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Published: 2012-04-22 03:22:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 23559; Favourites: 1429; Downloads: 2295
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this day is going to be perfectside note: please don't post this to Tumblr w/out linking back here
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This is gorgeous! Would you be cool with me using this as a backdrop for my next song? Credit will be given, of course
My Channel: www.youtube.com/user/Afalahs
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Hey, so.. I wrote a song about changelings taking over Canterlot and I was wondering if I could use this image for the lyric video. I would, of course, be linking back to here and giving you full credit for the image. It's just, kind of perfect for what I need. Anyway, let me know ^_^
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I was looking through Chrysalis pictures, favoriting too many, and I was getting frustreated on how she was filling up my favorites. So I was like "Chrysalis! Stop being so awesome so I can stop faving you!" Next page, I seee yours. That is the EXACT OPPISITE OF STOP BEING AWESOME!!! That's being infinantly more awesome!!!"
Long story short, You made her so Bad A**!
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I find myself reminded of the Soul Reaver (sub)series of video games.
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I've just spent ~45 minutes looking for this picture after I accidenatally stumbled upon it on one of YouTube's compilation clips (with no sources given) -- and the search was absolutely worth it. Your Chrysalis is terrifying, beautiful and just all-round awesome.
The kind of day of which I dreamed since I was small
I'd really love to see it someday with some more detail and finish so it would look even better when enlarged.
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I LOVE THIS!! the way shes leaning forward- its like shes about to attack! it conveys more evil then most people (i know) give her credit for.
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OMG! i'd love to sculpt her in this pose! can u please please please sketch a side view as a guide? *.* pretty please?
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♬ ...the kind of day of which I've dreamed since I was small... ♪ ♩
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Damn it, wish I could DO that...
I'm bad at coloring -_-
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this is one of the top basass images ive seen on deviant. serious props
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Oh yea. This is the most coolest Iv'e seen of her.
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So awesome x.x
Do you have a wallpaper version? I need to have it as my wallpaper!
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Amazing work on the green fire/magic surrounding her
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*Instant computer backround* Oh my gods this is amazing ur amazing I love love love it!! 8DDD
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"The kind of day i have ever dream since i was small"
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so much chrysalis art, and this is one of my favorite ones
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Now THIS is how I like to see Chrysalis! Awesome job!
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It's pretty much settled at this point that Chrysalis is best changeling. True story.
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This show may not have many true villains (mostly jerks and bullies), but those it has are pretty amazing.
First we had good old Nightmare Moon, whio for all her cliched mannerisms looked epic, had truly sinister goals (eternal night, which would actually extinguish all life in Equestria) and immediately showed the world this Little Pony cartoon was going to be one badass show for something aimed at girls.
Then we had Discord, who immediately topped Nightmare Moon. He was truly a stroke of genius. Everybody expected some cliched alicorn foal in the style of Nightmare Moon and instead we got this crazy trolling chimera spirit who goes from hilarious to completely terrifying and back to hilarious again.
And now we get this badass zombie insect fairy alicorn creature and her swarm of servants, who shapeshifts, who brainwashes people, who has defeated Princess Celestia in combat, and most importantly she's probably the absolute creepiest of the trio, just look at the thing, listen to her sing like a total psycho, and tell me this is aimed at little girls.
Congrats on capturing the complete badassery of Chrysalis. ALL HAIL THE CHANGELING QUEEN!
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whoops, meant colt, not foal for Discord
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of all the Chrysalis pic in the drawfriend this one is the best to me, amazing dark mood
gota love those wings and magic!
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Here's my take on Queen Chrysalis and the Changelings, with a tragic backstory, combining existing theories with a bits of G1 and G4 stuff.
Long ago, the Changelings were Flutterponies, and Queen Chrysalis was their ruler, having succeeded her mother Queen Rosedust. Unlike her aloof her mother, Queen Chrysalis was originally a kind and loving mare who loved and care for many things, and under her leadership the Flutterponies helped many races with their magical powers, and were loved in turn.
(The Ponies forgotten this of couse, having lost contact with the Flutterponies, their tribes becaming torn by hatred, and hounded by Windigoes, they were forced to leave their original homeland to what would become known as Equestria.)
Then Discord came.
He turns the world into a nightmarish realm where nothing made sense and everything was disharmonious and discorded. Seeing the all loving nature of the Flutterponies, as a sick joke Discord warped reality and changed Chrysalis and the Flutterponies:
The bodies of Chrysalis and the Flutterponies became twisted by Discord, turning them from beautiful ponies with butterfly wings into horrible insectoid beings that only looked like ponies in outline. Their minds were twisted by their new forms as well; like bees, they lost their free will, becoming bestial in manner and thought, and soon only Chrysalis remained in any sense as an individual, becoming the voice and mind of the new collective.
But worst of all, they were stripped of their ability to feel love, but on the other hand were made dependent on it as sustenance.
Even after Discord was defeated, Chrysalis and Flutterponies remained in their monstrous state, and they despaired.
No creature on the world could accept them now with their monstrous appearance, seeing them as no more than just another of Discord's creation, unable to recognize their true identities as Flutterponies.
Before long, without love, the new race began to starve, and Chrysalis desperately sought to find food for her now forsaken people. When no one would help them, she became frustrated and angered, and unable to feel love again, her anger and bitterness grew into hatred. If they cannot be help for her people, fine, they would be food, a just punishment for forgetting them and despising them after all they had done. She care for nothing else now but her and her people.
To feed on love of other races, Chrysalis and her people used their still potent magic to disguise and change their appearance. Hiding under a mask, they could pretend to be members of other races and people across the world, where they could gain their love with careful deception and manipulation, which they could then conquer them and drain them for all the love they desire, growing powerful in the act.
Thus, they were kind and loving Flutterponies no more, but ruthless and conquering Changelings.
Such was their hunger, entire lands and races were drained of every bit of love, right down to their souls, leaving nothing but dead lands in their wake.
Their original homeland, once verdant, is now a desert dominated by their enormous hives.
And in the greatest hives of them all, Queen Chrysalis, a cruel, vain, manipulative shadow of her former self, reflective of her new monstrous form, now spends her ageless life plotting their next move, finding new lands and new races for which could conquer and satisfy their eternal hunger.
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Omg this looks amazing. I was hoping I could use it as a wallpaper though. It'd be perfect as one.
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I usually have Derpy Hooves as my wallpaper, but this is too awesome looking not to have as my wallpaper for a while! Great job! ^_^
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Would it be possible to get Chrysalis by herself? The background doesn't fit my desktops folder setup, and it would be awesome if I could have it on a plain dark purple background. Otherwise top notch work!
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Okay.
You know what, a lot of people have made fan art of her already. I've seen so much, on dA, Tumblr, you name it.
This.
Is.
The.
BEST.
One.
PERIOD.
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This is awesome looking. I'm throwin this in my wallpaper folder.
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