Freeze

Freezing a hatchling is when someone chooses to stop the hatchling from aging- they will never be able to grow up. This is often done in order to save the hatchling sprites, often because they are preferred to the adult ones, or for collecting purposes. Some people also freeze for description and roleplaying purposes. To avoid abuse, they can not be reversed.

Although dragons do not gain views once frozen, hatchlings frozen at Stage 1 (the stage before wings or gender) can mature to this stage if they have enough views. If you want to collect non-winged hatchlings, it is suggested to let the egg hatch with as little views as possible, and freeze as soon as it hatches.

Some users are against freezing as they believe it to be ammoral- simmilar to killing and stuffing a baby animal. Other users see it as giving the hatchlings eternal youth. Some don't care either way, as they are just pixels.

There has also been some debate about the possibility of freezing eggs, although TJ09 has been trying to work out a way of doing this without abuse. One suggested method is collect egg shards and forming them back together to make an egg after a dragon hatches.