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teecupangel · 7 days

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So I had the thought of Desmond becoming a MLP: fim changeling queen. Why a changeling? You may ask, because they are very cool.

If you don't know changelings are these horse-like bugs that can shape shift into pretty much anything even inanimate objects (or many that one is an illusion). They use this ability to collect love from other creatures since that's their main source of energy, seems like they need to eat normal stuff but in smaller quantities.

But for the sake of this Au let's say they can feed on the other emotions as well but the closer to love the emotion (example: happiness) the more energy they get. With love giving out the most energy.

So Desmond wakes up at Solomon's temple and sees he is some kind horse-bug and cause he is a queen changeling he is really big. Like draft horse big, even bigger than the Clydesdale. But still thin and spindly cause you know, bug. He wouldn't be like Chrysalis starved hive but also he wouldn't be rainbow colored like Thorax's. I see Desmond being desert colored for camouflage (dark red, brown, pale, black, sand) while having some white and red mixed in for the colours of the brotherhood.

Desmond curses his luck and wanders around trying to get used to his new body until Altaïr and company come for the apple. He discovers that he is completely armored and his carapace is really resistant and though, he is really strong capable of shatter stone with a kick, he is very flexible and can climb on surfaces like Spiderman, he can lift things with telekinesis through his horn (solves the issue of no hands), has this big bug mandibles that can come from his snout, his fleshy tail is very flexible and has a pair of stingers with a paralyzing venom, he has wings under his carapace like a beetle open it and fly, and he is pretty much an omnivore but absolutely loves flower nectar, honey, bee wax, and other insects.

One night while sneaking in a city he complains about not being at least a normal horse to not catch so much attention and then fiuussh he transforms into one of the smaller horses he saw in the stables he passed, smaller size and everything. He practices his new shape shifting ability and even figures out how to change color and become invisible. For now he can only shape shift into other quadrupeds, horses, dogs and even something as small as a cat. And that's how he discovers his new emotion based diet. Now that he can spend more time in the cities he doesn't feel as hungry and when some kids tried to pet him and play with him while disguised as a dog he felt an energy boost from feeding off the affection they were giving him.

So to kick off plot once the general date of the expedition to the temple comes Desmond comes back to the temple and waits. He turns invisible and when the fight for the apple comes he drops the invisibility and everyone sees his him in his big insect glory, they think Desmond is some Demon/guardian of the apple.

He manages to run off the templars, save Malik and Kadar and with his telekinesis gives Altaïr the apple.

From here I must clarify that Desmond can speak human languages perfectly he just chooses not to at the moment. And mainly uses this bug language of clicking, chittering, buzzing, crooning and hissing.

From here Desmond either goes back to being invisible and sneaks to Masyaf or just follows outright along with them outside the cave and transforms into a normal horse in front of them to travel back to Masyaf. With the second it allows for more interactions, Al Muslim gets to see Desmond at the beginning and they think the guardian of the apple is following them around and chose their faction as worthy of the treasure.

Al Muslim tries to order him around but Desmond just gives him the stink eye and follows Altaïr around. Using his shape shifting ability to help sneak around and get information, eventually learning how to transform into non-quadrupeds, humans and even inanimate objects. Every once in a while Desmond speaks like a human in public but everyone thinks he is just a very clever parrot except Altaïr who spends the more time with Desmond whose Desmond speaks more and more to everyday.

After Al Mualim is defeated Desmond makes Masyaf the place to put his hive without knowing, at this point everyone knows Desmond can speak and it's fully sapient.

When things calm down Desmond gets the surprise of his life when he lays his first clutch of eggs, he is not a Changeling Queen for nothing. And when the eggs hatch among the grubs is Clay (once Altaïr dies he will be reborn like this too).

The other changelings (changeling workers/soldiers) are also sapient and can do everything Desmond can but Clay becomes a sub-queen of sorts. Clay is a changeling whose function is to be the main Queen (Desmond) right hand, therefore Sub-Queen (princess). While the workers are regular horse sized Clay as Sub-Queen is somewhere in the middle is bigger than the workers but smaller than Desmond. Also Clay doesn't lay eggs (to Desmond's complains).

So now the brotherhood is composed of humans and changelings, who can infiltrate pretty much everywhere, their venom is widely used by the assassins and they make the templars incredibly paranoid of everything even their own pot plants.

If anyone in the brotherhood dares to even look at any of Desmond's hundred children wrong both Altaïr and Desmond will make their lives miserable.

(Now I see Altaïr with a handful of grubs who crawl all over him)

Masyaf becomes the main changeling hive and Clay goes on to make a second one in the nearest assassin headquarters (then he begins to lay eggs).

When Altaïr dies he is reborn as a grub that becomes another Sub-Queen. A lot of brotherhoods around now have a changeling hive with a Sub-Queen and all respond to Desmond (the main Queen).

Changelings feed on surrounding emotions and when they go infiltrate but they mostly feed on the affection of each other's and their fellow brotherhood members.

So when it's Ezio's turn he is just surrounded

By this three giant bug-horses and their million children/niblings.

There was a man who visits their home often. He would always be accompanied by a strange bunch. People in hoods and animals of various sizes…

All of them would call him ‘mother’.

Ezio swears the people with hoods and the animals would change at times, even when they had already entered their home.

It was strange.

Sometimes they would visit with one brown dog but leave with no dogs at all but the number of people would rise.

Other times, he would visit with butterflies on his hair and leave with no butterflies at all but cats walking behind him.

He never stays long, talking to Ezio’s father the longest then taking the time to talk to everyone else for a bit.

Ezio liked it when he visited.

He always gave them new toys they had never seen before. Sometimes, he would bring books that sounded interesting and would be read and borrowed between the siblings.

As Ezio grew older, the more he understood who the man he only knew as ‘Desmond’ was.

He was royalty.

The mother queen.

Ezio still didn’t know what that was supposed to mean and why he was called 'mother queen' instead of 'father king'. All he knew was that Desmond was the ruling matriarch of a kingdom they do not know about.

And House Auditore was part of that kingdom.

Ezio always thought they were nobles of Firenze.

But no.

They were spies.

He still remembered the conversation he had unintentionally eavesdropped on while Desmond was visiting them.

“I’ve warned you about being too close to Lorenzo de’ Medici, Giovanni.”

“I am loyal to the Brotherhood.”

“I do not doubt your loyalty. Just as I know that Clay is loyal to me, I also know Clay will do what he believes is right. The same can be said to you.”

“I am honored to be compared to the princess-”

“Clay would tell you that it’s meant to be an insult. But it’s not. I’m just telling you this to make you understand that just because you are loyal to the Brotherhood, it does not mean you are not compromised.”

“I can assure you-”

“If I order you to return to Monteriggioni with your family and to not return to Monteriggioni even if Lorenzo de’ Medici begged you to, would you do it?”

“Ezio Auditore.”

Ezio stepped back from the door and turned to face the unfamiliar voice who called out to him.

He looked a lot like Desmond but with golden eyes.

“I didn’t mean to-”

“It’s fine.” The golden-eyed man said, “You will hear what Desmond has ordered your father to do later anyway. Walk with me.”

“Uuuhh…” Ezio didn’t really have any reason to say no so he began to follow the strange man.

As they exited the hallway and made their way to the main room, a cat meowed and nuzzled the man’s legs before following after him, glancing at Ezio curiously only once.

By the time they reached the inner courtyard, five cats were following the man.

“Uuhhh…”

“Altaïr.”

It took a moment before Ezio realized that the man had introduced himself. He was unsure if he could just call ‘Altaïr’ or if he was a noble of higher standing than them so he just asked, “These cats…”

“My children.” Altaïr answered.

Oh.

He was one of those people.

“Sef.” Altaïr called out and a white cat with black fur on his legs and paws meowed as he sat in front of Altaïr, “Stay with Desmond and tell him that I’ll be training Ezio Auditore until he’s done with Giovanni Auditore.”

Ezio opened his mouth to speak but the cat’s meow was loud enough to stop him. Ezio watched the cat quietly make his way back inside before he turned to face Altaïr as he asked, “Training?”

A hooded man that Ezio swore was not there before handed Altaïr two blunt swords used for training and Altaïr threw the other sword to Ezio who caught it easily.

“Uh- merda!” Ezio shouted as Altaïr suddenly charged him, easily disarming him with enough force to stagger him off his feet.

“Get up faster. You’d be dead if I had followed up on my first attack. Again.” Altaïr ordered as he took a few steps back.

Ezio growled and stood. As soon as he grabbed the sword, Altaïr charged once more. Ezio managed to keep hold of his sword but fell on his ass when Altaïr smacked his cheek with the back of his hand.

“You’re too focused on my sword. If I had a hidden weapon on my left hand, you’d be dead. Again.”

Ezio growled once more.

This bastardo was asking for it.

Training only ended when a hooded man who looked too much like Desmond and Altaïr that Ezio had to take a doubletake, giving Altaïr an opening to hit him on the side with the pommel of his sword, announced that lunch was ready and Desmond would like Altaïr to eat with him and the rest of the Auditore.

As Ezio wheezed as he held his poor bruised side, Altaïr handed the sword to the hooded man who could have been mistaken as Altaïr and Desmond’s son as he said, “Very well. Check the perimeter before scheduling everyone’s meal time, Sef.”

“Darim is already on it, father.”

Wait.

Sef?

Did Altaïr named a cat after his son???

#desmond as a mlp changeling queen #i like the idea that desmond does not exactly have his own 'hive'#he just flits from hive to hive #he usually spends his time in the hive that has altaïr as the sub-queen #and that's where he usually stays #so altaïr sometimes comes with him whenever he visits other places #monteriggioni's hive has clay #assassin's creed #desmond miles #ezio auditore #altaïr ibn la'ahad #fic idea: assassin's creed #teecup writes/has a plot #ask and answer

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omaano · 18 days

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For the poly drawing meme, 2M or 1E! (Asleep pile and one-awake two-asleep slump respectively) if you wish!! ⭐️⭐️💫💫🤩 I would love anything Star Wars, platonic or ship (if you have any in mind!) 🥳 I am a big fan of your Mando, or any of the Vode, if that inspires you! 👀

Thanks so much for asking dear! ❤️ here we go dipping our toes back into @sidhebeingbrand and @toughbreaks changeling AU (I hope it's okay!) Also, I haven’t recommended it in quite a while, so this is your sign to go read it and heap some love on the spectacular writing and world building!! Because I'd give my life for this story and AU, and I didn’t forget how eagerly Gregor had tried to chat Din up in the first chapter XD so here you go, nap pile! Kinda

Boba is going to be down to 98 brothers if Gregor doesn’t wake up first though >:3

Help me get back into sketching through some of these polyam/platonic pose prompts :3

#I don't know how I feel about it but I think I finally figured out how to draw the clones appropriately young looking!!!#same face synfrome? I don't know here even though I really should #I've done my best to match Boba's scarring to my earlier drawing please appreciate that even though it's hardly visible #bobadin #and gregor #he's there I love him #changeling au #my art #answers #lesquatrechevrons #sizing characters appropriately and in reference to each other? Pft #not gonna happen unless i want to spend a week on a silly thing like this #this was so much fun thanks so much for asking!!!#poly sketches

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willgrahamscock · 7 months

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in my desperate attempts to not think about muriel on tiktok and the booktok lean my brain bought back a long forgotten thing - does anyone else remember the chapstick challenges???? (and being young and gay definitely not looking up two girls chapstick challenge).

muriel posts the tiktok and later is like "hey guys someone's asking for a chapstick challenge what's that" and aziraphale going "oh i dont wear makeup (it's not makeup but to him it is) but that sounds like something crowley might like" who is standing in the corner and two seconds away from turning into a snake

Muriel making aziracrow do couples challenges on tiktok post is my life rn.

Yes and then Muriel looks it up on tiktok and they gather on both sides of them (like the angel devil on the shoulder hehe) It's just dead silent with the annoying music looping. "absolutely not." Crowley says at the same time Az says "we could do that." they STARE at each other and Az is offended like "why not?"

"Why not? Angel, are you trying to get me discorporated?"

then they argue about weather angels are holy in the sense of if you come in contact with their fluids, it discorporates demons. "we've shared a cup of tea before! what about that time you accidentally turned your head and our lips brushed, or the other 4 times that happened?" Muriel speaks up "um, how can that happen accidentally so many times?"

#alex answers #i cannot stop thinking about this now #actual-changeling #good omens #good omens headcanons

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pinkytoothlesso11 · 3 months

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i Wish you were this fic when Jim is a changeling and the Son of Strickler

Well... Since this can be taken many, MANY different ways... In this AU Jim is a young changeling, younger than usual, who is placed with the Lake family because of how Barbara is doing her degree in medicine and James doesn't care about looking after him much. He is not treated well, but Barbara does not notice because she's always tired.

Strickler is alresdy protective of Jim, because he knows he's younger than a usual placement changeling is. But when he finds out that James hit Jim, that's the last straw and be whisks Jim away somewhere secluded to raise as his own, even away from other changelings. Strickler knows Bular would use him as a punching bag if he stayed in Arcadia.

So, Strickler keeps Jim away from humans, changelings and trolls, and ends up becoming rather soft hearted. To the point when he DOES return to Arcadia, he's been userped by Nomura, and labelled a traitor. (when he returns to Arcadia with Jim, he's 15 mentally AND physically).

Meanwhile, reeling from the loss of both James and Jim, Barbara is determined to find her son. Which is one of the reasons she ends up being the next Trollhunter. She discovers changelings and begins to be suspicious. It isn't too long before she bumps into Jim. She doesn't remember him, yet feels he should be familiar and ends up gaggletacking him.

This leads her to Strickler, who DEFINITELY remembers her, and is quick to snarl at her that her son is not coming back because she didn't even notice he was swapped by a changeling.

Barbara is distraught and asks Strickler if he will kill her now. He obviously says no, because he's tired of fighting and he has a adolescent changeling to raise and no home now that he's been pushed out of the Order.

So it is agreed Strickler and Jim will live with Barbara (and Draal) until something can be sorted out.

They end up moving in eventually, as Barbara rekindles a relationship with Jim, and also finds out that Strickler isn't too bad on the eyes and a doting father besides for all she's learnt about changelings only caring for themselves.

Blinky of course has a complete fit when he finds all this out.

(I know I could have gone angsty... But trust me, there's angst in this AU if you read between the lines).

#trollhunters #tales of arcadia #walter strickler #jim lake jr #stricklake #Barbara Lake #ask answers #Changeling! Jim AU #There are Not enough full changeling Jim AU's out there...#Strickler doesn't intend to deflect the order but it just happens #Jim's big blue eyes really are to blame for Strickler deciding it would be a good idea to adopt a young changeling #Strickler and Jim might be related by blood too... Somewhere down the line since I'm going to say Jim has wings

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arachnidsgrippysocks · 1 year

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Answer to all of those pony asks!!!!!!!! I'll tag everyone who didn't use anon so you know I answered. <3

@sharkrad08222222 @harshing-your-buzz @ponku-po @el-patito-de-los-ojos-triste @annas-art-because-thats-me

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talesofsymphoniac · 1 year

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Executor (about the Bachelor): A tempted destroyer. He could have accomplished a feat of moral heroism. The strongest, the most straightforward, he was too strongly tempted by vengeance and destruction for his not going through with it to be anything less than... miracle, or something close to one.

I know the whole "Bachelor chooses another ending is actually his good ending" thing has been talked about before, but like. That really is it. The Executors say that each protagonist has a miracle of their own, something to prove, and when you ask about Bachelor... that's his miracle.

#pathologic #daniil dankovsky #the changeling route is. so good for answers.

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creature-wizard · 4 months

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Following up on the ask by the other anon about the Fae/ Fair Folk, is it possible to separate the behavior attributed to some of the more mischievous Fae from antisemitic tropes? As an example the concept of a changeling where a Faerie steals a child and replaces it with their own appears to be well established but that same scenario has been imprinted on Jewish people in the form of goblins. So is there a separation, or is all Faerie lore just veiled antisemitism?

So, a thing that happened sometimes is that lore that was previously attached to various folkloric entities was projected onto Jewish people, effectively framing them as boogeymen. If you look into various lores around the world, you'll find certain tropes that are connected with antisemitic conspiracy theories (EG, whisking vulnerable or careless people away, drinking blood, eating human flesh) present among many of these creatures. Obviously, it's absurd to think that each and every one of these cultures' folklore was informed by a European moral panic, and equally absurd to think that Europe never had similar tropes among their own folkloric creatures before said moral panic.

The changeling trope is problematic, but not because it's antisemitic. It's problematic because it's ableist. Specifically, children who showed developmental delays or symptoms of what we would now recognize as autism were believed to be changelings. People had various notions of how they might get their "real" child back, including beating the supposed changeling until the fairy parent returned and insisted upon switching the children back because they couldn't bear to see their own child abused that way.

Basically, this type of changeling lore seems to stem from the same kind of thinking that has modern moms tearfully insisting that autism "stole" their child from them and sobbing over how they just want their "real" child back.

Back to the topic of faerie lore more generally, you basically gotta dig in and do research. Research antisemitism and its origins while also researching folkloric creatures from various places, and be aware that certain things might reflect different kinds of prejudices. Exactly what's what is often a complicated topic, and it's definitely way more complex than "antisemitic" vs. "not antisemitic."

#answered #fairies #faeries #fae #the fae #changelings #changeling #antisemitism #ableism #abuse #child abuse

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