Everypony Who’s Anypony
Deadlift (a.k.a. Jimmy Jack)
Before the coming of the Pink Step Plague, James Jackson was an orderly at a mental hospital in east Atlanta. As the earth pony Deadlift, he was and his friends were chosen to attempt to breach the barrier between worlds and re-establish contact between Earth and Equestria. Finding themselves in the wrong parallel reality the team joined forces with another former human from their world, Iam Noone as freakshow performers in his traveling changeling carnival.
When Noone’s plans to extract vengeance on Equestria became known, the freaks changed sides, helping the Nopony’s changeling daughter, Diane Pastel to defeat him. But Diane extracted her own revenge, not just against Iam Noone, but every pony and every changeling who worked with him. She carved a bloody path across Canterlot before she was eventually stopped and brought to justice.
Fearing the potential wrath of both the Royal family and the noble houses of Canterlot, the freaks have chosen to flee the city. While the bulk of their number follow the blind goat Tarot Solitaire to Las Pegasus, Deadlift has undertaken a more personal mission. He has chosen to escort Diane Pastel’s older sister on a quest to Baltimare to uncover the fate of their last herd-mate, Carrot Plate.
Z-978 (a.k.a. Switch Shift)
Iam Noone sired thirteen larvae with Chrysalis’ brood Queen Madame Butterfly. When Noone fled the hive with his mate, their offspring were smuggled out separately, using the changeling invasion during the wedding of Princess Cadance as cover. Unfortunately the young nymphs were separated from the group and became caught up in the invasion itself. During the battle, Switch Shift was accidently killed by Pinkie Pie, while wielding Twilight Sparkle as a magic canon.
Years later, wracked with guilt over the unintended consequences of her actions in life, Surprise Mint Pastel, a Pinkie Pie refugee from a collapsed timeline used the instability from Starlight Glimmer’s time spell to attempt to undo her mistakes. She found the young changeling filly she had inadvertently murdered in the timeline ruled by Queen Chrysalis and brought her back into Equestria to be reunited with her sister, Diane.
Taking the name Z-978, the young changeling became one of the first members of the herd of Train Wreck, Discord’s “alicorn” prince. Her relationship with the outcast prince was more that of a little sister than wife, although she did bare him a single offspring, the mutant grub known as Zillia Facehugger Pastel. After the prince disappeared in thin air during a heated trial of both himself and the villainous Iam Noone, Z took refuge in the Canterlot Refugee hive, under the care of it’s matriarch Princess Fast Change.
After Celestia disbanded the hive, Z refused to rejoin the other changelings, now ruled by King Thorax, but instead chose to flee Lower Canterlot in self imposed exile, traveling with Deadlift to Baltimare where she hopes to learn the fate of her last remaining herd sister, Carrot Plate, who has been missing ever since the Nopony’s attack and Queen Chrysalis’ subsequent invasion.
Fast Change
A unicorn student, gifted in shape shifting, Fast Change’s life took a strange turn after a rescue mission into the Hive of Queen Chrysalis. Cornered and out of options, she played a huge gamble of impersonating a changeling queen. The ruse was, perhaps, too much of a success, as she inadvertently led nearly half of the changelings into freedom, establishing the Canterlot Free Hive in Lower Canterlot. She later learned that her transformation was more than skin deep, as she could no longer change back into a unicorn. She was fully and completely a changeling queen (officially granted the title of “Princess” by Princess Celestia).
With the disbanding of the hive Fast Change has moved into the the Castle and Canterlot proper as the official liaison between the crown and the newly reformed Changeling Kingdom, now ruled by King Thorax. Though no longer their ruler she still cares very deeply for her former subjects and bitterly resents the notion that she abandoned them.