Love Drunk: Uncovered

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Weddings are high-risk feasts for changelings. Such unpredictable surges of love feed an entire hive for multiple years if they survive.

Written for 2023’s edition of the Thousand Words Contest

Yes, “Kevin” is the fanon name for the changeling featured in Slice of Life.

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origami

origami #1 · Jul 31st, 2023 · · ·

Interesting story, but I'm not sure where the horror tag comes into play

ibanix

ibanix #2 · Aug 2nd, 2023 · 1 · ·

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Kevin literally died from emotional overload and his body was going to be eaten by his hive

Starswirl the Beardless

Starswirl the Beardless #3 · Aug 3rd, 2023 · 1 · ·

This was a good story. An interesting take on a rarely-used character. Your prose was good, and it felt well-paced, despite the word limit. Good job overall.

Bicyclette

Bicyclette #4 · Sep 18th, 2023 · · ·

Today, Kevin was a foal. Specifically, a blue unicorn colt without a cutie mark.]

aww Kevin’s in this

For Kevin, the atmosphere charged him with high prana.

fun fact: my main exposure to terms like this is through the Mountain Goats song titles

Still, they were overruled by dual concerns over the heightened security and by the possibility that the Chrysalis hive would start a turf war if Kevin’s arrived en masse. “You’re young, hungry, and can store the spare love,” they told Kevin.

ooh, interesting! Kevin being from a different Changeling hive than Chrysalis’s makes a lot more sense

Something about love, yes. The specifics mattered to the ponies. He was not equine.

hehe, about as much effort as the writers might’ve put in

More and more, his head swam through the mixed sea of affection, eros, philios, and agape. His chitin fortified from the bath of nutrients.

aww, do love the idea of love as an energy source implying different qualities of different kinds of love. or flavors, as a food?

Yes, the Royal Sisters were guests of honor. Had his body been devoted to tasks other than gorging himself on an overdose of love, he may have wondered why Equestria’s boss mares had selected a wedding of donkeys in Ponyville to spend their day. Instead, he was too busy digesting all the ethereal emotions to care much.

indeed that does raise all sorts of questions!

Just like the dreams during infiltration academy. Betrayed by his own body. A black exoskeleton in a sea of pastels.
Luckily for him, Equestria’s ponies lived up to their (in)famously unobservant reputation.

very lucky!

A group of mares clustered away from him at the rear of the hall, too swept up in the moment's passion to notice that they were avoiding a changeling.

ooh fun re-interpretation of this canon scene which seemed very much like avoiding a Changeling

He transfigured into a second Celestia to burn off the backlog of calories, the concentration of fervor clouding his judgment.

probably not the best choice in a crowd that already contains a Celestia, but love-drunkness would explain the lack of judgment (or is this a commentary on some sort of canon discontinuity or error that implies two Celestias at the wedding?)

Pure morbid curiosity also piqued Twilight’s thirst for knowledge. After her BBBFF’s wedding, the changeling husks she helped clean up were husks. Empty shells no longer occupied by their buggy residents. This specimen was dense and full like his body had packaged itself to sustain crystalized emotions.

ooh fascinating! is Kevin relying on feigning death and being sent vaguely northward to reunite him with his hive carrying a payload of stored love energy? or did he actually die? is it meant to be ambiguous? but either way, definitely an interesting take on Changelings in general and Kevin in particular. thank you for writing!

FanOfMostEverything

FanOfMostEverything #5 · Sep 19th, 2023 · 1 · ·

Ah, Kevin. So many questions, so few answers.

Honestly, I feel you could have put this in Slice of Life. Maybe even Comedy. Maybe it’s just me, but this whole thing seems almost farcical. Yes, there’s the possibility of Kevin sacrificing his life to act as a love battery, but some insects do way messed-up stuff than that. Don’t get me started on slug parasites…

Still, fascinating story, especially the sheer amount of changeling headcanon you managed to cram in. Thank you for a most enjoyable read.

Da Beak

Da Beak #6 · February 24th · 1 · ·

Profound work. Easily topples 75% of fics around here. The flow of storytelling is very indirect, relying on subtleties to carry the action forward. Word choice is somewhat abstract, albeit perfectly balanced. Rich undertones of implicit comparisons and things to be open for interpretation. I'd hang this miniscule snippet of text in museums to tell all the passing visitors that "this is how you write a good story"

Only 15 likes are you kidding me?!?!

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