#the humans in the tomb have a culture more inline with serpentine beliefs than with that of most modern ninjagoans

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What’s an au you need an excuse to infodump about 3 2 1 go

Bestie I got the hiccups the moment this ask appeared in my inbox. I'm not saying these two things are related, but I think you may have cursed me /silly /lh /<3

Anyway. Hm. Thinks about Raised by Serpentine. Thinks about how Cole grew up never seeing the sky, and how this wasn't unique to him because across all five tombs there wasn't a single Serpentine or human that had been alive 250 years ago still alive now. Thinks about how despite it all they each formed strong communities and banded together, how in the Constrictai tomb in particular human and Serpentine coexistence ended up being part of the culture developed after 250 years trapped underground. Thinks about how in the years leading up to canon starvation and sickness cut the population down, cut the community down, and how this wasn't a unique incident in those 250 years. Thinks about how while the Constrictai are burrowers and were largely only bothered by being trapped the humans in the tomb would have had to adapt to a subterranean life. Thinks about how unfair it was to trap them like that, in those inescapable tombs with no intention of ever freeing them. Thinks about how Cole would have grown up with starvation and sickness and community and love and hopeless despair and festivals and slitherpits and a culture of hope despite the stone ceiling above them. Thinks about the Serpentine all being able to come back to Ouroboros, to all their ancestral homes from before the war, to reintegrate into the world they had been missing from for two and a half centuries. Thinks about