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@Podo
I’m not ignoring it, I am just not playing the speculation game. If I were to speculate, I’d say their relationship for the vast majority of the series leans heavily on the sibling side, but that’s just an opinion, it’s not fact. And fact is that their relationship is not defined as anything other than Spike being Twilight’s friend and #1 assistant. I don’t think one episode alluding to a parental-like bond is definitive, so I choose not to comment on it.

@Podo
I am not leaning on one side or the other of the Spike is child/brother debate, that is up for grabs. But permanent guardianship seems to be most likely from what is shown, and as far as interpersonal relationships between the two could go either way honestly.

Only thing we ever have been told is Spike is Twilight’s “friend and assistant”. Nothing more, nothing less. So as far as canon is concerned, that’s it. Everything else is speculation.

@Podo
If we’re dipping into the comics then it needs to be pointed out that Celestia appears to be his legal guardian, and she just foists a lot of the responsibility of taking care of him on Twilight, who very much was a child. So, you know, kinda messed up. And a sibling being “raised” by another sibling as a legal guardian is something that does happen often. There is no confirmed, “Twilight adopted Spike”, and if Equestria’s child care laws are anything like ours, Spike would be a ward of the state, and Twilight would have permanent guardianship. Of course, none of of this is at all confirmed in any such way. Hence why my original statement is, “they aren’t anything as far as canon is concerned”.