Aloe

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**Aloe**, full name **Aloe Vera**, is a female earth pony who works at and co-owns the Ponyville Day Spa with her twin sister Lotus Blossom.

## Design

The twins share Octavia Melody's and Rarity's eye design, excluding the iris.

## Depiction in the Series

### Season One

Aloe first appears alongside her sister in "Green Isn't Your Color". The spa offers many services, such as massages, mud baths, seaweed bath wraps, steam rooms, and even horn filing for unicorn ponies. Rarity comes in for her "usual" and returns for a second time as soon as she's finished. Aloe does not seem to notice that Fluttershy is not a unicorn pony when she attempts to give her a horn filing regardless before realizing her mistake.

### Season Two

Aloe and Lotus Blossom also appear in "A Friend in Deed" where they give Cranky Doodle Donkey a service as a gift from Pinkie Pie.

### Season Four

Aloe and Lotus Blossom appear in "Filli Vanilli", requesting the Pony Tones to sing at their spa.

### Season Five

Aloe and Lotus Blossom appear in "Castle Sweet Castle" when Twilight Sparkle and Spike visit the day spa. Aloe has her first in-show speaking role in the episode, the credits of which refer to her simply as "Spa Pony".

Both also appear in "Slice of Life".

Both appear in the final group shot during "Friends Are Always There For You" in "The Cutie Re-Mark".

### Season Six

In "No Second Prances", Aloe appears in the audience during Trixie's magic show.

Aloe and Lotus Blossom can be seen from the back in the final group shot of "A Hearth's Warming Tail".

Aloe appears with her second in-show speaking role in "Applejack's Day Off".

### Season Seven

Aloe and Lotus Blossom appear in the crowd of the contest in "Honest Apple".

Both also appear in line to buy flowers at the Ponyville marketplace in "It Isn't the Mane Thing About You".

### Animated Shorts

Aloe and Lotus Blossom both briefly appear in "Rarity's Biggest Fan", attending to both Twilight Sparkle and Rarity.

### Season Nine

In "The Beginning of the End", Aloe and Lotus Blossom get brainwashed by King Sombra into invading Canterlot. Eventually, they get freed from Sombra's mind control after the Mane Six defeat him.

In "She's All Yak", they both appear in the reused image of "The Cutie Re-Mark" during "Fit Right In", and appear in the Ponyville Spa wearing hazmat suits while washing Yona.

Aloe and Lotus appear in "Between Dark and Dawn", giving Princess Luna and Princess Celestia makeovers.

In "Dragon Dropped", Aloe and Lotus both appear in a flashback tending to Rarity and Spike.

In "The Big Mac Question", Aloe appears kicking Sweetie Belle out of the spa for disturbing a spa patron.

In "The Ending of the End", Aloe and Lotus take shelter with the other Earth ponies as Ponyville closes itself off from the other pony races.

In "The Last Problem", Aloe and Lotus briefly appear in Rainbow Dash's group shot during "The Magic of Friendship Grows".

### Clip Shows

Aloe and Lotus Blossom both appear with speaking lines in the clip show episode "Deep Tissue Memories".

## Depiction in *My Little Pony: The Movie*

In *My Little Pony: The Movie*, Aloe and Lotus Blossom appear among the ponies enslaved by the Storm Creatures when the Storm King takes over Canterlot. Lotus gives one of the Storm Creatures a shoulder massage while it uses Aloe as a footstool.

## Other Depictions

### *Friendship is Magic* Shorts

In "Rarity's Biggest Fan", Aloe and Lotus Blossom appear tending to Twilight Sparkle and Rarity at the spa.

### IDW Comics

In *Friendship is Magic* Issue #23, Aloe appears under the hypnotic control of Cassie the kelpie.

In the Issues #30-31 story arc "Ponyville Days", Aloe (sometimes with purple eyes) and Lotus Blossom side with the Apple family when Ponyville becomes split over who the true town founder is.

In Issue #46, Aloe and Lotus Blossom appear on pages 5 and 18.

In Issue #70, they appear on page 16.

In *Friends Forever* Issue #9, page 3, they appear as attendees of Apple Con 45.

In Issue 10, pages 14–15, they give spa treatments to Fluttershy and Iron Will.

In *Ponyville Mysteries* Issue #4, they become the victims of theft when the spring water they use for their spa's steam baths is siphoned off by Flim and Flam.

### Chapter Books

In the chapter books, Aloe and Lotus Blossom appear in chapter 10 of *Rarity and the Curious Case of Charity*, and Aloe appears in chapter 14 of *Applejack and the Honest-to-Goodness Switcheroo*.

### Software

Aloe and Lotus Blossom are available characters in Gameloft's mobile game. Aloe's in-game description states, "An Earth pony who works at the Day Spa and specializes in seaweed bath wraps. Her cutie mark is a lotus flower."

The Hub Network's online game *Equestrivia Challenge* identifies Lotus Blossom and Aloe.

## Merchandise

Aloe and Lotus Blossom appear in the Comic Con 2011 poster in front of the Shadowbolts.

The trading card of the Day Spa lists them among its residents, and mentions a "Lotus [and] Aloe Herbal Soak". In series 2 of the trading cards, both are named on a card.

They appear in the *First Look and Find* book.

## Appearances

See also: Character appearances

 N | No appearance and no mention by name or title

## See Also

* Bella Brella
* Birch Bucket
* Bulk Biceps
* Dandy Brush
* Frou Frou
* Golden Glitter
* Honeysparkle
* Lavender Essence
* Lilac Luster
* Quake
* Rose Quartz
* Roxie Rave

## References

1. ↑ My Little Pony Character Guide. *Hachette Children's Group*. Hachette. Retrieved on October 3, 2018.