>>11084591It's just never really been well-applied; the concept itself is fantastically thematic, tying in snakes' skin shedding and wonderfully subverting "snake charming"
>>11084630Yeah, one of my potential headcanons from the various non-comic descriptions of him as "youthful" and "handsome" in appearance is that he masquerades as a heroic "exiled prince" of the Snake Kingdom.