Earth Pony Jonagold

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Name: Jonagold

Gender: Male

Age: Colt (but an early bloomer, could pass as a very young stallion, even though he won't officially be one for a few years)

Species: Earth Pony

Pelt Color: White

Mane/Tail Color & Style: long-ish usually messy golden yellow with deep pink streaks, like the apple. While his mane and tail are longer and much prettier when they are actually brushed than a lot of the other colts his age, you would NEVER mistake him for a filly.

Eye Color: pale pink

Cutie Mark: An apple tree with aqua leaves and an ocher-colored trunk with several pink apples matching the streak in his mane on it.

Physique: Huge for his age, but sleek, strong and fast.

Residence: Appleloosa

Occupation:helps out on the family farm, goes to school. Freelance pegasus (in his dreams).

Motivation: The child of two apple-loving farm ponies, Jonagold just naturally grew up knowing his talent would have to do with apples. He was the first in this class to get his cutie mark, a near perfect blend of his mother' simple pink apple (Hidden Rose*) and father's bare apple tree (Jonathan**). But now that Appleoosa's growing and he's experienced new things (and since his sister Gala has almost the same EXACT cutie mark), he's wondering if maybe he got his cutie mark TOO soon.

Likes:Apples (duh), adventures, taking dares, exploring the desert, apples, flying contraptions, oh, and apples

Dislikes:When his somewhat ditsy sister Gala's being annoying, especially when she tries to tag along on his adventures, people who make fun of farm ponies, making new friends to go on adventures with, Pegasus Ponies (He is SO jealous of their wings), stallion-age ponies showing his sister attention that is inappropriate.

Character Summary:

Hidden Rose, the shy and awkward mare, and Jonathan, the brash, friendly "most-eligible-stallion-in-town"; youngest in a family of too many to list here, would have been considered the least likely of matches when they met as mere foals attending the pony equivalent of daycare. However, as they grew up and went to school together they discovered that they had so much in common that they even had similar cutie marks! Eventually they got married and took over Hidden Rose's parents' farm (Jonathan's parents' farm was already in good hands).

Some seasons, apple-bakes and happy years later, they were blessed with the two prettiest twin foals you'd ever wanna see. They named them Jonagold and Gala. Jonagold was grew into a sturdy little colt, dashingly handsome, while his sister a delicate and fawn-like beauty. Everypony in Appleloosa fears for their young daughters for the day a few years from now when he reaches Stallionhood, but for now he is far more interested in fun than fillies (although if he ever met Applejack, even though she is WAY too old for him, he might be a mite smitten.)

Fearless, he and his earth pony friends would "play pegasus" by jumping off the nearby cliffs into a shallow river, or sneak into the Saddleveil Plains to secretly spy on on Chief Thunderhoof's herd in the dead of night. A few times they even ventured in search of the ghost town rumored to be in the Painted Pinto desert, but much to his chagrin he and his friends never found it. An active colt, and the leader of his little band of friends, there's been no ridge that he hasn't climbed nearby Appleloosa (but shhhh! Don't tell his parents)

The brash and hot-headed colt is never one to not take a dare, and it gets him into trouble at school all the time. It was during one of the numerous times where he was suspended from school for some kind of mischief or another (nobody remembers exactly which), his parents tried to punish him by giving him applebuck chores for the very first time.

At first he rebelled, like any kid asked to do chores would, but feeling the sun on his back, smelling the sweet apples, and hearing the hum of the various bees and yellowjackets enjoying the windfalls was increasingly pleasant to him. He was big enough that a hefty kick brought down all the ripe ones, but spared the ones that were not quite ready yet. Now this was a surprising departure from the clumsy baby-colt attempts that he'd tried a few seasons back, and he LIKED it. Somehow he just naturally knew just where to place his kick to minimize waste. As he got into the steady and fulfilling rhythm of clearing an acre and a half's worth of apples, he didn't notice that it had gotten dark. Sad that the work was through, he plodded back to the farmhouse where his mother had baked him his favorite: a nice apple cobbler (after all, apple deserts baked with love were his mother's special talent). Now if Jonagold liked anything as much as his newfound favorite past time of applebucking, it was probably eating apple deserts. As he dug in, he thought to himself "Gee, there's nothing better than being an apple farm pony, even being a pegasus can't be this good!". At that moment his cutie mark appeared on his flank. And then of course his stupid sister had to go ruin the whole thing and get nearly the same exact mark a few months later, because she didn't have enough of her own personality to find her own talents, she had to do EVERYTHING Jonagold did.

After he got his cutie mark it was settled, Jonagold would help his dad and eventually his sister with the applebuck chores every season. They divided responsibility for the the acreage evenly, but Jonagold was always done first, and then would help his sister out for a row or two. After his chores were done, though, he was free to go off adventuring. Now, he was completely satisfied while he was doing his farm work, but sometimes the second he stepped off the property he felt a little discontent. Whenever he felt like this he'd head straight for the Painted Pinto Desert and try to sort himself out by running in the soft sand. It was during one of these little huffs that he met his current best friend, Galaxy***, a pink unicorn about a year older than him with a penchant for adventure and inventing what he considers spy gear, who lives on the edge of the desert. Together they make trouble for themselves to get into; and succeed quite well for a sleepy little town such as Appleloosa.

*(Note: yes, I know Golden Delicious would be more appropriate)

** Apple cultivar. Not the boy's name.

*** Hopefully WILL be a RP character.

Other notes: based on G1 Characters. These poor ponies were never released with real names, just the "Apple Delight" family. Originally, I had called the dad Jonagold and the son Braeburn (scroll down), but the names had to switch up a bit for obvious reasons.

The symbol will be a simplified version of this:

I do not plan of making RP characters for the rest of the family, and will not be annoyed if anyone else does.

Working on FiM art of them.

[flutterscotch]

Jonagold is ready to play with the other ponies!

Edit: also, I apologize if there are random "L"s missing. There's something wrong with my keyboard.

[Skye]

I think this looks pretty good. Approved. ^_^

[flutterscotch]

I think this looks pretty good. Approved.

You say that now, but you'd better be hopin' that he don't catch Handlebar Hank in the crops. He may be a little feller, but he has ways of dealin' with no-account apple rustlers.