Bevendre
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Did this week’s Teen Titans GO! piss anyone else off?
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Changeling Headcannon: Different types of love effect changelings differently, familial love makes them calmer, romantic love makes them aggressive, etc
I don’t use anything like this for Papi, but I like it. I really really like it.
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ok to the mod blog- i reckon they feed off love because they themselves are unable to love (obviously this is not the case in ur hive though) and maybe they have holes because as they change o do their personalities (maybe) and the sort of start to disappear. idk never really thought about changelings much (:P just copied and pasted it)
The inability to love is a fairly common headcanon for changelings, though a little odd given the hive makeup. I believe Cheerilee’s Chalkboard talked about the holes relating to their changing and sense of self as well.
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Sometimes I feel like Love is a motivator. Changelings might be devoid of loving, and in a way they conquer other kingdoms in the vain attempt to gain love of their subjects. Their species is in a constant state of decay as they try to gain love. They're the misunderstood, suffering species, which makes them perfect for villains. It's really sad, in my headcanon, and how I see it, they're the misunderstood child who doesn't know that their forceful method of loving is... inappropriate.
Though I’ve addressed the feeding of love in a couple of these posts, I’ll say this: Changelings are indeed a misunderstood, suffering species in Papi’s canon, and for some interesting reasons.
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The changelings that infiltrated Canterlot for the wedding shenanigans had been brainwashed to believe they were actually doing Equestria a great service. Reading their minds would have revealed the mantra used to brainwash them. "We have control. We keep you safe. We are your hope."
Interesting way to look at it.
Chrysalis had her reasons for attacking Canterlot, beyond her own lust for power and conquest. She had effectively erased the minds of those who followed her as well, stripping them of their sense of self. -
(my personal headcannon relating to love is that it serves as a power source, the more love a changeling feeds on, the more powerful their magic gets. this is how chrysalis was able to overpower celestia. they eat food just like any other living being, it could serve as a food source if nothing else is available, but its probably not a changelings main food source.)
With Papi and her hive love is the primary food source as it’s renewable and plentiful. Various changelings have their own preferred foods, some of which aren’t even food to most, and all changelings can eat food (and must to maintain disguises when necessary) and generally enjoy it.
Love has myriad uses outside of feeding a changeling, such as amplifying their magic, delaying aging and healing minor wounds. -
Changelings can feed on any emotion. It's just that Love is the most nourishing. Friendship is 'junk food'. Fear is tasty, but not very filling. Also, if a Changeling feeds on love that is being given to itself and not a disguise, that is the most nourishing of all. Enough of that, and their holes will fill in. That's WHY they have holes in the first place: all of them are in a state of near constant starvation.
Interesting inclusion of the holes.
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TEXT DUMP AHOY! This is actually for a collaboration over on FiMfic, wherein different authors are helping explain different species. My goal here was to try to make as many variations on changelings fit as possible, though I didn’t get to include behemoths or other caste systems.
This is brilliant! Very different from Papi’s canon in a number of aspects, but incredibly thorough. I think many people could benefit from the ideas set out here, or at least their construction. -
Headcanon: Changelings can eat any type of emotion. It's just that genuine love is the safest. The other emotions are either not as efficient, or can be toxic and harmful.
Papi’s changelings can and will eat most anything, barring a couple organic materials. As a hive changelings would once descend upon an area and strip it of food and resources like locusts, and so in order to preserve their own environment they evolved the capacity to feed off of renewable empathetic energy, most notably love.
Following this, it is possible for changelings to feed off of other emotions, with varying amounts of efficiency and success. -
changeling headcanon: changelings can survive with out a hive but have a bandit-like mentality when they leave, some creating nomad camps or psychotic hives to live in. if an exile finds a new hive to live in they say or show things that give off signs of being slightly insane
Hunger can do strange things to changelings, like make them eat shiny rocks, no Ruuqo?
