Nah some oc

I mean Larson knows of her, he doesn’t work there anymore sure but still he does know she is a thing

Dim Sum is a Chinese knock off of Spike. Why would Amber be the “Canon version” of that? They are nothing like each other. DS came from a Chinese menu. Why and how would ANYONE on the staff know her and why would they bother using her in any way?

Maybe she’ll show up later as Ember’s little sister or little cousin.

@Background Pony #AE89  
Thank you!

Source (Ember):  
http://yupinapegasus.deviantart.com/art/Pony-Ember-603412237
 
Source of source (Ember):  
http://lullabyprince.deviantart.com/art/Jumpy-base-504305468
 
Source (Dim Sum):  
http://xkappax.deviantart.com/art/Soaring-with-Krystal-544933716

Is this meant as a joke or something, because besides them being blue and female, I see no correlation between them.

omg i was thinking the same lol

I bet the artists who made these adorable pictures sure would like some credit in the tags, OP.

Or is dim sum the unofficial spike/ember offspring?

@sonicfan450  
A GYYAAMMEEE THEEEORRYY.

@Lucky Shot  
Equestria is female dominated anyway

@Background Pony Number 17
 
While the MLP toy line has generally been aimed squarely at girls aged 6-10 or so, the show for Friendship is Magic appeals roughly equally to both genders, both children and adults.
 
Now originally, the characters were largely female so that their toys were easier to sell to girls. I don’t think it’s very likely Ember will get a toy, but her gender follows the pre-existing pattern of predominantly female benevolent leaders and makes her story with Spike flow more easily – Spike can more freely show affection to a female character as his relationship to almost everyone else in the show is little brother / big sister. Males have more awkward boundaries that would get in the way (even with Shining Armor’s crybaby tendencies.)

Well, giving Spike a dragon friend was pretty much the logical follow-on to the events in “Dragon Quest”. In that episode we saw all of the dragons being jerks, which raised a number of uncomfortable questions about Spike’s origins and character. The writers corrected that in “Gauntlet of Fire” by introducing a non-jerky dragon that Spike could befriend.
 
That it turned out to be a girl dragon is just catering to the show demographics. This is a girl’s show, after all, so the strong leading characters all tend to be female.

@sonicfan450  
(shoots him)

BUT HEY THATS JUST A THEORY.

I see no resemblance.

Getting Desperate.

@PhonicB∞m  
No, that was just a writer joking around, a writer I don’t think is writing on this season at all.
 
So No, just NO.

Nope

@PhonicB∞m
 
So basically a standard writing trope. >_>

in my headcanon dim sum will be spike and embers daughter

@Lucky Shot  
A female counterpart to Spike, of sorts. The show creators did seem to enjoy Dim Sum when that was going around, and that’d be right about the time S6 was in planning stages. “Hey, everyone seems to like the idea of Spike having a dragoness friend, let’s do that” sort of thing.

@PhonicB∞m  
By that logic Ember is inspired by Spike, as the OC is very much like Spike and there is less the same between the OC and Ember then Spike and the OC.