Rainbow Dash

Rainbow Dash is one of the "Mane 6". She is a friend of Twilight Sparkle and major character in MLP:FiM.

She is also the bearer of the Element of Loyalty (one of the Elements of Harmony).

Personality
She is fast, blunt, and concerned with looking "cool." She can often be found napping on a cloud, practicing a new trick, or actually doing her job of maintaining Ponyville's weather.

Use in fan works
Common themes for Rainbow Dash include:


 * Her ties to the Wonderbolts, who she almost always ends up joining in stories set in the future.
 * Working with Scootaloo on flying or avoiding the small pegasus's obsessive adoration.
 * Injuring herself badly after failing a new trick (these stories were "banned" from Equestria Daily after the events of S2E03 - Lesson Zero).
 * Being shipped with everypony and everything, up to and including the very concept of shipping itself.

Relationships
She is most commonly shipped with Applejack; this shipping is called "AppleDash". She is also commonly shipped with Pinkie Pie (RainbowPie), and Big Macintosh.

A less common shipping, though prevalent nonetheless, is the "FlutterDash" ship, which is Rainbow Dash shipped with Fluttershy. She is sometimes paired with a Wonderbolt, most commonly Soarin' or Spitfire. There is also a deviantArt group dedicated to the pairing of Twilight and Rainbow Dash.

The prevalence of lesbian pairings with Rainbow Dash, and the prevalence of the widely-accepted fanon "understanding" that she is a lesbian in general, has resulted in at least one parody of the concept, Five's Company.

Gallery

 * Rainbow Dash image gallery

Fan music examples


Fan fiction examples
