Spike is used to being the odd one on the second row, never getting the fair shot at anything. He may be a Hero in the Empire, but who cares about that in Ponyville? The one thing he desires is Rarity. Being the servant, wearing an apron.
I just recently started to write stories directly towards the FiM actively, though I have been writing for years, publishing numerous stories at Mibba and the eventual pony story, as far as to the MLP