Freeze

When someone chooses to stop the hatchling from aging they will preform an action called, "Freezing". This will cause them to stay in their hatchling phase permanantly. This is often done in order to gather one of every sprite (or, as many as possible). Some people also freeze for description and roleplaying purposes. To avoid abuse, this cannot be reversed. Frozen hatchlings have a little snowflake symbol in parentheses next to the word "Hatchling" and their gender, if applicable.

Although frozen dragons do not gain views, hatchlings frozen at Stage 1 (the stage before wings or gender) can mature to this stage if they have enough views. If a non-winged hatchling is desired, it is suggested to let the egg hatch with as little views as possible, and freeze as soon as it hatches. Freezing was recently limited to 10 every two weeks to prevent hoarding.

On the "Actions" page, freezing is specificed only as an action that will "Permanently prevent the hatchling from maturing into an adult," leaving substansial confusion as to what exactly takes place with regard to the hatchling. Similarly vague is the text given when the Freeze action is taken, which says, "You cast a spell on the hatchling that stops any aging." Because of this, each user has a specifc idea as to what freezing entails and how it affects the hatchling.

Some users are against freezing because they believe it to be immoral, similiar to killing and stuffing an animal, interpret the Freeze spell as something that either kills the hatchling or locks it in suspended animation, so it can no longer go about its life. Other users see it as giving the hatchlings eternal youth, and allowing them to continue living, just never reaching maturity. Some don't care either way, preferring not to consider the hatchling as anything more than a picture.

Egg Freezing
There has been some debate about the possibility of freezing eggs, although TJ09 has been trying to work out a way of doing this without abuse and with respect to individuals who feel freezing an egg is synonymous with killing a dragon. One suggested method is to collect egg shards and forming them back together to make an egg after a dragon hatches. Another is the creation of infertile eggs, either as a possibility during normal breeding or as a "gender specific action" for all adult female dragons.