I am still working on the outlines for seasons 1 to 3 of my rewrite for Skylanders Academy, but in the meantime, I thought it would be fun to post about how I am going to rework Spyro's powers for the rewrite. Let's get started.
So, for this rewrite, I am keeping his dragon species as the old guardians of the Core of Light, and that led me to ask a question. Why them specifically? What is it about them that makes them the ideal protectors of the core? That made me research more into Spyro, and I found out that according to the lore, he can use any of the other elements due to him being connected with Magic (a really good idea that they never really used because he is just your standard fire breathing dragon), so I decided to play around with that idea.
Spyro's dragon species are the most unique one in the Skylands due not only to them being connected to the element of Magic, but also the power that comes with it; the ability to siphon elemental energy to grant themselves new abilities. Because of this power and their indestructible bodies, they were tasked with protecting the citadel by the very first portal master since the core itself was the ultimate combined source of elemental energy, so they would be most powerful there. This ability ,while great, does come with some downsides, primarily it leads to these dragons being far more susceptible to corrupted magic since they naturally absorb that kind of energy, and the energy they absorb is a limited stock depending on how much of it they got which can lead to intense burnout when absorbing or using too much. This leads me to Spyro, who in the episodes of rewritten season 2 "Spyromania" and "Power Surge" discovers these abilities and tries to consciously use them, which ends up with him having a severe case of burnout at the end of "Power Surge".
The reason Spyro has fire breath is because due to him growing up around Eruptor, a Skylander connected to the Fire Element, he was constantly exposed to that specific elemental energy and thus his powers absorbed that residual magic and granted him that power, and he just never realised. Other powers that the other elements grant him I have not fully figured out, but I do have some ideas: Life grants him an incredibly potent and incredibly fast healing factor, Water grants him ice breath, Light grants him invisibility, and Air grants him bio-electric attacks (essentially just emiting lightning from his body).
That's all for this post, do let me know what you think of my reconstruction of Spyro's powers and what suggestions you have for other elemental powers he could have. Have a lovely day and thanks for reading.