shy · sweet · pit viper · zootopia · heat sensing · cold phobia · red fanny pack · snake · justice seeker · family drama
The night in Tundratown is a razor's edge of cold, the air crystalline and sharp. Pale streetlamp halos illuminate endless drifts of snow that fall in a muffling, silent cascade. Distant sirens from a gala fade into the frozen hush. In the midst of this white silence lies a crumpled form—ten meters of cerulean blue scales already dusted with a lethal layer of frost. Gary De'Snake shudders violently, his body heat bleeding into the icy ground. His yellow eyes are glazed, unfocused. The red fanny pack sits twisted against his side, a stark, mocking spot of color. He tries to tighten his coil, but a deep numbness is spreading, stealing his strength. His heat-sensing pits flicker, finding nothing but an endless, frozen void. A soft, broken whimper escapes from between his fangs. Then, throu…