There is only one real rule regarding changeling royalty: there must always be a queen. Twilight Sparkle is about to learn this through personal experience.
Originally written for an X Becomes a Changeling prompt almost three years ago.
Set after season three.
Very nice. Please, continue.
Oh boy. This will be interesting. :D
I've seen this before.
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Carry on.
EDIT: Never mind. Still, carry on.
Changeling Twilight? You had me at the title
Flexible approach, Celestia.
"then Twilight got an idea. an... AWFUL idea. Twilight got a wonderful, AWFUL idea."
I get the feeling that this is gonna be good! but perhaps not for Bruch!
Always two there are, a student and a master.
I like this so far.
Well you have my attention so far.
I shall read further into this later.
I am not seeing what I signed up to see...please hurry and get to that part.
tossing in my opinion that matches everyone else's, you have my attention and I shall we watching for updates.
You finally uploaded it!
Oh no, Twilight's science-gland has been stimulated.
Oh. This is a good first chapter. A little weird that Celestia is scared to approach a bound and magic sealed changeling to give paper but I still can't wait to see the next chapter.
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That's actually the court recorder that's scared; Celestia just nudges the paper closer.
It's coming Monday!
Ok you got me there
Okay, Changelings get antsy around Ponies rutting...but wouldn't Cadance's magic be just as effective?
Also, Celestia really needs her own plot handed to her yesterday...this whole sudden unplanned leadership transfer thing is getting out of hand.
I just about died laughing at the changeling detector.
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Not that the entire thing wasn't hilarious, but dude, seriously? That's just awkward as all hell. I hope that's as far as the Sex tag in this goes.
this is shaping up to be a very good read, I look forward to more chapters.
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That's just Celestia's style; she just throws Twilight at any problem.
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You think reading it was awkward? I had to type that scene.
But yes. That's about it for the sex tag for this story.
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I'm glad to hear it. Both of it. But yeah, this is a hilarious read so far. I'm going to be following this with great enthusiasm. I hope Bruch will feature again in the future. I really liked that whole "his mane" gag.
6823651 I swear, Hasbro we need an episode where Twilight nearly dies because of something Celestia does and Celestia goes on a rampage to try to fix everything and then Luna shows up and we have a lesson about true friends being willing to admit to that they blew the pooch so that they can become better people for their friends sake...because it's a lesson that just everyone needs to learn...including Screwlestia here.
Well this was... enlightening.
6823690 Well given the solicitation and the fact that this is based on the "x becomes a changeling," Twilight having her fundamental biological nature changed in a way that as far as Celestia knows is permanent and irreversible due to her machinations is pretty close to that.
Detection by SNU-SNU
Twilight please. The mind is willing but the flesh is weak and spongy
6824126 Oh I know...I just want Hasbro to try and write an episode so they will admit to the thing we all already know.
Good luck Twilight! You probably won't have it, though.
6823254 That was creative... I did not see that one coming
Great story!
Here have a Twilight!
Twilight Sparkle: Were-Changeling!
What? She bit her; that's how it works, right?
Edit: I was a bit surprised how ruthless Twi was in the end, there.
I wonder what she said at the end ?
this was a nice comedic break in the chapter and fit very well. I enjoyed it.
So we're going with the bite infection. It's pretty 'meh' but oet's see how it goes. I just wonder if we get Twi to keep her colours and her hive to keep that colour scheme.
6836650 have to agree, could have been better but we'll see where this goes.
That reminds me of a bit in The Swcret of NIMH. starting at about 1:11 and ending at aboooout... 1:50.
6836688 Ah, the fun thing about bites. Is that it can contain many things. it can be drug out. (my favorite) change the thoughts. Change the tastes. Colors. The very magic of their core. Their ... everything. Subtle. like an infection. it can be hidden. Changed. Colored over. Baahahahaha!
I'm not evil, I promise.
6836688 I personaly like the times when the infection happens by bathing somepony in the blood of the queen he just killed. It also provides evolutional justification for explosive changeling corpses.
just some food for thought, here
6836545 Twilight, when put on the line, is all business. See her battle against Tirek. She wasn't fighting to disable there, either.
Now that was some grade-A cheesy heroic action movie banter right there. I love it.
SQUEEE!
Update!
And now the transformation begins... if it's fast, then there'll be two unconscious changeling queens (well, one dead, one unconscious. Well, technically being dead means you're unconscious, too), and that could be resolved... not easily, but without risk of Shining Armor snapping Twilight's neck. If it's slow... then I do have to give Chrysalis at least a small amount of respect. She spent her last moment ensuring her people still had a queen (if it's fast, then you could view it as her trying to get Twilight killed along with her).
So of course, if you know how to ruin that weight distribution...
"THAT'S how I use my Intelligence score in combat, DUMBASS!"
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Not just the bite. The casting at the end there probably had more to do with the change than being bitten... any fluid transfer might have worked, if the circumstances had allowed for it.
OMG can't wait for the next chapter. Another great chapter
6837444 So an infection with an activation incantation. Not much real diffrence.
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It puts it a stage above being basically bug lycanthropy.
6837603 What makes evry queen (or it's my thoughts on this) a kind of lycantrop. Or rather an arachnitrop. What makes Changelings a deaseese rather than a race if you think abaut it.
6837199 Not so much the fighting to win part (though I imagine she was pretty sure Tirek could at least survive what she was dishing out), which is entirely understandable when someone's trying to vaporize you; but that she didn't seem inclined to try to render aid after she'd won. Then again, that's probably understandable after someone's been trying to vaporize you.
This can only end in Awesome and/or species reassignment.
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Let me guess... "Keep what you kill"?
That's definitely going into the book of non-magical methods to detect a ling!