#mlp changelings

[shirecorn]

I love how your changeling larva look like little sheep

That's just what baby changelings look like!

#skyscraper gods #mlp changelings #ask

[arachnestwilight]

I am absolutely using this AU to ramble about my general MLP headcanons, I have never had a better opprotunity to do so.

#Starkeeper is Anzu by the way!! #Her design is still a work in progress </3 #I'm not quite sure if I will keep the Starkeeper's Guide to Equestria format for other AU-relevant headcanon dumps but we'll see. :V #I do love her though I want to do more with her character and make her EnGirls lore more relevant than it's been in Enstars #Anyway enough about Anzu!! This isn't about her!! #ensemble stars #enstars #ensemble ponies #enstars mlp au #enstars anzu #ibara saegusa #shinobu sengoku #himeru #mayoi ayase #wataru hibiki #mika kagehira #nagisa ran #ran nagisa #kagehira mika #hibiki wataru #ayase mayoi #sengoku shinobu #saegusa ibara #mlp changelings #digital art #digital artist #fan art #fan artist #artist on tumblr

[mylittleponyauprompts]

An AU where Changelings often work in with marriage/weddings, birthday parties, and similar large ceremonies, Feeding off of ambient love in the air while helping those who want a large spectacular ceremony. Most are aware of Changelings and their diets, not being terrified of them do to being in a mutualistic relationship for so long. Changeling Queens often taking care of larger high profile ceremonies, like Cadence and Shining Armor's wedding.

Optional additions-

Chrysalis was originally supposed to be the one to help with Cadence and Shining Armor's wedding. But she doesn't particularly like doing wedding parties to many other changelings shock. So she let a young Changeling Queen take her place. She didn't expect this to be how Pinkamena's friends learn that she was more than just a common Changeling, did they know she was a Changeling at all?

#my little pony friendship is magic #drawing prompt #writing prompt #alternate universe #mlp #mlp au #mlp alternate universe #mlp fim #mlp pinkie pie #pinkie pie #mlp queen chrysalis #mlp chrysalis #chrysalis #mlp changelings #mlp changeling #changelings #heavily alternate universe

[nightseeye]

I spent several hours yesterday just. Drawin ponies and makin headcanons after an offhanded thought i had abt changelings lol

Also a buncha headcanons under the cut also:

Thinking more abt Gossamare (changeling queen oc i just made up .5 sec ago). She was plenty ambitious, as most queens are, but her attentions were turned more towards making sure the Hive had stirdier, longer lasting structures. The reasoning was if there was less time being spent rebuilding their home after an attack, or if smthn just crumbled, than that was less stress and more energy that could be spent Elsewhere (like getting food). I think changelings were pretty nomadic as a species beforehand, and while Gossamare didn't introduce a sedentary lifestyle, it was still a fairly new thing, so permanent architecture wasnt really. Good. So it fixed that. Discovered changeling-equivalent concrete, except better bc it was also pretty damn flexible. And self repairing to some extent. Stole architecture from ponies. Even talked with celestia a few times (also fought celestia a few times) (bc she was stealing. It got cleared up but Still). Was stern and kinda strict but Fair. Left its hive in a pretty prosperous era, even if the queens after the next fumbled it kinda badly.

Genral timeline idea: crystal empire era -> [queens after it falls] -> [queen who became sedentary] -> [queen] -> [queen] -> Gossamare -> [2-3 generations of queens] -> Chrysalis -> Thorax (will be poking at this more as i figure out more changeling things, i want the crystal empire to be kinda far back in changeling history, a legend, but not quite mythical status)

Ideas:

• Changelings were nomadic, though they generally (peacefully) stayed around the crystal empire just bein buddies. Cue Sombra fuckin it, and bam. No more good food source and also their buddies are gone. And its Cold. Changelings skeedadle, become true nomads, separate into diff hives for whatever reasons and settle into different nations. Now following the hive that settled into equestria, changelings are. Wary. Decide to stay hidden. Prob the traditionalists+idealists who didnt want to stray too far from the empire in case it came back soon. They settle, roam around, til one day a queen just plops down and doesnt move. Thus the end of the nomad life, although changelings still have little satellite location away from the main hive. Just lil bases and shit yknow? Still not super fond of this enforced hiding thing, but reveals tend to always go super bad, if not from the get-go, then some shit happens later that usually kills the parties in question. So. Hiding it is.

• (Re; the crystal empire: canon says its been gone 1k years, but LUNA was gone 1k years, so ive decided its maybe like. 7k years for the crystal empire. Or just, longer than 1k!!! I want that to be a collective fail on Celestia AND Luna's part, not just Celestia)

• Theres probably stories in changeling history referring to crystal ponies, and a good portion of the empire's population are changelings, or have changeling heritage. Possibly when changelings intially fled, there were a good portion of crystal ponies among them, but their descendants are now just changelings (maybe with a slight sparkle, or having an easier time shifting into ponies.idk)

• When the Crystal empire returned, there definitely an awkward readjustment period, not only from Sombra's tyranny, but that a solid third or more of their population was now... disdained, to put it lightly, by other ponies and now also their new monarchs! And when they found out about the whole Canterlot wedding incident, well. They kept that to theirselves. Its not til Thorax is accepted as a citizen that the crystal ponies reveal that some of them are crystal changelings as well, and it goes over-! Pretty well! A little strained, and more awkward readjusting happens, but overall it goes well (Cadence is pretty sad that she made her citizens feel they had to hide this, but understands. Thorax is mildly upset but it puts some earlier events before that episode happening into better perspective)

• Queens generally die one of 3 ways: Being overthrown and killed, dying against an enemy, or starving bc the amount of love gained can no longer support their appetite. Generally the 3rd happening tends to cause the first, as sometimes those particular queens will start eating into the stores of love meant to support the hive as a whole, thus starving the entire hive along with her. So the hive kills her to stop that. Other times the queen will go out as gracefully as possible, either dying against an enemy in combat, or simply. Starving. Its stressful as fuck to watch, esp if the changeling respect that queen, even if its known to be the better of several options. Theyre generally pretty long lived (abt 500 years give or take) but when its over its Joever (at least until Thorax but not talkin abt that).

• Job is ya gender. Changeling language doesnt really have singular pronouns, mostly just [job][description][name] type deals. Queens have special pronouns though. Changelings have also adopted pronouns from other languages sometimes, but it tends to be more of a like. Curiousity than anything super serious

#THIS HAS NO TAGS WTF #my little pony #mlp #mlp changelings #changelings #queen chrysalis #twilight #pinkie pie #fluttershy #mlp oc #princess celestia #crystal pony #nighty arts #sketch #headcanons

[pastelhills]

Played around with different body types for changelings.

I forgot how fun it is to draw bug horses

#my little pony #my little pony friendship is magic #my little pony redesign #my little pony changelings #changelings #mlp #mlp changeling #mlp friendship is magic #mlp design #mlp fanart #changeling fanart #mlp changelings #fanart #character design #art study #design #redesign #mlp changeling redesign #changeling redesign #art #ibispaint #ibispaint x #ibispaint art #my art

[sukipershipper]

In the new Equestria, the Changelings are rules by a majestic, yet elusive and frightening king named King Aglais. Known for his beauty and ferocity, Aglais is not like many past Changeling rulers. Aglais showers his subjects with love, but not through the virtue of speech or the methods of stealing but rather through the kindness of his actions. However, Aglais is not without a mysterious past, having connections to a once dark and mysterious force that plagued Equestria (rather literally) and played a part in the downfall of the harmony. 

Aglais is a protector of his people, using his warping and shapeshifting magic to forever move and conceal the secret grotto where the Changelings now reside. The question remains however, how long can he keep it up?

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Decided to have a go at designing a G5 King for the buggy boys because I can imagine the concept of Changelings being so foreign to this generation's ponies. Like if Zipp didn't know what a Breezie was (did any of them??) then I definitely don't think they'd know what a Changeling is, let alone their powers. Aglais has one of my fave designs so far but he will share his badassniness with the other Kings (And Queen!) when I get around to it. Plus there is some interesting lore for this man, he is the eldest of the kings AND, he has a pretty interesting event happen with him early in Equestria's timeline, similar to how Makuu did. Anyways enjoy the big Millipede boy!

#mlp g5 #mlp make your mark #mlp mym #mlp tell your tale #mlp a new generation #mlp tyt #mlp changelings #mlp oc #mlp original character #I'm loving him already lol #his design was the fucking best to do #also he got a Don Flamenco VC #sorry I make the rules/lh/hj

[noghostguys]

da zcroinky :o)

#my art #queen chrysalis #queen chrysalis mlp #changeling #changelings #mlp changeling #mlp changelings

[rynowolf]

Pharynx redesign

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originally I was only going to draw Pharynx with albinism but while researching albinism I came to Leucism and from there to erythrism

#mlp #my little pony #my little pony redesign #mlp changelings #mlp changeling #mlp design #mlp fanart #mlp friendship is magic #mlp redesign #mlp pharynx #pharynx #pharynx redesign #changeling fanart #changelings #mlp changeling redesign #changeling redesign #redesign #design #fanart #ibispaint x #my art

[ponypop]

☆彡 changeling icons - unfiltered vers here

-> for anon

⇄ or ♡ if you save/use

#☆彡 request complete #mlp fandom #mlp fim #mlp g4 #mlp gen 4 #mlp:fim #mlpfim #mlp friendship is magic #my little pony #mlp #changeling #changelings #mlp changeling #changelings mlp #mlp changelings #changeling mlp #icons

[bishopony]

stills from a silly insta reel

#mlp #art #my little pony #fanart #thorax #queen chrysalis #changeling

[sketch-shepherd-art]

‘Nother OC I commissioned @laytonesqueautistic to design. I’ve wanted to to make a ladybug-inspired MLP Changeling OC for a while (for the record yeah ik Ocellus was designed after a ladybug but I wanted to make one that was more obvious)

I’ve named her Seven Spots (after the seven-spotted ladybug species)

#for me #my ocs #mlp:fim #mlp changeling #mlp changelings #mlp changeling oc

[shirecorn]

Changelings! Six legged insectoid beasts grown to the size of ponies, their target mimic species. Rather than evolving perfect physical mimicry, changeling imitation is a two-pronged process. In addition to a color-shifting carapace, magic distorts and twists the silhouette to match the mimicked subject. The spell is weaved with a rapid beating of the the wings, which creates a delicate network of invisible magic threads that tie the changeling's physical form to the projected mirage to make it move. After casting the spell, the changeling needs to recast it periodically, so if you doubt your friend's identity, listen for the buzzing of wings.

It takes a lot of concentration to keep the illusion in place, and changelings are naturally much taller than ponies when standing at their full height. Inexperienced or agitated changelings may forget to crouch, which breaks the illusion in a terrifying way. Because the features of the mirage are bound to the underlying insect body, moving wrong will distort the perceived form before it reveals what lies beneath.

The reason changeling bodies are so much longer than their target species is to allow a changeling to mimic creatures many times their size, provided they have the wingspan to reach the entire length of the target individual. A full wingspan is the sign of a healthy changeling, one that has enough magic to cast their illusions without much effort. Without sufficient magic, a changeling must constantly refresh their spell, and the ceaseless beating tears their delicate wings to shreds.

There is one changeling with enough magic to spare: The Queen. Drones store magic in their tails and bring it back to feed her. The queen of years past has been bleeding them dry and soaking up all their magic, leaving what should be a healthy reservoir in their tails as a withered pocket. This new style of ruling could possibly have started as a response to the ascension of the Goddess of Love, and the resulting magicification of feelings of romantic and platonic love.

For millennia, changelings evolved to feed on emotions directed at them (or rather the being they mimic) and convert it into magic. Positive emotions were the most stable, but any emotion worked. But when Love started to feel an entire meal, and gave the drones strength to subsist on their own, their queen demanded every drop of intoxicating love for herself, leaving them in a constant state of starvation and desperation.

Just a little love can go a long way. Changelings are forbidden from changing their colors or illusions to express themselves, as they must be seen as "mindless drones" and part of a single hive mind, despite their potential for individuality. Instead, they remain black unless imitating a pony or other creature. Each section of a changeling's carapace has a clear top layer with liquid suspended above the actual armor layer beneath. Microscopic grooves display different colors and shades based on how much of the liquid fills them, and how much pressure it's under. With the base colors set, wings spin the illusion of form to completely disguise the changeling beneath.

But what if they didn't have to save all their energy for disguises? What if there was enough love to go around?

The Changeling Revolution is an ongoing battle, but it has a hopeful, vibrant spark. Led by a mild-mannered former "drone," a growing faction are discovering peace, safety, and individuality by feeding off love directed not at illusions they cast, but to the people they truly are. It's a scary, vulnerable first step to allow others to see your true nature, but the rewards of loving and being loved are worth it.

Revolutionaries are not "reformed" so much as healed by embracing individual love. It turns out when each changeling allows themself to have their own color, preferences, and name, then the love felt from one changeling to another can be converted into magic, and a hive can become a thriving ecosystem within itself.

Nymphs, once destined for a viscous cycle of deception and starvation, are now able to bask in love given to them by hivemates, and they grow up stronger and kinder than any generation before. Though they can only shift into pastel colors until their carapace fully hardens and darkens, they still express by choosing their own look, name, and destiny.

The healing of the changeling population is as varied as their prismatic colors, and as beautiful as their glittering wings.

#changeling #mlp changeling #changeling fanart #changelings #changelings redesign #mlp redesign #mlp thorax #mlp ocellus #friendship is magic #queen chrysalis #mlp #mlp fim #mlp g4 #shire draws mlp #skyscraper gods #sckyscraper gods lore #long post

[mylittleponyauprompts]

An AU where Twilight Sparkle has been a changeling this entire time. Her parents after having their first child, Shining Armor, are seemingly unable to conceive another child. They'd had no luck trying to conceive Another child themselves, so they started considering adoption. That was quickly decided on when they found an abandoned changeling grub/baby on their doorstep one night. Shining Armor was excited to have a sister, and the parents couldn't say no to him and to this young changeling. The family do extensive research on changelings, they have to keep their new grub Twilight Sparkle safe and healthy right?

Optional additions-

Shining Armor helped Twilight create her pony form by showing the younger toddler her drawings.

Twilight Sparkle does know she's a changeling. What she doesn't know is that she is a royal changeling. One of Chrysalis's hive finding the grub in the newest hatchlings and knowing what their Queen would do tries to find a family that would keep the child safe and alive.

Cadence knows since she was trusted enough to babysit Twilight during childhood.

Canterlot wedding goes very differently for multiple reasons. Shining Armor isn't as easily hypnotized by changeling magic do to being exposed to it throughout his childhood. He sees through Chrysalis's pretty easily. So he's the one to end up down in the Crystal caves instead of Cadence.

#drawing prompt #writing prompt #alternate universe #my little pony friendship is magic #mlp #mlp au #mlp fim #mlp alternate universe #mlp twilight sparkle #twilight sparkle #mlp shining armor #shinning armor #shining armor #mlp princess cadence #mlp fim cadence #mlp cadence #mlp fim changelings #mlp changelings #mlp changeling #changelings #heavily alternate universe

[stevetwisp]

princess cadance and queen chrysalis' beach day (all images together)

#my art #my little pony #mlp #mlp fim #my litte pony friendship is magic #princess cadance #queen chrysalis #changeling #beach #anime #lgbt #fanart #equestria girls #illustration

[pastelhills]

Changeling redesign 🐞

I like the reformed Changelings but something always felt of about them until I saw Ocellus and decided to also give them a mane and they looked 100% better! the corrupted form as a mane so why don't they have it too? something that also bothers me is how restricted they're color pallete is, they have 5 different colors and that's it! For me the reformed Changelings should be the opposite of the corrupted Changelings, that means no Changeling looks the same. In my redesign there are way more colors available and everyone looks different, even if some have the same body color their secondary color are always different. I might draw some more Changelings some day to really demonstrate my point.

#mlp #my little pony #my little pony redesign #mlp redesign #mlp changeling #mlp changelings #mlp changeling fanart #mlp changeling design #mlp changeling redesign #mlp design #mlp fanart #mlp friendship is magic #changeling redesign #changeling #changelings #ibispaintx #digital fanart #fanart #my art

[spiritshaydra]

”Fuck you” ponifies your gay evil robots

OKAY BUT YEAH ALL OF THESE TOGETHER TOOK LIKE TWENTY HOURS TOTAL

Why? Idk I was shitposting and it just,,, went downhill from there.

Twelve year old me is THRIVING

may or may not do the Autobots too 🤔

#Tfp #Tfp fanart #transformers prime #transformers #tfp megatron #tfp starscream #tfp soundwave #tfp knockout #tfp breakdown #tfp shockwave #tfp airachnid #tfp dreadwing #megatron #Starscream #soundwave #knockout #breakdown #shockwave #Dreadwing #airachnid #crossover #pony au #mlp friendship is magic #mlp #Tfp mlp #Pegasus #unicorn #earth pony #changeling #my art