My favorite characters from most appealing to least appealing are:
Applejack > Rainbow Dash > Spike > Rarity > Fluttershy > Pinkie Pie > Twilight Sparkle
Applejack all the way. There's just something about a beautiful southern belle that gets me. Plus, that southern accent is delicious!
I have to agree wholeheartedly with Sky Striker about Applejack! On top of her cute accent and southern belle ways, if you can believe the latest
Pony MBTI Chart that was referenced in the
Myers-Briggs personality type thread that was on this forum, Applejack is an ESTJ personality type, which is a pretty good match in relationships for my own personality type, INTP. Taking that into account along with
my love of women with accents and it is no wonder that I adore her!
I picked Rainbow Dash as my #2 pony because she's just so much darn fun! When I was only about 4 or 5 episodes into watching this show, for whatever reason I couldn't stand Rainbow Dash. However, the more episodes that I have watched from this show the more that she has really grown on me, almost to the point of displacing Applejack as my favorite. Considering the fact that I am way outside of this show's targeted demographic, MLP:FiM can on occasion start to get a little slow or a little too overly cutesy for me at times, however an appearance by Rainbow Dash almost guarantees that an episode is going to head right up my alley again! She is the closest thing that this show has to an action hero, and I love her for it! While I am not even close to being "bronyified" enough yet to be brave enough to ever sport any MLP:FiM merchandise, I do have to say that the
Rainbow Dash "20% Cooler" t-shirt has caught my eye, and has been bookmarked on my computer should I ever become courageous enough to ever dare to buy and wear such a thing!
I threw Spike into the list because I can really relate to him and his crush on Rarity. It's nice to have a character that you can kind of connect with as say, "Yeah, I've been there." Back when I was in high school many years ago I used to chase after the pretty cheerleaders and pom-pom squad girls despite the fact that I was a nerd in the school's Science club. As you can proably guess, they all treated me like how Rarity treats Spike or worse, so I know what it is like to be in Spike's position and be ignored and used by girls like that. Poor Spike-- I hope that he comes across some new character that actually appreciates him to pull his mind off of the rather unappreciative Rarity.
My least favorite pony is Twilight Sparkle, probably because personality-wise she is so close to myself. On the above-mentioned Pony MBTI Chart she is an INTP just like myself, and when I took the "Which My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Pony Are You?" quiz that Deval linked to above I also came out as Twilight Sparkle (what a surprise). If you subscribe to the general idea that opposites attract, with Twilight being so much like me it is no wonder that she tends to be somewhat abrasive to me. Unfortunately, that also means that I get rubbed the wrong way by her a lot since she is essentially the central character, but what can you do. Luckily the show is well-written and addictive enough to keep me hooked!
Being one of the bigger computer enthusiasts here at Furtopia, now I am mulling over whether or not I want to change the hostnames of two of my computers on my network from their original names to "Rainbow Dash" and "Applejack"!
In fact, I have a Vintage Computer Fair that I am setting up an exhibit at at the end of the week, and I have to admit that it would be really cool for me to bring an SGI Indy there and name it "Rainbow Dash!" In fact, it would probably be 20% cooler-- Rainbow Dash and
SGI Indys are about the same color and everything!
I suppose that along those same lines I could also name some kind of Apple computer "Applejack," but I don't own any of Apple's machines.
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