“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” - Patrick Rothfuss
Not every changeling was in the Hive when the change happened. For those in distant posts, the days that followed were full of rumors, fear and panic.
In a city far from hive and home, a cell of changelings gather to understand what has happened and decide how to handle the seemingly mad new world they've been thrust into.
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Nice. Very nice.
Wonderfully executed, and such a fitting origin story for Ocellus. Extremely believable too!
Yes it does, and is one of my biggest grip with the changeling reformation (besides the whole "you have to look pretty to be accepted"). Nutrition and the whole food chain don't work like that. It would be like vampires trying to survive by drinking each other's blood.
A more logical approach would have been establishing a symbiotic relationship with ponies rather than a parasitic one.
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Many varieties of vampires can, actually. The problem is that blood doesn't come back for them, or at least not quickly enough to continue feeding of eachother. Emotions don't really have that restraint, though, and the plot regarding changeling seems to have been less "they're incapable of feeding of eachother" and more "every changeling keeps hoarding love, and they just needed to learn how to share." It's a simple, and really quite a lazy solution, but one consistent with MLP's overall tone and moral lessons.
As for needing to be pretty... well, let's be fair, the fans started that one, really. While changeling fanart is far more consistent with the core changeling colour scheme, almost every artist added more pony-like eyes, manes and tails to pretty-fy them. I was actually surprised the new changelings got to keep their compound eyes.
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Bat vampires often share food among members of the colony. That´s different that not having to prey on other mammals´blood anymore.
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Sure, but again, we're talking emotions here, not blood. The rules for how quickly emotions refill are entirely up to the author. I myself prefer to think that while the new changelings work similar to those vampire bats you mentioned now, so they can keep eachother upright and for the topping of the proverbial tanks just visit their pony friends. It's what I using in my changeling story, gives a bit more oomph to the changeling race, and the show's vague enough on how changelings -old or new- work that we can all just do as we wish with it.
Great story.
Now I'm quite intersted in the stories of individual changelings.
Will Cyclotorna reveal to his wive who he is before he leaves for the hive?
Will he come back as a skittle bug and they will have a happy future?
Can Ponies trust a busniness that is run by a changeling?
how will it affect Icostas life if people find out?
would love to see more chapters exploring that.
Good story.
Really liked the surprise Ocellus.
The breaking of the changeling masquerade is indeed something that's seen relatively few stories come out of it. Most are focused on Chrysalis after losing everything or Thorax struggling to rule. So few consider the infiltrators who were on assignment when the throne exploded. Brilliant work. Thank you for it.
Hrm.
Now this was fucking deep. Nicely done! And well played.
As others have said, I'd also like to see followup stories--of those who went into exile, and of those who stayed and joined Thorax (and maybe stayed but didn't join Thorax)
This wascawesome and I loved it.
Well done.
Certainly a rich era - could probably get a novel out of it, but bite-size works too. (And also one of the cases where you really want to add a chracter tag, but it's such a spoiler...changelings are pretty rife for that in general)