Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls/@comment-99.240.68.201-20130611220555

I would like to tell you all (mainly DT) something:

Here are some quotes from My Little Pony: The Elements of Harmony: Friendship is Magic: The Official Guidebook:

Meghan McCarthy:'' The fact that Spike sometimes feels like an outsider is a great place from which to mine stories. He's trying to figure out who he is. What beyond being Twilight's assistant is his role in this world? I think he really reflects how everybody feels at some point in thier life. ''

Lauren Faust (in an interview Q&A):

Q: Spike is unique in that he's one of the few nonpony main characters. How do you approach writing him and his struggles as opposed to the ponies?

A: I envisioned Spike as the sensitive little boy who has a lot of sisters and just seems to get along better with girls. I also imagined that he's much younger than the ponies and has a little bit of the vibe of a little brother who wants to be included but can't really keep up. He's an outsider, and I think that he feels it a little even though the ponies love and include him.

What I can tell from this is that Spike is an outsider and wants to find out who he really is. He also is kind of like the ponies' "brother," which for me means that he's like a brother to all of the ponies, as well as vice versa for Spike (Spike feels as if the ponies are like his sisters.)

Dog Spike may have been either an idea by the fatcats at Hasbro, or by Meghan. If it was Megan's idea, then probably it would be because Spike matters equally to all of the girls/ponies, and having them all share him as a dog could be what she felt best suited his character. If it was by the fatcats at Hasbro, it was probably because of the reasons that I stated earlier: Spike isn't very marketable, and because Hasbro thought that girls would only buy male characters if they were "boyfriend-like" or "cute" so girls could make them go on dates or something like that. However, the crew decided to make him a talking dog with possibly more forms of interaction with humans, and give hime the same spirit of Spike from the show.

(Possibly) more to come in a reply from me.

-Computerpony-