so....technically he could kill someone and then have the serpent take that person's form. Which could make him the ultimate assasin. Being able to have the serpent appear as someone a target trusts.
The gods have the same mindset as dictators do. They fear the expansion of knowledge because knowledge leads to introspection and introspection leads to questioning and questioning leads to discontent and discontent leads to insurrection.
Sunny needs to drop the angry tone and focus on thinking more rationally. He's been lucky up until now that his anger issues haven't gotten him killed.