Sweetie Belle suffers an existential crisis when she accidentally discovers that she's a changeling.
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He has Sweetie Belle's cutie mark, doesn't he?
Last I checked, 8+2=9. Unless changelings use a Base-9 mathematical scale. My question is, was this a mistake on your part, or the changeling?
Does this count as a correct guess on my part?
This paragraph leads me to believe that Chrysalis did know something that the other changelings didn't. Or perhaps it suggests that Chrysalis herself was not fully a changeling. Or perhaps more along the lines of some kind of mutant pony whose form just continued to change over time into something completely different. To be fair, the writer's original intent for Chrysalis was that she was just another evil alicorn. So it might be interesting to think that what made Chrysalis more capable than the rest of the changelings was her knowledge of the pony side of her. Her agelessness could even be the result of her memory of when she was still a pony. Or perhaps it's the opposite of what Sweetie Belle did. Where Sweetie was able to change the form into herself after accepting herself as she is, Chrysalis's perceived agelessness could be the result of denial of her age. To her, on the inside, she's always at the age where she's in her prime. So she accepts that version of her as her true self, as a refusal to accept growing old and decrepit. Perhaps Sweetie Belle and Chrysalis are like two sides of the same coin in that manner.
Well, the host changeling is just one step closer to this...
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There is plenty about this chapter that I do hate. But what I hate about it actually proves that you're doing a good job in getting me emotionally invested in the characters. So when I step back out of the personal level and view it from a narrative level, what I hate about the chapter actually makes me like the chapter as a whole that much more. And stepping into my analytical mindset, I like how the changeling doesn't realize that despite their similarity, there is a difference between the killing instinct and the survival instinct. For example, in extreme cases, you may need to kill to survive. I also like the fact that he doesn't get that strength is more than what you can do in battle.
And as he said, there's a long way to go for her to be anything near a match for the original. But it'll do for now. In fact, learning too much would also attract suspicion, wouldn't it? So perhaps it's better that she just learns the basics.
Another detail also caught my attention. And it supports my theory that even if a Ghost can simulate the magic of other species, he can't truly replicate it. If the Ghosts were able to truly replicate the magic of other species, why couldn't one just use that ability to replicate the body and magic of a changeling queen? Couldn't that at least partly fix the reproduction issue with changelings? Or can they not replicate a changeling queen because it's not a different species? But if it's all the same kind of magic regardless, why can't other changelings transform out of necessity for the sake of reproduction?
Or maybe Ghosts can transform into changeling queens to reproduce but were just not intuitive enough to think about that idea. There's just something about how the changeling transformed to have a dragon head in order to properly use the powers that makes me think that it's plausible.
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Lot to unpack here.
Good catch, and I was trying to be so careful too. Corrected it in the story because he is precise. I guess I'm not.
Yes. Good job. You see what kind of a situation he's in, right? Some little "pathetic" pony filly has been in control of his body for a while now. Through all that time, reluctant though he may be, he's been learning about the world from her perspective which is indeed very different from his own upbringing.
Aww! That's so cuuuuuuuute!
I'll take one of those, especially if it's free.
Clearly, Chrysalis is holding something back. The question is exactly what. She seems capable of something that even the Ghosts can't pull off, namely quasi immortality and the ability to breed. On the other hand, Chrysalis didn't seem capable of matching supernatural abilities of other forms either, at least while she was on camera in the show. She could have been capable of potentially anything offscreen.
Thank you. I'm glad succeeded, at least with you, to make the characters feel alive enough to help you to care about them. This chapter is pretty brutal but it also ends with some victory and achievement for our little heroine. She's that much more prepared for whatever future challenges she faces now, and this chapter also reveals she has enough integrity to do it as herself. Whether that helps or not is yet to be seen. Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, but at least here Sweetie is being authentic to herself by holding her ground, and don't think that was too easy for her either.
The quote above reminds me of one Starlight said to Star Swirl as noted below along with a smug smile.