one guy who out of nowhere became a dragon otherkin and every conversation with him for six months was about the politics of dragon councils and which people he suspected of secretly being wyverns.
this dude sounds like he completely bought into being a dragon otherkin so the fact you labled it 'surface level' is very funny to me I'm just imagining him yapping at you for like 45 minutes about some dragon council meeting like
and you sitting there thinking "yeah sure, ok you fucking larper"