This story is a sequel to Change of Life
Dandelion is a pegasus filly, Cogs and Lavender's firstborn daughter, and a joy to them both. As a changeling though, Cogs had no experience with raising pony foals, so when a crisis arises, he often has to wing it. Sometimes the solutions are more creative than others, and sometimes the problems are unique. After all, how many fillies have a changeling parent?
This is a series of stories that are sequels to "Change of Life" and takes up after chapter 10 (Foals).
Chapters (7)
youre back!
Take all my yays
3842803 I'm with you.
....yay.
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i want your googles. theyre awesome
Me and my army supports this story
Oh awesome! So happy to see another story! Especially one involving Cogs and his family!
The shocking results were good, the illustration is priceless.
I enjoyed this story immensly, and found it from a link on FA from the picture itself... Glad to see Cogs and his family again!
Can't wait to see more.
Very enjoyable story! Looking forward to more!
WHOOO!!!
Where's Admiral Ackbar when you need him, Cogs?
"IT'S A TRAP!"
Too late, Ackbar.
"Sorry."
I loled so hard this chapter, then again at the comment 3975094 posted
Also... DAWWWWWWW!!!
LOL
3976345 You're welcome.
Why didn't I expect this?
Not only are we talking about a changeling, but I should have known you have thought about sires nursing their daughters.
I enjoyed how informative this chapter was.
"... (she) would have hugged us by now."
Dawwwwww. Why must you be made of adorable, Dandelion?
I'm certainly enjoying this story, but I can't help but feel that, in this chapter, the characters dissolves into talking headness.
4034359 True enough, although that's why I said in my comments that it was nothing special because I was basically establishing some fanon. Hopefully something a bit less talky next episode.
Umm.. *raises a hand* so, he cannot transform his reproductive organs and have a child the natural way (without using a donor), but he can transform his mammary glands and feed a foal? I don't get it.
4057371 You're talking about two totally different things. Reproductively speaking, it's a matter of incompatible genetics. While changelings can accurately reproduce such things as genitalia and mammary glands and look exactly like a pony, genetically speaking they are still changelings.
(typo: accidental leading quote)
Pinkie is awesome. Pinkie just knows.
"You can board any time" -- yeah, any time in the next three minutes! But, you know, whenever.
Yay cutie mark!
Give us MOAR!!!
You know, that's an ironic, or possible just obvious, name given the strong lupine quality all the ponies have...
the D'AWWWWS!
Unlimited POWAH!
Yay! Nothing quite like being hit by lightning to get a cutie mark. Or in the words of a certain Best Pony, "I just don't know what went wrong."
Also, Pinkie is amazing and/or crazy.
Huh... so Lavender wants Blue Arc to be the next donor?
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Plot twist: Blue Arc was actually a changeling from another hive all along
Awesome story! It was great to see Dandelion get her Cutie Mark! And in such a spectacular way too! The art really invokes the scene!
your pictures are very Disney like...i like em
another great chapter keep it up
special shout out to the illustrations by Foxenawolf.
Gah I love this adorable family <33, also cog can't get out of his wife wanting a colt. But then again it would balance out the female to male ratio some xD. Also wonder if the colt will take after his mother more or some more of a combination of the parents
You did a good job with this chapter, and happy to see the story being updated again! I'm also curious into the nature of fern and what forest's personality will be like later in the story when he gets older. Fern seems to be the quiet intellectual type.
Need more now!!!
No one can write quite like you Goldfur. This was an awesome chapter with a good balance of action!
Great chapter! Really had me emotionally caught up in the story!
Oh snap! Chryssi Soldier Drones as harvesters!
Now I'm curious what'll happen next. Also, Princess Twilight for best lockpicker ever.
Love your work and your illustrator is brilliant
Loved how more in depth it is now and oh god young teen filly with abilities that others don't have is a recipe for trouble x3. Still curious on how forest breeze will develop.
Very sweet, cute and funny. A better go then what you had up before for this chapter I find
“Safe? Of course, it’s always been safe. It’s just that the results might be not quite what we originally expected. That’s the trouble with brand new spells – you don’t always find the bugs in them until you've used them a few times.”
Heh! Twilight said "bugs" to Cogs!
and of course Dandelion is going to use it to try and get that colt to like her
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Reproduction requires actual DNA, and living cells
Milk is basically high fat, low sodium sweat. No DNA. furthermore, we have, in a story referred to by the previous story, that changeling disguises can bruise, bleed, sweat and blush (though this story seems to set some of that story's mechanics aside)
The logic here holds that a changeling will be able to do all the motions of sex, but what comes out will be biologically inert.
4272814 oh no... that cannot end well at all... at least short term end well, long term end well... depends on what that colt thinks of changelings...
Wait... I just though of something... Goldfur usually writes stories about Chakats... most of not all Chakats can sense someone's emotions to some degree or another... Fern can sense emotion... that's either an intentional connection with Chakats or a subconsciously done connection...
APROVED!!!
I now want little forest to be revealed, as a master of disguise...or solid snake, either works.
4299939 "SNAKE EAAAAAAAAAATER!!!!"
Much much better. And this is from someone who does not like homosexual (or sex changing) relations but is willing to let is slide for a good story. Good job.
Great chapter rewrite! Love the illustrations too!
Incredible rewrite! Every bit as awesome as is worthy of you. :)
I grinned at the box part cause all I could think about was Metal Gear Solid