Coby was once a successful Herpetologist, and his specialty was snakes. He knew so many different species and all of their more niche traits. One day at a kids birthday party, he was showing off some of the snakes that he took care of, and everything went amazing. However, the birthday girl was so enthralled by all of the snakes that after the party she tried to take one for herself. Specifically, she tried to take her favorite one, a gorgeous king cobra with a gray and green pattern on its scales.

Obviously the moment Coby saw the girl holding the cobra, he turned away from his conversation with some of the parents and rushed over and snatched the snake away from the girl and placed it back in its container before giving the birthday girl a stern lecture about the dangers of mishandling reptiles. The girl got extremely upset and ran off to find her mom while Coby double checked to make sure all of his snakes were accounted for.

A little while later, Coby was finally packing up all of the snakes into his vehicle and was just about to close the back door when a tall wealthy looking woman comes up behind him. Before he could react or say anything, and syringe was in his neck and everything faded to black in seconds. When Coby came to finally, he noticed his body felt completely different. Not only that, he couldn’t feel anything from his neck down. And for some reason, his tongue felt forced now and his head felt massive. That’s when the same fancy woman walked in to the lab where Coby was and presented a mirror for Coby to see his new form which sent shivers down his nonexistent spine.

Turns out, the birthday girl was the niece of Camille and Jamille, and ran screaming and crying to her Aunt Camille about the mean old snake guy not giving her a snake as a gift. Camille hated to see her niece upset so she decided that Coby would become her niece’s new gift, a giant purple and red king cobra head on a small circular pedestal. Sadly, Camille’s niece found it to be too scary and told Camille to get rid of it so Camille took it home and kept it in her private collection for a couple of years…That was until Camille was no longer Camille and Jamille took her place. Jamille, getting some payback on Camille decided to hold an auction and auction off some of Camille’s collection pieces and Coby just so happened to be one of the items up for auction. He knew after years that it was pointless to try to call for help or try to move any part of his body. Whatever device Camille used on him (The Reshaper) made it impossible for him to do anything. So he resigned to hoping whoever won the auction for him would treat him well.

By the end of the banquet that he was up for auction at, Coby was stunned and relieved to find out the person that won his auction was actually a former snake enthusiast colleague that he had worked with at the reptile center in France. Apparently, his former colleague still worked at the reptile center and thought Coby’s King Cobra-shaped bust would be a perfect center piece for the renovated visitor center at the reptile sanctuary.

And that’s where Coby sat now, greeting everyone from adults to kids, as they entered the reptile sanctuary. His bright cobra face was the focal point of so many conversations, and he was happy when he saw little kids faces sparkle with excitement upon seeing his cobra-shaped head. Coby may not have chosen this path in life, but at the end of the day, he was just happy to still be around so many other people that loved snakes as much as him.