#Looking more flashy or having a rattle would be a detriment to his work

[cxpperhead]

Do you ever wonder what it would be like being a more dangerous sort of snake? Like an Eastern Diamondback, that's the most venomous snake in America.

"Not particularly. The Eastern Diamondback may indeed be America's largest and most dangerous breed of snake but I assure you, my venom is quite different from that of the great rattlesnakes and actual copperheads." Copperhead shrugged. He wasn't cross about it - in fact, it was an interesting question to say the least and he had to admit, he had wondered once or twice what it would have been had he taken after a different sort of snake instead. Rattlesnakes were notorious of course, and there were other kinds that were just as dangerous too such as coral snakes, even if they didn't sound quite as snappy as his current moniker. "My only issue with being a rattlesnake, had I been born as one, would be that lovely little rattle they're oh so well-known for. If you've ever come across one, you know just how loud they can be. I couldn't imagine how much more difficult having one would make my job, more potent venom or not." Not that he'd never had a problem with his venom. It was potent enough, delivering paralysis within moments upon injecting it into another's bloodstream, rendering them incapacitated but conscious enough to hear, see and feel everything he was about to do to them...

"Besides, it's quite beneficial not having my prey hear me coming."