Talk:Spike/@comment-4742142-20120415102631/@comment-222.127.87.75-20120415151052

@One Radical Dude

Like you, Spike is my fave character too. I hate it when the ponies mistreat him (intentionally or otherwise) but I think I would know if Rarity was treating him like a pet or a child. I know for a fact that Rarity never talks to Sweetie Belle or any CMC that way. She doesn't call her sister baby names but she does talk to her pet cat, Opal, in a similar manner. You might argue that she could be treating Spike like a baby because he's a baby dragon but I also know that Rarity dislikes babies. She didn't want anything to do with the Cake's twins and didn't even bother to think up of an excuse not to watch them like the other ponies did.

Spike is a very mature character on par with the six ponies and probably even more mature than Pinkie Pie or RD. He is not a child pony the same way the CMC's are. Rarity failed to see this in Dragon Quest while RD and especially Twilight did not. I'm sure Rarity is very fond of Spike but sadly not as a respected friend and more like the neighbor's cute pet. Based on Rarity's treatment of Spike, past or recent, I'm not even sure if she treats him like a fellow sapient creature. I mean, Rarity has been known to be racist towards mules and we all know that in the FiM universe, sapient mules do exist (and join baking competitions).

Anyway, I suppose it doesn't matter whether Rarity treated Spike like a pet or a child but the bottom like is she treats Spike inferior to herself instead of a respected friend. Apparently, the "you're my hero" line was just a lie. Twilight and RD showed way more respect for Spike as a friend in how they showed their worry and concern for him during Dragon Quest.