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So, I wanted to draw Changelings and differences in their sizes.How I headcanon changelings (And to remind, this is my headcanon only, you are free to disagree):
I figured Changelings would mirror bees and ants in a way that drones might be smaller while soldiers are somewhat taller, thicker might be an option? Queens would of course be tall and imposing.
Personally I headcanon that changelings are capable of taking forms of both stallions and mares because they have both "equipment", but might not have as strict of a concept of gender, or it is fluid. To some it might be personal preference.
Considering weapons and armor, I think they're made of hardened changeling goo (like the goo that trapped Celestia in Canterlot wedding) that hardens when exposed to air and can be sharpened, looking much like glass, except less prone to shattering?
It's not probably very new headcanon, but eh
Felt like sharing.Also yes, the hair-idea did come from Farrah Fawcett.
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My headcanon is similar to yours. No gender concepts (something spies have to learn when infiltrating pony towns).
Really nice artwork here, by the by. Love that queen's mane. Really nice style.
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Thank you! It was a lot of fun to draw and conceptualize.
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Armor and weapon reminds me the glass armor from the Oblivion game ^^ Awsome drawing btw
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thank you! Though I admit, most of the inspiration for the weaponry came from Guild Wars 2 Verdant set.
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I dint use that one yet. So many armors in Guild wars that its hard to keep track for me
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I play a Sylvari myself, and Verdant weapon set is cultural for Sylvari and I think Asura? Looks rather nice, as does the Priory's Greatsword (gorgeous!)
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Priory seems boring as faction but I love their sets of weapons. I mean their greatsword and the Big hammer are just amazing looking
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They're so awesome-looking. And I felt that my mesmer was the most fit in either Priory or Whispers.
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^^ Yea. I mean Messemer is about support or tricks if alone. Fits well with those factions well
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Interesting ideas...and what about the possibility of the existende of hybrids between Ponies and Changelings? The would conserve the "fluid sexuality" of the changelings (it sounds like the frogs of Jurassic Park) or they would be more like the normal ponies (altough with some characteristics of the Changelings)?
Ah and yes nice pic !
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Actually a friend and I talked about this! I'd imagine (and mind you this is merely a headcanon) that most drones are not capable of bearing offspring, but maybe they can be... elevated, by the Queen? Kind of going higher in rank, to become a changeling capable of breeding. A bit mirroring ants and bees where only the Queen and a few male are actually capable of breeding while all the workers and soldiers are not capable? How this happens... magic, probably? And even when they can breed with ponies, it might be a bit difficult? I'd imagine that changeling/pony hybrid babies don't just start popping out willy-nilly because too different anatomy and stuff? Maybe? But it is possible, just behind a lot of hard work. And a lot of food if the changeling is the one pregnant, both requiring extra amounts of love and perhaps regular food as well during pregnancy, due to the fetus being a hybrid.
When a baby is born, I'd imagine they'd be... something of a mix. I'd imagine they take more after their pony parent, with the changeling aspect perhaps a bit more subtle. Maybe the babies are all unicorns with a curved horn? Maybe they tend to have darker color schemes? Or maybe they have a natural knack at illusions. They might even have similar genital structure as changelings. And of behavior... well, probably depends somewhat on how they're raised, but I'd think some form of gender fluidness might still exhibit itself.
Also, I consider changelings not having a clear concept of core family, because in a hive all are family. You piss off one, you piss off a whole hive. Overall I'd think changelings might lack some taboos present in pony society?
Sorry if this is somewhat lackluster, hard to put all these ideas to words at times.
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Hahaha quiet don´t worry ! I have also moments that I need to let loose al my ideas and put them in paper when I am immersed in a "brainstorm".
You and your friend have a good amount of ideas about the biology and sexuality of the Changelings. Specially respect their "morphological structure", about what I have my personnal headcanon:
During their infancy and childhood the "hybrids" will have a look which clearly resembles a mix between a pony and a changeling, while their gender would not be clearly fixed beign in general terms "sexual neutral" (in a simmilar way to the young "castrati" in the reality.) So they would share aspects of the male and female genders in their behauviour and likes and dislikes (with nuances) altough to be childs would not be very notorious, so at the same time also would have characteristics of the ponies (specially the unicorns) and the changelings thanks to their mixed blood.
However when they reach the puberty these mixed nature would enter in a clear "conflict" wich would have physical and physcological results if continue without pause to the maturity: due to their "mixed" genders would make them increasingly "physological inestable" making them prone to have double-personality, deppression, a great amount of inner rage to the normal ponies and changelings, and even extreme sexual apetite... But at the same time as consequence of this process their "sexual organs" would become "autonomus" it is said they cannot have sexual relations with another ponies or changelings but in exchange they can reproduce for themselves. As a result of this "crazy evolution" these poor souls would be see as monsters by their relatives forced them to alive alone as "antlions" with their own hives (drones without minds like robots) in lonely places which only would leave to haunt ponies and changelings as revenge and to feed of their emotions enslaved them in coconuts for ever.
But there is a hope for this "hybrids": after to realize the destiny of the offsprings of these first "mix" relationships their changeling's queens and alicorn's princess would found a solution for their problem: the process called "methamorphosis". So (in a simmilar way as Elrond and his brothers had the possiblity to choose which lineage they whised to own: humans or elfs) when the hyrbids reach the puberty the Changeling´s queen or an Alicron's princess would give them the posiblity to choose their own gender. And so thanks to a special "spell" they will cover the hybrids with a kind cocoon (as the trakeds) for a week more or less until finalize the transformation process. But the final result not would be a normal pony or a changeling if not finally a "perfect mix" between the two races (with characteristics of both lineages: knack in illusions, capacity to use magic as the unicorns and wings to fly, altough they aren´t in any way so powerful as an alicorn or a changeling queen, capacity to feed of the love of the ponies and other races, etc. but also having some of their weak points) so also being physcollogically and physcially more stable than the poor "antlions". Besides they could have offsprings without problem with ponies and changelings which would born already in this "perfect from" without necesity of the intervention of their rulers and having the same amount of possibilities to be male or female.
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That is a very interesting headcanon, much of which I had not even thought about, especially the psychological aspect. In the headcanon I had the offspring of the pony and changeling in question was a wanted one, so much of the alike problems wouldn't necessarily arise, or necessarily the need to gain a "perfect form". Though yes, teenage years especially might be extra difficult for a changeling-pony hybrid.
Also one idea that came to mind that these hybrids might be sterile themselves, thus incapable of breeding further (much like some animal hybrids are) and to take this further, perhaps some negative qualities from both might be saddled onto the offspring? For example, if changelings would be very hardy (compared to ponies) against hereditary diseases, but a hybrid might not have that same disease-immunity. This is usually a problem with hybrids of any kind, especially when talking about diseases, be it dogs (mutts) or say, dwarf hamsters. Or in this case, pony/changeling hybrids. Also, I'd think luck has some part in a hybrid's overall health (both physical and mental), as well as actual genes.
The key difference between a regular changeling and a hybrid would in my mind, be that you can feed off of love from a hybrid, but changelings cannot feed from each other. But perhaps the emotions of the hybrid are weaker when it comes to nutrients?
Also considering changelings themselves, I headcanon them as rather sex-indifferent in a way that there are very little taboos in place, but most don't have coitus because it has little value inside the hive as changelings can't feed from each other and most cannot breed anyway so whatever sex would happen inside the hive would be for pleasure alone. While with ponies, sex might rather be a way to surface emotions for easier harvesting?
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Ummmmm respect the hybrids, at leats form my point of view, there is no necessity to be infertile for be a mix between two races. Let me explain (and I must thank you because through this disccussion I am discovering very interesting information about the hybrids in the real world) nowadays the beeders of some kind of birds has discovered that is possible to produce hyrbrids of different subspecies completely fertile if they are enugh closely genetically (altough it is also true that the males are more prone to be fertile than the females.) So having in mind that of course with the comics (Spoiler!) the origin of the changelings was a seed from which grew a tree fed from insects and bodies and bones in descomposition of ponies (yeah creepie) along magic of a certain bearded unicorn, I think that the changelings are closely enough genetically to the ponies to be suitable with the rules of the previous example, altough also in line the male hybrids, as the birds, would have much more easier to reproduce with female mares or changelings and have hyrid offsrping with them (so the gen of these hrybrids would be prevalent over the ponie and changeling ones) than the female hybrids who only could have offsrpings with another hybrids.
In order with the feeding of hybrids I think they could have of course emoticonal problems related with their changeling ascedency making them prone to be extremely social and gregary (another inheritance of their changeling legacy) and so to be always ready to generate "positive" emotions in their partners (ponies or another creatures) through several kind of "social interactions" (for example being the clowns of the group making that everypony laught with their silly commetaries and jokes and so feed from their happines.) And of course with this if these hyrbids achieve to fall in love with a pony or a changeling and it is a unriqueted love (or not) they would be extremely (seriously until almost "yandere levels" altough some could be able to control themselves and their emotions if they received a good education about this during their childhood) loyal to their couples which not only would be their life partners but at the same time an assured source of "positive emotions" (which means that they would try all which is in their hoofs to have fights or disccussions with their couples.)
And about the healty problems the hybrids could be inmmune to many of the diseases of their ponies forefathers thanks to their changeling blood, but at the same time their "mixed" nature would finally making to appear new diseases which only would affect the hybrids.
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The possiblity with fertility has to do with how close the genetics of the parent species are, really. We could perhaps conclude that ponies and changelings might be close enough genetically, even if they differ greatly in anatomy. And overall, it was merely a suggestion or a possiblity, since nothing of this is canon. And I don't necessarily find sterility to be problem at least story-wise, or it might bring an interesting aspect to a story.
I mean, look at Geralt of Witcher-series. He is very much infertile (thanks to mutagens), but very sexually active. Fertility (or the lack of it) might not hinder a possibility of a relationship, since it very much comes to both partners discussion and decision. It would pose its own problems and characterization storywise. And adoption is always an option.
I am largely on the same lines with you on the partnership aspect, maybe a bit even on the yandere-side. Though I'd imagine it is a more individual flaw rather than a flaw of entirety of hybrids? Maybe? They might be prone to moodswings and... violent outbursts, but that is a discussion of nature versus nurture, which is even still a discussed topic in psychology and I'd rather not start delving too deep into it.
They could be healthier, though I'd imagine it to be a bit of a "genetic lottery", consider dogs for example; mutts can be generally more healthy than either of its parent (especially if both parents are pureblood) or they can draw the short stick and end up with both parents' hereditary health problems. Genetics can sometimes be a bit of a luck of a draw, unfortunately, what with recessive and dominant genes.
Can you tell genetics tend to be a topic I find very interesting?
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Indeed you could find yourself studying genetics in the university if continue so hahaha (umm maybe you can try to create a mixe of a pony and some kinfd of bug in a laboratory like as I read some time ago about some scientists that were studying the possibility to mix goats with spiders and so obtain an hybrid which would produce spiderwebs in exchange of milk! Seriously I read this in a scientific magazine.)
Respect the fertility well you sincerously have a point with the question of Geralt of Rivia, which means that the infertility isn´t a handicap to build an interesting and marvelous character with an inner spirit of "gigolo" XD And respect the hybrids as you have said there are plety of possibilities thanks to our imagination (and while the writers of MLP don´t take the decission to explore these questions.)
The psychology certainly is a question that one should deepen with care because "anyone is a world for himself". So altough the hybrids could be marked for some shared kind of behauvior and mental problems there could be ever exceptions to this rule.
Finally respect the genetics also there is space fot the "mutation" between generations which could allow the next generations of hybrids (or simply the own mixture of the genetics) to avoid some kind of diseases or adapt to them after suffer it in their childhood (as the sarampion) and so to be better prepared for the next.
Anyaways, I have find this conversation pretty interesting and has give me several interesting ideas that maybe I utilise for a personnal project that I have in mind for some time ago about a personnal fanfic related to the changelins.
So thank you and if you are interested we can speak more about the genetics another day !
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I had fun talking to you about this 
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