Cool, I guess

@Background Pony #6C21  
Ember as a character is a brilliant story mechanic when you put it that way.

@Background Pony #6C21  
Hopefully, such a method would be less stupid than Twilight dying and being reincarnated. XD

@thps48  

What’s interesting here is that it wouldn’t even need to be a retcon. They could simply have Twilight say that she once asked Ember about this in a letter (they’re apparently pen pals now) and it turns out that only by aging normally do dragons get their wings. Shortcuts like greed or magic don’t work. Or that they somehow “earn” their wings as some sort of cutiemark by doing something that its pretty normal and casual for young dragons, but Spike’s never had the chance to do due to living with ponies all his life.
 
Point is, since they’ve never addressed the issue on any detail, any explanation they come up with would avoid making it a retcon.

@NixAvernal98  
Its supposed to be a evolution of the tip he has as a baby.  
Its fanned out and looks like a leaf because it acts like a rudder when he flys like Ember’s

@Background Pony #7AE0  
It already has.😝

@Background Pony #7AE0  
Trigger people who hate fan concepts? XD

this image will trigger people
 
good job

@LadyTheRainicorn  
Thank you, and to my knowledge the writers have never stated if he will get wings.  
But on twitter it was hinted that we will get 2 or more spike episodes this season.

Even though Spike’s still a dragon, I feel like I’m looking at a race swap. Like, he’s become whatever type of dragon Ember is, down to growing wings, horns, and his tail tip changing. Not to mention the diamond patterning, which isn’t even a thing with other dragons. His feet haven’t gone totally digitigrade, though.

Yeah this is pretty much perfect.
 
Has anyone even asked the staff about Spike’s wing potential?

Other than my nitpick that Spike’s tail has a spike instead of a leaf-like thing, it’s a great picture!

@Marvelous TK  
I think it makes him cooler. 😎  
It’s not like its impossible, many dragons have horns.

@thps48  
Eh… I think it make him look cooler.  
Plus it make him look more like Spyro from the ps1 game.

I prefer Spike without wings.

@CogWeaver  
True, but like you said some lore about this would be nice.

@Marvelous TK  
Part of the crazy mutant wingless dragon puberty is growing horns, I’d hazard. ;3

y’know with all the talk about wings, it slipped my notice, but… why does spike have horns in this? where did that one come from?

@Itsthinking  
Well, maybe not a gag per-say and more what he thinks he wants, but is overcompensating for his character flaws.  
So yeah, something much more balanced and fitting to his character would be nice.  
_{^{Though on that note just getting on with it and increasing his age somehow would also be nice.}}

@thps48  
What is that version?

@Itsthinking  
Several people I conversed with prefer the Chronicles version. :j

@CogWeaver  
His dream self makes no sense and is a gag, and his larger forms we’ve seen like you said don’t fit his characterizations. Somewhere in between would be nice.

@thps48  
Yeah, and personally I’m actually more in favor of him never having wings …aaaat least as long as they give us an interesting explanation why that is, like he is part [whatever]-dragon that normally don’t have wings, but excel in some other medium. If they did retcon those aged-up variants of him and give him wings, I wouldn’t complain, but I think I’d personally prefer worldbuilding and storytelling over one little design feature.
 
Especially since what I’m not a fan of is his older self’s design - the drawings the fandom makes for his older self are usually pretty sweet looking (with or without wings), and would fit perfectly for how Spike sees himself/wants to be when he does grow up. But the way aged-up Spike looked in the show doesn’t fit with any of his characterizations (which I guess worked out since he wasn’t really his kinder self at the time, but his dream-self is also kind of bleh and doesn’t really fit his character)

@Itsthinking  
Like his actual fully grown form one hundred years from now resembles Druddigon for some reason. XD
 

@thps48  
Both of those could easily be “adult” with the accompanying quotes intact.