Talk:Rainbow Dash/@comment-11498358-20130703114532/@comment-10390252-20130703133823

It's kind of difficult because we're talking about aliens in a culture that is only superficially similar to ours.

Additionally, ponies reach maturity much more quickly than humans. The Mane Six may all be less than ten years old, chronologically and the Cutie Mark Crusaders are all three or four years old. Pip may have been less than two years old at the time of [i]Luna Eclipsed[/i], based on his comment about it being his 'first Nightmare Night'.

The closest I can come to is that Twilight Sparkle is in what must be the equivalent of college, whilst Rainbow is a drop-out, Rarity is old enough to own and operate her own business and Pinkie Pie is apparently the Cakes' apprentice. Applejack is also old enough to work formally as a farmhand and a salespony for Sweet Apple Acres. Fluttershy is apparently the oldest of the Mane Six (notice she's taller than Rainbow during the flashbacks in [i]Cutie Mark Chronicles[/i]). Overall, I'd say that they are all in the [i]Equestrian equivalent[/i] of the 18-25 'young adults' age group but more to the lower end of the scale. However, as I pointed out above, due to the different aging rate of equines, they could be chronologically much younger.