@Daneasaur
which is a shame

@Background Pony #0C86  
And now we can firmly say… Nope. Spike is forever alone and perpetually disrespected and ignored, regardless of his physique.

Rarity. Two words.
 
Four. Some.

Dad Spike

he’s got that dream daddy energy.

Basically Spike between Ending of the End and Last Problem

@Background Pony #3684  
Maybe after the final episodes air officially and the people who don’t want to be spoiled by leaks see said final episodes.

can we take this as a canon thing now?

XD

I agree with you brother

Sorry Rarity, you had your chance.

@Azure_Moonlight  
It’s less abusive than how dragons treat each other.

@Daneasaur
 
Honestly, I’d agree with you somewhat, except…why would you want him to be an abusive cross species relationship?
 
Besides that, I do agree he needs more screen time with ember to actually be worth while and…ah, logical is the wrong term, lets use your term and say fluid.

Lol~ you had your chance, oh wow, I hope we can see something like this before the show ends, if not, there’s always amazing fanart like this <3

@lance blazer  
Spike has built honest fluid friendship through his own effort with both Rarity and Ember and Thorax, for that matter.
 
Smolder has been a literal stand in for Ember ever since she showed up. Smolder acts one way with the other students, then her attitude completely flips around and she’s a carbon copy of Ember and “suddenly” friends with Spike. It makes no sense and it is far from fluid.
 
Most Spike fans want him to be with someone he personally has fought to build a friendship/relationship with, thus the Sparity fans (he’s fought for a stupidly long time to get her affections and has succeeded to certain degrees, depending on the writer), Emberspike fans (he saved her and fought for the entire episode to build the friendship they had), and even the thoraxspike fans (Spike risked being branded a foe to the mane 6 and all of equestria to prove thorax knew him better than any of the shallow crystal ponies).
 
I am in this boat. This is especially prevalent with the fact that Spike himself has only shown affection and adoration of romantic form towards Rarity and Skellenoir, if you count that.
 
It would be extremely poor if they just slammed him with smolder, of which he’s only had either abuse from her, or she becomes an expy of Ember. I’d sooner pair him with Gilda than smolder.

I personally prefer Embrax, so that’s out. I also kinda like Smolcellus and having Smolder and Spike be like siblings to one another, but then, I’m also fine with Spolder. I also don’t care for Sparity - like, at all, soooo…

@Daneasaur  
Why not smolder?

@Daneasaur  
Me too

@Background Pony #0723  
I’d rather that pairing instead of him and smolder.

Spike x ember forever

cool, i guess

👍👍💯💯💯👍👍

@Valiant Spiral  
I think by this point, Spike knows that she doesn’t see him as a dragon.

Oh yeah, sure, Rarity, throwing out a racial slur within earshot is definitely going to refocus his attention on you.