>>29708 Making them anthro was a major mistake and it took a lot of the magical element away from them, same could be said about making them so common.

>>29709 To be fair Spike is bipedal and he integrates fine into the setting. I do agree that the dragons in the show should've been exclusively quadrupedal and they shouldn't have given them the personalities of dudebro teenagers.

>>29711 >To be fair Spike is bipedal and he integrates fine into the setting. Spikes a baby so it's fine; though he probably should have grown out of it way earlier, maybe extend his body out a bit, give him wings by season 3, a small hunch in his back, and have him on all fours by season 4. They shouldn't even be able to stand up straight by the time they're teenagers. >they shouldn't have given them the personalities of dudebro teenagers. That was another major mistake too, and took away a ton of the mystique. Dragon lore is an even bigger mess than pony lore, despite them having way less screen time, and it just ruins them for a lot of people. So I hope that answers your question in the op.

>>29714 Hasbro probably thought a redesign of Spike would've sold less toys. His dynamic would also change with the cast since hes supposed to be this sort of straightman/clumsly little brother to Twilight or the others. >Dragon lore is an even bigger mess than pony lore I can't honestly remember if they were even given lore. Didn't they just live in some hellscape wasteland island and bully each other or try to find roosts in Equestria?

>>29715 >I can't honestly remember if they were even given lore. Oh they were. >Just owning things makes them larger and more aggressive at an extremely rapid rate >For whatever reason they go from bipedal, to quadrupedal >Are able to get way too massive, with seemingly no size cap; to the point that the click of their tounge ought to blow someones ears out if they were too close to them >Can smoke out an entire town and destroy the atmosphere just by snoring >Just from what we've seen on screen Equestria, and possibly the entire planet, probably isn't big enough to support their population, assuming that Dragons don't almost all die before they start to reach adulthood >Live in a shithole despite them being highly aggressive, racially bias, and there being plenty of land for them to conquer, that they even know about and visit, and before Ember became Dragon Queen they had zero reason not to do so, as nearly all of them lack basic morals >Are all seemingly immortal or have a very long life span, which would further lead to the over population problem that they clearly ought to have. >Have hands and are intelligent, yet they don't build things with them; no castles, lairs, traps, nothing that would fit their personalities >Are hunted by giant birds that smell dragon achne, as if a species that hunted dragons wouldn't be driven to total exctinction immediately >Have magical artifacts like the Dragon staff, despite never even building basic things >Can swim in lava, as if they weren't busted op as is >Come in waaaaay too many different shapes and sizes, to the point it hurts the value of their character, rather than adding onto it You activated my lore autism card anon.

>>29719 >Just owning things makes them larger and more aggressive at an extremely rapid rate I remember that one. Classic trope too. >Are able to get way too massive, with seemingly no size cap; to the point that the click of their tounge ought to blow someones ears out if they were too close to them I feel like theres some limit because they'd eventually get too large to support their own weight. Sure its a cartoon but theres some internalized logic and physics. >Just from what we've seen on screen Equestria, and possibly the entire planet, probably isn't big enough to support their population, assuming that Dragons don't almost all die before they start to reach adulthood I feel like theres so much infighting for territory, maybe even dipping into darker territories with predating upon each other, that it isn't that much of an issue. >Live in a shithole despite them being highly aggressive, racially bias, and there being plenty of land for them to conquer, that they even know about and visit, and before Ember became Dragon Queen they had zero reason not to do so, as nearly all of them lack basic morals >>Are all seemingly immortal or have a very long life span, which would further lead to the over population problem that they clearly ought to have. This one detail in the show, eludes me because animals will obviously search for more resources when put under environmental strain. Unless they don't need to eat that much and they don't mate that often. They could've just shown dragons are so rare because not only will it take centuries to reach adolescence, much less adulthood but they have to compete with others of their kind and their own self-destructive nature which draws other animals. >Have hands and are intelligent, yet they don't build things with them; no castles, lairs, traps, nothing that would fit their personalities I mean look at other apes in comparison to humans. Dragons probably lack the fine dexterity and intellect to do such things. Spikes an outlier cause hes raised by ponies. >Come in waaaaay too many different shapes and sizes, to the point it hurts the value of their character, rather than adding onto it I personally don't mind the biodiversity if it makes sense within the context of the show.

>>29726 >I feel like theres some limit because they'd eventually get too large to support their own weight. Sure its a cartoon but theres some internalized logic and physics. Embers dad >I feel like theres so much infighting for territory, maybe even dipping into darker territories with predating upon each other, that it isn't that much of an issue. Clearly not the case, as dragons like each other too much, they hangout, and migrate in mass together; if they were much more aggressive then sure, but I just don't see this as being a thing. >They could've just shown dragons are so rare because not only will it take centuries to reach adolescence, much less adulthood but they have to compete with others of their kind and their own self-destructive nature which draws other animals. Not what I would go with, but still better than canon. >Dragons probably lack the fine dexterity and intellect to do such things. This ones just wrong. >Spikes an outlier cause hes raised by ponies. Saying that Spike is WAY smarter than other dragons because he's raised by ponies, is like saying a negro will be smarter if he's raised by white parents. Dragons don't have an intelligent issue in FIM, they have a (fixable) behavior problem. >I personally don't mind the biodiversity if it makes sense within the context of the show. Fair. I think having different types of dragons would be cool, like say: water dragons, ice dragons, electric dragons etc, etc. P.S. Fluttershy rubs eggs.

Hope my lore 'tism fit didn't upset you OP. Here's some non-anthro Ember pics; I tried using the tag 'quadrupedal' to find better pics of her, but didn't find much.

Embers a total freak by the way.

Thought this video was private, still gonna post it anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5BphN5ezk

Not that into MLP dragons. But, Ember IS a sexy dragon lady.

You think you gotta cum on the eggs to fertilize them or do their cloacas take human cock the old fashion way?

I don't mind them being anthro, if I wrote them I would have some dragons be anthro and some not,it would be a spectrum