Chrysalis was not in a good mood.
First, she found out her changelings couldn’t remember what happened yesterday. Then, she found out her changelings couldn’t even remember how to fly. And now it looked like they were actively trying to kill themselves.
“AAAAAAAH!” The changeling mare screamed as she ran through the forest on her hind legs like some sort of circus performer. “HELP ME!”
Chrysalis facehoofed. That was exactly what she was trying to do, but the changeling didn’t seem to like being helped. Chrysalis’ time could be spent much more efficiently by helping some other changeling…
But she couldn’t just abandon one of her changelings. After all, as queen, she was practically their mother.
Then again, they were pretty hopped up on love, and could easily take out a manticore if they knew to dodge its stinger, and to avoid the poisonous plants everywhere... and to make sure other predators didn’t join the fight… and to avoid traps, to avoid flesh eating plants, to avoid other territorial animals like ursas, to avoid using too much magic, to make sure none of their vital regions got hit...
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Fine. She would help.
But if just grabbing her wouldn’t work… then maybe Chrysalis could give some advice. First was the obvious, to her at least.
“Fly up!” She yelled, hoping her voice wouldn’t scare the changeling as much as her beautiful, loving, and not scary at all smile did.
Chrysalis considered simply beating the manticore to a pulp, which would’ve been nearly as easy as picking up her changeling had it not been so panicky, but then her leaderly instincts kicked in and she realized it would be better if the changeling learned not to rely too much on others. Though, even though her weakest drones should’ve been able to handle the thing with the love they had now, she knew not to send a non-fighter into battle with—
“What!? What the hell are you talking about?” The changeling screamed back. “Humans can’t fly, you idiot!” She panted. “Maybe if I could find a rope...”
Chrysalis choked back several expletives as she trailed the changeling. “Okay, you—” She grumbled incoherently. ”You have wings! Just flap them, up and down, really quickly!” she said in the least patronizing voice she could muster, which was still incredibly patronizing.
“Humans don’t have wings, ā càn!” the changeling mare screamed. “Hey, tiger thing, go eat that stupid person instead!”
“GRRGHGNMGH!” Foam dripped from Chrysalis’ mouth. “You’re not a human! You have wings! Did you not notice that I’m above you!? If we’re beings that can’t fly, then how am I above you!? And why are you running like that!? You’d go faster if you ran on all fours instead of running on your hind legs like an idiot!”
Finally noticing something strange, the changeling looked up. Chrysalis was indeed above her.
Just as the manticore was closing in, the changeling buzzed her wings and shot straight up.
The manticore tried to jump up and catch her, but it was too late. Frustrated, it trudged back to its territory to sulk.
Chrysalis let out a breath she didn’t know she’d been holding in. Thankfully, her changeling was able to keep itself out of trouble, and that meant she wouldn’t be endangering the group later. Now, she just had to wait for her changeling to fly up to her and she’d give the biggest, most relief filled hug…
“I can fly!” The changeling completely ignored Chrysalis and zipped through the trees.
Chrysalis slumped. Nothing was going how she wanted today. Fortunately, past experience told her that usually just meant you needed to take a more active role.
“Hey!” Chrysalis called out.
The changeling hovered over to her. Soon she was so close they were practically touching, but for some reason her eyes didn’t always meet Chrysalis’. “Oh hey,” she said, “you’re the per— er— thing? Monster? You’re the monster thing that saved my life.“ She extended a hoof. ”This is totally surreal! And I’m flying!”
Chrysalis smiled and accepted the light hoofshake. Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad. “You can just call me Chrysalis, or Queen. Whichever you prefer.”
The changeling’s eyes widened. Suddenly, she held her hooves to her mouth as she giggled. “This is even more surreal! I get to meet the queen of the African jungle and we’re on a first name basis already! And she’s a flying zebra! This is the craziest dream!”
Chrysalis blinked, trying to make sense of her changeling’s words. She wasn’t sure if she should feel insulted or praised for the title ‘flying zebra queen of the African jungle’.
“Oh! And you’re Chrysalis? That’s perfect! We both have bug names: I’m Butterfly Feng! Please call me Butterfly.”
Chrysalis should’ve been happy, but something struck her as off. The thing was, all of her changelings already had names. She couldn’t recall all of them immediately, but she would always remember a changeling’s name when she saw the changeling it belonged to. And while My Tool felt off, this was just plain wrong.
Butterfly Fang might have been some changelings name, but it wasn’t this changeling’s name. This changeling had a few scratches on its ears and head fin, so Chrysalis had dubbed her ‘Clipping’, short for hair clipping. Chrysalis was so clever…
...Well, it pained her to know her changeling rejected her name, but she did have to admit Butterfly Fang was a pretty good name for a changeling.
Either way, Clip— no, Butterfly, would still be her changeling no matter what. After a short nod to herself, Chrysalis welcomed the changeling with open arms.
“...What are you doing?” Butterfly asked. She just stared at Chrysalis’ expectant smile and wide open arms as if she was being asked to perform some sort of complex routine she had never heard of before.
A befuddled Chrysalis stared back. “You just survived a manticore attack. Don’t you want to… you know, hug something?” She hugged herself, very intimately. Chrysalis knew it was a sight that any changeling, modest or not, would give a wing and leg to be part of.
Butterfly shook her head. “Uh… no. We’re friends now, but we’re not that close yet.”
Chrysalis tilted her head, once again opening her arms expectantly. “But we’re right next to each other. It would be so easy to just, you know, tilt your wings forward...”
Butterfly did the opposite, flying backwards and then into a small circle before flying back to Chrysalis. “Well, that’s neat. I’m not hugging you though. That’d be a bit weird, as well as a bit indecent out here.”
Chrysalis let her arms fall down and scowled. “What do you mean weird and indecent! It’s just a hug!”
“Look, I don’t know what kind of freaky stuff you guys do in Africa, but we don’t hug people we just met in Hong Kong!” Butterfly scrunched her muzzle.
Chrysalis fluttered back down to the ground, frowning. This wasn’t how she wanted to greet her newly sapient changelings at all. If she had her way, she would be welcoming them into a giant party, with love and cake everywhere, entertainment abound, open dueling between changeling warriors on stage, and pony slaves carrying her everywhere. Hopefully the ponies would plan some sort uprising so she could have fun with that too.
“Oh, I’m sorry.” Butterfly followed a frowning Chrysalis to the ground, forgetting the manticore from earlier. ”I didn’t mean to make you sad. It’s just we don’t do those sort of things in Hong Kong. You can still call me Butterfly though.”
Chrysalis didn’t hear her changeling in her musings.
Now, not only was there no cake, martial arts, and indentured servants, but her changelings didn’t even know proper etiquette!
Wait a minute. What if she had forgotten changeling etiquette! It was possible that after being around ponies, griffins, and other creatures for so long, she forgot what it was like to be a changeling!
Well then, maybe a more reasonable changeling could help her out.
‘Tool!’ She screamed out on the hive-link.
‘Right.’ Chrysalis could practically feel his eyes rolling. ‘Don’t bother getting my name right. It’s not like it’s important or anything. You don’t need to tell me how to fly either. I’m sure I’ll get it on my own.’
“Wait, we forgot about the tiger thing!” whispered Butterfly as she waved her hooves in front of Chrysalis’ glazed over face. “The tiger’s right over there!” She pointed, but Chrysalis wasn’t looking.
Chrysalis’ sigh reverberated through the link. ‘My Tool—’
‘Mitul.’ He corrected.
Chrysalis fought an urge to mispronounce his name again. ‘Mii Tool,’ she said, ‘to fly quickly, all you need to do is flap your wings quickly and let your diaphragm contract and expand with the wing beats. You can also tilt your body and wings independently. The rest has to be learned by practice.’ She finished her explanation as quickly as possible.
‘Now please—’
The small amount of hurt and annoyance Chrysalis felt confused her.
‘What? What did I do now!?’
“Chrysalis! Chryssi! Chrysalisalisalis! Get up!” Suddenly, Chrysalis felt something hugging her. It was a strange hug though, because hugs normally don’t try to pull you up. Nevertheless, the hug was appreciated during her moment of frustration. “It spotted us again, we gotta...” Suddenly, Butterfly dropped her. “Oh, I see how it is. Well, you’ve got your hug now, you African běi gū jī!”
Chrysalis gave no response.
Mii tool continued talking over the link. ‘I’m a repair man. I repair things so I can buy books. I’m not going to work as some sort of bug taxi!’
‘Changeling.’ Chrysalis’ scorn could be felt through the link.
‘Fine! Changeling taxi! I don’t do taxi work!’
‘Look,’ Chrysalis growled. ‘I don’t know what this taxi thing is or why you hate it so much, but I am trusting you to save lives, so please—’
‘If you’re trusting me, then why do you have to say please?’ Mii Tool asked, now more confused than annoyed.
The gears in Chrysalis’ brain turned at high speeds.
“GET UP YOU STUPID AFRICAN BĔI GŪ JĪ ZEBRA!” Butterfly screamed as she attempted to lift Chrysalis, but her queen was too heavy.
Chrysalis noticed that annoying manticore galloping over while she was thinking. How rude.
She lazily backhoofed the thing, sending it crashing through several trees. That should teach it not to interrupt changelings. Though, she didn’t mean to hit it that hard.
Also, she could feel Butterfly’s emotions. She knew her changeling thought she was about to die, yet did not abandon her like some had in the past. She would remember this.
Meanwhile, Butterfly just stared at the destroyed section of forest. “What the… I could feel that.” She put her hoof to her face, probably in attempt to pinch her cheek. That was when she realized she had no hands.
Chrysalis continued her talk. ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with saying please. I think it shows respect.’
‘Respect? Well, following it I suppose. But again, I’m not doing taxi work for you. Maybe now when everyone’s reincarnated in a forest, but later, I only do repairs...’ He paused. ‘Okay, If you want to ask me something, just ask me.’
Chrysalis tapped her chin in thought. ‘I think I get it. You don’t have to say ‘please’ because you’re expected to do things without any form of coercion. I like that.’
‘Mii Tool,’ She continued, ‘I need help. Butterfly Fang was insulted because of a hug. A hug! You’re a recently awakened changeling or human or whatever. What’s wrong with hugging?’
She waited patiently for her first lesson on changeling etiquette. Hopefully now she wouldn’t have to worry about insulting all of her followers whenever she opened her mouth.
‘...Well,’ Mii Tool started, ’it seems fine to me. I don’t know if there’s really anything wrong with it. That’s more philosophy, which is a out of my area.’
Chrysalis waited for him to continue, only to be met with silence. ‘That’s it?’ she asked. ‘That’s all you have to say?’
‘I don’t really pay that much attention to people. I’d probably be a lot more useful if we were talking about physics or chemistry.’
More nonsense words, plus a non-answer, which was aggravating. Maybe she should start writing these down. As it was, that last sentence only told her they had nothing to talk about now.
‘Fine. I’ll do this myself.’ She came back to reality.
Now conscious of the real world, Chrysalis felt a large weight on her head. Looking up, she felt several rocks bounce off her face. “Ow.”
Butterfly covered her mouth as she giggled, but her laugh seemed a bit too unhinged. It was as if she had realized something both profound and utterly terrifying while Chrysalis was blanking out. “Oops! I’m sorry! You just looked like a cat, sitting there all motionless. Are you okay?”
Chrysalis ignored the pain in her face. There were far more important things to worry about right now. “Butterfly, if you had to, could you fly on your own?”
“Huh? Uh, yes,“ She nodded. ”I think I’ve got the hang of it now.” She looked unsure. Though, perhaps she was confused because the question was asked so suddenly.
“Good,” Chrysalis continued. “There are more changelings like us in this forest, and we need to spread out so none are left alone. As long as you can fly, you shouldn’t have to worry about manticores.”
“Okay,” Butterfly nodded. “But... what’s a changeling? And what’s a manticore?”
“We’re changelings,” clarified Chrysalis, “and the thing that was chasing you was a manticore.”
Butterfly nodded, suddenly looking around for some reason.
“One last thing,” Chrysalis continued. “You will occasionally feel a small buzzing in your head. Stop resisting it; it’s how we communicate over long distances.”
“Oh, so like a cellphone?” Butterfly jumped up and started hovering.
Chrysalis blinked. “A what?”
“You don’t have cellphones?” Butterfly looked sad. “Well, it’s a little hard to explain, but… hmm...” She rubbed her chin.
After a few seconds of no speech, Chrysalis huffed. “You can explain it later. Right now we need to find the other changelings!” She took off.
“Bye bye...” Butterfly watched her strange new friend fly off into the forest, keeping her gaze on her until she was out of sight. The lack of a proper goodbye from her friend was a little disheartening, and she still wasn’t sure what to think of her, but that wasn’t going to stop her from doing the right thing.
It's Friday! 12:01 AM still counts as Friday!
This is insanely epic
New chapter! Liked it!
Ugh, I love the premise of this story, but please for the love of The Nine, please just let there be a sense of order next chapter! I mean geez, all this running around is accomplishing nothing and it's driving me crazy ocd sucks don't it? :P
That's a lotta personalities to keep track of.
Oh hey! I'm sharing a time zone with one of the authors I follow! Neat!
One does not compare a hive mind to a cellphone, no matter how smart it may be!
Keep going! ;)
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I think it's fine.
I like this, I really, really like this.
Oh dear
so the great awakening is just putting human souls into changelings?
poor chrysalis
This story, I dont know what to say, its.... glorious
Heh, fun how nobody so far reacts poorly to their bodies being 0% human.
That is going to be interesting. Even more panic!
Also Chryssie backhoofing a manticore like nothing... that was awesome. No epic fight, just flick it off like an annoying fly
I speak Mandarin, not Cantonese! How the hell am I supposed to tell what Butterfly is saying?
Also, I'm dying.
Battlefield 2 The Pwned Life comes to mind reading this chapter.
A changeling running on her hind legs, that is really funny
And so, confusion abounds. This going to get a lot worse and a lot funnier before it gets any better.
And eventually Chrysalis will convince them that with great power comes great responsibility... to do evil. And they'll all agree to conquer Equestria and torture and enslave ponies forever! Oh, forgot to mention all the gore and molestation.
That's usually what happens in fics when humans become changelings...
This story has potential. I might follow it later once there's more chapters. Great start at least.
I suspected, but it looks like the changelings are reincarnated humans. This is going to get very, very interesting. Especially if, like it seems, they are from different countries with different social norms.
....Wut?...you spell Chinese?!
Yup, really Hong Kong. those person really strong.
hAHAha,
*breath in*circus performer
just like a
misinterpreting human actions
yep, you win an internet.
So changelings are reincarnated humans, from countries where Hinduism and Buddhism are practiced so far.
6216546 but we are the readers, not Equestrians. And in Equestria, there are no humans as well, so much than for canon.
If it fits for you, than I guess "everyvolkswagenbeetle" would fit as well? After all, it has 'bug' in it, and there are no cars in Equestria, so they don't make the connection.
6216881 you know what would be even more punny? "EveryATV". After all, they all have 4x4 drive.
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Aw, thanks.
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Thanks for the feedback. Now that I think about it, this seems like a slow, mini climax. (It gradually increased in intensity and reached its peak when Chrysalis backhoofed the manticore.) If that's true, then I'll need to make the next chapter calmer so pacing keeps things interesting.
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Right now? It's only three personalities right now, and I think I gave them each enough of an introduction. It was probably the fact that everyone was talking at once that made things hard.
Hmm. Perhaps I should acknowledge their personalities in a calmer way later so the introductions feel natural, like how I was talking about pacing with the previous guy.
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Actually, that comparison came from an app I started working on. I was going to make a p2p map that would show positions and data from everyone, but I needed a group to test it with. Since it seemed like the most obvious application would be tactics or strategy, I thought I could join a local paintball/airsoft group and test it with them. Unfortunately, I've had a bit of a transportation problem up until now.
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Nah, I think he might have a point. If I made the next chapter even crazier, that might be a bit much for some people.
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Heh heh heh heh heh...
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Well, it's better than nothing. It'd just be depressing if Chryssi got flung out of Canterlot, was powerless, and only had a bunch of mindless drones that may or may not have survived.
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Is that Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 17, "Unity"? If so, I'll add that to my list of reading/watching material.
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Heh. Chryssi can be a bit impatient. Though, a lot people would probably just panic if they were in her position now.
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Well, maybe the reaction's kind of subtle this time. Also, fun fact: Canary thought the original manticore fight didn't sound one sided enough, so they helped make it an even more brutal victory.
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Well, I used pinyin, so you could always translate back to Cantonese and use google translate...
That's a lot of work though, so I'll just tell you.
I got the insults from this blog post. For the first insult, I used 啊燦, which apparently means 'mainland bumpkin', which is also a name of a character from an old Hong Kong TV series. For the second one, I used 北菇雞, which apparently means 'mainland prostitute' and is also a play on words between the slang for prostitute and a common Cantonese dish.
That means Feng said something like "Humans don’t have wings you stupid caveman!" and “GET UP YOU STUPID AFRICAN ZEBRA WHORE!”
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Well, at least now you know my time zone. I don't know if I'll be posting at 12:01 AM again though. That would be a little ridiculous.
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Well... that was an interesting video. I don't play many shooting games though, so a lot of the stuff may have gone over my head.
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Honestly though, I'd probably do the same.
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As an adjective, buggy also means 'filled with bugs' (the unknown origin of the noun buggy leaves me kind of concerned now that I know that). Plus, everyling doesn't sound like everyone or everybody, and it's not really the full name of their species like 'everypony' is. everychangeling would work, but it's kind of hard to say.
I could've said everybug, which sounds like 'everyone', and it looks like I wouldn't have offended either of you guys, and I could've still went with everyling since a few other fics used it, but I went with everybuggy because it sounded cute. It doesn't sound very serious though, so I might consider it a term of endearment or a diminutive for groups of changelings.
It was used in a semi-serious moment though, so changing it could help the tone...
Hmm... Maybe I'll ask another editor about it later.
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Nah, I would never do that... on a T rated fic.
Besides, does this seem like a group that would ever actually agree on anything?
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Well, I plan on updating weekly, so once the mid-season hiatus ends, there should be more than enough chapters.
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Wait, did you edit your post. I swore it said something else.
Anyway, I met with someone that said from experience that Hong Kongers can be incredibly racist, so I went off that a bit.
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So far. There are only two changelings awake now though, so I wouldn't draw any conclusions.
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Okay, let's not try to start a flame war. Please don't try to be insulting by using ridiculous car based names to make fun of people.
Oh man, I really wanted to read this and then I saw that human tag...
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Eh I'll read it anyway. Might be pleasantly surprised.
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heh well when you compare it to eternal loneliness yeah, id agree with you on that. just shes in for a ride, especially since it randomly picked the humans
Okay, I admit it this is more interesting than I expected! Well done, I'll keep reading!
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Don't worry. I looked it up, and that seems to be the only episode the co-operitive is shown in.
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True. She's definitely in for a ride.
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Thanks for giving it a chance.
6219442 I'm being honest. To me at least, it's a very original way of using human in Equestria.
6217064 I'm taking the opportunity to poke fun at all the fics which the same basic premise which DO have all the humans decide to side with the changelings... because... the plot. Either that or they bastardize the ponies so horribly that the whole "Canterlot Wedding" thing would never have happened because the ponies in those stories seem quite incapable of love.
In this case, I can see Chrysalis TRYING to get them to attack the innocent, candy-colored ponies, and most of the humans just staring at her and thinking, "Oh crap, we're stuck working for Bug Pony Hitler."
Of course, there's that one human who is all like, "Ya vol, mein Fuhrer!" But he's crazy so no one else listens to him.
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Well, thanks.
It's kind of funny though, because it almost seems formulaic to me. I pretty much just took humans from all over the world and stuffed them into changeling bodies. The only difference between this and a lot of other fics is that I'm doing it en mass and I'm doing it with a random number generator helping me choose people.
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Yeah... that plot.
I guess some people might've wanted to write power fantasies, or they might've gotten carried away with their character and let them have everything. I'm not writing purely for escapism though, and I like things more when they're realistic, so if Chrysalis digs herself into a big enough hole, then that's it; she's done.
I do hope she'll succeed, but with a random number generator picking people based off of statistics, even I don't know what's going to happen. (I haven't chosen everyone yet, but it could pick several hundred people while ignoring people with certain rare but important jobs. Speaking of which, I need to remember to look up the statistics on jobs for chosen countries when I pick people.)
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Getting people grab-bag style? Might I suggest http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
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Well, the co-operative seems to share consciousness to the point of everyone sharing the same thought, and can be used to immediately stop conflict. This hive-mind is much more voluntary and allows for much more individuality.
It's like windows vs. linux. With Windows (the borg), everyone shares most of the same software, themes, options, etc. and all thoughts are shared. But with linux (this hive-mind) you're automatically protected by a strong firewall (in this case, just turning it off) and most of the customization is up to you.
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Oh, nice! It even does names by country!
I'll still have to check that the meanings of the names seem right, and the frequency/status implied by them is right, but I'll definitely be bookmarking this.
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Android doesn't use GNU at all though, and there are also other components like x.org. Then there are systems with GNU that don't use the Linux kernel. If it were even possible now, forcing the renaming of all those operating systems by there separate components would be incredibly confusing.
Plus, Linux just rolls right off the tongue, unlike "GNU slash Linux".
Hah! Look at your surprised face! You must've thought I was some sort of Linux scrub!
Sonny, I've been Linuxing for years! Back in my day, I once coded a randomized pointcloud uphill both ways just so I could have a pretty background! I once coded the controls for an underwater robot in python on the day of the competition! I once installed Arch Linux just for fun, and then uninstalled it and reinstalled it again!
Heck, I bet I could get just about anything done with these two:
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(Just look at those smug, self-satisfied expressions...)
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>>no debian pony waifu
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>>implying linux not gnu
>>implying
>>implying implications
i.imgur.com/qfwmVan.png
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Nice picture of a rooted phone. Here's a GNU web page on Android though.
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Ah, then I got the wrong episode.
Darn. I still want to see it now.
It is a really nice start, i like the first two chapters, but i don´t know how long it is going to be funny like that.
I don´t know how this story is going to continue after they have managed to get all the Changelings together, but i am curious to see more.
Oh god... Once we get to the point where racism gets involved...
Oh god.
~Skeeter The Lurker
6221090 You totally need a crazy developmental geneticist who blew himself up in his lab after mixing Coca Cola and Pepsi together with Tab (a crime against nature if ever there was one), and who would constantly be trying to experiment on Chrysalis or the others to find out how they tick.
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It's definitely not going to keep the same amount of humor all the time. Heck, I'll probably need to ask for joke help from my editors with all the plot that's coming in the next few chapters. It'll probably get even more funny later, sure, but I need to add rests if I want to keep the story interesting in the long run, and I'm going to try and keep the adventure aspect of it going as well.
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Oh yeah it will.
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Actually, a little of it's showing already. Hong Kong is known as one of the most racist places in the world, and the expletives she used against Chrysalis were insults I found against mainland Chinese.
Thanks for the idea though. I can't believe I hadn't thought of it, but I will use that until it gets old, if it ever does.
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I'm considering doing collabs as side-chapters a few chapters from now. Actually Having a diverse group agree on how to handle things could be helpful when trying to figure out how to write a diverse group agreeing on how to handle things. But there is the possibility of me needing characters from other people and those people not responding in time to write. If I do it, I'll post it in an authors note. it would effect the main plot, but likely only in subtle ways.
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Oh god what have I done?
~Skeeter The Lurker
6223201 I'm just playfully poking around. But you could get some rather... interesting... sorts of people with this strange selection process the universe seems to be using.
Changeling Putin shows up.
This story is so awesome, bro.
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Thanks.
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I'm trying for pure random. Key word is trying. I actually think other fics are strangely specific; there are so many people in india and china, but there are so few fics with those people in them.
Oh, and I never said they had to be from the same era. So I might actually get someone like that.
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You've paved the way for a glorious future , sir or madam. A truly glorious future.
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So we have the possibility of seeing Changeling Nazis. Lets hope your random number generator doesn't land there.
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Well, that one's not quite as random. It's possible most of the changelings were given souls at the same time, or that groups of changelings were given souls after other groups.
I think I'll stick to the current era for now. I'd have to do a lot of history research otherwise, and I'm not sure how accurate the info would be.
So, people from... I'm assuming India and china.... are you going to have a whole slew of different cultures?
Frustrated, It trudged back
Chrysalis knew It was
1. Extra capitalisation.
2. Extra capitalisation.
*hoofshake.
Twisted Code: *holds up a hoof* "does this look like a hand to you?!"
calm down Twisted, bear with Artichoke
pretty sure you meant to say "all of her followers"
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as of me reading chapter 2, so far so good, and you've earned a spot in my favorites. I think my favorite part of the chapter was either "we both have bug names" or My Tool's sarcasm about his name and the flying instructions he didn't get. It's probably the former though.
*affect
I know I should give you a break in the comment section, but I like to be consistent, and that particular error is so easy to make that there's plenty of online guides. Still, however inexcusable that error may seem, I put creativity over grammatical technicality, so you've got nothing to worry about, given the premise.