Agnes De'Snake

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Agnes De'Snake
Background Information
Feature Films	Zootopia 2
Character Information
Species	Pit viper
Gender	Female
Occupation	Inventor
Alignment	Good
Home	Reptile Ravine
Family	Unnamed husband Unnamed children Unnamed grandchildren Gary De'Snake (great-grandson)
Friends	Ebenezer Lynxley (formerly)
Enemies	Ebenezer Lynxley
Likes	Inventing, Creating Zootopia, Her family
Dislikes	Betrayal, Reptiles being banned, Ebenezer Lynxley

Agnes De'Snake is a late female pit viper and the posthumous overarching protagonist in Zootopia 2. She was Gary De'Snake's great-grandmother and the true founder of Zootopia.

Background

Aspiring to bring all kinds of animals together in Zootopia, Agnes invented the weather walls that create the city's diverse climates. She wrote a book detailing the mechanics of the wall that is now considered an important piece of the city's history. Credit for her contributions and the book was taken by Ebenezer Lynxley, leading to the Lynxley family being falsely praised for it for the following 100 years.

Ebenezer attempted to burn the original patent for the weather walls, the sole proof that Agnes, not he, was the inventor of the incredible structures that led to the diversity of Zootopia... only for Ebenezer's tortoise maid, who was a friend of Agnes, to recover the patent before it was burned in the fireplace. Ebenezer caught onto what happened and murdered the tortoise with snake venom in order to frame Agnes, who managed to hide the patent in a safe place before she was arrested for a murder she didn't commit.

These events, regrettably, cast a terrible shadow of suspicion over not only snakes but all reptiles, causing them to leave the nascent city of Zootopia because the mammals no longer trusted them.

Ebenezer would go on to reap the benefits of the credit he'd stolen, becoming rich, powerful and influential, leaving the Lynxley Journal as a historical inheritance that was eventually passed onto his grandson, Milton Lynxley.

It is not known what happened to Agnes (whether she was sent to prison after being framed or managed to leave with her family, etc.), but the true story of what happened was kept within her family and passed down to her great-grandson, Gary De'Snake.

Role in the Film

Agnes' book is set to be displayed at the Lynxley family's Zootennial Gala. It is stolen by Gary, who aims to clear the bad reputation that snakes and reptiles have gained since the city's founding.

Gary, Judy Hopps, Nick Wilde, and Nibbles Maplestick later find Agnes' home and discover proof of her being the city's founder, allowing her to finally be recognized for her work to the public.

Relationships

Ebenezer Lynxley

At first, Agnes saw Ebenezer as her friend and confidante, even asking him to be his business partner in creating the weather walls of Zootopia. However, Ebenezer was ambitious and greedy, and decided to take credit for the weather walls, even going so far as to try to destroy Agnes's patent and completely bury Reptile Ravine in snow in his quest to expand Tundratown.

Tortoise Maid

Agnes was good friends with the Lynxley’s personal housemaid and their relationship was so strong that she tried to defy her employer and recover the burning patent when Ebenezer tried to destroy it, but it resulted in the treacherous Lynx killing her.