So headcanons for Rattle Shake?
He may legitimately be partially insane. He was definitely a sociopath at one point, but he's better now.
Rattle Shake used to be one of Strykore's Skylanders, and he went by the name of Wrangler back then. He deeply regrets those days and considers Wrangler to be his dead name. The fact that he is quite literally dead is a funny coincidence-
That said, he doesn't mind people referring to him as Wrangler when talking about his past as a villain, since he doesn't think he can really deny that that was who he once was.
He had a son before he died, but Strykore made Wrangler think he killed him, so Wrangler killed himself and ended up in Hell for a whole century.
He actually has several different snakes, each for a different type of firearm. The one's he has currently are Ruba(pistol, used the most), another rattlesnake, Raquel(shotgun), a python, a tiny colony of Barbados threadsnakes that collectively refer to themselves as Primero(machine gun), and Solo(bazooka), a King Cobra that's only used in the most dire of situations(or when Rattle is particularly pissed off). Each of them can split into two separate bodies with the same consciousness, but the only one who can withstand this for more than a few hours is Primero, who functions better as a hive mind.
He also has alternative versions of all his firearms that don't fire snakes~
Due to his past, Rattle Shake is feared by the majority of Skylands, and many people outright refuse to trust him under any circumstances. Rattle doesn't mind very much, and will often lean into this fear during interrogations and when they need to rely on intimidation on mission's.
He has a half-brother named Adam Hoffman, the villain known as Scarface. Rattle isn't very attached to him anymore.
His mother, Rubi Solano, died while laying his egg, so he didn't get to meet her until after he died and went to Hell. He honestly kinda wishes he didn't.
His father, Jake "The Reaper" Hoffman, was a horrible man who would blame Rattle Shake and Scarface for everything, pit the brothers against each other out of spite, and almost killed them several times. It was actually Reaper who mutilated Adam's face. Rattle Shake killed him for it, but Adam was so desperate to be loved by they're father (something that Rattle had long given up hope for), that he tried to murder his brother as revenge. He didn't succeed, but Rattle Shake was so afraid of Adam afterwards that he fled the entire island.
While he was still Wrangler, he fell in love with a glasswing butterfly named Alder Undergrove. Wrangler was terrified of these feelings however, both because snakes are taught that love is a weakness and killed for developing romantic feelings, and because he knew Strykore would kill Alder if Wrangler tried to date him.
Unfortunately, Machetis, another one of Strykore's Skylanders (and Wrangler's at the time paramore), discovered that the snake had genuine feelings for the bug, so he reported it to Strykore, who tried to force Wrangler to kill the butterfly, but Wrangler... Couldn't do it. He couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger he couldn't choke the life out of him he couldn't bear to see the life drain from Alder's eyes he couldn't he COULDN'T he couldn't-
So Strykore drained the bug's light. Which is bad when your element is Light. Alder didn't die but... I'm not so sure that what actually happened to him is much better.
Rattle Shake still hasn't forgiven himself, and I'm not sure he ever truly will.
Rattle is incredibly overprotective of his family due to all of the loss he's experienced, both before and after becoming a skylander.
He views Spitfire as his pseudo grandson, since he basically raised the Lindwyrm's father, Smulder. Wash Buckler becoming a mentor to the young leader didn't help😅
Doesn't fall for people very often, but when he does it's very intense and won't go away very easily.
Rattle is bisexual and ambiamorous, and might also be grayromantic(but not graysexual)as well. He's married to Wash Buckler and Night Shift and has been with them for about 200 years.
The three of them actually have several legally adopted children (some of which are still very much they're responsibility despite being adults); Freeze Blade (completely unaware he's they're child), Roller Brawl(and all of her brothers), Bat Spin(who may or may not actually be biological), and Blades(who they share custody of with Bouncer).
Bat Spin is the only one of his children that doesn't constantly trigger his protective side with their antics.
You know the mechanical bull ride you can find in certain bars? He grew up with real ones that were much bigger, much harder to approach, and much more unpredictable. He loved them.
The colony of snakes he utilized in his backstory was actually just Primero. They split into millions of separate bodies several centuries ago. They're still splitting. They will continue splitting. There is no stopping them.