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Published: 2018-07-20 08:01:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 5235; Favourites: 244; Downloads: 12
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Description Next up in my installation of the "Future Mane 6" in Harmonyverse is good ol' Applejack!

Married to famed fashionista Rarity, Applejack is no less a star herself. The proud head of Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack is also the owner of several apple tree sanctuaries around Equestria. The extra income produced by these sanctuaries, aside from the profits Sweet Apple Acres creates with it's now kingdom-wide popular cider market, has allowed Applejack to finally achieve the financial success she has always hoped for in order to provide much more amply for her family. Despite her higher income, Applejack hasn't once let the money get to her head. AJ still manages the farm with her family and gets deep into the muck and dirt to earn her living the same way she has always done. Humble, honest, and hard working, AJ is still very much the same pony she's always been and has stayed true to her roots over the years.

Aside from agricultural business, Applejack also served as Pinkie Pie's chief Council Mare while she was mayor, providing advice to Pinkie on executive decisions and mainly just keeping her impulses in check half of the time. Applejack enjoyed giving back to the town, and though after her first term Pinkie decided to step down, Applejack stayed on the job for a while after before stepping down herself. Despite her resignation, Applejack was named an offical member of the Ponyville Founder's Society, which has great influence on town matters and affairs, given her family's importance to Ponyville's origins, alongside Granny Smith (who is still truckin' on, by the way!), so she still remains as an important official to the town when she's not harvesting apples or plowing the fields.
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Double-whammy today! These are fun to do, hehe.

While Applejack may still very much be a farm pony to her core, I wanted to make her more successful than what I normally see around of her. Still, you can't change AJ too much without breaking her character, but I'm pleased with what I've done with her. The girl works hard! She deserves all the success in the world.

Up next will be the fabulous Rarity. Stay tuned, gang!



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Comments: 15

pookaWOODS-ART [2019-05-22 02:19:31 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, she WOULD wear a bolo tie.

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DuneFilly In reply to pookaWOODS-ART [2019-05-27 22:39:09 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, that she would!

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black-sunn89 [2018-07-20 20:52:43 +0000 UTC]

looks super

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DuneFilly In reply to black-sunn89 [2018-07-21 02:21:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!Β 

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black-sunn89 In reply to DuneFilly [2018-07-22 20:44:55 +0000 UTC]

np

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DuchessUru [2018-07-20 17:39:42 +0000 UTC]

I can't wait to see the rest of the mine 6 and I love that you made apple jack and loved how you made apple jack more mature but still kept her the same old apple jack and good job

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DuneFilly In reply to DuchessUru [2018-07-20 17:59:17 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, thanks! I very much took the philosophy of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" when I was working on Applejack.

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PokemonTrainerMax [2018-07-20 09:30:28 +0000 UTC]

It seems all of Applejack's hard work has finally paid off (though I wonder if her significant other Rarity has passed on some of her savvy business sense to Applejack).Β  Nonetheless, even with financial success, Applejack is still Applejack.Β  She was the most stable of the mane six (and I feel like she's one of the oldest, next to Fluttershy at least), so it makes sense that she wouldn't change all that much, just mature and grow into her role as a matriarch.Β  I also like how you drew her with a larger stockier body; considering the amount of physical labor she does, she should be a bit buffer than the rest of the mane six.

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DuneFilly In reply to PokemonTrainerMax [2018-07-20 09:50:56 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah, Rarity definitely had a role in helping AJ out in expanding her business and what not, but when it comes down to it, her success always comes from her hard work. Like you said, Applejack is still Applejack, and that means honest labor. Also, thanks! AJ's built strong, and she maintains her stocky physique through work, and she'd have it no other way, hehe.

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PokemonTrainerMax In reply to DuneFilly [2018-07-21 01:08:37 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I'm sure all Rarity did was offer a couple of suggestions and Applejack was the one to make it all happen, through hard work and honesty.Β  Your AJ is definitely far more successful financially in your next gen verse than the one in mine (my AJ never modernizes and can't expand much, though AJ remains confident that hard work will yield its own reward, but her son keeps wanting to change how they do everything...).

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Rutkotka [2018-07-20 09:27:31 +0000 UTC]

This is piece of great art! I love the pose and design! also i must ask you how do you do those beautiful eyes!
I love it!

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DuneFilly In reply to Rutkotka [2018-07-20 09:46:34 +0000 UTC]

Ah, thank you so much!! I'm thrilled you think so.
As for how I do the eyes, there's really not much to it, I'm afraid! I only dress them up a bit with a shimmer of overlay and not much else. Still, I'm flattered you like them nonetheless!

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Lunafea [2018-07-20 08:53:54 +0000 UTC]

I love that you gave Applejack further success!Β 
It's also a nice change of pace that you kept her mane long. A ton of people cut it short.

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DuneFilly In reply to Lunafea [2018-07-20 09:01:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! She definitely deserves it, hehe.
Also, I'm glad to hear it! Personally, I've never been a fan of that decision and I feel like short hair tends to really not flatter/suit AJ at all. She's got a lovely mane as it is, and what kind of country girl doesn't appreciate a good braid?

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Lunafea In reply to DuneFilly [2018-07-21 02:24:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, she does!
I feel like a lot of people don't know what to do with AJ
since she's so grounded in what she wants out of life.
I also think that short hair doesn'tΒ suit her. I think a lot of people give
her short hair as a way to give her a more masculine appearance to whoever
they pair her with (Rarity, Coloratura, anyone else). There's a lot that can be done
with long hair.Β Β Β 

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