Talk:Spike/@comment-99.240.68.201-20130406215738/@comment-5926076-20130407150525

How does she obviously view him as a child. She seems to treat him maturly enough, or at least to a good amount. I don't think someone would abuse a childs trust/crush by having them fan them and using them as a pin cushion. I think Secret of My Excess made their relationship more deep and meaningful than before, and the show has given constant tiny hints of the possibility (Dragon Quest, the 2nd part of Crystal Empire), and the way she described Spike in Secret while kidnapped it didn't seem like someone talking about a child.

Also, what started out as a small crush actually developed IMO into pure love. Remember the flashback when Rarity was kidnapped, when afterwards Spike touched his cheeks and then reverted to normal. It felt genuine and generally a simple crush doesn't empower someone like that. And because in this show apparantly "love is powerful", seeing how he was able to revert himself shows truely (at least to me) that he legitametly loves her.

I think of it as a Naruto/Hinata situation, where she starts out super nervous around him and after a while her crush turns to full blown love. As as I said, you never start out truely loving someone; everything starts out as a crush. Once you truely get to know someone is when you learn if you truely love someone.