What is a dream? What purpose does it serve, what merit does it have on the real world? Is there a difference between aspiring ambitions and nightmarish premonitions? I often wonder this myself? The purpose these fake memories serve. Well, I actually know, but I was wondering if you knew?
Dr. Cortex was never a man to dwell on the past. Tragedy, failure; what happened before never a reason to quit, give up, be shameful of what he's done. It only served to motivate him forward. He was a man of science. His dreams and ambitions for the world were to make it better! In his own image he'd make things right. For his life was only a microcosm of the larger problem. Jealousy, greed, rage, and pride, the sins of man coalescing into a force dedicated to maintaining society's calcified status quo. That the world simply was full wrong and things just moved on. Disaster, crime, tragedy of any kind was simply the reality of society and despite the lethargic pace of advancement scientifically or ethically, ultimately the injustice of the human race would forever work as an opposite force to utopia. Fortunately, Cortex wasn't human. His grandfather Anton made sure of that. Cold hard science: the weapon of Cortex's mind only limited by his imagination would ensure that the Earth would take it's rightful place amongst the cosmos. That was his life's purpose... while he still had it. That unfortunately, due to his foiled machinations and his unrelenting pride, was taken from him. Though what he couldn't accomplish in life, maybe he'd get a second chance at in death.
Malefor in essence was the first Spyro there was. His fate ultimately spoke to the duality of the dichotomy: nature versus nurture. Was it his destiny or his desire to be evil. If you're told you're supposed to be a hero, and then suffer the very same fate you're supposed to be stopping, does it become your fault that you stoop to the level of the evil which ruined your innocence? Not that Malefor never took or shouldn't take responsibility for the wretchedness his actions soon wrought, but his heart would have never blackened had it not lost the love which made it beat with purpose. Ultimately his grudge with the Sorceress, whose father was responsible for forcing Aurea to sacrifice her life to save his own, was a means to find love once more. That's where Malefor's intentions begin. But now they're unrecognizable. Anger has consumed him. It was what Spyro traveled back in time from his adopted father's home to fix.
For you see, evil in the hearts of those who are sane and are alive (aka not insane or like some kind of anti-god or something... if that's a thing?), at its root their crimes are for a cause they believe in. Either corrupted due to arrogance, hubris, prejudice, or hatred, the antagonist at some point was forced away from the path of normalcy. Fate... intervened. There's a reason Fate is Weird (and why I've always capitalized it). If you look into the etymology (history of a word) of the word "weird", you'll come to find out that the word often was used to point out a striking coincidence only explainable by the intervention of gods? Thats... Wyrd?
So is it Wyrd then that Crash came to adopt Spyro as his own son, causing the paths of two separate heroes integral to maintaining peace for those they know and those they protect? Or is this coincidence simply the concoction of a wild imagination (ties in with the first paragraph, doesn't it)? Someone who dares to dream, maybe. Someone who realized that more than one hero will be needed to defend the innocent from a threat threatening their shared universe.
Because though the path of the wicked is determined by fate for mortals, true evil - the concept or idea of it - is not. This form of evil's origin is not rooted in any conceivable notion, it is simply an absence of good as is darkness the absence of light. True evil cannot exist in a universe full of life. True evil exists in defiance of life. It seeks only the end of the very thing which snuffs it from existence. Hence the big bad thing.
Those who dare to dream are good at heart. In their dreams they see who they want to be or warn themselves of what they shouldn't be and use the intuitions of the subconscious to guide themselves forward. This is an evolutionary aspect of the sentient mind. It is intrinsic to life, evolved in order to strengthen the mind, and it also Wyrdly happens to be a critical function of the entire universe, too. Our universe relies on not just dreams, but imagination too to exist. For there exists unbeknownst to the quintillions of sentient life who dare to dream a symbiotic mutual relationship between the world they live in and the dreams they have of it.

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A Dragon out of Time, A Crash and Spyro Story
FanfictionThe story of how Crash raised Spyro into adulthood, after trips back in time to collect Power Crystals has him save a stolen Dragon Egg. Despite better judgment, seeing Spyro hatch causes Crash to love him like the son he never could have with the l...