The Changeling Rises · 10:37am May 3rd, 2017
I love this song!
Heyo. Just wanted to give a little update, seeing as I've been (apparently) quiet, lately.
KoLB is still going, I've just been in a tough place trying to get my work life balanced in time for school in April, and have been working on a commission story - my very first one - for a friend. With any luck KoLB will move forward in the next couple months.
Thanks to all who are still following the story, and have so much patience!
A pony salute to the veterans of the armed forces, in whatever country they may be.
(Equestrian Marine Corps from AK71 [Adam Knight] on DeviantArt)
With Chapter 26 Up last week, there was a brief appearance of the first Pegasus in Vault Dweller,
Chapter 27 fleshed out a rescue mission by Meathead with Nate's help to go rescue the stranded pony from Super Mutants at the Atomatoys Headquarters.
The reveal takes a while to get to, but this is how I imagined it from the very start.
I wrote the Atomatoy's Chapter long before I actually started writing the rest of the story, that's how I've been operating.
So. Changelings are weird, right? They're kinda like bugs, but also like ponies, but they also eat love, and basically we don't actually know that much about them. Lots of different authors have interpreted them differently; mindless drones, evil minions, starving desperadoes, and more. The "changedlings" have only exacerbated the problem. So here is my take on the changelings, based on a very loose grasp of entomology and various sci-fi tropes.
Here’s a sneak peek!! This was also one of the ones I had fun with writing lmao (Odonata is absolutely ruthless and James hates it)
‘James sighed and picked at what remained of his food, mumbling, “I guess... I never really gave much thought into having a relationship.”
Odonata blushed as he asked in Fangnese—thankfully a language his sons didn’t know, “you’re still a virgin, aren’t you?” Well he certainly wasn’t beating around the bush.
I’m totally not making a list of which Mitski songs suit which Morifumu (James’ royal side of the family) family members and various others because I’m bored and like making myself sad… totally not—
Also if u don’t know who Mitski I’m just going to point you in this direction for an idea of her vibes 👇
Plz go check it out and comment ur thoughts/predictions/whatever I crave validation 🙏✨
Hivehunter sat down on a bench, looking around while being bored as always. At least, until a pair of female changelings caught his attention. They were smiling like some of Pharynx’s mad fangirls.
“U-Uhhh… can I help you-”
“Eeeee!”
What the buck?
“Ohmygosh! It’s really him!” one squealed, wrapping her hooves around him, making him squeak.
“Eep! H-Hey! Get off!” he squirmed.
“Aww! He’s so cuuuute!” they both said at the same time, moving closer.
So in my story, Chrysalis is "the changeling." She changes shape to whatever she thinks wants to be seen. She does this to hide her true identity so she can feed on love. This is an interesting allegory for how I felt for a very long time. The assumption is that I need love right? Well, what if I could only get that by pretending to be something else? That's the way I felt for a long time... Like, nobody would accept the real me and so I needed to pretend to be "male" or whatever... I was
Pharynx looked at his soldier, who was holding a crossbow. “Okay, now aim down the sights.”
The changeling did so, aiming at a training dummy.
“Good. Now, turn the safety off.”
The changeling did that.
“Good, good. Now... shoot the dummy.”
The changeling fired, but missed.
Pharynx sighed. “The dummy.”
He fired again, but missed. He began unloading the entire magazine, missing each shot until...
“I said shoot the—”
Stab!
This Is What It’s Like is getting a sequel.
A really depressing, but much more lighthearted than the original, sequel called “Debris”.
It’s set right after To Change a Changeling, and hoo-boy, does it reference TIWIL a lot.
A young Kydra sat in the cafeteria, eating. She soon noticed another changeling walking over. She put on a pleasant smile, watching him trot by. He smiled and slipped her a paper and trotted off to a separate table.
She blinked and opened it.
Did you know that the more ‘y’’s at the end of ‘hey’, the more some on likes you.
That being said, heyyyyyyyyyy.
Kydra blushed, before writing on the paper. She walked over to the changeling and delivered it. He opened it eagerly.
So, Thorax lives in the Crystal Empire now.
The Crystal Empire is filled with love.
Changelings eat love. Ergo, love is food.
When people eat too much food, they put on weight.
Are we all doing the math here?
Say hello to the next chapter of poor old Victor/Chance/Visage's story: "Of Angels and Changelings". As always, spoilers for the chapter will be in this blog post.
Hey everyone, happy holidays and i hope you had a really good one at that, me, i had a blast, met with some families, go some gifts, (A Zelda necklace set, clothes and Need for Speed PS4) and i hope you all did as well! ether way, i decided to write a blog about the future of To Love a Queen simple for the fact that after a year, we now got over 300 likes, and to me that's amazing!