Samuel can freely activate thermal vision if the pits above his mouth are unobstructed.
When using thermal vision, his pupils completely dilate, and both they and his pits glow red. This ability does not allow him to see through obstacles, unless something is hot enough to heat the obstacle itself. Thermal vision has a shorter range than normal vision, and is ineffective beyond 60 feet.

Thermal vision asically adds a thermal overlay to his normal vision, which causes cool areas to become darker, while warm areas are brighter.

He can also utilize thermal tracking without his eyes, although this has reduced clarity and range, becoming ineffective past 30 feet.

His well-muscled body allows him to coil and squeeze with enough force to crush the chassis of Eggman's robots, though this is notably less efficient than mobians with the ability to use homing attacks, and only allows Samuel to more slowly dispatch of enemies one at a time. It can be quieter than the explosive destruction wrought by a homing attack, though.

This also allows him to easily coil around objects for other reasons, such as climbing or being transported.

By tasting the air with his long split tongue, he can detect even the smallest traces of scents, as well as their direction, allowing him to track targets with remarkable accuracy over great distances.

This does leave him unusually vulnerable to pungent smells though, and overall he has a greater risk of respiratory infections and other issues from particles in the air due to his increased sensitivity.

Samuel is photophobic, and he easily feels pain in his eyes as well as intense migraines when in bright light without protection- which can become debilitating before long.

As he lacks eyelids, he often wears glasses with dark or red lenses to mitigate this, and during the war he would use custom-made goggles with similarly tinted lenses.

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• Prosthetics design can be changed, simplified, complified, etc. It likely looked different before and over the course of the war due to changes and repairs. Do whatever is enjoyable!
• He can be drawn in a more realistic style/with less mobian anatomy.

• Ideal environments:
  • Best depicted in towns and cityscapes, especially those similar to the City in Forces.
  • Can be before, during, or after the war.
• Quite expressive.

• When extremely stressed or anxious, or threatened with no escape, he may begin to coil up on himself, culminating in him entirely being balled up.

• His favorite colors are blue and green.
• His birthday reflects the day that I bought Sonic Forces.
• He was originally going to be based on the caramel albino morph. Other than struggling to stylize the pattern, I also realized I didn't want to die trying to draw him.
• My friends have decreed him to be homophobic, due to them misreading "photophobic". His reputation has never recovered and he's still known as my "homophobic snake oc" among my peers.