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Originally posted on: October 26, 2020, 12:48 AM UTC
Breakfast Together by TheBrokenCOG
The Sun shined through her bedroom window as Applejack awoke to the smell of buttermilk pancakes. With a groan, she stretched, dragged herself out of bed and followed the aroma downstairs to the kitchen.“Well, good mornin’, Sugah,” she said to her man.“Good morning to you, too,” he smiled in reply.Spike had come down for breakfast many mornings and seen Applejack dressed in one of his shirts, or an apron–and nothing else–standing in front of the stove, flipping bacon and scrambling eggs. Her honey blonde hair falling freely down her back, stopping just above her rear. He would come up behind her, wrap his arms around her waist, just below her breasts, and nuzzle her neck. Then he would pick her up, swing her around, and kiss her heartily on the lips. He would gaze deeply into her eyes and playfully brush his nose against hers.But today, he had gotten up earlier than her and was determined to pay her back. AJ had to hand it to her new husband, he knew his way around the kitchen. And that wasn’t all he knew how to do: he folded and ironed the laundry, fixed the crack in the rain gutter, plus he gave the best massages.Normally, she was used to having a stack of pancakes crowned with a dab of butter and smothered in maple syrup. But today, Spike wanted to give his wife something a little extra, something special: whipped cream and chocolate chips.“Help yourself,” he told her. “I made plenty.”She did… and they were some of the best pancakes she’d ever had.After pouring himself a glass of orange juice, Spike sat down across from his beautiful bride and Applejack’s eyes softened as she extended a leg beneath the table to stroke against one of his. Applejack volunteered to clean up, saying it was the least she could do for such wonderful cooking.After breakfast, they would feed the animals, pick apples in the orchard and clean the homestead.*Being married sure was great. *
Aye, those are always pleasing to see.
Spike’s an awesome character.
Indeed. Most episodes that focus on Spike fail to make use of him in a proper way that builds him as a character, instead choosing to forcefully regress him to a punchline for a joke no one laughed at.
I think “Princess Spike” kinda treated him worse honestly, but to each their own.
Though, as much as I like Spike, I think some fans do get overly-protective of him at times… Like even if something minor, and/or innocently comical happen to him they call it, “Spikeabuse.” (And ignore similar things happen to other characters. Twilight got it way worse then him in “Feeling Pinkie-Keen,” so I get tired of hearing, “Spike iz teh only one abused/Teh writers h8 Spike!”)
I saw a crazy ex-brony guy trying to claim MLP:FIM was “sexist against males,” trying to use Spike’s “bad treatment throughout the series” as his argument. Though, it’s odd how easy it is for fans to forget plenty of nice things happen to him too throughout the show too.
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@Beau Skunky
This isn’t really the place to be discussing the episode. That said, I’m a hypocrite so here’s my two cents.
The episode didn’t particularly add to anyone’s character and missed an opportunity to bring Spike’s importance to the series to the forefront. Two alternate scenarios that I personally find more interesting is Twilight realizing how reliant she is of Spike and AJ not wanting to give up such a helping hand or Spike doing so much for the Apple family that AJ begins to question her place in it. Mostly, I think the episode is so unpopular among some fans is how hard Spike gets shit on throughout the series and a desire to see him shine.
Truthfully, I actually enjoyed the episode, despite it’s faults. I’m probably one of the few bronies whom enjoyed it.
You seem to forget, half the time in other episodes, he’s falling off ladders, dropping books, making a tactless remark, hurting himself, or screwing things up, so honestly he was always kinda a klutz, so he’s not 100% perfect, as I said when he panics, or tries to hard to do something, then he screws up, and becomes a klutz. When he doesn’t try too hard to impress someone like AJ, he does better. He’s comfortable with Twilight, sense she’s practically his big sister so he doesn’t try too hard with her. And there are times he screwed up with her too, “Owl’s Well” comes to mind.
So I know many may disagree, but I feel that’s perfectly in-character for Spike, and there were a few moments in the episode he was competent, especially at the end.
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Spike cooks regularly, Spike does hoursework regularly, Spike is capable of doing Twilight’s legal and royal business papers without fault.
But suddenly he can’t make a pie, instead he destroys half the apple house and makes charcoal. He suddenly can’t wash his hands, he destroys Rarity’s entire bathroom. Suddenly he can’t do any of the tasks he normally does and instead can only do tasks he’s never done before, like counting all the blades of grass on the apple farm or making a giant tower of rocks.
Washing the pig he had assistance with so I can’t say anything one way or the other about that.
The long and short of it is that Spike had to utterly fail at his ACTUAL talents and skillset for the plot to work. It was a bad episode, especially considering what it was originally going to be about.
That’s actually a pretty logical explanation.
I don’t see it that way, the gag was basically he was trying to overdo it, and when he overdoes it, that’s usually when he screws up, (as seen in other eps, he can be clumsy when overdoing something) and why AJ wanted him to stop. And at first, he did ok, like cleaning the pig, and such, (and he saw through AJ’s fassad, and defeated the giant Timberwolf) so he wasn’t entirely incompetent, like fans say.
So I was honestly never bothered by that ep’.
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Eeyup.
AJ just can’t take her eyes off the shirtless hunk in her kitchen.