So, the deviations that I ended up with had made some of my storylines potentially really far removed from the canon of MLP:FIM. I am glad that people don’t seem to mind that, but I have tried to stay as close to the source as I can with what I’m doing.
But since the changelings hadn’t been reformed with a friendship love bomb, and one of the things I dealt with was how a changeling reformation might look... this is where I have ended up.