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AB ain’t adopted boi!

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this proves apple bloom is adopted and so is applejack and big macintosh|| because pear butter’s in way too good a shape to have had *three kids!*||
 
there aren’t even any bags under her eyes!
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It’s pretty clear that the Granny Smith of Cutie Mark Chronicles would have been using the young granny smith model of Gone To Seed, if it had existed back then. The one from Family Appreciation Day (with the braids) was a young adult closer to AJ’s current age.
 
Granny has gone through a lot of hairstyles.
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Granny smith said that AppleJack tried catching the great seedling when she was Apple bloom’s age but applejack’s said she was even a littler than the cmc when she got her cutie mark.  
But like I said before if this is a continuity error it’s not on the writer’s part
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“applebloom being in the flashback was completely irrelevant to the story. same thing with appleJack being a blank flank.”
 
Is it? People have complained when Applebloom or the parents weren’t in flashbacks. Now we have a better timeline context. And their presence makes perfect sense given that Applejack was younger than Applebloom when she got her cutiemark therefore the age difference between the two isn’t as great as fans made it out to be. And the parents couldn’t have passed on in the recent past or Applebloom wouldn’t be this old.
 
@Chopsticks  
“5-year-old pony is going to have a similar body structure to a pony 13-years-old or so, maybe even 14 or 15”
 
^ Except we’ve seen Sweetie Belle when she was exactly 5 years old.
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that they were away travelling or on holiday or something.
 
I believe that’s exactly what jim miller said.  
honestly if this is a continuity error it’s on the animators part as applebloom being in the flashback was completely irrelevant to the story. same thing with appleJack being a blank flank
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@Chopsticks
 
Most likely the weird inconsistencies are just oversights. I doubt either way the writers intended her to be an adopted child or anything like the conspiracy theorists say, the writers probably just forgot about her age and these other details and how future revelations of their family dynamics would affect that. So the complicated explanations like this probably are digging deeper than really necessary for minor plot holes.
 
Obviously though like I said, the designs of the parents make perfect sense for Apple Bloom existing and I think that was very clearly intentional. We’ve seen canon parents to different ponies and sometimes they actually look wildly different, with different designs and different color schemes from what the kids actually have. The fact that their dad here has both a similar hair style and the same color scheme as Apple Bloom is very clearly sending a message about her origin and why she looks different from the other apple horses.
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So one possibility people don’t think about is that Apple Bloom is simply older than Diamond Tiara.
 
Ponyville has a one-room school. Back in the day, 100 years ago and on back, most schools were like this. You had 1st or 2nd graders sitting next to 10th and 11th graders about, or even older. In fact, this stringent thing of having students interact only with kids within 1 year of their age in grades is an extremely new and modernized idea.
 
And we know the current CMC are pretty much preteens if not young teens by now, but they’re hardly noticeably different from young kids. [Forever Filly] (That’s going to be due to the animation) so your 5-year-old pony is going to have a similar body structure to a pony 13-years-old or so, maybe even 14 or 15.
 
Obviously Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, and company don’t have an age gap too far off from Apple Bloom, but its entirely reasonable to have Apple Bloom (and maybe the other CMCs) be as much as 1.5 or 2 years older.
 
 
  1. Bloom is born, Big Mac has cutie mark, AJ hunts for the Great Seedling
     
  2. AJ gets her cutie mark, could’ve been same month
     
  3. 13 months later or so, Spoiled Milk and Filthy Rich interact with young teen AJ and Big Mac
     
  4. Diamond Tiara is born, 14-18 months after Apple Bloom. (It’s not hard to imagine the Riches getting married with Diamond already on the way either).
     
 
This would a reasonable point in which, despite Apple Bloom’s age, she doesn’t have her cutie mark when Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon get theirs, ant it feels like Apple Bloom is waiting an eternity for hers to come.
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to everyone talking about “Where the apple lies” and with apple bloom, diamond tiara and the apple parents stuff  
I did not even for a moment think “Oh the apple parents are dead by this point then” when they weren’t in that episode, I actually assumed, from the lack of apple bloom, that they were away travelling or on holiday or something.  
And also, again from the lack of apple bloom, that they were likely in the process of making apple bloom at that point lol  
Am I alone in this? XD
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I never heard the theory that Apple Bloom was adopted. But I’ve heard from dozens of people reasoning that Apple Bloom is the daughter between AJ and Big Mac. That’s obviously a very poor excuse of a fan theory, but this scene showed that Apple Bloom was born when AJ didn’t even get her cutie mark yet.
 
That theory certainly gained some credence with the Where The Apple Lies flashback. I’m still taking the flashback in Going To Seed with a grain of salt. If Apple Bloom was born before AJ got her cutie mark and before Granny Smith aged, and if Diamond Tiara was not even born yet by the events of Where The Apple Lies, Apple Bloom should be a fully grown adult now. The only thing I can think of to justify this is simply that Granny Smith doesn’t remember it correctly. The only other plausible explanation is that baby Apple Bloom was a time traveler!
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I never heard the theory that Apple Bloom was adopted. But I’ve heard from dozens of people reasoning that Apple Bloom is the daughter between AJ and Big Mac. That’s obviously a very poor excuse of a fan theory, but this scene showed that Apple Bloom was born when AJ didn’t even get her cutie mark yet.