Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has brightly colored fins on its back.

And look! It has grown larger fins! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

Subset tends to find the qualities that the majority of the other hatchlings possess and mimics them with utmost zeal. He acts positively adorable without meaning to half the time, does things to make the adults label him as surely mad the other half, and goes on adventures day in and out. His efforts have made him the friend of almost every single other hatchling in the cave.