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Love is tricky when you’re a changeling. You need it to survive, but the more you feed off of it, the more you want to actually feel it. Too bad that's impossible.
Chrysalis never thought she would want to love, but a thousand years ago that all changed.
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Look's good I'll keep my eye on it.
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(First comment yay
~TheEmpressEclipse~
Perfection for Chrymbra. Can't wait for the next chapter.
Wow. I really enjoyed your story
I love all the little details you fit in without making it seem obtrusive to the reader. It's so very cute. There were some problems with said-isms (he/she asked, said, answered, replied, etc.), but a quick run through would fix them right up. Also, you had some typos. Overall, I thought you had a really attractive writing style. Looking forward to reading more!
Oh snap we gonna have some Romeo & Juliet!
This deserves a lot more likes now.
I can't wait for chapter 3. Good job.
That's the only thing I hate about good stories. You have to wait for the next chapters.
Added.
I hope it's not too tragic. A lot of bumps and such along the way, but in the end it's a happier ending. Please no make it super sad at the end.
4269770 No promises...
Jolly good show! Good show!
Sombra reminds me of Arthas. He wanted to save someone so he turned to darkness. Those dark powers corrupted both of those charachters
Great backstory!
I look forwrad to da future.
4391252 As do I. thanks for sticking with my story all the way through.
4391604 Wait just a second! If Chrysalis is headcanonly a thousand and 17 years old in the show if she knew Sombra in this story a while before Sombra became a tyranic dictator, that means she has either a) Figured out a way to stay alive and defy aging through the time of her rule or b) Learning how to love gave her anti aging as a changeling, or c) The healing from the dark magic from Sombra's crystal powerz gave her immortality.
Choose your headcanon wisely my friend.
4391723 All very good head canons to choose from. I would have to select option a: She found a way to defy aging.
If you’ll recall, King Metamorphosis was three thousand years old before he died. Though I never technically explained his age in the story, I was operating under the head canon that the members of the changeling royal family had similar anti-aging abilities as Princess Celestia. This would also explain why the changelings would only accept members of the royal family to rule them, seeing as how their quasi-immortality would make them genetically superior
That makes sense… right?
4391822 Yes! This pleases meh.
Wait. . .So how are you going to do deliver the funeral? If changelings have funerals (for the royal family more likely) that is.
4391974 Good question. I suppose changelings would have funerals, but I don't think it would be the main focus of the epilogue. If anything I would have it where the epilogue would take place months if not years after the funeral.
4395276 I wonder what Chrysalis has been doing during the time between her leave to become queen and wherever you want to place her in time.
4396795 I'll be sure to go talk about that in the epilogue, though not a lot of time will be spent on it.
4396883 That's a shame.
NOOOOOOOO! It can't end like that! It just can't! There needs to be some kind of turn around later. Maybe Fluttershy's rehabilitation or something, but they can't not just feel such love for each other and it just be killed like that.
Please make a squeal where it's like 1,000 years later or whatever.
*Start making happy seal slapping noises*
Great story. I loved reading this. But part of me still wants a happy ending for those two. Can't change it though.
Now, for the squeal.
Please make a squeal!
4521169 I don't think I'll ever make a direct sequel to this... sorry. However, this is a backstory, so in all likelihood i'll tie it into a different series of mine. Thanks for reading.
4522382 Oh ok. I guess that's good. Maybe you could have them reunite in another story.
OHMIGOSH I FINALLY FOUND A CHRYSALIS X SOMBRA STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I KNEW I WASN'T THE ONLY SUPPORTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fluttershy:"YAY!"
I suppose a changeling feeling love would be as if my brain suddenly turned into smoked salmon or one of the other foods that I eat.
Go mad... or die. That is a very hard question, is it not?
Who dislikedo this story?!!
WHO R THE LITTLE $h¡+$ WHO DISLIKED THIS STORY!!!! SHOW YOURSELF!!
>:( WHY MUST YOU MESS WITH MY FEELS!!!!! WHY?!?!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!
When I was reading this got real sad but then remembered the title? so I was like
! but then I finished and read the authors note. All I have to say is WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!!!!!!!!
The people of FIM these days......
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Sequal......Please... IT CANT END LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!
5423605 Sorry but I'm not going to make a sequel to this, since it was really only supposed to be Chrysalis and Sombra's back story.
I have stated before that I have plans to tie this into another series of mine, but that project's been backlogged for months.
Hadn't read this yet, but I just had to comment that I thought it was amusing and clever that in a story about romance, all the chapter titles were names of songs about love.
Of course, that had most of them pop into my head as soon as I read them, but such is life.
This was very good. Sure it went to depressing places at the end, but there was really no way you were going to get around that one under the circumstances and it was very well written. The characters were great and I really liked how they fell because of love. It is also interesting how Chrysalis's newfound ability to generate love by dredging up memories of him will basically force her to do that on a regular basis and reinforce her hatred of the princesses so her attitude towards them in the show follows naturally from her love for Sombra. My only real problem with it was that the characters never discussed the possibility of Sombra moving in with Chrysalis because that really does seem like a natural solution to the problem, although there are obvious issues with that so I can see why it would not have worked out. I also wasn't a fan of some of the things you did with the changeling world building, but it was not bad unlike many stories which are just painfully stupid in that area so it is not a big deal.
Also, I feel like you are really set up nicely for some kind of continuation with the way the show took out Sombra so I would give serious thought to a sequel, epilogue, or major subplot in another story. What the Crystal Heart did to him with the love light coming out of him could easily be seen as purification with this backstory, and the fact that we know his corrupted horn was cut off and dropped to the ground further reinforces that tie in because of how you tied his connection to dark magic to that horn. When you throw in his shadow form we see at the end of this story, it makes an easy setup to have him come back in some form in the modern timeline which could be very interesting, especially when he has to deal with trying to fix all of her emotional trauma. This also opens up a lot of very interesting possibilities for her trying to open back up to ponies at his insistence and everyone trying to figure out if there is some way to replicate what he did more safely so I feel like it would be a shame if it were left here.
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I'm glad you like this one, despite it being one of my older works. As for a continuation... I'm still not really up for one, even after all this time. But who knows, my opinions could still change on the matter. Maybe.
6425524 Fair enough, and it might honestly work best as a side plot to something else. I do not see Chrysalis's efforts to bring him back being all that interesting to watch directly, but you could have some real fun with the Mane Six investigating why she stole the Crystal Heart. After a convoluted mess of an investigation with Chrysalis doing the proper changeling thing and confusing the hell out of the issue while making it seem like she was never there, they would break in and wind up getting captured by the changelings in the trap she set up for when they inevitably figured her ruse out. They would then get to watch horrified as she used the power of the Crystal Heart to resurrect the "evil king" Sombra in what looks like a horrifying villain team up with a nice cliffhanger when he revives. Then things go completely sideways for them and the readers as this romance comes back for an absolutely epic plot twist. The story will wind up getting totally rerouted and let you write a story that feels very MLP with the characters trying to learn to understand and become friends with each other after some nice cloak and dagger/suspected end of the world stuff in what should be a wild ride. Cadence should be especially fun once she figures out what is going on because I can totally see her dropping her previous animosity to play relationship councilor while the others are still highly suspicious of the whole thing.
Who disliked the story!!
yay great story
awwwwwwwww
Moral of the story: don't fall in love.
But seriously though, this was very well done. Depressing? Yes. But it was damn good.
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MAYBE DO BOTH!!!!
Sounds like something I woulddo
I'm sorry but after coming to this after about a year I realized that this story is incredibly underrated