So, I think it would be fun if dragons could pick up crew the same way crew can pickup smile slime or mice.
One of the bars to Dragons having RP is their carp army will attack crew without human control and there are alot of carps so odds are your army will not be controlled making the Roleplay potential rather limited.
the benafit to the hostage is well… your not dead or eaten right away, you can roleplay with the dragon even if your at its mercy which can be fun and if your too anoying the dragon player may decide eating you is a better idea. Like with mice you can also struggle to break out maybe getting away while the dragon is distracted by Sec
The benafit to the dragon player is having someone to roleplay with maybe ordering them to use their coms to make demands of the station you could extend this to allowing the dragon to use the PDA access of the hostage the same way they can if they drag bodies into a door
The benafit to the station crew is opening up RP with the dragon via the hostage. if the dragons hostage acts as a ID it could also leave less station spacing should the dragon leave a door alive.
It would also fit the classical theames of a dragon to take hostages, in media dragons taking hostages is fairly common theame (normally a high ranking noble) and this would help the dragon player fill that role.
Lastly I think it wouldn’t be too hard to impliment code wise. Very rarely a hand held artifact can swap places with a player allowing players to be in the hands of other players where in said player can struggle free so… that code exists already. picking up creatures code is already used on mice and smile slime so that just needs applying to dragons with the limitations removed to give them all pickup. maybe restrict persuers and other space dragons as ‘too big for even dragons to hold’
my hope is that this will bring more RP to a role that has traditionally been NRP or very light RP and provide non-sec players more ways to interact with the space dragon.