Ethan glanced at the scales on his hand for a moment, "Something in my past, it had to do with my father.." he said calmly, rubbing his fingers over the scales. They were pretty, especially when the sun hit them. Then they were a beautiful blue. "I don't tell people because then they may use it against me, but... I'm trusting you, so.." he sighed. "There was a time, where my dad loved snakes a lot and would always research them, my grandfather did this too. Well, he was dumb and injected snake DNA into his bloodstream.." He was quiet for a moment. "He thought nothing of it, and when I was born, I guess I looked normal and stuff, but... growing up, I wasn't. You already know my eyes that shift, my tongue, the fangs, even the scales. But the scales, over the years they kept growing, and this is as much as they grew... Doctors thought they could just.. cut it off.. You know? Take a scalpel knife and just cut between the scales and the skin?" He shook his head, "Doesn't work.. I guess you could say that my skin turns into the scales... The scales are my skin... And so will the rest of me... Then instead of 2%, it'll be 50-50.."<br/><br/>He kept his hand out so Elizabeth could look at it. See that he was telling the truth if she were to ever touch or pick at the scales. He showed her the fangs, and even warned not to touch them because they may be leaking venom. Showed her the tongue, how he didn't have a regular human tongue, that it didn't even exist. It was just a snake's tongue as it flickered between his lips. "Kind of a nuisance if you think about it... Bullied all these years because of it, and I guess, it may have made me a little cold-hearted, more intimidating than I already am..."