Jonagold Apple II

**Jonagold Apple II** is a young earth pony that born to Cherry Blossom and Big McIntosh. He is Star Knight's best friend and through him, he becomes friends with Gunter and Bramble.

After the Pony of Shadows appears and turns Twilight Sparkle and her friends into stones, Jonagold and his friends set out to find the Elements of Virtue, with him finding Rockhoof's shovel, the symbol of the Element of Strength. After finding, Jonagold is able to connect with the element and transform the shovel into it.

## Personality

He seems to make friendships very quickly, as it was showed with Star Knight. This friendship was shown to still exist when they are teenagers.

As he grows up, Jonagold is revealed to be a very easygoing colt, not being afraid of speaking his mind, showing he, unlike his father, likes to talk. He is also a very loyal friend, mainly with Star, his old best friend, who keeps his secret about being a Jinchuriki.

However, despite his outgoing disposition, he can get very awkward when facing his crushes, with that being shown when interacting with Pumpkin Cake.

Despite his calm and easygoing disposition, Jonagold will not stand down when other ponies are in danger. In fact, he will never give up until he can help them, even if that means facing a ferocious creature like the Quintaped.

## Skills

He seems to take after his dad, as he said he will continue the family business. Another thing that he inherited from his father, as well his aunt Applejack, is an immense strength, enough to be able to move a big boulder.

Possessing the Element of Strength, Jonagold gains an even bigger strength, allowing him for instance to climb up a volcano chimney easily, throw away a big creature like the Quintaped in a big distance or even withstand and defend its powerful stomps. Not only that, but he also gains a bigger resilience.

Jonagold has also a poetic vein and debating skills, as he is shown to frequent those clubs in the academy.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Big McIntosh and Cherry Blossom

They are Jonagold's parents. They love him very much and do everything to protect him.

#### Apple Flower

She is Jonagold's little sister. He loves her very much.

### Romantic Interests

#### Pumpkin Cake

It's revealed that Jonagold has a crush on Pumpkin Cake.

## Description in the Saga

### *Apple Born*

Jonagold born in this short story, being almost like his father, having his coat, his hooves and his mane (although he has a red streak), however he has her mother’s eyes.

### *The Taking of Tartarus*

He appeared in “The Predators of the Night, Part II” where he meets Star Knight, becoming quickly his friend.

Jonagold also appears in “The Revenge of the Trix”, when his mother is rescued from the Trix by Big Mac, Twilight and Heartbeat, reuniting with her.

In "Epilogue - Heartbeat's Special Gift", Jonagold attends Star Knight's birthday party.

### *Finding True Talents*

In "Sweetie Belle's Most Amazing Voice", he is with his family, while they are watching Melody's play.

### *Finding True Love*

He makes a brief appearance in "An Apple Falls for a Pie".

### *Star Knight and the Nine-Tailed Fox*

In "Gloomy News", he goes with her aunt visit Twilight and his best friend. When they arrive to the castle, he goes with Star and Moonlight to the gardens with Heartbeat and the babies where Star tolds him and Moonlight how he got his Cutie Mark. Without knowing, Jonagold says, after hearing from Heartbeat how Star's power helped to defeat Perfect Scale, that he should be a hero to the light ponies, affecting Star, as he knows that he is not liked by the light ponies.

In "A Glimpse of the Fox", it's revealed that Jonagold was enrolled by his parents at the academy by Twilight's recommendation. He meets Gunter, who is also his roommate and also Bramble. They then go visit Leafgreen.

In "One-Tail Awakes", Jonagold, along with Gunter and Bramble, are invited by Star Knight to spend the weeken at the castle. There, they see the pony-panthers at close.

In the next chapter, he gets to know the truth about the fact that Star is a Jinchuriki.

In "A Holiday in Ponyville", Jonagold Apple says goodbye to Gunter and Bramble when the winter holidays begin, before going with Star to the Light Kingdom and then, from there, to Ponyville. It's revealed that he has a baby sister called Apple Flower. At Heart's Warming Eve, he is with Star when he is training in his new spell, encouraging him.

In "Star Knight's New Spell", he returns to the Enchanted Forest with Star and they and their friends go to a inn at Leafgreen to hang out until Golde Paladin appears to talk with Star.

In "The Demon Fox's Cloat", he attends Star's birthday party, but is put asleep by Leaf Mane's sleeping spores.

For the next three years, Jonagold becomes a popular student at the academy, becoming the leader of the book and debate clubs.

In "A Brand New Year", he returns to the academy after summer. Arriving, he reunites with his best friends and, after the reception, Star tells him and the others what happened during his summer.

In “The Dark Song of Adagio Dazzle”, Jonagold watches Star and Gunter become part of the school flying derby main team.

In “Moonlight’s Song of Pain”, he, Gunter, Bramble and Galena tell Star what Moonlight have been doing as a villain. After that, he watches Moonlight and Star’s confrontation, getting happy when the former is reformed.

In “The Capture of Five-Tails”, he watches Star and Gunter winning the flying derby for their academy.

In “The Capture of Six-Tails”, he attends an art class given by Bubble Sweet.

In “Assault on the Light Kingdom”, Jonagold is strolling through the streets of the citadel of the Light Kingdom with Gleaming and Moonlight when the General of Chaos invades the Light Kingdom with his dark ponies. The trio is able to save a little filly and her grandmother from a gytrash and are allowed to help evacuate the citizens.

In “Star Knight VS General of Chaos”, he survives the destruction of the citadel of the Light Kingdom with his father, reuniting then with Thunder Night.

In “The Lord of Order’s Motivation”, he witness Gleaming treating Moonlight and then welcomes Star after his victory over the General of Chaos, celebrating it.

In “The Summit of Regents Begins”, he and his friends discuss about the summit of regents.

In "The Song of the Siren", he helps fighting Ulysses and his army of dark ponies.

### *Light and Darkness - The Shadow of Midnight*

In "The Academy Reception", Moonlight and Jonagold meet up with Star and his sisters, with the latter teasing the former about her possible jealousy towards Star's fillie fans. He sees as Star is called by the headmistresses and gets very happy once she knows of Star's advance in his studies. He also reunites with his other best friends Gunter and Bramble. After the reception, he and Bramble notice how Star is a little curious about the real reason behind the fact Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo now work at the academy.

In "A Mysterious Creature at the Academy", he and his friends discuss about the mysterious creature that had been wandering at the academy at the night before.

In "Dancing at the Moonlight", he and his friends discuss about the Silver Wind being a pony-wolf. Jonagold is present when Silver Wind is able to control her pony-wolf form and gets her Cutie Mark.

In "An Explosive Temper", Jonagold is visited by Star who wants to hang out with him. However, Jonagold is cleaning the path of the farm, refusing his friend's magical help as he knew his father would know about that. Star tries to make him change his mind by using the crush he has on Pumpkin Cake. At that moment, the Cutie Mark Crusaders appear. Having heard about Jonagold's crush, they start giving some romance advices to him. After the Crusaders left, Star replicate Jonagold's snow shovel and goes help him.

In "The Attack of the Zombie Pirates", he hears from the twins and Silver Wind how they defeated Miss Nettle.

In "Epilogue - A Mysterious Guest", Jonagold is seen with his friends talkin in the party to celebrate the return of Neverland.

### The Hidden Prince

In "Epilogue - A Brand New Adventure Begins?", Jonagold attends Dusk's birthday party.

### *The Elements of Virtue*

In "A Bad Feeling", Jonagold is revealed to have Gunter spending some days at his home. The two are beside Sugarcube Corner when they meet Star and Dusk. After that, they meet the Cake twins who are getting out of the store to make some deliveries. Knowing about Jonagold's crush on Pumpkin Cake, Star and Gunter set him off to help her with her deliveries. Later, during the party outside the Golden Oak Library, Jonagold sees the arrival of the Pony of Shadows.

In "The Pony of Shadows", he is seen watching Twilight and her friends battling the Pony of Shadows, seeing him turning them into stone. He then watches Star losing control over his powers and attack the Pony of Shadows, only to then be affected by the Curse of the Poisoned Heart.

In "The Pillars of the Pony World", Jonagold watches Gleaming Shield curing Star's heart and then Golden Paladin fixing his seal. He, along with the others, goes to the Mirror Library to ask Mirror Coat about the Pony of Shadows. He reveals to only know about his defeat by the Pillars of the Pony World on Ponhenge, as that information had been sealed. Taking a mirror portal by Mirror Coat to Ponhenge, Star is able to use a spell with his sage mode that causes a recreation of past events that showed how Star Swirl and the others defeated him.

In "The Elements of Virtue", Joangold and the others try to figure out what to do with what they have discovered and realize they had to find Star Swirl's book, which had the spell to banish the Pony of Shadows. Knowing that they also need the Elements of Virtue, they are approached by the Lord of Order who explains to them about them. After he indicates them how to find them, Star Knight uses a spell on the Tree of Crisis that gives them the location of the Pillars' objects, with Jonagold being tasked to recover Rockhoof's shovel, having to go to Changeling's hive to start his search.

In "The Element of Strength, Part I - The Strength of Will", Jonagold is transported by Mirror Coat to Rockhoof's island, where he finds an archeolofical team. After saving some of them from a big boulder, they find a hidden chamber that contains Rockhoof's shovel and a statue of him. After touching the statue, he is able to access a memory of the old hero and find out that he had been petrified by the Gorgon sisters. After that, he gets to know that a Quintaped is attacking. He tries to attack it, but the creature is able to toss him into the volcano, where he falls onto a ledge and loses conscious.

In "The Element of Strength, Part II - The Strength of the Heart", Jonagold wakes up in the volcano. Realizing the other ponies are in danger because of the Quintaped, he tries to climb the chimney of the volcano using the shovel as a support, but a hurt shoulder prevents him from going too far. But he doesn't quit and keeps on trying. It is then that the shovel turns into the Element of Strength that connects with him, giving a lot of strength and resistance. He is able to get out of the volcano and then defeat the Quintaped.

In "The Element of Sorcery, Part VII - The Return of the Sorcerer", Jonagold returns to the Mirrored Library with the Element of Strength and a petrified Rockhoof himself.

In "Breaking the Stone", after Star returns with the Element of Sorcery, he, Jonagold and the other holders of the Elements of Virtue proceed to use them to free Rockhoof, Twilight and her friends from their stone prison. Despite they are able to free the former, it takes Blue and Star Swirl's combined magic to allow to break the magic of the Elements of Chaos. With them free, Jonagold reunites with his aunt Applejack.

In "The Tale of Stygian", Jonagold watches Star Swirl as he tells everyone about his plan to stop the Pony of Shadows and later the Tree of Crisis revealing to everyone the location of the Pony of Shadows.

In "Facing the Darkness", after talking about the plan to defeat the Pony of Shadows, he and the others go confront the Pony of Shadows at Arimaspi's territory. When they are about to banish him to the Limbo, Star is able to perceive Stygian and Jonagold and the others help him pull Stygian out of the Shadow, all while sending it to the Limbo.

In "Epilogue - A Prophetic Warning", Jonagold is seen talking with his friends during the party to celebrate the defeat of the Pony of Shadows.

## Appearances

Apple Born

Finding True Talents

Finding True Love

The Hidden Prince

The Prince of the Cursed Kingdom

Legends:

* Y - Appears and have an active role
* N - Do not appears and is not mentioned directly by the characters.
* B - Appears, but have a passive role or his or her appearance is implicit
* M - Mentioned directly by the characters.

## Trivia

* His name is a homage to his paternal grandfather.