I feel like the fandom at large has not done enough with the idea that many species of snake den up, brumate, or hibernate communally.
Where are all the fics where deep down, despite his surface objections and verbal claims of being touch averse (like, you know, the liar he is), and in spite of the terror being vulnerable around the others inspires, Janus secretly desires to sleep in a huge puppy pile (snake pit) with all the other sides?
I just... What are we even doing?
Like, I know there are plenty of fics where Janus gets cuddled, or where he's dog-piled after a brush with hypothermia (and let me be clear, we can never have too many of those), but I'm talking about a fic where Janus is grappling with this intense, instinctual need to be tangled up in an indistinguishably jumbled mass of other bodies in order to properly relax, while simultaneously dealing with the inescapable fact that he doesn't trust the others enough to let them get that close (and maybe the process of them earning that trust and the snake getting the first night of restful sleep he's had in his life...)
