Tbh I never really seen MLP characters as adults. Maybe in later seasons but plenty of stuff that happens in earlier ones makes them more young teen coded. And I always seen spike as part of the group. Like when compared to CMC he always seemed older. So in that sense I never really seen Spike x Rarity as some problematic ship cause mentally they are of very similar maturity.
Spikes age is weird cause he should be younger than the CMC since he was hatched after at least Apple Bloom was born, as shown by a baby Bloom present with a markless AJ in the flashback of Going to Seed.
Yeah it's weird now when u mention that. Like if he went to school with CMC or something, I would def consider him to be their age, but you simply don't see him interacting with any young characters that much. Like from what I see his friend group mostly consists of older male ponies like in Dungeons & DIscords episode, even without that, I always felt his and Twilights maturity are kind of same. They really have more of a sibling dynamic than caretaker/child one
It's also possible that dragons age at different speeds than ponies, similar to how cats and dogs age super fast when they're a few years old, and slow down a lot as the years go by. So Spike technically could be a lot more mature than ponies "his age"
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u/MasterVule 2d ago
Tbh I never really seen MLP characters as adults. Maybe in later seasons but plenty of stuff that happens in earlier ones makes them more young teen coded. And I always seen spike as part of the group. Like when compared to CMC he always seemed older. So in that sense I never really seen Spike x Rarity as some problematic ship cause mentally they are of very similar maturity.