Changeling Love: How Does it Work?

Nope. Not even the writers knew so they said

Well shit we need a new toy introduced obligatory so let's slap rainbows on em

>>28610703
Maybe it was too much at once, or they cant feed off of love for themselves?

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>>28610703
D-Y-E-W-T-S?

Think back to what BTFO'd them the last time.

>>28611492
But that was some kind of love-power-explosion-protection-spell-combination, It was not already-fed-upon love that the changelings poses.
The whole "love is food for the changelings" doesn't really make much sense. It's so vague that it seems like it's just whatever the writers wanted it to be at any time.
I was OK with it in A Canterlot Wedding, just because It was a new development and looked like it could be fleshed out into an interesting worldbulding mechanism.
Now it just looks like they use it as an excuse for stuff to happen, without any intention of logic.

>>28611580
>But that was some kind of love-power-explosion-protection-spell-combination

Nah, it was love you dunce.
Since, as you've seen, Chryssi was already ready to BTFO Celestia who was the single most powerful magical being in existence at the time so no pony magic could touch her by then.

>>28610703
It's not that recieving love fucked Chrysalis, it's that GIVING love is what upgraded Thorax and the others

They all embraced giving love to others for the sole purpose of sharing love and fuck this sounds gay but that's how it works

While before they had delivery drones bring love back to the hive to ensure survival, Thorax taught them that instead they can rely not on deceit and stealing love, but rather friendship and the mutual love it creates. Once that was embraced, the changelings upgraded and the throne was like "o shit" and blew up

Chrysalis does not want to embrace this. She cares only about her own power and her subjects. However, her subjects have abandoned her methods. The methods that have kept the changelings alive for so long. She felt betrayed by her children who she tirelessly led to ensure their survival. This new "friendship love bullshit" is just that in her eyes. Bullshit. She feels no love, no matter how much the other upgraded changelings would give to her.

All she feels is hatred and sorrow for the destruction of everything she has worked so hard to build up likely multiple times. Except now, there are no changelings by her side. She is now in a similar position to Thorax early on.

A changeling all by themselves.

>>28610703
Calm down Fire Brand

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>>28611909
deepest lore

>>28611909
huh

>>28611909
>throne was like "o shit" and blew up

Small correction: the throne only absorbs non-changeling magic. So it makes sense that changelings would be able to destroy it using their own love/magic since the throne doesn't suppress theirs.

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>>28611909
That's a decent explanation for piss-poor writing. Apparently changelings collect love for themselves and bring it back to their hive, but this doesn't count towards "sharing love." Apparently the love from a few days of awkward friendship Thorax had with the Crystal Empire ponies was enough to instantly transform an entire race. Chrysalis cares for and presumably loves her subjects, but that doesn't count because she's "evil" so her home and all her children are taken away.

If they wanted to reform the bugpones, that's fine, but it needed to be about the ponies accepting all of the changelings. Fear and mistrust of changelings drives them to deceit and conquest; ponies freely sharing love and friendship ends their hunger and allows them to live in peace. But no, the writers were too focused on Glimmer and her lesson, and shoehorned in Thorax as a deus-ex-machina love bomb in order to instantly change a fan-favorite race into sparklemoths.

>>28610703
When i saw those colored changelings i hoped for th EoH to return and "free" the changlings from the queens corruption and change em back to theire former selves and give us some history of equestria

But yeah fuck it love'n shieet is enough, right?

>>28610703
human feed on food
so then how giving human food kill human?
how human powers work?

>>28612489
They fucked up bretty bad, yes

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>>28612690
>humans eat food
>humans are selfish and eat food themselves
>humans should share food with each other
>*flash of light*
>now humans don't need food anymore!

>>28611909
>>28612489
I feel this sentiment had been implied all along, but the shitty writing dulled the impact somewhat. The changelings had the desire for change all along, it only took them a good opportunity to act on it.

>>28610703
Your image answer the question, she needs to devour it like she does in that scene, otherwise it's just raw, unfocused energy.

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>>28613010
I'd be fine if the changelings were REformed, not TRANSformed. Like others have said: give the drones a chance to live out in the open and make friends with ponies, give them sparkly wings and make then seem all happy and peaceful about it. Make Chrysalis into a grumpy, reluctant student of friendship like Discord, while keeping her status and hive intact. I think most of us would be happy to see a plotline like that, considering how often it comes up in fanfiction.

It'd actually be better for the show too, Discord is a far more fun character now that he's reformed and the same could be true for Chrysalis. Imagine a plotline in S7 about the manesix needing changeling magic or power to solve some problem, and having to overcome their mistrust in order to accomplish a goal.

>>28612928
That image. I died.

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>>28611580
The changelings were an all-out force of evil in the beginning.

They had frightening designs, being dark, bug-like, and fanged. And they ATE freakin' LOVE.
In a land filled to the brim with affection among cute colorful citizens, these guys were the ultimate foes.

In terms of changelings vs. ponies, it made sense thematically.

But since redemption seems to have become a pretty big part of the show, the changelings of course couldn't be kept around as they originally were.
So we got the half-assed event of love turning changelings good (and colorful) because love is just awesome.

>>28613010
>sentiment all along
did you miss the part where thorax called himself special among an evil race? at his memory of what all the other changelings where like? how he was different? you are moronic. Chrysalis has done more for her hive than Celestia has (not that this is saying much, if anything, Chrysalis might feel akin to her somewhat, the only thing that needs to happen for them to be on equal footing is to have all her ponies come to chrysalis and abandon her, she's certainly already been BTFO plenty). They have no reason to hate her. She's not even short on physical affection.

>>28613177
>they ate love
plenty of things eat meat in equestria. guess that makes them evil. Changelings are dark and edgy but they are not evil by design, they are malicious by design. they trick you, they are the mesmerist or the hypnotist, the illusionist that destroys trust. How can you trust something that you can't even tell if you are really trusting them or they have you. It makes sense for the ponies to never get along with them, but that doesn't make them a blanket evil race.

>>28613062
I think that's the main problem; we've had that plotline played out one too many times already.

>>28613615

Doesn't matter much that we had the conflict replayed. They pretty destroyed half the conflict that could've been interesting for changelings.

>>28612489

>Chrysalis cares for and presumably loves her subjects

I don't think so, and that's the key to the whole thing. Even in the end when it was shown how changelings could end their eternal hunger and reach their final form, Chrysalis made it pretty clear that being the ruler was all she cared of.

As long as the changelings treated love as a limited resource, there was no way they'd share what they needed to survive. And apparently that was how Chrysalis kept them in a short leash and under her control, something which wouldn't work out if her subjects knew they could create more love for others without losing what they themselves had.

It was nice to see Chrysalis didn't reform just like that though. The bug queen waifu is still out there, and presumably creating a new hive to mislead into serving her like the old one before.

And an interesting question no one has yet adressed: Without a queen, will the hive of the new kind of changelings be able to breed?

>>28614065
>>28613365

>>28614065
>I'll defend shitty writing with shitty writing.
retard, we already went over this. why do you keep posting this gabarge in every thread, and if you haven't. why dont' you go read and understand that this has been answered in other similar threads.

Chrysalis does care bout her subjects. her actions in this is fucked by shitty writers who prefer ass pulls over substance

>>28614088

>>28614093


I hadn't read that before writing here, but I disagree with it. Ruling isn't about what she *needs*, if that was all she cared of she could have been eternally satisfied like every other changeling. She didn't want to take over Canterlot and risk herself to feed her minions, she wanted to conquer it so it would be her domain.

Some people don't seem to understand how lust for power works.

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>>28610703
1. She gets defeated by the sudden explosion of love.
2. How does giving too much electricity to a toaster blow it up? How does supplying too much electricity to that guy who wrapped his dick in tinfoil and stick it in the electrical outlet blow his dick up?
It's because too much of any source, even love food, will destroy you.
3. This is a true mystery, since they could have pretended to be ponies and infiltrated the Crystal Empire to gain intel prior to their invasion. If anything from the episodes tell us, they have a hard time actually being around love. It's like a crack head told he needs to work in a crack plant...he's gonna lose control.
This then leads us to the answer: They didn't realize this power, because they couldn't actually enter the Crystal Empire and remain stable.
4. I think the essence of the Changelings is they are incapable of love. They're so devoid of love, they actually need to steal it from others in order to remain alive. This then leads us to question how one of the most generic changeling underlings is able to care for others and successfully become integrated in to the Crystal Empire pony society? Do they need to feed off of love in order to survive, or do they choose to feed off of it like an unnecessary drug?
5. I doubt they know. They probably write each episode with a moral in mind, and say "fuck if it makes sense it's magic, bitch." and leaves it at that.

>>28614207
You dont seem to understand she could have it done easier, without risking an open invasion.
And yet, its her role to provide food for her changelings, she said so herself, its one of the first things she said.

>>28614277
fucking this.
>>28614207
you don't fucking get it. she had the power to defeat celestia but she never thought she could actually do it at that point. she was surprised to win. if she actually didn't give a shit, she could have waited long enough till she felt supremely confident she could take celestia where she wanted and quickly, and then replaced her, effectively making equestria hers, and showering her with even more love. The invasion was pressed for time. Social manipulation would have made chrysalis the ruler of the entire nation.

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>>28614277
>>28614345

Her strategy and the invasion were indeed badly planned, no matter what her motives were. Saying it's her role to provide food for her subjects is like a politician saying his goal is the good of the nation - just a mandatory thing to say to stay in power.

I also understand wanting to rule openly instead of while pretending to be Celestia. Not the smartest thing to do, but conquest really feels like a conquest when you can force your banner on it.

>>28614455
that's all speculation, and also claiming that she was simply lying. I could just as easily claimed that Thorax is still evil, and just lied to Spike, and will play the same role as Chrysalis did

>>28614455
>its all talk, she isn't really finding food for her subjects
you are a fucking idiot. she put herself in the most dangerous position and fought the most terrifying opponents head on. Very rarely do warrior kinds, let alone politicians, pull that kind of shit.

>>28614455
>wanting to rule openly.
so it'll take a few years of subterfuge. a change one decade, another after another. all the while mind controlling luna, and pumping her for information. If she didn't mind the long game Luna might even be the better choice. She'd have to fool celestia, but her motivations and luna's more closely align; getting subjects to adore her as celestia's does. no matter what is selected, Eventually the other one falls under her mind control and she herds Equestria to a future of her choosing

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Regardless of her motivations, Queen Chrysalis is actually the ONLY one who really NEEDS to be reformed. Changelings seem perfectly capable of covertly feeding off love in disguise, without harming anypony, and as Thorax demonstrates they are also capable of peaceful coexistence and friendship with ponies.

Chrysalis is bad because she wants to overtly dominate Equestria; she's not satisfied with manipulation and disguise, but instead wants to defeat the Princesses and rule out in the open. So at the end of the S6 finale, all of the hapless drones are turned into sparklebugs for no reason, while their leader, the only one who actually poses an existential threat to Equestria's safety, is allowed to escape for no reason!

Even if you don't hate the changedlings, and accept the bullshit logic of their transformation, there's no excuse for focusing on them and not their Queen.

>>28614745
did you miss the part where they made changelings born evil?

maybe you repressed it or something but they already made it clear they gave no fucks about changelings

>>28614815
Well, we know the writers didn't give a fuck about the drones, considering how they were only used as punching bags or visual gags before Thorax showed up.
I was just saying that if the writing was consistent, then getting Chrysalis to reform would mean all her drones would stand down and accept friendship as well.

>>28614867
From literally every source which can even remotely considered be canon Chrysalis is shown as nothing else but pure evil. Why would she reform?

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>>28616249
Because I like her character, would like to continue to see her on the show, and believe it would teach a better moral than simply deleting her from existence.
I mean, why did they reform Discord? He was essentially an evil, untrustworthy madman for at least two seasons and they never decided to permanently transform him into something less threatening.

>>28616303
Discord was never pure evil, he just wants chaos.
Chrysalis is pure evil. If you like her character you wouldn't want to see her reformed as that would break her character. You don't deserve her.

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>>28614093
>Chrysalis not acting how she does in my fanfiction is shitty writing.

Every episode, comic and chapter book she's been in has been consistent in the fact that she's a greedy, selfish, evil racist who only gains pleasure in seeing ponies suffer.

If caring for her subjects was her primary motivation, she would teach them to hide among ponies to get their fill of love, but she doesn't instead she teaches them to attack ponies and drain their love forceflully, and if she care about her subjects at all, she wouldn't have told Canterlot she was coming before her drones could get inside the bubble. Instead she arranged a situation where she could drain all the love of the groom and all the bridesmaids while her "children" were stuck outside starving to death.

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>>28616337
>>28616587
Comics Chrysalis is difficult to redeem, but show Chrysalis could easily be written into a misguided antagonist who seeks power and domination in order to protect and feed her drones. And why would you want her to be a purely evil character? If she's completely irredeemable there's only two options: destruction like Sombra or transformation into a sparklebug. Either way, she's out of the show forever. I'd much rather have Chrysalis retain her evil appearance but be a snide, reluctant student of friendship like Discord. Plus reforming her would teach a nice lesson about trusting others who look different, who do things for motivations you don't understand or agree with.

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>>28614065
>Without a queen, will the hive of the new kind of changelings be able to breed?
It was never clarified that changelings need a queen to breed.

Everybody could just breed with one another.

>>28617015
thorax will have to get fucked and birth all the eggs from now on.

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>>28616689
>reforming her would teach a nice lesson about trusting others who look different
This was actually a pretty big failure on the show's part, I'd say.

Deus Ex Machinas, plot holes, and character inconsistencies aside, the changelings could have been a great lessons for viewers (kids) about not judging someone on their appearance. They look fucking terrifying compared to cute ponies, but Thorax showed that they're not necessarily all evil and that they COULD be good.

But now they're cute and lovable just by looks instead.

>>28614065
>Even in the end when it was shown how changelings could end their eternal hunger and reach their final form, Chrysalis made it pretty clear that being the ruler was all she cared of.
I don't see why so many people think so.
She felt betrayed by her clan because they trusted a traitor and an enemy, not because she couldn't control them with a lie anymore. This is why she was considering giving in.

Chrysalis literally became lustful for revenge

>>28618320
WHOOOOOOOOOO

>>28618320
>she just might be willing to bang you now if you offered to help

>>28616587
>episode
haha no
>comics
leave

>>28610703
fucking magic

>>28612928

shares food with someone you care about, especially if they are starving

you dont even feel hunger for period of time because good feels drowns it out

new friend helps you find even more food

both have net increase, get to know each other better along the way

both becomes stronger an dmore influential in society

repeat process

those who dont fall under influence realize in their interest to try

i guess the question now is: Do the new changlings still need to feed on love? I would find it complete BS for Changelings to now no longer need to feed on love because they now give love.

>>28612690
Human hit other human with stick to get more food.
If stick break, now human have two stick.
Stick always win.

>>28619538
for each stick, the stick gets smaller.

>>28619628
Is stick gets smaller or is it other way?
What if stick stays same but we are expanding around it?!

>>28619523
Why would they? Thorax didn't feel hungry once he made some friends. It seems pretty clear the nu-lings wouldn't need to shapeshift or feed on love since their "reformation."

>>28621610
So changelings aren't changelings anymore?

Fuck this bullshit.

>>28619460
thats not how it works retard. These new changelings do not feed on pony love at all. gaurenteed

>>28619523
they get love from their friends and family like normal people do.
changelings didnt give love, so they took the places of others and consumed the love meant for them. If other changelings give them love they wont need to deceive anyone anymore.

I always thought changelings were incapable of feeling real love because they were drones.

>>28622455
>durrr
you idiot. Changelings don't need love for psychological reasons. they need it to live. it's their food. not having it is like cutting out all lipids and fats of any kind from your diet. It doesn't matter how many 'friends' you have. you're going to fucking die.

see>>28612928

>>28622784
I didnt say they didnt need it for food, its just that they produce the love for their kin now, and their kin produces it for them. They live off of love and now their kin gives them the love they need to not starve.

its dumb. esspecially cause if that were possible from the start they were being idiotic deceiving people the first place.

>>28614815
they are not exactly born evil. they are like catterpillars that may turn into beautiful gay butterflies if they embrace the love. But Chryssy has always told everyone that stealing love is the only way. That might not have been her fault tho, as that deceipt could have existed amongst changelings for generations.

>>28616249
Tirek and Sombra are the only MLP villains who are "pure evil". Chrysalis is the most sympathetic villain of the show in concept. She has to feed on others in order to feed her people. This creates a shit ton of room for drama and inner conflicts. But the show staff never uses it, I guess they're more interested in trying to create a conflict for Glimglam that doesn't suck balls

he

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Literally THIS would be a better ending.

>>28622994
>i didn't say they didn't need food
>I just said infinite power makes total sense
leave

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snap crackle pop

>>28623961
But that would mean the ponies would have to give forgiveness and friendship to a race of scary creatures who don't look like them!

It'd be far better to rewrite them into something colorful and inoffensive so we don't have to learn any lessons or have any actual emotional drama!

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>>28624070
>the ponies' eyes and legs twitch while cocooned
creepy...

>>28623974
I didnt say it made sense, I meant that that's the show logic. Which I think is dumb.
I always imagined Changelings feeding on love eventually left the subject as a love-less husk.

>>28624070
>"Hey anon, Let me show my pony collection

>>28626009
>not Hyperspace Hyperwars collection

>>28625849
We still don't really know how changelings feed, do we?
There's the spell Chrysalis put on Shining Armor to absorb his power, but there's also the mouth-to-mouth thing she did to Thorax.

And then there's those giant cocoons, which might drain ponies dry, or maybe just incapacitate them for later.

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>>28625705
thats how you look when you are actually asleep and dreaming, it's called rapid eye movement sleep. One of the few subtly implied things about the cocoons seems to be taken to heart that it either allows or makes you dream. Cadence is asleep, but Celestia is awake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrcoSlmkqSE

>>28626422
we know from implication that changelings can feed slow and fast. Slow because their changeling forms allow them to infiltrate, fast because chyrsalis commands her subjects to feed on canterlot despite a war zone being a not so fertile location for ambient love absorption.

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>>28626422

The way the captured ponies were twitching and constantly opening/closing their eyes led me to believe the cocoons probably put them into some kind of heavy sleep state with induced/controlled dreams to cause them to perpetually produce love to be used by the hive whenever needed. I figure it was also why Luna was able to get a message out using her dreamwalking abilities, and maybe why they were able to pull her back through the fuckin moon or whatever was going on there.

Now that all bugs everywhere were purified by learning to not be such assholes for about 10 seconds, maybe thee new colorbugs will make use of the cocoons to open custom dream parlors for willing pony participants.

what if the new changelings' appearances are what they were meant to be all along?

What i mean is, what if a deficiency of love is what causes their appearance to become the blackened form? it would explain the holes in their legs, since a deficiency would cause the body to lack the resources/energy to repair itself.

And when they released their love, triggered a rapid regeneration of the body manifesting as a cocoon wrapping around the changeling to allow for safe repair.

I guess my only question now is if they require to ingest physical matter for the purposes of biological assimilation (i.e. to form/grow their bodies)

>>28626638
>what if they where meant to be shit all along
no need to bend over backwards trying to come up with a reason to back up this kind of stupidity. That only works for minor plot holes and contrivances, not retconning and entire race and removing anything unique about them except chitin.

>>28626638
1. This wasn't what they were meant to be all along since back when they were created the series was only meant to last until the season 3 finale.
2. The comics gave an explanation for how the holes happened and don't you toss me the "comics aren't canon but my headcanon is" bullshit in Chrysalis' Fiendship is Magic issue. I won't spoil it if you haven't read it, if you have, you'll know what I meant. My personal theory on why the holes persisted past that 1 army is genetic damage.

>>28626702
>not understanding i was speaking from a lore perspective
retard

>>28626720
>The comics gave an explanation for how the holes happened
and the comics also stated changeling can only change into ponies, while that other creature (forgot its name) could change into anything but a pony. so there's that.

>>28610703
>writers
>ever knowing what's happening
what the fuck even is "love?" And how did Thorax just "give" it to her?

>>28626826
>My idea isn't shit, you just don't understand why I like it.
no. it's shit. you can't turn every kind of shit into fertalizer. not all shit is created equal. this is not manuer, not even horse apples. it's fetid human excriment of the kind excreted from someone who drinks and eats only fat, sugar, and meat, filled with additives and the remnants of their decaying built in life support system. It's garbage, and it needs to be removed from anything you would like to be salvagable.

>>28626867
yeah, they don't really explain what love is, or how it can be quantified. We don't even really see the act of feeding actively, aside from the draining thorax experienced. Chrysalis's feeding on thorax's love could just be his love infused magic getting drained.

As far as I can tell: the act of feeding on love is just the interaction because the presence of love (in one form or another), and the changeling's magic. The magic reacts to love by becoming energized, and the changeling uses that to make some kind of sugar for celluar processes. Like a plant, but with love instead of light.

The changeling doesn't need to be the target of love(though i think it greatly helps it), merely in its presence. This is suggested by Kevin's appearance at Cranky's wedding.

all headcanon aside. I think the writers are just pressed for time and just need to pull something from their ass just to fulfill hasbro's executive orders.

>>28626879
okay, give us a plausible explanation without involving "the writers don't know what they are doing"

I get that you don't like the new look, but to give no reason for the change and relying on "no, your idea is shit" doesn't do any

>>28626973
anything productive. Ctrl Z'd accidentally

>>28626973
>>28626986
>I'm a retard who can't read
did you miss like the last 3 days and ignore every thread that popped up? all of this shit has been explained, including in this thread. The fucking ending is an asspull, destructive to the uniqueness and character of the show and races in it, and offers a shit lesson in the process.

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>>28627215
>The fucking ending is an asspull
>pic related

> destructive to the uniqueness and character of the show and races in it
you mean like the last 4 seasons have been? why not do us all a favor and just stop watching, and move on with your life. Clearly you don't enjoy yourself while watching the show anymore.

Thorax x Chrysalis

where they take the changelings after n one knows

does chrysalis ascend and fall in love, or does thorax revert as a daddy master

>>28627648
i'm guessing they're going to save chrissy's redemption for the next toy set. they have thorax for now.

>>28627648
>Thorax x Chrysalis
Not gonna happen for the same reason other couples don't happen: Coupling isn't relevant to little prepubescent girls.

>>28627666
unless it's a pretty pink princess pony.

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>>28627685
True, but she was pretty much created for that one purpose.

>>28627648

Thorax

horny deprived omega cuck who secretly wanted the most to please the queen out of them all, is smart, turned chad who knows what love is and can share it with others

Chrysalis, alpha bitch suffering from a broken heart and put everything into her children, a parasite for love now alone and running away from her problems to create new ones

if thorax gives into desire he reverts back, but maybe he can reform chrysalis

>>28627736

>yfw you are a prince and have to marry a crazy girl for your country's peace and stability so her parents don't have to put up with her shit at their castle

feudalism man

>>28627756

>or attack your castle and country

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>>28627648
Thorax admits he's still a hapless drone on the inside who doesn't know the first thing about leadership. The drones are unsure and directionless without a leader.

Chrysalis returns, twisted by hate and revenge into an evil monster who tries to destroy Equestria. Cue two-parter battle where she is eventually defeated by the manesix.

Chrysalis and the reformedlings reunite, Thorax absorbs Chrysalis' hate, transforming them all back into their original character designs. Chrysalis agrees to reform and seek peace in exchange for the chance to lead her people again.

>>28627318
>durr you have to like everything, how dare you call attention to a shows flaws.
You are the one who needs to stop watching the show, because apperantly the truth about it is enough to sour the taste of it for you. fuck off.

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>>28629359
>mlp staff undoing a controversial change

What show do you think you're watching? Adventure Time?

>>28623961
Isn't that what everyone wanted in the first place? In a less cringy way?

>>28630382
More or less, yes.

>>28621610
>because he made some friends
He said since Spike so are Thorax's feelings about someone in accounts with how much he gets?

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>>28630608
Beats me.
I think we're putting far more effort into explaining how changelings work than the writers ever did.

>>28617753

>births the eggs

He probably has a designated brood mother. What if Thorax decides, as a sign of goodwill towards the pony kingdom, that Starlight or Trixie should birth a batch of changelings?

>>28631687
>breeding more sparklebugs
We should be reducing their numbers, not adding to them!

>>28631687
Except ponies don't lay eggs, but they might be able to fertilize them. further testing is required.

>>28632063
maybe cordyceps exsists in some areas of equestria, but since the changlings weren't welcome before, so they never stuck around long enough to contract it. But now that they can go anywhere and stick around, they discover the friendly little fungus

>>28629359
They need to pull a sombra and just kill her off in the next season so she doesn't have to suffer the same travesty as the other changlings and keep her dignity when she goes

>>28610703
Love distilled is made of magic. Magic distilled can be bottled up. For them love is something of a commodity.

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>>28633156
Love isn't magic, but changelings use magic to extract love from a host. They then digest it in their little bug bellies for food, or transform it into magical power. Dunno how they would bottle it up, unless they regurgitate it or something.

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>>28632412
Blast her into a portal so her fate remains ambiguous. Or send her to live with Tirek, if they don't end up redeeming him too.

>>28632412
her never showing up again would be a fine way to keep her dignity. please for the love of god. no more changeling episodes, let these fuckers be forgotten like the yak yaks.

>>28634798

>Or send her to live with Tirek, if they don't end up redeeming him too.
>if they don't end up redeeming him too

I really liked how this season had something of a tragic villain that had a similar background to a reformed character, and having the reformed hero offer redemption only to get rejected.

There could be some massive feels if we see Scorpan reaching out to his brother and getting rejected a second time.

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>>28632412
I'm surprisingly okay with the thought of this happening.

It would be sad to see her go, but it might still be a little better than watching her turn into a flutterpony or whatever the fuck those new bughorses are.

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>>28612928
You guys are making me die of laughter
(Not at you)

enough electricity to an electrical device, and it runs. too much and it dies catastrophically. it's kind of like that.

>>28634281
What if they excrete a type of honey like bees or ants do and store it in special compartements or even other changelings?

>>28636691
Even if it's shit as a fic one of the best chrysalis lines is from a fic where she says something to the effect

"of course we need ponies, we need them like water, too little, and you starve. Too many, and you drown."

now the fact that she isn't even wrong hurts

>>28638585
>changeling honey
>has a green tint to it and when you eat it you feel the love that was put into it
>between friends, maternal, romantic, erotic
>also, very nutritious
>what is produced in addition to honey is sticky green goo that is used as building material, similar to wax from bees.

>>28638641
*as a byproduct

>>28638641
>if hardened the construction wax shines like amber
>some hives are constructed to counter this shines
>others utilize it to confuse intruders

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>>28638641
Sounds delicious.