Oh noes, it's a shiny changeling from http://pony.balloonpup.com/pony/
HUGE UPDATE: Leyko is a consort now, bigger larger changeling and actually sexed male.
In regards to the image, I look like the 2nd one due to being a consort now.
One of their kind has managed to sneak past the portal into the park! It's on the prowl and wants to devour your love! Then probably you . . . or make you into a changeling yourself once you are completely drained.
Description:
See above, 4 1/2 feet tall at the shoulder, holes at random spots on his legs and tail. insect wings, a frill on its head, skyblue irisless eyes, a horn on its head, pointed ears, a mouth full of sharp teeth as well as two large fangs and two adjacent smooth bands around it's middle connecting it's upper and lower body, this being being a mix between a pony and a insect. Being a consort changeling he actually is gendered, and has a sex between his legs concealed by a slit.
Personality:
This changeling is like most of its kind, sneaky, seductive, crafty, and hungry, and also cowardly unless it's with a large group of others of its kind. Will always take the shape and form of whatever species is most predominant in the area to blend in, the better to get closer to and find potential victims to feed on or change.
Like most of his kind though, if not in a group of his kind he tends to be very submissive to dominant types, and is cornered can be easily dominated, coming from a species who has a queen with absolute power, it's literally in his genes to be submissive to someone he deems as his superior.
Thing is that only usually applies to changelings, you have to get him to consider you more than just a potential food source to try to dominate his will.
Other than that like most of his kind he's incredibly protective towards children, one of his jobs before his hive was destroyed was caring for new hatchlings. If you are a hatchling of any race, expect his parental instincts to flare up around you. And for his kind, parenting instincts mean making a cocoon and putting said hatchling into it til they grow up. You are warned XD.
History:
Leyko is one of the few remnants left of the shiny changeling hive that invaded Shining Equestria. Created by Ferret Inc. to try to tame the shiny pony race, and based on actual changelings, they followed their instincts to steal love. But unfortunately the ponies they targeted were just as predatory as they are. The invasion was a dismal failure And Celestia herself devoured Chrysalis, the swarm's queen whole. After which she declared a nation wide changeling hunt, the predatory shiny ponies hunting the changeling race to near extinction.
Leyko is one of the few to have gotten away, the changeling having found a portal and dived into it while being chansed by half a dozen ponies. He now lives in the Nexus park on his own, and has a deathly fear of shiny ponies in general, for good reason.
Home: He has a small hive for one built into a large oak tree around 100 feet off the ground in the northern part of the park. It's Currently under construction.
Biology:
They are shiny's, so please read above in the setting to find out about shiny's themselves, he's infectious just like all shiny's are in his normal form, but when shapeshifted can emulate the shape and abilities of whatever species he takes, even non shiny's, allowing him to blend in with ease, he can shapeshift to any species up to double his size, or half his size, anything beyond or below that is beyond his means. I say he, but that's just his personality, physically in his true form he is male, but he can shapeshift to any gender in the pursuit of prey.
Is mildly telepathic, can sense the surface thoughts and desires of those within 50 feet of him. This allows him to mold his form to the desires of his prey, the better to get closer to them. If he actually feeds on someone, it allows him permanently deeper access into their minds, allowing him to read their deepest darkest fantasies and secrets, as well as implant mild hypnotic suggestions.
As for being fed upon itself, it requires whatever form of intimate contact the species in question is used to, during such intimacies, be it sex, or intimate snuggling, or whatever, the changeling uses magic to start draining the love and joy and other positive emotions of its victim, during the draining process, the victim would fall into a blissful trance or orgasmic ecstacy for as long as they are being drained, a sideffect of the feeding is to make the victim desire and love the changeling even more than before, all the better to feed on them again in the future.
Feeding on a victim nourishes the changeling for one week, multiple feedings aren't needed, but if done so, the changeling's magic will increase in power and scope, allowing him stronger telekinesis, and fire magic, which all shiny changelings can use, and are immune to.
The only tell tail signs that someone may or may not be a changeling is that changelings always have a green cast to their eyes while shapeshifted, even though in their normal forms their eyes are blue, their magic is always a shade of green, even their fire magic, which is green fire.
Will think of other stuff as I think of it XD
RELATIONSHIPS:
Friends:
Princess__Cadance: Nice love goddess that befriended Leyko and likes to pet him and feed him cookies.
Sicha: Leyko idolizes her, she's trying to help him restore his hive. To him, she's a heroine to all shiny changelings everywhere.
Kailindrea: Leyko calls her "Fireskunk", he often buzzes around her because of her penchant for burning things, which he very much likes.
Brother/Sister Changelings:
Equestrian Refugees: 23 shiny changelings are in hiding in Shining Equestria, Leyko has no way to get to them or even help them.
Cloud_Shifter: A fellow shiny changeling, Leyko helps him out whenever he can.
Sandal: A fellow shiny changeling, and consort to Empress_Chrysalis.
Empress_Chrysalis: Newly crowned Queen of the shiny changelings. Not all that impressive when the hive is only 3 strong, but hey, you have to start somewhere.
TLDR types: Think of a changeling as a sort of insect pony succubus.
Update: I have decided to invest a bit in this character. so consider him canon now.
Update: Leyko is now a consort changeling, and his body has been changed, he's a bit bigger and bulkier than normal changelings as a personal attendant to the queen and is now actually male to serve as a breeder for the queen.
UNTIL I CAN FIND SOMEWHERE ONLINE TO POST THIS, HERE IS THE ENTIRE SHINY CHANGELING BACKGROUND HISTORY.
Enjoy all you history/plot lover types ;)
The Endangered Shiny Changeling Race.
HISTORY:
The shiny changelings once numbered (and technically still do) in the thousands in Shining Equestria. This . . . is no longer the case. Created artificially just like the shiny ponies themselves via their strange advanced technology from changeling DNA, Ferret Inc, created them SPECIFICALLY to dominate and destroy the shiny pony race. Unlike the ponies who were sold as toys to their owners, the changelings were created, indoctrinated to trust their creaters Ferret Inc, and were sent en masse to Shining Equestria, where the container they were shipped in was open by a curious shiny pony in the wilderness. The changelings were sent with one Queen, who was a shiny clone of the actual Queen Chrysalis in the actual Equestrian reality. When they first arrived they only numbered a couple hundred strong, the changelings immediately retreated to the wilderness to set up a hive while Queen Chrysalis sent out infiltrators to infiltrate every Equestrian city. They were told before they arrived that the ponies were the only source of love on the planet and were a enemy of the ferrets besides, and so it was the Queen’s plan to honor her creaters by infiltrating and ultimately taking over the pony’s homeland, both to honor her creaters, and to establish a permanent never ending food source of love for her subjects.
Time passed and the changeling hive grew, Chrysalis reproducing almost constantly, hundreds of eggs born by her in the massive hive in Everfree until the changeling force numbered 1000’s strong. It had been several years, but the love of ponykind was plentiful and her infiltrators brought back love to feed the hive often. There had been a few near misses when they had almost been discovered, but they always managed to scrape by, until the day Chrysalis judged her forces ready.
The invasion of Canterlot was brutal, but not in the way the changeling’s hoped. For their race had been designed to feed on prey species. The problem was, shiny ponies are just as predatory if not more so then they are. When they invaded in mass, there was surprise certainly, but it was momentary at best. Shining Equestria hadn’t been in a war or had large scale conflict in a while, and unlike regular ponies shiny ponies enjoy conflict and subjugating others. So it was that instead of a predator species falling onto a prey species, it was 2 predator species clashing head to head . . . the results . . . were not kind to the changeling race.
When they invaded Canterlot, not only the Royal guard, but every single citizen, even the FOALS of the shiny ponies gleefully leapt into the fray, each pony hoping to devour a changeling to enslave for themselves. The lust and desire to devour the changelings was so great the ponies even wresteled with each other to even ‘get’ to the changelings, some of them even devouring each other to keep them from interefering with individual pony’s chances at a changeling or 3 to devour. The changelings, expecting a easy battle, were shocked but were able to withstand the pony onslaught at first . . . and were even pushing back, many ponies knocked unconscious and carted off to be put in cocoons at least . . . until the hive mind shattered.
Queen Chrysalis had gone to challenge Celestia, thinking that the Lunar princess would be asleep during the day, but she neglected to consider that Celestia would simply teleport to her sister’s bed, wake her up and teleport back, the shiny Celestia was a lot more pragmatic and well . . . brutal than her actual counterpart in the real Equestria. And so it was that Chrysalis found herself facing off against 2 alicorns instead of just one. The fight was short, one sided, and Chrysalis’s cries of ecstacy as the two equally evil Princess’s pleasured her form before deciding that Celestia would be the one to devour her were heard by everyone in Canterlot, and as she was absorbed in Celestia’s stomach into her mindscape to be reprogrammed into a happy loyal pet, the hivemind that all changelings depended on fractured and broke, sending the normally orderly and cohesive changelings into disarray.
Their queen gone, their ranks broken, they fled in masse, Celestia and Luna declared a “ Great Changeling Hunt” throughout all of Shining Equestria. Over the next several years the remaining changelings were ruthlessly hunted down, and either subdued by force, or seduction into the stomachs of the Equestrian population until all but 2 dozen changelings weren’t entranced mindpets to the even more predatory shiny ponies.
18 of the remaining changelings managed to find out about the mainland and fled there, hiding and feeding on the love of the mainlanders to maintain their sanity. They hope to find a powerful mainlander to convert into a queen, but have been dismayed that all the mainlanders are technologically oriented, and so far the only 3 beings they know of that are powerful enough to be converted into a Changeling queen are their enemies, the 3 princesses of the Shiny Ponies. Of the remaining 6, 5 are hiding with difficulty amongst the pony populace, the 5 being the best infiltrators the hive had, which is the only reason they haven’t been found out and devoured. The last one lucked out and found a portal in Everfree forest that led to a world called Nexus, a interdimensional crossroads of sorts. The changeling there, has blended in with the extradimensional travelers and is even now hoping to find a extradimensional traveler powerful enough to convert into a queen to save their race. Of course, a being powerful enough to be a queen can’t be taken against their will, the changeling will have to convince him or her.
Meanwhile back in Shining Equestria there are rumors of nights of incredible passion in Canterlot, of the 2 princess’s ravishing a 3rd party, of Queen Chrysalis, now a entranced mind pet to both princess’s being impregnated and her eggs being prepared to be the 5th pony race, rumors of eggs to be given out to willing pony homes already racing amongst the Canterlot nobility. . . could the rumors be true? Are Celestia and Luna using Chrysalis as a breeding mare to produce a 5th loyal subject race? Only time will tell, and meanwhile Ferret Inc. watches from the sidelines, what will they do now that their latest gambit to bring their creations the shiny ponies under control has failed, and if the shiny changelings manage to find a new queen, how will they regard their creaters . . . who sent them like lambs to the slaughter?
CULTURE:
Shiny changelings like all shiny’s can infect and convert others either to shiny artificial versions of themselves, or into shiny changelings if the subject is put into a conversion cocoon. Unlike most shiny’s however, changelings have little to no desire to convert others into shiny’s, they see being shiny’s as a powerful advantage, and you don’t give your food (all other beings) a advantage. That’s just stupid. So unlike shiny ponies, whom very few know of the mental trick to make themselves uninfectious to others, all shiny changelings know that trick and use it by default at all times unless they find someone worthy to change (ie a queen candidate.)
As for the Changeling’s themselves. Everything starts with the Queen. The queen is the ruler of a changeling hive, and it’s progenitor, maintainer of the hivemind and overall planner for her race. In a healthy hive a queen will be pregnant nearly at all times, and will generally have 5 to 6 clutches of eggs per year, the gestation for changeling eggs being 2 months, and generally around 50 eggs per clutch. Once laid the eggs are given over to drones who take the eggs to a hatchery where it takes another month for them to hatch, whereupon the hatchlings (which look like tiny adorable versions of normal changelings, but with no wings) are placed in nurtrient rich liquid filled hatchling cocoons in groups of 10 to 15. There they spend their childhood (5 years, changelings grow up fast) playing and swimming with each other in the cocoon, being taught by the hivemind, and occasionally coming out of the cocoon to be fed love by adult drones. Changelings that are raised in the same cocoon will call each other brother and sister and share a closer bond than other changelings, whom they simply call hivemates.
Despite being genderless, like the shiny ponies shiny changelings all have a mental ‘gender’ that they identify with and will use the proper terminology for it. And though from the outside all changelings look the same, to each other they are easily identifiable as individuals both by scent and by the telepathic hive mind link their kind share.
Changelings know they are grown when their wings finally grow in, and at that point they are allowed to finally leave the hatchling cocoons and join changeling society, where they are generally tested for their talents before being assigned a job for the hive.
For reproductive purposes the changeling queen of a hive keeps a careful tab on exceptional members of her hive, and of those select few that stand out from the rest she chooses her royal consort. He or she will be the Queen’s mate from then on until his or her demise which brings us to a unique aspect of changeling culture. Changelings aren’t all that attached to their individuality, and generally after a year or so with the same mate, the queen will devour and merge the soul and mind and body of her lover with herself. This causes the queen to molt and her appearance will change to reflect some characteristic of the changeling she merged with herself, her personality may change as well depending on the disparity between the two. This is considered a great honor by all changelings who are eager to be picked to be the next consort as a rule, as in a sense by accepting the role of royal consort they will in a sense become the queen themselves, or rather a part of them will. Thus by only selecting the cream of the crop as her mates, when the queen devours and merges with them, she combines their strengths and makes the hive even stronger than before, all at the cost of her own and her lovers individuality, but as stated before, being a hive mind species, individuality doesn’t really matter to them that much compared to the hive as a whole. It is easy to tell how old a queen is in this manner. As when a queen speaks, she speaks with the voices of everyone who has ever merged with her, not just her own. A truly ancient queen can speak with hundreds of voices at once.
Occasionally a egg is born that is hatched as a queen hatchling, denoted by the fact that a queen hatchling will be born with a mane and will be significantly larger than her hatchery mates. Unfortunately this growth doesn’t show until the hatchling is actually inside the hatchling cocoon, and when the growth starts, the very first thing she does is hypnotize all her brother and sister hatchlings and get them to feed themselves to her, merging their souls and minds to her own, leaving her the sole occupant in her cocoon. When she reaches adulthood her instincts will force her to challenge the current queen for rulership of the hive, or, if the hive is large enough and prosperous enough, the current queen will allow the new queen to split the hive and form a new one a substantial distance away. If not the two queens duel, a duel witnessed by the entire hive until one is absorbed by the other.
As for normal changelings, they have a deep and abiding love for each other, and a instinctive desire to protect hatchlings of all types. During the years of the great changeling hunt, it wouldn’t be uncommon for shiny ponies to find their foals in hatchling cocoons, floating peacefully asleep, for to the changelings, all hatchlings go in cocoons where they will be safe, it constantly boggles all changeling’s minds to this very day why shiny ponies and mainlanders let their children run around freely, when every changeling knows that hatchlings go in hatchling cocoons til they are grown. The confusion is reciprocated by everyone else, who generally don’t appreciate it when changelings stuff their kids into a cocoon saying, “ I was only trying to help “.
It’s not helped by the fact that changelings sometimes capture prey and cocoon them, but not in a hatchling cocoon which are quite large, but rather in a food cocoon which is made for a single occupant, that keeps its victims sedated and drugged up and full of love filled dreams, so that changelings can drop by the cocoon anytime they want and siphon love from their sleeping captive. Generally in a hive there will be entire rooms of blissfully dreaming captives, with changelings tending to their cocoons and occasionally feeding on them. When the main changeling hive in Equestria was invaded and destroyed, there were over 200 ponies freed there, all who took months to recover from the blissful dreamworld they had been in for all that time.
BIOLOGY:
Changelings are all telepathic, they have a several hundred mile range for telepathy with each other, for non changeling the range is less than a mile. Changelings are also however dependent on telepathy, cripplingly so, deprived of a hive mind, a changeling will start to waste away and die unless they compensate for the mental deterioration by feeding constantly on huge quantities of love. By doing that a hiveless changeling can sustain themselves indefinitely, but most changelings aren’t that skilled to be able to find so much food all the time.
Changeling magic focuses on three specialities, fire, shapeshifting, and mind magic. Fire magic is their primary method of defending themselves, and all changelings are immune to fire, able to coat their bodies in fire and use themselves as a living bomb if they so desire. They use mind magic when seekin food, able to glance at the thoughts and fantasies of potential victims and then can act them out to get the most love they can out of a prey. Skilled changelings can even entrance and alter the minds of their victims. Changelings can shift to anything up to twice their size, or down to half their size. They have to be able to imagine it though, or have seen it, either in person, or in the minds of their prey. When shapeshifted changelings take on the biology and mannerisms of their form. This is a instinctive thing and most changelings don’t even realize how differently they act when in one form or another, even their speech patterns tend to be different.
Changelings wings are very useful, and while a changeling can’t fly as fast as a Pegasus they are infinitely more maneuverable, their flight giving them the maneuverability in the air similar to that of a hummingbird, able to even fly backwards if they so wish
As for their food source, shiny changelings have a strange definition for the word Love. They call Love their food source, but in actuality they feed on ‘any’ positive emotion a victim feels. And if the victim feels that emotion towards ‘them’ specifically, the love is 10 times as filling and nutritious to them, which is why changelings always try to masquerade as loved ones. As for how they feed, body contact is required, be it just a touch, holding hooves, a hug, or full on sex, some form of contact is required. The sensation of being fed on is masked by the shapeshifting spell, but if a changeling feeds on a victim in their natural form, the actual feeding sensation can’t be blocked, and the victim will feel a full body tingling euphoria, and a sense of lightheadedness as if something is being drawn out of them in blissful waves, leaving them emptier moment by moment. A victim completely drained by a changeling will fall into a coma for several days, it takin their mind time to recover enough to feel emotions again. Changelings generally only partially feed on a victim however, unless they intend to cocoon them, in which case they’ll fully drain them and then transport their unconscious body to a feeding cocoon for future feeding.
Speaking of cocoons and the hive, the holes in changeling’s hooves are where the resin used to construct hive structures and cocoons come from, a changeling can at anytime cause resin to flow from those holes and then they simply mold the quick hardening resin into whatever shape they are building at the time, doing this a group of changelings can build well, just about anything, though even a single changeling can build a feeding cocoon in almost a hour’s time by themselves.
Like all Shiny’s changelings can stretch their bodies and swallow beings much bigger than themselves, but though they ‘can’ do this, they rarely take advantage of it. Shiny ponies devour others to pull them into their mindscapes to share intimacy and love. However Changelings have the hivemind, they can already feel the love and intimacy of their entire hive all the time, so the appeal just isn’t there. That and they get nothing sustenance wise from it, the only food they need to grow is love, not actual food, though a changeling may eat actual food because they enjoy the flavor, it’s something purely recreational to the individual changeling. Most changelings as a example LOVE honey and any type of honey candy. Many a changeling during the great changeling hunt was lured into a trap by a well placed honey lollipop. Though with all that said, if they sense that their prey would enjoy being eaten, they won’t hesitate to do so, after all, anything their prey enjoy’s makes it easier to feed on their real food, love, and the changeling can always cough them back up later.
ON CONVERSION:
Changelings rarely convert others, each additional changeling is another mouth to feed, and currently with no queen, they need all the love they can get. But if someone befriends a changeling and truly expresses a desire to be one, most changelings will comply and cocoon the applicant in a Conversion Cocoon, which is a modified hatchling cocoon. There the applicant will first be converted into a shiny version of themselves before the cocoon molds their body into that of a changeling, AND if the applicant is powerful enough, into a changeling queen. Which is something all the remaining free changelings are searching for, a friendly powerful being who would take them in, let them serve them and be their queen, for if they don’t find a person to do so, for all they know they will die out, as they are unaware of what Celestia and Luna are doing with their former queen.