Bevendre

Head Cannon again, sorry, Though very rare sometimes orphaned changeling eggs and nymphs will form symbiotic relationships with ponies especially hermits and travelers, the ponies providing affection and the changeling providing protection these changelings will come to view the pony the way naturally raised changelings view the queen

Anonymous

Very plausible. Changeling nymphs have an instinctive knowledge of how to change their form, though many don’t do so until they’ve matured to a point comparable to a young colt. Outcast ponies would be more likely to accept a changeling than a typical pony, and so travelers or hermits would work well with taking in an orphaned changeling.

Though obedience to a Queen tends to be ingrained in a changeling from birth, if their natural Queen is killed that connection is broken, and a surrogate connection can and generally is established with the closest being to the orphaned nymph.
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