You know, "Best Friends." · 12:55am Dec 10th, 2018
Courtesy of Star Trek Minus Context on Twitter.
Though, to incidentally tie this into pone show, I suppose I can say it's MLP that's helped me understand the shipping mindset, especially since I've written oodles and oodles of Rarijack now. Though watching Avatar (the kung fu elemental cartoon, not James Cameron's "Dances With Nightcrawlers") probably laid the foundation for it. Maybe?
But again, I'm one of those terrible people who looks for actual foundations for shipping silliness ... or at least a pair of characters that would be entirely too entertaining to mash together. So, to use Harry Potter as an example (since the internet is like three percent HP fandom at this point, to use a conservative estimate) Hermoine/Draco? Nah. "I hate you please die" is not the foundation for a proper relationship-- there's a line between playful screwball bickering and "no seriously I am going to murder you because my dad is a fascist."
Draco sucks. Like, a lot. But that's a different matter altogether.
Buuuuut, something like, I dunno, Neville/Luna? As the two of them have Die-Hard-In-Hogwarts adventures in the 7th book while Harry's off living the hobo life in a tent? THERE'S something interesting. Or ... something, I dunno.
Anyway, I'm just in a vaguely loopy mood, so enjoy the silly thing.
Something an old girlfriend once told me pretty much supports canon Rarijack. We were at a gathering and she pointed out the behavior of two people who were publicly and officially not together. One was picking bits of something off the other's shirt, then adjusting the collar.
"They're totally together!" my friend told me. "People just don't do that sort of thing unless they're intimate." And it turned out she was right.
Now, go back and count the number of times Rarity "tidied up" Applejack when she had gotten messy doing something. Hint: several times... and she only does it to AJ.
So there.
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I think you might just have your shipping goggles on there. The very first time we meet Rarity is when she gives Twilight a makeover. So no, she doesn't just do it to Applejack.