Family and relatives

This article details the known family and relatives of characters in the show.

Applejack

 * Applejack_and_the_Oranges_-_s1e23.png and Aunt Orange. ]]Main article: Apple family
 * See also Apple Bloom, Big Macintosh, Granny Smith

Outside of the Apple family, Applejack has relatives in Manehattan, the Orange couple. The Oranges are high-society ponies who try to introduce Applejack to their friends in a flashback in The Cutie Mark Chronicles. She also has relatives in Appleloosa, at least one of whom, Braeburn, is her cousin.

Pinkie Pie


According to Pinkie Pie's recollection in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, she was raised on a rock farm with her two sisters and parents. They rarely spoke and never smiled. They spent each day harvesting rocks, until Pinkie threw their first party. Pinkie Pie's family resembles the Amish.

In Pinkie Pie's Laughter Song, she mentions having been taught by "Granny Pie" to laugh at things that scare you.

Celestia and Luna
Outside of Rarity's fantasy about the Grand Galloping Gala, nothing is mentioned about the royal family. The show's creator stated Celestia has no parents who outrank her, and that her "nephew" the "prince" is more appropriately a duke, and only very distantly related to her.

Rarity
During Stare Master, it's revealed that Sweetie Belle is the younger sister of Rarity. Neither their parents nor any other relatives have been shown to date.

Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle's parents are briefly seen in a flashback in The Cutie Mark Chronicles. They enroll her to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns much to her delight, and they accompany her at her entrance exam. When Twilight's powers go out of control, they are briefly transformed into an agave and a cactus.

Neither parent was named nor had a speaking role in the flashback. The mother strongly resembles Lauren Faust's original concept art for G1 Twilight.