RariJack

RariJack is the femslash ship between Rarity and Applejack from the My Little Pony fandom.

Season 1
Their rivalry relationship is first shown in the episode, "Look Before You Sleep." Twilight invited them to a sleepover because of a huge storm outside and neither of them were close to their homes. They argued right off the bat about things like dirty hooves, girly stuff, etc. because their personalities contrast. AJ is a farmer while Rarity is a fashionista. While it's getting late, Twilight suggests them to got to bed and since at that time her house was small, these two had to share a bed. At the end of the episode, they finally tolerated each other but still kept their attitudes towards another.

Season 2
In "Sisterhooves Social", Rarity is having a difficult time connecting with her sister, so she asks Applejack for advice. AJ suggests to see her and Sweetie Belle's relationship as an "apple pie". Rarity immediately understands her analogy and begs Applejack to help in her plan to get her sister back.

Season 3
In "Magic Duel", a returning character named Trixie comes back to Ponyville and challenges Twilight to a magic duel. One of the acts is to conjure an ugly dress onto Rarity. Applejack instantly rescues and comforts her.

Season 4
Rarity is later shown obsessing over a celebrity pony named Trenderhoof in the episode, "Simple Ways", but he has interests in Applejack. Rarity tries hard to impress him by even becoming a farmer herself. Applejack sees the wrong in this, so she turns herself into a fashionista like Rarirty to prove a point to her— that she should never change herself for somebody else. Rarity understands this after she gets jealous and Applejack explains herself to her.

In "Trade Ya!", the group separates into three and Rarity decides to go with Applejack. They soon find themselves arguing over what items they should trade their stuff with. Rarity then decides to be "the better friend" and tells Applejack to trade their stuff for what she likes and AJ is shown arguing back the same thing. Finally, Applejack trades half of her stuff when she decides to get Rarity the vintage brooch she had always wanted.

Season 5
In "Made in Manehattan", Rarity and Applejack are on a mission after being called by the Friendship Map to solve a friendship problem in Manehattan. To find the problem, Rarity sets up a booth to attract ponies with “friendship problems”. The booth has a drawing of Rarity and Applejack with a heart between them. Later, they are trying to help Coco Pommel build her play, but time is running out and they haven't managed to figure out a plan yet. Rarity freaks out and falls down only to have Applejack catch her. She calms her down and says there is nothing they can't handle. At last, they solve the problem and the two hug.

Season 7
In" Not Asking for Trouble", the Mane Six went to help the Yaks clear up the snow at night. During helping, Applejack got covered in snow; Rarity lifting the pile of snow off her with her magic.

Rainbow Rocks
With Rarity's creative flair of fashion, she often enthuse about looking fabulous in The Rainbooms. During their battle, singing 'Shake Your Tail,'  she was a disco outfit with metal. When other bands wanted to jeopardised their performance, Photo Finish jeopardised Rarity by dangling magnets from the backstage balcony. In the end it ripped her sleeves into pieces and Rarity lamented. Applejack confronted Rarity to concentrate on the music and not fashion. When they were having a quarrel beneath the stage, Rarity was upset that Applejack said that her fashion was not needed but in the end they resolved their differences and Applejack allowed her to bring her costumes to the final battle.

Rollercoaster of Friendship
This episode is RariJack centred as both girls applied for the role as 'caramel apple girls' at the fair. However the circumstances were outweighed as Rarity was promoted to costume design and Applejack did not get the position at all. Rarity then invited her friends though her phone call with Applejack to be part of the fair. After Rarity met Vignette Valencia, she was inspired to do her best and for the fair while calling her, her 'best friend at the park'. This made Applejack jealous of Rarity and resent Vignette. When Vignette cockily met the girls and trying to change the Rainboom style though a trivial collaboration. Rarity was reluctant to introduce Applejack. Rarity was stressed during her preparation for the night while Applejack was finding Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash as she was worried about them. After Applejack found out Vignette sent them to another realm, she tried to warn Rarity but Rarity was occupied with her task, she did not pay attention. This resulted in a quarrel and the two part ways until Vignette trapped all of the other girls in the white room. Rarity then realised that Applejack was right and tried to reconcile with her. Sci-Twilight then hacked into Applejack's line and they eventually found their friends in an empty white room as Vignette is delusional about her vision. The girls all then stopped Vignette in time and Rarity and Applejack showed each other appreciation while finalising the costumes.

Legend of Everfree
When Rarity is rock climbing, Applejack is the one holding the rope. A small "earthquake" occurs and Rarity slips, making her want to go down. Applejack was trying to get her down but the harness was stuck. Out of nowhere Applejack gets a boost of strength which makes Rarity almost fall to the ground, luckily Applejack grabs the rope in time. Rarity gets upset with Applejack, Applejack insisted on helping Rarity get off the harness but Rarity shouted at Applejack making some sort of Diamond shield pushing Applejack into a lake. Rarity then apologizes to Applejack. At Rarity's Camp Fashion show Applejack seems satisfied with her outfit, which Rarity notices and says "Told you you'd like it" Applejack responds by saying the outfit is alright, later asking if she could keep the outfit. When the 5 friends were trying to defeat Gloriosa, Applejack almost gets trapped, but Rarity runs to Applejack creating a diamond shield. Gloriosa's magic was getting worse, so Applejack called to Rarity suggesting Rarity to make a shield for the Mane 6. Rarity gets exhausted from trying to keep the shield up, collapsing onto Applejack. In the song 'Legend You Are Meant To Be' Rarity and Applejack hold hands.

Fanon
Rarijack is a common ship in the MLP community because of how their personalities clash with each other, and even so they are attract to each other with an opposite chemistry. Rarity is shown to often make some flirty gestures with Applejack but she does this with just about everypony. They also have the some of the most episodes centered around them. Lauren Faust herself stated that the episodes focused around these two are very enjoyable to write. Rarijack is rivaled by other Applejack and Rarity related ships, but mostly AppleDash and RariDash. This has caused many fans to put Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash in a love triangle with each other. It is often that FlutterDash and Rarijack are paired closely together and Equestria Girls often back up this formation.

Fandom
FAN FICTION


 * Rarity/Applejack on FanFiction.net
 * Applejack/Rarity on FimFiction.Net
 * Applejack (EG)/Rarity (EG) on FimFiction.Net
 * Applejack/Rarity tag on AO3

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Trivia

 * On Twitter, Katrina Hadley (One of the directors of Rollercoaster of Friendship) stated, "We thought their conflict felt a little like a lovers quarrel rather than a friend fight as written. So we played it that way, but rode the line so the viewer could interpret it as either a relationship. But internally, yeah, we were Rarijack shipping"
 * In Accountabilibuddies, 'Rainbow Dash ending' Applejack has a crush on Dirk Thistleweed who looks like Rarity.
 * In Spring Breakdown, Rarity had a crush on Ragamuffin, who looks like Applejack