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Starswirl
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@Ardashir  
Well, a fully-grown dragon has very few actual threats. Ponies, for one. Which would explain why dragons are so hostile to them: Ponies can be a threat to an adult dragon but they’re too prideful to admit it.
Ardashir
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@Starswirl  
If dragons know almost nothing about their own species, that explains a few things we’ve seen in the show.
 
It also makes me wonder how the species has survived this long.
Ardashir
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@Starswirl  
Ain’t it though? XD
 
Also, having read something of the actual plot of this episode apparently the dragon eggs aren’t hatching because Garble and Co. diverted some lava away from the spawning fields for lava surfing. It takes Spike and Fluttershy to point this out. You’d think that the dragons would know something about what’s needed to hatch their young and get this on their own. I’m also foolishly bothered by what seems like a note of ‘ordinary rambunctious male teen = destroy your own people’, but that’s probably just me being needlessly jumpy.
 
Ah well, I wanted to see Ember and the rest of the dragons one last time before the end and I will. I am happy with that.
Ardashir
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@Starswirl  
Now I imagine Fluttershy and Spike seeing a huge dragoness approaching the spawning fields. They’re told she’s there to lay her eggs. They prepare to see the miracle of life, the sainted love of a mother… And Mama dragon lifts her tail, drops off about a thousand eggs with an utterly bored look on her face, and leaves without a backward glance.
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@Ardashir  
Good point. Dragons overall appear to take a rather callous approach to their progeny. With the exception of Torch, who is so incredibly huge, he can twist any dragon accusing him of being soft into a bretzel.
Exelzior

@Starswirl  
That’s what I keep wondering about the dragons in Game of Thrones…then again, look at the big reptiles we got, like crocs and gators. Their young are pretty small in comparison to the adults, but even then, it’s hard to compare
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@Starswirl  
Maybe dragons spawn like trout?
 
Could be that one picture made by Queen Cold of the proud mother dragon showing off her thousand+ eggs to Caldera is actually more canon than anyone thought.
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So, considering how utterly gigantic adult dragons are, that makes their eggs… really really tiny. How does that even work? Or do they only lay when in teenage form?
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Wait, I thought the problem was that the eggs just weren’t hatching.
 
This makes it look like the dragon hatchlings would rather just stay in the egg than live in the Dragonlands. Which is, admittedly, hard to blame them for.
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@miky94c  
That’s how i heard it at least.Phonetically “cou-tchi” and because i’m more fluent in English,i i interpretated it as the english “coochy”
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I miss the show so much
I don’t understand anything except the “coochy coochy” part, but there’s something oddly adorable in how she pets those shaking eggs.