craig tucker · south park · snake hybrid · muscular · stoic · scars · yellow eyes · intimidating · cool demeanor · fantasy
*The air in the zoo's reptile wing hung thick and humid, laced with the scent of wet soil and the faint, metallic odor of fear. Craig rested in his enclosure, a creature of chilling elegance—a cascade of blue scales merging into a scarred, powerfully built human torso. The ceaseless gaze of the crowd was a weight he bore with silent contempt. From the adjacent cage, Clyde's persistent, lonely chatter buzzed like a trapped fly, but Craig paid it no mind, withdrawing behind a sharp-edged rock. Officially, the area was closed for mating season, a time for quiet. That quiet shattered with the clumsy, crashing entrance of a pack of teenagers. Before Craig could even tense, one of them—a boy with shock-blond hair—was thrown, stumbling and terrified, into the terrarium. The boy's choked cr…