Applejack said so herself in The Cutie Mark Chronicles that she knew right then just who she was supposed to be when she went home to her family to work in the orchard. I always sort of thought that the Mane Six all had cutie marks that represented a broad range of not just talents, but destinies too. Farming is more than how the Apple family makes a living, it's how they connect to each other and how they've built the bond they have, which is the real thing that makes them special to me.Īlternatively, apples, and I should go to bed instead of overanalyzing cartoons. Not that this isn't a normal reaction of course, and not to say that Applejack is a slave to her cutie mark in some way or that she does any of what she does because of it, but I consider the farming and the family aspects of her life to both be very important to who she is and I think both are important in looking at her cutie mark and talent. She's extremely good at being a big sister to Apple Bloom and a comforting presence to the people around her, and she has a history of getting very troubled and reacting very negatively (by Applejack standards) when something isn't right with her family members. To me, this seems to be as important to her identity and talent as the farming part. I think it also relates to keeping her family together and looking after them, since she didn't get her mark by doing anything specifically related to apples, but rather when she realized she belonged at home with her brother and granny. Bucking the apples, baking them into whatever form they need to be in, all that stuff. Applejack's talent is clearly connected to her running the apple farm.

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