Brass Beau
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An audience surrogate is useful when you need a character have basic world knowledge explained but I feel that’s what a character like Spike is for. An outsider, like a dragon, wouldn’t necessarily know everything about pony culture so holidays, history and basic world knowledge would need to be told to him and therefore, the audience. It also works well if, say, Spike was native to dragon culture and had to explain the differences to ponies.
An audience surrogate is useful when you need a character have basic world knowledge explained but I feel that’s what a character like Spike is for. An outsider, like a dragon, wouldn’t necessarily know everything about pony culture so holidays, history and basic world knowledge would need to be told to him and therefore, the audience. It also works well if, say, Spike was native to dragon culture and had to explain the differences to ponies.