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Spike: I’m back! *looks around* Where is everypony?
Rarity: Ouch! Turquoise! Please be gentle
Spike: Rarity? You okay? Where are you?
Rarity: Spike? I’m in T’s room.
Spike: *heads upstairs to the room* Hey sweetheart. What’s going? Ah. Feeding time.
Rarity: It’s been feeding time for the past two. And a half. HOURS. This isn’t normal!
Spike: Well, he’s not exactly a normal foal.
Rarity: I know that Spike. But even so! Claire wasn’t anything like this. Why, she’d switched over to bottles by the time she was this age!
Spike: Can’t we just switch him over too?
Rarity: Spike, you know very well that he won’t drink from bottles. And when he does, he’s always still hungry right after. Then he comes straight for me.
Spike: You two are bonding
Rarity: I can’t do this for much longer! His dragon teeth hurt. I’m not built for this torture! Can’t he eat gems now? Isn’t that what baby dragons eat?
Spike: Well, yeah, but I don’t think his teeth are strong enough.
Rarity: My mammaries beg to differ
Spike: *coughs* Eheh well…. I could try something
Rarity: Really??? Please do!
Spike: I don’t think you’ll like it…..
Rarity: I don’t care! Anything is better than having to nurse at this point.
Spike: Alright…. C’mere kiddo *lightly pulls T to him*
T: *whimpers and tries crawling back to Rarity*
Spike: It’s okay. We’re gonna try something a little different today.
T: *sits in front of Spike*
Spike: *coughs*
Rarity: …. Are you alright Spike?
Spike: *starts gagging*
Rarity: Spike, what are you doing?
Spike: *continues to gag*
T: *opens his mouth*
Rarity: ……. Oh my Celestia
Spike: *spits up in T’s mouth*
Rarity: *intense guttural screeching* SPIKE!!!
Spike: I told you you wouldn’t like it!
Rarity: That was absolutely horrid!
Spike: At least he’s happy!
Rarity: I’m going to be sick *runs to bathroom*
Spike: ……… Alright then.
T: ……………….. *looks up to Spike* Muh
Rarity: Ouch! Turquoise! Please be gentle
Spike: Rarity? You okay? Where are you?
Rarity: Spike? I’m in T’s room.
Spike: *heads upstairs to the room* Hey sweetheart. What’s going? Ah. Feeding time.
Rarity: It’s been feeding time for the past two. And a half. HOURS. This isn’t normal!
Spike: Well, he’s not exactly a normal foal.
Rarity: I know that Spike. But even so! Claire wasn’t anything like this. Why, she’d switched over to bottles by the time she was this age!
Spike: Can’t we just switch him over too?
Rarity: Spike, you know very well that he won’t drink from bottles. And when he does, he’s always still hungry right after. Then he comes straight for me.
Spike: You two are bonding
Rarity: I can’t do this for much longer! His dragon teeth hurt. I’m not built for this torture! Can’t he eat gems now? Isn’t that what baby dragons eat?
Spike: Well, yeah, but I don’t think his teeth are strong enough.
Rarity: My mammaries beg to differ
Spike: *coughs* Eheh well…. I could try something
Rarity: Really??? Please do!
Spike: I don’t think you’ll like it…..
Rarity: I don’t care! Anything is better than having to nurse at this point.
Spike: Alright…. C’mere kiddo *lightly pulls T to him*
T: *whimpers and tries crawling back to Rarity*
Spike: It’s okay. We’re gonna try something a little different today.
T: *sits in front of Spike*
Spike: *coughs*
Rarity: …. Are you alright Spike?
Spike: *starts gagging*
Rarity: Spike, what are you doing?
Spike: *continues to gag*
T: *opens his mouth*
Rarity: ……. Oh my Celestia
Spike: *spits up in T’s mouth*
Rarity: *intense guttural screeching* SPIKE!!!
Spike: I told you you wouldn’t like it!
Rarity: That was absolutely horrid!
Spike: At least he’s happy!
Rarity: I’m going to be sick *runs to bathroom*
Spike: ……… Alright then.
T: ……………….. *looks up to Spike* Muh
Eh, this is a universe that supports Ursa Majors and ordinary bears, manticores/chimerae and big cats, alicorns and non-superpowered equine subspecies. Easy enough to just note that some evolutionary branches wound up tapping more magick than others.
@Poptard
@OverlordScorpion
Since (a) Steve Magnet & at least two of Garble’s pals had hair, while Spike has that odd ‘stache fixation and (b) Hatchling!Spike demonstrated a nursing reflex (thumbsucking), I’m leaning toward (very) derived synapsid/therapsid descent for dragonkind. ‘Course, watch the S6 writers just throw up their hands and decide Everything’s Discord’s Fault(R).
Anyhow: good to see Spike finally making himself useful in the childcare department, though he still deserves a Clyde-scale dopesmack for not working that out one dracofilly ago.
Maybe a wet sand like substance?
Can’t you just enjoy this art instead of try to make logic over everything, it’s ponitless, and it’s just a harmless ARTWORK
Its useless to fixate on physical similarities to make an argument.
No reptile can breathe fire, swim lava and eat diamonds.
Dragons are mythical creatures with their own rules and exceptions.
Heck, according to D&D, Dragons have much more in common wqith felines than reptiles.
All he said was that they aren’t in the same Family. Tortoises’ Family is Testudinidae, which is only tortoises. The next bracket down is Order, which Testudines includes all turtle types. The next one down is all Class which is Reptilia, or Reptile. That Class includes a lot of diverse species, from tiny turtles to snakes to even Crocodiles, and technically even birds are an offshoot of common reptile ancestors (plus crocs have more in common with birds than they would a garden lizard.) Dragons can easily be an Order, perhaps between Crocodiles and the weird case of birds, that took a different evolutionary path but are still ‘reptiles,’ the same way Komodo dragon and a box turtle are related.
So, could still be a Reptile, but Spike is 100% accurate on that not making him an expert on tortoises.
But their is no cup
2 Dragons 1 Cup.
Because if we didn’t stop to overanalyze a merchandise-driven show for little girls, this whole fanbase - and by extension, this site - wouldn’t even have come to exist.
Ooooorrrr they’re fictional creatures that don’t abide by real-world understandings of animals.
Why is this so hard for people to comprehend?
They are born from eggs and have scales. Either they’re reptiles, or fish.
Or synapsids.
Dragons≠Reptiles
Come on even the show itself confirmed this.
Funny.
Cute.
I guess it would make sense for Dragons to produce a variation of crop milk for dragon nestlings.
Well, birds evolved from reptiles, and Spike’s looking quite dinosauroid here.