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Summer Dancer


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I should feel safe, knowing that Chrysalis has been vanquished. But now, I'm having trouble sleeping. I'm used to staying up all night...but not like this.

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I think a Changeling is worse than Boogeyman: It can be whatever you fear and feed of you. A Boogeyman?... What does it do?

Nice read.

Just a random comment to one of Twilight's lines, and yes, I understand Twilight is just blabbing and not thinking clearly:

Gone is the average mare living in a nice little town with a small group of nice little friends.

Foalsitted by Princess Cadance, being personal student of Princess Celestia and now bearer of the Element of Magic? Twilight, you've never been normal. :ajbemused:

Poor Twilight! :fluttercry:

That's where people, sometimes, get it wrong. Fear is not a weakness, but a super power. It can make you run faster, make you lift things you thought you never could. Jump farther than you can believe.

I liked this. Well done.

*drags the changeling out from other the bed and gives it a folding cot and its choice between a sleeping bag or a spare blanket*
(Probably a lot more comfortable than the floor at least I'd think, right? :derpytongue2: )

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Except changeling into what you fear would do not good for the changeling, it feeds on love. If there is a changeling living under Twilight's bed it doesn't want her afraid or it will starve. If you think on it would be much better for changelings to make ponies happy as much as possible, most "changelings rebel against Chrysalis" fics feature changelings who figure that out, making ponies afraid just makes you hungry, make ponies happy and eat like a king.

Now this is how we would expect it to end like. Great job!

Did somebody call the comment quartet?

On the upside, snoozing Changelings are hella-cute. :twilightsmile:

Even after reading this, I still don't know if the changeling under Twilight's bed is real or not.

Or why this is tagged "Sad" instead of "Dark/Slice of Life".

But it was K.

So dun hert me.

6783617 Me too. And let's not forget that this fic loses all suspension of disbelief when you roll back and see that Twilight easily dispelled one's fake form. Which could wipe out the worries in an instant.

6782597 Who said changelings can ONLY feed on love? And who said that the love must be directed to them? Or that at the moment they feed the changelings's victims have to be feeling love?

If anything the invasion itself disproves your assertion.

6782322 Picks it's nose where everyone can see.

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No if anything the invasion proves nothing about the feeding habits of changelings one way or another.

This was a great read. I love how her thoughts are jumpy and not very coherent.

6784100 Thank you. :twilightsmile: After a visit to Five Nights... 2spooky4me :unsuresweetie:

6783846 Did I say anything specific? I said that if they beeded to have peaceful relationships and be liked to get fed then an invasion is suicide thus illogical.

I actually thought a changeling was under her bed. Kind of a letdown.

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You said the invasion disproved my assertion, I countered that it really didn't prove or disprove anything about what changelings feed on

6785098 Yea it disproves the assertion that the changeling would be starving if it scared her. Because by that logic all changelings in the invasion starved.

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No necessarily no. Chrysalis is shown to have mind control powers, and ponies have shown begin cocooned by changelings. Once in a cocoon it's easily possible the pony is sent into a dream state full of stimuli that produce specific emotions, like love. A lone changeling's MO would be different, especially if it fed on a specific pony. Making Twilight feel the emotion of love would be easier than cocooning her and inducing dreams, no one, even Twilight would suspect it's presence if it took no hostile actions. As also I said most fan fics I've read where changelings rebel against Chrysalis's rule hinge on them deciding the invasion was a stupid idea and that encouraging ponies to feel love towards a changeling is better than draining it. Trying to take over Canterlot and capture ponies wasn't an indicator of changeling feeding habits.

We can even speculate Kevin (the changeling from Cranky and Matilda's wedding named by the trading card game) came to the wedding specifically to feed on ambient love energy such an event produces.

6786044 Exactly. That's all speculation.

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That's where people, sometimes, get it wrong. Fear is not a weakness, but a super power. It can make you run faster, make you lift things you thought you never could. Jump farther than you can believe.

However Terror is your enemy, it causes you to freeze, it clouds your judgment, in places where seconds matter: YOU LOSE.

6787254 never said terror didn't do that. How can I lose when I never said, I win?

6787301 Sorry I didn't mean you specifically, I meant that when someone is terrified it's not going to end well. I apologize if it sounds different in the comment...... :twilightblush:

So....WAS there a Changeling under her bed?

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no, she was just scared

6792103 Figured, but the last line threw me off.

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oh, yeah.
I think that was figuritive:rainbowhuh:

6787784 it's alright. At least this didn't end badly. That's all that matters.

I love it ^-^ Perfect story. 'Nuff said. (:
My muffin rating? Ten muffins out of ten. :derpytongue2:
~SoDF

Ahhhh.... Twilight and her paranoid antics.:twilightblush:

And said Changeling was...Kevin.

I reviewed this story as part of Read It Later Reviews #54.

My review can be found here.

The story itself was very good, though I don't know if [sad] is really the right tag.
Two other little nitpicks: I'm personally not a big fan of the switching between past tense and present in the narration—it throws me off a little—but that's just me. Also:

...as I ascended down the stairs.

You probably wanted "descended."

Other than that, very nice. Upvote. :twilightsmile:

This was a nice piece. Thanks for writing!

I'm having a hard time telling if some of the oddities in the story are intentional or are mistakes. The tense switching suggests that it's the latter.

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