This goes out to @karamelsoupl who said they were feeling deprived recently!! I got you!

((Update on me: been a little busy but ibmve got some doodles to share dw.))

Thoughts on calling Kai Anacondkai

Amazing, very fun, the others call him it to tease him. The folder I keep my Anacondrai Kai AU art in is called Anaconkai

(Also maybe Pythor calls him that too. He came up with 'Garma-condrai' on the spot after all)

alright ninbitches it's time for Pen Rants About Serpentine Oppression. Leetssssssss talk about how fucked up the treatment of this entire people group is, starting way back at the beginning. So it's not entirely clear where the serpentine originated from. According to their own lore they were created by the FSM but my personal headcanon is actually that they originated in the realm of Chima with all the other anthro animals and were brought over by the FSM. This is not relevant, though. What's relevant is that, as far as we can tell, Serpentine/Human relations have pretty much always sucked. They've had fragile peace and unstable borders and for some reason just generally disliked eachother. There's like, thousands of years that we don't see so maybe there were times that they were chill but since Wu and Garmadon are really our only sources, it's hard to say. And Wu and Garmadon do NOT paint a great picture. I love the Spinjitzu Bros but the amount of just... casual racist comments are like, REALLY disturbing, actually. Saying stuff like "Last one there's a slimy snake!" Like this shit is INGRAINED in Ninjago's culture. Wu had like one bad experience with a Serpentine as a kid and suddenly his entire mindset it "Never Trust a Snake". What the actual fuck. One of the scenes that has always stuck with me is the scene in Child's Play where they're chasing the generals out of the museum, and Jay yells "Hey! They're trying to steal the golden sarcophagus!" Like... Ah, yes. THEY'RE trying to steal it. The golden sarcophagus. Which clearly contains the mummified corpse of an ancient Serpentine. And was most likely taken from a Serpentine pyramid and put in this human museum. Honestly this is relevant in the real world too, cuz how fucked up is it that we took these remains that clearly were not meant to be displayed, and made them an exhibit (and also ate them but that's a different story entirely)?? These are Serpentine trying to reclaim a member of their own and Jay, who has been raised with nothing but fear and hatred for their entire species, is accusing THEM of stealing. Then of course there is the matter of that fsm-awful book, Jack the Rabbit. Whether it was originally written as anti-Serpentine propaganda is irrelevant, because that is how it's being used in a modern context. I really wish I was just exaggerating or being dramatic, I really really do. But I can never see the scene where Wu reads it to Lloyd as a cute uncle/nephew moment ever again because this man is teaching a young boy to fear and hate an entire people group. There's so many little moments that just build up into the most disturbing thing about this entire show. The Ninja practically mugging Skales outside his own home, suspicious of his grocery bag. People chanting "Hey! Hey! What do we say? We want snakes to slither away!" to a fucking mariachi tune. Humans running and screaming in terror when Garma-condrai and Skylor-condrai show up, simply because they LOOK like Serpentine. Referring to the war as the Serpentine War in the first place, or, even worse, calling the battle with Chen's army a Second Serpentine War, despite literally only ONE real Anacondrai being involved at all, and WORKING WITH THE HEROES. Constant mistreatment, constant fear-mongering, erasure of history to the point where Kai didn't even believe they existed, despite his own parents being the ones to lock them in tombs, only about 40 years prior. And the TOMBS. Oh fsm those damn tombs. We see from Wu's story about Aspheera that magical entombment was a Serpentine practice at some point, but again, that was MAGICAL entombment. It was a process that kept the prisoner alive for as long as they needed to be, without need of food or water. Is it humane? Maybe not. But what's far less humane in my opinion is the use of targeted torture devices (referred to as "Sacred" Flutes, for fsm's sake) to force Serpentine into tombs with no way of surviving. The Anacondrai resorted to cannibalism, and I will never let anyone forget that.

Wait how does Skulkin!Garm fit into the Garma-condrai s4 stuff?

I've always imagined Garm being partially skullkin'd, i think being able to use his powers to try to fight back the decay, so he does still have a bit of skin + i think garm gets a tail in s4 so add in a few new bones.

Has no one considered Lord Garma-condrai yet?!?

The Many Garmadons of Ninjago

Kid Garmadon

Young Adult Garmadon

Edgy Young Garmadon AKA Anakin Skywalker Garmadon

Lord Garmadon

Possessed Garmadon

Dragon Garmadon

Master Garmadon

Garma-condrai

Garma-gone

Bad Dad Garmadon

And introducing the latest….Garma-zombie-don