FlutterDash

FlutterDash is the femslash ship between Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash from the My Little Pony fandom.

Season 1
Rainbow Dash assisted Fluttershy in the cliff as she was afraid of heights and forgot to jump. When confronting the Dragon, Fluttershy angrily confronts the dragon as the other five fought the dragon. The dragon was upset and said that rainbow Dash kicked him and cried. In the "Winter Wrap Up" episode, Fluttershy is worried for the animals as are just about to wake up from hibernation but Fluttershy was afraid that the snow will melt sooner and there will be a flood. In "The Sonic Rainboom" episode and "the Cutie Mark Chronicles", it appears that Rainbow Dash was coaching Fluttershy in cheering for the Best Young Flyer competition. This scene is a popular script used commonly in Tik Tok. In the past, Fluttershy was bullied by three colts and Rainbow Dash defended her in Cloudsdale. From that day on they befriended each other as Rainbow Dash accepted the challenge for a race and created a Sonic Rainboom. Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash was rescuing Rarity from a wing malfunction as she was falling and with great speed. Rainbow Dash catches her and Fluttershy cheers loudly, which means Rainbow Dash could hear her from afar. Fluttershy found her calling to with the animals of the land as she falls from the sky and saw the sonic Rainboom achieved by Rainbow Dash as they both received their cutie mark at the same time as she told her story to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. In the "Party at One" episode, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were seen flying together to avoid Pinkie Pie for her second party. They both made up a story about a bear named Harry who needs house-sitting in the big cave as Harry is 'Collecting seashells' and 'playing beach volleyball'. To make their story consistent, they both listened to each other and accidentally said 'collecting volleyball' and 'playing seashells'.

Season 2
In the "Return to Harmony 2", Fluttershy confronts the hypnotised Rainbow Dash to return as they were tested by Discord. Rainbow Dash refuses and flies away. Fluttershy catches her with a rope and the hot air balloon and brings her back on land. Twilight Sparkle reminded her that her Element of Harmony is Loyalty and turns back to normal. "May the Best Pet Win" with the same title as the song, Rainbow Dash was left out of the Mane Six as she did not have a pet in a hangout. Fluttershy was willing to help and introduces various animals from land, sea and air, including Tank the tortoise. at first Rainbow Dash underestimated Tank because she was looking for an animal that can fly like her with speed agility and guts. She challenged the flying animals to a race but Fluttershy on behalf of Tank suggested to allow Tank to participate.

"Secret of my Excess" Rainbow Dash hold Fluttershy as she was ready to rescue Spike and Rarity as they were about to fall into the river. They both held each side of a magenta cloth to catch them. In "Hearth's Warming Eve" Rainbow Dash played Commander Hurricane and Fluttershy played as Private Pansy as they were in Canterlot.

In "In Dragon Quest," episode, Fluttershy is afraid of Dragons and both Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle encouraged her to tag along. She was afraid and stubbornly refuses to leave her house. As she is stops at the door Rainbow Dash pushes her and makes the point that she went to the Butterfly migration with her and it was time that she came along. Fluttershy freaked out and accidentally pushes Rainbow Dash back in. Fluttershy stomps on her and gallops out the window.

In "Hurricane Fluttershy", Rainbow Dash assigns the pegasus at the Golden Oak Library to elevate water to Cloudsdale in order to produce clouds and make rain water. After the gathering, Fluttershy hides inside a tree and she was afraid of flying with everyone. She isolates herself at her home as Rainbow Dash asks her if she was joining the flight. She pretended to be ail but it did not fool Rainbow Dash as she pours a bucket of water on her and the make up faded. Then Rainbow Dash sympathises with her and asks her what was wrong. Fluttershy recalls the classmates in Flight School used to tease her. Soon Rainbow Dash felt dejected from her refusal as she was about to leave, however Fluttershy said she will join but regretted shortly after. As she tested her Wind Power, Fluttershy was the slowest and immediately felt discouraged. Angel comforted Fluttershy and she decides to train harder. Upon her testing her improved speed, she decided not to join and standby. The First attempt was a failure but Rainbow Dash encouraged all the Pegasus ponies to try again. As the total wind power of the hurricane could not reach the maximum, Twilight Sparkle told Fluttershy to jump in, holding a goggle with her magic. Fluttershy jumps into the hurricane and join the flight with the other ponies including Rainbow Dash. Her anxiety returned but she quickly overcame the thoughts and gave it all she has. When she could not stop, Rainbow Dash caught her with a cloud and embraced her and a wing Hi-Five. Spitfire of the Wonderbolts commends Rainbow Dash and Rainbow Dash calls Fluttershy her "Number One flyer".

In the "MMMsytery on the Friendship Express," Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were guilty of eating some of the cakes. "In a Canterlot Wedding", Fluttershy was surrounded by shape-shifting changeling Rainbow Dash. Later Rainbow Dash who was pretending to be the Changelings fought them all to save Fluttershy.

Season 3
In the "Crystal Empire 2," they both sparred as Rainbow Dash knocked Fluttershy out to the scene and secretly said that she will be more lenient to her, and yet has a reputation to keep. They fly with each other as Fluttershy is afraid of the stormy winds, she holds onto Rainbow Dash.

In the "Magic Duel" episode, the Mane Five were separated from Twilight Sparkle as Trixie Lulamoon sought revenge on Twilight as a former classmate, Fluttershy was seen disguised as Rainbow Dash. In "Spike at Your Service", Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy hides and helps fake a Timberwolf attack to trick Spike that Applejack needs her help.

In "Keep Calm and Flutter On", Rainbow Dash appears to be overprotective of Fluttershy in a mission to reform Discord. Rainbow Dash's concern for Fluttershy was tested until the point where Discord drove all the other friends away from a dinner gathering while he was using his Discord Magic. Rainbow Dash felt a rift from Fluttershy after her decision to dub him as a friend but finally realises that Fluttershy was successful in reforming Discord.

Season 9
Rainbow Dash in her catchup with Fluttershy found something unusual as Fluttershy showed a Daring Doo series to be discontinued. So Rainbow Dash instigated the problem and found out that Dr. Caballeron was behind A.K Yearling's false autobiography. When Fluttershy empathised with the Arch Nemesis, both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash was able to build bridges with Daring Doo, Dr. Caballeron and Ahuizotl. Rainbow Dash assists Fluttershy in flying in breaking in the Canterlot castle when Twilight Sparkle wanted to test with the Sibling Supreme Crown. In the last episode, Rainbow Dash catches Fluttershy when Cozy Glow attacked Fluttershy. After the defeat of the main antagonists, Rainbow Dash sits next to Fluttershy and proudly said, "The Beginning of an even more awesome era", while they ate donuts together.

Rainbow Rocks
Rainbow Dash founded her band named The Rainboom but insisted on singing her own song, "Awesome as I Wanna Be" which left Fluttershy unhappy as she had written her own song. Later, when the mane seven were trapped, they all quarrelled but later Sunset Shimmer help resolve the problem. When Fluttershy expressed that Rainbow Dash never sang her song, Rainbow Dash proudly suggested they used her song for the battle against The Dazzlings.

Rollercoaster of Friendship
Human Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy link arms as they split up at the new theme park in Equestria Land. They both were looking at the map of Rollercoaster as Rainbow Dash wanted to help Fluttershy conquer her fears. Eventually Rainbow Dash advanced Fluttershy to get on the tallest Rollercoaster and got scared herself as she screams for the ride to be stopped. At the end of the specials, Rainbow Dash helped Fluttershy open her eyes on a Ferris Wheel. This special was Rarijack, Flutterdash and Sciset centred as intended.

Holiday Unwrapped
Rainbow Dash arrived late at the Mall to meet her friends and suddenly realised that their hangout was about Secret Santa, which she forgot to give Fluttershy her present. She realised she didn't check her text messages for this upcoming event and quickly excused herself  to find a last minute shopping. As Rainbow Dash could not find a star that has a queue, she finds Zephyr Breeze working in a gift shop and lets her jump the queue. Rainbow Dash did not like Zephyr Breeze flirting with her, however she held back in her snide bantering with Zephyr as he is Fluttershy's little brother. Rainbow Dash mutters to herself, "No... you gotta be nice, only because you love Fluttershy!" Eventually she finds a perfect an pink bunny Instant Camera. When Rainbow Dash returned to the group with a messy wrapped present. When Fluttershy reveals that she has received an identical camera from Zephyr, Rainbow Dash was irritated with Zephyr Breeze. Fluttershy then revealed that she did need another camera for multi-angle shots. Fluttershy rejoiced to see the camera and hugged Rainbow Dash in return.

Pony Life
The first season of Pony Life was released in June 21, 2020. With the same voice actresses, Ashleigh Ball as Rainbow Dash and Andrea Libman as Fluttershy from G4, Flutterdash as a ship was hinted in the new series. With new characters, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy embarks on a new magical world of Equestria. Their closeness is often relatable in the G4 series and Rainbow Dash adores her cuteness and faints. They both joke a lot about the side effects of the magical potion. At times they are running together and laughing at the beach together.

There is a standalone episode named after the ship, 'Flutterdash' as the episode. As this series is a successor of G4, it centres at a sporting event.

Fanon
Flutterdash is a common pairing that is ship in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Pony Life. Flutterdash is a compelling pairing with the softly spoken shy, Fluttershy and the active and bold Rainbow Dash training Fluttershy to be more assertive. At times Fluttershy would assist Rainbow Dash with animals and flying and they hangout most of the time. Rarijack and Flutterdash is often paired hand in hand.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Fluttershy/Raindow Dash tag on FanFiction.net