Twilight Sparkle has only recently become a Princess of Equestria. However it seems that with her new position has come a new responsibility. Twilight must now answer a summons from the leader of a rival nation, one with whom she has personal history with as well.
The new royal has been curious as to what had happened to the Changeling queen after her defeat in Canterlot. She had expected such a powerful villain to mount some kind of retaliation in the weeks and months after the incident, but nothing had ever come. So why was the first hint of anything from them a letter left at the door of her humble library home? Why has Chrysalis waited this long? What is it that she wants? And why did she request Twilight specifically?
My first time writing for Chrysalis, or Changelings in general. I've never written for any particularly angry characters before, so I feel like I want to have some fun with that. Honestly not going into this with a great plan, I've just been reading a lot of fics with them lately and felt inclined to do one for myself.
Setting for this will be a little muddy. Obviously set after the Canterlot wedding and Twilight becomes a princess, but before she gets her castle. It will involve some elements from the show, but I'm not sure if they'll properly fit into any kind of timeline.
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Doesn't say anything about keeping this meeting a secret, it just says to come alone. Twilight talked this out with Celestia first, right?
Oh good, so she did tell Celestia.
There is a lot of hesitation. My...? My what? I believe it has something to do with the romance tag.
... Ok well that changes everything. Is it some kind of law? Whenever a war is fought between Changelings, the victor is the new ruler of the Changelings or what?
This is an interesting story, I already enjoyed reading. I hope to see more of this story. I haven't seen a story like this be published for 1 or 2 years, it's also very rare to see any Twilight X Chrysalis romance stories.
Is this another “this character is actually a changeling” story?
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I’m more hopeful that Twilight is still a pony but she won the right to become queen’ from her victory over Chrissy.
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That's my guess.
interesting story reminds me of my own oc's back story and another story I read that has twilight being a changeling and hiding it from the others but I do wonder what will happen next
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I second that. But I'll also add that I think Twilight's victory over Chrysalis triggered some ancient custom whereby the losing queen must marry the winner, whether Chrysalis likes it or not... at least that's the only guess I can make regarding the "romance" tag.
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So it's not.... Willing? If what you say does happen then I hope Chrysalis does eventually develop feelings for Twilight.
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Well, I made this assumption because there are already similar stories.
One of them: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299781/changeling-courtship-rituals
And yes, I also hope that Chrysalis will develop feelings for Twilight if the story goes the way described earlier.
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Them getting married would be great too.
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Thank you all for so much enthusiasm. I love seeing your comments and finding out what you think about how the story might go. Thanks also for including my story on so many of your shelves. As far as your inquiries and guesses as to where the story is going, sorry no spoilers. One thing I will say, is that this story will not include any rainbow changelings. I really didn't like that idea on a fundamental level. If changelings are going to be accepted by ponies, it'll be as changelings.
I'd also like to let you all know that I have a few chapters of this story nearly completed, so it'll have a regular release schedule. At least for the next month. I'll try to release them every week, as early as possible for all of you. Again, thanks so much.
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i thank you for not adding what I call the fake changelings
Definetly an interesting ending to the first chapter. I have to wonder if she has always been one or if there is going to be some form of tradition or similar that in besting Chrysalis she took the title. Looking forward to finding out either way.
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Hey buddy, good hearing from you again. You'll find out in a week how things ended up this way. Glad to hear you're liking it so far.
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Glad to see a new story from you.
Mmmmmmm, we'll see. Also Chrysalis was defeated by her because she was arrogant and overconfident. She's basically just Nightmare Moon but as a Changeling.
... Ah.... Ok so this... Is alot more then what I was expecting. But I doubt they will end.
.... Twilight did most of the work. Shining Armor barley did anything if you really think about it. Actually I don't think he did anything at all.
... But wouldn't that end all the Changelings anyways?
I think this was far from what anyone was expecting. I was expecting marriage, but apparently when a Queen is bested, that Queen is replaced by the victor.
Edit: Actually now that I look back at my previous comments this is pretty much what I predicted.
Ohh nice twist, she’s still a pony Alicorn. Will she have access to the hive mind? (If there is one in your AU)
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Yeah, you're catching a lot. And I like reading your comment your comments and seeing your thought process. I'll say too, you might be right about some other stuff as well. Even one where I want to tease a point, but it might reveal too much. I just hope you don't predict too much so it's still fun for you when the actions happen
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Hopefully I'll figure that out now that I've started publishing. Working against a ticking clock decreases stress and makes creativity easier, right
There will be. I'm also throwing around the idea of a Changeling language, though I'm not sure how to integrate it. It is one of the points that had me stalled in the story previously. As to whether or not Twilight will get access.... undecided actually
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You could always make it some kind of spell/unique magic. There’s another fic on here where changelings just use unique magic for their hive mind and transformations but Twilight is able to learn it without becoming a changeling, since she’s the alicorn of magic and friendship. I can’t remember its name right now since it’s a bit older.
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Interesting way of doing it. Having Twilight figure it out would be a nice show of her talents, which is something I love when fics can capture right. However I have a loose idea for a later scene that I think would benefit of she can't use the hive mind. I don't know, this is why I don't consider myself a real author.
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Welp I look forward to reading more.
The lack of response to “Speak to me” is particularly sad.
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Yeah, that was one of my favorite lines of this chapter. I wrote this because I wanted to write an angry character, and I think that part is working. But finding a way to balance that is proving fun, but also challenging.
i wonder what route this story will go peace or war but great chapter either way
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I am a fan of happy endings.... but at the same time I did specifically write this story to write a very angry character. Hard to say where it might go right now
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i am good with whatever
I did not expect that the consequences of the defeat would be so serious for Chrysalis.
it still seems strange to me that the biology of changelings chose Twilight as the "winner" despite the fact that the formal victory belongs to Cadence and Shining.
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It seems to me that in this case, Chrysalis is more angry at herself and who she is than at Twilight. She is simply infuriated by the fact that she lost because of her arrogance and that now she has to give everything, including herself, to someone she considered weaker than herself. and the cherry on the cake of anger is that she does not have a chance to somehow regain her position on her own, remaining in the power of someone else for the rest of her life.
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Remove Twilight from the equation and how might that day have gone. Shining spent most of that episode as a zombie and Cadence was in a hole largely accepting her fate. It's just my interpretation though. It could be really funny if someone wrote an alternative of my story where Shining is the new changeling queen
I like your interpretation of Chrysalis's emotions btw. Anger and other strong emotions are very rarely rational. I've seen another stories where Chrysalis being a creature who operates on emotions, can literally only function at the extreme ends of the spectrum. Not exactly what I'm going for here, but writing for her being angry and maybe a bit irrational is proving fun.
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I understand your logic.
I am curious how this played out after the Changeling invasion.
First off, intelligent species shouldn't kill, manipulate, or do cruel things to other intelligent species. Second off, what? Third off, she can't do that. And even if she could she wouldn't.
Mmmmmm. Judging by what Chrysalis has been saying, a few weeks will kill all Changelings. That explains the chapter title.
So Twilight has no choice but to stay.
Congratulations Twilight, your the Princess of Friendship, ruler of Equestria, and now Queen and ruler of all Changelings. This will play out interestingly.
I've seen very few stories where Twilight is both ruler of Equestria and Queen of Changelings but I enjoy every story I've read so far on the concept.
Going out on a limb to guess they are running on fumes at this point. Or the emotional equivalent anyway. Also you use pray instead of prey in the neither want nor need pity remark.
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I had to look that up to know what you were even talking about. Nice catch, you are right
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I might look into that more in later chapters.
Yeah.... yeah. Intelligent species shouldn't want to kill each other ......
Second between weird stuff assumed of Alicorn and the potential of changelings, who knows what they could do.
Third, Twilight is a changeling queen now. She just might have to, you never know.
Last two. Yeah, Twilight is in it for the long haul. Whether she likes it or not.
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Thank you
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i do wish they were longer but like i said great chapter
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Don't tell anyone, but the next chapter just might be over twice as long
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Yay
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Now to tell the press
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So because changelings can’t help having some biologically hardwired instincts that run counter to what ponies would reflexively expect of each other, Twilight is now stuck as their queen at least until someone else defeats her in turn. Yeah, that’s going to take a while to sort out...and since Twi simply isn’t the sort to just “breed Chrysalis to death and be done with her”(*), the latter will also hang around for a good while longer than she may expect just yet.
(*) However that would work out between two females, although I guess that in regular changeling succession the new queen also gets control of all the viable males and can then sic them on the old.
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Magic makes a lot of things possible. And besides that, changelings seem to have a very adaptive biology. Who knows what could be possible.
Should I be concerned?
I think I'm understanding the chapter title now.
So its a literal love bomb?
Yeah okay, now I'm back to being concerned about the chapter title.
This seems a bit excessive, however I don't have complaints, besides the kicking. By the sounds of it, that would have fatally injured any regular pony or even Changeling. The only reason why Twilight probably wasn't injured at all is because she's an Alicorn.
Actually now that I think about it, the Changelings are dying, which means that kick would probably have killed them.
Over prepared, but again no complaints.
Oh gee, you think?
Knew there was a good reason to be concerned. Though I expected more of an explosion, like an outside explosion, though emotions happen on the inside so I guess this makes sense.
Love how they showed her love isn’t a finite resource so long as it’s freely given instead of taken.
I will be eagerly awaiting what happens when Twilight starts integrating the Changelings. Maybe bring them back to her castle in Ponyville? She has always needed guards.
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Not quite
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Cartoon logic. Get smooshed like a pancake=complain that it was rude.
Twilight for to make backup plans for backup plans for backup plans. She was probably in heaven.
Yeah, genocide is never ok.
When got feel that tension build inside of your and finally release, what else could it be but a bomb.
This is my favorite chapter of this so far. Unfortunately it is also my last complete chapter, so I get serious with the writing thing.
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No castle yet, unfortunately. I know that hive mind don't work this way, but I like the idea of playing with it in a fantasy setting.
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Oh dang I didn’t pick up where in the OG timeline we were at… is she even an alicorn yet?
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Alicorn yes, castle no. That weird time when Twilight was princess of essentially just one small town library.
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Nice. Will definitely be interesting to see how it effects the timeline when she does get it by fighting Tirek.
Nice thought Twi but the proper way to deal with prolonged starvation is light easily digestible food in limited but frequent quantities. Not put a funnel of cake batter into their mouth and turn it on full blast.