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“It’s weird! I feel… like… I value you… as a person or something?”
“Yeah, that’s friendship.”
“Friendship, huh? …I HATE IT.”
“Yeah, that’s friendship.”
“Friendship, huh? …I HATE IT.”
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I hope so! More bestest teenage tsundere dragon princess please!
Why not throw Aria Blaze in siren form while you are at it?
I wonder if Sonata Dusk could be trained to do tsundere tricks…
Get Trixe, Gilda and Ember together and make an episode out of it.
I need me some tsundere salt.
Hehe, that could make things interesting. :P
You forgot the most important question. Will Spike yell out Rarity’s name on their wedding night?
Spike is so cool that universes are splitting when he’s trying to be faithful to only one. In result we have as many universes as many females :P.
I did think about that yesterday, but everyone was so worked up over tsundereness and shipping that I didn’t bring it up.
I was also wondering if anyone thought about how the previous dragon Lord is huge compared to every other dragon, that scepter is tiny compared to him but normal size for the teenage dragons and the gauntlet of fire seems to be made for dragons of teenage size.
The gauntlet of fire and the blood born scepter is meant for teenage dragons to take on, and once they reach a certain size and age they pass it on to the next younger generation.
Also I wonder once a new teenage dragon takes over the role of dragon lord, what do the other grown up larger dragons do? Do they respect the younger dragon lords authority? Or does that authority only apply to other young dragons?
So many questions!
When will Spike become a teenager!
When will Spike and Ember get married!
What will their children look like!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Okay I’m better now. :p
He ain’t got no swag like Discord. Spike just replaces waifus with another.
@Mellow91
Gentlemen, it’s obvious. Spike gets all the females.
(Not counting Sunset, who has the power of a princess but not the title)
He did pretty well swimming to the island, even dragging a larger unconscious dragon wearing heavy armor! And he does enjoy lenghty bubble baths that leave the whole town without water. Maybe he’s a water dragon, and no one’s figured it out yet?
Even as an adult he didn’t have wings. He might be a earth dragon or salamander or some such.
Not everyone gets to fly.
Also Dragons kept referring to him as a “runt”, not an infant. There’s also their comment on his lack of wings and Spike growth by greed. Then Spike admitting that the teenagers were more his suit.
I suppose.
My other point (that they might be lying to themselves) still stands.
And I’m not 100% convinced friendship is necessary.
But I suppose I’ll step aside; I’m not convinced to change my own mind yet, but at this point I don’t really have the ‘foundation’ to try to convince you either.
Of course… None of this changes my original main point: I really didn’t feel like she was acting like a Tsundere.
The fact that they have advance metallurgy (the armor) and jewel crafting (the scepter) implies at least basic civilization. You can’t have blacksmiths in a purely hunter-gatherer society.
I’ve never seen a Dragon City either, so who says they have civilization?
Maybe they’ve always been loose tribes held together by strong dragons bullying the others into obeying shrug
The glowy-itchy ‘Call’ would help the strong dragons get their subordinates to actually show up.
Besides, the cultural ‘ideal’ isn’t always what people actually follow.
Maybe dragons have friends and general allies, sometimes, but they just delude themselves into thinking they’re not.
It probably goes a lot better when both sides are going ‘we’re totally not friends’ and they can just keep ‘coincidentally’ having mutual goals, rather than trying to deal with Spike’s ‘I want to be your friend!’ clashing with the dragon-norms.
As an example of an IRL cultural ideal that wouldn’t work if people actually followed it:
Where I live, it’s generally accepted that you can’t put a price on a life; Any monetary cost, no matter how high, is worth it if you save a life.
However, as someone who did part of a fire-safety-engineer education, we can’t afford a near-zero accident rate (absolute 0 would be literally impossible; There’s always a way it could go wrong. But you can get close)
It wouldn’t just be unprofitable, we wouldn’t have the manpower for it even if all of humanity became a hive-mind.
So, ‘it doesn’t work’, at all, to treat human lives as worth any cost; We’d all starve to death if we tried.
So people say it’s worth any cost, quite a few even seem to believe it, but then they roll their eyes and act like you’re being ridiculous if you bring up the extremes (which I consider evidence that their actual ‘line’ is before said extremes)
That… Just doesn’t work. Like, at all. You don’t form civilizations without the ability to form social bounds. The Griffons at least had the excuse that they used to be a functioning society with normal social structures until the Idol was lost, then MAGIC!
Not even entirely convinced she is a Tsundere, personally.
She wasn’t really claiming not to care about him, she was claiming dragons don’t ‘team up’ or form bonds.
Presumably normal dragons can find each other cute too, it just doesn’t lead to anything ‘personal’; No safety, but also no restrictions, and so no proper relationship by pony standards.
I feel like she’s just a tomboy, and the rest is cultural differences; She wasn’t saying stuff like ‘It’s not like I like you, b-baka’, she was saying stuff like ‘I-I’m a Dragon, I’m not your f-friend… But I guess we can work together in a totally-ok-for-dragons not-actually-friends kind of way’
She felt, to me, more like she was explaining away her own breaches of culture (which probably made her feel like less of a dragon)
Hard to tell. He look like 8 year old but act like 13-15 year old. Garble seems to treat him as a rival instead a little kid and he is a teenager.
Usually I concur that tsundere is a terrible archetype, but I strangely don’t hate it in this instance. She is the Dragon Lord’s teenage daughter, so it suits her.
Technically, that makes it a lolishota paring, which still falls under the “straight shota” category.