Applejack

> *"Believin' in somethin' can help you do amazin' things. But if that belief is based on a lie, eventually it's gonna lead to real trouble."*
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***Jacqueline Daniela McIntosh*** (\*09th October 1990 in Ponyville, Equestria), known by the public as ***Applejack***, is an orange Earth Pony Mare. She is part of the Apple Family and works alongside her paternal grandmother, Granny Smith, her older brother, Big McIntosh and her younger sister, Apple Bloom, at their family apple farm, Sweet Apple Acres and the marefriend of Rarity. She is part of the Mane 6 and represents the Element of Honesty. She also owns a pet border collie named Winona.

## Applejack

* Mare
* Teenager
* Filly
* Baby

### Aliases

AJ, Jackie, Apple Teeny, Applesmack, Applesnack, Appleshaq, Cowpony, Workhorse, Mistress Mare-velous, Apple Jewel, Apple Chord

### Relatives

Pokey Oaks (Paternal Great-Grandfather; Deceased)
Sew 'n Sow (Paternal Great-Grandmother; Deceased)
Apple Core (Paternal Grandfather; Deceased)
Granny Smith (Paternal Grandmother)
Grand Pear (Maternal Grandfather)
Limonera Pera (Maternal Grandmother; Deceased)
Bright McIntosh (Father; Deceased)
Pear Butter (Mother; Decease)
Big McIntosh (Older Brother)
Apple Bloom (Younger Sister)
Uncle Orange (Paternal Uncle)
Aunt Orange (Paternal Aunt)
Braeburn (Paternal Cousin)
Sunflower (Paternal Cousin)
Babs Seed (Paternal Cousin)
Sugar Belle (Sister-in-Law)
Sugar McIntosh (Nephew)
Apple Family
Rarity (Marefriend)
Hondo Flanks (Father-in-Law)
Cookie Crumbles (Mother-in-Law)
Sweetie Belle (Sister-in-Law)
Button Mash (Brother-in-law)
Rainbow Dash (Crush; Formerly)

### Affiliation

Sweet Apple Acres
Mane 6
School of Friendship

### Occupation

Apple Farmer
Salespony
Honesty Teacher

## Appearances

### Appears in

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
My Little Pony: Train in Equestria

### Debut

Friendship is Magic; Part 1 (FiM)
Mi Casa is Tu Casa (TiE)

## Biography

Jacqueline Daniela McIntosh was born on the 09th October 1990 at Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria to Pear Butter and Bright McIntosh.

### MLP:FiM

Applejack used to be very excited about trying to catch the Great Seedling when she was a filly, but one day in July 1998 she got trapped in her own pit, and was missing for her family for a whole day, which likely tainted her views of the Great Seedling.

As a young filly, Applejack didn't want to spend her whole life on the apple farm, so she set out to live with her sophisticated Aunt and Uncle Orange in the big city of Manehattan on the 18th May 1999, when she was just 8 years old. After a short time acting and living as a sophisticate (helped very little by the size of her dinner portion), Applejack started to feel uncomfortable and homesick. On the morning of the 25th May 1999, while looking wistfully out the window, she saw a rainbow leading back to Ponyville. Taking this as a sign, she headed home to Sweet Apple Acres, where she discovered that she had earned her cutie mark by embracing her apple-farming heritage.

When they were younger, Applejack was desperate to prove she was capable of being in charge of the farm, and Big Mac was far more talkative and bossy. Upon going into town on the 23rd April 2002, the siblings come across Filthy Rich and his then fiancee, Spoiled Milk. Filthy Rich recalls the history the Riches and the Apples have had, offering to sell some of the Apple family's cider at his store. Applejack wants to accept the deal in order to prove she's capable of coming up with good ideas, but Big Mac is staunchly against the idea. Still, Applejack offers to sell just three barrels of cider to Filthy Rich, with more coming if the deal goes well. Big Mac admonishes Applejack for going over Granny's head, and Granny hears about the deal and vetoes it, saying that apple blight has reduced the amount of cider they can sell that year. Granny also forces Applejack to go to Filthy Rich's store and say that the deal is off as punishment. Once there, Applejack lies about the deal, saying that she can't sell the cider because Granny Smith is sick. Big Mac scolds Applejack again for lying, while trying to keep what Applejack did hidden. Unfortunately, Filthy Rich and Spoiled Milk show up with a bouquet of "get well soon" flowers for Granny, forcing Applejack to keep lying about her condition, saying that Granny has got apple blight herself, and is in the hospital. This gets Filthy Rich and Spoiled Milk to leave, although they head for the hospital instead. Once at the hospital, Applejack has to constantly come up with new lies about Granny Smith to Filthy Rich, while also lying to Granny about being there for a presentation on apple blight infecting a pony. All the while, Big Mac incredulously tells Applejack to stop lying, but she won't listen, yelling back for Big Mac to stop scolding her and just do what she wants. She covers Big Mac with a sheet on a gurney, intending to say it's Granny being so sick, but a doctor wheels Big Mac out of the room before Applejack can show him off to Filthy Rich and Spoiled Milk, heading for an operating room. Granny, thinking she's there to lecture on apple blight, says that they need to "prune the branches," revealing a saw. Seeing what's about to happen, Applejack finally confesses all of the lies that she's told and promising something she couldn't deliver. She apologizes to everypony and said that it's all her fault, but Big Mac also says he played a part in Applejack's web of lies, saying that if he had listen to Applejack instead of talking all the time, none of the mess would have happened and promise to talk less and listen more, especially to Applejack. Granny also insists that she's in charge of the farm, and that Filthy Rich will not break the tradition of their two families working together or she'll get his grandfather involved.

She was responsible for the food preparations of the Summer Sun Celebration in 2010. On the 20th June that year, she met Twilight Sparkle for the first time, who had been sent to Ponyville by Princess Celestia to check on the preparations and make some friends.

When Nightmare Moon was freed from her thousand year stay on the moon at midnight on the 21st June 2010, the beginning of the Summer Sun Celebration, Applejack teamed up with Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity & Twilight Sparkle to find the Elements of Harmony and defeat her. When a collapsing cliffside leaves Twilight in a literal cliffhanger situation, Applejack uses her honesty to reassure Twilight and convince her to let go... dropping her into the waiting hooves of Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.

On finally reaching the keep, Twilight investigates the Elements of Harmony and tries to trigger the "spark" that is said to make the sixth Element appear. Just then Nightmare Moon appears and steals away with Twilight and the Elements in an effort to prevent this from happening. A brief struggle ensues as Twilight tries to recover the elements but eventually Nightmare Moon simply smashes them to bits. All hope is lost. Then Twilight hears her friends coming to her rescue, has an epiphany, and the seemingly-destroyed elements activate. Twilight explains to a baffled Nightmare Moon, that the real power of the elements was within her five friends and herself realizing how much they meant to her was the "spark" needed to awaken the Sixth Element, Magic. With the combined powers of the Elements of Harmony, they make swift work of Nightmare Moon. From that day forward, she became the Element of Honesty.

In September, Apple Buck Season 2010, Big MacIntosh had injured his back, leaving Applejack as the only pony available to bring in the harvest. When Big Mac suggests that the job might be more than she can handle, she takes it as a challenge and vows to finish the job by herself. The citizens of Ponyville organize a ceremony in appreciation of Applejack. But the guest of honor arrives late, dazed from sleep deprivation and overwork after a week in the fields. A concerned Twilight Sparkle offers her help, but Applejack is determined not to break her word and stubbornly refuses. As she struggles to keep her commitments and bring in the apple harvest, things quickly get out of hoof. Applejack launches Rainbow Dash into Golden Oak Library when a stunt goes wrong, botches Pinkie Pie's muffin recipe so badly that the baked goods — er, "baked bads" — give half the town food poisoning, and frightens Fluttershy's newborn rabbits into stampeding through the center of Ponyville. Applejack remains as stubborn as ever... up until she thinks she's finished, only for Big MacIntosh to show up and point out that she's only halfway through. Physically and mentally exhausted, she collapses. Upon regaining consciousness, Applejack finally unbends enough to ask for help, and all the Mane Six pitch in to get the apples harvested on time.

During a game of horseshoes on the 14th October 2010, Applejack and Rainbow Dash start getting very competitive, debating who's the better athlete out of the two of them. Rainbow Dash proposes an Iron Pony competition to settle it once and for all. The competition starts out small, and fairly even at first; for every athletic event Applejack wins, Rainbow Dash beats her in another. As the day goes by (and more ponies come by to spectate), Rainbow starts using her wings to win certain events, leading to her winning the competition. Applejack accuses Rainbow Dash of cheating, and then comes up with a new challenge to settle their differences: the two ponies will join the Running of the Leaves, an annual race where dozens of ponies run through the Ponyville woods, the resulting vibrations causing the autumn leaves to fall off the trees. She also demands that Rainbow not use her wings during the race.

On the 15th October 2010, the day of the race arrives, and Applejack ties up Rainbow Dash's wings just to be extra-sure she won't cheat. The race starts (with Pinkie Pie and Spike commentating on the action), and for a while, Applejack and Rainbow Dash seem to be tied for first. However, after each one trips over a couple rocks in the path and fall behind, they each consider playing a little dirty to get back in the lead. Rainbow Dash changes the road signs so Applejack will go the wrong direction, Applejack hitches a ride on the Twinkling Balloon Pinkie and Spike are in, Rainbow eventually unties her ropes, etc. The two are neck-and-neck as they reach the finish line and eventually tie... Yes, fixating on their own rivalry instead of the race didn't work out as well as they thought. (By comparison, Twilight came in a respectable fifth place by pacing herself, and then sprinting near the end). Princess Celestia suddenly arrives on the scene, having come to see the race, and our they both learn about not letting competition get the better of them. Celestia points out that there's still a lot of trees with leaves still on them, and Applejack and Rainbow Dash decide to finish the job with a friendlier run through the woods.

21st May 2011, the night of the Grand Galloping Gala has finally arrived! Everypony's excited about it being "the best night ever", and hopes for each of their dreams to come true. Applejack wants to sell apple-based treats to raise money for the family farm. At first, things seem to be going all right, and at least somewhat according to what the girls envisioned. However, things quickly go wrong. Applejack ends up making only two sales after about an hour at the Gala - one of which was to Rarity. Determined, however, the ponies pledge to make it the "best night ever". Things quickly get out of hoof, though. Applejack realizes that no one's been buying her wares because fancier *hors d'oeuvres* are available, so she whips up something more sophisticated.

The whole disaster reaches its boiling point when Applejack carts a huge cake into the ballroom just as Pinkie does a stage dive into the crowd. Pinkie lands onto the cart, knocking the cake into the air. Prince Blueblood, Rarity's jerkass "Prince Charming" for the night, uses Rarity as a shield against the cake, whereupon she thoroughly chews him out for his horrible behavior all night. Cornered, the Prince knocks over a statue, which Rainbow Dash quickly catches, only to knock down several columns in the process. As the dust settles, Princess Celestia and Twilight arrive on the scene, and just when Twilight thinks it can't get any worse, a stampede of wild animals being pursued by a furiously insane Fluttershy rushes in, causing everypony to panic.

The girls meet up with Spike, who's been drowning his sorrows in fried pastry and sprinkles at a local doughnut shop. They all relate what went wrong with their night over a plate of doughnuts, and agree that it was the worst night ever. Just then, Celestia arrives in the shop, thanking the ponies for making it the best Gala ever. Turns out the Gala's always a boring, horrible event, and Celestia invited the six in hopes that they would liven things up a bit, although the chaos that followed wasn't exactly what she had in mind.