Let’s settle this once and for all: is Spike the son or the brother of Twilight Sparkle?

pet

>>42278480 (OP)
He’s a pet/slave/bitch/non-sentient object to her. His personal feelings are irrelevant. Dragons don’t have rights.

She thinks of him as her little brother but he's functionally her son.

>>42278480 (OP)
Sex slave

No relation, either by blood or by bond. He's an indentured house servant.

>>42278480 (OP)
Not returned school material.

>>42278501
To be fair it's not her fault she is kinda a mom now, I mean what would you do if your test paper turned into a filly?

>>42278505
Dont answer that

>>42278524
LOL

>>42278480 (OP)
House nigger

I just thought of something: How is Opaline supposed to be evil in G5 when her relationship to Misty is identical to Twilight’s relationship with Spike? The only difference is the music and line reading is changed so that the abuse scenes come off as funny rather than scary. But it’s the same! In fact, Twilight is probably MORE abusive when you stop to think about it.

Does Opaline exist to make the viewers rethink Twilight and realize that they’re the same?

>>42278480 (OP)
Familiar.

>>42278485
That, too.
>>42278560
And that.

Why do Americans have to insert their racial relationships into fictional characters?

>>42278524
You aren't a fillyfiddler are you?

>>42278572
>picture
You picked the absolute worst Twilight-Spike moment in the show there. The only legit abuse (especially because he literally didn't do anything wrong there).

>>42278823
I don't get it.

>>42278826
Gollyfag has an obsession with good things happening to Cozy Glow and bad things happening to anyone who isn't Cozy Glow.

>>42278826
She kicked Spike out and replaced him with her new adoptive daughter, Cozy Glow. (Also, the dialogue from the first image is a direct quote from IDW comic about baby Spike.)

>>42278480 (OP)
Both.

>>42278830
Twilight is a brat and needs correction

>>42278480 (OP)
He's protective of her more like you'd expect of a little brother, not a child-aged son. It's always felt obvious to me.

>>42279129
What kind of correction?

>>42278480 (OP)
A robot butler. Twilight Sparkle is, first and foremost, a mad scientist, and therefore implicitly should have one. It doesn't matter that he's technically neither a robot or a butler: he's perfect the way he is and she's lucky to have him.
>>42278572
Opaline is not a scientist.

Neither. He's their "friend" which means he's a glorified pet. People will defend this till the cows come home but the truth of the matter is they don't treat him like family until that relationship is threatened. Spike should relinquish that control and learn what it means to actually be a dragon. It might be scary and cruel, but that's the reality he's going to eventually have to deal with. In Season 1 we've seen what happens to dragons when they get too big. They can't live around ponies anymore. I think the showrunners realized this implication in future episodes and retconned it so most of the dragons in the world are small.

Does this means dragons can't live together while they are small? No absolutely not. But contrast Spike to Smolder. She's friends with different species. She's not subservient to them.

Regardless of that, Spike is never treated as an equal but as an accessory. The one he claims to love with won't even let him let go of that delusion until he finally snaps out of it and she freaks out because of it.

>>42279381
Opaline is a brilliant scientist.

>>42278636
>brooooo she only abused him this one time!!!!!

>G1 Spike
>Freed from slave labour and captivehood to live in harmony with the ponies for the rest of live.

>G3
>Absolute chad that singlehandedly turns Ponyville back into a Kingdom; gets the castle gifted to him just because he is that awesome.

>G5
>Absolutely emasulates the chaddest pony in Maretime Bay and brood parasites him of all his ressources *buuuurp* goo goo ga ga hahaha.

>G4
>No dignity, no identity of his own, no purpose except serving his Princess mother Twilight Sparkle and cleaning and dusting the library or castle. Not allowed to reproduce; not allowed to masturbate. Making any mistake results in him not getting a warm meal for three days.

>>42279420
Where's that frame from lmao

>>42279404
Okay. Name every other time Twilight legit abused Spike. Show only.

>>42278572
What episode is this?

>>42279806
Hurricane Fluttershy

>>42279857
Thanks.

>>42279398
She's a better scientist than Twilight, her magic is stronger, her ideology more beneficial to Equestria (no creatures!), and she even treats her slaves better and she doesn't afraid of anything. Is there anything she can't do? She even has a cooler castle!

>>42280453
Is this some kind of American joke? I don't get it.

>>42278480 (OP)
My question is why is he a part of the main cast to begin with

>>42280543
Because he's cool and awesome.

He's family.

>>42278524
A rhetorical question

>>42280459
Yes. She is counting Spike as three dependents for the purposes of paying less on her taxes/receiving more tax credits

pet that pays her taxes

>>42280453
So fucking based!!!

>>42278480 (OP)
Both.

In Equestrian culture, older sisters are expected to perform much of the child-rearing duties toward their younger siblings (see Rarity vs. Sweetie Belle and Applejack vs. Applebloom). This is probably doubly so for adopted siblings such as Spike. (It should also apply for Rainbow Dash vs. Scootaloo, but the show makes it clear that RD is pretty irresponsible when it comes to family matters.) A real tipoff is Fluttershy's relationship with her younger yet adult sibling Zephyr Breeze, who still expects her to look after him long after he should be out on his own.

>>42279420
>He thinks Sparky is Spike
It's literally a different name how can you be this retarded?

>>42280949
Seriously, especially because Spike ACTUALLY APPEARS in the show.

assuming he gets cucked by Rarity, who's spike's best ship?

>>42281110
Applejack, obviously. She's probably the character he's had the best chemistry with.

>>42281112
More like a big sister though (one that teaches her little brother the birds and the bees with a VERY hands-on lesson).

>>42281116
Do you think dragons have a hotter cum than in average?

>>42281613
Yes.

>>42278480 (OP)
Technically he is celestias son since she layed the egg

>>42280688
>Applejack vs. Applebloom
Their parents are fucking dead

>>42278480 (OP)
He's an adopted younger brother. Hatching an egg doesn't make you a mother, otherwise I'd be the mother to several chickens by this point

>>42281112
Boy do I have the audiodrama for you!

>>42279371

>>42282389
LOL!

>>42280688
>Scootaloo was actually trying to get a real mother all along, sick of her lesbian aunts
Grim

>>42282389
What made Twilight like this?

>>42282291
>anon has a farm