Talk:Spike/@comment-5926076-20130502055130/@comment-74.78.229.194-20130519111130

Ms. Faust is a telented animator and storyteller... not a expert at childhood development. We've seen him be far more mature than eight in the series' canon, and other ideas she had have been made moot by canon as well. She said that Celestia raised him, the series itself has Twilight say she raised him in "Dragon Quest", so the current team is taking a very different approach with Spike.