Voithex

Can treat it more like a viewer introduction to the story, like a hook point to get started, although other than viewer point of view, there is also focus on the element of not just past and present time of the character in the piece (Neo) but what brought her into that drastic of a change,

In this instance, it is about The Fatal Error, which is partially why decided to lean on the funky visual choice of contrast and glitch.

"It's all mixed up in my head, The images, The sounds, The smell" - Initially woken with no memory, barely any, and then flood of them all just appearing as if directly inserted/imported into her mind. The images of the past, human life and during, entering digital world and something going drastically terribly wrong, Sounds, mixed with the past time, just any casual days, including the one's of working overtime on this digital reality, and panic of her team as realisation set in. And a hint that she does have the faint memory of how her mind was fried up in the real world during the Fatal Error and how did it smell before pretty much her memory got scattered over like puzzle pieces yet to be put together.

Before Fatal Error

(didnt got full ref yet)

After Fatal Error

The freshly made gifs are in the exact same time frame, of the same character, except, the "human" is dead now.

The fatal error was literally fatal to her human conscience and body, bringing her present self into existence in the digital world that brought her demise, but as much as it killed her - that "sacrifice" sparked the world into life on it's own, a functional ecosystem in digital realm sparking into existence alongside her, just her waking taking enough time that she appears only a while after things started.

In the story, she's both aware and unaware - aware of her memories, knowledge and so on, but unaware as she didnt connect the dots just yet. There are also a few characters that knew her human self + some side stories in the same world alongside (yes, I worldbuild for every single character story of mine, can't help it, it's just fun)

+ lil fun fact: for this specyfic story, things like Hair lenght, clothes, design details and so on are puzzle pieces connecting time-frames, events and animations between one another, each character has influence on one another pretty much

Sentenced for commited murder. In process of being transported to the designated Prison.

During the ride, the transport, among additional key events during the ride the last and most drastic being the Van's crash. --- Simply put, Destination not reached and the actual story beginning.

For the Juvenile:

Some of their sounds are similiar to the dragon herself.

Their teeth are inspired by snakes, pointed inside to get better grip on prey that struggles and tries to get free.

Even if they're small (half a block tall, aka more-less from ground to human's knees), their wings are huge, even if they dont seem like it.

Headcanon for those is, that Phantoms come from end, which is far far above overworld where sun doesnt reach. Them flying to overworld at night mainly to hunt.

Their high flying speed allowing them to go from end to overworld and back as they please. The older the phantom gets, the darker their skin is, eventually being as dark as the night sky. Phantom showed here is still being pretty light from when it was a young. Their skin is still somewhat transparent throughout their life, making their bones visible at all times.

For the Baby:

When they're young, hatchlings, they're usually white, pink-ish or purpl-ish colour, their skin so transparent that you can see not only bones but also their insides in general.

Their colour allowing them to blend in with End-Stone.

Wings.. or more, skin of their wings is merged together, until they become a teen they can't fly as efficienly (overtime, the 2 sets of wings separate from eachother. When those are separated fully, it means the phantom can go hunt for itself on it's own or in pack)