One of my Fakemon pals, requested me to redesign his starters' evolutions. I've already done the grass types, and so now it was time for the fire. I really could not think of a middle stage, so here's just the final stage. Since the original form was based on reticulated pythons and Mongolian hats, I tried to keep the theme. Retics are the longest living snakes, so this guy had to be looooooong. I can imagine him rivaling Onix or Steelix in length, but being much more sleek and fast.
I kept with the hat theme, but instead of giving it a straight up Mongolian hat, I took influences from Cossack hats and tied them into the theme- I think it makes him look a bit more intimidating.
This guy was originally going to be a water/psychic tentacled snake for my region, but as I was working on him, I realized that he would look really cool in 's, so I did a bit of tweaking and turned him into a reticulated python/tentacled snake hybrid- I think the stache gives him some class and sets him apart from other snake 'mons.
LOVE IT. my favourite snake starter evo I've seen. I don't even like snakes as starters too so it's a big compliment coming from me xD. The hat is amazing and I love how it all comes together. The fire area is really original too, I love that it's forked tongue is alight too xD I love new original places for fire like that (my fire dragon has fire on the end of his whiskers)