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It more like how she knows that dragons have this ability, considering ponies knows nothing about them.
Which still raises the question of why Celestia can do it, and how Spike even learned that he had that ability.
The part about Spike’s flame is unique but remember that one scene in Dragonquest that Spike was in a burping contents and burp out a scroll. Gerbel just pick it up and read it, while the others look on like it wasn’t a big deal.
The scene itself implied that all dragons can send massages to each other though there flame, not just one person…or pony in this case.
1: Enter a dragon’s den and or cave without permission.
2: Take take his gems/food.
3: Try to harm it, and it love one.
I’ve already heard about McCharthy said that she’s got ideas for him, but I’ve actually never understand when or when she said that.
Do you have a link for that, please?
Hey, the Crystal Empire likes him.
I just don’t like the implications of “All dragons are greedy and bad. Except for Spike, because he was raised by glorious ponies who showed him how to be good.” It seems pretty lazy on the part of the writers, and leaves a lot of “speciest” implications.
Some of the story possibilities, they go into serious areas for this show. Applejack’s dead parents don’t get more than an oblique reference, and Spike’s situation isn’t nearly so light.
If Spike wasn’t abducted, then his mother is either dead or abandoned him. Questioning his place in Equestria will address speciesism in one way or another, although hopefully more optimistically than Trickquestion presents it. The last time his biology came up, he turned into a King Kong reference, and other dragons don’t live with ponies and are willing to attack him on sight, so he’d have to leave his home and risk death to talk to them.
And then there’s the question of how he was raised by people that know next to nothing about dragons, why he ended up as Twilight’s valet, and how interspecies relationships work in Equestria.
When McCarthy said that she has ideas for him, I think that she said that before remembering that episodes of this show are supposed to end on uplifting morals, not philosophical and existential quandaries.
About the safest mystery to address is why Spike can use flame mail with Celestia, a unique ability that still hasn’t been looked at.
I think that makes me more upset than anything else when watching a show.
A character with so much potential that they refuse to do anything with.
Spike has the most potential plot hooks out of the Manes aside from maybe Twilight herself. The occasional focus on him has actually added the potential for more.
Heck, just being the only non-pony in the Mane Cast draws the mind. It would be weirder if she couldn’t find story ideas for him.
Now, whether any of those get into the show, or is implemented worth a damn, are another question entirely.
I don’t know, but it just seems weird that he’d be mentioned first. And having the throne is nice.
Maybe they wanted to get Twilight’s business out of the way first? Or maybe it had to do with that throne that they gave him?
Literally the first character McCarthy said that she had ideas for was Spike, which I found weird.
As cool as this idea is, I’m finding it increasingly difficult as time goes on to believe Celestia cares all that much about Spike. Faust’s idea that she raised him is pretty much dead (it hasn’t come up in four seasons, even in scenes where it’s just him, Celestia, and Twilight, and the Spike and Celestia comic made no mention of it) and evidence is mounting that even among the Element Bearers, Twilight is the only one she thinks is important.
I could see it being that, really. I don’t think Equestrians have ever had a good relationship with other races and that’s honestly really sad.
Oh, what if it was an experiment of all races?
Spike is a dragon with ponies, there is a pony with griffins a griffin with some other race, and it’s all on big circle.
If he wants to stay with pony society, he’s going to have to work with pony rules.
If he wants to leave, well, his friends will try to talk to him, but ultimately won’t stop him.
Whether it’s dragon nature is not the only issue. He’s not living with dragons.
It’s a matter of a dog living with wolves or living with humans. The dog learns appropriate behaviors, or is cast out.
Now, Spike isn’t completely abandoning his dragon behaviors. They aren’t stopping him from eating gems, or using his fire breath. It’s when he starts breaking laws or assaulting people that they become concerned.
Would a pony raised by dragons be disciplined everytime they acted like a pony would?
Given what we’ve seen of dragons, I’d be more worried about the pony getting eaten.
Aside from genuine concerns about dragons killing their young, ponies are physical incapable of many dragon behaviors. Spike is capable of just about anything that an earth pony can do. Asking a pony to act like a dragon is physically impossible. The reverse is not.
I want to believe that Spike was some sort of grand experiment between Celestia and a dragon leader to exchange the young of each respective race to see if they could live like the other.
So maybe there is a pony being raised by dragons.
“what’s your name?”
“FUCK YOU, that’s my name.”
You just know that if the inverse was true (a young pony living with dragons) they’d be tripping over each other trying to get the pony away and back into Equestrian society.
It’s all just part of this show’s weird ambivalence to pony society’s blatant belief in its own superiority.
Being greedy may be dragon nature but that doesn’t me he can’t control it, like with the gems in Just for Sidekicks, he was greedy there but could control himself,nothing says he has to be a greedy monster like he turned into on Secret of My Excess.
No, bad baby dragon.