Applejack

The Element of Honesty and a young adult earth pony from Ponyville. Shes almost never seen without her hat or her golden barrette which bares the cutie marks of her closest friends, lives at Sweet Apple Acres running the farm with her Grandmother "Granny" Smith, older brother Big Macintosh, and younger sister Apple Bloom. A hardworking pony known around Ponyville for her apple goods and for her willingness to help just about anypony with work, shes better known around Equestria for her roles in the conflicts with Nightmare Moon and Discord. Recently she started a relationship with a longtime friend, sometimes nemesis, Rarity.

History

Applejack was born and grew up on the farm, learning hard work and honesty from her family, her parents dying in an unexpected snowstorm from the everfree forest shortly after Apple Bloom's birth. That spring she decided to go to Manehatten to live with her Aunt and Uncle Orange and try to fit into the sophisticated city life, only figuring out once there the feeling of loss was made worse with her feeling of being homesick. After an ear shattering boom and a rainbow pointing home she decided to do just that, and returned to the farm, finding her calling and her cutie mark. life became fairly routine, raising her sister, keeping the farm going and occasionally helping the ponies of ponyville when they needed a hand, until the day the unicorn Twilight Sparkle came to town, heralding the start of the Night Mare moon episode, leading her to discover her role as an element of harmony and making life much more interesting. Although she has been shrunk, fought off parasprites and dragons, and even faced Discord she attempts to remain a simple pony on a simple farm, a task seemingly impossible nowadays.
More recently Applejack was the subject of an attempted scam by a unicorn by the name of Arctic who used her magic to trap Applejack in an illusion that she could hear her mother calling out to her for help, leading Applejack deep into the everfree forest, and saw Macintosh arrested on suspicion of burglary. thankfully a brave handful of ponies, including her Sister and her friends, managed to get her out of the forest and helped reestablish control of the farm before the devious unicorns plans could play out. Following the rescue of her farm from two con artists, Applejack and Rarity had most of their personalities swapped after an argument where Rarity felt Applejack needed to go to the gala and was pushing her rather hard despite her constant refusal. When Applejack commented she didn't want to go and hear the blue blooded ponies using her for entertainment because of her farm life and accent Rarity decided to cast a spell on Applejack, only applejack fought back causing the spell to misfire. Applejack became a prim and proper mare, with a bit of a flare and eye for decorations and fine tastes, with a southern belle accent. while Rarity became much more tomboy and rough and tumble, picking up Applejack's old accent. It was a short swap lasting only a few days but in that time they learned a great deal about themselves and each other, and it may have been the spark that lead to their latest adventure, into a relationship.