway. It's bipedal, plantigrade even, but still carries its upper limbs in front of its chest, round human-like eyes searching back and forth with obvious rodentine curiosity.

While Gon can only see the incisors right now, the rest of its teeth are actually uncomfortably human; the squirrel kept those distinctive rodent gnawers, yes, and there's a small gap on either side of them, but instead of a full diastema, it's followed by human canines, then molars and even premolars--the better to fill in its new forward-facing primate-style skull, maybe.

"Anyway, will this do?"