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.
The bride and the ugly ass groom (he makes her laugh)
Original photo (+ an edit) under cut
Edit: I didn't expect this post to get as many notes as it did. I realized that the original photo I posted was sort of blurry, so I made a higher resolution version :-)
So today is crazy with the Alex kister stuff, but here's something I forgot to post yesterday but I am posting today to lighten some things up. Here is shining armor and his bride princess cadence :) aren't they beautiful together?
she spreads hatred, causing pain to everypony she can 💎 she is what happens when extreme anger & heartbreak overtake cadance
i also imagine that upon her transformation, the crystal empire quite literally splits in two, also cracking the crystal heart in the process & removing the crystal ponies shine 🩸
I still have not quite mastered using my art tablet, but I have been itching to draw this trend for SO long, so here’s the beautiful bride and her ugly ass groom!