User blog comment:ScottyBlue/Gingiverian: Chapter 17/@comment-3462718-20110522223513

In case anyone was wondering, Jettcoil and Whiptail are supposed to be Eastern Indigo Snakes (this is a North American species, but, remember, Dankfur brought the two snakes from lands across the sea). I selected this because of two reasons. #1 The largest Eurasian Adders (vipera berus) only grow to slightly less than four feet long and Indigo snakes can be as large as nine feet long. #2, Indigo snakes are the most violent killers of the non-venemous snakes I know, often dashing prey against nearby rocks or trees to subdue it.