Once Rose feels up for it, have her give the dragon a bit of a makeover. Still a dragon from the waist down, but make her a bit prettier up top. It’s likely to be a bit painful for both of them, though
If we use a character card, use the fusion setting. This will give her long dark hair and angular features (helga), short curly hair and soft features (Johanna), or a narrow face, red hair, and a large bust (Calista). Requires us to actually be using those cards, of course.
Use a character card to pump up her brain power a bit. The easiest transition would be the Gobu Gobu. The dragon would still be a bit dumb with Gobu gobu brain, but at least it would know outdoor survival and some very basic understanding of teamwork and cooperation.
Use the card for Helga of Ordo Ultima, giving the dragon the skills needed to run a sex cult while not getting kicked out of university. Moderate intellect, high social intelligence, and a degree of manipulation
Use the card for Johanna Stiegler, dramatically expanding the dragon’s ability to process and model future events as well as above average economic literacy, but likely also giving the poor thing anxiety.
Use the Biron Monk card. This will give the dragon a tremendous amount of focus and discipline, which might be a very handy mindset to inject into a dragon.
Weird option, but if Rose goes MUCH harder and turns the dragon into a straight up humanoid, we could then teach the dragon karate. We will need to enhance her physicality and muscle memory somehow, by the way, since she doesn’t know how legs work and Rose’s powers wouldn’t teach her that.
Use the card for Calista, giving her skills related to a wide variety of domestic tasks and general understanding of the value of discretion. Hardly any social skills, though.
Huh. Weird. There’s a note on the Callista card saying that if we combine the Maid tag and the Shifter tag on a full sized dragon, there’s a synergy bonus. We don’t have a card with the shifter tag, but we could give the dragon the maid tag I guess? It would be less invasive, and she’d end up about as smart as the Gobu Gobu with no further investment.
Use 2 or more character cards to make the dragon not stupid and ugly. If it’s going to be partly humanoid, make it partly humanoid.
Use the Evolution upgrade from the parasite binding to enhance the dragon. As everyone knows, wild animals tend to be much smaller and weaker than they could hypothetically be with proper nutrition. The dragon will advance to peak fitness, but we won’t be able to buy other Symbiote upgrades easily.
Pick up the Hive upgrade from the parasite binding. Parasite-fused retinue members can stay inside the hive skyblock extension in order to generate additional parasite credits. This will give her something to do when we go to worlds where a giant fuckoff dragon would be socially unacceptable. Costs all our current parasite credits, though.
Sell the dragon so we can spend 10 credits to fix Rose’s power. She can compensate without us spending ten credits, but she’s going to be at a serious disadvantage until she gets that squared away. Dragon sells for 10 credits and a new lure that makes damsels in distress fall in love with Gil when he saves them (potentially redirecting other emotional responses like having a psychotic break because they almost died)
Just use the dragon as a dumb mount while in Camelot, and sell it or trade it to Lucan later. As cool as having a dragon is, 100 foot long 3.5 foot thick serpents are not exactly logistically practical if we can’t get them into a pokeball.
Make a mental note to go to Snow’s homeworld at some point and shove the dragon in a pokeball. We can do other stuff too, but mostly this is for dragon logistics since we don’t know of any other animals worth using our Sphere charges on in that world.