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Evil-DeC0Y In reply to Oriana-jua [2016-06-29 08:02:24 +0000 UTC]

It's how Trixie sees herself, she thinks she looks as good as a super model.

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Oriana-jua In reply to Evil-DeC0Y [2016-06-29 08:46:16 +0000 UTC]

Ha, nice.

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CharaViolet In reply to Articunos-Bitch [2015-12-24 17:07:07 +0000 UTC]

Uh no, changelings are changelings, they might LOOK like ponies, but they're not.

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Evil-DeC0Y In reply to Sallitha [2014-06-12 01:44:08 +0000 UTC]

Oh you're right. Thank you for letting me know

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Sallitha In reply to Evil-DeC0Y [2014-06-12 11:16:39 +0000 UTC]

Woo I helped : D

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Sallitha In reply to 1cosmiconsciousness [2014-06-11 22:05:26 +0000 UTC]

Its a princess body.

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godzilladragon111 In reply to JohnDerrel88 [2015-01-03 05:55:38 +0000 UTC]

please, for the love of god, tell me thats a typo.

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1cosmiconsciousness In reply to JohnDerrel88 [2014-06-10 21:16:08 +0000 UTC]

...?

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Evil-DeC0Y In reply to JohnDerrel88 [2014-05-17 22:24:12 +0000 UTC]

...

Okay then.

I'm just going to pretend that was a typo of some kind.

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PinkiePieCyborg In reply to Evil-DeC0Y [2014-05-27 18:38:31 +0000 UTC]

This made me laugh so much

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Evil-DeC0Y In reply to PinkiePieCyborg [2014-05-27 20:07:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks !

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Evil-DeC0Y In reply to TrixiesTrIcks [2014-05-09 03:06:05 +0000 UTC]

Check the description

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TrixiesTrIcks In reply to Evil-DeC0Y [2014-05-09 23:53:48 +0000 UTC]

Oh sorry :"S

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WritersShadow In reply to ScopeEva [2014-05-08 17:41:49 +0000 UTC]

Yes there is! Convergent evolution. Look it up. 

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ScopeEva In reply to WritersShadow [2014-05-09 17:45:00 +0000 UTC]

I suppose it depend on how you measure similarities.  If we're sticking to how they appear in their animation style they just match up to closely for it to be such a coincident, at least in my view.  Anything beyond that really falls into head cannon territory which is completely subjective. 

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WritersShadow In reply to ScopeEva [2014-05-09 19:45:20 +0000 UTC]

...You didn't google convergent evolution did you? It means that two lifeforms who evolve in similar environments may look and behave similar, without those two lifeforms ever having contact to one another. 

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ScopeEva In reply to WritersShadow [2014-05-09 21:27:14 +0000 UTC]

Yes I in fact did and was already vaguely familiar with it as world building discussion are an activity I very much enjoy and have been over similar subjects before.

I still disagree with your claim as in all examples, as soon as those creatures are above a certain size there were still significant enough conflicting details to tell there was a difference, if not in their general family but at least in species.  Changelings and conventional ponies share far too much in shape and form to be such a biological coincidence so I personally conclude that they are an offshoot of the pony race, perhaps created by some magical incident the sort of which I hypothesise created other oddity creatures such as Manticors and Chimeras.  This is just my own speculation from what I've seen in the show so if we haven't come to the same conclusion that's perfectly fine. 

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WritersShadow In reply to ScopeEva [2014-05-10 02:09:14 +0000 UTC]

Actually, changelings and ponies are not that similar. Changelings (probably) lack the fur (it's hard to tell if they have fur. Hell, by all we know the ponies could be naked as well), have a different pose while flying, completely different teeth, a different kind of tail and mane, holes in their legs, a different kind of eyes... Actually I'm pertty certain they evolved from some sort of bug. We can of course count the similarities too.

Similar body shape
Similar ability to cast magic (Might only be Crysalis and only the magic she leeched from Shining Armor, we never saw normal changelings cast "ponymagic")
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I'm stuck. Anything I missed? I mean, body shape is of course pretty important but neither their teeth nor their eyes nor their movement matches. If there was no magic in the world we are talking about I would even dare say that those two species are as similar as a stone and air. They exist in the same place and share some atoms, but that's it.

Of course, magic makes pretty much everything possible. We saw Twilight turn her friends and herself turn into beings that looked more different from ponies than changelings. The problem is, if one of us would go on and create a long probably well figured out version of the creation or evolution of the changelings the show could possibly come and screw it over with some really bad explanation.

Yes I'm talking about this shitty explanation that the Elements of Harmony came from a tree that stood somewhere and for some reason was strong enough to restrict Discords power. Explain, why the fuck did the ponies not just start living around the tree? I mean, Discords seeds only worked when the tree was considerably weakened and as the tree was still there (And not made of pink gelatin), I guess Discords magic would not work around it. And why is a tree stronger than the rulers of sun and moon together? Actually, why was the spirit of chaos this strong in a world where there is no natural chaos aside from a forest? "Deus ex shitty writing without explanation" if you ask me. I would love an explanation for why Discord is this strong or what is up with the "Crystal Heart" or where the tree came from with his convenient gemstones of infinite power. The current explanation is "because the writers wrote it this way"


PS: I only got your post once so dA did not fuck up.

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ScopeEva In reply to WritersShadow [2014-05-10 15:14:46 +0000 UTC]

I'm fairly sure fur is a more subjective detail, there are many fan works depicting them either way though I'll admit without is more popular.  As for their flying, they are mostly seen hovering stationary in their limited screen time and their hovering pose isn't all that different from Rainbow Dash's aside from the fact they do it more frequently.  In fact even comparing their fast flying poses with hers they match up.  I would also debate their walking movement in general is still the same as that of ponies in the show. 

Teeth are another debatable point as most mammals including equines shear the same arrangement of teeth including canines so having them evolve to grow as they have is not so farfetched. 

If thestrals/nocktrals/bat ponies are a real thing that also compliments the possibility of their sharpened teeth and Chrysalis’s eyes.  Some fan depiction do explain the abnormal eyes as second eyelids that all mammals at least did have at some time or as some magical effect but that comes down more to head cannon. 

Other similarities include the positioning of the horn, mane and tail even if they have changed from a heir like material.  (I personally imagine it as a material similar to the heirs of a feather, interlocking together to create a sheet of heir.) 

And moving on, well I already do have a fairly well defined head cannon for changelings for the reason they feature heavily in a couple of stories I’m writing.  And yes, I’m very much afraid the show will disrupt it or worse turn it into some sort of curse they need to be ‘cured’ of.  Cue the magic of racism Trixie was so scared of. 

Why did they not start living around the tree?  Well evidently they did.  Celestia and Luna built an entire castle on top of it.  For whatever reason it was abandoned and now Twilight may very well be moving back in.  Ultimately though it was needed for the sake of the plot to get rid of the Duse Ex Machima that the Elements of Harmony were. 

Personally I don’t mind the holes in the back story so much as it just gives me opportunity to fill it in as I see fit.  Like I said, I enjoy the world building. 

(Also good to know things are in order technically.)

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Evil-DeC0Y In reply to Sturmlion1 [2014-05-07 21:21:53 +0000 UTC]

There's no need to try to imagine, that line was a reference to one of my earliest comics 'Trixie Vs. Derpy'
evil-dec0y.deviantart.com/art/…

I also had a second part to that one too
evil-dec0y.deviantart.com/art/…

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Sturmlion1 In reply to Evil-DeC0Y [2014-05-08 04:05:15 +0000 UTC]

OK, those are hilarious.

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Evil-DeC0Y In reply to Sturmlion1 [2014-05-08 05:54:36 +0000 UTC]

Thanks , I just wish that my art skill then was as good as it is now.

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