I took inspiration from the guts with his sword pose I also see that the legs are screwd up so I'll try to improve the anatomy in the future

before I wanted to see guts as a dragon but now I want to see a dragon that struggles like Guts if that makes sense I see a lot of potential for that because I'm reading wings of Fire and its getting boring for me so I try to spice it up a bit with my little alternate scenario.

you can see that this guy also has a little archer buddy on his back that's his "little bandit" It's like I want to explore these two further and the mercenary band that they are a part of
I'm just fascinated by the concept of dragons and humans trusting and relying on each other