Rarity

Sweetie Belle (younger sister)

Seamstress

Pony Tones soprano singer

School of Friendship generosity teacher (S8E1 onward)

Council of Friendship member (S9E26)

**Rarity** is one of the seven main protagonists of *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*. She is a fashionable white female unicorn with a beautiful purple mane and tail. Rarity represents the Element of Generosity, and she's great friends with Lola and James the Red Engine.

## Appearance

Rarity is a unicorn pony with a silvery-white body, blue eyes, and a violet mane and tail. She is a fashion designer/seamstress at her own dressmaking shop, the Carousel Boutique. She is very stylish and beautiful, takes great interest in fashion and clothing design, and often tries to make herself the center of attention. She considers herself a lady and often acts sophisticated.

## Personality

While Rarity cares about her appearance quite a bit, being averse to stepping in mud or risking getting herself messy, she is not above getting her hooves dirty when it comes to helping her friends or creatures in need. She slices off her own tail to calm down the sea serpent in Friendship is Magic, part 2, willing to sacrifice her beauty to help restore the distressed serpent's "fabulosity". This action earns her the element of generosity, and later, when she activates the element, her tail is restored.

The episode Suited For Success heavily revolves around Rarity's generosity, as she is willing to not only make five unique dresses for her friends for the Grand Galloping Gala but additionally re-work and redesign them as her friends desire. The overworking runs Rarity ragged and, despite her friends' designs being horrible fashion-wise, she continues making them in order to satisfy her friends. At the end of the episode, Rarity's friends realize that her original dresses were beautiful and perfectly matched for each of them, and that they should not have taken advantage of Rarity's generosity.

Rarity is hypnotized by Discord into believing a large boulder is actually a giant diamond in The Return of Harmony Part 1. For a short moment she resists the temptation, but soon she becomes brainwashed, obsessively protecting her "diamond" and refusing to let anybody near it, as she becomes possessive and greedy. This continues in The Return of Harmony Part 2, where she refuses to part with the boulder and names it "Tom", while additionally hoarding other items she sees as valuable, such as the jewelry of the Elements of Harmony themselves. After the brainwashing is cured, she throws the boulder away and tells her friends to "never speak of this again" in a hushed but assertive whisper. In Sisterhooves Social, Applejack mentions to Rarity that sisterhood is a give-and-take relationship that requires compromise. To this end, Rarity takes part in the Sisterhooves Social with Sweetie Belle while disguised as Applejack.

Rarity's generosity is a major plot point of Rarity Takes Manehattan. The unscrupulous fashion designer Suri Polomare uses it against her by asking for some of the unique material Rarity made to "accentuate" her own dresses. Instead, Suri uses the material to copy Rarity's designs. Rarity beats Suri in the end, and pledges not to let the experience sour her on being generous in the future.

Rarity may look beautiful, but she's is caring, sweet and is always up for adventure.

## Quotes

"*Out of* my *hair? What about* your *hair?*"
— Friendship is Magic, part 1
"*EMERALDS?! What was I thinking? Let me get you some rubies!*"
— Friendship is Magic, part 1
"*Take that, you ruffian!*"
— Friendship is Magic, part 2
"*I simply cannot let such a crime against fabulosity go uncorrected.*"
— Friendship is Magic, part 2
"*I used to be somepony. I used to be respected! I made dresses. Beautiful, beautiful dresses. But now, everypony is laughing at me. I'm nothing but a laughing stock! ...Leave me alone! I want to be alone! I want to wallow in, whatever it is that ponies are supposed to wallow in! Do ponies wallow in pity? Oh, listen to me! I don't even know what I'm supposed to wallow in! [sobbing] I'm so pathetic!*"
— Suited For Success
"*Look upon me, Equestria, for* I am Rarity!"
— Sonic Rainboom
"*Now back to work. I lost a lot of time, and I cannot have anymore interruptions. WHAT NOW?!*"
— Stare Master
"*Whining? I am not whining, I am complaining, do you want to hear whining? This is whining. Oh, the harness is too tight, it's going to chafe, can't you loosen it? Ugh! It hurts and it's so nasty, why didn't you clean it first? It's gonna leave a stain and the wagon's getting heavy. Why do I have to pull it?*"
— A Dog and Pony Show
"*Mules are ugly. Are you saying that I too am ugly? [cries]*"
— A Dog and Pony Show
"*Thank you, Twilight. But don't get any ideas about my gem! I know where you live.*"
— The Return of Harmony Part 1
"**Mine!**"
— The Return of Harmony Part 2
"*Oh, Fluttershy? Could you be a dear and* fly faster please*.*"
— The Return of Harmony Part 2
"*Of all the worst things that could happen, this is the!* Worst! Possible! Thing!"
— Three times in Lesson Zero
"*They may not be as sophisticated as some of you Canterlot ponies, but they are my best friends. And they are without a doubt the most important ponies I know.*"
— Sweet and Elite
"*I've been inspired by the generosity of my little Spikey-wikey, who gave me this beautiful fire ruby, one of the kindest acts I've ever experienced.*"
— Secret of My Excess
"*Pegasi are* BRUTES!!"
— Hearth's Warming Eve
"*When I get back, you're gonna get it, Rainbow Dash!*"
— The Last Roundup
"*Fighting's not really my thing, I'm more into fashion, but I'll rip you to pieces if you touch one scale on his cute little head!*"
— Dragon Quest
"**I'll destroy her!**"
— Ponyville Confidential
"***Fine, I'm guilty! I wear false eyelashes!** Oh, and I took a bite of the cake.*"
— MMMystery on the Friendship Express
"**It's mine!**"
— A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2
"*I do so wish it was permanent! Did you* see *how my mane just absolutely* sparkled*?*"
— The Crystal Empire - Part 2
"*(Sing-song voice) I-*de*-a!*"
— Multiple episodes
"*Isn't friendship magic?!*"
— Rarity Takes Manehattan
"*Oh, Spike, how could you ever know what it's like to be totally obsessed with a pony only to find out they're obsessed with somepony else?*"
— Simple Ways
"*Then let's go shopping!*"
— Trade Ya!
"*Dearest Spike, you should never be afraid to tell me the truth. We're friends, remember?*"
— Inspiration Manifestation
"*I couldn't help myself! It was just begging for the personal touch!*"
— Castle Sweet Castle
"*Crochet is knitting's poorer cousin.*"
— Quoted by Sweetie Belle, On Your Marks
"*And I gained tons of new ideas for a new line of camouflage clothing! I think I'll call it "Camo-Maud"!*"
— Gauntlet of Fire
"*Oh, darling, that food isn't fit for a pony of proper breeding, darling, and refinement, darling!*"
— P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View)
"*Without my mane, I simply can't shine as I once did, and ponies treat me like the sad, invisible pony I've become.*"
— It Isn't the Mane Thing About You
"*I'm "Plainity", and I love bland old normal stuff. No frills for me.*"
— Friendship University
"*The hat is indeed for somepony very special. And I couldn't bear to see* him *part with it. But if I hear you call yourself a nopony again, you shan't be my guest for Fashion Week in Manehattan.*"
— To Pistachio, *My Little Pony Best Gift Ever*
"*I'm saying your brother will win. No matter how brilliant your plan is, no matter how many variations you try, it will be something your brother expects, and he'll always win! Unless... when the perfect chance comes along, you do something he can't expect. Then you'll win.*"
— To Twilight, Sparkle's Seven