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Yeah...about as cute and cuddly as a newborn shark.
I cannot understand HOW they can just evolve against detection. Part of that would require them basically completely changing what they are every other day.
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The magic they use to hide themselves has evolved. New spells have been woven. That's not so hard to understand. Think of it as a software security update that is churned out in 24 hours to cover up a zero day exploit.
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Would you like to upgrade to Changeling 10?
6800129
Hmm, I like ChromeOS.
I half expected her jaw to become unhinged or have an expandably hinges jaw. And maybe her teeth start rotating or at least reciprocating.
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Would that be CrystalOS? (Call it morbid curiosity or an unwillingness to let jokes die, but we need to make a comparison list)
Changeling = Windows
CrystalOS = ChromeOS
Mac = ?
Linux = ?
anything else you want to add.
I am curious why Crisis took Chrysalis as a threat. Was it because of Bucky's emotional reaction?
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Oh look, a nursery full of delicious snacks that I can drain dry.
**CHOMP!**
6800187 Considering she's a changeling (part changeling?) it would make sense, with the whole... emotion-sensing thing.
That, or the fact that since she was made with Bucky's essence and he's always had a certain distaste for Buggy Mommy Dearest, she could have just had a reaction based on what her biology is telling her.
Easist summary of this chapter....
NOM!
6800113 Illusion spells are illusion spells. Its the same basis of an ability and does the same thing.
Sic `em, sweetheart!
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So Chrysalis was actively provoking a reaction by projecting such thoughts towards Crisis then?
Close enough so...
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By this logic, gills and lungs are the same. They both transfer oxygen into the blood system. The method and process are ignored. Yes, it is illusion magic, but how it is done is what is being looked for. Think of it as looking for a particular fingerprint, if the print changes you will not find the person.
6800359 and his offspring could be the distributions
So, changlings also adapt like Hive Fleet Jourmagander, neet.
6800389 still the ways it can be done ARE still limited.
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Perhaps, but if one is not looking for a particular way then it is easy to miss. I remember a similar discussion before and the best response I remember was along the lines of 'When all you have is a hammer, you look for nails. If you see a screw, then you note it's not a nail and move on.' Thus why it can be missed, and I would argue that specific inherent biological magic (illusion, flight magic, etc.) can find different ways to manifest.
What if a pegasus' flight magic no longer flowed through their bones/wings, and instead took the form of a generalized energy field? I doubt, at first, that it would be identified as 'pegasus flight magic'. Instead it would be thought to be something else, maybe a form of telekinesis. Once it was figured out that this was a new method of providing the inherent flight magic, then it would be categorized appropriately.
I will also add that Chrysalis is able to direct the evolution of the changelings, so she could (in theory) make that exact change. Heck, she could even use telekinesis as said field, so it would identify as such rather than 'flight magic'. Thus if she envisions another way to provide the camouflage that they use (illusion), then she can make that happen.
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Two emovores exist in a room. One emovore is very, very protective of her primary food source.
The other emovore just walks in and starts snacking, uninvited.
The other emovore, the one with armor piercing teeth designed to chew through steel plate armor, takes exception and gave several warnings of GTFO NOW!
Those warnings were ignored.
OM NOM NOM NOM!
6800614 Well...A lot of fics say Pegasi magic allows them to fly, protects them from atmospheric conditions and manipulate the clouds so I guess the magic field theory works, but I also thing that the wings fine tune the direction that field is pushed hence pegasi flapping their wings to fly.
6800614 Personally, if it isn't pegasus flight magic, it isn't pegasus flight magic. There would be specific reasons for the magic, somethign that jsut allows the connection to exist. Cause its more than just flying magic, it is something that seems more elemental in nature. If someone is simply moving through the air it is not the same thing.
So its the energy we are talking about, not how it is used. And changelings would specifically have a certain magic at their disposal. Even if you cannot detect the illusion, you could still detect the energy.
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Non detection, aversion, spell immunity: divination. Wards of non detection. Glyphs of non detection. Misdirection spells.
The combinations are endless and can be changed as needed.
6800662 Seems implausible. The more powerful the spell the more energy it needs. And the more energy it needs, means that some spells would be redacted.
So ultimately the combinations are limited because it seems like many of those aspects would be negate each other. Non detection spells cannot happen with magic repelling spells for rather obvious reasons.
Magic may cheat but cheating in itself is limited.
Aaand honestly i am starting to greatly question this characterization of chrysalis. It is ignoring an important detail. For all her guile, she lacks foresight. Far too much forward thinking going on to the being who did not even consider she had to fight two alicorns, maybe at once, and only overpowered one of them via a combination of lucky power up, and not knowing about said power up and thus unable to shoot herself in the hoof by boasting about it.
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Seems implausible to you.
Thankfully, I'm not writing by your rules, but my own.
So there's that.
As for Chrysalis, right now, she is playing a very clever and dangerous game of survival. She's being smart. She's endearing herself to the one thing that is a major threat to her and getting him indebted to her. That's a good move on her part.
6800765 ... Bucky is definitely the largest threat, but saying he is the one threat is ignoring Celestia and Luna, and possibly twilight.
and definitely cadance.
No ammount of drones would be even cannon fodder. They would be effortlessly swept aaside.
We could be talking about chrysalis perspective but that is unclear.
And jsut because it is you world does not mean it shouldn't have limits. Gotta be careful to make sure you are creating a world and not explanations.
If you are creating explanations to how things work, especialyl when we are talking about things to the detriment of one side, then you are not building a world.
the whole just avoiding changeling specific detections and combining contradictory spells seems more explanation than building here.
then again for as large as your story and mythos is, there being so few holes to start with is impressive. Still you've once or twice slipped into explanations rather than world building. Especially with the changelings.
6800729 Just your Chrysalis. Other head canons will not match yours. My Chrysalis, for example, is an excellent tactician, is cocky, sure of herself, intelligent, and can get drunk off of too much love, impairing her judgement.
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Chrysalis has one primary motivation. Staying alive.
She is not afraid of Celestia, or Luna, or Twilight. She knows that those three will not kill her. They're not the killing type. This will actually be addressed in the next chapter. Bucky on the other hand, is no great reformer. He leaves behind a trail of the dead and the dying.
Chrysalis understands that she has a good chance of weaseling her way into Celestia's favour if she acts the right way. Just another survival tactic for her to adapt, evolve, and change to.
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I was still ironing out a lot of kinks. Stuff changes over time. The newer chapters are vastly different than the old ones. Every day, I learn a bit more. I wrote this to teach myself how to write an epic.
I've screwed up at a few points.
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Um, why are you in my head?
Great minds think alike, I suppose.
6800864 ...... Its not headcanon >_<
6800871 Not if they are pushed too far i would think. Bucky would just outright kill her.
and i am not saying her wanting to survive is the issue. Its you keep on creating this multitude of abilities that feel a bit contrived considering the sheer number of em, that she uses too survive.
Guess my other issue is that they seem a bit disconnected too. If they were phsyically shapeshifting it would be one thing, but it is an illusion rather than a physical transformation.
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That's how Crysis saw her?
I see that Crysis is protecting her "food", but will she grow beyond that, protecting her family because they're family, not just her nourishment?
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In time, yes. Right now, Crisis is a bundle of instincts and curiousity.
This was delicious... Thanks!
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She is a bundle of adorable.... TEETH AND PAIN!
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So she'd react that way to Tourmaline as well? She's an emovore too after all. There's plenty of other "potential threats" in the Buckminister household. Bucky himself is both an emovore AND a vampire. Lugus is a very big carnivore around lots of little, bite-sized herbivorous foals. Sentinel is a carnivorous Lunar pegasus prone to bestial rages. Cadance is an alicorn who has an actual dislike for Crisis (at this point and time, at least). Something that I would think that Crisis could pick up on.
What made Chrysalis classify as a potential threat when these others have not?
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I second that question.
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Well, for one, Bucky is her beloved papa, and he loves all the others. She'd realize that quickly. Chrysalis has no such protection.
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The members of Buckys family are part of her pack, her hive, she can share food with them, and I would imagine unless a threat is actually made to bucky or her. Also as a emovore she likely can pick up on who bucky considers threat/unwanted
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Ah but Kudzu said she's only running on instincts currently, so that kind of distinction shouldn't exist within her yet.
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I think Cadence dislikes Crisis because changelings decrease the amount of ambient and directed love when they feed. Even if Crisis doesn't need much, she's essentially lowering the level of Cadence's natural element and consuming it. Also, her old memories regarding Chrysalis.
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Crisis was made to be loyal to Bucky, Chrysalis said. Which means it's part of her instincts. Like how drones know to be loyal to their queen.
6802009 Ugh...I really don´t want to keep this...but there is somethign that I need to talk ´bout that matter.
A couple of years ago, I was watching this crappy reality show on MTV. Something ´bout teenagers/young adults sharing a house, how they interact with each other, yadda yadda yadda. Shallow as a mud pit. Booth the show and the teenagers. Anyway, at a certain point, the teenagers were playing around, being teenagers, nothing special, when one of the boys started tickle one of the girls. You know that silly jokes boys do in order to keep touching a female ? Nothing ever remotly sexual, no grabing, just tickles. And the girl laughed, and laughed...and said "no" a couple of times.
When all the joy ended, she went in a tantrum, saying that she was violated, and left the house and the show, while the boy was completly lost at what happened. Actually, all the house was lost, some girls agreed with the "violated" girl, others not, some of the boys (and myself) though that she was overreacting, it was plain simple tickles, really, everything was in the video, no sexual haressement.
But, now, I can´t keep this idea kudzu planted out of my mind. Even being something innocent...well, mostly innocent, was she right when she stated that she were violated ? Even innocent tickles ? She was enjoying the joke, she was laughing, everyone was around, playing and laughing with then. And, suddenly, shitstorm. She was saying "no" and "stop", but anyone under a tickle assault would say it. Wouldn´t ?
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You'll notice the attack happened after Bucky showed up.
Seething hatred has a lot to do with it.
As for others, like Tourmaline, that seething hatred doesn't exist. Following the criteria, with Tourmaline around, there is only more love to be shared. That's beneficial. There will not be a problem between Crisis and Tourmaline. Besides, Tourmaline has no vicious or violent thoughts that she is repressing.
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Perhaps she sensed Chrysais' ability to blank her out?
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I can't understand a damn thing you said but I'm just gonna assume you're wrong because otherwise I'll die.
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I did ask if Bucky's emotional reaction had anything to do with Crisis's actions in my first response for the chapter. If you'd said yes to that a lot of this could have been avoided.
What of Bucky and Sentinel then? They both seem quite in touch with their inner violence. And Cadance's active distaste for Crisis?
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Bucky still loves them.