Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5491880-20160727022257/@comment-24674051-20161117182444

As I pointed out elsewhere, talking genetic traits and how a person looks only works when discussing humans. Mal, Lily, and the Dragon are Dragons (or were-Dragons, or whatever). They can have their own rules that are different from human rules.

My reason for pointing that out is that everyone wants to get hung up on the fact that young Lily had a strong hispanic look, adult Lily is a bit different (the actress has some slavic heritage, I believe) and not hispanic, and Mal is Caucasian, while the Dragon is Asian. All of these are appearances, and as we've seen on this show, appearances can be deceiving. So let's try to not box the Dragon race into what our perceptions as humans would see.

I'm not saying that the Dragon is definitively 100% Lily's father (in fact, I have argued the other way before), but I'm willing to accept that he could be, regardless of appearance.