Ethan stood there a moment, seeing Elizabeth's reflection in the mirror. Listening to her talk, it took a moment for him to find the words to say. "Well, it's different... But.. You know, I was born this way. Sure my dad may have done something stupid in life that made me this way,  but because of it..." he stopped for a moment, sighing. "It's me. You remove the scales, I'd be completely different, you get rid of the snake eyes, the tongue, the fangs, I'd be normal. And, to me, normal is who I am, regardless if I am different..." He stopped talking and turned around to face Elizabeth. "It's like those people who go to get plastic surgery to change themselves. You look different afterwards, you're still you, but, it doesn't feel right knowing something has changed. Because they were use to what they lived with. And I learned to live with it, because I didn't bother messing or touching with anything for the past 23 years of my life."<br/><br/>He moved over to sit down on his bed. "I just, can't take that step to change me. To fix this. The snake DNA and the Human DNA are entwined" he put in. "Ripping that apart, trying to fix it, will permanently ruin me as a person. As someone of society who would rather hide their face then change something. Because I am me and I don't want to change anything about me. I hide my face so Society cannot judge, or take me away for it. They are out there, Elizabeth. And they will find me." There was a long pause, then he spoke some more. So instead of trying to change myself to get out of it, I'm going to stay the way I am and not lose the scales, the fangs, the eyes... Because I was born this way, and changing it will make me feel like I'm dead."