If there's one thing I know about this family, it's that any gays who watch this show just love Pear Butter and Bright Mac. I think I heard a bunch of covers of their songs throughout the years.
Also, never have I ever seen a horse more butch coded than Applejack, good gods!
On an artistic note, I hated drawing Granny Smith. I am still figuring out how to play with body proportions to achieve different horse body types, and old people were already hard for me to do as humans. Old horses are nightmarish to draw! I had to basically copy the canon design of Granny Smith and just... gave it texture, I guess.
I am never drawing an elderly character from this show ever again.
Time to give the Apple siblings (Applejack, Big Mac, and Apple Bloom) another Sibling
Apple Butter, named after his mother, is a sweet stallion with a penchant for cooking up apple-based treats! Don’t let his shy demeanor fool you- he’s a headstrong chef with a lot of bright ideas.
all of ponyville's resident apple family! complete with not-so-alive parents 😅
tell me what y'all think! commissions are open!
more headcanons about them under the cut!
Buttercup (bn: Pear Butter): a hardworking mare, Buttercup is an amazing cook and would often help out her father to make the pear based products in his stand. Loved to feel elegant, she had a ribbon collection that later got passed dow to her daughters. Used to be Pear's best tree kicker before getting married into the Apples.
Bright Mac: an artistic man at heart, Bright spent as much time as possible woodworking, making everything his family needed and anything townsfolk paid him to. His favorite part of the projects was decorating, carving gorgeous patterns in each one of his works. Orchard gets her good math skills from him.
Orchard Blossom (bn: Orchard Sprout): A quiet and reserved mare, Blossom is the farm's heavy-duty worker. on and of the job, one can her her singing away to herself, carefree. It's especially impressive when you hear her sustain notes while pulling multiple trees at once. Her harness was a gift from her father, ment to be used when she reached adulthood. Bright changed the design as she changed from Sprout to Blossom
Apple Bloom: the family's youngest, has little memories of her parents. Studying potion-making with Zecora and sometimes alchemy with Princess Twilight, her love for helping others inspired her to learn more about folk magic. Her cutie mark is her own original potion, a lotion cracked skin that has invigorating effects, a recipeshe created for her sisters. She still believes her freckles are marks from when her parents kissed her.
Granny Smith: Apple family's matriarch, her contributions to Ponyville's early development made her get elected as the city's mayor twice! she never actually ran for it tho. Used to deny back then but Buttercup's recipes were big inspirations for her own apple related products. She always regretted taking Buttercup for granted like she used to.
For anyone who isn't aware, earth ponies in my au are all based off real horse breeds. I would have loved to have made Granny green like the apple, but I still gave her very heavy green tones so I hope that makes up for it. I wanted her to be consistent with the rest.
I'll probably hold off on doing GrandPear for a while. Honestly, I probably wont change much other than slightly adjusting his color palette, he's already super cute. I'll also probably get rid of his bandana and do something else since it will be too similar to Granny's.
I ALSO WANT TO DO BABS SEED SHE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILLIES!!