it's weird that the actual language when the Overlord reveals his corruption of the devourer centers around its biting Garmadon, because that is not something that should alter Harumi's worldview. She likes evil garm, she resurrected him, if anything that would make her like the Overlord more. It's the fact that the devourer was corrupted during the s1 attack that's relevant, and while that is implied in the scene, it's crazy that it's not outright stated.
Something in my dumb lizard brain clicked and decided to make a Ninjago x Kung Fu Panda AU, starting with the villains (Morro + Tai Lung, Harumi + Lord Shen and Overlord/Crystal King + Kai)
Would've found it cool if, during s11, Zane didn't just go with whatever Vex told him because he couldn't remember who he was, thanks to Vex, but if there was still a tiny part of the Overlord in him from s3's finale (yes, I'm ignoring the existence of Decoded).
Because,, that would've fit a little with the Overlord's whole crystal theme in Crystalized. After all, Zane froze him, or at least bits of him, with his ice becoming like ice crystals,,
If I don't ignore the existence of Decoded for this, it doesn't seem to make too much sense, at least to me. Since the Overlord was purely a virus defeated by the power of friendshi- happy memories I don't see how he'd adapt the whole crystal thing from Zane otherwise, so.. Yeah. I've mentioned somewhere before that I prefer the SOG attempting to hack Zane in Decoded instead of the Overlord and I don't really know where I was going with this but um. Yes.
I like the idea of the Overlord (or what remained of him after s3) having some ice crystals stuck to his form which he ends up corrupting and that's where he got his whole crystal theme from- but that's just me rambling at 2.30am about Lego's instead of sleeping
"I have had many names: Dark Lord, Golden Master, Crystal King...but yes...Overlord."
I'm sure 90% of us knew about his role this season but I still wanted to wait to post him for a moment since I generally try to stay somewhat spoiler free publicly. Like, I'll know all the spoilers, but I won't talk about them lol. Oh, and if his pose seems familiar, guilty, I did reuse/modify/clean up his pose from the "concept art" post, because really, I think this was perfect, it captured him well and I just couldn't top it during the sketching phase of this piece. And I tried to get a little bit of rep for every form, from combining the GM and CK armor to giving him his Rebooted cape but with holes in it to resemble the wings of his dragon form, and even his overall body resembling a wad of evil like his spirit form.