Talk:Smolder/@comment-4531340-20180531124816

Y'know, I think Smolder is more of a softie than she likes to let on. Case in point, she mentions how dragons usually kick their kin out of the home at the first sign of the molt (the first stone scale). Granted, this could just be hyperbole/exaggeration - it would seem to fit with Smolder's personality. But if you take it at face value, then it makes her comment about her brother interesting - how he wasn't kicked out until the smell happened (which, assuming the symptom progression is uniform for all dragons, happens after the large scale stone scale breakout, as well as the uncontrollable fire burping and volume shifts), which would seem to indicate a greater kindness on her (as well as her family's) part.

It took me until today to piece this together - I love the subtle characterization we got for Smolder in this episode (because I felt that her personality was the most difficult to grasp of all the Young Six). It's also nice because it helps me feel like I'm starting to see the reason Ember picked Smolder, specifically, to be the dragon student representative at the School of Friendship - but don't get me wrong, I'd love to learn, later in the season, why the other 4 non-ponies of the group were the ones picked to represent their species as well.