...Well, gotta find a silver lining somewhere.On one hand, a loving parent has died. On the other hand, now they have a baby dragon in their party?
Mascot characters need to be either strong+quiet+big (ex: Sadaharu from Gintama)Baby Dragon is going to be the mascot right?
The 2nd one also include the emergency food trope, like Genshit or chopper in OPMascot characters need to be either strong+quiet+big (ex: Sadaharu from Gintama)
or small+cute+talkative (ex: pretty much every mascot character in magical girl shows)
I'm just envisioning from this a game mechanic in which if you kill a mimic the weapon/object you did it with then becomes the mimic.And that is what i call badass, powerfull and terrifying mimc. Not some weak, easy to predict and easy to beat chest.