11 Reason on why Sparity will never happen · 11:07am Jan 23rd, 2014
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, trolls, derps, religions people and not religions people ALIKE. Here it's your one and only fun loving Felix Jonathan/Felix Dawn! Today's rant might be disturbing to some viewers.
So please, take all children younger than 14 out of the room. Thank you! Anyway, back on the subject. This rant is about why Sparity will not work. Let me give you some pointers on how they won't get together let start.
Now before we start here let me get my flame shield for the angriest kids... Now, here are why the pairing will never happen.
11. It's anti-climatic: Just because Rarity may lose her feelings for Prince Blueblood does not mean that she'll instantly fall for Spike. I find it quite odd that Rarity would suddenly love a baby dragon just like that o.0?
It does not mean right.
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10. Is really overrated: Yeah, yeah, Sparity is the most famous and loved pairing of the MLP show and almost everybody loves it. A lot of art, fanfics, videos, etc. of it are in the internet and it gets pretty annoying sometime but I blame more the system search.
I understand that the Sparity lovers make things to show how they love the pairing, and I completely respect it! But... For me is annoying to see that almost all the websites has Sparity things, and trust me dears, it's overrated.
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9. It's not part of Laura Faust's intentions: Let face it if Laura Faust wanted Sparity to be canon in the beginning, then she would of put more effort into it, and she will make Spike to be older like Twilight Sparkle. So is too late for anyone that is now in charge of the show to make it canon.
I believe when Faust came up with the idea, she wanted to be treated like a sister and brother relationship, not boyfriend and girlfriend, but many fans thought of it as such and started treating it like that. From what I've seen from both characters in the show, Spike thinks of it as the boy x girl relationship, while Rarity takes it as a sister and brother relationship. Rarity knows that Spike is too young for her, but Spike thinks otherwise and still tries to win her over her.
So I hope Season-4 or 5 have a episode when Rarity found a stallion that she truly like and that stallion treat her with respect. Spike get jealous and tried to interfere on her relationship but in the end, Rarity talk to Spike and about his crush and that he need to move on.
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8. The Fandom really doesn't help: This one bothers me more that anyone around. Now, I have met some very nice Sparity fans. But they do not make up for the idiots in that fandom, and of course, every fandom has idiots in the group.
And why people supporting Sparity because they:
- They find it cute: Cute that not mean is canon.
- Because Spike have a crush on Rarity: Still that not mean is canon, and Rarity don't have feelings for Spike.
- Some of them claim they are canon: Er... Newsflash, you are far from canon. Have you forgotten the ages difference? ¬_¬
- Spike's feelings for Rarity were real!: Er... Wrong, Spike's feelings for Rarity were no more than childish crushes, and there is a huge difference between love and crush. So please do your homework before judge. ¬_¬
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7. There is no proof Rarity like Spike romantically way: Just as the title section says... People argue that Rarity no longer loves Prince Blueblood They also can't prove she prefers Spike over the other stallion romantically.
Seriously, even though she not found a stallion to love, that doesn't mean Rarity's feelings for Spike are romantically. ¬_¬
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6. Screen-time not equal love: Just because in some episode Spike and Rarity spend the most time together does not mean it developed romance. For one, they're helping each others, of course they are together a lot and know and care about each other-most of the friends have too.
Rarity barely notice Spike this much until Spike become a greedy berserker-dragon. So far, how they treat each other now is no different than friends usually do.
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5. Main Guy/Main Girl aka Crush Stereotype: Boring, predictable, and overdone. This is another reason why I believe Sparity won't become canon. People complain about others pairing being cliché "guys crushes on girls and girls falls for guy" YET, the main guy/main girl has been SO outplayed it's not even funny.
Even so, the series isn't following the "typical romance" law where the main guy always gets what he wants. If it was, Rarity and Spike would have liked each other from the beginning, and would have hid their feelings; covering them up with by friends first, and Spike and Rarity have the same ages. NOT Spike chasing Rarity and Rarity have a wet dream with that Prince Charm.
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4. It's jumping conclusions about Sparity.: A kiss on the cheeks does not equal love! It's admiration. Rarity is impressed by how Spike's becoming a good dragon. Rarity is being more nicer to Spike is a symbol of her maturity and how mature Spike as come resenting.
Sure Rarity has proven she cares for Spike, but what does that matter? Rarity also tends to care for everyone she's close to. She cares for Twilight, and Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie, and pretty much everyone she knows to some extent.
Sure, she cares for Spike more than others, but it seems to be more of a brother/sister relationship love. In conclusion you fans are really jumping into conclusions about a pairings without a real evidence.
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3. Sweetiespike work better: Like I said before the ages of a person(characters) is very important with it come in relationship like a couples so this is why Sweetie Belle with Spike make more sense since is possible both could by in the same ages.
When Sweetie Belle reach the ages of Rarity, Spike could be in the same size as the teen Dragons that we saw on one of the episode. I'm not saying start shipping them or like them but it's just a theory.
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2. Spike's feelings stayed on crush level: So, were Spike's feelings for Rarity EVER developed as much as some others pairings that I know in others media? Spike's crush on Rarity in the show, and one of Hasbro's biggest mistakes just seems like a school boy crush that would go away once he got a little older and Rarity show's no interest in fact she seems him as a little brother.
Let face it here is never going to work... A canon pairing, shipping or couple whatever you call it is canon when the relationship between characters is well develop for example Aang and Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender or Ron and Hermonie from Harry Potter since their relationship was build as the series move on.
But unfortunate the relationship between Rarity and Spike is nothing more that it's about a childhood crushes, since Spike is in his "baby" years and Rarity is a woman. It's simple crushing, and I doubt that it would evolve into a serious relationship like many fans believe.
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1. Ages Different: You know this was coming when you see this list, the biggest reason is because of age, spike is too young to be with Rarity on a serious relationship, Spike is 8 or 10 years confirmed by Lauren Faust Rarity has to be 15 or 19.
Spike is a baby dragon only grow up in personality, he sleeps in a pet bed, enjoys smelling his dirty feet, doesn't have much self control such as eating ice cream till he gets sick, eating his gems before he could make the cake.
He's not patient unable to take care of the animals, tries to pawn them off, and in the end Angel Bunny shows mercy. Spike didn't take control of the situation. Spike displays qualities of a little boy.
Spike is now proven to be that of an infant dragon, no matter how long he has lived on that planet or realm, his physical formality is a child/infant Due to his short stubby limbs and underdeveloped round body. Just look at infantile/child Humans... They give the same physical traits as well.
Spike has been alive long enough to learn how to speak in proper sentences as well as basic tasks because of time experience, developed mindset. But that doesn't change the fact that by dragon standards Spike is still a bay/child. If I recall on the episode where Spike runs off with the other dragons to find himself, the older more aged dragons refer to him as a baby/child.
Thus the show itself is giving the incentive that Spike is under aged, and when it is referred where Spike and Twilight are almost at a 5 year age gap, that really doesn't change Rarity's age gap with spike.
Given how old at an estimate Twilight was at Spikes birth/Hatching, we can safely assume she was between the ages of 7 or 9 at the time comparing to when she was sent to a magic school and to when humans IRL are sent to there preliminary schools.
Twilight at the current time of the show now would be at an assumption of an age between 18 or 20, thus Spike with his slowed age rate would be maybe with some added math be at the ponied age of 7 or 10. And Rarity given her personality and occupation, she would be at another estimate in her 20's. So the age gap is still at a huge play here given by the laws of natural growth/logic.
Now I'm pretty sure many Sparity fans going to come here and tell me that Rarity care for Spike. Well there is a huge care for someone that not mean is love in fact all the .Main 6 care for Spike that not mean they love Spike to the next level.
Yes I know I ship Spike with Applejack or Rainbow Dash but I never going to say that is canon like the rest of Sparity fans that always say about Rarity and Spike is so canon. Rarity has the thing called big sister instinct so she never look Spike like a boyfriend for her, and apparently people don't understand this because they think family is overrated or just their crazy imagination get better of them.
Well those are my 11 reason why Sparity it will never going to work. I hope you enjoy and understand. While I myself don't support the pairing, I do understand what it's truly meant to be taken as and respect it, and still respect Sparity fans for their opinion on it, since that's what they believe and I have no control over them but for God sake stop saying is canon since you have not evidence to proof it.
Anyway thanks to read and I hope you enjoy. Also if you Sparity fans going to flame me got head I'm ready faggot.
You've actually gotten better at writing! Not by too much, but still a noticeable amount! Good on you, mate!
Also, why eleven reasons? Why such a random number? And there wasn't really any reason I had to take all kids under fourteen (another random number) out of the room...
>Sparity is the most famous and loved pairing of the MLP show
Seriously? I thought Sparity was tiny compared to the rest.
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That was the many I could find. SO, it's not random number.
Its a little joke.
Felix, I'm very impressed. That was completely legible, and you made several good key points!
To be honest, I don't know that there are THAT many people who want to see Spike and Rarity become a full-on thing. It's the whole childhood crush trope, and I think most of us would be happy to never see it progress beyond that.
It's cute because many of us had similar crushes. But like I said, it's more of a trope use than a sign of a future romance.
1749920 Because one step beyond.
One thing, though, Felix... you play the age card as number one, but almost all of your stories are Spike shipfics. Without aging.
I agree with a lot of this. Also, to me, Sparity always smacked of that conceit where because a character is in love with, or crushes on another character, the fans automatically assume that the other character must reciprocate. It's like the social fallacy that, if someone likes you, you are obligated to like them back. Um... no?
Just my 0.2bits.
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This blog it's not for fandom but for these who believe that Sparity it's canon.
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I see it as a one-way crush. And besides, Spike can't have best poni, because she already eloped with me.
I'm rather impressed by your reasoning here.
I do believe you kill any and all arguments to that shipping.
#11: This makes no sense. The two events you use for comparison are entirely unrelated and the events of Best Night Ever have nothing to do with Sparity. If a story had Rarity suddenly fall in love with Spike, it wouldn't be love at first sight but it's believable that she might someday realize an attraction to him. That's not anticlimactic. Furthermore, even if a story established Sparity in an anticlimactic way, that would defeat your point. It may be anticlimactic but it's still Sparity. It still happened.
#10: This could be said of any popular pairing and it is not a reason why Sparity wouldn't happen.
#9: If Lauren Faust wanted any of the ships to be canon, she would've made them so. None of the ships are canon, with Sparity being a rare exception of holding a little genuine, if inconclusive, canon support.
#8: People's innocent support of a ship they like annoying you is your problem, not the ship's or anyone or anything else's, and it's certainly not a reason why a ship would never happen. None of the ships are canon (that's why they're ships), half of Sparity is canon whether you like it or not and crushes are legitimate feelings. A crush is not the same thing as being in a romantic relationship with someone, this is true, but a crush is simply an attraction; there is no inherent illegitimacy in it. Perhaps you could argue that Spike doesn't understand his own feelings due to his age, but I'd argue that he's not that young. And what about Sparity fics that increase his age? Are his feelings still illegitimate?
#7: Yes, for people to claim that Rarity absolutely returns Spike's feelings is ridiculous since we'd have seen that in the show were it true. However, this is not a reason for why it shouldn't be written. By your reasoning, since none of the ships are canon, no one should write any shipping because we can't definitively say that any of the characters are romantically involved. Of course, your reasoning betrays that you don't understand what shipping is in the first place.
#6: Rarity and Spike are friends. You argue that they could never be more than friends because they are friends. That makes no sense.
#5: This isn't a point so much as you rambling.
#4: Once again you argue that Rarity and Spike can never be more than friends because they are friends. That makes no sense.
#3: "The ship I like is better than the ship you like." This isn't an argument.
#2: Once again you misunderstand what shipping is. None of the ships are canon. If they were, they wouldn't be ships. Shipping is when fans of a work take two characters who aren't romantically involved in the work and have them be romantically involved in original derivations.
#1:
A. Lauren Faust said that if the show doesn't confirm her ideas, then her ideas aren't canon. Her intentions behind the series have already been defied multiple times at this point.
B. "Spike is a baby dragon but adult in personality." Which means he's an adult. As someone who supports Sparity, I thank you for this encouragement.
C. The traits you use to describe Spike could be said of some pre-teens and teenagers I've known. Hell, I'm sure there are some adults who are like that.
D. Yes, Spike's body evokes a child, but he's a dragon. What if the average dragon lifespan is 1000 years and they don't naturally become behemoths until after their first 300 years or upon becoming consumed by greed? Should Spike be barred from pursuing Rarity even when he's in his 20s just because of his current physical form, the dimensions of which he can't help?
E. None of the ages are canon, so don't even bother with that. Granted, it's true that Spike is certainly younger than the mane six...but what about when he's older?
#0: Oh, so you ship SpikeDash and Applespike? Alright, nothing wrong with that...but it completely invalidates every argument you've made.
Good day.
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Adult personality does not mean that Spike is an adult. There is a big difference such as the physical form and Spike as show that he act sometime immature like in the episode that he as to take care the Mane Six's pets.
I never said that Spike's ages are canon, so don't even bother to assume about me before read with more careful.
No your argument is complete invalid in 100% You just assume thing without read with more careful, I never said that everything I said is canon I simple explain why Sparity will never become canon but if you lie Sparity I really don't care so not act lie a angry fanboy or girl with me.
So the only argument here is yours and so good day
