Shade Viper (SD)

Shade vipers are large, python-like snakes infused with minute powers over darkness.
Physical Description
Shade vipers can grow up to eight feet long. Unlike pythons shade vipers lack scales. Instead their flesh appears to be made out of purple black smoke. From their lower jaw juts two large tusk-like fangs.
Habitat/Diet
Shade vipers are native to the Wood.
Shade vipers feed on anything a regular python would and/or could eat.
Origin
Desha created the first shade viper from a python he killed. He first removed the python's flesh from the corpse and replaced it with shadow.
Abilities
Left Tusk Venom - The left tusk contains a highly complex neurotoxin. This neurotoxin disables four of the five senses the victim has. Those senses are sight, smelling, taste, and touch. Desha created the venom this way to maximize the victim's terror, since they can only hear whether or not the viper is intending to kill them.
Right Tusk Venom - The right tusk's venom is more similar to a virus than actual venom. It cannibalizes the victims on body to create a new shade viper. After about three days a juvenile shade viper will burst out of the host. Usually the host is killed by this process, so the newborn will consume the rest of the remains. On the off chance the host survives the newborn will flee due to its lack of venom from its left tusk.
Regeneration - If a shade viper is covered in shadow it is capable of instantly healing its wounds or regrowing any lost portion of its body. When in shadow it can only be hurt by acid, electricity, or heat.
Category:Monsters
Category:Monsters (SD)