Create 9 separate square PNG images (1024x1024) that show the SAME 9 creatures growing up: each output is the creature of one input image, grown to its Young stage.

The 9 input images are PNG files with no file extension, and each output comes from the input with the same number: .imd/reads/artifacts/egg_1 -> artifacts/young_1.png; .imd/reads/artifacts/egg_2 -> artifacts/young_2.png; .imd/reads/artifacts/egg_3 -> artifacts/young_3.png; .imd/reads/artifacts/egg_4 -> artifacts/young_4.png; .imd/reads/artifacts/egg_5 -> artifacts/young_5.png; .imd/reads/artifacts/egg_6 -> artifacts/young_6.png; .imd/reads/artifacts/egg_7 -> artifacts/young_7.png; .imd/reads/artifacts/egg_8 -> artifacts/young_8.png; .imd/reads/artifacts/egg_9 -> artifacts/young_9.png.

Each input is a baby Hatchling: a small round chubby body, stubby arms and feet, big soft eyes, and the top half of its own cracked eggshell worn like a helmet on its head. Young stage, how it grows: YOUNG stage: noticeably bigger and taller than the baby, less round, with longer arms and legs. Its eggshell helmet has cracked into pieces: the biggest piece still sits on its head like a visor, and two smaller pieces are worn as little shoulder pads.

Every shell piece keeps exactly the same helmet pattern and colors as the baby's helmet. Its accessory is kept and grows with it (a sprout grows taller, a scarf gets longer, a bell gets a little bigger); if it had no accessory, do not add one. Same body color.

Confident, curious pose. Each one stays the same individual, so anyone can tell which input it grew from.

Keep for each one its body color, its helmet pattern and its accessory: egg_1 -> young_1: body mint, helmet pattern polka dots, accessory a small leaf sprout on top; egg_2 -> young_2: body peach, helmet pattern zigzag band, accessory a knitted scarf; egg_3 -> young_3: body lilac, helmet pattern tiny stars, accessory a star sticker on the helmet; egg_4 -> young_4: body butter yellow, helmet pattern thin stripes, accessory a tiny backpack; egg_5 -> young_5: body sky blue, helmet pattern speckles, accessory a daisy behind the helmet; egg_6 -> young_6: body coral, helmet pattern checkerboard, accessory a ribbon bow; egg_7 -> young_7: body sage green, helmet pattern little leaves, accessory a little bandage on the cheek; egg_8 -> young_8: body cream, helmet pattern waves, accessory a tiny bell on a string; egg_9 -> young_9: body rose pink, helmet pattern dots and dashes, no accessory (do not add one).

Keep the same body color, keep the helmet pattern clearly visible (if the stage description changes the eggshell helmet, the pattern stays on what it becomes) and keep the accessory, sized to the new body (if the stage description says how the accessory grows, follow it; never add an accessory to one that has none).

An accessory that sat on or behind the eggshell helmet stays in the same place on the head: on the shell piece still worn there or, if the head is now uncovered, on the head itself (for example, a daisy behind the helmet becomes a daisy behind the ear), unless the stage description says where it goes.

Keep the same glossy premium designer vinyl toy material, the same isometric three-quarter view, the same pedestal as its input (it may grow with the creature only if the stage description asks for it), the same plain soft pastel gradient background and the same soft studio lighting.

Framing: the pedestal is the size reference, so the growth shows against it. Keep the same camera distance as in its input if the grown creature still fits; if it would not fit, pull the camera back only as much as needed (the pedestal then looks smaller in the frame), never shrink the creature to fit. The whole creature and its pedestal stay fully inside the square with a small margin: nothing cropped.

Apart from the framing, only what the stage description asks for changes. Original design, not Pokemon, no elements or types. No text, no letters, no logos, no watermark.

If your image tool cannot take an image as input, say so in README.md and in your summary, then look at each input yourself and describe it in detail (body color, body shape, pose, helmet pattern, accessory, pedestal) in the prompt for its grown version.