“So you’re courting Twilight Sparkle?” Bucky stated. He scowled, trying to make a decent looking glass orb.
“Yes, that is one of the reasons I’m here,” Stupid continued to transform grass into birdseed, calmly moving around Bucky.
“And you have no other motives?” Bucky eyed the changeling.
“I never said I have no other motives. I simply told you I was courting Twilight Sparkle.” The changeling scooped birdseed into a sack he carried.
Bucky grimaced and turned towards the changeling, lighting up his horn “Keep in mind I am not your friend, I am tolerating you. You saved my Pina, that is the reason why we’re talking and you’re not confined.”
“Once again,” the bug sighed, “your daughter would have not been in trouble if I hadn’t wandered by. I am a bit of a trouble magnet. I’m sure that pillar would have never broken if I didn’t go near your school.”
“Why were you at my school?” Bucky inquired.
“The same reason everyling goes to school. To learn, of course.”
“What do you wish to learn?” Bucky softened, he couldn’t help but respect the desire to learn.
“Whatever a changeling like me has to learn from ponies like you,” Doll simply stated, transforming more grass.
Bucky sighed. He realized he wasn’t going to get a straight answer from the crooked changeling. He tried a different approach. “What form of magic do changelings use?”
“Necromancy and Alteration. Simultaneously. Our minds and body are naturally geared towards using master levels of both, at the cost not being able to use anything else.” Stupid scooped up more birdseed into his bag. “This is why I can transform grass into birdseed with no effort, but I must scoop it up by hoof.”
Bucky’s blood ran cold. “Necromancy? Explain.”
“Necromancy, as you probably know, can regrow or fixed damage body parts. We burn away ourselves, while growing back the form we wish to be. It’s easy to get the exact form we want due to alteration magic. As I said, simultaneously.” The changeling morphed into the spitting image of Bucky, speaking in his voice, “What you don’t know, is necromancy-”
“Lets demons escape from tartarus,” Bucky growled.
“Ah, so you do know!” The doppelganger beamed. “This is why I only use alteration. As you may have noticed, no flames surrounded my body. I may look like you, but that’s it. I only look like you, it’s just an illusion.”
Bucky scryed him with his magic, and breathed a sigh of relief. The changeling was not lying. It is nothing more than an illusion. No traces of Necromancy lingered in the air. “Why do you refuse to use necromancy?”
“Do you want demons to escape from tartarus?” Stupid questioned.
“Of course not.” Bucky finished his glass orb, now filling it with a spell that will attract birds.
“Me neither. I'd much rather have Equestria demon-free.” The changeling altered his vocal cords to call birds.
Both of them had nothing to say as they worked. Bucky making and enchanting glass orbs and Stupid altering birdseed to have laxatives in it.
“Why are you here? What are you trying to accomplish?” Bucky quietly said.
The changeling lowered his head in thought. Every time he opened his mouth, he closed it with a look of doubt on his face. Finally, he spoke.
“What is your favorite element?”
“Ice?” Bucky answered.
Doll smiled. “I meant element of harmony.”
Bucky scratched his chin. “I have never given it much thought.”
“...I would have to say mine is generosity.”
Bucky waited for the shape-shifter to continue.
“I don’t think people appreciate Rarity enough. Possibly because her attitude belies her nature,” Stupid sadly said. “Yes, to give when you can is wonderful. Yet, generosity is so much more. It is not giving when it’s convenient, rather, when it difficult.”
“Rarity works hard for nice things, yet she gives those nice things away. The feeling of blessing another, even at great loss, is such a rewarding feeling. One that you can truly take pride in. It humbles, yet empowers oneself.”
“I wish to be…” Stupid hesitated. “I wish to be an example, to all changelings. That we can serve in love, and be something worth loving in return.”
“...Do you think lying to Twilight is the correct thing to do?” Bucky softly argued, “to be dishonest? Do you want that to be the example shown to all ponies?”
“Oh, I’m not lying to her,” Stupid solemnly said.
“What are you doing then?” Bucky challenged.
“I’m pranking her. Something all ponies should expect from us changelings,” Doll grinned.
Bucky stared at the changeling for second, then broke out into laughter. Quickly that laughter turned into a coughing fit. Stupid pounded his back to try and help him. Bucky relaxed, catching his breath.
“That is quite the prank,” Bucky smiled.
“I’m quite the changeling!” Stupid boasted.
Remembering he had a job to do, Stupid cast an illusion around himself, making him look like a bird. Tweeting to other birds, he encouraged them to eat the birdseed, promising them all a delicious meal.
Passing nearby was Lugus, who also saw the promise of a delicious meal. Swooping in, he crunched down on Stupid with his powerful beak.
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“You should be dead,” Bucky calmly stated, rubbing his sore snout. His wife had finished swatting both him and Stupid, calling them bad foals. She was now fretting over the injured changeling.
“I should be dead,” the changeling calmly replied, ignoring the stink eye the fussy mama bird was giving him.
The three were inside a very large marble statue that had just been placed in the middle of Ponyville this morning. It was a statue of Bucky rutting Berry senseless in fine detail. It even had little sweat drops on both of them. It was a magical hollow marble statue, that let anyone inside it see what was going outside it.
“Maybe if you both weren’t such naughty foals, you wouldn’t have gotten hurt!” Derpy snorted.
Bucky and Stupid had a smug look. Derpy eyes narrowed.
“So, you made sure to move the orb to the opposite side of town right?” Stupid asked.
“Of course, right after I teleported you in here,” He grinned.
“What did you two do?” Derpy growled.
Suddenly, all the curious ponies surrounding the statue screamed. An absurdly huge flock of birds were flying over the town, raining poop all over Ponyville. A few of the citizens crashed into each other. One mare screamed, and then fainted when she got bird poop in her mouth.
Bucky and Stupid hoof bumped.
Derpy swatted both of them, again.
“BAD FOALS!” She screamed.
I LOL'ed!
At one point you call the changeling 'Doll', yet 'Stupid' all the other times.
replied, ignoring
...I am unsure what I just read. But I want to know what Stupid is planning to do with Twilight!
What did I even
I like the concept, and it does totally seem like something Bucky would do.
It needs a bit of cleanup, though.
I was going to PM this because it's rather a lot, but you invited it with the author's notes.
end quote should not be there
spitting
lets
I'd, demon-free
every time
A statement followed by "X said" or similar gets a comma at the end of the quote if there would be a period; in fact, I saw several like this and one with no end punctuation on the quote at all. Also the word after doesn't get capitalized unless it's a proper noun; see the correction 3 down. Probably should check all your end-quote punctuation/capitalization.
hesitated
finished
“I should be dead,” the changeling calmly replied, ignoring the stink eye the fussy mama bird was giving him.
recently/this morning is redundant, maybe replace 'recently' with 'that had just been'
Ponyville (multiple occurrences)
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The changeling's name is Stupid Doll.
Funny, but Stupid using illusion seems to directly contradict his statement that changelings are incapable of anything other than necromancy or alteration. Of course, I'm working off of the D&D definitions of the schools of magic, so we may be working at linguistic cross-purposes.
In any case, fairly amusing. I get the feeling I'll appreciate the story more after reading more about Stupid. I'll get on that.
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Done. Thanks for pointing those out.
X3 Oh dear lord that is great....
I can say from a canonical view that Bucky would in fact do something like this if the mood struck him. In fact, he'd probably weaponise it.
Are the poo poo bombardiers ready?
The pigeons are good to go sir.
Cry havoc and release the fowl of war!
Do I need to read the chase to understand this or can I only have read Changling doll?
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Reading this is enough, but reading The Chase might help to understand Bucky.
5068877 As a faithful The Chase reader i can say that the only way to understand Bucky it to read the original story, after suufer a lobotomy...have what left of your brain being bleach-washed and, then, shoot your head...twice.
Even so you may have some doubts...but at that point you won´t bother much things in your life, ´xcept drink and screw....
Sadly, I don't think I'll read this. I got tired of Kudzuhaiku's bullshit long ago, and I have no desire to read more about his Gary Stu self insert.
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*shrugs*
5068834 Yes, I almost forgot about your love of the dear pony farts, but if you like pigeon farts too. Well... Your fetishes are just too advanced for me, Bucky.
5069601 and so I finally see some of the crap that Kudzuhaiku delete from his comments pages, I think Kudzu made a good decision to delete those comments.
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... Huh.
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If I may make a suggestion...
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Cute video.
5073260 yeah... I don't know why I wrote something so crass, probably had or do with the fact that I had been awake for over 24 hours and decided, against better judgement, to comment about things. My ramblings end up making about as much sense as the inside of my head. I took out the fart thing.
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Just keep in mind if you do pick a fight, that you're picking a fight on a fan site of a children's cartoon show.
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BUT IT'S SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT TO ME
HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT WHEN RARITY AND I MEAN SO MUCH TO ONE ANOTHER
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Oh dear.
5074876 didn't mean to pick a fight, I try to avoid those like the plague. But I had been awake far too long and I had just read through the comment war in the Chase and was getting a bit annoyed at the censorship. Well judged censorship, but not being able to see comments tends to leave one unable to judge. Ugh I broke my own rule of commenting. .. always leave happy comments or well thought comments. Not happy about it myself :3
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I'm just giving you a hard time dude. You're fine.
Haahahahaha, this was funny... I dare say... it was berry funny!
Bu dum tis~
Tartarus (place name in capitals)
I was SO waiting for Lugus to eat some birdseed but he's not an omnivore sadly.
Was the brown rain a pigeon twenty one hundred
bunerr gun cloacal salute?media.giphy.com/media/LLhFoP2n2dwaY/giphy.gif
Kudz is omnipresent, he sees everything.