Apple Bloom

Apple Bloom is a school-age Earth pony who is the younger sister of Big Macintosh and Applejack, and part of the Apple family. She is the youngest member of the clan and lives at Sweet Apple Acres, a trademark apple farm of Ponyville, and the only known apple farm in Ponyville, besides Flim and Flam's farm, which only stays in Ponyville for one episode. She has a supporting role in a few episodes, and is part of the Cutie Mark Crusaders along with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle.

Development and design
Apple Bloom's design was first designed in Lauren Faust's "pitch bible" for the show, and named as Appleseed, but the name ran into copyright issues and was changed. She shares her color scheme with several previous generation ponies, such as Sun Shimmer, Sunburst and Fiesta Flair.

Depiction in the series
Apple Bloom first is introduced in the first episode, where she is seen balancing an apple cake when Applejack introduces her to Twilight Sparkle. She is later seen for a brief moment huddling with the other Cutie Mark Crusaders when Nightmare Moon returns. She makes her first prominent appearance in Bridle Gossip, where she huddles with the other ponies in [[Sugarcube Corner, hiding from Zecora, an alleged evil enchantress, who is revealed to really be a kind zebra who makes potions to heal others. Despite her independence, she is very close to her sister Applejack and enjoys helping with the farm chores and playing the games with her at the Sisterhooves Social. Apple Bloom is part of a group of three ponies (including her) called the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Like the others in the group, she is a "blank flank" and is focused on getting her cutie mark. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo are her friends, also the other two members of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and "blank flanks" themselves, too. They have a montage of their various ill-conceived attempts at getting their cutie marks in The Show Stoppers, even managing to demolish their own stage and scenery during the show after. Apple Bloom starts her enthusiastic pursuit of a cutie mark in Call of the Cutie, and continues it in various other episodes centered on the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Apple Bloom and some of her friends are derisively called "blank flanks" by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, who invite them to their "cute-ceñeara"