Armature Parenting Issue Dear Blender Community ,
    I am struggling to solve an issue concerning parenting an armature to another object (so I don't have to animate it separately. In this instance I'm trying to have my 'l' in slavery to be able to hold a pickaxe. The only problem is as the 'I' deforms back upwards to its resting position, the pickaxe stays stuck inside the rock. Do you guys have any ideas on how to fix it?
Not sure I understand everything going on, but if it's a problem with the whole armature, you could try parenting bone to your object. Then make that bone the parent bone. 
Or you could try the child of constraint.