>>43442526For the kaiju/cute part, how about a baby bat like pic related, it could even have a fruit that uses as a dummy (because fruit bat), a very fuzzy and cute neck, plus really big and cute eyes. Its evolution can be a "just gets bigger" bat that drops the baby motif, and finally it does a 180º and becomes a cool ass wyvern, keeping the neck fuzz and maybe still incorporating the fruit theme somewhere? But yeah it'd be super edgy and cool and all that stuff.
Wait I had another idea, maybe the first stage could also be wrapped like these babies, but as a way to mimic a cracked open dragon egg?
So baby coddled bat>normal bat>wyvern.