Application ❦ Siren's Pull

[apple_sassy]

Character Information

General

Canon Source: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Canon Format: Television show!
Character's Name: Applejack
Character's Age: Never stated, but it is implied that she has reached young adulthood...or its equivalent, for a pony.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A

What form will your character's NV take? A floating apple, roughly the size and shape of a wiffle ball sliced in half with a screen and a speaker set into the flat side. It will operate based on vocal commands and will lack a text function (seeing as it is quite hard to write when one possesses hooves instead of hands).

Abilities

Character's Canon Abilities: Unlike most of her friends, Applejack is an earth pony, without magic or wings or any of that fancy saddle stuff. She is tough and strong and high on stamina, more than able to carry heavy loads, run fast, and kick butt, at least by pony standards. She's not bad on reflexes and eye-hoof coordination, either, and is considered to be an exceptional athlete by her friends.

Oh, and ever think that a pony couldn't use a lasso?

Prepare to be surprised.

Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Just because she's tough and athletic doesn't mean she's superhuman (or super-pony); her physical abilities aren't much greater than those of an ordinary animal (besides the whole being able to talk and wear hats part), so I would like to add an additional power, in the event that she needs to defend herself and others during times of duress.

Applejack's power will be straightforward super strength similar to what DC Comics super heroine Wonder Woman is capable of: bending steel bars, cracking asphalt, lifting cars. However, she will not be anywhere near Superman level, which would instead be along the lines of lifting ocean liners, supporting bridges on her back, or punching a hole in space-time. She will be able to carry a school bus on her back but would only manage to hold up the collapsing bulk of a small building for a minute or two at most. In either case, such exertion would leave her physically exhausted for a day or more and she would require many hours of sleep (as well as a great deal of food) to replace her expended energy. Normal use of her ability will require additional amounts of food every day.

Actually discovering and using her super strength is another matter, as Applejack is often too reasonable and too level-headed to get herself into fights. Odds are she won't be aware of what she can do for a very long time.

Weapons: N/A

History/Personality/Plans/etc.

Character History: Applejack lives in a magical land filled with ponies.

No.

Really.

It's called Equestria and it's filled with many magical and seemingly mundane creatures straight out of story books: dragons, manticores, griffins, talking cows, and most of all, ponies, which come in a - literal - rainbow of colors, personalities, and subspecies (but don't call them that to their face). Watched over by the wise and just Princess Celestia, Equestria knew peace, prosperity, and happiness...for about a thousand years. Exactly one thousand years after her imprisonment, an evil, jealous pony know as Nightmare Moon escaped and launched an attack on ponydom that would steal from them the sun - and their princess - forever. What Nightmare Moon didn't count on was a determined, intelligent, and in-need-of-friends pony named Twilight Sparkle. Stuck in the little town of Ponyville, Twilight had been charged with finding for herself some friends, instead of worrying about dangerous prophecies and evil ponies hidden inside the moon. One of the friends that she happened to make that day was Applejack.

Born and raised in Ponyville on the biggest and best apple tree farm you'll see from there to Canterlot and back again, Applejack comes from a huge family, one that's been planting and raising apple trees for generations. While most of her family lives throughout Equestria, Applejack cares for the farm with her older brother Big Macintosh while looking after her younger sister Apple Bloom and their granny Granny Smith. Even after Applejack joined up with Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie for a variety of adventures and troubles that were at least somewhat less harrowing than stopping Nightmare Moon, she remained on her farm, doing her best to look after her family, her friends, the apple trees, and the little town that she loves.

...because you know there was never any doubt that they would win against Nightmare Moon, right? In fact, Applejack herself was revealed to represent one of the Elements of Harmony: Honesty. It was her honesty that helped Twilight reach her destination and her honesty that helped create the magic that returned Nightmare Moon to her proper form as Princess Luna.

(An episode list with short summaries can be found here!)

Point in Canon: After the events of Episode 8, "Look Before You Sleep."

Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A

Character Personality: If there's one thing you should know about Applejack, it's that you won't find a more dependable pony anywhere. She's hard-working, fair, sensible, strong, practical, responsible, and determined all rolled up into one. Not only that, but she's got plenty of experience looking after herself and others! Living and working on an apple farm and running its apple business means being there when you need to be there, done when you need to be done, and ready all the time to be on the job and making progress (and profit!), because how will you get anywhere otherwise? She's mannered, friendly, and sociable because you don't live in a big ol' family without being sociable, and you don't grow up without being taught how to be nice and how not to be rude.

Times of trouble will show that she's quick-thinking; while she might not have the book or the girl smarts that Twilight Sparkle or Rarity might have, sometimes old fashioned common sense is what a pony needs to make it through a tough situation. Applejack can keep her cool, think things through, and keep her more rash friends in line before they go and get themselves into trouble.

She's also stubborn as a mule.

Wait wait no.

Ten mules.

Applejack's as honest and loyal as they come, but a habit of not backing down can turn downright sour when she's in the wrong. Her stubbornness can get her into all sorts of sticky situations, especially at times when her own choices are what got her into them in the first place. She's proud of what she's capable of and is hiding a competitive streak underneath all her good-natured down-to-earthness (and earthness really is a word, don't argue with her). This can make her a handful when someone expresses an opposing opinion; Applejack is so often right that she really doesn't like to believe it when she's wrong. Her independence makes it hard for her to accept help when she really does need it and harder still to admit when her more negative qualities have hurt other people.

But deep down, she really is a good, honest pony at heart. She might get into a spat with her friends or get herself into trouble by biting off more than she can chew, but she'll always come around eventually.

And she'll always, always be there for her friends when it really matters.

Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A

Character Plans: As soon as she realizes she's there in the city? Taking care of Rainbow Dash. Applejack is the very definition of Team Mom, looking after and knocking sense into her friends when their antics or troubles get out of hand. There's a preeeeeeeeeeetty good chance she'll end up picking up other people and looking after them and just doing what needs to be done.

Appearance/PB: Pony!

Writing Samples

First Person Sample

[ When the feed snaps on, there's only a dash of static, darkness, and a distinctive sniffing sound.

Then it cuts. A minute later it's back again. Instead of darkness, there's a big, bright pair of green eyes and a dainty yellow nose. ]

Well shave my hide and call me a bare back, that feller was right. This ain't like no apple I ever seen. Don't look right, don't smell right, don't shine right...

[ After a moment's consideration, the pony - because it IS a pony, one the color of summer sunshine with a ten gallon hat on her head - leans down and licks the screen of her new NV. ] Nope, don't taste like no proper Macintosh, neither.

Wonder how ya get the darn thing to turn of--[ The feed ends again, only to return a few seconds later. ]--on?

Oh, so that's how it works? I gotta talk to ya. That's mighty clever, 'cept how am I supposed to do that and carry ya at the same time?

[ She frowns, rubbing under her chin with her foreleg. ] ...I don't suppose ya'll be able to fly, would y...now isn't that slick as anything.

[ Dutifully, the picture swings upward, now hovering above the pony. ]

Ya really are a smart little thang, aren't ya?

Third Person Sample

Applejack didn't care for Siren's Port. In fact, she didn't like it at all.

Nope.

No way.

No how.

Not one little bit.

The staring she could let roll right off her back; they could gawk all they wanted. Maybe they'd never seen a proper pony before. She'd never seen an undersized, hairless, pink Yeti before, neither, and those were only supposed to live in the high mountains, not on some island that was dirty and smelly and didn't seem to know what real sunshine was. But at least she had manners enough to keep all of her surprise to herself, unlike the whole rest of 'em.

The cold was no worse than that blizzard a few years back, with snow piles so high she could climb onto the roof of the barn from the outside (a good thing, too, given just how many repairs they'd had to do in record time). A mare just had to know how to step right on the ice to keep herself from slipping. She'd remembered how to do just that after the first time she'd fallen and scraped her knees on the rough black path between all the buildings. That'd been nothing.

Even all that horse radish they'd told her back at that diamond (which was in no way a diamond at all, no matter how you looked at it) wasn't as scary as they made it out to be. If she got here somehow, then she'd leave somehow. Anybody with sense knew that. Doing it was just a matter of working hard enough at it.

She might have gotten a lot of pity and plain ol' exasperation when she'd told those folks at the diamond that, but that just meant she was going to be working at it on her own.

Nothing she couldn't handle. Really. It might've been lonely, but...

Well. Applejack didn't like it here. There weren't enough trees and not a single apple one besides.