Something has been nagging at the back of Twilight's mind for years now. She looks out of the window, and with every passing year the number of changelings she sees increases, that of other creatures decreases. She decides to have a talk with Thorax about it, to sort out her thoughts.
The Changeling King is more than happy to help her figure out what's actually happening. And to make sure she's on the same page as him on the matter.
This is a CS/NCT story, reader discretion is advised. For more info on the matter, make sure to visit the Changeling Superiority group.
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well then, this was interesting.
What is cs/nct anyway?
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It stands for Changeling Superiority / Nonhostile Changeling Takeover. See the Changeling Superiority group for more info, although this story itself serves as a decent introduction to the concepts.
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Right...
Lol, I'ma just nope tf away.
This is not really a story. There is no conflict, or real resolution this is more like explanation of events then anything else. Like a more personal news report. I think this would have worked better as like the description of the group to explain the concepts of NCT and such.
Also why exactly Changelings are the superior race? I mean I guess from a evolutionary standpoint they are, but I don't think that's a suitable explanation. Not in a story anyway. Because you set the rules of your universe it's easy to pile as many powers on your favourites as you can and just call them superior but that just come across as a second rate power fantasy. (And make no mistake this is a second rate power fantasy) I think it would have worked a lot better if you've shown something that the changeling do that has an inherent moral value that makes them a superior race.
In the show they were not the superior race and then you just came along and said they are. Well big whoops.
I mean I could do this with any race for Christ sake. Pegasi are the superior race because every time they mate with anything the offspring becomes a Pegasus. Now everyone is either forced to murder them or be doomed to go extinct. This is not a story. This might be the concept of the story but it's not a story. The fact that you managed to waste 1,3 k words on hardly change that fact.
If I were to iron man the argument that this is like something even if it's not a story, I could see it as like a white nationalist parody of the western cultures. And in that case as a moral parable you'd be sort exempt of telling an actual story because your only goal is to introduce your moral stance to the reader. But if I don't equate the changeling to the immigrant coloured people, and the ponies to white people I don't even have a basis on which I can introduce the moral consequence of this story.*
Also I really don't think you want your story to be read as a white nationalist pamphlet. But that's just a hunch. Although it's scary how well that concept fits.
*And before you come at me at the angle that white nationalist have just about as much reason to call their race superior as you have calling the changelings superior you're not quite right. White nationalist have a very reasonable pitch on a surface level. White people did create the greatest culture that have ever existed in the history of mankind. They created democracy, human rights, the scientific method and basically everything important, up untill at least the second half of the 20th century. (with a few exceptions of course.) The problem is none of these creations have anything to do with the colour of their skin and everything to do with the moral and intellectual greatness of the specific individuals or groups who came up with these ideas. Who also happened to be white most of the time. But then again white people did a lot of bad things too and for some reason white nationalist, don't feel the need to attribute those to their skin colour.
So yeah even if those absolute filth of human debris what white nationalist are, felt the need to come up with an explanation how they are superior to every other race, that is not connected to their biology you better do that too sonny. And more preferably. (I mean they're still white nationalists duh. Have some standards.)
Of course you could argue that in the question of which race is superior only biological reasons should matter. That argument however doesn't work if you're the one making up the rules. Because at that point, as I have said, this just turns into a second rate power fantasy.
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Yeah this is mostly a restating of the stuff said on the introductory posts in the group, I needed a story to set the guidelines so I can direct people to it in the future. And I did give some better explanations as to why changelings are superior there, but putting those here would have made the story feel too clunky. Either way the Fimfiction crowd has a massive hard-on for second rate power fantasies, so I suppose the moment we start making porn of this people will flock to it.
Well you did in the sense you actually explained why you think what you think but I hardly call those explanations "better" than... well just about anything. They are riddled with logical loopholes and unproven (or downright false) assumptions.
Based on the like/dislike bar on this story, it's not that massive.
I can't argue with that one, I admit.
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Based on the like/dislike bar on your run-of-the-mill AiE/HiE/Displaced story, it's fucking huge.
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Maybe they are not so second rate? I mean I'm really just spitballing because I don't read HiE stories ever and I don't even know what the other two thing means. (Alien in Equestria? Allies in Equestria? Administrators in Equestria. Some challenge to write power fantasy out of that one.) I mean having as much experience as I do on the site I don't doubt they're bad but maybe they are just like 1.8th rate? 1.9 maybe? (Man this expression falls apart as soon as you want to measure more than one thing.)
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AiE stands for Anon in Equestria.
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Okay in that case I take everything back.
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I see we're on the same page. Also Displaced are the 'I died at a con while cosplaying as a character and now I'm in Equestria as that character' fics. How those used to regularly hit the feature bar a few months ago is a mystery to me, it got so bad Estee made a fic parodying the phenomenon. Or at least, I believe those fall under the larger Displaced category, which I think is just in general *character* gets sent to *place* with no real reason.
Superiority / Nonhostile Changeling Takeover
Yeah sorry, this is not non-hostile. As soon as mind control gets involved that goes right out the window. Which also means the story suggests rape, also an hostile act.
Obviously this is not at all my cup of tea, which is fine. I read it, could have stopped at any time. It's just strange that you tag the story non-con (I didn't look at the tags before reading, also my bad) and then apparently call it a "non-hostile takeover" story. Its possible that its either/or (superiority OR non-hostile take-over), but that's not very clear.
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Mind control ends up being used only on a few selected individuals. The idea is that most creatures will just gravitate towards a changeling partner naturally.
There’s literally nothing non-hostile about this.
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Well you gotta find a catchy name for your genocide plans, no one will buy it otherwise. Besides if RGRE is a term people still use then I reserve the right to call things how I want.
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I mean, they’re not any better at knowing what words mean.
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The difference is I do it intentionally.Nice. Would've been hotter if they all had changeling hybrid babies instead, but oh well.
Then the hybrids start advocating for more rights to be considered as equals compared to their "pure" changeling ancestors, and drama ensues while Thorax is torn between his stance on changeling purity vs. his Twilight hybrid baby.
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Hmm, proposal: The Lings using their position and status to slowly normalize hypnosis/mind control and frame it as a positive for the victim?
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That could indeed be interesting. I'll consider making a story about it.
the prime directive just got thrown out the airlock
Why is this downvoted so heavily? That is sad. its well enough written and an exploration. For those who say its not a story because "reasons", beginning, middle, end is not a rule, its a guideline for new writers. Exploration of a scene, a world, a vision is all valid storytelling.
As someone who likes dark stories this is right up my alley(not that different to my Upholding Harmony.
4/10
Does anyone know what happens to sir letters