I plan on covering this further in Papi’s blog, but I’ll talk about it here.
The first changeling came about from a failed attempt to create an alicorn, before the time of Luna and Celestia. The attempt led to a conjoining of pony and parasprite in the mother of all changelings, who was VASTLY different from those around now. Most all of what makes a changeling came from rapid evolution from that point.
A male drone could hypothetically reproduce with a female pony, and a changeling egg could hypothetically be fertilized by a pony. However, the offspring would be a hybrid or even abomination, and likely a very unstable one who would be shunned by one, if not both families. Of course, this is only going off of Papi canon, and others have done hybrid characters, like Lacewing of askthemanechesterponies.
Giant pile of cuddlebugs.
Again, changelingnip. Just imagine getting Papi drunk and giddy on the stuff and having her get all cuddly.
I suddenly love the idea of changelingnip.
That would be absurdly destructive. There is already Chintin to fill the spot of giant changeling, and we can’t forget Buzz Buzz who is already the Moon Moon of the hive.
There is a group RP chat on skype for many people who have joined the hive. It was there that Poison Joke was banned after one Fickle Aura decided to ambush many members of the hive, including Papi, with the flower. Chaos ensued and Poison Joke was banned.
Changelings feed off of love because it can be produced by the changelings or others, and as such is rapidly renewable. Without love, a changeling can and will eat most anything, even cats.
There are some changelings who prefer to eat meat, or maintain their old diets, on top of consuming love. Others enjoy gnawing on substances that most changelings wouldn’t try to eat, like gemstones. Right, ruuqo?
Eh, if anything cats would avoid the hive out of fear of being eaten.
Eeyup, though many drones have not been with Papi in that way. Those who she favors know who they are.