| Flax Seed | |
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| Kind | Earth |
| Sex | Male |
| Occupation | Co-owner of Flax & Wheat's New Age All-Natural Wellness Center |
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| Eyes | Moderate cyan |
| Mane | ¤ Black with moderate olive fringes |
| Coat | Brilliant gamboge |
Cutie mark
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| Wheat Grass | |
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| Kind | Earth |
| Sex | Female |
| Occupation | Co-owner of Flax & Wheat's New Age All-Natural Wellness Center |
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| Eyes | Moderate turquoise |
| Mane | Brilliant gamboge |
| Coat | Light gold |
Cutie mark
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Flax Seed and Wheat Grass are an Earth pony couple who first appear in My Little Pony Micro-Series Issue #3 and later make several additional appearances in the comics. They are the owners of "Flax & Wheat's New Age All-Natural Wellness Center".
Depiction in the comics
Flax Seed and Wheat Grass first appear in the Micro-Series Issue #3 story How Rarity Got Her Groovy Back. Flax picks up an overworked Rarity who is in need of a vacation and carts her to the wellness center where she meets Wheat Grass and the rest of their family. When Rarity wonders about the rundown state of the spa, a nervous Wheat Grass explains that they're "renovating".
Flax and Wheat introduce Rarity to their hippie-like ways; each day they have her work in the fields, and each night they give her an all-natural beauty and cosmetics product (which they market as "Goops for Stuff"). Fed up with being subjected to manual labor while on vacation, Rarity demands a refund from Flax and Wheat. The two nervously admit they already spent the bits Rarity paid. Wheat Grass eventually confesses that, due to a terrible deal they made with the Flim Flam brothers, they're about to lose the farm to Filthy Rich's Barnyard Bargains.
Rarity feels sorry for Flax Seed and Wheat Grass and uses her business acumen to help them, eventually getting them the attention of the upper class of Canterlot. Having made enough bits to save the farm several times over, Flax Seed and Wheat Grass thank Rarity for everything she's done. Hoity Toity even recognizes Flax as the next "pony everypony should know".
Flax Seed appears again on Friendship is Magic Issue #9 page 6, selling his and Wheat Grass' goops at the Summer Wrap-Up Festival and Hoedown.
Wheat Grass appears in a yearbook photo on cover A of Friendship is Magic Issue #11.
On page 1 of Friendship is Magic Issue #19, a building in Ponyville is labeled "F+W Attorneys", matching Flax and Wheat's first initials.
Flax Seed and Wheat Grass appear together in the Micro-Series Issue #10 story The Day Shift. Once again victims of Flim and Flam's trickery, Flax and Wheat bring their troubles to the attention of Princess Luna.
Flax and Wheat appear together at Chuckle-Lot on My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #7 page 19.
In Friends Forever Issue #9, Flax and Wheat's "Goops for Stuff" stand is on display at AppleCon 45 on page 3, and Wheat Grass herself appears on page 5.
Wheat Grass later appears on Friends Forever Issue #12 page 22.
Personality
Flax Seed and Wheat Grass bear personality traits and clothing styles reminiscent of the hippie subculture of the 1960s. They frequently speak of self-rejuvenation and are shown to value keeping everything all-natural. Flax Seed is particularly eccentric, as evidenced by his often wide-eyed expression, denunciation of "the establishment", getting creeped out by a sign of Filthy Rich, and constantly using the word "like" in his sentences—which gets on other ponies' nerves.
Quotes
My Little Pony Micro-Series Issue #3
- Flax Seed: Did you know that flax seed... the grain, not me, is like, beneficial to your aura?
- Wheat Grass: What's a hooficure?
- Flax Seed: Whoa! Anger!
- Rarity: Next up, branding!
- Wheat Grass: But, we already have cutie marks!
- Rarity: Not that kind of branding...
- Wheat Grass: Rarity! However can we thank you? We've already made enough to save the farm ten times over! We may even get to start paying Tofu and Tempeh!
- Flax Seed: Whoa... Let's not get carried away with ourselves here...
My Little Pony Micro-Series Issue #10
- Wheat Grass: ...And then they took my cart!
- Flim: Hey now! We won your cart!
- Flam: Fair and square!
- Flax Seed: Wow... That dude is deep!
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