I would have agreed if I hadn't realised him taking on a child like form was infact important for the story as it showed the heartlessness of the villagers to ignore a child and as well allowed him to get away with acts he most likely would've been killed for if he was an adult.
It's totally normal to feel odd about it at first, I was too. But don't worry, there is absolutely nothing weird happening when he still looks like a child and soon enough, he'll turn into an adult (dont wanna spoil).
Well said. It plays a significant part in the story how him choosing a child will also show how the villagers will treat him. And its the best representation of how helpless and weak he is despite him being a dragon.
And knowing that he's a dragon that could shapeshift himself into a crocodile or bird if he desires so, them meeting with the dragon as a child does not look so weird to me especially since he is treated as a child by our MC. Its the past too. Like.
While like, I get it??? He's not a real child. But like. It just feels to me as a reader who spent 20 chapters or whatever seeing these two rawdogging and then suddenly one of them is a Kid-But-Not-A-Kid. Like, couldn't the author just had him take on an adult form the author wasnt aren't forced to have them meet like this