As I sat brainstorming this blog, it made me realize something: My husband is to blame for most of my obsessions.
He's the one who bought me my first My Little Pony comic book, and put Friendship is Magic and the Micro-Series on our pull list at the comic store.
He encouraged me! I blame him. Due to his loving support, I am not pretty fixated on Rainbow Dash, the pony in charge of the element of loyalty.
Rainbow Dash is awesome, and cool, and radical. She's a Pegasus pony, who lives in a cloud above Ponyville (formerly Cloudsdale), with a rainbow mane/tail and the power to manipulate weather, create storms and fierce winds, followed by lovely rainbows. RD is a little cocky and over-confident, but it often comes across as lazy. One of the first episodes I watched, re-runs are amazing, opened up with her languishing on a cloud doing nothing, apparently shirking her duties as a weather manipulator, and just hanging about. When Twilight Sparkles accuses her of being too lazy to work, RD proves that isn't the case. In ten-seconds flat, she has the skies clear and her job is done! Her speed and agility as a flier gets her called "a champion flier" on more than one occassion, and helps feed her desire to become a Wonderbolt, a member of the elite group of weather control ponies.
RD is also a smidgen rude. She belittles Fluttershy, one of the more shy and introverted ponies, for being too cowardly and soft-spoken. She never apologizes to her friend for her hurtful words, but she also defends her against others, which ultimately caused her to be the first in her class to earn her Cutie Mark, a rainbow and lightning bolt combination! She's brash and loud, and likes being fast and winning. In a way, it's almost her own obsession.
Aside from the awesomeness that is RD, she also has a pet! In "May the Best Pet Win" Fluttershy offers her all sorts of pets, ranging from tiny ground animals to a very proud and haughty hawk. RD was unable to decide which was worthy of her, so she set up a set of challenges. The challenges were based on style, agility, speed and other such important qualities. She was determined to get a pet that could keep up with her, so she automatically focused more on the birds and flying animals. The entire day, she tries to get a little turtle to just give up because he was to slow and wasn't radical at all. He doesn't, and she is forced to endure the aggravation all day. The final challenge is a race, and the hawk wins! But RD is trapped in the canyon, her wing caught under a fallen rock, and no one stopped to help her, all being too focused on winning the game. The turtle is slow enough that he was way behind the pack, and he stopped to lend a... hand? Paw? Err... Anyways. When RD crosses the finish line on his back, she apologizes to him for her rude behavior. Then she announces that Tank was the only one to cross the finish line with her, which is what she requested. She chose the turtle, and named him Tank. Tank had a little magic-propelled router on his back and aviator glasses to keep up with his new friend.
I love Rainbow Dash. I love her attitude and her arrogance and her intense loyalty to her friends. I adore her sense of fun and adventure. She's very mischievious, always playing pranks on everypony, often needing someone to step in and remind her it isn't as fun as she thinks it is. She's nicknamed Rainbow Crash by Spike the dragon, and is very competitive.
She allowed Rarity to make her over, even though she frowned and sulked the whole time. She has a huge love of books, something she hid as "egg-heads like you Twilight Sparkle" are the only ones who read books. She's often seen with a Daring Do novel throughout the series, both television and comic. I love reading, so it makes me very happy that there is a pony that has a great love of books as well, and it certainly helped her become my favorite pony!
Stand by for my future tattoo design, Rainbow Dash dressed up as Batman, courtesy of my husband!
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