Talk:Spike/@comment-13418548-20141206013539/@comment-10390252-20141206143347

I've read a lot of interesting fan ideas but, as far as I know, nothing has been said on-screen. We don't even know how Celestia's school got hold of his egg.

I like to imagine that Spike's bio-mom was a friend of Celestia's or even maybe a daughter of a friend (the King of the Dragons?) who died, leaving behind one last egg. Celestia was aksed to see that the hatchling got a good guardian, not one of the selffish beasts that Dragons have become in recent times. When Celestia realised that Twilight Sparkle might be the one she was looking for, she changed the practical demonstration for the day. For there is nopony who would be better suited to raise a dragon to respect nobility rather than greed than the future Bearer of the Element of Friendship.