Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It spends its time pouncing on insects.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing. It is also now covered in brightly colored stripes.

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.

Messy Black Striped is from the Academy of Obvious Naming. There is literally an academy. She learned how to read and write various languages from the headmaster Man with Black Hair with White Streaks in It himself, and she can win a footrace with Fast Slender Guy. She was friends with Tall Pink-haired Lady before the latter left to travel around the world. Now, Messy Black Striped usually does whatever she wants to do as long as she keeps the buildings free of bugs, which incidentally, is one of her hobbies.