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A wonderful commission done by the talented Siansaar, who has created this fantastic picture of a changeling family on a nice stroll through their capital city of Bugarest, The Changeling Kingdom. The husband is of course a member of the Changeling Royal Guard in service of His Majesty, Queen Chrysalis Roachanov. He and his wife have one lovely daughter and his wife is bearing three more precious little eggies to expand their loving family.Here, the Changeling Kingdom and its culture are based off old Eastern Europe such as Romania, Bulgaria and Russia. If you want to read some of my changeling stories (ironically which are more Imperial Japanese based), check them out on Fimnfiction.
Maternal Instinct: www.fimfiction.net/story/66500…
Citizen Weevil: www.fimfiction.net/story/14225…
P.s. The reason the wife is larger than her husband, for all those confused, is because I picture changeling mares as commonly being a lot larger, stronger and smarter than their stallion counterparts, which is a common aspect in insect biology.
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Hi kind like japanese/chinese look you had going mainly ^^ often imagine my feng traped in anthro mlp style work with changelings more accepting towards him. Sorry i look foward more art around the changelings.
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Yep, with a healthy clutch of eggs.
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In my headcanon, the changeling empire was once a great thing, albeit a mystery, before Chrysalis came to power and changed it into her image. I feel that because they are imitators, psychologists were the most important function in their society. Mainly to make sure Changelings don't completely lose themselves into their roles.
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"changeling mares as commonly being a lot larger, stronger and smarter than their stallion counterparts, which is a common aspect in insect biology."
Then why would the males be so common in the Changeling Armed Forces?
That's sexist! Booo! You se *Tomatoes splash on my head*
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Because MagicMan001 isn't the smartest of people.
Pretty much everything he comes up with has a dusting of bullshit to it.
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:-D
I wouldn't be as "colourful" as that,
but there are indeed a few flaws in design, here and there.
In all fairness, though, those flaws can be corrected,
and I don't think they are that big.
I mean, don't we all make mistakes?
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Cannon-fodders? Cannon-fodders aren't the strongest or smartest soldiers but very useful in numbers, such as decoys and living-shields if you want to sacrifice them, as long the good soldiers don't get hurt, right.
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I really like it... I wish my art was that good
its ok I guess
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So I am not the only one who thinks of them as the Russian army!
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It looks great!, but male changlings don't have eyes like that at all
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how do you know that the changeling soldiers i the invasion were male
i saw no way to distinguish them as one gender or another
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wait are you talking about the show?
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Russian Changelings? Guess it is Chernyyvoin instead of Kurobushi then.
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I like the idea of dimorphism there, with females being larger. Its how I imagined it as well.
The little nymph playing with the helmet is adorable.
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So this piece brings to light an interesting—albeit fairly trivial—question about changeling biology: When a mother-to-be changes form, do the unborn young change form to match?
Anyway, the picture's phenomenal. To this day, I maintain that the changeling race is the most regrettably under-utilized element in Friendship Is Magic's canon; I'm in love with pretty much any exposure these parasitic equines get.
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This is so nice. The art and the theme so heartwarming
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Ah what a beautiful day in the Changeling Kingdom. The weather's great. The birds and bees are fleeing for their lives. The green slime everywhere reflects the sunlight. And look ! The neighbours are having a walk. Looks like there's a couple of eggs on the way ! Just look how they float in that undefinable substance inside the transparant belly of their mother. Ah, the miracle of birth !
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Your post script reminds me of the close phrase in a horror tale (forgot the name, alas) I sketched gazillions of years ago: "Female is deadliest than the male..."
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"Female is deadlier than the male..."
I think it comes from a tale written by Rudyard Kipling.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's him.
Also, if that "female is deadlier" stuff was anything near half-truth, then the male of most of the animal species wouldn't be the one to do the heavy lifting, hunting, fighting, etc.
For example, us humans. The human male is stronger, heavier, more endurant. And for millenias, he did most, if not practically all of the hunting, guarding, fighting, etc. It has been only in the past century that females were allowed to join the armed forces in combat roles.
Which is what makes me think that the RK's quote is not to be taken literaly, but rather as a way to say: "Females can be more dangerous than first assumed."
Imho.
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He wasn't talking about humans, at least, not exclusively. Bees, wasps, spotted hyenas, several species of spiders, angler fish. There are many examples of female-dominated, if not outright matriarchal, animals in existence.
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Sure, there are many examples of female-dominated/outright matriarchal animals.
And there are also examples of male-dominated species, aren't there?
I don't think we humans totally fit in any of those two categories,
but my earlier statement about the physical capacity (and, ergo, potential to deal violence and death) of human males still stands:
in physical, dangerous, dirty jobs (soldiering, mining, hunting, construction, sanitation, etc.), we mostly meet males, do we not?
Anyway, thank you for not going spare at me.
It tends to be utterly difficult to voice disagreement or questions about certain things,
and your civil, polite, yet straight-to-the-point message is most-welcomed.
I just hope that I didn't offend any good-willing person reading our exchange.
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Excellent comment! I like it a lot!
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Well, I tried to say my opinion without sounding judgemental.
I don't always succeed in that. :-S
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Oh, no, I really appreciated your comment.
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I really like this artwork (even if I personally think that the green slime thing ruins it a little). The characters are very pretty and I love what you did whit the female changelings mane. Her husband is also very well drawn and the daughter riding on his back, wearing her fathers helmet is so cute. An over all nice image of an changeling family. (First I thought that the female was queen Chrysalis but reading the comments I understood that I was wrong).
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AGAIN WITH THE BRILLIANT BUG-BASED PUNS THAT MAKE ME THINK OF AVENGERS!!
Just for blowing my mind with that brilliant word-crafting, you good sir are getting a f*cking llama badge from me.
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Are there any other badges than llama badges?
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I think so, but I'm pretty sure those cost real money to give (or at least with DA points that are bought with real money).
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Female changelings being larger and more powerful than the males, just as it is with most real life arthropods (ie: mantids, spiders, horseshoe crabs, etc.)? Makes sense to me, HEADCANON ACCEPTED!! (That couple and their growing family is adorable, BTW.)
Also, is "Bugarest" supposed to be a pun on "Budapest"? Because that's f*cking brilliant! I'mma assimilate THAT into my changeling-related headcanons as well (once I actually DECIDE on a headcanon for changeling society, that is).
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"Female changelings being larger and more powerful than the males"
Though, in this context, what wouldn't make sense would be the males forming most of Changeling Kingdom's standing Armed Forces.
Anybody/anypony/anygriffon/anychangeling/etc., is there any info on that, please?
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Well, physically more powerful at the very least (just as it is for most arthropods and herptiles). Magically speaking, the average-level changelings (as in NOT the queens which are DEFINITELY more arcanely powerful than the average) could be roughly equal in terms of potential power.
As for males forming the majority of the armed forces... well, that's likely due to the simple biological fact that males are slightly more expendable than females (SOMEONE needs to keep the species going). Also, it could be possible that, much like the similarly matriarchal Salarians of Mass Effect, the gender ratio of changelings could be tipped in favor of the males just as much as the gender ratio of Equestrian ponies is tipped in favor of the females (anywhere between one out of every four to one out of every ten individuals being of the opposite gender).
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"arthropods"
I think I might have heard or read that word somewhere, years ago.
"herptiles"
But this one here, I haven't. What is an herptile, please?
"well, that's likely due to the simple biological fact that males are slightly more expendable than females"
Oh? You mean, in our world too? Actually, it comes as a surprise to me.
Ah well.
"Also, it could be possible that, much like the similarly matriarchal Salarians of Mass Effect, the gender ratio of changelings could be tipped in favor of the males just as much as the gender ratio of Equestrian ponies is tipped in favor of the females (anywhere between one out of every four to one out of every ten individuals being of the opposite gender)."
Seems legitimate, indeed.
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To answer your two questions, Phylum Arthropoda is the largest and most diverse group of animals on Earth and contains all critters with jointed legs and a chitinous exoskeleton (by which I mean insects, arachnids, crustaceans, centipedes, millipedes, horseshoe crabs, trilobites, and most other things that could be referred to as "bugs"), and "herptiles" is an unofficial biological group that lumps reptiles (lizards, snakes, turtles, & gators) and amphibians (frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, & caecilians) together (hence the scientific field of "Herpetology").
Anyways, as a Biology major, I can tell you with upmost certainty that when it comes to the grand majority of complex animal species (fish, bugs, reptiles, amphibians, etc), the females are usually much larger and physically stronger than their male counterparts due to the simple fact that eggs take A LOT more energy and resources to produce than sperm. You really have to realize that mammals and birds are the exception rather than the rule for these kinds of things.
As for males being the more expendable gender... well, there's a reason why deer hunters only target the bucks, and I also happen to know of a certain species of lizard that is 100% female and is capable of laying eggs to make clones of themselves whenever they damn well feel like it (they don't need no men). Not to mention I once heard on a Discovery Channel program that the Y Chromosome is gradually becoming shorter and shorter and human males could eventually "go extinct" within a few million years or so (it's been a while since I've seen that thing and I don't remember the full specifics of that one, so don't quote me on it).
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Thank you for the information, man.
"Not to mention I once heard on a Discovery Channel program that the Y Chromosome is gradually becoming shorter and shorter and human males could eventually "go extinct" within a few million years or so"
What?! O_o Well, I sure as heck hope you misheard it. Ah well.
Once again, thanks for your reply.
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Again, I'm not a hundred percent on the exact context of that chromosome thing.
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Say, thank you, mate! Really appreciate that. I'm quite honored you'd like to use it as part of your headcannon.
Well, actually, it's more meant to be a pun on "Bucharest", the capital of Romania, but then again, they do sound fairly similar.
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Yeah, I don't really know enough about Eastern Europe. (Heck, I don't even that much about Budapest other than the fact that Black Widow and Hawkeye went on a mission there once and also there's apparently a book-fountain there.) I REALLY need to do some research on that particular subject, seeing as the Eastern European changeling kingdom is one of the more popular headcanons out there; not to mention the whole thing makes slightly more sense than my first thoughts of a hive-like society. I mean, even in their brief appearance during the main show, some of those changeling soldiers showed evidence of having WAY more personality than they would if they were just mindless drones.
One of my other favorite headcanons about the changelings comes from the insanely popular Pokemon/Pony crossover "A New World, A New Way" (link here www.fimfiction.net/story/14905… for main story and here www.fimfiction.net/story/18891… for relevant side-story focusing on the Changeling Empire), where the Changeling Empire is located in the jungles to the south of the Zebrica (ruled by the young King Trotankhamun), and the attack on Canterlot was perpetrated by a terrorist sect led by one of the youngest members of the royal family, "Queen" Chrysalis. Said traitorous former queen was arrested, imprisoned, & stripped of her royal privileges after her unsanctioned and idiotic attack on Equestria by her grandfather, the TRUE ruler of the Changeling nation, Emperor Carapace (in fact, it was ol' Grandpa Carapace that warned Celestia about the imminent threat to Canterlot the first place).
Allow me to further explain: in this 'verse, Emperor Carapace made a treaty with the rulers of the other races/nations long ago to allow infiltrators into each of the nations to harvest sustainable amounts of the emotional energy (mainly love) necessary for the changeling race to survive (they can't eat their own emotions, after all). The identities and locations of said infiltrators are well-known to the rulers, but the deal and such details are kept secret from the general non-changeling citizenry due to how said changelings would be viewed as emotional parasites worthy of nothing more than persecution rather than an equal sentient race. The traitorous queen's plan was not only idiotic and doomed to failure from the start (how would ponies produce love if they were living under fear of a foreign dictator?), but it also jeopardized the safety of the infiltrators/ harvesters and thus came too damn close to single-hoofedly dooming her entire race to starvation via her own incompetence/ impatience.
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