Comment 91307
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Okay, now what are your thoughts on the Rarity/Spike pairing?
Comment ID 91307
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Hm... As things stand in the show his crush on her is kinda cute, but not going anywhere. She is, as far as we can tell, a grown mare - living on her own, has a business and a position of national responsibility - and he's something between one of her best friends' very young little brother and adopted son. That doesn't really work for a two-sided romance.
Outside of the show, though, I could definitely see it as a possibility - depending on how Dragons age relative to Ponies, and I'm assuming at this point that the dragons in various stages of growth who were still articulate in the Dragon migration eps means the crazed greed-growth thing is something like a freak magic outlier rather than a consistent representation of How Growing Dragons Work - he MIGHT be able to reach maturity during her lifespan, or in fanfic maybe we could hypothesize the Elements prolonging their bearers' lives to keep them around while they're needed, or a Rarity!Alicorn AU or something - there are ways they could both be grown enough for it not to be weird for her to fall for him in return. I don't think interspecies romance is totally off the table in a world where so many different creatures are all still People, although short of magical intervention a species gap that large would probably complicate them ever having kids - and there's a certain amount of poetic logic to the idea of a magical jewel-finder and a Dragon.
Outside of the show, though, I could definitely see it as a possibility - depending on how Dragons age relative to Ponies, and I'm assuming at this point that the dragons in various stages of growth who were still articulate in the Dragon migration eps means the crazed greed-growth thing is something like a freak magic outlier rather than a consistent representation of How Growing Dragons Work - he MIGHT be able to reach maturity during her lifespan, or in fanfic maybe we could hypothesize the Elements prolonging their bearers' lives to keep them around while they're needed, or a Rarity!Alicorn AU or something - there are ways they could both be grown enough for it not to be weird for her to fall for him in return. I don't think interspecies romance is totally off the table in a world where so many different creatures are all still People, although short of magical intervention a species gap that large would probably complicate them ever having kids - and there's a certain amount of poetic logic to the idea of a magical jewel-finder and a Dragon.
Plus Rarity uses his feelings for her to get him to do what she wants. Someday she will feel guilty for that.
I still think that she does care for him, but I hope that she'll let him down easy.
Or maybe someday that Spike will get over this and probably find someone new, like another pony, or another dragon, or griffon, or a phoenix.
Maybe it's because I'm tired of seeing fan art about them together.
...Don't think I'd go phoenix for Spike - they're less People-like than the other options. They MIGHT be People, but I haven't seen strong evidence of it? Like as far as we can tell, Philomena, or Peewee's parents, have been more in the dog-to-dolphin/octopus range - Very Smart animals with a lot of personality and some strategic thinking, but not sure about their level of self-awareness and interpersonal communication. Opinions? Do you think phoenixes are People in the series in the same way that a Pony/Dragon/Griffin/Buffalo/Yak is a Person?
Actually, I find it a little weird on review that Fluttershy was so surprised Spike could talk - she's an animal specialist, is Dragons being People not actually that common knowledge? Is that just because Dragon colonies tend to be so isolated, or are most Dragons you encounter in Pony territory the greed-grown sort, or what's going on?