Rarity

* Unicorn
* Filly

**Rarity** is a female unicorn pony and one of the main characters of My Little Pony: Nine Elements.

She is a Fashion Designer and the Element of Generosity.

## Personality

### Love of beauty

When Rarity meets Twilight Sparkle for the first time, she is busy decorating Ponyville's pavilion for the Summer Sun Celebration. As soon as Rarity turns to look at Twilight, she expresses concern for Twilight's messy mane and practically forces on her the first of many makeovers while learning more about her and Spike.

Rarity cares for her own beauty as well. Rarity is also particular about her cleanliness: she panics while trying to avoid getting muddy in Look Before You Sleep and tries to keep herself from getting soaked in the rain to avoid it messing up her mane. This causes some conflict with her friend, Applejack, who is, by contrast, not at all bothered about getting muddy or wet. Her fashion consciousness extends even to times of peril: in Dragonshy, she wears a scarf on the way to the dragon's lair, wondering if she should carry a tiara to match.

### Center of attention

Rarity enjoys being the center of attention, often to her detriment. In Sonic Rainboom, she became overjoyed with the attention and admiration she received thanks to her new butterfly-like wings while under the Icarus Effect. As she became increasingly irrational, she flew too close to the sun, causing her wings to burn. Rainbow Dash spots Rarity as she falls and flies to save her, performing a sonic rainboom in the process. Rarity later apologizes to Rainbow Dash for her behavior and calls her the greatest flier in Equestria.

### Mannerisms

Rarity's mannerisms are similar to those of Scarlett O'Hara, the histrionic anti-heroine of Gone With the Wind. Many of Rarity's lines are rephrased from lines Scarlett says in the 1939 movie. Her vocabulary is formal and she is prone to use complex words and more sophisticated, refined phrasing than her friends. As a fashionista, she often uses French-based terms in her vernacular. She speaks with a cultivated trans-Atlantic dialect, and shares some mannerisms with similarly accented Hollywood actresses, such as Katharine Hepburn.

Rarity sometimes gets carried away with her attention to detail. In Look Before You Sleep, she has difficulty tearing herself away from fixing a messy bookcase despite the much bigger problem of a tree that crashed into Pinkie's bedroom. In Winter Wrap Up, she becomes so preoccupied with fixing Spike's messy bird's nest that she spends nearly the entire day on it, when she was supposed to be producing nests in large numbers.

### Generosity

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 Stephen Magnet in The Elements of Harmony, 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.

### Career

Rarity works as a fashion designer at Carousel Boutique. Her work ethic and dedication to her customers is depicted in Suited For Success. She initially sews dresses of her own design for her friends, but, when they're not satisfied with the result, she sews them brand new dresses under their direction.

Rarity stresses herself into making a new set of dresses the way her friends want them, going as far as following all their instructions instead of her own instincts. She is unhappy with the results, even though her friends are very satisfied. When these dresses are devastatingly criticized by "the bigwig fashion hotshot" Hoity Toity, she locks herself in her room, lamenting her ruined career. Luckily for her, her friends are able to convince Hoity Toity to hold another fashion show, this time with the original dresses.

In the episode A Dog and Pony Show, the pony pop sensation Sapphire Shores visits Rarity's boutique. She claims that she makes "it a point to know all of the up-and-coming designers," and "Clothes Horse magazine simply raved about [Rarity]."

Rarity is quite willing to let Spike help her out with her work and shows some concern for his welfare. They go gem-hunting together in A Dog and Pony Show and she rewards him for his assistance with "the finest reward," a gem, which he holds very dear to him simply for being a gift from Rarity. At the end of the episode, once she has several carts full of gems, she lets Spike indulge on a great number of them. She's also willing to comfort Spike after learning his hardships.

## Gifts & Abilities

* **Unicorn Physiology**: As a Unicorn, Rarity is capable of channeling magic and casting spells.
* **Mystic Eyes of Detail**: Rarity was born with the Mystic Eyes of Detail, allowing her to notice even the smallest of details that other ponies don't notice.
* **Fashion Mastery**: Rarity is a fashionista, and a talented one. She makes her own clothes and runs a Boutique.

### Known Spells

* **Levitation Spell**: A basic spell used by unicorns. Allows her to lift objects in a telekinetic manner.
* **Gem Finding Spell**: A spell used to find gemstones.
* **Horn Beam**: A basic combat spell. Allows her to shoot a magic bolt from her horn.

## Trivia

* Her Cutie Mark represents her talent for finding gemstones and beautification.