Oh, yeah, Elora/Spyro is canon. I'm pretty sure that, after pairing a cheetah up with a bunny, Insomniac stopped feeling so awkward about a faun and a dragon. Elora was totally giving him a second (third, if you've seen the RR epilogue) chance at the end of YotD and he didn't say "no"... ^_^

I'd say Elora x Spyro is flat out canon, not just very close to it. She's totally got the hots for him and if trying to kiss him TWICE isn't evidence enough then i don't know what is. Can't get more obvious than that! But yeah, it's a game aimed at younger kids so maybe the interspecies thing would seem a little odd to them.

Teena x Ice Princess. Lol crack XD

I avoid shipping for the most part, unless it's really obvious (Spyro/Cynder) and canon (Elora/Spyro is very close to it; Oliver Wade confirmed for me that she was created to be Spyro's love interest, though they stepped that back a little because of the different species thing). But sometimes, it's fun to pair up characters just for laughs. Teena/Ice Princess is the best AHT pairing ever. XD

EtD is just a cesspool. It may have been a good game had the developers been alowed to actually finish it not just roll it out as a holiday cash cow. I never finished AHT 'cause it annoyed me too much but who was Teena? I don't remember her D: Although that's probaly not a bad thing!

Having played the games between LoS and Insomniac, I almost don't count them as games. EtD is not a game so much as it is a kind of torture. AHT just sucks (except for Teena and the Ice Princess and sort of Red). It would have been a much better game if they'd just left all the Spyro characters out of it.

LoS seems to be following the original trilogy's take on dragon eggs: it does not take two dragons to make baby dragons and eggs just sort of show up by various magical means.

I don't count EtD and AHT as part of the original timeline. EtD tried to be, but it's so horrible and so out of character (in so many respects) that it just doesn't fit. AHT is very clearly in a different universe, though it, too, tried to be a part of the old games.

I'd hope they'd just pop up considering all the dragons in StD were male XD Unles they know something we don't... o: Magic is such plothole cement, haha. Gotta love it.

I sorta try ignore all the games after Insomniac and before LoS. They're just too confusing XD At least they set up Ember with Bandit though. A nice happy ending for everyone involved

I don't count EtD and AHT as part of the original timeline. EtD tried to be, but it's so horrible and so out of character (in so many respects) that it just doesn't fit. AHT is very clearly in a different universe, though it, too, tried to be a part of the old games.

As for Cynder... i've not worked up my patience yet, to face endless fighting to actually buy the Legend of tilogy so the only thing i have to go on is the cut-scenes. I still don't understand how she can be from the same brood as Spyro yet not be his sister? Does she have different parents and was dumped in with him? Maybe i missed out on an explanation. Either way, the way they both have to pull-through their emotions together is really adorable X3

I think Elora likes him, but Spyro either a) chooses to ignore it or b) doesn't realize it. Most likely B. I also think he was just jealous at the end of YOTD.

Am I making sense? I went to bed at 1 a.m. last night and I'm just now having a bowl of cereal. *omnomnom*

Ember: It would look great on an egagement ring!

Spyro: Uh... *looks ill and freaked out*

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Spyro: Yuck. Another hero falls victim to love.

Elora: Aww, it's not that bad. Give it a chance sometime. In the mean, let's just enjoy the show.

Elora, on the other hand, was a fairly likable character for me. She seemed to serve an actual purpose in Ripto's Rage, even if it wasn't one that DIDN'T EARN HER ANY ROLES IN ANY FUTURE GAMES except as a cameo in Year of the Dragon, and sorry about the AllCaps again. She's got a nice personality, too- firm, intuitive, and always willing to lend a helping hand. Nice, but not irritatingly so.

All that being said, I think she has a better chance of having a successful relationship with Spyro than Ember does. Elora likes Spyro, and I don't doubt the feeling is mutual, but I think Spyro's the kind of guy who will run away screaming at the mention of the word 'commitment' whenever the topic of romance is near. I think Elora would be gentle because of that, and give him his space when he needed it, whereas Ember would probably just try to latch onto him and not let go, causing him to suffocate and leave the Dragon Worlds one hero short, and wow I really like run-on sentences, don't I? My bad- won't happen again.

As for the question of species- I can understand how this would turn some people off of the pairing, but I don't really have a problem with it. When it comes to a cartoony, fantasy-ish series like Spyro, my stance is that a couple is all right so long as both characters have equal levels of sentience (or would it be sapience? I heard somewhere that 'sapient' would be more appropriate for a situation like this than 'sentient,' but I can't back that up. If anyone knows, would you inform me?). There are several other couples in the Spyro franchise that aren't of the same species, after all- EmberBandit, HunterBianca, and Sgt. ByrdIsabelle, to name a few.

And that's my two cents, though it looks more like ten. ^^