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[Part 6 of an MLP Reimagining AU]
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AppleJack is the most diligent, most hard-working member of the Apple Family. She and Big MacIntosh are twins, with AppleJack being about four minutes older. She and the rest of the Apples are incredibly tight-knit, and, after the early passing of their parents, both she and Big Mac were homeschooled, since neither of them could leave their farm duties all day to go to a schoolhouse. Apple Bloom assumed that when she was old enough, she would follow in her older sibling's footsteps, but AppleJack insisted that she needed to make friends and learn about the world outside the farm, and she and Big Mac continued to split up the chores between themselves.

Both she and Big Mac are very quiet, since for so long they had no one but each other, and were often alone when they worked on opposite sides of the farm. As teenagers they were both also embarrassed of their level of schooling and insecure that they would sound 'less educated' than other ponies if they spoke, but after maturing and becoming adults, neither of them are ashamed of their roots and know that ponies that went to school are not inherently better than them just because they have a larger vocabulary. AppleJack is quiet now not out of insecurity, but just because she's been used to quiet for so long, she doesn't see a need for idle chatter. If asked about a subject she's interested in, though, she has no problem explaining it in detail. Though she is now surrounded by a group of close friends, Big Mac remains her best friend and the person she tells everything to.

For both the twins, a special talent involving apples seemed completely natural. AppleJack's talent is applebucking, and when the apples are ripe and the buckets ready, she can clear a whole orchard's worth of apples in under a day. A common phrase around Sweet Apple Acres is "Big Mac grows them up, AJ knocks them down," in reference to their talents. Big Mac, who grows the apples, and AppleJack, who harvests them.

AppleJack got her scars during a fight with a Timber Wolf. Apple Bloom's cabin, which is located on the very edge of the farm near the Everfree forest, sometimes attracts critters and magical beings if she has a potion brewing. Sensing the magic, creatures will go to it, and one unlucky day Apple Bloom was stirring a cauldron outside when a Timber Wolf decided to make its move. AppleJack was luckily nearby, and got to it right as it was leaping for her sister. She fought with it until she was able to chase it back into the forest, but didn't come away unscathed. Twilight has since put a magic barrier around the farm to keep the creatures in the Everfree forest out.

AppleJack has a crush on Rarity, but is too shy to tell her for fear of rejection. She knows Rarity is often busy and traveling all over Equestria for fashion shows and boutique openings, and she's afraid that Rarity won't want to be tied down to a country pony like her. Maybe she'll work up the nerve someday- after all, if Big Mac can do it, so can she. Right?

Description
[Part 6 of an MLP Reimagining AU]
[Link to the rest of this AU ]

AppleJack is the most diligent, most hard-working member of the Apple Family. She and Big MacIntosh are twins, with AppleJack being about four minutes older. She and the rest of the Apples are incredibly tight-knit, and, after the early passing of their parents, both she and Big Mac were homeschooled, since neither of them could leave their farm duties all day to go to a schoolhouse. Apple Bloom assumed that when she was old enough, she would follow in her older sibling's footsteps, but AppleJack insisted that she needed to make friends and learn about the world outside the farm, and she and Big Mac continued to split up the chores between themselves.

Both she and Big Mac are very quiet, since for so long they had no one but each other, and were often alone when they worked on opposite sides of the farm. As teenagers they were both also embarrassed of their level of schooling and insecure that they would sound 'less educated' than other ponies if they spoke, but after maturing and becoming adults, neither of them are ashamed of their roots and know that ponies that went to school are not inherently better than them just because they have a larger vocabulary. AppleJack is quiet now not out of insecurity, but just because she's been used to quiet for so long, she doesn't see a need for idle chatter. If asked about a subject she's interested in, though, she has no problem explaining it in detail. Though she is now surrounded by a group of close friends, Big Mac remains her best friend and the person she tells everything to.

For both the twins, a special talent involving apples seemed completely natural. AppleJack's talent is applebucking, and when the apples are ripe and the buckets ready, she can clear a whole orchard's worth of apples in under a day. A common phrase around Sweet Apple Acres is "Big Mac grows them up, AJ knocks them down," in reference to their talents. Big Mac, who grows the apples, and AppleJack, who harvests them.

AppleJack got her scars during a fight with a Timber Wolf. Apple Bloom's cabin, which is located on the very edge of the farm near the Everfree forest, sometimes attracts critters and magical beings if she has a potion brewing. Sensing the magic, creatures will go to it, and one unlucky day Apple Bloom was stirring a cauldron outside when a Timber Wolf decided to make its move. AppleJack was luckily nearby, and got to it right as it was leaping for her sister. She fought with it until she was able to chase it back into the forest, but didn't come away unscathed. Twilight has since put a magic barrier around the farm to keep the creatures in the Everfree forest out.

AppleJack has a crush on Rarity, but is too shy to tell her for fear of rejection. She knows Rarity is often busy and traveling all over Equestria for fashion shows and boutique openings, and she's afraid that Rarity won't want to be tied down to a country pony like her. Maybe she'll work up the nerve someday- after all, if Big Mac can do it, so can she. Right?