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The Green Anaconda is almost the world's largest snake reaching 6–10m (19.8 to 33 feet) long, rivaled only by the reticulated python (python reticulatus). Although there have been reports of snakes 15-20m being seen and tales of snakes ranging from 40-50m long, it is highly unlikely that these snakes could get any longer than 15m at the most. The heaviest one found weighed around 250kg.

The color pattern consists of olive green background overlaid with black blotches along the length of the body. The head is narrow compared to the rest of the body, usually with distinctive orange-yellow striping on either side.

Local names in South America include the Spanish term "matatoro," meaning "bull killer," and the Native American terms sucuri and "yakumama" in the Peruvian region of the Amazon, which means "mother of the water" in the language of the Amazonian Yakurunas or "water people".



Found in South America in countries east of the Andes, including Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad. The type locality given is "America."

The primarily nocturnal anaconda species tend to spend most of its life in or around water. Anacondas are also sometimes known as the “Water Boa”; they spend more time in water than any of the boas. Because of their large size, they appear rather slow and sluggish when traveling on land. Completely the opposite in water, however, anacondas are known to have the potential to reach incredibly high speeds in all depths of water. One tends to float atop the surface of the water with its snout barely poking out above the surface. When prey passes by or stops to drink, a hungry anaconda will snatch it with its jaws (without eating or swallowing it) and coil around it with its body. The snake will then constrict until it has successfully suffocated incapacitated the victim. Although it is commonly accepted that the snake suffocates its prey, it has been discovered that it is literally crushing its prey to death. It does this by generating a pressure of nearly two tons per square inch, roughly equal to the weight of a city bus.

These snakes are among the most dramatized and most terrifying of villains portrayed in natural horror films, supposedly growing to over 120 feet in length and able to swallow adult humans; traits that are occasionally also attributed to other species, such as the Burmese python and the boa constrictor. Among the most popular snake films that feature it are the 1997 film, Anaconda, along with its two sequels Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid and Anaconda 3: The Offspring. This species is also the main antagonist in Mathias Bradley's novel, Anacondas: The Terror of the Amazon Rainforest, in which multiple hybrid anacondas escape from a research facility in the Amazon Rainforest and come into contact with a toxic chemical that causes them to rapidly mutate into gigantic snakes.

|name| Amanae Jiijin
|gender| Female
|age| 27
|height| 5"6
|weight| 64kgs

|date of birth| 15th of August

|orientation| Straight
|status| Painfully single...
|children| -Nudeln [adopted from a rather shady lab]
-Tierrebon [crash landed in her backyard, riding in a silver egg-shaped pod]
-Tsukigami [seems to have decided on his own that he belongs to Amanae]
-Krashack [agreed to take in off the street, purely from fear at his stature]
|siblings| -Akira [younger brother. A lazy layabout like Amanae. Mooches off her whenever possible]
-Hiroko [elder sister. Well-mannered, and much more culturally japanese than Amanae and their brother]

|eyes| Amanae has typical japanese eyes, dark (almost black) brown. She attempts to make them look bigger by wearing mascara often.
|hair| Dead straight and black. There is a single highlight near the front of her hair where she tried to "liven it up" a little. It's blonde.
|skin| Pale and smooth. She has never had a pimple in her life.
|other| Amanae is middle-weight. She's not the typical skinny japanese girl, having never lived there, and having a not-so-secret addiction to junk food

|likes| Fast food, small animals, "lazy days," sleeping, the snow, paid leave from work, her brother Akira.
|dislikes| Diets (she has tried SO MANY) responsibilities, family dinners, her brother Akira.

|personality| Amanae can usually be described as the typical lazy young woman by her friends and relatives. She describes herself as "calm and down to earth." Never one to let responsibility fall on her shoulders, and usually seen lounging on the couch watching TV, and ordering take out instead of cooking. Though she would never call herself fat, she's always trying to loose weight, failing, and bingeing on take-out.
She's not the stereotypical japanese girl, has no hint of an accent, and doesn't speak a word of japanese (other than "konichiwa," which every english-speaking person knows.)

|Master Bedroom| Amanae's room, of course. It's decorated mostly with coffee brown and chocolate brown, and is always in that state right between messy and tidy.
|Bedroom Two| Formerly Akira's bedroom. He has been forced to take what little things he had there to make room for Krashack. So far, aside from the bed and the furniture, Kras has nothing here. What he does have, he keeps tidy.
|Bedroom Three| Tsukigami's room. You wont find him here if you look, though. Mostly it's just an empty-ish, dank room with a few nick-nacks and a small bed that he might rarely been seen laying on and reading very late at night.
|Bedroom Four| Nudeln's bedroom. It looks as though it was once decorated neatly, but torn apart in a fit of rage. Most likley, that is exaclty what happened.
|Bedroom Five| Tierre's bedroom. Amanae was quickly showered with baby things from friends and relatives, and now the entire room is decked out in a mass of baby toys, a pretty little pink crib, a changing table and all sorts of other baby-related knick knacks.
[images ganked from here]

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Artwork (c) quietsnooze 2008.
Story and concept (c) quietsnooze 2008.
Journal idea (c) Anya! XD.
Character concepts and personalities (c) their individual writers.