Talk:Once Upon a Zeppelin/@comment-29329546-20171120044452/@comment-25559529-20180209013001

IMO, Spike being an honorary Sparkle would imply that he considers Twilight's parents in the same regard as the Mane Six, which are (explicitly stated to be) his family, and I don't think this is the case.

Perhaps there is a difference between AJ's "regular family" and her "honorary family". But to Spike, the Mane Six are the equivalent of "regular family".

This is the last I'll say about this as I don't want to tell people how they should interpret specific lines of dialogue, but this is pretty explicit.