Talk:Spike/@comment-11634302-20160728172008/@comment-27162776-20160802035251

@Katmare Sparkles

True, Spike is a baby dragon,dragon, dragon dragon dragon. Dragons, as we all know, age at a much slower rate than ponies as well as their growth rate. So saying Spike is a baby dragon just means that by dragon scale he is a child but on the pony age scale he basically a teenager. Also Twilight was about 2 and a half years younger than the cutie mark crusaders are when they get their cutie marks when she hatched Spike and the cutie mark crusaders are about 10 so Twilight must have been about 8 years old. Twilight is about somewhere between 18 and 22 years old right now according to Lauren Faust and Twi was 8 when she hatched Spike so he must be between 10 and 14. Lauren Faust also said though that all of the main characters are between 13 and 17 but she gives them adult like independence. Spike may not be part of the Mane 6 but he is still considered a main character on the show even though they don't give him enough credit.So he's either 13 or 14. Dragons growth rate is also much different than that of ponies. Dragons growth is accelerated and activated by greed. Spike is very generous though so his growth rate is much slower giving him his chubby baby look.